Back-to-back, Richard Bach’s books have been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than four years. His books are visions of why we’re here and where we’re going. He writes about ideas that change lives. What better could anyone write about? What better to read?

We’re in the business of inspiring, and Hampton Roads Publishing Company is delighted to offer readers a chance to read Richard Bach’s Hypnotizing Maria.

In this teaching fable, Bach explores flight and a profound interest in metaphysics. In the opening moments of the story, we meet Jamie Forbes, a pilot who guides a woman into landing a plane safely after her husband loses consciousness. The woman later claims that it was like being hypnotized. Richard Bach, in this his twentieth book, has written a compelling fable about reality and suggestion.

Bach explores deep spiritual and philosophical issues in this slim volume. Our true nature, it seems, it is not bound by space and time. We live in a world full of appearances. If we stop accepting these appearances as reality, the book suggests, they will cease to be our reality. We enter this world to explore, to have fun, and to have shared experiences with the people we care about, but most of all to learn how to love and love again.

Richard Bach is the beloved and bestselling author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions, One, The Bridge Across Forever, and numerous other books. He lives outside Seattle, Washington, and still flies his own plane whenever he has the chance.