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Un voyage passionnant à travers l'histoire, le discours socio-économique et la discussion philosophique. Ce livre vous guidera, en utilisant une approche holistique, pour trouver le vrai bonheur. Cet ouvrage a le potentiel de bouleverser votre façon de penser, non pas en vous donnant de nouvelles règles de vie, mais en vous exposant à des concepts, des philosophies et une façon de penser (par vous-même) qui n'était peut-être pas aussi évidente auparavant.Offrant une abondance d'information et de stimulations sur plusieurs sujets clés, il décompose le bonheur en trois parties (l'argent, l'amour et la santé), qui ont le pouvoir de nous rendre heureux quand les choses vont bien, mais aussi la capacité de nous rendre vraiment malheureux dans le cas contraire. L'étymologie du mot "bonheur" signifie "bien vivre". Ce qui en découle, c'est que si vous "vivez bien", vous trouverez le bonheur et la raison pour laquelle la plupart des gens pensent qu'ils seront heureux s'ils sont riches, amoureux et en bonne santé est que ces trois choses, c'est-à-dire l'argent, l'amour et la santé, favorisent le bien-être.Notre Quête du bonheur commence en suivant des exemples historiques et actuels de héros des temps anciens et des temps modernes, ceux qui ont réussi dans leurs propres quêtes. L'idée est d'encourager le lecteur à avoir l'état d'esprit d'un explorateur, car les explorateurs sont un type particulier d'être humain. Ils ont de l'endurance physique - ils ont de la force mentale - ils ont beaucoup de détermination et un sentiment d'attachement profond à leur mission et surtout ils ont foi dans leur poursuite. L'auteur a poussé ce concept d'exploration un peu plus loin. Les explorations géographiques ont des limites alors que l'exploration de nous-mêmes en tant qu'être humain est infinie. L'auteur invite ses lecteurs à se tourner vers l'intérieur, parce que lorsque vous vous tournez vers l'intérieur, c'est là où vous trouvez votre propre trésor.Vous serez séduit, surpris et inspiré par ce livre. Les mots ont de la profondeur, le récit est extraordinaire et le message à la fois tendre et provocateur. Êtes-vous prêt pour votre Quête ?

Intentionally create a Prayer Life that attracts what you desire, and learn how to stop doubting that your blessings are coming! Receive step-by-step instructions on how to grow deeper spiritual roots by: inviting angels, blessing your spaces, creating a prayer box, living a peace-filled life, and finding your passion.As a bonus, Georgie shares her own story, including a bedside visit from Jesus while she was in the hospital. During His visit, Georgie experienced a miraculous healing that baffled the doctors.Georgie encourages you to live a peace-filled life, give others your overflow of self-love, embrace yourself daily for being a blessing in this world, and practice the prayer examples in this book until you truly know How to Believe in Answered Prayers.Georgie has learned that there are more angels on earth than there are people. They are always with us, waiting to be asked for their wisdom and help! This book will teach you how to connect with them.God isn't confused, but sometimes we are, and so we need guidance. We are called to learn a lot from nature. Imagine sitting on a river back overlooking a river. See how it flows in one direction? Imagine that your life training has taught you to go against the natural current - to go upstream, give to others when you're depleted, and pretend you are happy and spiritual when that's not how you truly feel. Over time you may start to feel like your spirit is becoming emptier and joy-less.While we struggle against the current, the river of our soul is patiently waiting for us to seek nature's way, live our inherent passion, let life be easy, and attract our good to us.As a society, we have been taught to question when we experience pain, trauma, or grief. We might ask questions like: Where is God, or my Higher Source, in my time of need? , "Why do bad things happen to good people?" , "Why can't my body heal?" , "Why can't my lifestyle improve?" , or "If I was born with a purpose and passion, why is it so hard for me to find it?"In this book, these questions are answered by seeing your life from a higher, more pure perspective. By doing away with all shame, doubt, and feelings of being violated, you can learn how to move out of self-damaging beliefs, and into becoming your true self.You will learn how to start treating your body, mind and spirit as though they are your best friends, so that you can connect with Divine Intelligence. You were born with a readily available Intelligence that beats your heart and digest your food - it's what keeps you alive!You will also discover how to use your intuition as your internal guidance system. If you've ever had a "gut feeling" about something, then you've already experienced your intuition trying to communicate with you. This intuition is real, and needs to be acknowledged.Each chapter of this book will give you detailed instructions on how to help deepen your spiritual life. May you embrace your true self with great curiosity for the mystery and mastery that lies within you.Georgie Anna Holbrook is an internationally recognized Blessing Creator, she interprets the emotions behind health issues, along with being a personal and professional guide. She is a gifted intuitive, whose motto is, "I pray up, show up, and then listen up to how I can guide you into a life you love."

