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Book SynopsisThis pioneering guide is the first of its kind to integrate the FUN program with the brainbody therapies known as EMDR, Brainspotting, and Yoga Nidra. It provides clear guidance on how to safely use therapeutic tools and self-regulation exercises for clinicians and individuals impacted by trauma, addiction, anxiety, grief, family dysfunction, and stress. It offers a comprehensive toolbox of strategies and techniques to use during therapy sessions or on your own. The science behind each modality and approach is explained in detail along with how they can be applied to maximize self-care care and enhance the therapeutic relationship. Techniques include case conceptualization, the use of mental imagery, directing attention to sensations in the body, focused eye movements and positions, and many more.Dr Shafer draws on her extensive, internationally recognised and evidence-based research in this accessible and innovative book. Clinicians will be able to diversify their scope of

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Costa Poetry Award • Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Award and the Forward Prize “These lyrics…illustrate poetry’s unique ability to shock readers into a renewed awareness of the world.” —Washington PostTrade Review"[Oswald] writes a poetry of the natural world saturated with myth. A long poem about the dawn, ‘Tithonus,’ may be the most beautiful work I read all year." -- Dan Chiasson - The New Yorker"After having exhausted language once, Oswald has returned to exhaust it again, her own voice speaking over the corpses of the world’s ever-present erosion…and challenging herself and her readers to conceptualize what new shape can come when the last reiterated ‘whip of sparks’ in the world and its many spheres has ‘gone,’ and then gone again." -- Los Angeles Review of Books"[These] poems have a distinctive clarity of phrase, line, and shape, as if they came out of a trance of waking attention." -- Boston Review"Alice Oswald’s poems are vivid and distinct, alert and deeply, physically engaged in the natural world." -- Poetry Daily"Alice Oswald pulls off a feat in her seventh collection: she finds words for encounters with nature that ordinarily defy language.… [Falling Awake] is an astonishing book of beauty, intensity and poise—a revelation." -- Observer"[Falling Awake] does not disappoint.… Fierce in the quality of her attention, often metaphorically dazzling, Oswald earns our trust through her authority." -- Guardian"[A] modern classic." -- Sunday Times"A liminal text.… Unmistakably original." -- Times Literary Supplement"Stunning.… If there’s any justice in the poetry world, the title [Poet Laureate] should be offered to this gardener-classicist who is bringing the British landscape to life in poetry again." -- Daily Telegraph"You won’t experience the full effect of Alice Oswald’s poetry unless you read her words aloud—she writes with a mind for sounds, syllables, and the patters of speech, informed and inspired by oral storytelling traditions." -- Bustle

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2017 Griffin PrizeWinner of the 2016 Costa Poetry AwardShortlisted for the 2016 T. S. Eliot AwardShortlisted for the 2016 Forward PrizeA Daily Telegraph / Guardian / Herald / New Statesman / Sunday Times / Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearAlice Oswald’s poems are always vivid and distinct, alert and deeply, physically, engaged in the natural world. Mutability – a sense that all matter is unstable in the face of mortality – is at the heart of this new collection and each poem is involved in that drama: the held tension that is embodied life, and life’s losing struggle with the gravity of nature.Working as before with an ear to the oral tradition, these poems attend to the organic shapes and sounds and momentum of the language as it’s spoken as well as how it’s thought: fresh, fluid and propulsive, but also fragmentary, repetitive. These are poems that are written to be read aloud.Orpheus and Tithonus appear at the beginning and end of this book, alive in an English landscape, stuck in the clockwork of their own speech, and the Hours – goddesses of the seasons and the natural apportioning of Time – are the presiding figures. The persistent conditions are flux and falling, and the lines are in constant motion: approaching, from daring new angles, our experience of being human, and coalescing into poems of simple, stunning beauty.Trade ReviewShe says that poetry is what happens when language becomes impossible. If you’ve never read her – get this collection now. -- Jeanette Winterson * Guardian, Book of the Year *[A] modern classic. -- Jeremy Noel-Tod * Sunday Times, Book of the Year *A miraculous collection. -- Kate Kellaway * Observer, Book of the Year *A liminal text… Unmistakably original. -- Craig Raine * Times Literary Supplement, Book of the Year *A sublime poet of the natural world. -- Rupert Thomson * Herald, Book of the Year *An astonishing book of beauty, intensity and poise – a revelation…The collection’s title is spot on. I cannot think of any poet who is more watchful or with a greater sense of gravity. -- Kate Kellaway * Observer *Stunning. Is she now our greatest living poet[?]… Her work is commanding… She is less twinkly-eyed than Simon Armitage, more committed to experimentation than Duffy and just as playful…as Don Paterson. For sheer, sustained invention and intellectual rigour, her work is perhaps closest to Kei Miller… If there’s any justice in the poetry world, the title [Poet Laureate] should be offered to this gardener-classicist who is bringing the British landscape to life in poetry again. -- Charlotte Runcie * Daily Telegraph *The pieces included here are held together by Oswald’s luminous, almost alien powers of observation. -- Yasmine Seale * Literary Review *Magic, the music of nature, the resurrection of the dead: all these feel real when you read Alice Oswald. Her stunning new collection deserves the Forward Prize. * Sunday Telegraph *[It] confirms her as one of the most gifted English poets of the past 20 years. -- Jeremy Noel-Todd * Sunday Times *She is a classicist and a gardener, an expert in the epic tradition and a riverside wanderer… Falling Awake provides the notation for an immersive aural experience; its current existence as a printed collection is not the incarnation for which it will be most celebrated, should Oswald choose to record it as a performance… It is certainly a strong contender in this year’s Forward Prizes, and a highly compelling meditation upon transience. -- Phil Brown * Huffington Post *She not only makes some startlingly original imaginative leaps, but also manages to find the word to describe the scene when she lands. -- Roger Cox * Scotland on Sunday *It does not disappoint… Fierce in the quality of her attention, often metaphorically dazzling, Oswald earns our trust through her authority. -- Fiona Sampson * Guardian *Falling Awake continues to mine a fresh, inventive seam of observational poetry, tuned in to revelation and a feeling for those moments when the world seems to become strangely, truly itself. Oswald’s best poems bear comparison with D. H. Lawrence’s late work. -- John McAuliffe * Irish Times *[It is] Terrific. -- Mark Ford * Times Literary Supplement, Book of the Year *

