Author: Warren Goldie
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781493625239
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
When 22-year-old Maya Burke digs up an old journal written by her long-lost father, what she finds is a plan for a spiritual journey—created specifically for her. As she explores its teachings, she is catapulted onto a mind-bending, cross-country adventure on the trail of his legacy, and swept up into a world of psychic visions, energy vortexes, synchronicities, government spying programs, and a spiritual underground that has revived an ancient meditation practice that can literally change the world. Waking Maya is a thrilling, wisdom-packed quest to understand the deepest principles of our reality.
Waking Maya
Author: Warren Goldie
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781493625239
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
When 22-year-old Maya Burke digs up an old journal written by her long-lost father, what she finds is a plan for a spiritual journey—created specifically for her. As she explores its teachings, she is catapulted onto a mind-bending, cross-country adventure on the trail of his legacy, and swept up into a world of psychic visions, energy vortexes, synchronicities, government spying programs, and a spiritual underground that has revived an ancient meditation practice that can literally change the world. Waking Maya is a thrilling, wisdom-packed quest to understand the deepest principles of our reality.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781493625239
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
When 22-year-old Maya Burke digs up an old journal written by her long-lost father, what she finds is a plan for a spiritual journey—created specifically for her. As she explores its teachings, she is catapulted onto a mind-bending, cross-country adventure on the trail of his legacy, and swept up into a world of psychic visions, energy vortexes, synchronicities, government spying programs, and a spiritual underground that has revived an ancient meditation practice that can literally change the world. Waking Maya is a thrilling, wisdom-packed quest to understand the deepest principles of our reality.
Maya
Author: Divya Sood
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059532794X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
There were two souls. To test desire, the fire within us, they had to survive the taking of bodies, the parting of lifetimes, deaths and rebirths. This is the story of a warrior and an illusion and the love between them. When a young photographer rents a room in a small apartment from a half sane widow, both are unaware that they share a past. But time and fate allow them to take a journey through past lives and present desire that neither ever imagined. Maya is the story that allows us to keep believing in love, in magic, and most of all, in ourselves.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059532794X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
There were two souls. To test desire, the fire within us, they had to survive the taking of bodies, the parting of lifetimes, deaths and rebirths. This is the story of a warrior and an illusion and the love between them. When a young photographer rents a room in a small apartment from a half sane widow, both are unaware that they share a past. But time and fate allow them to take a journey through past lives and present desire that neither ever imagined. Maya is the story that allows us to keep believing in love, in magic, and most of all, in ourselves.
Each Kindness
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593353757
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
WINNER OF A CORETTA SCOTT KING HONOR AND THE JANE ADDAMS PEACE AWARD! Each kindness makes the world a little better This unforgettable book is written and illustrated by the award-winning team that created The Other Side and the Caldecott Honor winner Coming On Home Soon. With its powerful anti-bullying message and striking art, it will resonate with readers long after they've put it down. Chloe and her friends won't play with the new girl, Maya. Every time Maya tries to join Chloe and her friends, they reject her. Eventually Maya stops coming to school. When Chloe's teacher gives a lesson about how even small acts of kindness can change the world, Chloe is stung by the lost opportunity for friendship, and thinks about how much better it could have been if she'd shown a little kindness toward Maya.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593353757
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
WINNER OF A CORETTA SCOTT KING HONOR AND THE JANE ADDAMS PEACE AWARD! Each kindness makes the world a little better This unforgettable book is written and illustrated by the award-winning team that created The Other Side and the Caldecott Honor winner Coming On Home Soon. With its powerful anti-bullying message and striking art, it will resonate with readers long after they've put it down. Chloe and her friends won't play with the new girl, Maya. Every time Maya tries to join Chloe and her friends, they reject her. Eventually Maya stops coming to school. When Chloe's teacher gives a lesson about how even small acts of kindness can change the world, Chloe is stung by the lost opportunity for friendship, and thinks about how much better it could have been if she'd shown a little kindness toward Maya.
Elissa's Odyssey
Author: Erica Verrillo
Publisher: Yearling Books
ISBN: 0375839496
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
On their way home after defeating the Khan, Elissa becomes separated from her donkey, Gertrude, and friend Maya, so with the hope of being reunited, she hitches a ride with the unusual crew aboard the precarious Swamp Maiden.
