New World Library

New World Library New World Library publishes books that inspire and challenge us to improve the quality of our lives. Welcome to New World Library’s page!
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We hope that you will find it informative, fun, and useful and that it will prove as valuable to you as our books, audios, and videos have been to people all over the world. Shakti Gawain and Marc Allen, New World Library’s owner and publisher, first began publishing booklets and audio cassettes in 1977 in a little slum apartment in Oakland, California. The kitchen was the office. The building was

so old there was an icebox built into the wall — that became their first file cabinet. Marc typeset our first books in the closet. New World Library started very slowly. Sales for our first year were a whopping $800. Our second year sales were $3,000. At the end of our second year, we then published Shakti Gawain’s book CREATIVE VISUALIZATION. The entire company was Shakti and Marc, both working part-time. New World Library had no marketing department and didn’t send out review copies to the media. We just took CREATIVE VISUALIZATION
to bookstores and then a few small distributors, and it started selling, by word of mouth. In the 1980’s, New World Library sold over 3 million copies in North America, and it was translated in 35 foreign editions as well. The book turned out to be in the forefront of a great spiritual and social movement that is still sweeping the world. In the nineties, our big bestseller was THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS by Deepak Chopra. That book, too, helped literally millions of people on their path to a better, more prosperous life. And over the last two decades, our biggest and best book has been THE POWER OF NOW by Eckhart Tolle. It has surpassed CREATIVE VISUALIZATION in copies sold, and is having a powerful impact around the world. It has helped literally millions of people to lighten their lives. At New World Library, we continue to look for books, audios, and videos that bring grace, ease, and lightness into our lives — to use a phrase from THE POWER OF NOW. Browse our website at http://www.newworldlibrary.com or look at our catalog, and you’ll see that we publish the work of a wide range of people who are each in their own way changing people’s lives, and the world as well — for the better.

12/19/2025

Our this week is about quieting the chatter in our heads to be present for those around us, courtesy Kori Hahn and her amazing book RITUALS OF THE SOUL: Using the 8 Ancient Principles of Yoga to Create a Modern & Meaningful Life.

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From GROWING BIG DREAMS: Manifesting Your Heart's Desires Through Twelve Secrets of the Imagination by Robert Moss.
12/18/2025

From GROWING BIG DREAMS: Manifesting Your Heart's Desires Through Twelve Secrets of the Imagination by Robert Moss.

12/17/2025

shares some from her book WOMEN WAKING UP: The Midlife Manifesto for Passion, Purpose, and Play.

THE FRIENDSHIP BENCH: How Fourteen Grandmothers Inspired a Mental Health Revolution by Dr. Dixon Chibanda has been selec...
12/17/2025

THE FRIENDSHIP BENCH: How Fourteen Grandmothers Inspired a Mental Health Revolution by Dr. Dixon Chibanda has been selected for the 2025 Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) Awards short list in the First Year Experience category!

Here’s more info from BookPal, who organizes the awards:

At BookPal, we believe in the power of books to ignite curiosity, drive meaningful change, and foster lifelong growth. That’s the purpose of the OWLs: to recognize titles that don’t just read well, they spark real change in the world.

FYE titles help students do the two hardest things at once: find their people and find their purpose. These books open the year with conversations about wellness, identity, justice, creativity, and the ethics of technology, giving students a shared language for belonging and a toolkit for thinking clearly when everything feels new.

Congratulations Dr. Chibanda!

From THE POWER OF NOW by Eckhart Tolle.
12/16/2025

From THE POWER OF NOW by Eckhart Tolle.

This new edition of the self-empowerment classic THREE MAGIC WORDS by US Andersen was personally selected by Eckhart Tol...
12/15/2025

This new edition of the self-empowerment classic THREE MAGIC WORDS by US Andersen was personally selected by Eckhart Tolle for publication.

From ENERGY SPEAKS: Messages fromr Spirit on Living, Loving, and Awakening by Lee Harris.
12/13/2025

From ENERGY SPEAKS: Messages fromr Spirit on Living, Loving, and Awakening by Lee Harris.

12/12/2025

from the legendary Joseph Campbell and the new collection of his quotes, ON THE HERO’S JOURNEY, which reminds us that we never know what lies at the end of a journey—which is exactly the point.

From THE MEANING OF HAPPINESS by Alan Watts.
12/11/2025

From THE MEANING OF HAPPINESS by Alan Watts.

12/10/2025

How to know when it’s time to push back. from Tonya Lester and her book PUSH BACK: Live, Love, and Work with Others Without Losing Yourself.

From STILLNESS SPEAKS by Eckhart Tolle.
12/09/2025

From STILLNESS SPEAKS by Eckhart Tolle.

From LET IT BE EASY: Simple Ways to Stop Stressing & Start Living by Susie Moore.
12/08/2025

From LET IT BE EASY: Simple Ways to Stop Stressing & Start Living by Susie Moore.

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Welcome to New World Library’s page! We hope that you will find it informative, fun, and useful and that it will prove as valuable to you as our books, audios, and videos have been to people all over the world. Shakti Gawain and Marc Allen, New World Library’s owner and publisher, first began publishing booklets and audio cassettes in 1977 in a little slum apartment in Oakland, California. The kitchen was the office. The building was so old there was an icebox built into the wall — that became their first file cabinet. Marc typeset our first books in the closet. New World Library started very slowly. Sales for our first year were a whopping $800. Our second year sales were $3,000. At the end of our second year, we then published Shakti Gawain’s book CREATIVE VISUALIZATION. The entire company was Shakti and Marc, both working part-time. New World Library had no marketing department and didn’t send out review copies to the media. We just took CREATIVE VISUALIZATION to bookstores and then a few small distributors, and it started selling, by word of mouth. In the 1980’s, New World Library sold over 3 million copies in North America, and it was translated in 35 foreign editions as well. The book turned out to be in the forefront of a great spiritual and social movement that is still sweeping the world. In the nineties, our big bestseller was THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS by Deepak Chopra. That book, too, helped literally millions of people on their path to a better, more prosperous life. And over the last two decades, our biggest and best book has been THE POWER OF NOW by Eckhart Tolle. It has surpassed CREATIVE VISUALIZATION in copies sold, and is having a powerful impact around the world. It has helped literally millions of people to lighten their lives. At New World Library, we continue to look for books, audios, and videos that bring grace, ease, and lightness into our lives — to use a phrase from THE POWER OF NOW. Browse our website at http://www.newworldlibrary.com or look at our catalog, and you’ll see that we publish the work of a wide range of people who are each in their own way changing people’s lives, and the world as well — for the better.