From Gita and Daniel's Upper West Side penthouse apartment in New York, to a primitive village in Nepal's hinterland, to brothels in Mumbai... In Stuart Perrin's multicultural suspense novel Little Sisters, the protagonists are drawn into the dangerous world of international sex trafficking. Beyond revealing the nightmare of sexual slavery, it's a story of four sisters and how each of them is transformed by the horrors of life in a Mumbai brothel in dramatically different and unpredictable ways. "When children (no matter what their nationality, ethnicity or religion) are forced to become sex slaves the entire world must take responsibility..." -Stuart Perrin
"I've always been taken with aphorisms: one, two or three line words of wisdom that cut to the heart of the human condition, words we can think about and use as a reminder of why we're alive and the importance of love and joy in this world," says Mr. Perrin. "Moving On: Finding Happiness in a Changed World" touches on the human struggle to make sense of an absurd and often painful life. In those moments when we find ourselves alone and we have to confront an host of anxieties, insecurities, and inner pain, a sentence from a book like "Moving On..." can give insight into what people must do to eliminate stress and find joy and love in day to day activity. It can help us step out of darkness into light. Moving On is a book of street-smart, yet soul-wise aphorisms for those of us that seek peace in the center of an ever-changing world. Author Stuart Perrin assures us that peace and happiness both exist at the heart of even our craziest days, and that each of us can achieve clarity when we need it most. There are countless events that occur in our everyday lives that make the world seem "changed." Separation, divorce, job loss, politics, illness, and the death of a loved one- all of these are personal situations in which we need a little perspective and wisdom in order to move on. The perfect gift for anyone that has to deal with difficult life circumstances, Moving On offers thoughts both for staying "in the now" and grabbing opportunities that lie hidden right in front of you.
At least once a year for over twenty years, I've been invited to Jerusalem to teach meditation and lecture on the application of a spiritual life to everyday living. Jerusalem has become one of my favorite cities on earth. Besides being the cradle of Western religion, besides the ancient and modern architecture melded together seamlessly in many parts of the city-the Jerusalem Market, the Old City, the Western Wall, the Dome of the Rock, and hundreds of other churches, mosques and synagogues- besides disparate religious and ethnic communities that live next to one another in an uneasy alliance, the light in Jerusalem has always intrigued me as being one of the great mystical forces on earth. In the summer of 2006, I had plans to visit Israel. When a war broke out between the Israelis and Hezbollah, the newscasts showed bombs and rockets exploding in Haifa, the Galilee, Beirut, and South Lebanon. The entire country was being drawn into a major confrontation. It's important for me to visit Jerusalem, I thought. What I would teach there is diametrically opposed to the fighting in the north: joy, happiness, and love are essential to spiritual practice as well as human dignity, and I wondered how my message would be received in a country at war. Light in Jerusalem is a memoir of various and sundry experiences I had on trips to Israel. Though it's set in 2006 a time of war in the Middle East, it explores paradoxical situations I experienced on many of my visits to a country that's the birthplace of three major religions, and a focal point of the modern world's attention, a country that inspired me to tap vast resources of spiritual energy in myself and to recognize essential truths expressed on different paths that lead to the same place. I discovered that Jerusalem's mysterious light pierced conflicted thought and opened doors hidden behind political and religious differences, a light that illuminates truth at the source of all humanity's doctrines and beliefs.
