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Promise Me, Dad
by Joe Biden
Pages: 272

In November 2014, 13 members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years. But this year felt different from all those that had come before. Joe and Jill Biden’s eldest son, Beau, had been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor fifteen months earlier, and his survival was uncertain. “Promise me, Dad,” Beau had told his father. “Give me your word that no matter what happens, you’re going to be all right.” Joe Biden gave him his word. Promise Me, Dad chronicles the year that followed, which would be the most challenging in Joe Biden’s extraordinary life and career.

The Story of Arthur Truluv
by Elizabeth Berg
Pages: 240

A moving novel about three people who find their way back from loss and loneliness to a different kind of happiness. Arthur, a widow, meets Maddy, a troubled teenage girl who is avoiding school by hiding out at the cemetery, where Arthur goes every day for lunch to have imaginary conversations with his late wife. The two strike up a friendship that draws them out of isolation. Maddy gives Arthur the name Truluv, for his positive responses to every outrageous thing she says. They create a loving family, proving that life’s precious moments are sweeter when shared.

Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
by Ruth Emmie Lang
Pages: 352

Orphaned, raised by wolves, and the proud owner of a horned pig named Merlin, Weylyn Grey knew he wasn’t like other people. But when he single-handedly stopped that tornado on a stormy Christmas day in Oklahoma, he realized just how different he actually was. That tornado was the first of many strange events that seem to follow Weylyn from town to town, although he doesn’t like to take credit. As amazing as these powers may appear, they tend to manifest themselves at inopportune times and places. From freak storms to trees that appear to grow over night.

Gurudev: On The Plateau of the Peak
by Bhanumathi Narasimhan
Pages: Not known

Gurudev’s sister, who is also the director of women welfare and child-care programmes at The Art of Living writes about an era when the wisdom of yoga had been buried under years of ritual practices. It was at such a time that, in a village in south India, a young boy was found in deep meditation. Time revealed the destiny of the millions who came to him to discover themselves. Over the years, his presence and teachings would foster the values of joy, peace and love across the world. His transformative art of breathing, the Sudarshan Kriya, became a household practice.