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Book SynopsisMore than twenty years ago, Jon Kabat-Zinn changed the way we think about awareness in everyday life with his now-classic introduction to mindfulness, Wherever You Go, There You Are. He followed that up with 2005''s Coming to Our Senses, the definitive book for our time on the connection between mindfulness and our well-being on every level, physical, cognitive, emotional, social, planetary, and spiritual. Now, the original text of Coming to Our Senses is being repackaged into 4 smaller books, each focusing on a different aspect of mindfulness, and each with a new foreword written by the author. In this second of these books, Falling Awake (which was originally published as Part III and Part IV of Coming to Our Senses), Kabat-Zinn focuses on the how of mindfulness--explaining how meditation brings us into intimate relationship with all our senses, how to establish a formal meditation practice, and how to overcome some of the common obstacleTrade Review'Jon Kabat-Zinn is one of the finest teachers of mindfulness you will ever encounter.' -Jack Kornfield, PhD, author of No Time Like the Present - Hachette Books

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Book Synopsis#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “T. J. Newman has written the perfect thriller! A must-read.” —Gillian Flynn “Stunning and relentless. This is Jaws at 35,000 feet.” —Don Winslow “Falling is the best kind of thriller…Nonstop, totally authentic suspense.” —James Patterson “Amazing...Intense suspense, shocks, and scares...Chilling.” —Lee ChildYou just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight.

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Book SynopsisWe live in the Golden Age of publishing for spiritual, esoteric, and new age books of all conceivable stripes (and then there is the Internet). Amongst this wild proliferation of available information there has occurred a cheapening effect, in which many teachings have been watered down to make them palatable for a public with diminishing attention spans and suffering from information overload. For the sincere spiritual seeker there needs to be an awareness of the various ways we can go astray on the path, or fall off the path altogether. The whole idea of spirituality is to be awake, yet it is all too easy to simply end up in yet another dream world, thinking that we have found some higher truth. Rude Awakening: Perils, Pitfalls, and Hard Truths of the Spiritual Path is dedicated to examining, under a sharp light, the many ways our spiritual development goes wrong, or disappears altogether in the sheer crush of books and the routine grind of daily life.Trade ReviewAn insightful distillation of decades of hard-won spiritual experience. There are few seekers, I suspect, who will not resonate with its message and benefit from its advice (Richard Smoley, Author, The Dice Game of Shiva and Inner Christianity) P.T. Mistlberger has a unique gift in that he writes with such integrity and authenticity that he is able to cut through all the spiritual fallacies, forcing us to question the very motives that underlie our desire for liberation and truth. Rarely have I read such a well written, brutally honest account of the spiritual path (Paula Marvelly, Author, Women of Wisdom)

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Book SynopsisNow that she's settled in at Shadow Falls Camp, Kylie Galen's determined to discover the extent of her supernatural abilities. But with a ghost insisting someone Kylie loves is about die and a rogue vampire on a murdering rampage, Kylie's quest for answers is quickly put on hold.

