An easy to read and understand adventure in self-discovery. Colorful and thought provoking. Discover what gives you peace. Discover what stirs your spirit. Dare to live an inspired life!
Inspired steps to get what you really want. Creating and sustaining an abundant life is like a dance. With commitment and practice, we can learn our own inspired steps of abundance. We can practice until we create our own abundance; our own way. We can live a grace-full and grateful abundant life. This book provides easy to understand, simple to follow steps to create and sustain an abundant life. Like foot prints on the dance floor to show you the step pattern, this book breaks down the dance of having a meaningful life.
Step into a world of self-love and compassion. Journey through your thoughts, beliefs and feelings. Learn how to take amazingly great care of yourself. Let go of anything that is less than loving. Dream up new experiences. Watch your life expand in love. Let your love spill over to everyone and everything. Transform your life with self-love. Love is a miracle that is available to everyone.
What would you do if you found yourself with all of your loved ones? That is, your loved ones who have passed over. Summoned Angels is a story about how we can heal and share healing in this world and beyond. Every person who we are somehow attached to has a healing and helping message for us. Divine help is also available whenever we call upon it from a space of love. This story explores grief, acceptance, surrender and forgiveness. We are all spirit and energy, and our love for others creates a bridge that transcends time and space.
Inspired steps to get what you really want. Creating and sustaining an abundant life is like a dance. With commitment and practice, we can learn our own inspired steps of abundance. We can practice until we create our own abundance; our own way. We can live a grace-full and grateful abundant life. This book provides easy to understand, simple to follow steps to create and sustain an abundant life. Like foot prints on the dance floor to show you the step pattern, this book breaks down the dance of having a meaningful life.
An easy to read and understand adventure in self-discovery. Colorful and thought provoking. Discover what gives you peace. Discover what stirs your spirit. Dare to live an inspired life!
Step into a world of self-love and compassion. Journey through your thoughts, beliefs and feelings. Learn how to take amazingly great care of yourself. Let go of anything that is less than loving. Dream up new experiences. Watch your life expand in love. Let your love spill over to everyone and everything. Transform your life with self-love. Love is a miracle that is available to everyone.
Rosalie Edge (1877-1962) was the first American woman to achieve national renown as a conservationist. Dyana Z. Furmansky draws on Edge’s personal papers and on interviews with family members and associates to portray an implacable, indomitable personality whose activism earned her the names “Joan of Arc” and “hellcat.” A progressive New York socialite and veteran suffragist, Edge did not join the conservation movement until her early fifties. Nonetheless, her legacy of achievements--called "widespread and monumental" by the New Yorker--forms a crucial link between the eras defined by John Muir and Rachel Carson. An early voice against the indiscriminate use of toxins and pesticides, Edge reported evidence about the dangers of DDT fourteen years before Carson's Silent Spring was published. Today, Edge is most widely remembered for establishing Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, the world's first refuge for birds of prey. Founded in 1934 and located in eastern Pennsylvania, Hawk Mountain was cited in Silent Spring as an "especially significant" source of data. In 1930, Edge formed the militant Emergency Conservation Committee, which not only railed against the complacency of the Bureau of Biological Survey, Audubon Society, U.S. Forest Service, and other stewardship organizations but also exposed the complicity of some in the squandering of our natural heritage. Edge played key roles in the establishment of Olympic and Kings Canyon National Parks and the expansion of Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks. Filled with new insights into a tumultuous period in American conservation, this is the life story of an unforgettable individual whose work influenced the first generation of environmentalists, including the founders of the Wilderness Society, Nature Conservancy, and Environmental Defense Fund.
Take a look behind the doors of the law and discover truth. The pages of DOORS will take you on a journey through the process of the law, and although we have the best legal system in the world, our system of justice remains fallible. Find out with the protagonist of our story that sometimes, if one is very lucky, right can prevail over wrong, especially if you have an attorney who isn't blind as to what can be and is willing to hop into a politically incorrect and unpopular mire.
Can chasing the wrong girl lead down the right path? Witty as ever, best-selling author Dyan Sheldon maps the agonizing distance between “like” and “love.” Josh has never really thought twice about girls before. He’s usually too busy watching old movies with his friends Sal and Carver, petitioning for more vegetarian options in the school cafeteria, or flailing in yoga class with his best friend, Ramona. But when new girl Jena Capistrano walks into school, Josh loses his heart faster than he’s ever lost his balance on a double downward dog. Not that he has any real aspirations, of course: he knows Jena is completely out of his league. And then, against all odds — they become friends. The closer they get, the more infatuated Josh becomes, and the more he wonders if just maybe Jena might like him back. There’s only one way to find out. But it’s not exactly easy to put your heart on the line.
