Richard Bach Books In Order

Biplane

Finding Ourselves is Like Flying An Ancient Biplane Coast To Coast: There Are Storms Ahead, But Oonce We’ve Started, It’s Too Late To turn Back. To discover that time is not a straight line aimed toward infinity, Richard Bach undertook a magnificent journey. Biplane is the story of that solo flight into the American skies a flight that became a personal quest to discover everything that lies beyond the ordinary.

Nothing by Chance

Setting out to explore his beliefs in the environment of a simpler time, Richard Bach shares the adventure of one magical summer he spent as an old fashioned barnstormer flying an antique biplane. The journey is another soaring personal adventure of wonder and insight from the author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. HC: Macmillan.

Stranger to the Ground

A man alone in the sky has a chance to touch the stars. But as Richard Bach, flying a lone jet across Europe, reaches for the eternal, he must also confront the fear and danger that shadow the unknown.

Illusions

In the cloud washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders…
until he meets Donald Shimoda former mechanic and self described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard’s imagination soar…
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In Illusions, the unforgettable follow up to his phenomenal bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach takes to the air to discover the ageless truths that give our souls wings: that people don’t need airplanes to soar…
that even the darkest clouds have meaning once we lift ourselves above them…
and that messiahs can be found in the unlikeliest places like hay fields, one traffic light midwestern towns, and most of all, deep within ourselves.

Rescue Ferrets at Sea

Not many humans know. On the edges of every sea, the Ferret Rescue Service stands alongside the Coast Guard and Coastal Patrol of any country that claims an ocean shore. Just as it is the job of humans to rescue human lives at risk in storm and shipboard disaster, so it is the job of ferrets to rescue seagoing animals.

In this world of committed, courageous ferrets, Captain Bethany Ferret stands apart. A kit from humble beginnings, she rises quickly to command the swift J boat Resolute a once derelict craft, which she rescued from the rocks. Bethany and her crew measure the days by storms at sea, by ships in distress and by lives saved from tempest.

When the alert siren shrieks during a midnight storm, Bethany shakes away sleep and races to the bridge. She does not inquire whether the Chief Engine ferret is ready for action on a quarter minute warning. She switches to the ship’s loudspeaker: ‘Topside crew, paws on deck. We have a vessel in distress, this is not a drill.’

Engines bursting awake, searchlights blazing, crew and boat battle swells and screaming wind to reach desperate creatures in black water. The lines between life and death are drawn only by the limits of the ferrets’ courage.

From ceaseless boat drill practice to instant decisions on the broken deck of the Deepsea Explorer, Rescue Ferrets at Sea is a tale of the pursuit of ideals, of the value of teamwork, an action portrait of those who believe that the rescue of life is the highest calling.

Air Ferrets Aloft

This is Stormy Ferret’s story. Cargo pilot, captain of an Air Ferrets SkyFreighter, she had earned her name by delivering her freight on time through every weather the night could set against her. Her destiny, she thought, was her dependability. That was true until, on a run south from Seattle to Salinas, she plunges into a supernatural tempest like nothing she has ever known. Flying north in his sleek FerrJet, Captain Strobe Ferret hits equally violent weather. As chief pilot of the giant MusTelCo, his long experience at the controls had taught him to accept whatever the sky set before him. He had adjusted to life alone in the wild pure arena of air. The two pilots meet by chance in the most powerful twin storm ever to sweep Airway Victor 23, her voice in the night helping him survive, his voice helping her. Coincidence turns to destiny as they battle through the clouds toward an unscheduled landing and a meeting that will forever change their lives and the lives of thousands of others. Air Ferrets Aloft is a tale of skill and commitment, of powerful coincidence set in motion by unseen forces from another dimension, of the life changing consequences when like souls meet, of love discovered after all hope for it had passed.

Writer Ferrets Chasing the Muse

Budgeron is struggling mightily to write the great ferret novel, a story so rich, so finely wrought, it will set the world of ferret literature on its tail. By day, he writes adventure stories for kits’ magazines. By night, he lights the Lamp of Wisdom and calls forth Count Urbain de Rothskit, hero of the massive volume Where Ferrets Walk. After a near perfect first sentence, Budgeron sighs in his tiny attic writing room and waits for the second to to come.