Doing yoga as an older woman can transform how you feel about yourself and how you view aging. "Yoga really changed me. It helped me open my heart and mind, and expand as a person," Rayna Griffin, 67, told me. "I'm digging deeper now. I'm learning, growing and discovering more about myself every day."Rayna is one of the ten women featured in YOGINI: Ageless Women, Timeless Tradition. These women's stories include narratives of physical and emotional healing, of overcoming adversity, and of spiritual renewal. These women come from all parts of the United State, study in different yoga traditions, and range in age from 63 to 85.This is the first book that explores what yoga means to older women through their personal stories and examines what makes yoga so compelling, so necessary and so gratifying as they get older. As baby boomers age, the svelte, young things on the cover of Yoga Journal will no longer act as role models. The women featured here can serve that purpose.Some women are trying yoga for the first time at age 65 or 70; others have come back to yoga at that age after a hiatus of 20 or 30 years. Still others, like Ana Franklin, have been practicing consistently for 50 years. What keeps her practicing after all these years? "I could have gone off the deep end if I didn't have my practice," she said. "My practice kept me sane and alive."In this book, you'll also meet women who only go to class once a week but have incorporated the principles of yoga into their lives. Women like this are living their yoga, what's known as "off the mat," even though they may only be "on the mat" once a week (practicing in class or at home). What counts is how important yoga is to them, how passionate they feel about it, and how pervasive its principles are to their actions and behaviors.A painter and sculptor, whom you'll meet in this book, had lost all inspiration until she discovered yoga. It liberated her and inspired her in new ways. Another woman refused to leave her house for a year after her husband died until her neighbors dragged her to a yoga class. It turned her life around.What's different about these stories is that the women are all beyond midlife. They are practicing regularly at an age when conventional wisdom says they are too old for yoga, and they are receiving its many benefits. To name a few: strength, flexibility, and balance as well as the calm and peace of mind that are so important as they get older and face the many challenges that accompany aging.For each of the ten women, yoga opened a new path later in life. Despite their advancing years, they are still growing and learning and evolving in mind, body and spirit. Yoga is what keeps them young and vital. This is what can keep you young and vital.If you're over 65 and not doing yoga yet, these stories may motivate you to give it a try. No matter your body size or shape or your health issues, yoga can guide you and support you in the years ahead. Let these ten remarkable women inspire you so that you, too, can reap the benefits of practicing the timeless tradition of yoga.

The Sun Also Rises invites the reader to embark on a philosophical journey. The journey was initiated by World War I. Because of the war, the story's protagonist, Jake Barnes, suffers an injury that prevents him from having sexual relationship with the woman he loves, thus preventing them from fully realizing their relationship as a couple. The tragedy of the war apparently invalidated for Jake the Grand Narrative of Christianity that clearly played an important part in his life before the war. Jake is a member of the post-war "lost generation" caught up in a profligate, discordant way of life. Unlike his friends, however, Jake seeks an alternative philosophy of life that offers other sources of meaning. It is through Jake's philosophical quest that the novel does more than present the post-Grand Narrative condition and the postmodern culture it produced. It suggests an alternative worldview that is not only meaningful but really is the only authentic life-enhancing option for humanity. In doing so, the novel introduces the ontology, ethics, and aesthetics of this worldview.What the haiku poet Matsuo Basho; reveals is a form of love that is universal yet personal. It expresses a sympathetic rather than a romantic relationship between the perceiver and the perceived. His love of the world is heartfelt and spiritual. His poetry reveals a worldview that gives humanity a unique and essential cosmic role to play. There is a purity to Basho's poems that is rare in literature. If The Sun Also Rises begins the philosophical journey to answer the question of what worldview offers human beings the most meaningful and unique form of self-realization, Basho's poetry and life are the journey's destination.The readers of Transcending the Abrahamic Religions: The Philosophies of The Sun Also Rises and Basho Poetry will embark on an intellectual odyssey that will introduce them to Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Taoism, the scientific worldview, philosophy of religion, ethics, aesthetics, logic, epistemology, philosophy of language, phenomenology, existentialism, and rhetoric. Their final destination will be a worldview that is true, humane, and meaningful.

