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“Be brave. Be kind. Fight fires.”

That’s the motto of firefighters, like Hersch Wilson, who spend their lives walking toward, rather than away from, danger and suffering. As in Zen practice, firefighters are trained to be fully in the moment and present to each heartbeat, each life at hand. In this unique collection of true stories and practical wisdom, Wilson shares the Zen-like techniques that allow people like him to stay grounded while navigating danger, comforting others, and coping with their personal response to each crisis. Every life contains the unexpected and the unwelcome. How you cope with those inevitable events, more than the events themselves, defines the quality of your life. Firefighter Zen: A Field Guide to Thriving in Tough Times is an invaluable guide to meeting every day with your best calm, resilient, and optimistic self.

Today’s hardworking professionals are navigating sudden waves of financial stress, management shakeups, and downsizing. Using the experiences of Titanic survivors as a powerful metaphor, executive coach Maggie Craddock offers lessons for a transformative approach to our professional lives, one that recognizes that “every man for himself” doesn’t work long-term. Lifeboat: Navigating Unexpected Career Change and Disruption is organized as a series of key questions we all need to ask ourselves when facing unexpected career disruption or difficult changes at our existing jobs. These questions help us clarify our authentic priorities, assess the group energy that guides a particular workplace, and identify the type of job that will help us reach our true potential.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 10 percent of women, or 6.1 million, in the United States aged 15 to 44 have difficulty getting pregnant or staying pregnant each year. In The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility: A Natural Approach to Getting Pregnant, author and Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Grzych offers a gentle, holistic approach to understanding the physical, emotional, and psychological aspects of fertility based on Ayurveda, or “the science of life,” an ancient form of medicine that originated in India. We hope you’ll enjoy this excerpt from the book.

New World Library senior publicist Kim Corbin and Robert Mack, author of Happiness from the Inside Out, talk about love, consciousness, and the environment that is most conducive for creating deep and lasting change in this powerful conversation about Black Lives Matter. For more New World Library author interviews, please visit our YouTube channel.

All magick is a conversation. As Witches living in precarious and changing times, we are keenly aware of the many ways we are cocreated by innumerable forces, including those born from long-outmoded societal, economic, and political systems. Witches exist on the fringes of the overculture, naming their spellwork, their lived-out-loud stories, and their many altars as agents of change; this is true no matter the season, but the light of the summer sun makes that tender border between hedonism and activism all the more visible.

We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life offers a frank, fresh, and empowering take on facing addiction, doing recovery, and savoring the joys of a new way of living. We hope you’ll enjoy this conversation with author Laura McKowen about the book. For more New World Library author interviews, please visit our YouTube channel.