Downstairs, a page turner romance tumbles effortlessly from the keyboard of Budgeron’s mate, Danielle. A pawdicurist who decides to write for fun, Danielle never expected her first page would explode with Veronique Sibhoan Ferret, a willful, naughty, mesmerizing animal who will one day bewitch millions of reader.

Budgeron and Danielle are aspiring writer ferrets following their calling through the quiet rooms where stories are born, past the mailbox and rejection slips and finally into the white hot world of big time book publishing. In the end, each finds success writing for the one heart they must truly please: their own.

Writer Ferrets: Chasing the Muse is a tale about the search for what really mattersnin life; the struggle to free our ineer voice; pursuit of a dream against significant odds and the need to love and be loved by like minded spirit.

Rancher Ferrets On the Range

The ground thudded and trembled, the echoes again, as Cheyenne Jasmine Ferret cut a half circle to stop, breathing hard, by Montgomery and his trusted mount Boffin. It was a familiar sight to all who lived beneath Montana’s Sweetroot Mountains, these two ranchkits riding through the morning light, ever together, completely unalike. Montgomery has the deep stillness of the outdoors in his soul; Cheyenne Jasmine is less quiet within. He understands the thoughts of animals and the endless colors of a single mountain daisy. She watches movie after movie, drawn indoors by emotion and light. Kithood ends one morning when Cheyenne Jasmine climbs aboard the train out of Little Paw, destination Hollywood. Montgomery stays put, unwilling to leave the country and his future with animals. They do not realize they are in love until the moment she departs. In time, Cheyenne becomes Jasmine Ferret, ‘the’ Jasmine Ferret, international film star, darling of the tabloids; Montgomery a sheep whisperer, a rancher, and some suspect philosopher ferret. Years pass before they meet again, long after each has found the rewards of their separate callings. Yet the highest reward, they discover, waits for them both together, and it’s one that they will share for the rest of their lives. ‘Rancher Ferrets On the Range‘ is a tale about sacrifice and longing, fulfillment and success, and a love that waits patiently, sure in the knowledge it will find a way home.

The Last War

Can one animal save the world? So asks Richard Bach, bestselling author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and The Ferret Chronicles. This moving fable about the almost end of a civilization and the profound issues it raises that of war and peace, life and death, revenge and forgiveness, guilt and innocence is a timely tale of timeless themes sure to resonate with anyone concerned about the present state of the world.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the most celebrated inspirational fable of our time, tells the story of a bird determined to be more than ordinary. This bestselling modern classic, reissued with a beautiful new cover design, is a story for people who want to follow their dreams and make their own rules and has inspired people for decades. ‘Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight how to get from shore to food and back again,’ writes author Richard Bach in this allegory about a unique bird named Jonathan Livingston Seagull. ‘For most gulls it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.’ Flight is indeed the metaphor that makes this story soar. This bestselling modern classic is a fable about seeking a higher purpose in life, even if your flock, tribe or neighbourhood finds your ambition threatening at one point our beloved gull is even banished from his flock. By not compromising his higher vision, Jonathan learns the meaning of love and kindness and gets the ultimate payoff transcendence. The dreamy illustrations by Russell Munson provide just the right illustrations for this spirituality classic that has inspired thousands of readers to follow their own path in life and so fulfill their true potential.

A Gift of Wings

These stories, inspired by Bach’s lifelong passion for flight, filled with memories of friends from the past and friends not yet met, are woven together with warmth, honesty and courage. With signs and signals, coincidences and tangents turning up at every juncture, Bach shows how truly complex and beautiful life can be, and also how its troubles can in fact knock us onto better paths or teach us lessons we benefit from in other situations. Drawing on the allegorical power of flight, each a mini parable, these stories will inspire you with their simple experiences made technicolour by the prism of Bach’s extraordinary imagination. Celebrating Richard Bach’s unique vision, these transcend their pages to touch the real drama of life with magic that reaches out to us all across its limitless horizons.

