The Secret Garden of Mara: Discovering Growth and Peace Through Nature


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Discover the transformation awaiting in "The Secret Garden of Mara", an immersive and enriching narrative about the quest for serenity and self-awareness. Mara, a young woman whose life unfolds among the tight shelves of a small bookstore, finds her sanctuary in a forgotten secret garden, hidden behind a wrought iron gate. As Mara cultivates this wild space, she also fosters her inner growth, learning that every flourishing plant and each pruned branch reflects her personal struggles and victories. This story is not just about the transformation of a garden, but about how the spaces we care for in turn shape our lives. "The Secret Garden of Mara" invites you to explore the hidden corners of your own being: What neglected "secret gardens" might be waiting for your healing touch? Encouraging and profoundly human, this book is a testament to the power of nature to restore balance and harmony in our lives. It is ideal for readers looking for inspiration on their own self-care journey and wishing to rediscover the magic of a moment of tranquility. Immerse yourself in this transformative experience and let "The Secret Garden of Mara" inspire you to find and nurture your own spaces of peace and personal growth.




Natural Family Living


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From preconception to adolescence to creating a healthy family lifestyle, this guide covers health during pregnancy and natural childbirth; healthful eating for the whole family; uses and abuses of TV, computers and video games; discipline issues; and more.




Any Second Chance


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New college graduates Will Sterling and Mara Gaines are ready to take on the world--together. With only two weeks to go until their wedding, Will and Mara are busy decorating their new apartment, preparing for two promising careers, and planning their future. They both feel lucky to have met their once-in-a-lifetime love. Then a breaking news story turns Will and Mara's happy world upside down. The sealed records maintained by the Department of Timeline Rectification have been hacked and leaked to the press. The data is shocking: in a span of just fifteen years, four and a half million Americans have been granted timeline rectifications. What was thought to be an occasional rehabilitation program for repentant criminals is far more routine than anyone guessed. Collectively, those named in the data leak become known as the Time Wreckers, the subject of national fascination and derision. No one knows which of those named in the leak were victims, which were criminals, or whether any of them can be trusted. Will and Mara are shocked to see their names on the list, but more troubled to discover that they were married in their first life map, too. Even worse, their rectification took them back to a time before they met. Whatever the crime may have been, Will and Mara were willing to forget everything about that part of their lives, including each other. Does the fact that they found each other again prove that they were meant to be, or does it mean they're about to make a huge mistake? Before they walk down the aisle, Will and Mara have to confront the truth about who they were...and decide how far they'll go to find out. Set in 2006, Any Second Chance is the second book in the Time Wrecker Trilogy.




Great Illustrated Classics


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The Pearson Education Library Collection offers you over 1200 fiction, nonfiction, classic, adapted classic, illustrated classic, short stories, biographies, special anthologies, atlases, visual dictionaries, history trade, animal, sports titles and more




Forever Glimmer Creek


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Gilmore Girls meets A Snicker of Magic in this sweet debut novel about twelve-year-old Rosie Flynn, whose film-making skills may be the answer to uncovering the miracles of her town and bringing her father home. There’s no accounting for Miracles, at least that’s what the folks of Glimmer Creek say. Every year, one lucky inhabitant survives danger, and bits of magic cling to them for a lifetime. Rosie Flynn doesn’t know how to get a Miracle but knows for sure they’re real. It’s the same way she’s certain she’ll always have her two best friends, Henry and Cam, that she’ll be a famous film director someday, and that she and her Mama are the perfect team of two. But when someone Rosie loves goes missing, she just might discover that the true Miracle of Glimmer Creek is much different than she’d always believed and that the relationships she holds dear are the most fortunate gift of all.




Long Life


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"The gift of Oliver's poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable" ( Miami Herald ). This has never been truer than in Long Life, a luminous collection of seventeen essays and ten poems. With the grace and precision that are the hallmarks of her work, Oliver shows us how writing "is a way of offering praise to the world" and suggests we see her poems as "little alleluias." Whether describing a goosefish stranded at low tide, the feeling of being baptized by the mist from a whale's blowhole, or the "connection between soul and landscape," Oliver invites readers to find themselves and their experiences at the center of her world. In Long Life she also speaks of poets and writers: Wordsworth's "whirlwind" of "beauty and strangeness"; Hawthorne's "sweet-tempered" side; and Emerson's belief that "a man's inclination, once awakened to it, would be to turn all the heavy sails of his life to a moral purpose." With consummate craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has created a breathtaking volume sure to add to her reputation as "one of our very best poets" (New York Times Book Review ).




An Anthropologist on Mars


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From the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat • Fascinating portraits of neurological disorder in which men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality. Here are seven detailed narratives of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an autistic professor who cannot decipher the simplest social exchange between humans, but has built a career out of her intuitive understanding of animal behavior. Sacks combines the well honed mind of an academician with the verve of a true storyteller.




Reluctant Cassandra


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Nothing much changes in historic Eagle Valley, Virginia. That's a good thing for Arden McCrae. It's easier to manage her visions of the future when there isn't much to see. Arden would rather stay buried in the cool certainty that comes with stories of the past. Fortunately, running the local antique store and keeping up with the Eagle Valley Historical Society gives her plenty of history to hide behind.When her aging parents are forced to sell their farm to pay for medical care, Arden sees big changes ahead. The sale threatens the historic status of Eagle Valley, and Arden's own store is in peril. Meanwhile, her father's rapidly advancing Alzheimer's keeps him locked in a heartbreaking past. The rest of the McCrae family is left to make difficult decisions for the days to come.The future that nobody wants is descending fast, and Arden must face the visions she's always avoided. Soon, her town is divided over their historic status and her family is shattered by her father's declining health. Arden will have to choose whether to fight to preserve the past or learn to embrace the future.




Warrior Goddess Training


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THE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER It's time to unleash your inner goddess and find your authentic, fearless self with the inspiring rituals, practical exercises and thought-provoking wisdom in this book. Warrior Goddess Training is a book that teaches women to see themselves as perfect just the way they are, to resist society's insistence that they seek value, wholeness and love through something outside themselves, such as a husband, children, boyfriend, career or a spiritual path. Author HeatherAsh Amara has written this book as a message for women struggling to find themselves under these false ideals. Amara challenges women to be 'warrior goddesses', to be a woman who: • Ventures out to find herself • Combats fear and doubt • Reclaims her power and vibrancy • Demonstrates her strength of compassion and fierce love • Embraces her divine feminine goddess greatness Her approach draws on the wisdom from Buddhism, Toltec wisdom and ancient earth-based goddess spirituality, and combines them all with the goal of helping women become empowered, authentic and free. Included here are personal stories, rituals and exercises that encourage readers to begin their own journey towards becoming warrior goddesses.




Parenting for Peace


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This book emphasizes a mother's role in the development of the child's brain and emotional infrastructures.