Publisher: Yearling Books
ISBN: 0375839496
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
On their way home after defeating the Khan, Elissa becomes separated from her donkey, Gertrude, and friend Maya, so with the hope of being reunited, she hitches a ride with the unusual crew aboard the precarious Swamp Maiden.
Phoenix Rising #2: Elissa's Odyssey
Author: Erica Verrillo
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375849696
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
IT’S HARD FOR Elissa to comprehend everything that has happened to her. In Elissa’s Quest, she discovered the truth about her father, and she and her new friend, Maya, just barely escaped a madman’s clutches. And Elissa’s Gift is not only growing in power . . . it’s changing. Elissa could always speak to animals, but now she’s able to control other things in the natural world. But when Elissa becomes separated from her friend and her faithful donkey, she embarks on a perilous voyage that introduces her to others who have special Gifts, too. It’s almost as if an unseen hand is guiding her to the pieces of the prophecy . . . the Prophecy of the Phoenix. The climax is building! In Book 2 of the Phoenix Rising trilogy, Erica Verrillo manages to make us laugh while falling even more deeply in love with a fabulous, strong, girl coming of age.
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375849696
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
IT’S HARD FOR Elissa to comprehend everything that has happened to her. In Elissa’s Quest, she discovered the truth about her father, and she and her new friend, Maya, just barely escaped a madman’s clutches. And Elissa’s Gift is not only growing in power . . . it’s changing. Elissa could always speak to animals, but now she’s able to control other things in the natural world. But when Elissa becomes separated from her friend and her faithful donkey, she embarks on a perilous voyage that introduces her to others who have special Gifts, too. It’s almost as if an unseen hand is guiding her to the pieces of the prophecy . . . the Prophecy of the Phoenix. The climax is building! In Book 2 of the Phoenix Rising trilogy, Erica Verrillo manages to make us laugh while falling even more deeply in love with a fabulous, strong, girl coming of age.
The Lost Island of Tamarind
Author: Nadia Aguiar
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141908971
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Three children. Alone on the ocean waves, after a fierce storm throws their parents from the Pamela Jane into the icy waters below. Maya, Simon and Penny now face a wild rescue adventure that will lead them to a truly magical place . . . Imagine an island with green mountains looming over pink sandy beaches and tide pools lit by the moon. An island with the darkest of secrets, where pirates lurk and jaguars roam – and a precious stone holds a power that is both wondrous and terrifying. This is where the children must go. No one from the Outside has escaped the island before. Danger is everywhere. But they can’t turn back now. Could you?
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141908971
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Three children. Alone on the ocean waves, after a fierce storm throws their parents from the Pamela Jane into the icy waters below. Maya, Simon and Penny now face a wild rescue adventure that will lead them to a truly magical place . . . Imagine an island with green mountains looming over pink sandy beaches and tide pools lit by the moon. An island with the darkest of secrets, where pirates lurk and jaguars roam – and a precious stone holds a power that is both wondrous and terrifying. This is where the children must go. No one from the Outside has escaped the island before. Danger is everywhere. But they can’t turn back now. Could you?
An Encyclopedia of Shamanism Volume 1
Author: Christina Pratt
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9781404211407
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Shamanism can be defined as the practice of initiated shamans who are distinguished by their mastery of a range of altered states of consciousness. Shamanism arises from the actions the shaman takes in non-ordinary reality and the results of those actions in ordinary reality. It is not a religion, yet it demands spiritual discipline and personal sacrifice from the mature shaman who seeks the highest stages of mystical development.
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9781404211407
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Shamanism can be defined as the practice of initiated shamans who are distinguished by their mastery of a range of altered states of consciousness. Shamanism arises from the actions the shaman takes in non-ordinary reality and the results of those actions in ordinary reality. It is not a religion, yet it demands spiritual discipline and personal sacrifice from the mature shaman who seeks the highest stages of mystical development.