The long-anticipated companion volume to "Love & Feathers" is finally here!Within these pages you will learn how to make the Small Chef's top-secret recipes for fluffy waffles, crispy waffles and many other now-declassified flock favorite recipes - each highly recommended by a certain pint-sized feathery gourmand himself!Not sure what ingredient brands to choose or which kitchen equipment to invest in? The Small Chef provides you with detailed lists of all her favorites.Gluten-free? No problem! Enjoy a special section of gluten-free staples to tempt the most discerning (feathered or featherless) palate.Is your hookbill a picky eater? Pearl used to be - find out how his large featherless waitress enticed him to give a colorful array of healthy fruits, veggies, grains and other goodies a try!

It's obvious to most Christians that we are living in a society that has become increasingly intolerant of Biblical morals and standards. The progressive amorality of our culture is being promulgated through the educational system, political agendas and the entertainment industry. This is not a new condition by any means. The historical accounts in the Bible attest to the antagonism of the unbelieving world to the ideals established for man by God. What has been somewhat unusual in this generation, is the degree to which this amorality and immorality has penetrated the Christian church using deceptive techniques and twisted theology to gain acceptance. False preachers have introduced "another Gospel" and are multiplying disciples rapidly across the nation.We have not been left in the dark on this issue. Jude, the brother of James and half-brother of Jesus, wrote a letter to the church dealing with this very issue. In it, he uses an inspired, pointed style to open the curtain and expose the apostate preachers who were infiltrating even the first century church. In this book, pastor Tom attempts to merge some of his own experiences as a pastor with contemporary examples of modern-day preachers gone amuck, with clear, practical and incisive interpretation of this final epistle written to the church.This book was written to warn believers as well as offer help in making sense out of the changing church climate in America. If you have wondered why the modern church has changed so much over the last decade, and have become skeptical to the organized church, this book is a must read. Pastor Tom goes through the epistle of Jude phrase-by-phrase, verse-by-verse, to make it easier to understand while making application to the current church atmosphere. Let, We were warned! arm you to do battle along-side other believers, and encourage you to keep seeking truth, defending the Gospel and remaining faithful to our Lord Jesus Christ.

In the 16th century the vampire nation was on the rise in Spain. In order to protect their interests, they found refuge and power within the confines of the Catholic Church. Over time it grew in strength, eventually consuming the duties and responsibilities of the Inquisition, twisting and perverting them to their own purpose. With the power and influence of the church behind them, the nation began to expand its empire by broadening its influence and searching out others of its kind.The greatest threat to the nation did not come from outside, but from within it. A disease they coined "Blood Lust" had appeared. Those who became infected would break out in uncontrollable feeding frenzies. Wherever this happened, the Inquisition stormed in to prevent knowledge of these horrific events from escaping by declaring the village and all of its inhabitants as heretic's thus killing them as servants of Satan and leaving the village engulfed in flames. This was done with the blessings and resources of the church. They were after all the Inquisition and therefore went unquestioned.One such vampire was Oserith Fisherday. An Irish knight of the Fourth Crusade who went by the name of Oz. During his time with the crusade, he met Elijah, another vampire suffering from the same uncontrollable callings of the Blood Lust. Together they travel the world hiding from the inquisition that now fears them, knowing the damage the two could cause to their very existence.

