The New York Times bestselling author Bruce Feiler returns with a moving, illuminating new work that touches on life and death, love and fatherhood, and offers inspiration for us all. Bruce Feiler was a young father when he was diagnosed with cancer in 2008. He instantly worried what his death might mean for his daughters. "Would they wonder who I was? Would they wonder what I thought? Would they lack for my approval, my discipline, my voice?" Three days later he came up with a stirring idea of how he might give them that voice. He would reach out to six men, from all his passages in his life, and asked them to present through the passages in his daughters lives. And he would call this group of men, "The Council of Dads." "I believe my daughters will have plenty of opportunities in their lives," he wrote to these men. "They'll have loving families. They'll have welcoming homes. They'll have each other. But they may not have me. They may not have their dad. Will you help be their dad?"

The Council of Dads is the inspiring story of what happened next. Mixing the harrowing tale of his treatment with the uplifting lessons of these men -- "Approach the Cow," "Pack Your Flip-Flops," "Live the Questions," "Harvest Miracles" -- Feiler's account is touching, funny, and ultimately a deeply moving account of parenthood, loss, and love. Along the way he paints vivid portraits of his father, his two grandfathers, and various father figures in his life to explore the changing role of fatherhood in America. He mixes these with an intimate, highly personal chronicle of his "Lost Year" battling cancer and reconstructing his leg--an ordeal, like Jacob wrestling with an angel in the Book of Genesis, leaves him marked and transformed by the most profound questions of the human spirit.

The Council of Dads (April 2010, HarperCollins) is the work of a master storyteller confronting the most difficult experience of his life and emerging with a story of wisdom, comfort, and hope that will change the way parents relate to their children, their friends, and their own lives.

(Pub. Date: Spring 2010)

The New York Times bestselling author reveals the central role Moses has played in American history – from the Pilgrims to the Founding Fathers, from Abraham Lincoln to Barack Obama – and explores how he can provide meaning in a moment of national crisis.

(Pub. Date: October 6, 2009)

Continuing the gripping journey he began with Walking the Bible, Bruce Feiler travels 10,000 miles through the heart of the Middle East -- from the Garden of Eden to the rivers of Babylon -- uncovering the little-known origins of Western religion. Combining the excitement of an adventure story and the insight of spiritual exploration, Where God Was Born offers a rare, universal vision of God that can inspire different faiths into a shared dialogue of hope.

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Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths is a powerful, universal story, and the first-ever interfaith portrait of Abraham, the shared ancestor of Jews, Christians, and Muslims and the man all three religions call "God's Friend." Bruce Feiler embarks on a personal quest to better understand the man at the heart of the world's three monotheistic religions -- and today's deadliest conflicts. Traveling in war zones, climbing through caves and ancient shrines, and sitting down with the world's leading religious minds, Feiler attempts to answer the question that everyone is asking, "Can the religions get along?" He reveals that Abraham offers a rare vision of hope that will redefine what we think about our neighbors, our future, and ourselves.

After his New York Times bestseller Walking the Bible was published, Feiler invited readers' opinions. The overwhelming response: Do you have any pictures? This book is the answer, with photos of the spot where Noah's ark landed, the lost cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and the place where Moses received the Ten Commandements.

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One part adventure story, one part archaeological detective work, one part spiritual exploration, Walking The Bible is Bruce Feiler's most ambitious work to date. Traveling 10,000 miles through three continents, five countries, and four war zones Feiler retraces the Five Books of Moses. Visiting the actual sites of some of history's most storied events, from the mountain where Noah's ark landed, to the desert outpost in Turkey where Abraham first heard the words of God. Through his quest Feiler attempts to answer the question: Is the Bible just an abstraction, or is it a living, breathing entity?

In the 1990's, country music underwent a sweeping revolution. During that time Bruce Feiler was granted unprecedented access to witness the private moments of that revolution and to chronicle the genre's biggest stars as they changed the face of American music. Part social history, part backstage pass, Dreaming Out Loud presents the most comprehensive portraits yet painted of Garth Brooks, Wynonna Judd, and the rest of country music's biggest stars.

For 200 years Americans have cultivated a love affair with the circus. In Under The Big Top, Feiler tells of his year-long adventure performing as a clown in the Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus, the largest tented circus in the world. The first outsider to penetrate this sheltered community, his colorful account of that adventure, is an exotic, magical, troubling, unforgettable, and unique look at America from the back lot of a circus.

Looking For Class is Bruce Feiler's hilarious and enlightening account of his year as a graduate student at Oxford and Cambridge. While there, Feiler shows us Oxbridge from all angles - the garden parties and formal balls, high-minded dormitory debates and late-night drinking Olympics, stuffy tutorials and weeklong exams. Along the way, he matches wits with the quickest tongue in the school during an "English-style" debate; rows in Cambridge's most exclusive athletic ritual; and learns lessons in love from a Rhodes Scholar.

Since its publication, Learning To Bow has been regarded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. Recounting the year he spent teaching within the world's most heralded school system Feiler demystifies contemporary Japanese life. His experience as the sole Westerner in a small town in Japan creates a revealing portrait of the life and attitude of the average Japanese citizen.