Storms Can’t Hurt the Sky
“A confirmed skeptic, writer Gabriel Cohen never thought he’d find himself embracing Buddhism. But when his marriage fell apart, he discovered that its insights were surprisingly relevant and useful; they offered him a positive path through anger, resentment, loss, and grief. Now, in the first book to focus on Buddhism and divorce, he provides a practical, down-to-earth guide to surviving the pain of a romantic breakup. A compulsively readable story of crisis and renewal, Storms Can’t Hurt the Sky will appeal to those of any faith who are looking to recover from their own losses.”
The book features:
An engrossing personal memoir
Wise counsel from Buddhist experts
Interviews with others who improved their breakups
Surprising scientific information about happiness and how the mind can transform the brain
Humor, parables, and thought-provoking quotes
A step-by-step guide to improving the experience of divorce—and the quality of any relationship .
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The Graving Dock is the gripping follow-up to Red Hook.
In the chill of winter a homemade coffin drifts ashore in Red Hook, containing the body of a boy with the lettersG.I. written on his forehead. Detective Jack Leightner of the Brooklyn South Homicide Task Force is assigned to help a local detective with the case, but the man proves strangely uninterested. The investigation keeps interfering with Jack's attempts to propose to his girlfriend, as his pursuit of the killer takes him on a whirlwind tour of hidden parts of New York harbor, from the secret world of Governor's Island to the graving docks of the old Brooklyn Navy Yard.
This eagerly-awaited sequel is even richer in atmosphere, action, and mysteries of the human heart.
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Matin's Press.
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Boombox
One block. Four neighbors. One very loud problem.
Black and white, young and old, male and female, they live in Brooklyn's Boerum Hill, sharing a courtyard in relative harmony. It’s what a former mayor liked to call "the urban mosaic."
There's Carol Fasone, a secretary enjoying her new marriage to a Bosnian immigrant. There's Mitchell Brett, a Wall Streeter transplanted from Manhattan’s Upper East Side, trying to get his wife pregnant. There's Grace Howard, hoping for a promotion in her corporate job, surprised to find herself beginning a romance with a member of the Board. And then there's teenage Jamel Wilson, who buys a big sound system to impress his friends from the projects around the corner, blasts gangster rap into the backyard gardens, and--over the course of one hot summer-- pushes the block's friendships and alliances past the breaking point.What people are saying about Boombox
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Red Hook was nominated for the Edgar award for Best First Novel.
It's not the dead body--Jack Leightner has seen hundreds of bodies in his tour with the NYPD's Brooklyn South Homicide Task Force. It's not the dank setting--the narrow banks along the Gowanus Canal. So why does the sight of a fatally stabbed young man make the detective almost faint in the tangled weeds?
Jack doesn't understand why he becomes obsessed with this low-priority case, why he allows it to jeopardize his career and even his life. Especially since the investigation draws him exactly where he doesn't want to go: into the heart of Red Hook. The neighborhood is Leightner's bad dream, the scene of his troubled childhood and a terrible secret.
The place also lures Jack's estranged son Ben, a young documentary filmmaker fascinated by its history. The Hook has been home to dockworkers and drug dealers, Al Capone and Joey Gallo, a giant public housing project, and one of the nation's greatest ports. Ben wants to find out why the once-thriving waterfront community has become a beautiful ruin—and why it has damaged his own family.
This strange terrain is where Jack Leightner must seek his own redemption—and even, perhaps, the salvation of Red Hook itself. More than a crime story, Red Hook is a deep and sympathetic exploration of the mysteries of human nature, the curse and blessing of family, and one unforgettable place.
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