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We often focus on habits that enable us to be effective, productive, to earn wealth. But what about our spiritual life? Shouldn’t this be fostered with as much discipline as every other area of our lives? Daily Habits of Spiritual Renewal encourages a new way to approach life: By taking a little while each day to carve out time and space, you can make room for renewal, inspiration, compassion, and connection.

It’s easy to feel as though you are not living your true purpose in life, or becoming all you are meant to be. It can be difficult to even know how to discover what that is. So much of life is run by the need for security, approval, and belonging, that is unusual to take time out to discover a different way. Becoming All You Are Meant to Be provides steps to take, questions to answer, insights, and guidance to show you how to discover that which is most meaningful to you.

Zen and Your Life offers a brand new look at how to bring happiness and calm into your life. Zen practice explores the unexpected causes for upset, and how to remove it from your life, and this book will offer you a prescription for true medicine. By helping you return to your natural self, you will find the healing and happiness you most need.

Fear can run your life, both consciously and unconsciously. But you can turn fear around, dialogue with it, and let it go for good. Undoing Fear shows you how to loosen the grip fear has over your life. You will learn to stop giving it your energy and believing in it. You learn how to reclaim your insight and your own inner strength.

There are many temporary ways to relieve stress, but they only last for a short time. Ultimate Stress Control goes to the root of the matter and offers a new way to handle your feelings. Rather than repress, escape, or cling to feelings, you will discover that you are always senior to stressful feelings. Ultimate Stress Control shows you how to safely allow all feelings into your life - and how to let them go. As you do so, strength, clarity, and energy will return, and the stress that ruled your life will become a thing of the past.

Worry Free offers a new, daring way of encountering difficulties. It provides a unique process which allows you to work with the problem within. You will come to see that the cause of your upset is never what you think - and that, in fact, there is no need to be disturbed by any person, problem, or circumstance. The process presented here will help put an end to anxiety and hopelessness, and it will lead you back to the incredible strength and wisdom within. Specific exercises and instructions will show you how to use the process in your everyday life.

The question of "What Is Zen?" has gripped individuals throughout the centuries. This simple, powerful, and ancient practice is needed more than ever today. You will learn the basic foundations of practice, how to return to your original sanity, balance, and joy in life. Your ability to take clear action will be restored as your natural wisdom grows daily. And before you know it, you will walk right through the open door.

In this "bittersweet and utterly beguiling novel" (Publishers Weekly) each of the MacKenzie family tells their stories in nine, wildly opposed points of view. Starting at a family reunion, three generations of the MacKenzies face off against each other. They discover that terrorism is as intimate as one's own family. Selected as a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year", Duck and Cover is a "wicked black comedy" of a family who fights their wars "on the home front."

The search for love can feel endless. We tend to create mental lists of what we want; when someone meets our demands and expectations, it works for a while. Then, when things change or wear out, it’s on to the next. Letting Love Find You offers a totally different way. On this new path, you will discover how to cultivate and find love that is fresh, alive, and enduring. You will learn how love brings exactly what is needed naturally by itself. In this book we learn how to allow for this type of love, and how we ourselves can embody love in the ways in which we live and exist.

In an era before the advent of electric lights, telephones or motor vehicles, there exists a small cluster of aristocratic "old revolutionary stock" families that rule New York's social life. Under the rules of this society, "being things" is better than "doing things" and reputation and outward appearances come at the exclusion of everything else. In this Gilded Age, when America’s expansion and increased industrialism produce a group of newly wealthy robber barons and financiers.

After a scary but strangely alluring event in her teens, Rebecca has some taboo desires. Little does she know her mother has some similar tastes, and Rebecca is about to learn from the best when it comes to real men, husbands and having a good time. Years later, Rebecca remembers her training and relives the scary situation from her past - only this time, it proves to be sexier than she ever remembered.

Victor needs a new nanny. And me? I need money after the crash of my music career. He saw me for who I was. An innocent girl still holding onto her V-card. Waiting for the right man. Of course, I gave into his charm. A gorgeous single dad with hypnotizing brown eyes. One night together and I was his. I was taken…. I was obsessed. The problem, though? He just hired me and now I’m his employee.

Merciless drought withers Kira's ranch, leaving her family hungry and desperate enough to cross the border into the forbidden forest to trap wild game. But the forest is infested with tree scorpions and giant cats that wield elemental invisibility, and they're hungry, too. When Kira mistakes one elemental creature for another, she ends up with the last thing she wants in her trap: an enemy soldier.

The late Gregory Patterson was a stalwart of the Roman Catholic Parishioners. With his passing, how will Mrs Patterson cope with her headstrong daughter, Barbara? And can young Robert step into his father’s shoes and face up to new responsibilities? The man with the answers would appear to be football-crazy priest Father Benedict who tries to help the grief stricken family as best he can…

Coerced by her boss and fellow rivers guides, Brenda Smith reluctantly embarks on a rafting trip through a vast Tanzanian game reserve. If she can survive twelve days on the remote jungle rivers, then she must scale Africa’s tallest mountain. After twenty-eight years of a safe and predictable life, Brenda is terrified of what awaits her in these dangerous wildernesses.

Over their long friendship, National Geographic authors, Sy Montgomery and Brenda Peterson, have engaged with many animals who’ve taught them about survival, play, and healing. Listen to Sy and Brenda explore animal dreams, their emotional lives, and how animals help us adapt to a changing planet. When we expand our consciousness, our spirituality, and our kinship with other animals, our world is whole and wondrous again.

When Mary Kenton, a native born Creek Indian, marries her military husband, BK, she does not listen to his survivalist beliefs. But when the Yellowstone volcano erupts, she finds herself embedded in a hardcore unit bent on reviving a destroyed America. In the middle of a group determined to fight to the death to create a new society, Mary is forced to change her thoughts about marriage, the value of human life, and living in day-to-day fear, while holding on to her Christian beliefs in a male dominated world.

The First Robot President combines science fiction with political satire, making fun of Democrats and Republicans in equal measure. The novel centers around Thomas Jenkins, a lobbyist, and his robot wife whose political ambitions land her on the Green Party's 2520 Presidential ticket.

Have you ever felt invisible? Your lips are moving, but no one's hearing you. It's frustrating when your great ideas or insights are overlooked. It can make you want to scream! Instead, take the next thirty days to learn and implement powerful tactics to improve your quality of communication. Whether making a case for budget dollars, being interviewed by a reporter, speaking up in a staff meeting, or having a heart-to-heart with your partner, your voice is important.

What animals teach us about love. Brenda Peterson, author of the popular book, Wild Chorus, takes us on a moving, sometimes surprising journey of our more-than-human bonds with wild and domestic animals. Author interviewed by Almost Live! comedian, Tracey Conway, and her husky dog, Ella.