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This isn’t the West you know. Things have gotten weird. Prairie dogs as big as a calf, gilas longer than a dinner table, and beings scouring the plains and towns looking for souls. Since the barrier between the worlds of the living and dead were broken, danger and horrors awaited everyone. Anchor Kessel had left behind the cattle drives and long, hard trips across open ground to push cows to market for another man to rake in money.

What is prayer? The question is rather straightforward, but with a bit of consideration, you might find there is no easy answer. In Why People Pray, Rabbi Mordecai Schreiber examines this elusive nature of prayer, as well as the history of formal prayer and how it has been shaped - and continues to be shaped - by an era of unprecedented globalization.

In this fable the author draws on his long journey not only around the world but also through many cultures and ages, from the ancient Greeks and the teachings of the Hebrew prophets through the great teachers of all the major faiths and philosophies of East and West. It is the story of an older man who has found inner peace, sharing his knowledge and insights with a young man who is searching for his place in the world.