The early Christian writer Tertullian first applied the epithet "bride of Christ" to the uppity virgins of Carthage as a means of enforcing female obedience. Henceforth, the virgin as Christ's spouse was expected to manifest matronly modesty and due submission, hobbling virginity's ancient capacity to destabilize gender roles. In the early Middle Ages, the focus on virginity and the attendant anxiety over its possible loss reinforced the emphasis on claustration in female religious communities, while also profoundly disparaging the nonvirginal members of a given community. With the rising importance of intentionality in determining a person's spiritual profile in the high Middle Ages, the title of bride could be applied and appropriated to laywomen who were nonvirgins as well. Such instances of democratization coincided with the rise of bridal mysticism and a progressive somatization of female spirituality. These factors helped cultivate an increasingly literal and eroticized discourse: women began to undergo mystical enactments of their union with Christ, including ecstatic consummations and vivid phantom pregnancies. Female mystics also became increasingly intimate with their confessors and other clerical confidants, who were sometimes represented as stand-ins for the celestial bridegroom. The dramatic merging of the spiritual and physical in female expressions of religiosity made church authorities fearful, an anxiety that would coalesce around the figure of the witch and her carnal induction into the Sabbath.
Child labor greatly contributed to the cultural and economic success of the British Victorian theatrical industry. This book highlights the complexities of the battle for child labor laws, the arguments for the needs of the theatre industry, and the weight of opposition that confronted any attempt to control employers.
If this first love is true love, why can’t Hildy hang out with her friends without feeling guilty? Dyan Sheldon takes on the possessive side of summer romance with humor and insight. Hildy has only had two-and-a-half dates in her whole life, and she isn’t counting the half. It’s starting to look as if she’s never going to have a third date, or be kissed, or know a boy who is more than just a friend. Then, on an ordinary day, she meets Connor of the melt-that-ice-cap smile — and a summer that was going to be ordinary as toast turns into Hildy’s summer of love. But love for Hildy is a little more complicated than the songs and movies have led her to believe. It’s not so much girl-meets-boy-and loses-her-heart as boy-meets-girl-and-loses-his-mind. Part cautionary tale and part romantic comedy, Dyan Sheldon’s wry, diary-style novel weighs in on all ends of the relationship scale in a story of first love.
As a registered nurse working with psychiatric children and adolescents, Dyan Eybergen thought she was trained to handle just about every behavioral situationuntil she had her own children. Nothing had prepared her for the intensity of the relationships she would share with her sonsthe profound love she would have, the anger she would sometimes feel toward them and, of course, the guilt. For those who have struggled with parenting strategies that have failed or worked for one child but not another, Out of the Mouths of Babes offers a unique parenting approach tailored to working with the personalities of individual children. While guiding parents to uncover successful solutions to such frustrating child-rearing dilemmas as sleeping through the night, toilet training, and sibling rivalry, Eybergen also helps parents teach their children to feel empowered to acquire new skills, problem solve, manage conflict, and develop a healthy self-esteem. Through stories and experiences taken from her own life, Dyan Eybergen offers a common sense approach to parenting that gives alternatives to the one-size fits-all paradigm of raising children.
On June 23, 2000, a ship en route from Brazil to China foundered off the coast of South Africa, spilling 1,300 tons of oil into the ocean and contaminating the habitat of 75,000 penguins. Local conservation officials immediately launched a massive rescue operation, and 12,500 volunteers from around the globe rushed to South Africa in hopes of saving the imperiled birds. Serving as a rehabilitation manager during the initial phase of the three-month effort, Dyan deNapoli--better known as "the Penguin Lady" for her extensive work with penguins--and fellow volunteers de-oiled, nursed back to health, and released into the wild nearly all of the over 19,000 affected birds. Now, at the tenth anniversary of the disaster, deNapoli recounts the extraordinary story of the world's largest and most successful wildlife rescue--From publisher description.
Cary Grant was the ultimate star, defining Hollywood glamour as well as cinematic achievement. Dyan Cannon was a bright new actress, beautiful and funny. So began a storybook romance that brought her to dizzying heights and the inner circles of power in which Cary Grant was king. Behind closed doors, she discovered a Cary no one knew. A caring and private person, with dark family secrets that weighed heavily upon him. He was a man contending with the swan song of an astonishing film career while her career was just beginning. Despite the age difference, they fell in love, got married, and had a beautiful daughter together. Happily Ever After, though, proved elusive, and their relationship was beset with tragic twists and turns. With rare photos and never-before-seen letters from Grant, Dear Cary is told with poignancy and hard-won wisdom.
When Angel and her mother move into a cottage on a cliff on Long Island, they find a ghost named BJ, who died during the '50s, already lives there. Part one of two.
Tess is just getting her catering business, Just Desserts, off the ground when she separates from her philandering lawyer husband. She begins dating and becomes a willing but naive tourist adrift without a guidebook in the Naughty Nineties. Tess experiences it all--from tentative nibbles to gourmet sex.
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