Peter Manseau eBooks

A fascinating, intelligent, and sometimes funny tour of the human relics at the root of the world’s major religionsBy examining relics—the bits and pieces of long-dead saints at the heart of nearly all >>

Summer, sweltering, 1996. A book warehouse in western Massachusetts. A man at the beginning of his adult life -- and the end of his career rope -- becomes involved with a woman, a language, and a great >>

The 1950s was a boom time for the Catholic Church in America, with large families of devout members providing at least one son or daughter for a life of religious service. Boston was at the epicenter of >>

"If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." The ninth-century sage Lin Chi gave this advice to one of his monks, admonishing him that this Buddha would only be a reflection of his unexamined beliefs >>