Catherine Andersen

If there is one thing we all have in common, is that we live on this great planet we call home. We often do not sit and reflect at the immensity of this planet. We take it for granted. Our days are so packed with activity and busy work that we forget where we come from. Very few people today can detach even for a moment to realize the miracle of existence on this great planet. According to both science and religion, life on this planet is a miracle, perhaps a fluke. No matter what you want to call it, that life exists here at all is amazing.

Discovery means death, but Arissa risks everything to save fleet officer Jolar's life. Repaying this telepath means saving her from execution, but Jolar will do whatever it takes to clear his debt to her. The only thing he absolutely cannot let himself do is fall in love with her...

Most clairvoyants show their potential at its peak when they are children but they don't understand what it is. They are confused by it knowing something bad is going to happen and it can be scary for a young child. So they repress their intuition to stop themselves from seeing the bad things. But now that we are older we can handle those visions better.

In modern-day Persia, the 14th-century poet Hafiz remains the most treasured voice of his homeland - a place where his work outsells Rumi, and even the Koran. Yet only recently have Westerners come to know this wild Sufi mystic's astonishing verses on love and spiritual longing. Now, with Hafiz: The Scent of Light, you will join Daniel Ladinsky - the acclaimed translator of The Gift - to revel in more than 30 of Hafiz's most stirring works.