North Books imprint: 926 books
Balancing on the Mechitza
Transgender in Jewish Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
***WINNER, 2011 Lambda Literary Award - Transgender Non-Fiction
While the Jewish mainstream still argues about homosexuality, transgender and gender-variant people have emerged as a distinct Jewish population and as a new chorus of voices. Inspired and nurtured by the successes of the feminist...
Endless Path
Awakening Within the Buddhist Imagination: Jataka Tales, Zen Practice, and Daily Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
***WINNER, 2011 Storytelling World Resource Award – Best Storytelling Collection
The jataka tales—stories of the Buddha’s past lives (in both human and animal form)—were first said to have been told by the Buddha himself 2,500 years ago. Five hundred and fifty jataka tales comprise...
Discovering Your Spirit Animal
The Wisdom of the Shamans
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
In Discovering Your Spirit Animal, shamanic healer Lucy Harmer presents a practical approach to understanding spirit animals and applying their power to specific situations in daily life. Written in clear, simple language and featuring compelling stories and anecdotes, the book explains what a spirit...
by Linda L. Knoll
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Seasonal fruits, vegetables, and other produce from local farms play an important part of a healthy, ethical diet. Encouraging children to eat local food in harmony with the seasons, Patient for Pumpkins tells the story of T.J., a boy who accompanies his father to the farmers' market and enjoys the...
V Is for Vegan
The ABCs of Being Kind
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Introducing three- to seven-year-olds to the "ABCs" of a compassionate lifestyle, V Is for Vegan is a must-have for vegan and vegetarian parents, teachers, and activists! Acclaimed author and artist Ruby Roth brings her characteristic insight and good humor to a controversial and challenging subject,...
The Mystery of Dragon Bridge
A Peach Blossom Village Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
When Peach Blossom Village's bridge disappears, Master Chen must solve the mystery! The Mystery of Dragon Bridge is an English-Chinese bilingual children's fantasy story. The tale revolves around the inhabitants of Peach Blossom Village and the mysterious Dragon Bridge—the villagers' only connection...
by Victoria Boutenko
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Victoria Boutenko responds to the crisis of childhood obesity with a story that makes children excited about nutrition, healthy foods, vegetables and fruits, green smoothies, and the science of plants.
This kids' book follows young Nic as he discovers the importance of healthy eating with a...
by Lee Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2008
Real life happens in color!
Colored pencils are wonderful tools for creating realistic drawings. Lee Hammond, popular instructor and North Light author of more than twenty instructional books on drawing and painting, is here to show you how. Now you can learn to draw lifelike flowers, buildings, animals...
The Book of Not Knowing
Exploring the True Nature of Self, Mind, and Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Over decades of martial arts and meditation practice, Peter Ralston discovered a curious and paradoxical fact: that true awareness arises from a state of not-knowing*.* Even the most sincere investigation of self and spirit, he says, is often sabotaged by our tendency to grab too quickly for answers...
The Genius of Being
Contemplating the Profound Intelligence of Existence
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Peter Ralston’s exceptionally lucid trilogy on the nature of human consciousness culminates here in The Genius of Being, a book of deep contemplations on the unseen elements that create our world. The first volume, The Book of Not Knowing, garnered much praise as a comprehensive exploration of the...
by David Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
In Eating For Beauty, author David Wolfe, one of America’s foremost nutrition experts, describes how to cleanse, nourish and beautify by utilizing the benefits of a fresh-food diet. The lessons contained within this book can be applied to improve one’s appearance, vitality, and health. This book...
Superfoods
The Food and Medicine of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Superfoods are vibrant, nutritionally dense foods that have recently become widely available and which offer tremendous dietary and healing potential. In this lively, illustrated overview, well-known raw-foods guru David Wolfe profiles delicious and incredibly nutritious plant products such as goji...
The Creative Art of Living, Dying, and Renewal
Your Journey through Stories, Qigong Meditation, Journaling, and Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Tapping the tremendous healing power of Qigong and the expressive arts, this beautiful book invites the reader to contemplate the continuum of living, dying, and renewal within this life and beyond. The stories, Qigong meditations, and journaling/art processes, including collage and maskmaking, are invitations...
Anatomy of the Moving Body, Second Edition
A Basic Course in Bones, Muscles, and Joints
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Learning anatomy requires more than pictures and labels; it requires a way "into" the subject, a means of making sense of what is being shown. Anatomy of the Moving Body addresses that need with a simple yet complete study of the body's complex system of bones, muscles, and joints and how...