Alateen


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Courage to Change—One Day at a Time in Al‑Anon II


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More daily inspiration from a fresh, diverse perspective. Insightful reflections reveal surprisingly simple things that can transform lives.




Un jour à la fois


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Atia Light Beings the Freedom to Exist Volume 1


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"It is about YOU, it is about HUMANITY, it is about FREEDOM that we lost long ago, but still EXISTS..." In Atia, Light Beings, The Freedom to Exist, Elora Santini recounts her experiences and conversations with Light Beings from another galaxy, known as Atia. In this, the first of three volumes, we discover how she came into contact with these marvelous beings, as well as how her project to spread their message to the world got started. This book is not a fiction, it is a true story. Elora tells her remarkably personal story with a self-awareness and critical eye which is often sadly absent from this type of literature. In keeping with its New Age themes, this book insists upon the power and potential of humanity. We learn that mankind has a portentous future ahead of it, and we hear how people every day are waking up to the fact that there is so much more to experience in this world than what we see with our eyes. Most importantly, we are encouraged to do the same. As well as being a quite intimate personal story, Atia, Light Beings reads almost like a love letter, so deep and earnest is its praise of the human spirit. Whether you believe or not is unimportant; this book's messages of hope and the call to transform ourselves for the better are universal in their appeal. "What struck me the most on reading this book for the first time was the remarkable intimacy, and the personal point of view from which it is written. More than anything else, this is the story of one young woman's life and the incredible things she experienced. On a personal level, the difficulty she describes in sharing her secrets and her passions with those around her is something I think we are all familiar with, and it is indicative of that burning urge to conform and to suppress our individuality which the message of Atia so passionately warns us against. I enjoyed having my mind stretched by some new and unfamiliar ideas, and while I might have struggled to accept them all at face value, they have all spoken to me, one way or another, and have all broadened my experience of life and the world around me. What's more, this book's message is remarkably timely: at a period in human history when the greed and selfishness of neoliberal capitalism threatens to undo the very fabric of the social contract, there has never been a more urgent need to re-examine our relationships with ourselves, with other people, and with the world we live in." - Jamie *Learn more about Atia and Elora including sessions at: www.atialightbeings.com"




Jane Eyre


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Initially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyreerupted onto the English literary scene, immediately winning the devotion of many of the world's most renowned writers, including William Makepeace Thackeray, who declared it a work "of great genius." Widely regarded as a revolutionary novel, Brontë's masterpiece introduced the world to a radical new type of heroine, one whose defiant virtue and moral courage departed sharply from the more acquiescent and malleable female characters of the day. Passionate, dramatic, and surprisingly modern, Jane Eyre endures as one of the world's most beloved novels.




Painted Love


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In this engrossing book, Hollis Clayson provides the first description and analysis of French artistic interest in women prostitutes, examining how the subject was treated in the art of the 1870s and 1880s by such avant-garde painters as Cézanne, Degas, Manet, and Renoir, as well as by the academic and low-brow painters who were their contemporaries. Clayson not only illuminates the imagery of prostitution-with its contradictory connotations of disgust and fascination-but also tackles the issues and problems relevant to women and men in a patriarchal society. She discusses the conspicuous sexual commerce during this era and the resulting public panic about the deterioration of social life and civilized mores. She describes the system that evolved out of regulating prostitutes and the subsequent rise of clandestine prostitutes who escaped police regulation and who were condemned both for blurring social boundaries and for spreading sexual licentiousness among their moral and social superiors. Clayson argues that the subject of covert prostitution was especially attractive to vanguard painters because it exemplified the commercialization and the ambiguity of modern life.







Louisiana Folk-tales


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