Seafoam: A Friend for Madison follows the adventures of Madison, a spunky 9-year-old girl who is granted passage to a beach full of mystical and nautical themed creatures after helping a beached narwhal. There she befriends a stand-offish boy she calls Blue, who has a few secrets of his own. When these two work together there are no devious Djinns they cannot outsmart, or any mind controlling Hypnoctopus they cannot defeat. SeaFoam: A Friend for Madison is a series that focuses on the importance of friendship, teamwork, and delivers worthwhile lessons through unique and vibrant storytelling.
The poems in Jenei’s collection Always Different: Poems of Memory grapple with childhood, memory, and time. The poet looks back forty years and imagines himself as a boy—the narrator of the poems—looking forward into the future. Thus the poems combine moments with sweeps of time, village scenes with rumblings of societal and technological change. In the tradition of Hungarian writers Péter Nádas and Ágota Kristóf, Jenei grapples with war and destruction, loneliness, desire, and loss. The literary historian Éva Bánki calls Jenei “one of the great masters of Hungarian free verse”—adding that his poems also hold an epic theme, “the strange underworld of the Kádár era, rural Hungary shown through a child’s eye.” Through their storytelling, searching, and rhythms, these poems take us into our communal yet private longing for self-knowledge, history, and home.
This book aims to make the basic ayurvedic concepts and philosophy more popular, summarising and explaining them in an easy, understandable way, and translating them to simple, commonly known expressions to bring them closer to everyday life, and our western way of thinking.According to ayurveda (ancient Indian healing system) we all are built from 5 elements, like the whole universe around us. When we are born, the proportion of these elements is unique in each of us, and optimal for our life. As we live, due to changes in our surroundings, lifestyle, and emotional experiences, this original structure changes, and that can lead to imbalance in our body and development of diseases.The book suggests that both in ayurveda and in the western world we have possibilities to discover the imbalances in time, correct them, and prevent the development of diseases. It includes practical recommendations for developing a healthy lifestyle to restore our health, so we can return to our original nature and will be able to create a happier and healthier life for ourselves and for the others living around us.
Going back where you came from is harder if it's where you already are... Migrants arrive in the Lucky Country from lands their forebears knew for a thousand years. They know where they are and why they're here and what they face. Then there are their children...born in a country that can't spell their names, and of a heritage that doesn't know they were born. Reminded every day that he doesn't quite belong, and reminding himself where others forget or couldn't care less, second generation Ed Kaspar sets out on a journey to not only be an Australian but to be his country, to "be Australia," with nineteenth century bush-balladist Henry Lawson as his guide. Determined to "romance the swag," Ed abandons his career for outback sheep stations. He works his way to an iconic identity while at a crossroads in his life, while his nation is at a crossroads of its own. The chronicle explores the changing face of Australia, and a name among many that it went by, Ed Kaspar. With its small town focus, A Country Of Our Clay nonetheless brings a universality to a narrative with the power to awaken and share wherever anyone needs a place to call home. Published by Light River Books The World's A Better Place Because We Read Books...
(El relato "LA APUESTA" forma parte del conjunto de narraciones que conforman la novela "CR NICAS SOMBR AS", publicada en el a o 2015)EL MAL SE HA INSTALADO EN SAN CISCO DEL VALLERa l Dur n siempre ha tenido un don ("una maldici n") que le dice mucho m s de lo que nunca habr a querido saber de nadie. Esta vez, su "maldito" don ha sido reclamado en San Cisco del Valle, un apacible pueblo de monta a, situado en la provincia de Huesca, donde veinte ni os han desaparecido, sin dejar rastro, en el ltimo a o. Cuando Ra l comienza a respirar el ambiente de la deprimida poblaci n, presiente que es solamente el comienzo: el mal se ha instalado en esas tierras.
One day Layla and her grandmother were working on their favorite hobbies. Her grandmother loved to knit. Layla loved drawing the people that she met around town, in the community. This, then, gave her grandmother an idea. Travel on this journey with Layla as she discover new and exciting adventures.
In one of the most beautiful cities on Earth, following your dreams could become a nightmare.Therese Hughes-Baldwin arrives in Boca Raton with hopes of joining the most prestigious dance company in South Florida. But instead of finding ballet success, she suffers an embarrassing heartbreak and takes a boring barista job. She also inadvertently gains the attention of the woman who stalks her on every train ride she takes.So when Therese's favorite caf customer, Dr. Dara Clemens, offers an escape to her beachside mansion, Therese can hardly say "yes" quickly enough. With her suitcase in hand and best friend Phoebe by her side, she heads to the Clemens' oceanfront getaway. The home is gorgeous. The beach is, too. So is the stranger Therese gives her number to at the bar.But there are voices in the vents. And there are people who stare. And Therese faces a sinking feeling that something is hauntingly off about Phoebe's behavior. As Therese questions the motivations of those around her, she opens the door to a reality she never thought she'd find.