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Book SynopsisHarald Voetmann's eye-opening English debut, Awake, is the first book of his erudite and grotesque trilogy about humankind's inhuman will to conquer nature In a shuttered bedroom in ancient Italy, the sleepless Pliny the Elder lies in bed obsessively dictating new chapters of his Natural History to his slave Diocles. Wheezing, imperious, and prone to nosebleeds, Pliny doesn't believe in spending his evenings in repose. No - to be awake is to be alive. There's no time to waste if he is to classify every element of the natural world in a single work. By day, Pliny the Elder carries out his civic duties and gives the occasional disastrous public reading. But despite his astonishing ambition to catalogue everything from precious metals to the moon, Pliny the Elder still takes pleasure in the common rose. After rushing to an erupting Mount Vesuvius, Pliny perishes in the ash, and his nephew, Pliny the Younger, becomes custodian of his life's work. But where Pliny the Elder saw starlight, Pliny the Younger only sees fireflies. In masterfully honed prose, Voetmann brings the formidable Pliny the Elder (and his pompous nephew) to life. Awake is a comic delight about one of history's great minds and the not-so-great human body it was housed in.Trade Review"Awake is original, piercing, and richly exhilarating. Voetmann's text is a sharp reminder of how powerfully and succinctly well-chosen words can create a world, render experiences, and express thoughts - in short, transport us, to places and in ways we could not have imagined." - Claire Messud, Harper's; "This strange novella concerns Pliny the Elder and his drive to catalog all of nature. The fluid prose owes much to translator Ottosen. One thematic thread is the contrast between the intellectual effort to rein in nature's extraordinary variety and man's ugly, ignorant cruelty...An interesting work and a good introduction to this unusual writer." - Kirkus; "Vivid, earthy, by turns hilarious, gross, and tragic, but always powerfully engaging. Reading and rereading this book remains a rare pleasure." - Susanna Nied; "A slim novel of ideas, seemingly turning its back on the present, or rather illuminating from within a turn that leads to the very history of European mentality." - Svenska Dagbladet;"A flawless and sparkling little monument to human life." - Information; "Reading Voetmann's books makes me feel so alive. His voice is like no other, his hold on his material masterful. You will never read anything like Awake - a hardcore, pulsating portrait of a first century Roman weirdo. A wonderful and unpleasant treasure." - Olga Ravn; "No one else can describe ancient life with such beauty and humor, while never sparing you from the gross and terrifying pain of being human." - Naja Marie Aidt; "With a scholar's knowledge and a poet's playfulness, Harald Voetmann brings us into the mind and times of its protagonist, Pliny the Elder. Visceral and lyrical, entertaining and provoking, it evokes a dazzling world on the brink of destruction, resounding with our own conflicted age." - Sjon; 'This is an interesting book. The writing is beautiful. A fine translation by J.S. Ottosen.' - Patti Smith

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Book SynopsisPlayfulness has the power to reconnect us with our sense of self, and help us achieve growth and self-fulfilment.The author of this wide-ranging book explores the universal significance of play in the pursuit of happiness and authenticity. Providing a brief overview of the role of play in social, spiritual and intellectual endeavours throughout history, she discusses the harmful consequences of taking things too seriously, and reveals playfulness as a necessity for both the psyche and soul. Informed by the Core Process psychotherapy model, Buddhist philosophy and personal testimonies, the book illustrates how the lighter side of life enables us to re-examine the makeup of our identity and recover from negative experiences. Much more than an insight into the therapeutic properties of play, it is an eloquent ode to the importance of simply "en-joying" ourselves.Trade ReviewPlayful Awakening is a wonderful weave of rich imagination and deep insights into our psycho-spiritual being. Di Gammage skilfully draws the nature of play out from beneath the cloak of our prescribed adult reality to give it a central role in how we can awaken to our nature. This book is a lively and ever enlivening exploration of our relationship to play in both its creative expression and its potentially dark side. We see how our capacity for play is so much part of our innate vitality and yet can become drowned in a life full of prescriptions, responsibilities and psychological fears and insecurities. In Playful Awakening Gammage brings back to life the magical, mysterious, liberating significance of play as a source of health and transformation, not just for children but for us all. She shows us that when we see the play of our reality, we discover how much lighter, kinder and more joyful our world can then be. -- Rob Preece, author of The Psychology of Buddhist Tantra, The Wisdom of Imperfection and Feeling Wisdom.We learned: "hard work" is the key to success, play is kids' stuff. Grownups then value work and devalue play, sadly separating them. This fascinating, deep dive into play rejoins the two. That marriage produces more creative and innovative work, more authentic lives and healthier relationships. -- Bowen F. White, M.D., author of “Why Normal Isn’t Healthy" and founding board member of the National Institute for PlayIn [Di Gammage's] comprehensive look at play ... the reader can begin to appreciate its richness and life affirming reality. -- Stuart Brown MD, Founder, President, The National Institute for PlayTable of ContentsPrologue. Act One. 1. The Universality of Play. 2. Towards a Definition. 3. The Cloak. 4. Play the Weaver. Act Two. 5. Falling Asleep. 6. The Day of the Square Yellow Sun - Obstacles to Play. 7. Deadly Play. 8. The Shadow Side of Play. Act Three. 9. The Call from the Great Below - Aspiration to Awaken. 10. Manifestations of Play. 11. Play for Surviving, Play for Thriving. 12. Staying Awake.

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Book SynopsisJen Hatmaker is an author, podcaster, speaker, advocate, educator and mother. She is the author of four New York Times bestsellers, speaks frequently to large audiences, runs courses and book club communities. Guests on her podcast For The Love include Brené Brown, Glennon Doyle, Roxane Gay, Melinda French-Gates and Jada Pinkett-Smith.

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Book Synopsis Fall Away with this addictive series from the bestselling author of PUNK 57.From the BookTok sensation and New York Times bestselling author of BULLY and FALLS BOYS comes the fourth novel in the Fall Away series. ..............He''s the guy she''s supposed to avoid. She''s the girl he won''t let get away . . .K. C. Carter has always followed the rules - until this year, when a mistake leaves her the talk of her college campus and her carefully arranged life comes crashing to a halt. Now she''s stuck in her small hometown for the summer to complete her court-ordered community service, and to make matters worse, trouble is living right next door.Jaxon Trent is the worst kind of temptation and exactly what K.C. was supposed to stay away from in high school. But he never forgot her. She was the one girl who wouldn''t give him the time of day and the only one to ever say no. Fate has brought K.C. back into hisTrade ReviewI read this book in one sitting. Rival was as gripping as it was sexy! - Colleen Hoover

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Book SynopsisA new look at the life and works of William Blake, revealing the full complexity and enduring legacy of this deeply spiritual, politically radical figure.

