A small request: ask your bookstore or library for these books

A small request, and an easy one.

From October 15, both volumes of The God Neuroscience Found can be ordered by any bookstore or library in the world. They are now distributed through Ingram, the wholesaler that bookshops and libraries already use every day. Your local shop does not need a special account with me. It only needs the ISBN.

Most books reach a shelf because someone walked in and asked for them. If these books have meant something to you, the most helpful thing you can do is ask for them where you live.

The two books

The God Neuroscience Found: A Neurotheology of the Embrace from Behind
Book 1. Paperback, 336 pages, Riche Books
ISBN 979-11-221695-0-8

The Brain Turned Toward God: Into the Deep (Duc in altum)
Book 2. Paperback, 438 pages, Riche Books
ISBN 979-11-221695-1-5

At a bookstore

Show the ISBN at the counter and ask them to order it through Ingram. A Catholic bookstore near a parish or a cathedral is a good place to start. Independent shops can usually have it in a week or two.

At a library

Most public and university libraries have a "suggest a purchase" form on their website or at the desk. Give the title and the ISBN above. Libraries order through Ingram, which carries both books.

One request from one reader is often enough for a library to buy a copy, and a copy on a library shelf goes on being read for years.

Thank you. And thank you to everyone who has already read them.

— Tae Ho Guak

The books are also on Amazon in paperback and Kindle: The God Neuroscience Found.

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