Joyce Jenje Makwenda started researching on the History of Women Politicians of Zimbabwe in the early 1990's and has been writing articles in the newspapers, magazines and journals. Joyce has interviewed around 65 women and her research goes as far back as the pre-colonial era to today.
"Demystifying Taboos and Sex.. The Mother of All is Humanity is a daring, entertaining, thought-provoking, mind-awakening, eye-opening, instructional, motivational compilation of articles written by the award-winning producer, journalist, artist, ethnomusicologist, scholar, archivist, historian, researcher, lecturer, Joyce Jenje-Makwenda, who has spent over 3 decades of her career documenting subjects as diverse as urban culture, music, politics, education, religion, media, fashion, sex, sexuality, cultural and taboo issues, and women's histories and empowerment elements she deftly weaves into this book The forty-eight stories, originally published from 2009-2011 and in 2015 -2016 demystify the world of sex, sexuality, and relationships from a contemporary perspective but also with strong bent on exploring African traditional mores, practises, rites of passage, beliefs, and teachings With multilingual sharp wit and creative prowess, Jenje provides 'real-life anecdotes' using fun and colourful euphemisms for describing aspects of this all-important leisure time activity where experimentation, exploration, adventure, and age-old techniques sensitively merge with the emotional, romantic, physical, and sometimes conflicting universal aspects love. While here - the mother of all humanity is an 'ancestor' - to embrace, enjoy, and celebrate, each story raises critical social, practical, cultural, moral, educational, and traditional issues in a way that one should definitely not miss." Nomsa Mwamuka"This is an amazing book Full of humour but discussing serious issues. It's a must-have book. Joyce Jenie Makwenda has addressed a lot of problems that break relationships and marriages and how to remedy the situation. Put out in a very interesting artistic way. Lots of interesting topics also about virginity. Yah People go through a lot in silence then it breaks the marriages later on." Louis Mhlanga
Netsai is a hard-working woman, who spends sleepless nights sewing clothes to sell for a living in her four-roomed crammed house. Joyce Jenje-Makwenda takes the reader to a mid-1980s-Zimbabwe, when there was an upsurge of an African middle class, and an exodus to the former, predominantly "Europeans Only" upper-class suburbs. Netsai and her husband, Herbert also have a dream; to buy a house in one of those suburbs and live happily with their children. But, what does money buy them?Joyce Jenje-Makwenda was born in 1958 in Mbare Towmship in Harare.She is a researcher, writer and producer. For the past 30 years or more she has been involved in research in the areas of music, popular culture, media, politics, women's history and gender issues. Joyce has made some notable achievements with her artistic work across the board, winning a number of awards since the early 1990's.
"...What surprises me is the liberty in which he Hussam] writes his poems; creating new images, shoving new vocabularies in the ancient dictionary of poetry...Not only a buffoon bird, but also pain, disappointments, sadness, and futureless horizons. Thank you Hussam for this fearlessness and sensitivity."- Maram Al-Masri, acclaimed Syrian-French poet, author of (A red cherry on a white-tiled floor) Karzaẗ ḥamrāʼ ʿal balāṭ abyad] (2003)
If you were born to blaze trails and impact the world in a major way, Bold & Courageous was designed just for you. It shows you just how powerful you really are when you dig deep within to address all you've been through the good, the bad and the ugly. If you're tired of your past holding you back or you're ready to shift into living your best years yet, it's time for you to be the Bold & Courageous version of yourself. This transformational book will help you build your faith to make water-walking decisions, accomplish the unthinkable, and trust God and yourself like never before. You'll be able to truly see yourself as a Bold & Courageous expert and position yourself to the world as an industry authority regardless of your background.Bold & Courageous helps you shift into owning your brilliance, becoming unapologetic about your uniqueness, and becoming an unstoppable force for the Kingdom of God. It's specifically made for visionary men and women who want to heal from within so they can make life-changing decisions confidently as leaders and experts in society. Bold & Courageous will help you go from being crippled by fear to flourishing in God's version of your Promised Land for your life. Your next level is on the other side of reading this book.
In a world of frock coats, solar sails, and rigid class boundaries, Lucy joins the Martian Imperial Navy as a midshipman. Mars and Earth are at war, and Lucy hopes for quick promotion. But when she arrives aboard ship, she finds her childhood ex-friend, Moira, already there. Class differences got in the way of their budding romance five years ago, and both of them are nursing grudges.Those same class differences are threatening the ship, as the enlisted spacers threaten a mutiny and Lucy is forced to support the abusive officers. When Moira becomes a pirate, taking Lucy captive, the tables are turned. Lucy now has to rely on her enemy for her life.Her oath as an officer forbids her from helping the pirates, but it's becoming obvious that the Martian Empire doesn't deserve her loyalty. If she throws in her lot with the pirates, her family is doomed to poverty, but it could give her a chance to reconcile with Moira and claim the love she rejected so long ago.