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Book SynopsisA fascinating and prescient account of a future dominated by capitalist greed and mechanical forceA troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, investments are made that make him the richest and most powerful man on Earth. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to maintain a hierarchal society in which most are poor, and more than a third of all people are enslaved. Oppressed and uneducated, the masses cling desperately to one dream - that the sleeper will awake, and lead them all to freedom.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. R

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Book SynopsisIt's bedtime, but Winnie is wide awake Get your young ones to sleep with book three of the incredible Dinosaur Juniors series from the creative genius behind the #DrawWithRob phenomenon and the bestselling and award-winning Blown Away!This is the spectacularly sleep-inducing third story in the delightfully Dinosaur-y series about all the first-time moments every junior enjoys. From the bestselling and multi-award-winnning Rob Biddulph, creator of the internet phenomenon Draw With Rob. As seen on YouTube, FaceBook, Instagram, CBeebies and TV news everywhere, and the Waterstones Book Prize-winning Blown Away!!It's bedtime for these Tyrannosaurus twins, and Otto is sleepy but Winnie is not. In fact, she's wide awake!She wakes up poor Otto to help her drift off and from lullabies to counting dino-sheep, he'll try anything to help Winnie off to sleep. But will they ever get there?Meet Winnie and Otto and all the other dinosaur juniors, as they traverse life's first ups and downs all in RoTrade ReviewPRAISE FOR DINOSAUR JUNIORS: HAPPY HATCHDAY ‘Biddulph conveys a dazzling array of emotions in the vivid illustrations and it’s a treat from start to finish.’ Daily Mail, April 2018 Praise for GRRRRR!: ‘Vibrant colours and characters plus rhyming text make it a delight to read aloud.’ Huffington Post ‘Joyful and uplifting. Superb.’ Daily Mail ‘Totally grrrrreat in every respect.’ The Bookbag ‘The rhyme is so skillful and pacey it could give the Gruffalo a run for its money.’ Children’s Books Ireland Praise for Blown Away: ‘Best children’s book of the year.’ Observer ‘[A] gem of a book … Beautifully illustrated and wittily written.’ Standard ‘This book is capital B Brilliant.’ The Bookbag ‘Told in captivating rhyme, with plenty of jokes sprinkled through the text and illustrations, Biddulph’s tale is a travelling adventure.’ Time Out

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Book Synopsis"You've felt it your whole life. You've always known there's something inside of you that's sought to be born fresh and real–something far beyond your imagination trying to break out and be. Everyone feels this inside. But to allow life to express itself in that way, with that much abandon, requires a true surrender into the unknown."—AdyashantiAdyashanti asks us to let go of our struggles with life and open to the full promise of spiritual awakening: the end of delusion and the discovery and expression of our essential being. After 15 years as a spiritual teacher, Adyashanti has found that the simpler the teaching, the greater its power to initiate this awakening. On Falling into Grace, he shares what he considers fundamental insights to "open ourselves to that mysterious element that enters in the hidden and quiet moments and sparks a revolution in the way that we perceive life." Wherever you may be on your own spiritual path, you will find in these sessions down-to-earth guidance on breaking the trance of ego, experiencing the raw energy of emotion, cultivating inner stability, transcending the world of opposites, and more. In the same way that we fall into the arms of a loved one or drop our heads on the pillow at night, we can surrender into the beauty and truth of who and what we really are. Falling into Grace is a program that gets to the core of why we suffer, and allows us to explore Adyashanti's invitation "to be taken by a moment of grace and fall into a sense of life when it is not separate from you, when life is actually an expression of something indefinable, mysterious, and immense." Highlights: The human dilemma–the concept of a separate self and the choice to stop believing the thoughts that perpetuate suffering • “Taking the backward step” into the pure potential of the present moment • Why spiritual awakening can be a disturbing process • Intimacy and availability–feeling absolute union with every part of our experience • True autonomy–the unique expression of our own sense of freedom Adyashanti began teaching in 1996 at the request of his Zen teacher of 14 years. Adya's teachings have been compared to some of the early Ch'an (Zen) masters of China as well as teachers of Advaita Vedanta in India. His award–winning books include Emptiness Dancing, The End of Your World, and True Meditation.

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Book SynopsisIn a big, big cityon a busy streetat the tipity-top of a tall buildinglives a girl.One night, after a story, a snuggle,and one last sip of water,she was getting sleepy...when out of the corner of her eye... \ () // //(__)\ SPIDERThe girl was no longer sleepy. Now, she was...AWAKE.In a brilliant debut, Mags DeRoma gives us an empowered young child who is trying to solve the biggest problem she''s ever faced: how to get the spider out of her room without actually having to go near it.With bold cut-paper art, AWAKE is sure to stay with readers for a long time.

