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Journo Ann Louise Bardach Publishes Exposé on Castro While Feds Seek Her Testimonynew

Without Fidel cements Bardac's stature as America's best-informed and most insightful writer about Castro's 50-year reign and the fervid passions, plots, and politics of Washington and South Florida aimed at destroying it.

Santa Barbara Independent | Jerry Roberts | 10-26-2009 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Ann Louise Bardac, Carriles Posada, Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana, and Washington, Cuba, CIA, Fidel Castro, nonfiction

Santa Barbarans Team Up to Pen First Ever Yoga Textbooknew

It's all in the title, Yoga: For the Joy of It!. More than a tale about mind meeting body, this recently released hardback is the first ever college text all about yoga.

Santa Barbara Independent | Alexandra Markus | 06-01-2009 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Minda Goodman Kraines and Barbara Rose Sherman, Yoga: For the Joy of It!, health, yoga, textbooks

Selden Edwards' Debut Novel Was a 30-Year Journeynew

Although the writing process differs for everyone, a book taking 30 years to get published is outside the norm. But that's what it took to get Selden Edwards' The Little Book to the masses.

Santa Barbara Independent | Charles Donelan | 08-11-2008 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Selden Edwards, The Little Book

'The Open Road' Distills the Dalai Lama's Teachingsnew

The idea of loss as an opportunity for growth is at the heart of Pico Iyer's latest book -- a culmination of more than 30 years of conversation with Tenzin Gyatso, otherwise known as His Holiness the Dalai Lama, leader of the Tibetan people.

Santa Barbara Independent | Elizabeth Schwyzer | 05-20-2008 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Tibet, Dalai Lama, Pico Iyer, The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

This Memoir from a Survivor of American Torture May Help U.S. Face Realitynew

Reading Five Years of My Life, I realized the situation at Guantanamo is both better and worse than I had feared -- worse because the torture is so severe, so constant, so senseless, and so institutionalized, and better because someone who was subjected to it has survived with his soul intact.

Santa Barbara Independent | Hannah Tennant-Moore | 04-28-2008 | Nonfiction

Tags: Bush administration, Guantanamo, War on terror, torture, memoir, John Yoo, Justice Department, Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo, Murat Kurnaz, Nonfiction Reviews