If you're like most of the people I work with and how I used to be, you know there's more to life than just going through the motions, doing what you're supposed to, getting things done. You want to wake up in the morning, excited about life. You want to feel inspired and passionate with the work you do. You want to live more of what you love. The problem is, a lot of us have forgotten what we love. Because we aren't encouraged to follow our dreams. Because we have commitments and obligations. Because we're so busy taking care of everyone else that we have forgotten to take care of ourselves....

For nearly eight centuries -- from the Muslim conquest of Spain in 711 to the final expulsion of the Jews in 1492 -- Muslims, Jews and Christians shared a common Andalusian culture under alternating Muslim and Christian rule. Following their expulsion, the Spanish and Arabic- speaking Jews joined pre-existing diasporic communities and established new ones across the Mediterranean and beyond. In the twentieth century, radical social and political upheavals in the former Ottoman and European-occupied territories led to the mass exodus of Jews from Turkey and the Arab Mediterranean, with the...

Thirteen Rivers: The Last Voyage of La Belle is a historical novel based on the true saga of French explorer Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle and his colony.
Upon discovering in 1682 that the Mississippi River emptied into the Gulf of Mexico, La Salle claimed for France the entire river valley and all of its tributaries, including a large portion of present-day Texas and titled his empire La Louisiane to honor reigning French monarch, King Louis XIV. Hurricanes, pirates in the Caribbean, ship-wreck, betrayal, revenge, Indian war parties, kidnapping and murder are all...