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When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

by Pema Chodron

The beautiful practicality of her teaching has made Pema Chödrön one of the most beloved of contemporary American spiritual authors among Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. A collection of talks she gave between 1987 and 1994, the book is a treasury of wisdom for going on living when we are overcome by pain and difficulties. Chödrön discusses: Using painful emotions to cultivate wisdom, compassion, and courage ... (more)

The Complete Tales

by Beatrix Potter

This handsome edition brings all of Beatrix Potter's 23 tales and verses together in one book. Each story is complete and unabridged, and all the original illustrations, both color and black-and-white, are included. Potter's tales were often connected with real people, places and animals, so each story has a brief introductory note about its history. As an added bonus, The Complete Tales also includes four... (more)

MossflowerBrian Jaques

Mossflower

by Brian Jaques

Pamper Your Partner: An Illustrated Guide to Soothing and Relaxing Your Mate with the Sensual Healing

Pamper Your Partner: An Illustrated Guide to Soothing and Relaxing Your Mate with the Sensual Healing

by Penny Rich

The Soothing Soak: A Bathtub Reader

A collection of sensuous, spiritually uplifting water-themed stories, essays, and poetry, The Soothing Soak is the perfect companion for bathers in search of solitude, relaxation and revelation. The book features lyrical journeys of self-discovery by authors such as Diane Ackerman, Elizabeth Bishop, A. S. Byatt, Edward Hirsh, Krishnamurti, D. H. Lawrence, Andrea Lee, Barry Lopez, Mary Oliver, and Terry Tempest... (more)

In Celebration of Reiki: The Essence of Healing

In Celebration of Reiki: The Essence of Healing

by Linda Rosenthal and Michele M Preste

Reiki Master-Teacher Linda Rosenthal and Reiki Master Michele M Preste have combined their considerable talent to bring to life the experience of energetic healing through the gentle healing art of Reiki. Feel yourself drawn into the Reiki experience with each turn of the page. This book can also serve as a meditative tool to delve more deeply into Reiki and the personal and spiritual transformation that is... (more)

Wind In the Willows (Wind in the Willows)

Wind In the Willows (Wind in the Willows)

by Kenneth Grahame

The tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. When Mole goes boating with the Water Rat instead of spring-cleaning, he discovers a new world. As well as the river and the Wild Wood, there is Toad's craze for fast travel which leads him and his friends on a whirl of trains, barges, gipsy caravans and motor cars and even into battle.

Moominland Midwinter

by Tove Jansson

'This is snow,' Moomintroll whispered to himself. Moomins always sleep through the winter - or they did until the year Moomintroll woke up and went exploring in the silent, snow-covered valley where the river used to scuttle along and all his friends were so busy in summer.

Moomin Book One: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip

Moomin Book One: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip

by Tove Jansson

The enchanting comic strip that introduced adult readers to the wonderful world of Moomin Tove Jansson is revered around the world as one of the foremost children’s authors of the twentieth century for her illustrated chapter books regarding the magical worlds of her creation, the Moomins. The Moomins saw life in many forms but debuted to its biggest audience ever on the pages of the world’s largest newspaper,... (more)

Once Upon the Beginning

by Linda Rosenthal

Once Upon the Beginning is a mystical tale about the journey of a Soul. The words used throughout the story were inspired by Sacred Circles. The book is dedicated to each person connecting with one another in love and harmony. The journey begins before time was created and takes the reader through the creation of worlds and people. Along the way, one becomes separated from the Source and must reconnect with their... (more)

YOTSUBA&! Volume 3 (Yotsubato (Graphic Novels))

YOTSUBA&! Volume 3 (Yotsubato (Graphic Novels))

by Kiyohiko Azuma

When Asagi brings her a gift from Okinawa, Yotsuba is determined to return the favor - no matter what! Her search for the perfect present takes her to the park, but what will Asagi think of this hand-picked offering? As night falls and fireworks season kicks in, the sparks will fly (and so will Jumbo)!

Moominpappa at Sea

by Tove Jansson, Kingsley Hart

When the Moomin family members need a change of scenery, they decide to take up residence in a lighthouse. As they discover their new home, the family also discover surprising, and wonderfully funny, new things about themselves.

Finn Family Moomintroll

by Tove Jansson

The Moomins, creatures always ready for adventure, find a magical hat that can change anything-or anyone-into something else!

Moominvalley in November (Moomintrolls)

by Tove Jansson

Tove Jansson's Moomin characters and books are admired the world over. In the United States the series beginning with Finn Family Moomintroll (first published in English in 1945) has accumulated generations of fans. Since Farrar, Straus and Giroux began reissuing the books in 1989, grateful readers old and new have been thrilled to have the stories available again. At last the final installment is being... (more)

Moominpappa's Memoirs

by Tove Jansson

When stricken with a severe cold, Moominpappa decides to set down an account of his eventful youth, which he shares chapter by chapter with Moomintroll, Sniff, and Snufkin.

The Exploits of Moominpappa (Puffin Books)

The Exploits of Moominpappa (Puffin Books)

by Tove Jansson

'I decided to run away. There simply wasn't anything else to do.' Here at last is Moominpappa's promised life story - from the days when he was abandoned in a newspaper parcel on the doorstep of a Moomin orphanage, to when he ran away to see the world and was lucky enough to meet Moominmamma.

The Chronicles of Narnia

by C. S. Lewis

The Chronicles of Narnia have enchanted millions of readers over the last fifty years and the magical events described in C.S. Lewis's immortal prose have left many a lasting memory. For here is a world where a witch decrees eternal winter; where there are more talking animals than people; and where battles are fought by Centaurs, Giants and Fauns.

The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh

by Ernest H. Shepard, A. A. Milne

Presents a comprehensive, unabridged collection of Winnie-the-Pooh stories, accompanied by Shepard's original full-color illustrations, as well as headbands and ribbon markers, colorful bookplate, and biographies of the author and illustrator.

Redwall: Book 5

Salamandastron

by Brian Jacques, Gary Chalk

The inhabitants of Redwall relax in the haze of summer-but as they do, the neighboring stronghold of Salamandastron lies besieged by the evil weasel army of Ferhago the Assassin. Worse still, Mara, beloved daughter of Urthstripe, Badger Lord of the Fire Mountain, is in terrible danger. Then a lightning bolt uncovers the sword of Martin the Warrior, and young Samkin embarks on an adventure that leads him to Mara.... (more)

Redwall: Book 1

Redwall

by Brian Jacques

A special release of one of the most beloved fantasy adventures of our time! A spellbinding book that is an awsome kickoff for the redwall series. Brian jacques has outdone himself with this book. It is a story about an red sandstone abbey full of peaceful creatures threatened by the evil cluny the scourge, a huge barbaric rat with a whiplike tail bent on capturing the abbey. with his horde of bloodthirsty... (more)

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by Pema Chodron

by Beatrix Potter

by Brian Jaques

by Penny Rich

by Linda Rosenthal and Michele M Preste

by Kenneth Grahame

by Tove Jansson

by Tove Jansson

by Linda Rosenthal

by Kiyohiko Azuma

by Tove Jansson, Kingsley Hart

by Tove Jansson

by Tove Jansson

by Tove Jansson

by Tove Jansson

by C. S. Lewis

by Ernest H. Shepard, A. A. Milne

by Brian Jacques, Gary Chalk

by Brian Jacques