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Book SynopsisThe sun set on samurai and gunslingers at roughly the same time, but our two leads didn't die off quietly. In the East, a samurai would rather die with her weapons than surrender them to a sword hunt. In the West, the gunslinger follows his revenge to the bitter end. The future lovers are mortally wounded a world apart and awake together in a purgatory ruled by a ruthless society of damned warriors. Asami and MacRaith will need to overcome the dead, the dying, and the undead. Can love redeem them? This first volume is violent, mysterious, thrilling and sexy. From GERRY DUGGAN (X-Men, Deadpool) and GARRY BROWN (Babyteeth). Collects the oversized first issues of FALLING IN LOVE ON THE PATH TO HELL # 1-4.

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Book Synopsis‘Amazing . . . Intense suspense, shocks and scares plus chilling insider authenticity make this one very special’ LEE CHILD 'FALLING is the best kind of thriller (for me as a reader anyway). Characters you care deeply about. Nonstop, totally authentic suspense' JAMES PATTERSON‘Attention, please: T. J. Newman has written the perfect thriller!  GILLIAN FLYNN, #1 bestselling author of Gone GirlYou just boarded a flight to New York.There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard.What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped.For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die.The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight. *

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Book SynopsisInsists on the importance of embodiment and movement to the creation of Black socialityLinking African diasporic performance, disability studies, and movement studies, Falling, Floating, Flickering approaches disability transnationally by centering Black, African, and diasporic experiences. By eschewing capital's weighted calculus of which bodies hold value, this book centers alternate morphologies and movement practices that have previously been dismissed as abnormal or unrecognizable. To move beyond binaries of ability, Hershini Bhana Young traverses multiple geohistories and cultural forms stretching from the United States and the Mediterranean to Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and South Africa, as well as independent and experimental film, novels, sculptures, images, dance, performances, and anecdotes. In doing so, she argues for the importance of differential embodiment and movement to the creation and survival of Black sociality, and refutes stereotypic notioTrade ReviewA stellar work of scholarship. Young is fearless in her questions and generous in her thinking, providing readers with the tools to imagine, critique, and speculate alongside her. She powerfully demonstrates the necessity of reading disability in context and transforms our understandings of disability and performance. * Alison Kafer, author of Feminist, Queer, Crip *Falling, Floating, Flickering demonstrates that Black sociality emerges from and can be reconsidered by foregrounding differential embodiment. Throughout the book, moments of tension, moving through rich theoretical ideas and difficult lived and performed embodiments, are followed by moments of relief, where Hershini Bhana Young offers not simply places to rest, but places to be invigorated. Reading this work is incredibly pleasurable, and I am grateful for its clarity and capaciousness. * Keguro Macharia, author of Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora *

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Book SynopsisA stunning thriller that sees Yorkshire-based DC Karen Sharpe brought to the very edge of her sanity.A year and a half ago DC Karen Sharpe was the victim of a terrifying crime. Desperately trying to shelter from its effects she has been working simple fraud and theft cases in West Yorkshire CID. But the brutal murder of a young pregnant woman threatens the precarious wall she has built around herself. Drafted onto the squad to deal with the victim''s six-year-old child, Karen finds herself overwhelmed by the devastating nature of the attack. As nightmares from her past start to reoccur, her relationships with those closest to her begin to crack under the strain. An illicit relationship with her boss promises escape: a new beginning without the trappings of past horrors and guilt. But life has a savage lesson in store for her. As West Yorkshire erupts in a summer of explosive race riots, events tip Karen into the depths of the very world she has been fleeing.Trade ReviewConnor's plot is enthralling, his characters sharp and vital: FALLING is a compelling, intelligent thriller, placing everyday normality in dramatic relief against the horrific experiences of Sharpe and her colleagues. * Financial Times *Compelling * Guardian *The writing is skilled and the West Yorkshire background described with authority in a plot based on racial tensions and their explosive repercussions... not a comfortable reading but a gripping one * Literary Review *Enjoyably intricate and well-composed * Sunday Telegraph *A superb cast of characters, a gritty and appalling window into the race riots that took their toll on Bradford... and also with a crashing, blockbuster of an ending that sees justice meted out to those who deserve it the most. * Bookbag *A gritty, noirish series with a fantastic protagonist * Tangled Web *A fast-paced, explosive thriller, which makes for a great read * Western Daily Express *Connor's moving up the ladder of police procedural mastery and in the brittle but determined cop Karen he has a secure pension * Daily Sport *

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Book SynopsisA brilliant debut psychological thriller by a former police psychologist. Perfect for fans of Nicci French, Tana French and S. J. Watson.A plane falls out of the sky. A woman is murdered. Four people all have something to hide. Jim is a retired police officer, and worried father. His beloved daughter has disappeared and he knows something is wrong. Tom has woken up to discover that his wife was on the plane and must break the news to their only son.Cecilia had packed up and left her family. Now she has survived a tragedy, and sees no way out. Freya is struggling to cope with the loss of her father. But as she delves into his past, she may not like what she finds.Before the plane crash, after the plane crash, such a short amount of time for the world to turn on its head Trade ReviewKavanagh tells the story with great verve, weaving the strands of her story expertly. * Daily Mail *Dark, tense and convincing, this is a brilliantly executed and engrossing thriller. An extremely assured debut. * Sunday Mirror *A brilliant debut. * Marie Claire *We predict big things for Emma Kavanagh ... addictive. * Good Housekeeping *Thoughtful, often dark and devastatingly honest ... Falling marks the arrival on the crime scene of a major new talent, one with the potential to join the likes of PD James and Ruth Rendell as a writer who thrills her readers by making them think. * Shots Crime and Thriller Magazine *

