With the loving eye of an amateur botanist, poet Julie Poole has distilled nature to its finest, tender points. Through poems spread delicately across the page, interspersed with images of the pressed flowers themselves, Poole’s poetry gives voice to a meditative expression of flora. Each poem creates an individual cataloged world through which to explore the body, sexuality, strength, and a devout refusal to admit the separation between humans and nature. Inspired by the Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center at The University of Texas at Austin, the largest herbaria in the Southwestern United States, Bright Specimen weaves together a written index through the harmony of botanical wonder.
Moving Past the Past: A Guide for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse is a self-help book for survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse. Moving Past the Past will help you to understand yourself in a way that you never thought possible. Why you behave like that, why you react like that, what the triggers are, and how you can release and overcome them.
Sarah is having a bad day! At 37½ life is going nowhere fast. She’s been dumped by her latest boyfriend, again! She’s lost her latest job, again! And her mother’s driving her mad, again! To top it all, she can’t even have a moan in peace without Clarabell piping up every two minutes trying to cheer her up, again! Clarabell is of course, Sarah’s ‘Guardian Angel’, whose job it is to constantly keep Sarah’s spirits up – an annoying distraction to say the least! Clarabell certainly has her work cut out! Having reached rock bottom, Sarah reluctantly accepts Clarabell’s help, growing gradually from a chaotic, lost young woman into the person she always wanted to be. With the angels help she is ready at last for her soul-mate Simon to enter her life. Throughout her journey a team of angels have regular ‘inter-angel-cy’ meetings, mapping out and planning Sarah’s life for her, often getting it very wrong with hilarious results! Sarah’s story brings hope, magic and inspiration from the beginning right through to its uplifting conclusion; drawing the reader into an emotional roller coaster that will make you laugh, cry and ultimately leave you with a smile on your face and quite possibly with an empty box of tissues!
Book 3 in the award winning 'Angel' series... Clarabelle is on a mission! With the children now at school, it's high time that 'her Sarah' focused! Enter 'Cassie' the cat (much to Fred's disgust), here to help Sarah become the 'Best Tarot and Angel Card Reader' this side of Mars ... Can Sarah do what Clarabelle needs her to do? And can she do it in time? Frieda has a secret ... a dark, foreboding, sinister secret ... and it is only Sarah who can unlock it ... Can she help Frieda find the peace that she has never known, or is she jeopardising a friendship that has lasted for nearly forty years? In this sequel - the third in the 'Angel' series - it is time for Sarah to move to the next level. Can she cope with the pressure ... or with what she discovers! Pain and trauma ... secrets and lies - no one knows what she's been through, and Frieda's determined to keep it that way! With such resistance, can Sarah repair a broken spirit and bring a happy ending, even with Clarabelle and Cassie's help? Clarabelle thinks so, but only Frieda can be the one to determine that!
Book 1 in the award winning 'Angel' series... Sarah is having a bad day! At 371/2 life is going nowhere fast. She's been dumped by her latest boyfriend, again! She's lost her latest job, again! And her mother's driving her mad, again! To top it all, she can't even have a moan in peace without Clarabelle piping up every two minutes trying to cheer her up, again! Clarabelle is, of course, Sarah's 'Guardian Angel, ' whose job it is to constantly keep Sarah's spirits up - an annoying distraction to say the least! Clarabelle certainly has her work cut out where Sarah is concerned! Having reached rock bottom, Sarah reluctantly accepts Clarabelle's help, growing gradually from a chaotic, lost young woman into the person she always wanted to be. With the angel's help she is ready at last for her soulmate Simon to enter her life. Throughout her journey a team of angels have regular 'inter-angel-cy' meetings, mapping out and planning Sarah's life for her, often getting it very wrong with hilarious results! Sarah's story brings hope, magic and inspiration from the beginning right through to its uplifting conclusion; drawing the reader into an emotional rollercoaster that will make you laugh, cry and ultimately leave you with a smile on your face and quite possibly with an empty box of tissues!
