Brooklyn, a high school sophomore, struggles with grief, loneliness, and depression, after the death of her loved ones, including her only best friend. As a result, she becomes a loner, making it difficult for her to make new friends. Then, she meets some "Peculiar" friends and experiences an unexpected series of magical adventures. Is it t possible for Brooklyn to become more social or will the pressure of stepping out of her comfort zone keep her in the shadows of life?
Winner of the Living Now Awards 2013, International Latino Book Awards 2013 and Moonbeam Children Books Awards 2013. There is a door in every one of us that leads to our imagination, a world where anything is possible. Dou you dare to embark on the most wonderful journey to our inner-self? One day when I was reading my story, I breathed in one of the words and something magical happened... I entered my imagination! We have always been told about the power of imagination, but what is imagination? How does it work? There is a magical place where you can always be yourself. In there you can turn on your light and illuminate your life with it. That place is your imagination. Your imagination has a life and a voice of its own. It is like a voice that speaks inside of you and paints everything around you with vivid colors. Within your imagination you are the king or queen of your creation. Open the door and discover how that place where we can always be ourselves is like and how does it work. And within your imagination... what is there? Read the first pages of Inside my imagination here below:
"This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. But suddenly she fell in love, got married, and two years ago was living in a remote part of France, working on her novel, and waiting for the birth of her first child. This book is about what happened next. In her ninth month of pregnancy, she learned that her baby boy had died. How do you deal with and recover from this kind of loss? Of course you don't -- but you go on. And if you have ever experienced loss or love someone who has, the company of this remarkable book will help you go on. With humor and warmth and unfailing generosity, McCracken considers the nature of love and grief. She opens her heart and leaves all of ours the richer for it.
Christians are called to love God with all their hearts. In Is It Just My Imagination?, the relationship between imagination and love of God is explored. The private world of one’s imagination impacts public expressions of loving God.
Emerging from an alcohol-poisoned sleep that should have left her dead on the streets of Toronto, Ana Markovic slowly began to remember the dream that came to her while she was unconscious. Ana hadn't always been homeless. Once, she had a home and a family. And then there was war and all that she knew burnt to the ground. Ana came to Canada with her husband as a refugee of the former Yugoslavia and fell into a depression that led her into a self-destructive, alcoholic spiral. Eventually, she abandoned her husband and young child to live on the streets in a perpetual state of self-hate. But God was not about to let Ana fall to eternal perdition without a fight. While she lay passed out, St. Michael the Archangel, appeared before Ana to offer her a final chance to redeem her soul and accept her worth in the eyes of God. This story lays bare the struggle for salvation as it travels through the shattered life of one lost soul and beyond to the Garden of Eden, to the life of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the redemption God's love offers every human being. Author David Murdoch was born in Toronto, Canada and graduated from Queen's University in Kingston.David converted to Catholicism after having been raised as a Protestant. Ana Markovic was written as a means of sharing the gifts God has given him, and doing something with God's grace
Beloved characters Hoot and Olive return in this beautiful picture book from Jonathan D. Voss about imagination, rainy day adventures, and the spirit of friendship. Olive is a little girl with a big, bright imagination. Hoot is her stuffed-animal owl...and her best friend. The two love adventures of all sorts. But on the rainiest of days, there is only one thing to do: stay inside and imagine a whole new world. Just as they’re about to begin their adventure, Hoot makes a shocking discovery—his imagination is broken! Like the best of best friends, Olive comes up with some ideas to help him. But nothing is working: not the head unscrambler, the earmuffs, or the hypnosis. Just as the two are about to give up, Olive remembers the secret ingredient to imagination, and they give it one more try. Fans of Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin, George and Martha, and Frog and Toad are certain to fall in love with the next adventure in the Hoot & Olive series, Imagine That.
