ENCHANTED VERSES That Breathe fire into thoughts Forge thoughts into words Sculpt words into verses To bring alive fantasies Through             Love, Life & Poetry               &nb...

The acclaimed, bestselling first-person account of a teen girl’s harrowing descent into drug addiction—a cautionary tale as heart-wrenching, shocking, and timely as ever.January 24thAfter you’ve had it, there isn’t even life without drugs…It started when she was served a drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the ...

No love is more consuming and passionate than that one has for God. And nothing is more beautiful than that love when it is expressed as poetry.In The Soul in Love, Deepak Chopra presents us with five great writers whose lives span seven centuries: Rumi, the sublime Persian poet who sang out his verses in ecstatic longing for God. Mirabai, an Indian princess who walked away from her life of privilege to be closer to her Dark Lord. Kabir, born to a lowly family of w...

In this companion to his first book, An Unchanged Mind, John A. McKinnon provides invaluable advice to all parents of teenagers and young adults. Using case studies gathered from his years helping parents with troubled adolescents, Dr. McKinnon explores the ways that adolescent development can be derailed in today's complex culture and how parents can prevent this from happening in the first place. Dr. McKinnon writes about how parents need to recognize their children as individuals, with the...

Anglo-Saxon poetry was produced between 700 and 1000 AD for an audience that delighted in technical accomplishment, and the durable works of Old English verse spring from the source of the English language.Michael Alexander has translated the best of the Old English poetry into modern English and into a verse form that retains the qualities of Anglo-Saxon metre and alliteration. Included in this selection are the ‘heroic poems’ such as Widsith, Deor, Brunanburh and Mal...

What do you do when your son announces he is transgender and asks that you call her by a new name? Or what if your child uses a term you’ve never heard of to describe themselves (neutrois, agender, non-binary, genderqueer, androgyne…) and when you didn’t know what they meant, they left the room and now won’t speak to you about it? Perhaps your daughter recently asked you not to use gendered pronouns when referring to ‘her’ anymore, preferring that you use “they”; you’re left wondering if t...

A son tries understanding his mother by examining pictures from her childhood.

Intelligence is born out of the willingness to question what we are told - whatever it may be! Each chapter in this book asks us to do just that - question accepted ideas and popular opinions - and, through questioning them, develop the ability to overcome the prejudices that stand between us and greater intelligence.Warning: Contains material some may find offensive.

This anthology of poems written during the First World War brings together 26 poems from the period by 23 different poets, both the well known and those sometimes forgotten. The collection includes poetry from soldiers on the front lines and from those who remained at home.  The poems have been put together according to the years in which they were written in the hope that it would help to provide a window on the events and feelings of society as the war progressed. So...

Bradley V. DeHaven's first book, Defining Moments, A Suburban Father's Journey Into His Son's Oxy Addiction, is the story about how addiction defined him throughout his life and made him the person he is today. The second book, The Addict Among Us, contains the stories of some of the over 400 people afflicted by addiction. It distills some of the most potent lessons and provides information about preventing, detecting, treating, and living with drug abuse, in particular, prescription opioi...

ANNA WAS GIVEN CERTAIN ABILITIES AS A CHILD, NOW IT WAS TIME TO FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO PASS THE "GIFT" ON TO. CHRIS WAS ONLY TWELVE, BUT GROWING UP FAST AND THE OLD LADY GETTING OUT OF THE CAB WAS TO BE HIS NEW NEIGHBOR. SHE LOOKED OVER AT HIM PEEKING THROUGH THE CURTAINS AND SMILED. CHRIS SUDDENLY HAD A COMPULSION TO GO OUTSIDE AND HELP HER WITH THE LUGGAGE. "WHAT'S WITH THAT?" HE THOUGHT... 

The subject of "human free-will" versus "divine predestination" is one of the most contentious topics in classical Islamic thought. By focusing on a theme of central importance to any philosophy of religion, and to Islam in particular, this book offers a critical study of the intellectual contributions offered to this discourse by three key medieval Islamic thinkers: Avicenna, al-Ghāzālī and Ibn ʿArabī.Through investigation of primary sources, Free Will and Predestination in Is...