'Seamlessly narrated, this book reveals the varied paths available to women seeking to de...

A brief meeting with a Buddhist nun in India made a deep impression on Christine Toomey. It sent ...

'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks...

In The Saffron Road, Toomey follows in the footsteps of earlier generations of Buddhist nuns to t...

An award-winning journalist vividly reports her two-year, 60,000-mile global odyssey in the compa...

A 60,000-mile odyssey in search of Buddhist nuns--hailed as 'inspiring and necessary' (Kirkus), '...

A memoir set in rural Italy, and a journey through history about a series of earthquakes that dev...

A memoir set in rural Italy, and a journey through history about a series of earthquakes that dev...

Part travel and history, part oral biography and reflection, Buddha's Daughters tells the story o...