Two Gaon Books
Selected as Finalists of New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards
Patricia Gottlieb Shapiro
Coming Home to Yourself:
Eighteen Women Reflect on their Journeys
Coming Home to Yourself honors the changing face of aging and shatters stereotypes about older women. The diverse, multi-cultural group of women featured in this book are vital, resilient, and continue to grow. They have all experienced a turning point later in life, which has brought them home to their deepest selves. No matter what their culture, religion, lifestyle, economics or personal challenges, all the women arrived at the same internal destination: a place within themselves of comfort and familiarity, of harmony and wholeness, and of acceptance and love for themselves. Their moving stories of self-discovery and empowerment will inspire women of any age to continue their quest to find their own authentic home.
Shapiro has a master’s degree in social work and specializes in writing and speaking on women’s issues, midlife and friendships. She is a widely sought lecturer, writing coach and yoga teacher. Pat Shapiro is an award-winning author who has written or co-authored seven other nonfiction books
Vanessa Paloma
The Mountain, the Desert and the Pomegranate:
Stories from Morocco and Beyond
In The Mountain, the Desert and the Pomegranate Vanessa Paloma looks at the mysteries of life on multiple levels. Spirituality and felt perceptions influence what we see, hear, and do. From coyotes that join in a chorus backing up the soprano singing in the desert to the pomegranate and the Berbers who live in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and geckos that live in towers in Casablanca, life is full of mysteries.
“Vanessa Paloma...is a passionate scholar and performer of songs from the Sephardic Diaspora from North Africa to Turkey...” -- NPR
“Paloma...brings richness of heritage to her work as an author, performer, teacher and preserver of Ladino songs and music.” -- Hadassah Magazine
“Vanessa Paloma, the Nightingale of Jewish Sephardic Music”
-- MarocHebdo International magazine, Morocco
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