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Book SynopsisInsists on the importance of embodiment and movement to the creation of Black socialityLinking African diasporic performance, disability studies, and movement studies, Falling, Floating, Flickering approaches disability transnationally by centering Black, African, and diasporic experiences. By eschewing capital's weighted calculus of which bodies hold value, this book centers alternate morphologies and movement practices that have previously been dismissed as abnormal or unrecognizable. To move beyond binaries of ability, Hershini Bhana Young traverses multiple geohistories and cultural forms stretching from the United States and the Mediterranean to Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and South Africa, as well as independent and experimental film, novels, sculptures, images, dance, performances, and anecdotes. In doing so, she argues for the importance of differential embodiment and movement to the creation and survival of Black sociality, and refutes stereotypic notioTrade ReviewA stellar work of scholarship. Young is fearless in her questions and generous in her thinking, providing readers with the tools to imagine, critique, and speculate alongside her. She powerfully demonstrates the necessity of reading disability in context and transforms our understandings of disability and performance. * Alison Kafer, author of Feminist, Queer, Crip *Falling, Floating, Flickering demonstrates that Black sociality emerges from and can be reconsidered by foregrounding differential embodiment. Throughout the book, moments of tension, moving through rich theoretical ideas and difficult lived and performed embodiments, are followed by moments of relief, where Hershini Bhana Young offers not simply places to rest, but places to be invigorated. Reading this work is incredibly pleasurable, and I am grateful for its clarity and capaciousness. * Keguro Macharia, author of Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora *

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Book Synopsis'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' – Guardian Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients.Rendered catatonic by the sleeping-sickness epidemic that swept the world just after the First World War, all twenty had spent forty years in hospital: motionless and speechless; aware of the world around them, but exhibiting no interest in it – until Dr Sacks administered the then-new drug, L-DOPA, which caused them, temporarily, to awake from their decades-long slumber . . .Trade ReviewA brilliant and humane book. * Observer *It makes you aware of what a knife edge we live on. -- Doris LessingNot only a collection of astonishing case histories, Awakenings is also a memoir, a moral essay and a romance. It is a work of genius. * Washington Post *

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Book SynopsisMadeline Usher has been buried alive. The doomed heroine comes to the fore in this eerie reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story "The Fall of the House of Usher." Gothic, moody, and suspenseful from beginning to end, The Fall is literary horror for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Asylum.Madeline awakes in a coffin. And she was put there by her own twin brother. But how did it come to this? In short, non-chronological chapters, Bethany Griffin masterfully spins a haunting and powerful tale of this tragic heroine and the curse on the Usher family. The house itself is alive, and it will never let Madeline escape, driving her to madness just as it has all of her ancestors. But she won't let it have her brother, Roderick. She'll do everything in her power to save him—and try to save herself—even if it means bringing the house down around them.With a sinister, gothic atmospher

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Book SynopsisHow much of your waking time are you fully awake?How often do you stumble through the day on auto-pilot, half asleep and out of contact with yourself, instead of feeling connected and alive?In this astounding book, Steve Taylor suggests that our normal consciousness is really a kind of 'sleep' from which we sometimes 'wake up', into a more intense and complete reality. Waking from Sleep provides what is perhaps the first ever clear explanation of higher states of consciousness, or 'awakening experiences'. This book examines: • the methods that human beings have used throughout history to induce awakening experiences, including meditation, sex, nature, sport, psychedelic drugs and sleep deprivation• how higher states of consciousness were normal and natural to some of the world's peoples (and still are in some cases) • how we can make 'wakefulness' our normal state again. By fully explaining awakening experiences, this book makes them much more accessible, and may even lead to a revolution in our psychological development as human beings.Trade ReviewThe author's mind is imbued at all times with the higher faculty of spiritual awareness. -- Eckhart Tolle The most enlightening book about enlightenment I have ever read. -- Ervin Laszlo One of the best books on spiritual awakening I have ever come across. An important contribution to the shift in consciousness that is happening on our planet at this time. -- Eckhart Tolle Makes an elusive and complex subject easily comprehensible to the reader...His [Steve Taylor] enthusiasm is tangible and infectious. Kindred Spirit Magazine Taylor has created an experience for the reader that is wonderful... The book has a lovely appeal and seems to almost generate the feeling of the awakened experiences that are described so beautifully. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology

