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Go Away World, I’m Coloring: Inspirational Verses : R W Rasner
If you are stressed and like to color, you will love this relaxing adult coloring book. This adult coloring book contains intricate illustrations of inspirational and uplifting Bible verses.
Many have discovered the serenity in coloring beautiful illustrations. These illustrations were created specifically for me to use in my coloring books.
Remember when you were a small child and you did not have a worry in the world? You can still sit and color and just let your mind guide your hands as you enjoy a mental massage. Stay in the lines or just let go and float away from your worries.
These illustrations are intricate enough to keep you occupied, but not so intricate that it frustrates you. They are fine for many children and young adults, too. They make excellent gifts too! The pages are alternated so that your coloring does not bleed onto the following illustration.
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The Naiyro and the Beckoning Eroded Stone : Nada Almarri
To protect the Milky Way galaxy and Mother Earth from a dark and evil entity, a planet called Crystaniya was created. But Crystaniya has lost its power, leaving the galaxy vulnerable to destruction.
When a creature called a Naiyro promises to repair Crystaniya from within, he meets its inhabitants and chooses one person to act on his behalf. But will it be enough to undo the evil that has found its way through?
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Henchman Street : Freya Vanir
Who would you trust? Who should you fear? Can unwelcome endings lead to better beginnings?
In her job, Grace is bold, daring and unrelenting. She is struggling to find the same empowerment in her personal life. At least with the help of her best friend, she finds a way to keep laughing as she begins a new case and faces a familiar adversary in a city of ugliness and beauty.
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Oddball in 3G : Marc Berlin
Robert Krieger’s life is quickly falling apart. He’s been fired from his job, split with his sexy girlfriend, and has a controlling overbearing mother he feels obligated to call at least once a week. As a result, he’s developed a distressing anxiety disorder.
Robert lends money to an acquaintance across the hall in his building, a small-time drug dealer named Skids. When Skids is later assaulted by enforcers working for the Dragons, an inner-city drug gang, he hands Robert a package to hold for him until he either asks for it back, or dies.
Lonely but determined to find a new girlfriend, while jogging one morning Robert meets the beautiful and willowy Lindsay Marriott, whom he awkwardly begins to romance. Not long afterward, he finds himself in a brutal one-man war with the Dragons, who believe Robert has money Skids owes them.
Robert is soon juggling an increasing array of anxiety-heightening issues, which together conspire to wreak havoc on his fragile sanity.
Gritty and violent, Oddball in 3G is a psychological thriller that’s also surprisingly funny.
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A Tourist in Zombie Country : Urs Gretler
This book describes in three parts how a post-apocalyptic North America, flooded by three hundred million zombies, and a Europe on the brink of collapse would look like. At the same time, it tries to explain the zombie phenomenon in a scientific way.
At first, the scientists are clueless and pursue wrong tracks. With successive discoveries and new insights they close in on the truth, which is revealed in part three.
The story is told in the first person by an elderly Swiss tourist who finds himself stranded in Memphis after the outbreak of the pandemic and who looks at some American idiosyncrasies through European eyes. He faces several problems. Among them: How do you defend yourself against the undead and against evil men, especially if you are not physically fit? How do you survive once all the grocery stores have been looted?
The first part of the book answers these questions. After spending more than one year in America, he discovers that some European countries had managed to hang on, albeit with a decimated population, and he manages to return to Switzerland thanks to the French Navy.
In part two he returns to the wastelands of North America as advisor to a French scientific expedition. Their road trip takes them to the Gulf Coast, West Texas, Kansas and the Appalachians. They return with important information about the zombies and the few survivors in America.
In part three he returns once more, this time as advisor to a battalion-sized French army unit.
The results of these expeditions, and the research carried out in Europe, lead to the discovery of the origin of the pandemic.
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The Part That Doesn’t Burn : Sam Poling
In an overpopulated city-state where technology and magic are forbidden by the corrupt church, young witch, Mirabel Fairfax, plots the creation of a deadly plague to cull the burdensome rabble. That is, until she falls in love with the very alchemist she has been deceiving.