Book 2 in the award winning 'Angel' series... Following on from Angel on My Shoulder (Sarah's Story), Sarah is finally having a good day! At 383/4 life is now going fantastically! She's just married her soulmate Simon, her store is doing great and she's even getting on with her mother. (Miracles really do happen!) And to top it all, she's pregnant! Her 'Guardian Angel' Clarabelle is, of course, 'smashingly' happy, but is she risking it all with her crush on Archangel Michael? How will Simon cope with finding out that his new wife has a Guardian Angel that she can see and talk to? Will Nathaniel ever sort out his Gonk hair, and what will Metatron do when he finds out about Clarabelle's crush; will she be banished from the Angelic Realms forever? In this sequel, Angel in My Heart (Clarabelle's Story), it is Sarah's turn to help her angelic best friend Clarabelle and prevent a disaster. Can she do it? Enter 'Fred the Fantastic' to save the day. Fred is, of course, Sarah and Simon's new dog; a Golden Retriever, who being a genius can speak three languages (dog, angel and human). Whether he can help 'Mum' and 'Aunty Clarabelle' sort the mess out that they've got themselves into, though, is quite another matter!
From heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, manifestations and related supernatural phenomena to first-hand encounters with ghouls and spirits, this collection of stories contains new and well-known spooky tales from in and around Poole. Drawing on historical and contemporary sources Haunted Poole contains a chilling range of ghostly phenomena including the town's own tragic Romeo and Juliet tale, legendary Poole pirate Harry Paye and his ghostly galleon, the screams of Alice Beard and ghoulish beggars wandering the streets. This incredible gathering of ghostly goings-on is bound to captivate anyone interested in the supernatural history of the area.
Winner of the 2015 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize A Globe and Mail top 100 pick for 2014 Winner of a 2015 Independent Publisher Book Award Bronze Medal Twelve short stories that examine what happens in the lives of characters who discover shocking truths about the people they thought they knew best. Whether set in a cottage or a Montreal market, a graveyard or a backyard, these stories transport you into the lives of people you’ll recognize. Your neighbours may not want to make squirrels into pets or sell you a piece of the moon. Your son may not be asked to donate sperm to his girlfriend’s mother. Your sister may not want you to bring a dead cat across the border. You may not have an imaginary husband, a secret brother, or a friend who has turned to murder in a custody battle. But in each of these stories, people are trying to figure out how to live in a world that doesn’t always seem hospitable. With her keen poet’s eye, Julie Paul examines human nature and animal instinct, as the characters in The Pull of the Moon try to negotiate their impulses and desires. Ultimately, they want what most of us want: connection, belonging, love, and forgiveness.
Winner of the 2015 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize A Globe and Mail top 100 pick for 2014 Winner of a 2015 Independent Publisher Book Award Bronze Medal Twelve short stories that examine what happens in the lives of characters who discover shocking truths about the people they thought they knew best. Whether set in a cottage or a Montreal market, a graveyard or a backyard, these stories transport you into the lives of people you’ll recognize. Your neighbours may not want to make squirrels into pets or sell you a piece of the moon. Your son may not be asked to donate sperm to his girlfriend’s mother. Your sister may not want you to bring a dead cat across the border. You may not have an imaginary husband, a secret brother, or a friend who has turned to murder in a custody battle. But in each of these stories, people are trying to figure out how to live in a world that doesn’t always seem hospitable. With her keen poet’s eye, Julie Paul examines human nature and animal instinct, as the characters in The Pull of the Moon try to negotiate their impulses and desires. Ultimately, they want what most of us want: connection, belonging, love, and forgiveness.
When governess Jane Eyre goes to work at Thornfield Hall and meets the mysterious Mr Rochester, her life finally feels like it’s going right. Until the strange woman in the attic threatens everything. Charlotte Bronte’s epic classic is beautifully retold here by award-winning author Julie Berry.
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