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Book Synopsis''You''ll be moved by the brave women in Awakening'' Malala Yousafzai''Awakening goes where no book has gone before. Inspiring, insightful, profoundly moving'' Hillary Rodham ClintonAll over the world, #MeToo inspired generations of women to fight in new ways for their rights.In Brazil, women run for office at the risk of intimidation and murder. In China, activists drown out internet censors and defy arrests. In Egypt, the president calls protestors terrorists. In Tunisia, activists bring down a predatory government minister.In Nigeria, the movement unites Muslim and Christian survivors.In Pakistan, actresses confront accused assailants in court. In Sweden, the movement rocks citizens to their core.Awakening reveals the true scope of the greatest global reckoning on women''s rights in history.Trade ReviewAwakening goes where no book has gone before, taking readers on a journey around the world in a powerful exploration of the most widespread cultural reckoning around women's rights in history. In chronicling the global impact of the #MeToo movement, Meighan Stone and Rachel Vogelstein capture the speed and scale of women-led organizing in the digital age, as well as the social, economic, and legal progress that's possible when we come together to demand change. Inspiring, insightful, and profoundly moving, this book is a must-read for women and men alike. * Hillary Rodham Clinton *You'll be moved by the brave women in Awakening - just like #MeToo founder and activist Tarana Burke was when she read their stories. Through their reporting and research, Meighan Stone and Rachel Vogelstein bring us closer to a new generation of women who are using digital activism to achieve change * Malala Yousafzai *Dynamically told and sharply written, Awakening is the global #MeToo book we've been waiting for, transporting readers over borders and across cultures * Jill Filipovic *A must-read for anyone thinking about the social and political consequences of #MeToo. This book provides critical insight into the movement's global impact and the future of equality for women around the world * Soraya Chemaly *

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Book SynopsisAdyashanti asks us to let go of our struggles with life and open to the full promise of spiritual awakening: the end of delusion and the discovery of our essential being. In his 15 years as a spiritual teacher, Adyashanti has found that the simpler the teaching, the greater its power to change our lives. In Falling into Grace, he shares what he considers fundamental insights that will “… spark a revolution in the way we perceive life”. Available in CD or book format, here is a progressive inquiry exploring: The human dilemma—the concept of a separate self and the choice to stop believing the thoughts that perpetuate suffering • “Taking the backward step” into the pure potential of the present moment • Why spiritual awakening can be a disturbing process • Intimacy and availability—feeling absolute union with every part of our experience • True autonomy—the unique expression of our own sense of freedom In the same way that we fall into the arms of a loved one or drop our heads on the pillow at night, we can surrender into the beauty and truth of who and what we really are. Falling into Grace is an investigation into the core of why we suffer. It's also Adyashanti’s invitation “… to be taken by a moment of grace and fall into a sense of life when it is not separate from you, when life is actually an expression of something indefinable, mysterious, and immense.”

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Book SynopsisThis survey brings together three decades of work by contemporary Native American artistGerald Clarke (Cahuilla). Utilizing wit and humor to expose historical and present-day injustice, Clarke brings a decolonial perspective to urgent cultural and political issues facing our world. Gerald Clarke is an artist, university professor, Cahuillatribal leader, cowboy, and Indian (the artist’s preferred identity). Combining various media in his sculptures, paintings, works on paper, videos, performances, and installations, Clarke derives artistic inspiration from his cultural heritage, expressing traditional ideas in contemporary forms that are both poetic and politically urgent. Clarke’s artistic output resonates with histories of assemblage, pop, and conceptual art produced by both Native and non-native artists. This amply illustrated catalogue introduces Clarke’s work at a moment when it is profoundly necessary.

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Book Synopsis''I''ve been searching for this feeling all year: this book left me absolutely breathless.'' New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren ''All in is sexy, smart, and completely unputdownable. Breathtaking, from start to finish. I loved this book, and I can''t wait to go whatever Simona Ahrnstedt takes her readers next.'' New York Times bestselling author Tessa Dare''Everything a reader could want!'' New York Times bestselling author Eloisa JamesA gripping, glittering novel of scandal and suspense that ranges from Sweden to New York City to Africa, from the bestselling author of All In . . .Alexander de la Grip is known in the tabloids and gossip blogs as a rich, decadent jet-setting playboy who spends most of his days recovering from the night before. With a string of beautiful conquests, he seems to care about nothing and no one.Isobel Sørensen has treated patTrade ReviewI've been searching for this feeling all year: this book left me absolutely breathless -- New York Times bestselling author Christina LaurenAll in is sexy, smart, and completely unputdownable. Breathtaking, from start to finish. I loved this book, and I can't wait to go whatever Simona Ahrnstedt takes her readers next -- New York Times bestselling author Tessa DareEverything a reader could want! -- New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James