Joyce's Waking Women
Author: Sheldon Brivic
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299148041
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
An introduction to Finnegans Wake which aims to draw the reader quickly into the novel's depths through detailed feminist and Lacanian reading of several crucial sections and themes. Includes a substantial introduction concerning Joyce's attitudes toward women. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299148041
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
An introduction to Finnegans Wake which aims to draw the reader quickly into the novel's depths through detailed feminist and Lacanian reading of several crucial sections and themes. Includes a substantial introduction concerning Joyce's attitudes toward women. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARD
Author: Gloria Dank
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN: 0307816842
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Bernard Woodruff should have known better than to expect anything but disaster from a visit to his wife’s indolent but good-natured brother, Snooky. In a cabin in the Vermont woods, the irrepressible Snooky rhapsodizes about the simple pleasures of country living while preparing gourmet meals and falling in love with Sarah Tucker, a young woman whose family life is anything but simple. Bernard’s depression at being away from home only deepens after he meets Sarah’s assortment of relatives. There’s a wealthy widowed aunt with a much younger admirer, an eccentric nature-loving spinster, a young photographer, and a blustering hunter, none of whom Bernard finds at all to his liking. But when Bernard never likes anyone, as his wife, Maya, keeps pointing out in an attempt to save Snooky’s bruised feelings. Bernard is still grumbling when he stumbles on a corpse in the woods. It turns out to be the remains of the young man who had just become engaged to Sarah’s rich aunt, and everyone in the family falls under suspicion. Against his will, Bernard is drawn into the murder investigation. By the end, he and Snooky join forces to track down an elusive and unlikely killer.
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN: 0307816842
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Bernard Woodruff should have known better than to expect anything but disaster from a visit to his wife’s indolent but good-natured brother, Snooky. In a cabin in the Vermont woods, the irrepressible Snooky rhapsodizes about the simple pleasures of country living while preparing gourmet meals and falling in love with Sarah Tucker, a young woman whose family life is anything but simple. Bernard’s depression at being away from home only deepens after he meets Sarah’s assortment of relatives. There’s a wealthy widowed aunt with a much younger admirer, an eccentric nature-loving spinster, a young photographer, and a blustering hunter, none of whom Bernard finds at all to his liking. But when Bernard never likes anyone, as his wife, Maya, keeps pointing out in an attempt to save Snooky’s bruised feelings. Bernard is still grumbling when he stumbles on a corpse in the woods. It turns out to be the remains of the young man who had just become engaged to Sarah’s rich aunt, and everyone in the family falls under suspicion. Against his will, Bernard is drawn into the murder investigation. By the end, he and Snooky join forces to track down an elusive and unlikely killer.
Panic
Author: Luke Jennings
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1529351898
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
*The thrilling new novel from the author of the bestselling Killing Eve series* Escaping online is easy. In real life it won't be so simple. Jaleesa, Kai, Ilya and Dani are online best friends, and superfans of the hit TV show City Of Night. Fantasising about the show in their chatroom, they find an escape from their troubled small-town lives. Everything changes when Chloe, make-up artist to the show's star Alice Temple, enters the chat. When Chloe tells them Alice is in danger the four resolve to save her, and make their way to California. But fantasy is quickly overtaken by reality. Alice's troubles, they discover, will shine the spotlight on all of them. And not in a good way. On the run across the American South with one of the most famous actresses in the world, the fans must evade the police, the Russian mafia and the Legion, an absurd but terrifying new far-right movement. Can they keep running for long enough to uncover the truth about Alice, and discover themselves in the process? #PANIC is a thriller, a love letter to fandom, and an empowering tale of young adults embracing their identities and fighting back in a world that has always tried to marginalize them. 'A richly imagined, character-driven thriller' Bookseller 'Luke Jennings might just have another cult hit on his hands' Shots Mag 'All the expected high-octane thrills and spills are there' Big Issue
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1529351898
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
*The thrilling new novel from the author of the bestselling Killing Eve series* Escaping online is easy. In real life it won't be so simple. Jaleesa, Kai, Ilya and Dani are online best friends, and superfans of the hit TV show City Of Night. Fantasising about the show in their chatroom, they find an escape from their troubled small-town lives. Everything changes when Chloe, make-up artist to the show's star Alice Temple, enters the chat. When Chloe tells them Alice is in danger the four resolve to save her, and make their way to California. But fantasy is quickly overtaken by reality. Alice's troubles, they discover, will shine the spotlight on all of them. And not in a good way. On the run across the American South with one of the most famous actresses in the world, the fans must evade the police, the Russian mafia and the Legion, an absurd but terrifying new far-right movement. Can they keep running for long enough to uncover the truth about Alice, and discover themselves in the process? #PANIC is a thriller, a love letter to fandom, and an empowering tale of young adults embracing their identities and fighting back in a world that has always tried to marginalize them. 'A richly imagined, character-driven thriller' Bookseller 'Luke Jennings might just have another cult hit on his hands' Shots Mag 'All the expected high-octane thrills and spills are there' Big Issue