Now, with soul-hungry geists flooding the city, the church scrambling for their prey, and her own mind at war with itself, Mirabel must decide what she’s fighting for before she loses everything to the evils of Autumnfall.
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Personal Debt : Arturo Viale
An accidental death… A dying child… A divided town… A Bronx lawyer.
Set in Kansas during the mid-1970’s, Personal Debt follows the lives of three childhood friends, Jack, Bill and Vincent. After years of personal sacrifices for each other’s welfare, the three friends realize that each of their own major accomplishments in life – is almost directly due to one or both of the others.
Jack has a major life set back when his only daughter is born with a terminal illness. Her costly medication is depleting the family funds, and Jack is forced to rob the local pharmacy which ends in the accidental death of an elderly woman – who happens to be Vincent’s mother.
Caught between personal friendship and civic duty, Bill, now the town’s sheriff, drives to the state capital to find a well-known trial lawyer – Michael Zurilli. Several years earlier, the sheriff’s testimony was crucial in proving the innocence of Counselor Zurilli’s clients.
Taking on the case for free, Counselor Zurilli, a recent widower from the Bronx, travels to this small Kansas town and must prove the innocence of a man who some town members want convicted without a trial. While sitting in the town jail, Jack’s involvement in the tragic death of his best friend’s mother as well as the depleting condition of his young daughter has made him give up on himself.
It’s up to Counselor Zurilli to not only clear Jack of all charges, but also convince him that he still has a function in the world. This is no small task. Since the death of his wife, the counselor has felt the same way about himself. The story becomes more about Zurilli and his personal struggles, and how it relates to Jack and his problems. Is the counselor there to save the day, or is he just looking to keep his mind off of his lost wife?
The Return of the Shaman : AnneClaire Venemans
There is a call for a new, a modern shaman. As it becomes clear that our environment is changing, and that those changes are taking effect ever more rapidly — it is time to start looking at creating a better balance with nature.
Even though shamanic traditions can teach us a great deal, a new and different expression of shamanism is needed. A more modern shamanism. A shamanic expression that is a merger of both the rediscovery of our shamanic roots — going back to shamanism as it was practiced in our area at one time — and the application of the core values of shamanism in a manner that fits our way of living; our culture as it exists today.
These stories and poems are about the search for the path of the shaman in this point in time. The path of a modern shaman whose interaction with nature may grow stronger day by day.
From the simple question “Can you listen?,” to memories of the wise elders — from conversations with the old shaman and teacher M’Taka, to recollections of ancient songs and rhythms, a bridge is created between the ancient shamanic wisdom and the questions we may have in our lives today.
It is a journey that leads to the understanding that as the traditional shamanic thoughts and practices are brought into this point in time, the shaman returns in each of us choosing to walk the path…
Many have walked this path before us, each making a difference in the world. Now we are invited to embark on a journey, each in our own, unique way.
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Sri Chakra Yantra : Vinita Rashinkar
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We are fortunate to live at one of most peaceful times in history with the added bonus of leading increasingly comfortable, long and healthy lives. Yet there is a deep sense of dissatisfaction and restlessness in most peoples’ lives as they ask themselves: “Is this all there is to life?”
I have been working as a spiritual healer for more than two decades now and I have come to believe that this ennui and boredom arises out of the complete absence of personal rituals in our modern-day lives. Personal rituals, as opposed to community rituals (that serve to offer us a sense of belonging, security and comfort, a feeling of being part of something bigger), are far more important as they give us the ability to find our place in the grander scheme of the Universe. A personal ritual makes us part of the sacred for it temporarily disengages us from our role in the profane world of humdrum existence and helps us enter into a zone of connecting more closely with the divine.
This book is an endeavour to introduce a personal ritual involving triangular work of Yantra (the geometric pattern of the Sri Chakra as it is considered the mightiest amongst all yantras), Mantra (chanting with specific focus on sounds related to the Sri Chakra) and Tantra (using a specified procedure laid out in a prescribed order).
