For more than 10 years, thoroughly Protestant Kathleen Norris had been an oblate at a Benedictine monastery. In The Cloister Life, the celebrated author turns to the priory as her spiritual landscape, as she takes us through a liturgical year, inspiring us to evaluate our own lives and values.Norris provides tremendous insight into the languages, customs, ceremonies, and sexuality of the men and women who have chosen the cloistered life. With insight...

From the writer of The Rookie comes a dramatic and moving story inspired by events in the life of "Radio," a man who made an enduring impact on the lives of all those around him. Radio focuses on the mentoring relationship between a high school football coach (Ed Harris) and Radio (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), known as "the same as everybody else, just a little slower than most," and how their unique friendship ultimately transforms the conservative attitudes...