Manny Levels knew trouble when he saw it, and he saw it when Princess Tierra De Arcana sashayed into his Dimensional Thinking Detective Agency. Drawn by her beauty, he took the job when she asked him to find answers to two questions: "What is Reality? And what is my place in it?"The investigation forces Manny, Tierra and their robot guide Lowenbee Hold to solve fantastic puzzles posed by mythos gods, savants and philosophers. Conquering their final challenge, the vast Labyrinth of Gates, allows them to enter The Academy of Analogy where they are exposed to the transcendent insights of a creature named Bandwidth.Metaphysics addresses fundamental, thoughtful concerns, and the story engages these concerns by disguising them as fabulous obstacles in the path toward a greater awareness.In keeping with the dimensional underpinnings of the story, it is possible for science fiction fans to see the book as metaphysical sci-fi, and for literary novel seekers to see the book as magical (or more accurately, dimensional) realism.With humor and a sense of adventure, Metaphysical Island illuminates the one universal principle that unites myth, art, philosophy, spirituality and science. If you find the sample chapter entertaining and maybe a little bit intriguing, welcome to the search for Bandwidth.

After reading Dr. Kassis' hospital notes in November 2014, a nurse consultant urged Dr. Kassis to write about some of the most difficult cases that he had encountered over his career. Dr. Kassis subsequently wrote his first book Sherlock and I a Memoir of Medical Mysteries in a US Rural Practice. Having been asked to write a sequel, Dr. Kassis now first presents the reader with details of the training that every potential physician must endure before he or she may be labeled as a physician. It is in the second half of his book that Dr. Kassis once again describes patients with critical illnesses as well many who presented diagnostic conundrums. A lifelong fan of Sherlock Holmes, throughout the book he emphasizes the diagnostic process, especially the importance of obtaining an accurate history from the patient. Most importantly, Dr. Kassis presents the material in a manner which a non-medical person can easily understand. Anyone who reads this book will have a better understanding of how his or her physician formulates a diagnosis - a process which must always come before any treatment might be initiated.

The church people believe to be Catholic today, as its members have experienced it and understood it for the past nearly 60 years, is not the same Church Christ established on earth; it was hijacked in 1958 by those who long ago expressed their intent to overthrow the papacy then destroy the Church, replacing it with a harmless substitute. But the Church cannot change as She Herself infallibly teaches. Christ is the Founder of the Church; His Vicars merely convey His own message, with the guarantee that in so doing, they cannot err. Christ promised to be with his Church until the consummation; but Holy Scripture also prophesies that the shepherd will be struck, and the sheep will be scattered.The Phantom Church in Rome explains how such a thing could happen, why it happened and who was responsible for infiltrating and corrupting the Church. The book shows those who wish to be true Catholics but never knew what happened to their Church what the true Catholic Church teaches and why it could never teach any differently today than it did in 1958, 1858 or any time before. Using papal documents from all periods of the Church's long history, it demonstrates that the Masonic and Modernist plot to erase all vestiges of Catholic truth has succeeded and what remains can only be explained as the reign of Antichrist.Our Lord has not abandoned His Church. As the Head of the Mystical Body, He is with Her today and will be with Her until the very end. The book explains how Catholics can keep their faith in these times without falling prey to false christs and wolves who ravage the flock. What lies ahead for the Church? Only one of two things: Either a glorious restoration under a miraculously elected pope or the Final Judgment. Thy will be done on earth!

"Nano" is a continuation of the previous book "Metamorphosis" published in 2015. The epic journey continues with Miranda Macleod, after suffering with the horrible illness of "Morgellons" and the break up of her marriage. This mother and nurse finds true love, once again.Gabriel, her new love, gets thrown into Miranda's tumultuous roller-coaster life. He becomes Miranda's rock, as well as her salvation. Miranda's search for a cure leads her down a harrowing path, involving endless torture and Non-Consensual Human Bio-Experimentation. Miranda must travel halfway across the globe, where the terrible truth about what has been done to her is revealed and the fight for her very life begins.Dr. Christianson, is a beautiful spiritual scientist, and is driven by her research on "Morgellons,"seeking truth and justice. Unfortunately, her patients end up being collateral damage in the process.Alenjandro is like a demon spirit, always watching and lurking in the shadows of Miranda's mind. Will Miranda be able to overcome her terrible circumstances? Only time will tell.