There’s No Such Place As Far Away

When she was about to turn five, a little girl named Rae Hansen invited Richard Bach to her birthday party. Though deserts, storms, mountains, and a thousand miles separated them, Rae was confident that her friend would appear. There’s No Such Place As Far Away chronicles the exhilarating spiritual journey that delivered Rae’s anxiously awaited guest to her side on that special day and tells of the powerful and enduring gift that would keep him forever close to her heart. Written with the same elegant simplicity that made Jonathan Livingston Seagull a bestselling phenomenon, There’s No Such Place As Far Away has touched the hearts of thousands of readers since its first publication in 1979. Richard Bach’s inspiring, now classic tale is a profound reminder that miles cannot truly separate us from friends…
that those we love are always with us every moment of the infinite celebration we call life. From the Trade Paperback edition.

One

A brilliant blend of biography, fantasy, fiction, non fiction, philosophy, spirituality and inspiration, One will take you on a metaphysical journey into the past and future a realm beyond time and space, a setting of infinite worlds and lifetimes. With love a hope as their guides, the Bachs voyages to different times and places, where they meet some of their alternate selves and explore different motivations and lifestyles.A provocative, probing work, One raises potent questions and gives beautiful, hope filled answers: that we each have the power to choose the ways of peace, brotherhood and love that we all can live with a reverence for nature, in harmony with the universe and that we can control our destiny.

Running from Safety

A half mile up, suspended by nylon wings and the promise of good lift, life hanges on a pledge. Richard Bach made that pledge, fifty years before, to return to the frightened child he used to be and teach him everything he had learned from living. His promise went unfulfilled until one day, hovering between earth and sky, Richard encounters Dickie Bach, age nine irrepressible challenger of every notion Richard embraces…
. In this exhilarating adventure, Richard and Dickie probe the timeless questions both need answered if either is to be whole: Why does growing spiritually mean never growing up? Can we peacefully coexist with the consequences of our choices? Why is it that only by Running from Safety can we make our wildest dreams take flight?

Hypnotizing Maria

Flight instructor Jamie Forbes guides a woman to landing her plane safely after her husband loses consciousness, then flies on to his own destination unimpressed by his act…
flight instructors guide students every day. Only after she tells reporters that a stranger appeared in an airplane alongside hers and hypnotized her into landing, and after he meets his own guiding stranger does he solve the bigger mystery: how each of us creates, step by step, what seems to be the solid world around us. The best mysteries are the ones whose answers lie in front of us, in plain sight. The best solutions are those moments when all of a sudden we realize what we’ve known all along.

The Bridge Across Forever

More than one year on the New York Times bestseller list! Richard Bach’s timeless and uplifting classic of hope and love

‘We’re The Bridge Across Forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters triumphs challenges impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and love!’

‘The opposite of loneliness, it’s not togetherness. It is intimacy.’

‘Look in a mirror and one thing’s sure: what we see is not who we are.’

‘Next to God, love is the word most mangled in every language. The highest form of regard between two people is friendship, and when love enters, friendship dies.’

‘There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go.’

Out of My Mind

The author of eleven books, including such classic bestsellers as Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions, and One, Richard Bach has earned a permanent place in the hearts of readers around the world. His visionary works have shown millions of readers the amazing possibilities of imagination, mind and spirit. An enthralling flight into the realm of possibility, Out of My Mind shows what happens when Richard Bach sets out to solve the design problems troubling his Piper Cub. He is taken on an unforgettable journey back to 1923 and the creative heyday of a British airplane manufacturer, Saunders Vixen Aircraft Company, where problems are solved for confused aviators. There, Bach meets Derek Hawthorne, his guide through Saunders Vixen, and a mysterious young aircraft designer named Laura Bristol who will provide the astonishing answers to his unspoken questions. This profoundly resonant tale reminds us of a powerful truth: although our dreams may lie beyond the limits of time, space, and belief, they are never beyond reach.

Messiah’s Handbook

In Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, Richard Bach met Donald Shimoda, a fellow pilot with the keys to the universe who barnstormed the Midwest in a Travel Air biplane. Part of Shimoda’s secret was a small book, bound in what looked like suede: Messiah s Handbook, Reminders for the Advanced Soul. Open it, he said, and whatever you need to know is there. Lost for decades and rediscovered, here it is in print at last reminders for those who have outgrown cynicism and doubt.