Discover moving meditation with one of today's top-selling poets.

Rumi was a 13th-century Sufi theologian and poet who spoke of love, unity with God, and spiritual growth. Rumi and his followers, known as the Whirling Dervishes, employed music, poetry, and dance to become closer to God. This guide brings the unique practice of moving meditation to American readers, offering more than 40 meditations based on Rumi's poems.

• Includes a timeline of Rumi's life, a glossary, and resources for further exploration

Most people first heard of Ken Follett when he wrote Eye of the Needle (1978), a taut and original thriller with a memorable woman character in the central role, which spent 30 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. The book won the Edgar award and became an outstanding film starring Kate Nelligan and Donald Sutherland. He went on to write four more bestselling thriller: Triple (1979); The Key to Rebecca (1980); The Man from St. Petersburg (1982); and Lie Down with Lions (1986). Cliff Robertson and David Soul starred in the miniseries of The Key to Rebecca. In 1994 Timothy Dalton, Omar Shariff and Marg Helgenberger starred in the miniseries of Lie Down with Lions. He also wrote On Wings of Eagles (1983), the true story of how two employees of Ross Perot were rescued from Iran during the revolution of 1979. The book was made into a miniseries with Richard Crenna as Ross Perot and Burt Lancaster as Colonel "Bull" Simmons. He then surprised readers by radically changing course with The Pillars of the Earth, a novel about building a cathedral in the middle ages. Published in September 1989 to rave reviews, it was on the New York Times bestseller list for eighteen weeks. It also reached the No. 1 position on lists in Canada, Great Britain, and Italy, and was on the German bestseller list for six years. It has now become a worldwide cult: there is even a Pillars of the Earth holiday. Although he abandoned the straightforward spy genre, his stories still had powerful narrative drive, strong women characters, and elements of surprise and intrigue. He followed Pillars with Night Over Water, A Dangerous Fortune, and A Place Called Freedom. Then he returned to the thriller. The Third Twin (1996) is a scorching suspense novel about a young woman scientist who stumbles over a secret experiment in genetic engineering. Miniseries rights were sold to CBS for $1,400,000, a record price for four hours of television. The series, starring Kelly McGillis and Larry Hagman, was broadcast in the USA in November 1997. In Publishing Trends' annual survey of international fiction bestsellers of 1997, The Third Twin was ranked No. 2 in the world, beaten only by John Grisham's The Partner. The Hammer of Eden, another nail-biting contemporary suspense story, came in 1998. Code Zero, was about brainwashing and rocket science in the fifties, which was published in December 2000. Only days after the novel was finished, film rights were snapped up by Doug Wick, producer of Gladiator, in a seven-figure deal. Then came Jackdaws a cinematic thriller about a ragtag, all-female band of British agents, which was published in December 2001. Ken Follett is married to Barbara Follett, the Member of Parliament for Stevenage in Hertfordshire. They live in a rambling rectory in Stevenage with two Labrador retrievers called Custard and Bess. They also have an eighteenth-century town house in London and a holiday home in Antigua. Ken Follett is a lover of Shakespeare, and is often to be seen at performances by the Royal Shakespeare Company at London's Barbican Theatre. An enthusiastic amateur musician, he plays bass guitar in a band called Damn Right I Got the Blues. He was Chair of the National Year of Reading 1998-99, a British government initiative to raise literacy levels. He is president of the Dyslexia Institute, a council member of the National Literary Trust, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Ken Follett was born on June 5, 1949 in Cardiff, Wales, the son of a tax-inspector. He was educated at state schools and graduated from University College, London, with an Honors degree in philosophy. He was made a Fellow of the college in 1995. He became a reporter, first with his hometown newspaper the South...