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Depression is a difficult place to be. Challenging on many levels, it can be as frightening for the sufferer as for those who watch on. Those in the midst of its gloom can feel as if they are living a different and parallel life to those they share their homes and world with. This disconnection, and...

It is the summer of 1971. Twenty-one-year-old Charlie Rogers has just graduated from the University of Texas in Austin and is hitching a ride toward the backwoods of East Texas. His first adventure along the uncertain and open-ended path of adulthood is a job as a counselor for a group of emotionally...

This book is a compilation of thoughts and words to inspire positive change within. Every aspect of your life is influenced by the thoughts you think and the words you speak. Whatever you consistently give thought to, will come into your experience so, rid yourself of those negative thought...

If your life story was re-told would you be able to piece together the meaning that had always been there? Rosie ODea, 31, was born to make a difference. She knows it; she feels it. Yet now on a country road, her life hovers in an ethereal dimension between life and death. We all know...

Brookies Adventure is a fun-filled and prancing story of a childs exploration through nature and her own heart to find where God lives. Through Brookies loving and diverse family and the wonderful Mr. Buzz Bumble Bee, Sarah Rabbit, and the wise old fish Bruno Trout, Brookie finds her answer through...

Once upon a time, there was a boy who was connected to everything. He was in tune with every breath that the Earth made. He was in tune with the seasons and aware of the weather. He understood the stars. He could communicate with the animals. He was only six years old, but already he was brimming...

Be moved by the power of spirit working through the animals we encounter daily. Your adorable pet is not simply a companion; hes more than a family member. Hes love and care and inspiration wrapped up in a ball of fur, but definitely not to be called a fur ball. This book tells the story of two women...

Rushing to Yoga details how awakenings may be found in distant countries as we search to find ourselves, but they also can occur daily in our lives. The stories included describe how we can benefit from our daily lives if we only take a moment to stop rushing around and allow the learningthe rememberingto...

In this raw, candid memoir, Deborah OBrien describes her life growing up and the steady progression of alcoholism that led her on a path of self-destruction. After twenty-four years of silence, OBrien reveals the lessons she learned about life while she was dying of an acute overdose of pills and...

FOREWORD Where does the word death come from anyway? Why do we call it death and what makes people dead? They are more alive than we are. Weve all heard the expression, It was like hugging a dead tree. Well, some people who are living are deador seem like they are. Why are we so afraid...

The Kingdom of Ning is a bedtime read fantasy (4 8), thats fun for children and adults. Plus its a book to color!We meet a rare male calico cat in Story One. An orphan, Calico roams Ning, in a world older than Mother Earth, looking for food and friendship. He adopts a tough guy approach to life until...

Phoebe Meriweather is a little faeiry unaware of her own special abilities. At school, Phoebe is considered a slow learner and a bit of a late bloomer for Faeiryland. She is also shorter than her classmates; standing a mere 20 centimeters (8 inches) tall rather than the 30 centimeters (12 inches)...

Five year old Maya is frightened of the Bothers, who pester her while she sleeps. They want her to get up and play with them. Its so hard to rest when you have a room full of invisible visitors watching you sleep or one who constantly steals your favorite teddy bear. She wakes up her older brother,...

Set in Italy in the year 1977, The Road to Chianti follows two young orphans as they struggle to find a place to call home. When their parents are killed in a devastating accident on the eve of the Epiphany, nine-year-old Alessandra DeSantis and her older brother, Salvatore, are left alone....