In this highly readable book Gareth moore examines some of the principle arguments and styles of argument advanced by Christians, particularly the Roman Catholic Church, in support of Christian standards in sexual ethics. Catholic teaching has sought to present those standards and values as ones which anyone can embrace; ones which they should be able to see as right if only they think about them in the right way. Arguments have been drawn from Scripture and also from philosophy and experience, the latter being particularly important at a time when the Church can no longer 'lay down the law', but has to be able to persuade. But are these arguments valid, or are they flawed? Moore's study covers such wide-ranging topics as sexual pleasure, the purpose of sex, sexual gestures, marriage, contraception and homosexuality; and in these areas, and the more specific sexual issues he covers, he often finds the Church's case to be defective. Though the Church has valuable things to say, its supporting arguments can be unconvincing. Better arguments, he claims, are needed; or, alternatively, the possibility has to be faced that the Churches' teaching needs modification. Whatever the case, the Church needs to do more thinking about sex.
This book "Become Master of Your Imagination" brings together a carefully selected series of lectures by Neville Goddard on the theme of mastering your imagination and your inner conversations. Neville Goddard was an eminent 20th-century lecturer and writer who devoted his life to studying and teaching the principles of manifestation and the power of the imagination. In these lectures, you'll discover valuable teachings on how to consciously use your imagination to create your desired reality, as well as tips on how to effectively dialogue with yourself. Whether you want to achieve your goals, improve your relationships or simply live a more fulfilling life, this book will guide you on the path to mastering your mind and your unlimited potential. Get ready to dive into the captivating world of Neville Goddard and discover the keys to transforming your life through your imagination and inner conversations. The book includes the following lessons: 1. Changing the Feeling of "I" (1953) 2. The Pruning Shears of Revision (1954) 3. Mental Diets (1955) 4. Control Your Inner Conversations (1971) 5. The Secret of Imagining (1960) 6. How to Use Your Imagination (1955) 7. Imagination Fulfills Its Self (1968) 8. The Game of Life (1969) 9. Infinite States (1968) 10. Power Called "The Law" (1969) 11. The Secret of Prayer (1967) 12. The Secret of God (1967) "For it is magic, this pruning shears of revision. It really is not only the achievement of objectives, but if you do it daily, it will awaken in you the spirit of Jesus, which is continual forgiveness of sin." - The Pruning Shears of Revision "Now when you read the story you think it happened thousands of years ago. I have come to tell you it is now. You are now in the garden of Eden, and you think you are shut out or banished. You are in it, and the garden is your mind, but you need — like every gardener — you need pruning shears. For you have slept, as you are told in that second chapter. Having slept, weeds have appeared in the garden, and the weeds are revealing themselves by the conditions and the circumstances of life. For your garden is always projecting itself on the screen of space, and you can see by looking carefully at your world what you allow to grow in the garden of God." - The Pruning Shears of Revision "The world only bears witness of the use or misuse of imagination." - The Pruning Shears of Revision "The world is a magic circle of infinite possible mental transformations. For there are an infinite number of possible mental conversations. When man discovers the creative power of inner talking, he will realize his function and his mission in life. Then he can act to a purpose. Without such knowledge, he acts unconsciously. Everything is a manifestation of the mental conversations which go on in us without our being aware of them. But as civilized beings, we must become aware of them and act with a purpose. A man’s mental conversations attracts his life. As long as there is no change in his inner talking, the personal history of the man remains the same. To attempt to change the world before we change our inner talking is to struggle against the very nature of things. Man can go round and round in the same circle of disappointments and misfortunes, not seeing them as caused by his own negative inner talking, but as caused by others." - Mental Diets Enjoy your reading
The answer to enter wholehearted to whatever path is God. At the age of fourteen, his elementary teacher sowed in Salvador Corona the seed of writing a book. Since then, he gave himself to the task of writing, writing, and writing without knowing much about it. Nearly after fourteen years of practice and pursuit of his dream, he entered the ways of God and emerged, due to his persistence, with this magnificent work, How Many Am I?, from God to the poet, from the poet to your senses. In Quiet Messages, the author shares in verses and voices of the soul, inspiration that will move you to do the following: Find yourself Inspire you in the challenges Bring to life the voices Share messages that motivate Paint life the color of your passion Besides this being a rampant Passion, I share in Requests, Challenges, and Achievements works of art in which you will see that we have something in common. I hope in God that this message will be printed in your heart.
