"For Stephen Levine, "animal-people" were his greatest teachers. So, at age seventy, he began collecting animal spirt stories and transcendent moments in nature from throughout his life--from the green snake who taught him to meditate as a boy to the generous hen that predators would not harm, and many more." --

Describes the search for a 7-year-old boy, missing since 1995, who is belived to be the eleventh incarnation of the Panchen Lama, the second most important incarnation in the Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy.

"What happens when one harrowing incident changes your life, splitting it between before and now? On the fourth day of what Lara Naughton thought would be two weeks of bliss in Belize, she was kidnapped by a man pretending to be a cabdriver, held in the tropical forest, and raped. In the depths of the jungle--alone with the Jaguar Man--compassion was her only defense. Lara's survival and journey of healing is poignant, compelling, and exceptional--it...

Investigates claims that, in 1898, a colonial landowner in Northern India uncovered the tomb of Siddhārtha Gautama, the Buddha.