Roy Mitchell is an Assistant District Attorney in Dallas, Texas, assigned to the trial division. By a consensus of the local criminal defense attorneys, Mitchell is one of the best prosecutors in the office. Mitchell decides to handle a case in prosecuting Ulysses Carillo for attempting to murder Tony Medina. Medina has been left paralyzed as a result of this attempted murder. And it is this paralysis that becomes the motivating factor in Mitchell taking the case. This ulterior reason can be traced directly to Linden, Texas, a small town in the piney woods of east Texas where Roy Mitchell was raised.Carillo, one of the largest cocaine dealers in Dallas, exerts pressure and threats upon Tony Medina, which results in Medina dropping the charges against Carillo. Obviously, to the true prosecutor, this infuriates Mitchell, but nothing can be done to prevent it. Carillo, of course, is relieved, and this allows him to continue his thriving narcotic dealings. All this time, Tony Medina, confined to his wheelchair, watches as Carillo destroys with drugs the lives of people.From his first encounter with Tony Medina, Roy Mitchell establishes a personal friendship with Medina that continues to grow long after criminal charges have been dropped. All this time, the paralyzed victim's anger and disgust grow toward Carillo. It reaches its zenith when Tony convinces Mitchell to drive him by Carillo's house. Unbeknownst to Mitchell, when Tony is driven in front of Carillo's house--with Carillo and friends in the front yard--Tony pulls out a shotgun previously hidden from Mitchell and shoots and kills Ulysses Carillo.The shooting is investigated by Frank Barnes a homicide detective in the Dallas Police Department. Barnes knew that Medina could not drive a vehicle because of his injuries. He is looking for the other person involved in the murder of Ulysses Carillo. When he discovers that this other person is his close personal and professional friend, Mitchell, he realizes that Roy overstepped his professional judgment and became personally involved. And it's this involvement that leads to Mitchell's arrest for murder. Because of Mitchell's involvement in the murders--however innocent it might be--he is charged with murder. The golden boy among all of the prosecutors in the State of Texas is charged with killing--or helping to kill--the sorriest, meanest, and most dangerous individual the City of Dallas has seen in many years.The trial draws immense nationwide publicity. It also brings into service one of the nation's premier criminal defense attorneys, Travis Payne from Gunnison, Colorado.How can Roy prove his innocence in the face of such strong circumstantial evidence that exists against him? The key rests with a surprise and secret defense witness known only to Travis Payne and no one else--not even Roy Mitchell. For unknown reasons, this witness, a good, honest, and credible individual testifies in his effort to save Roy Mitchell. Normally, it is the good guys who are prosecuting the bad guys. But the tables are turned somewhat, when here, it is the good guys being prosecuted for ridding society of the bad guys.

Like every man on his team, Captain Chris Holt has sworn an oath to defend America against all enemies. From the moment he enters the SADM Program, Holt never considered the possibility of a domestic deployment but now, as he and his Army Special Forces team jump from their C-130 transport into the night time Texas sky armed with a tactical nuclear weapon, he wonders how many of his team will survive the mission to terminate a disgraced, former Army germ-warfare scientist.Dr. Heinrich Fleischer has big plans as he forms an unholy alliance with a ruthless boss of a Mexican drug cartel, who want to use his stash of a deadly strain of respiratory anthrax against rival drug cartels. Holed up deep inside an abandoned Army laboratory high in the Trans-Pecos Mountains, Fleischer ambushes Holt and his team as soon as are on the ground, capturing Holt, and stealing the tactical nuclear device the team jumped in with and then uses the device to blackmail the U.S. President; telling him that unless his ransom demands are met, he will detonate the device within a major U.S. port - an act which would devastate the world's economy for decades, however, massive bio-terrorism is his real, hidden, agenda.

