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We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() Amulet book box set6/28/2023 ![]() The mysterious Leon Redbeard is their guide, and there's a surprising new addition to the crew: the Elf King's son, Trellis. ![]() In the third installment of the thrilling Amulet series, Emily, Navin, and the gang charter an airship and set off in search of Cielis, a mythical city believed to be located on an island high above the clouds. ![]() It's up to Em to triumph over evil while controlling the amulet's power. A collection of the first eight books in Kazu Kibuishi's 1 New York Times bestselling series. He has also written (drawn) the Amulet series. He is best known for being the creator and editor of the comic anthology Flight and for creating the webcomic Copper. ![]() In this thrilling sequel to "The Stonekeeper," Emily and her brother, Navin, head for Kanalis, a beautiful and mysterious city of waterfalls, where they hope to find the antidote for the poison that has sickened their mother. A collection of the first seven books in Kazu Kibuishis 1 New York Times bestselling series After tragedy strikes their family, Emily and Navin move with. Kazu Kibuishi (born 1978) is an American graphic novel author and illustrator. 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The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume-a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize-offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic. ![]() ![]() After introducing the open-focus technique, he then moves you into the practice of finding the present moment. Joe walks you through Meditation 1: Changing Two Beliefs and Perceptions. In the present moment, the familiar past and the future literally no longer exist, and you become pure consciousness-a thought alone. Joe Dispenza has created two meditation recordings - featuring different music - to accompany his book You Are the Placebo. ![]() That’s because you are no longer connected to the same body-mind, to the same identification with the environment, and to the same predictable timeline. ![]() When you discover the sweet spot of the present moment and you forget about yourself as the personality you have always been, you have access to other possibilities that already exist in the quantum field. These guided meditations are a part of Dr Joes four-week program. Joe walks you through Meditation 2: Changing One Belief and Perception.Īfter introducing the open-focus technique, he then moves you into the practice of finding the present moment. Uk, Name: You Are the Placebo by Dr Joe Dispenza, Length: 27 pages, Page: 20. Has created two meditation CDs-featuring different meditation music-to accompany his book You Are the Placebo. JOE DISPENZA TO CHANGE YOUR BELIEFS AND PERCEPTIONS AND RE-WIRE YOUR BRAIN FOR SELF-HEALINGīest-selling author, international speaker, chiropractor, and renowned researcher of epigenetics, quantum physics, & neuroscience, Dr. ![]() Milk and honey by rupi kaur6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() The author explores the themes of love, loss, trauma, femininity, abuse, trauma, oppression: and healing.Įach chapter takes the reader on a journey through a different stage of life while using straightforward but evocative language and dialogue to immerse them in the narrative. Is written in a straightforward and informal style. Milk and Honey Rupi’s self-produced bestselling collection of poetry and artwork. This review is going to take you on a detailed journey through its pages, highlighting the emotionally evocative writing and the deliberate pacing that makes this book a true masterpiece. The writing is lively and simple to read because of the short sentences and active voice-no wonder it sold a million copies.Īdditionally, the use of descriptive language immerses you in the author’s world by evoking a sense of atmosphere and setting. Her writing has an informal tone and direct address that makes it seem like a conversation with a friend. This is more than a book that takes you through a journey of the most bitter and sweet moments in life, it’s poetry and prose about survival and overcoming. ![]() Kaur takes readers through a journey that will be remembered. Anyone seeking a real and unvarnished examination of love, loss, and recovery must read this potent collection of poetry and prose. Milk and honey rupi kaur milk and honey rupi kaurĭo you want to read something interesting and relatable? Milk and Honey take readers on an unforgettable ride. ![]() The virgin suïcides book genre6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Lisbon, a mild-mannered high school math teacher, is driven to resign by parents who believe his control of their children may be as deficient as his control of his own brood. ![]() Her mother forces Lux to burn the album along with others she considers dangerously provocative. ![]() ![]() The title derives from a song by the fictional rock band Cruel Crux, a favorite of the Lisbon daughter Lux-who, unlike her sisters Therese, Mary, Bonnie and Cecilia, is anything but a virgin by the tale's end. The sensationalism of the subject matter (based loosely on a factual account) may be off-putting to some readers, but Eugenides's voice is so fresh and compelling, his powers of observation so startling and acute, that most will be mesmerized. Eugenides's tantalizing, macabre first novel begins with a suicide, the first of the five bizarre deaths of the teenage daughters in the Lisbon family the rest of the work, set in the author's native Michigan in the early 1970s, is a backward-looking quest as the male narrator and his nosy, horny pals describe how they strove to understand the odd clan of this first chapter, which appeared in the Paris Review, where it won the 1991 Aga Khan Prize for fiction. ![]() Shantaram second book6/28/2023 ![]() Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter the city’s hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere.Īs a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city’s poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. ![]() “It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.”Īn escaped convict with a false passport, Lin flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of Bombay, where he can disappear. Now a major television series from Apple TV+ starring Charlie Hunnam! ![]() The secret garden novel6/28/2023 ![]() While the novel squarely blames the parents and the people the parents put in charge of their children for Colin and Mary's poor health and attitudes, it also makes the case that an essential cure for the children's ills is friendship with people their own age, rather than installing other adult authority figures who, the novel suggests, would be unable to empathize with the children and meet them where they are.īoth Mary and Colin have been raised almost exclusively by hired help, not by their parents. Craven couldn't bear to look at his son and therefore removed himself from Colin's life altogether. The officers that rescue the forgotten Mary out of her parents' home after devastating a cholera outbreak note that they didn't even know that Mary's mother had a child, while following the death of Mrs. ![]() ![]() Part of the reason that both Colin and Mary are in such poor states when the reader meets them is because none of their living parents actually wanted them. ![]() Sick by porochista khakpour6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Sick is Khakpour's grueling, emotional journey-as a woman, an Iranian-American, a writer, and a lifelong sufferer of undiagnosed health problems-in which she examines her subsequent struggles with mental illness and her addiction to doctor prescribed benzodiazepines, that both aided and eroded her ever-deteriorating physical health. Several drug addictions, some major hospitalizations, and over $100,000 later, she finally had a diagnosis: late-stage Lyme disease. For most of that time, she didn't know why. ![]() Khakpour takes us all the way in on her struggle toward health with an intelligence and intimacy that moved, informed, and astonished me." - Cheryl Strayed, New York Times bestselling author of WildĪ powerful, beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction, and the myth of full recovery.įor as long as author Porochista Khakpour can remember, she has been sick. Humane, searching, and unapologetic, Sick is about the thin lines and vast distances between illness and wellness, healing and suffering, the body and the self. "Porochista Khakpour's powerful memoir, Sick, reads like a mystery and a reckoning with a love song at its core. 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