This life story of actor Sam Jaffe is extensively researched, including 150 personally conducted celebrity interviews, and colorfully told by writer Arleen Lorrance who was also his good friend. This is more than the story of a man who was admired and held in great esteem by the likes of John Huston, Zero Mostel, Karl Malden, Jack Lemmon, Julie Harris and Robert Wise. This is a 20th century history of theatre, film, and early television, not to mention life in New York City and Hollywood, lived passionately for 93 exciting and thoughtful years. Sam Jaffe created the classic film roles of Gunga Din, the high lama in Lost Horizon, and Doc Erwin Riedenschneider in The Asphalt Jungle (for which he received an Oscar nomination.) On television he was well known as Dr. Zorba in Ben Casey. His uniqueness enabled people to recognize him wherever he went. Jaffe was more than an actor. He was a man of integrity and conviction who was instrumental in starting Actor's Equity, as well as creating The Equity Library Theatre which kick-started hundreds of careers. Jaffe was a political activist who survived being falsely targeted by the House Un-American Activities Committee which damaged hundreds of professionals and destroyed many lives.

This inspiring chronicle of one woman's experience with breast cancer will speak to anyone who is faced with a serious health challenge. Arleen Lorrance has devoted her life to living and teaching six love principles she originated in 1970 and which transformed the school where she taught. In 2010 when she was told she had breast cancer she made the conscious choice to surround the cancer cells with love energy rather than view them as enemies with which to do battle. From the day of diagnosis she shared her process with a wide circle of family and friends asking them to support her in that intention. The book includes her reflections every step of the way through the mastectomy and reconstruction as well as responses by others who shared their own experiences. To guide her healing, she used The Love Principles and the wisdom she had accumulated over four decades as a personal growth facilitator. The result is a down-to-earth example of an authentic life in which inner convictions are aligned with outer actions.

The Theatre of Life uses the theatre metaphor to provide readers with practical tools and techniques for creating their own personalities consciously, moment by moment. It offers exercises for the integration of body, mind, spirit and feelings. It teaches readers to be life artists by making purposeful, conscious contributions with their lives.

The Love Principles presents a broad, very practical exploration of the transformational power of unconditional love. Real life examples show how to make the difficult possible and demonstrate that joy can become commonplace. The Love Principles encourages readers to lift up into the more of who they are, to exercise creative jurisdiction over their minds, feelings, and bodies, and to function with consciousness in all cireucumstances.