Lily Easter has spent eleven of her twelve years at the Edgewood Foster Home. She has abandoned any hope of being adopted and becoming part of a real family.When five-year-old abused Angela is placed at the same Foster Home, the two girls develop a strong bond, and with the help of Lily's friend Ace, they share many dangers and adventures especially when their past meets up with their present.Lily's favorite teacher Rose Boston provides the girls with the love and direction they need and proves that "Finding Hope" is more than an expression, but a destination.

Where are the flowers and the birds? What is happening in the park? A nature-themed book, The Picnic in Squirrel Park explains changes that occur when summer ends and the fall season begins. Field mice, Henry and Henrietta Hooper, view the fields after a rain storm and find no flowers. As they go on an adventure of discovery, a squirrel friend helps them discover new fun things.A story to read to Pre-k and K, it is suitable for independent reading in Grade 1 and Grade 2 and ESL. The 800-word book introduces vocabulary about nature, and includes positive interpersonal and action words. Illustrations are colorful hand-drawn artwork, designed to encourage understanding and awareness of the environment.

After around twenty years of reading many self-help books, to see where she went wrong when she was young, L. F. Radley (Lauri) wrote the light-hearted story, Easy Peasy when you know.It's the book she wished she had read when she was young, to possibly save herself a lot of time and grief.

To impress his opera-loving masters, Brio, a too-proud and jealous mixed-breed dog, escapes his fenced yard one Thanksgiving morning to make his way to the Great City. There he plans to lead golden chariots, Arabian horses, elephants, lions, and Egyptian soldiers in a special Christmas Eve production of Aïda. By accomplishing this, Brio simultaneously aims to upstage Sophie, the family's award-winning and spoiled Siamese show cat, and to raise his own status with his family. The reader follows Brio weave his way through the twists and turns of his many adventures including facing the challenges of meeting-up with bounty hunters, a pack of street dogs, a gang of teenage ruffians, wild animal phantoms, and his pandemonium-causing stage entrance at the opera house. Then on Christmas Eve, barely having escaped untimely death, Brio is astonished to find himself chosen to lead a quite different but no less special Grand March.BRAVO! BRIO is a fast-paced book which may be read and enjoyed at multiple levels. It features lots of humorous dialogue, intriguing plot twists, a quirky mix of enticing anthropomorphic and human characters, and a late-chapter action crescendo with an exciting climax and surprise ending. It is sure to be enjoyed by juvenile and young adult readers alike and by dog lovers of all ages.

It's the year 1925 and Autumn Frayley is running from trouble in northern Michigan. Looking for a place to hide, she finds refuge on an old fishing boat and falls asleep. Upon awakening, the young woman finds herself on Little Bear Island where the old lighthouse keeper, Mampy, takes her in.Autumn eagerly learns about what it means to "keep the light" in a charming time when lighthouse keepers were needed to protect ships from peril on the Great Lakes.Learning about the island and its inhabitants is interesting and sometimes amusing, but it becomes evident that not everyone on Little Bear can be trusted. Autumn soon realizes that boat trip across Lake Michigan has now changed her life forever.

In Memories in a Box: Signs of Life after Death, Janice Stork candidly shares true stories about extraordinary people, pets, and places. She takes you into a spiritualist church hidden in a cornfield. Inside a Catholic Cathedral she asks God for help with her unborn child. Through heartfelt losses, including two sons, she shares first-hand signs of life after death. The presence of Swami Kriyananda and Paramhansa Yogananda further confirmed the soul never dies.

Two young hens are chicken napped from the farm they were hatched. After a very scary trip in the trunk of a car the hens arrive at their new home. The coop is brand new. It has new feeding and watering dishes, fresh straw in the nest and no doodle (poop) on the coop floor or roost. The hens love the new forever home, however they can see through the chicken wire the crawling and flying bugs among the fragrant flowers. The hens are hoping soon to be allowed out of the coop to peck and scratch among the flowers and catch a bug.This is the story of two young hens. They have been purchased by Bright Hair and Ball Cap. Bright Hair and Ball Cap are a middle aged couple who do not have any experience raising chickens and their first mistake is not taking the farmer's advice about naming the hens.