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Book SynopsisAwaken: A Journey to Purpose, Wholeness, Healing, and Impact Awaken delivers a contemporary and accessible guide to how each of us can experience a life of meaning, purpose, and fulfillment in a world that is rife with anxiety, depression, and addiction. Drawing on the distinguished author's lifetime of accumulated insights and experience, Awaken guides readers on a journey to achieve complete alignment between who they are, what they say, what they do, and how they relate to others. People are traumatized and polarized the world over. By healing our traumas, uniting the polarities in our lives, and connecting to our deepest purpose, we can attain personal power and amplify our positive impact on the world. Most people have chosen not to deal with their trauma; they conceal it, numb it, and relive it. Through the prism of the author's life journey, Awaken shows us how to mine the ups and downs of our lives to experience post-traumatic growth. Written for anyone with even a passing interest in improving their inner life and making a difference in the world, Awaken provides proven tools and practical advice that allow readers to know themselves, love themselves, be themselves, and express themselves. Readers will learn how to grow their personal power by building self-trust, cultivating presence, drawing healthy boundaries, leaning into necessary conflict, and challenging orthodoxies. Awaken will help readers see their lives differently in order to transform their experience of living.Table of ContentsForeword xi Prologue xiii Chapter 1 Roots 1 Life Without Papa 1 From Kesur to Canada 3 Sidebar: The Rajputs 6 Papa Returns 11 Reflections 14 Chapter 2 Changing of the Guard 17 A Whole New World 17 Bewildered in Barbados 18 Serene in Salinas 20 Confused in Canada 24 Reflections 27 Chapter 3 Return of the Native 29 The Ratlam “Suar” System 30 Sidebar: The Caste System 31 Objects of Curiosity 33 Hard Landing 34 School of Horrors 36 Innocence Lost 40 Home Base Indore 41 Reflections 45 Chapter 4 Return to Kesur 47 The Darker Side of Kesur 50 Trickle-Down Tyranny 54 Reflections 55 Chapter 5 No Time to Dream 57 My Luck Runs Out 62 Grim Survivor 65 Political Awakening 66 Bombay Bound 69 Back to the Future 72 Reflections 74 Chapter 6 New York, New York 77 Marketing Mecca – or Mayhem? 78 Ivy League Ivory Tower 79 An Accidental Academic 81 Dowry Drama 83 Dissertation Dilemma 85 Escape from New York 87 Reflections 90 Chapter 7 Boston Blues 93 Out of Africa 98 An Unblessed Marriage 104 Nightmare on Commonwealth Avenue 107 Reflections 109 Chapter 8 A New Beginning 111 The “Prodigal” Son Returns 114 A Mentor at Last 119 Standing Up for Myself 122 A Growing Family 125 Awakening My Creative Side 127 Reflections 128 Chapter 9 Back to Boston 131 New Millennium, New Challenges 133 My Winter of Discontent 136 Good Thing, Bad Thing – Who Knows? 138 Following My Heartbreak 140 The Shame of Marketing? 141 Reflections 143 Chapter 10 Purpose in the Poconos 145 Tears of Joy 145 Metamorphosis 146 Becoming an Instrument of Evolution 148 Renegotiating a Relationship 150 Doubling Down 152 Sliding Doors 153 Birthing a Movement 155 Growing the Movement 157 Reflections 159 Chapter 11 Searching for Inner Peace 161 Seeking Spiritual Solace 163 Sidebar: Art of Living CORE TEACHINGS 164 Could I Be Happy? 167 Growing and Sinking 171 Reflections 173 Chapter 12 Conscious Awakening 175 The Wise Women 178 Twin Bombshells 184 No More Denial 186 Reflections 187 Chapter 13 Healing the Father Wound 189 The Father Wound 189 My Arc with My Father 190 Seeing the Whole Picture 192 Innocence Lost – and Reclaimed 193 Grief or Relief? 195 A Two-Time Destroyer of Families? 196 Healing My Son’s Father Wound 197 Last Words 198 Reflections 200 Chapter 14 Honoring My Mother and Becoming Whole 203 Who Was Usha? 206 Portrait of a Marriage 209 Passages 210 Bringing My Mother to My Father 212 Reflections 212 Chapter 15 Discoveries 215 Stay True to Yourself 216 Be Open to New Adventures 219 Be Your Own Best Friend and Coach 220 Challenge Orthodoxies 220 Choose Your Life 221 Embrace Seeming Opposites 222 Acknowledge and Heal Your Traumas 223 Be a Peaceful Warrior for Truth and Love 225 Stay Awake! 226 Epilogue Healing the Patriarchy 227 The Need to Heal Kesur 228 My Duty and Destiny 229 A Healing Circle 231 The Path Ahead 234 Acknowledgments 235 About the Author 239 Index 241

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Book SynopsisCatherine Carswell (1879-1946) was born in Glasgow, one of the four children of George and Mary Anne Macfarlane. On leaving school she attended courses in English Literature at Glasgow University but could not, in those days, be admitted for a degree. In 1904, after a brief engagement, she married Herbert Jackson. When in 1905, she told him of her pregnancy, he tried to kill her. Declared insane, he spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital. Catherine returned to Glasgow where her daughter was born, and worked, first in Glasgow and then in London as dramatic and literary critic for the Glasgow Herald. In 1907 she began legal proceedings for the anulment of her marriage. She won the case, making legal history.Her friendship with D.H. Lawrence was kindled by her favourable review of The White Peacock (1911). They met in 1914 and their relationship lasted until Lawrence's death in 1930. In 1915 she married Donald Carswell, with whom she had one son. In the same

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword vii The Invitation to a Further Journey xi Introduction xv 1 The Two Halves of Life 1 2 The Hero’s Journey 11 3 The First Half of Life 17 4 The Tragic Sense of Life 33 5 Stumbling Over the Stumbling Stone 41 6 Necessary Suffering 47 7 Home and Homesickness 55 8 Amnesia and the Big Picture 61 9 A Second Simplicity 67 10 A Bright Sadness 75 11 The Shadowlands 81 12 New Problems and New Directions 87 13 Falling Upward 97 Afterword 103 Coda 111 Notes 115 Bibliography 123 The Author 127

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