A diverse cast of characters--a hard-drinking cowgirl, a professor and her teenage daughter, an amorous painter, a shy contractor, a Jamaican journalist, and a beautiful attorney--bands together on a journey across the Great Basin to the legendary Lost Coast of California. A first novel.

The Lost Coast

Nightingale, Steven

Literature & Fiction

St Martins Pr

A diverse cast of characters--a hard-drinking cowgirl, a professor and her teenage daughter, an amorous painter, a shy contractor, a Jamaican journalist, and a beautiful attorney--band together on a journey across the Great Basin to the legendary Lost Coast of California

The Thirteenth Daughter of the Moon

A continuation of The Lost Coast follows a band of amorous travelers, including Professor Chiara and her nubile daughter Izzy, Jamaican Muscovado Taine, and pregnant blonde attorney Ananda and the father-to-be Renato, as they head for San Francisco Bay.

United States

In this new tale, the acclaimed author of The Lost Coast continues the rollicking and amorous Pacific journey of our unlikely band of travelers. Joined by a magical puffin, a blind poet named Homer, and a forlorn prophet named St. Francis of Assisi, the troupe travels to the Land of the Dead in their caravan of dilapidated cars and trucks, armed with stories to fight off the enveloping darkness as they search for the Lost Coast.
 With dazzling language and bursts of imaginative wit, The Thirteenth Daughter of the Moon is a wildly engaging tale that weaves philosophical nuance and romantic intrigue into a hoot and howl of a journey through real and imagined truths. Delightful, sexy, and entertaining, this is a highly literate mystic adventure that is sure to win over a faithful and enchanted audience.

St. Martin's: Griffin

Review\n"The Paradise Notebooks is a gift to the heart and mind, integrating poetry with geology, philosophy with hydrology, spirituality with geography. A beautiful book to help us understand, respect, and deepen our relationship with the natural world." -- John Muir Laws, author of The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada\n"We need a literary antidote to darkness. Not to read this book is damnable folly." -- Annie Dillard, author of For the Time Being\n"Full of stunning writing, The Paradise Notebooks takes the reader on a journey through the Sierras, weaving together the scientist as poet and the poet as scientist. Nature lovers are sure to enjoy this brilliant book." -- Craig Childs, author of Atlas of a Lost World\n"Its erudition is winged; its wisdom is granite. The combination is transcendent. If the Sierra Nevada could speak, this is what it might say." -- Jay Griffiths, author of Savage Grace\n"With extraordinary versatility, Nevle and Nightingale weave natural history, poetry, and meditations on High Sierra hiking into a compelling tapestry filled with jewels of insight and delight. Even the seasoned hiker will find new viewpoints on their favorite creatures and flowers." -- Tom Killion, co-author of The High Sierra of California\n"Science and poetry elevate one another in this collaboration, carrying us deep into curiosity and wonder. A work full of astute observation and beautifully worded description, showing us that close, loving attention and story-telling can be both devotional and enlightening." -- David George Haskell, author of The Songs of Trees\n"Nevle and Nightingale give us everything we'd desire as our literary companions on a 'skylark' across the Sierra Nevada. Delivering on their pledge to write with 'fearless generosity' and a 'fierce hunger for truth,' they admirably honor the spirit of these sublime mountains." -- Stephen Trimble, author of The Sagebrush Ocean\n"A call and response between a poetic scientist and a grounded poet, both of whom are enamored with, and awestruck by, the overpowering presence of the Sierra Nevada. Eloquent and sincere, this book resonates, like a bell, in both head and heart." -- Thomas Lowe Fleischner, editor of Nature, Love, Medicine\n"Nevle and Nightingale integrate the seemingly "strange bedfellows" of science and spirituality to offer new insights about this remarkable landscape. Their juxtaposition of poems with scientific explanations creates a unique way of knowing, clear as the crystal waters of these mountains." -- Nalini M. Nadkarni, author of Between Earth and Sky\n"This joyous, lyrical collection transports us to the Sierra Nevada no matter where we are. Nevle and Nightingale exquisitely capture those profound moments when we realize our interconnectedness with the natural world. A book I'll have in my backpack, wherever I am." -- Karen Amstutz, Lead Park Ranger, Yosemite National Park\nIn The Paradise Notebooks, Richard J. Nevle and Steven Nightingale take us across the spectacular Sierra Nevada mountain range on a journey illuminated by incandescent poetry and fascinating fact. 
Over the course of twenty-one pairs of short essays, Nevle and Nightingale contemplate the natural phenomena found in the Sierra Nevada. From granite to aspen, to fire, to a rare, endemic species of butterfly, these essay pairs explore the natural history and mystical wonder of each element with a balanced and captivating touch. As they weave in vignettes from their ninety-mile backpacking trip across the range, Nevle and Nightingale powerfully reconceive the Sierra Nevada as both earthly matter and transcendental offering, letting us into a reality in which nature holds just as much spiritual importance as it does physical. 
In a time of rapid environmental degradation, The Paradise Notebooks offers a way forward―a whole-minded, learned, loving attention to place that rekindles our joyful relationship with the living world.