Johan Pitka (1872-1944) was born in Estonia, one of nine countries that border the Baltic Sea. Drawn to the ocean from reading tales of adventure as a child, he first saw the sea at age 12. After working aboard ships during summers and attending maritime school during winters, he earned his master's license in 1895. Pitka became captain of a wooden barque named Lilly at age 24. From 1896-1900 he made four Atlantic crossings with this cargo ship and also sailed the Caribbean, Mediterranean and Baltic Seas.Pitka visited many countries and dozens of ports in cities, towns and remote anchorages, surviving powerful storms, mutiny and sickness. He saw wonderful scenery and wildlife, learned from other captains and perceived the intrinsic beauty of indigenous people while lamenting past actions by European nations against them. Working in different cultures and languages, he learned to deal with unscrupulous people, including merchants, harbour captains, customs officers and crewmen. Pitka's autobiography describes his voyages aboard Lilly, giving insight to how they helped him develop the initiative, confidence, character, resourcefulness and will that he showed in later years. His narrative quotes from Charles Darwin, F.A. Mitchell-Hedges and H.P. Blavatsky.When Lilly was sold after her owner died, Pitka worked aboard other vessels until 1907 when he co-founded a shipping agency and chandlery in Liverpool. He moved to Tallinn in 1911 to advise shipping companies and represent the Canadian Pacific Railway in the Baltics.Pitka founded the Estonian Navy during WWI and helped to lead that country's successful War of Independence (1918-1920) against Bolshevik Russian and Baltic German forces. Appointed Rear Admiral in 1919, he received a knighthood (KCMG) from Britain's King George V in 1920.In 1924, Pitka led a group of settlers to homestead near Fort St. James, British Columbia when about 50 Caucasians and 500 indigenous people lived in the region. This area was chosen, in part, because the B.C. government planned to extend the railway northward, but this did not happen for another 50 years. Pitka's group tried sawmilling, growing crops and raising sheep and cattle but sustainability was elusive due to the high cost of moving goods 65 km south over rugged territory to the closest railhead, and devaluation of the Canadian dollar. By 1932 all settlers had moved elsewhere, leaving their names on B.C. landmarks such as Pitka Mountain, Pitka Bay, Linda Lake, Colony Point and Paaren's Beach Provincial Park. A monument to honour Pitka was unveiled in Fort St. James in 2009.When homesteading in B.C. proved unsustainable, Pitka returned to his homeland where he advised shipping companies, explored politics and wrote his maritime autobiography. He also translated two books from English to Estonian. The first, Ways to Perfect Health, by Irving S. Cooper (1912) was published in 1935 and the other, Excerpts from The Book of The Golden Precepts, by H.P. Blavatsky (The Voice of The Silence, 1889), was published in 1939.During WWII, Pitka's three sons were arrested and executed by the Soviets and Pitka disappeared in 1944 while organizing resistance. His wife and two daughters escaped and returned to B.C. in 1948.As reported in an article during the 1960's, the short duration of Pitka's settlement in British Columbia, and his romantic memories of it, reflected his personality, about which someone once said, "It was hard to know where the sailor, the soldier, the merchant, the farmer, the writer or even the artist started or ended, as he had a very sensitive soul."Pitka was a complex man, who thought of his formative years aboard Lilly as the golden years of his youth.

When a small-town's most attractive, ambitious and conservative girl graduate goes missing from her big city college campus, her Bible study girlfriends from high school back home step up to find their beloved friend and sister. Of course, the small-town folk are not at fault, are they They only want to help, right?As Amos Tversky and Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman demonstrate in The Undoing Project (authored by Michael Lewis), impression and bias are flawed, and we don't see the monsters among us until it is too late.Legal Grounds unpacks that dilemma in a small-town vs. urban interplay. #MeToo and #ChurchToo factor in. It's a challenge illustrated in a story, all too real in Average America.Within the framework of the small-town story is the town coffeeshop book club - Bonfire Books - reading a powerful novella. Out from the Jaws of the Dragon exposes a hidden undercurrent of violation of the most vulnerable in their safest places with their most trusted human connections. The book club provides an avenue of discussion among the main characters as their small-town mystery unfolds.Small communities and families and faith friends are relied upon as safe havens. Aren't they? Safe? The questions.

