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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

It's no wonder that The Power of Now has sold over 2 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 30 foreign languages. Much more than simple principles and platitudes, the book takes readers on an inspiring spiritual journey to find their true and deepest self and reach the ultimate in personal growth and spirituality: the discovery of truth and light. In the first chapter, Tolle introduces readers to enlightenment and its natural enemy, the mind. He awakens readers to their role as a creator of pain and shows them how to have a pain-free identity by living fully in the present. The journey is thrilling, and along the way, the author shows how to connect to the indestructible essence of our Being, "the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death." Featuring a new preface by the author, this paperback shows that only after regaining awareness of Being, liberated from Mind and intensely in the Now, is there Enlightenment.

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South Florida hosts a wealth of literary talent in the African-American community. Once a local author has planted a seed(a book) in the publishing world's field, Pyramid Books is here to cultivate its growth.

#3 on Essence Bestsellers List, July 2008

Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
by Davies, Carole Boyce
In "Left of Karl Marx," Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915-1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist. Jones is buried in London's Highgate Cemetary, to the left of Karl Marx--a location that Boyce Davies finds fitting. Jones expanded on Marxism-Leninism, incorporating gender and race into her political critique and activism.
Claudia Cumberbatch Jones was born in Trinidad. In 1924, she moved to New York, where she lived for the next thirty years. She was active in the Communist Party from her early twenties onward. A talented writer and speaker, she traveled throughout the United States lecturing and organizing. In the early 1950s, she wrote a well-known column, "Half the World," for the "Daily Worker," As the U.S. government intensified its efforts to prosecute communists, Jones was arrested several times. She served nearly a year in a U.S. prison before being deported and given asylum by Great Britain in 1955. There she founded "The West Indian Gazette and Afro-Asian Caribbean News" and the Caribbean Carnival, an annual London festival that continues today as the Notting Hill Carnival. Boyce Davies examines Jones's thought and journalism, her political and community organizing, and poetry that the activist wrote while she was imprisoned. Looking at the contents of the FBI file on Jones, Boyce Davies contrasts Jones's own narration of her life with the federal government's. "Left of Karl Marx" establishes Jones as a significant figure within Caribbean intellectual traditions, black U.S. feminism, and the history of communism.

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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Obama, Barack
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Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America.

Washington's Crossing
by Fischer, David Hackett
"This is a fascinating account by one of our most respected historians of the Christmas night crossing of the Delaware River to surprise the British troops at Trenton, New Jersey. A volume in Oxford University Press' Pivotal Moments in American History series, it won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 2005." --Carole Horne, Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA