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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.

Even though it is painful, many are unconsciously addicted to the fighting that occurs in their relationship. The fighting creates a false sense of closeness and excitement and makes us feel as if the other person really cares. Some use the fighting to test the love of their partner. For others, who are afraid of closeness, the fighting keeps real intimacy away. Without a good fight, a relationship can feel dull. But fighting ultimately leads to hurt, pain, and distance. Stop the Fighting in Your Relationship will show you how to take new steps towards closeness.

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 classic and far-ranging portrait of sisterhood Peterson explores a hilarious slumber party, a singing duo of sisters about to find their fame, a Zulu tribe of sisters, the chosen sisterhood of Isabel Allende and Tabra Tunoa, and the sisterhood of animals, such as dolphins and elephants. Weaving memoir, research, interviews, and lively storytelling, Peterson celebrates how the feminine can balance and restore our health and survival. Her well-told insights from psychology, mythology, history, and anthropology reveal the enduring alliance of sisterhoods.

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.

Essence best-selling author Brenda Hampton presents Don’t Even Go There, the story of Chase Jenkins, a troublemaking, backstabbing diva, who will stop at nothing to get what she wants, even going after her boss’ husband.

Written from the trenches of ministering to young women, young adult minister Ashley Chesnut explores why sexual sin is “sin” in the first place, what sex really is, and how Scripture speaks into topics like masturbation, oral sex, and sex robots - even when those words aren’t found in the Bible.

From the moment tomboy Judith Conway, daughter of a California Senator, meets wrestler Jerry Conway, her life is irrevocably changed. She's spent her youth defying convention, preferring football pads to party dresses, but the electric connection with Jerry shatters her defenses. Their forbidden high school romance ignites an obsession that transcends time, distance, and loyalty—even his own. After a brutal betrayal leaves her heartbroken, Judith attempts to build a normal life with Jesus, a man of unwavering devotion.

Lead guitarist Trent Atkins left his foster brother and the small town of Gatlinburg for the music scene in Nashville. He'd made more money than he could have imagined, until the day he woke up from a terrible hangover to find the lead singer of their band, dead. He'd thought living with the Preacher was a nightmare, but this was far worse. Now someone is trying to kill him, and he has no idea who or why. Private investigator Serena Jerash is determined to uncover the truth behind Jimmy's death. She believes he was murdered, and soon discovers Trent has become a target, too.

Jayme Weston has come a long way from the abusive foster home run by the preacher. While living on the streets, she's done her best to protect her younger foster sister, Caitlyn while managing to survive and thrive. Now Caitlyn is living on her own, and Jayme finds herself at loose ends—until she is targeted by several suspicious fires. Arson Investigator Linc Quade doesn't understand why this particular fire bug isn't following a typical arson pattern. And the beautiful redhead isn't nearly as forthcoming as he'd like.

When an injured cat runs across the road, Caitlyn doesn't hesitate to rescue the feline. But she isn't prepared to witness a brutal murder. She slips away, only to lock eyes with the murderer, recognizing him as someone she'd seen earlier. Now the killer knows who she is, too. Caitlyn calls her cop friend Devon Rainer for advice, humbled when he agrees to protect her. Devon is concerned about Caitlyn's safety, especially after they return to the scene of the crime to find the dead woman gone without a trace.

In the windswept Scottish Hebrides of 1916, London-born governess Seraphina Tighinn MacKenzie arrives seeking refuge from scandal, only to uncover a world far more mysterious and alluring than the one she left behind. When she discovers a century-old journal belonging to Kate Morag, a spirited island woman caught in a forbidden love with a mythical selkie-man, Seraphina is entangled in secrets that refuse to stay buried.

En cada generación, hay una ventana en la que la nueva tecnología reescribe silenciosamente las reglas de la creación de riqueza. Para los emprendedores entre 18 y 30 años, esa ventana está abierta ahora mismo—y su nombre es inteligencia artificial. Hace solo unos años, construir un negocio online significaba pasar la noche escribiendo contenido a mano, adivinando qué productos podrían venderse y esperando que el algoritmo te detectara.

In Animal Soulmates: Stories of the Intimate Bond Between Humans and Animals, author and activist Brenda Peterson draws upon her lifelong relationship with animals and the bond between the two species.

After my fiancé ditches me on my wedding day, I'm determined to pick up the pieces of my broken heart and move on. Taking on an assignment at my magazine seems like the way to do just that. Until I find out my colleague is the sexy-as-sin Jackson Taylor. The tall, dark, and handsome Jackson Taylor.

Always tired? Experience energy and mood swings? Have trouble sleeping? Want to be balanced and energized? Learn how food and other lifestyle choices can affect your energy level. In this lecture by Brenda Jaeck, slight changes to your diet or lifestyle will be discussed along with foods to add or avoid.

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.