High school sweethearts Ike and Anika Mayhew have hit a rough patch in their 12-year marriage, and neither knows what to do to alleviate the growing tension between them. Then, Ike makes a suggestion to shake things up that Anika initially scoffs at, but finds herself more and more intrigued by...Chrisette and Dorian Clarke were more than shocked when Ike asks them for this huge favor. Chrisette sees it as a way to break out of her good-girl persona, and Dorian only agrees because his wife does. The friends agree to one night together, with no inhibitions and no regrets.But everything changes when both women wind up pregnant. The pregnancies bring one couple closer but drives the other apart, and they all fight for their friendships, their marriages, and their privacy. Many truths are revealed and each of them is tested as they prepare for the births. One couple won't be able to come back from it...

The Last Offering is the story of the young hunter Atírin and the maiden Pazhè, set long ago in a land called Armágin. Here their people, the Arbir, hunt, fish, and garden by its lowland waters. But all is not idyllic, for the people depend upon witches as healers and diviners while fearing their curses, and demand blood vengeance for wrongs.When Pazhè accepts Atírin's proposal of marriage, a rival suitor strikes a deadly bargain with Dahlor Magman, a sorcerer from a far island, to possess Pazhè nevertheless, leading to abduction, treachery, murder, and the waking of an ancient evil.Falsely blamed for Pazhè's disappearance, Atírin must find her before a blood feud destroys both their kin. He journeys the length of Armágin, glimpsing the mysterious Forest People and encountering friends and foes among the Arbir and the mountain-dwelling Hill People, their ancient enemies.Meanwhile Pazhè's journey, fraught with near-escape, near-rescue, magical bondage and magical deceit, leads her ever farther from home and hope and deeper into despair. One of Dahlor Magman's apprentices, the witch-woman Sharsil, reveals that the hideous beings of Pazhè's visions and nightmares are the Primordial Ones. Relics of their pre-human civilization dot the land, dark altars where Dahlor Magman makes his blood sacrifices.Close to death from his hard journey, Atírin is aided by Bekor, an old healer who gives him an emerald within which a spirit seems to stir. Gift-giving is the way of Armágin's people, yet this gift is not disinterested: Atírin is now close to Dahlor Magman's island and all nearby live in fear of the sorcerer, who has subjugated or slain all rival witches and anyone else who challenges his mastery. Though Bekor knows not how to use the emerald's magic, it is all the help the healer can give, save to counsel that Atírin put Pazhè's freedom above all else.Pazhè has now been brought to Dahlor Magman's island, which is covered by a ruined city of the Primordial Ones. She now knows that he is obsessed with their relics, convinced these are the key to unimaginable power by inscriptions only he seems able to read. Yet there is much she does not understand, such as what he intends for her -- whether it is forced marriage or death, or whether these are somehow twistedly confused for him.Dahlor Magman finds that his henchmen cannot be trusted to guard Pazhè and sends her to a house up the coast, where Sharsil alone guards her. To hold Pazhè there, Sharsil reveals her own magical power, showing Pazhè a prowling tiger out of an old tale and an invisible spirit wielding a flaming spear. Pazhè presses Sharsil about the tiger, rescuer of a maiden in the tale, since all the magic she has seen since her abduction has been horrible and threatening. Torn by conflicting emotions, Sharsil says it need not all be so, and shows Pazhè a vision both beautiful and cryptic.Atírin learns Pazhè's whereabouts and comes to the house, where he tries to free Pazhè but finds himself facing Sharsil. Spells are unleashed, loyalties tested as bonds are broken and new ones forged, the Forest People reappear in the midst of fiery magical combat followed by capture and betrayal, and the secrets of magic are revealed. The emerald works a mysterious fascination upon Dahlor Magman, as he prepares to cast a deadly curse and loose destruction upon the earth.The code of vengeance may not provide the courage against impossible odds that Atírin must find in the final confrontation, as reality itself seems to go mad and the power of his love for Pazhè is pitted against the power of illusion.&nb