A personal ritual involving the Sri Chakra can only be embarked upon after gaining a better understanding of its metaphysical aspects which are reflected in the philosophies underlying Shaktism, Tantra, Dasa Mahavidya and Sri Vidya. Once these concepts throw some light on the basis of Sri Chakra worship, we study the nature of sacred geometry and the significance, structure and meaning of the Sri Chakra Yantra. This is followed by two chapters that focus upon the relationship of the human body to the Sri Chakra and the connection of the Pineal Gland to the personal ritual. There is also a brief note on healing and the Sri Chakra.
This is followed by an analysis of the use of sounds in the path to spiritual growth. Special attention is given to the sounds (mantras and stotras) associated with the Sri Chakra Yantra. The next part of the book deals with the role of mudras and contains details about specific mudras that are commonly used as part of the Sri Chakra puja modality. The book then lays out in simple terms the process of the personal ritual and gives details about the initial infusion of energy into the yantra, the method of worship, path to visualisation and meditation on the Sri Chakra.
There has been a huge surge in the popularity of Sri Vidya in recent times and many self-professed gurus are charging huge sums of money to share their knowledge of this esoteric and mysterious subject to eager learners. There are a few books written in English (notable among them are V. Ravi’s Understanding and Worshipping the Sri Chakra and S. Shankarnarayanan’s encyclopedic Sri Chakra) on the subject but they are aimed at the advanced practitioner and will leave a novice confounded by their profundity and depth.
The author’s main aim writing this book is to offer all the information that a novice is seeking to get him/her on to the practice of Sri Vidya Sadhana and involve in self-learning rather than seek it from external sources.
The information is laid out in a non-dogmatic manner keeping in mind practical aspects of modern-day living, thereby allowing everyone an opportunity to learn and experience the benefits of the precious Sri Yantra. The process outlined in the book equips the readers with the skills necessary to harness the tremendous cosmic energies available in the Universe and channelize it to make life’s dreams come true.
This book is not meant to be a comprehensive study of the Sri Chakra. In presenting the Sri Chakra Yantra as a tool for self-development, the author has kept in mind sensibilities of the modern spiritual seeker, their needs and interests and has desisted from venturing into the realm of mythological references, the inclusion of which would distract and obfuscate from the subject of study. The focus has been to retain only relevant philosophical allusions that further the understanding of the subject at hand.
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Seaton’s War : Lily Ennis
A story of love, secrets and lies set in a sleepy New Zealand town in the latter half of WWII.
When a Japanese submarine beaches, the residents are shocked that the Pacific War has come to them. To some, the event brings opportunity for personal gain or for genuine war work.
For Kitty Williams, it is a chance to prove she can do more for the war effort than knit socks for Red Cross parcels. Taking a stand against the establishment, Kitty teaches the POWs English with the intention of learning enough Japanese to be able to intercept their radio transmissions.
When Kitty makes an unusual find, she confides in physicist Dr. Robert Anderson, who operates a direction finder, tracking movements of ships and submarines in the Pacific. But all is not as it seems with the shy academic and Kitty begins to question where his sympathies lie. Too late, she realises she has fallen in love with him.
As Kitty immerses herself in her work, her landlady Rowena struggles with the fact that her husband John is incarcerated in German-occupied Poland. Rowena’s unorthodox method of dealing with her situation is a source of tension between her and Kitty.
Woven through the book is Kitty’s relationship with her best friend Maybelle who has left Seaton to work for Navy Communications. She provides Kitty with a different slant on the events in Seaton through newspaper clippings and letters, and she regales Kitty about life in the city now the Americans have arrived.
The Pacific War, secret liaisons, the spy game and the quest for liberation in Europe weave seamlessly through Seaton’s War. As Kitty battles for personal recognition, she puts her life on the line for love, honour and above all, integrity.
Fire in the Mountain, by Lily Ennis, is also on Whizbuzz Books.
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