Oscar the owl is the wisest creature of the forest, and he'll need plenty of wisdom to outsmart the evil crow, Hector, who kidnaps his brother and terrorizes the creatures of nearby Woodmont. With the help of friends, Oscar sets out to free his brother and undo Hector's evil plan to rule the forest. Can Oscar defeat Hector and his book of magic spells? The creatures of Woodmont are counting on him.
A Breath of Magic is a guide for magicians that are wanted and needed in the world to make a difference. Easy breathing instructions are included, and no batteries are needed. Our breath is the active ingredient of magic that manifests our wishes. The living message of this book is that magic is tangible when you breathe and merge with nature. For when you do, watch out, your world will transform just as the identical twins Nicholas and Gabriellas did one day after school. Their parents are struggling working two jobs each to make ends meet. George T., their neighbor and an illustrious retired professor, watches over them and walks them home on their last day of school and introduces them to the energy of nature and much more. They are initiated and are led to more experiences of its power that they find within themselves. The energy awakens their senses and inner core to a memory of the powerful magic that is theirs and that sparks its magical presence within their hearts. Their loving energy weaves their journey into a colorful tapestry, each thread displaying their inner wisdom, where through their hearts breath, they become the sole creators and true healers of their world.
All of the books Laura wrote, will appeal to audiences that love comedy. Also there is work that appeals to those that have studied the masters from poetry to plays. A former member of the museum of sound recording, marketing screenplays, the last book published by Xlibris Corp. The Forest has poetry and plays that are comical, classic, in the wonderful stories in them that will entertain the lover of good plays and films as well as poetry, a work that has love poetry in it as well. Please see the Xlibris website under the first book, Robo Sapiens for reviews. Other reviews are inside the text of all of the books.
‘Forty is a fine age, a young, strong powerful, prime-of-life age, a frisky age, a coming-to-maturity age when all things are possible. But beware, it is also an apocalyptic number, a number full of climactic warnings' - Margaret Drabble. 40 is a truly meaningful and fascinating number. For example, the number forty is used in Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and other Middle Eastern traditions to represent a large, approximate number: ‘umpteen’; forty is the number of weeks for an average term of pregnancy; forty is the customary number of hours in a working week; rain fell for ‘forty days and forty nights’ during the Flood; forty is the only number with its letters in alphabetical order; Jesus fasted for forty days and nights . . . Inspired by 40, this collection contains thrilling contributions from some of the most high-profile writers, artists and illustrators of our time and is beautifully illustrated by Tom Gauld. And to celebrate Canongate’s 40th anniversary you can have this fantastic little eBook for free! It’s on us! Enjoy... Featuring Steven Hall, Richard Holloway, Olivia Laing, David Shrigley, Patience Agbabi, Karl Pilkington, Charles M. Schulz, Matt Haig, Margaret Drabble, Dave Brown, Ruth Ozeki, Lemn Sissay, Rebecca Miller, Geoff Dyer, Tao Lin, Patrick Ness, Margaret Atwood, Yann Martel, Ben Brooks, Carol Birch, Simon Garfield, Michel Faber, Oliver Burkeman, Angus Hyland and Marion Deuchars, Tahmima Anam, Claudia Hammond, Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin, Simon Tofield, Philip Pullman, Lily Vanilli, Alasdair Gray, David Eagleman, Stephanie Wolfe Murray and Jamie Byng.
"Estranged childhood friends Oscar and Sebastian-both too young to have a personal relationship with the AIDS crisis but too old to have enjoyed the freedom of an out adolescence-spend a year grappling with cultural identity, generational change, and what they see in, and owe to, each other"--
Oscar Purcell, from Toronto, Canada, was earnestly seeking truth, wisdom and enlightenment in Part One entitled Earnestly Seeking. Oscar studied world religions and world philosophies. Oscar became a successful, Philosophy and World Religion college professor at U.C.L.A. He traveled to India, Nepal and the Himalayan Mountains. He went to Hindu, Buddhist and Jain temples. He attended religious festivals and other, cultural events. He observed lifestyles in India and Nepal. Many Indians and Nepalese live simple lives. A colleague described his travels to Tibet and Bhutan. Oscar experienced romance, adventures, challenges and spiritual illumination. He met a beautiful, Hindu woman who he fell in love with and married. You Need to Know God in Part Two describes why and how to know God. Make God your best friend. Help others to know God. Magnificent Splendors in Part Three is about celestial creations, magnificent splendors in the nature kingdom on Earth and solar systems in the Universe. Evolution exists giving us the opportunity to develop and grow spiritually. Heavenly beings exist to serve us. Other Dimensions in Part Four describes astral planes and etheric visions. Knowledge about sacred, chakra centers and cause and effect relationships are described. Three higher dimensions exist. Higher beings are visualized. SEEK ENLIGHTENMENT WITHIN will enlighten you to awaken to deeper truth and wisdom about life and spiritual realities.
Karen Sharpe has been promoted to Detective Sergeant, but are the pressures of the job getting too much for her? When the battered body of a young girl is discovered, it kicks off an inquiry which pushes Karen and a trainee DC, Marcus Roth, too close for comfort, both on and off-duty. The investigation leads to a woman with a violent past - a woman with a six-year-old boy in her care... As the terrible truth emerges, the inquiry becomes a race against time before another child becomes a victim.