The Paradise Notebooks: 90 Miles across the Sierra Nevada

Nevle, Richard J.

History & Criticism

Comstock Publishing Associates

Granada is one of the iconic cities of the world. It stands for the culture of Al-Andalus, composed of Moslems, Jews, and Christians, who lived together in the legendary convivencia of the Spanish Middle Ages. Al-Andalus gave rise to an intellectual vanguard whose achievements can be compared only with those of classical Athens, Ming China, or Renaissance Italy. Granada resident Steven Nightingale excavates the rich past of his adopted city and of Al-Andalus, finding a story of utopian ecstasy, political intrigue, religious exaltation, and scorching anguish. Granada witnessed a flourishing of poetry, and constructed the Alhambra, one of the most celebrated buildings in Europe. Al-Andalus brought to Europe the first modern translations of Greek philosophy, advanced mathematics, science, medicine and music, as well as transcendent mystical texts. Yet Ferdinand and Isabel’s conquest of Granada in 1492 meant the end of the culture whose achievements would empower and enrich the rest of Europe. In the story of Granada, Nightingale finds our story, all its violence and possibility and beauty, its spiritual longing and artful dreams. It is a story that shows how we can work together, and what we can create together. And how our best work can be destroyed.

Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God

History

Europe

Counterpoint

Granada is one of the iconic cities of the world. It stands for the culture of Al-Andalus, composed of Moslems, Jews, and Christians, who lived together in the legendary convivencia of the Spanish Middle Ages. Al-Andalus gave rise to an intellectual vanguard whose achievements can be compared only with those of classical Athens, Ming China, or Renaissance Italy. Granada resident Steven Nightingale excavates the rich past of his adopted city and of Al-Andalus, finding a story of utopian ecstasy, political intrigue, religious exaltation, and scorching anguish. Granada witnessed a flourishing of poetry, and constructed the Alhambra, one of the most celebrated buildings in Europe. Al-Andalus brought to Europe the first modern translations of Greek philosophy, advanced mathematics, science, medicine and music, as well as transcendent mystical texts. Yet Ferdinand and Isabel’s conquest of Granada in 1492 meant the end of the culture whose achievements would empower and enrich the rest of Europe. In the story of Granada, Nightingale finds our story, all its violence and possibility and beauty, its spiritual longing and artful dreams. It is a story that shows how we can work together, and what we can create together. And how our best work can be destroyed.

With these short stories, deeply indebted to Sufi Tales and Jataka stories (as well as to the Brothers Grimm and American folktales), Steven Nightingale offers testimonies of revelation, mischief, miracles, and grace given him by sixty-four remarkable women who've appeared in his life over time. These delightful pieces combine humor and sensuality with surrealism and an oblique spirituality, and each becomes an opportunity of gentle instruction, invention, and entertainment. The book describes a spiritual pilgrimage, beautifully written, a unique offering from this wonderful writer.

The Hot Climate of Promises and Grace: 64 Stories

The Golden Pilgrimage: 99 Sonnets

Poetry

Black Rock Press

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The Lost Coast

The Lost Coast

The Thirteenth Daughter of the Moon

The Thirteenth Daughter of the Moon

The Paradise Notebooks: 90 Miles across the Sierra Nevada

Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God

Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God

The Hot Climate of Promises and Grace: 64 Stories

The Hot Climate of Promises and Grace: 64 Stories

The Golden Pilgrimage: 99 Sonnets