North A Novel Suzy Welch Give the gift of amazing

Give the gift of amazing footwear

and his lethal court games threaten to bring the empire to its knees

It's the winter of 1975

to trekking with some of the elephants who live at Mandalao

an expert in meditation and mindfulness

North A Novel Suzy Welch Give the gift of amazingA powerfully moving novel about the intertwined lives of a Vermont monk, a Somali refugee, and an Afghan war veteran by Brad Kessler, the award winning author of the acclaimed memoir Goat Song. Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist for the Vermont Book Award As a late spring blizzard brews, Brother Christopher, a cloistered monk at Blue Mountain Monastery in Vermont, rushes to tend to his Ida Red and Northern Spy apple trees in advance