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Leila Aboulela's American debut is a provocative, timely, and engaging novel about a young Muslim woman -- once privileged and secular in her native land and now impoverished in London -- gradually embracing her orthodox faith. With her Muslim hijab and down-turned gaze, Najwa is invisible to most eyes, especially to the rich families whose houses she cleans in London. Twenty years ago, Najwa, then at university in Khartoum, would never have imagined that one day she would be a maid. An upper-class Westernized Sudanese, her dreams were to marry well and raise a family. But a coup forces the young woman and her family into political exile in London. Soon orphaned, she finds solace and companionship within the Muslim community. Then Najwa meets Tamer, the intense, lonely younger brother of her employer. They find a common bond in faith and slowly, silently, begin to fall in love. Written with directness and force, Minaret is a lyric and insightful novel about Islam and an alluring glimpse into a culture Westerners are only just beginning to understand.
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The Pain of Reality.......2007-10-04
MINARET shows the stark reality of life after a family's precipitous tumble from the heights of privilege and wealth. Najwa, the daughter, descends to a life of servitude after a coup in Khartoum sends her, her mother and brother into exile in England. Her father, a much less fortunate Sudanese government official, is hanged in disgrace. Leila Aboulela could have neatly pulled each family member through the trauma of their political exile into a series of immigrant success stories. Instead she prefers to move her characters in more realistic ways. Like all the members of her family, Najwa must experience and deal with the slights and heartbreaks that such a fall triggers. She seems to operate with an inner strength that keeps her focused on the often menial tasks at hand, thereby preserving her fortitude. Eventually her ties with women at the mosque help keep her grounded. "What I was hearing (in the mosque), I would never hear on TV or read in a magazine. It found an echo in me; I understood it." Najwa is not drifting to fanaticism, but she will need even more support as her life may well continue its downward slide. She finds the group of women a substitute for the family she loses. She longs for the comfort of kinship, not of material things. Aboulela gives us much to think about in our own views and sometimes hasty appraisals of immigrants floundering in new and complex situations.
Excellent.......2006-11-07
really enjoyed reading this book. It is written in a calm and soothing manner. The feelings and the method in which the characters are shown is excellent. The book has all the write ingedients. The manner in which religion was adapted by Najwa with so calm and smooth and imformative.
The emotions and feelings of Najwa were shown in a very good way. This story shows how a life of priveleges can change so dramitically. Najwa is put through a test of her faith and she comes out with flying colours. She goes through four loses in one go and it all turns her life apart (loosing her fathers wealth and a life of privelege, loosing her father, mother and then the imprisonment of her brother); but she finds the right path. Going through so much at a young age can either destroy you and lead to the wrong way (like her brother had)or you can find your faith and the right path. Najwa chose the right path for her and transformed her life in the best way. She found solace in her dreams of her parents and the good life, her faith for Islam, her friends at the islamic circle and her love for Tamer. Even that was not meant to be and she comes out of that relationship for other peoples benifit-as her faith in god always supported her and lead her the right way.
A great book and each chapter is linked greatly to one another.
Baby Boomer Muslims.......2006-09-29
I am an american woman in my 50's, not a Muslim but taking a college course in Islam fundamentals. This book helped me take the dry material from class and feel what it might be like to have grown up in this system and these beliefs. Even though I am American and not a Muslim, I am middle-class and so is this heroine. Her evolution from giggly teenager becoming aware of her sexual power to responsible womanhood is a universal story of middle-class women coming of age in the late 20th century. And the role Islam plays in her life gave me new understanding and respect for the potential of Islam to help people become more truly human.
One Woman's Story.......2006-08-04
Don't read this book if you're looking to understand so-called "fundamentalist" Islam, or women in Islam, or why people convert, or why a woman would wear a scarf on her head. This is not a book about "the Muslims." It is not about theology or Islamic law. Beyond that, no single author or book -- or worse, fictional character -- can speak for all Muslims at all times. This book doesn't even speak for all converts or returnees, all Muslim women, or all Sudanese Muslim women. It isn't fair to the author, Leila Aboulela, to the character, or to Muslims in general for non-Muslim readers to expect that this book will answer their questions about Islam and Muslims.
This is a book about one woman -- Najwa -- dealing with loss: the loss of her family, her home, her status, her country, and her sense of self. The only time "Islam" comes into play here is that it is with her faith that Najwa finds some answers for herself. While as a Muslim I certainly believe that it is Islam that can provide these answers, the book is not written to bash you over the head. Any Christian, Jew, Buddhist, etc. who has found their own sense of peace through their faith will relate to Najwa. Don't feel sorry for Najwa (or any other Muslim) because of her clothes or choice to pray. Feel sorry for Najwa because she has lost what people of any religion hold dear: home and family. And cheer for Najwa when she matures and grows past it.
As a practicing Muslim, I felt this book was a relief. It was a relief to be able to read a book about real life experiences by a Muslim who didn't feel the need to delve into foul language, denigration of the religion, or graphic and obscene descriptions of sex in order to convey the story. It is a relief to read a book by a Muslim that isn't moralizing or unrealistic. It is a relief to read a story where Islam is part of the character's redemption -- not something she is running away from. Non-Muslim readers, like some of the reviewers here, may not like or understand that. And despite the fact that Aboulela doesn't lay claim to speak for all Muslims, let alone Muslim women, the fact of the matter is that a practicing Muslim reader is going to recognize some part of him or herself in this book: an everyday person doing everyday things who just happens to be a Muslim.
Faith helps in difficult situations.......2006-05-15
Najwa is the sudanese expatriate heroine of this intimistic feminine novel. We follow her as a teenager in Khartoum to a mature adult woman in London and witness her reappropriation of Muslim faith and practices. Life has been difficult for this girl. Her father killed, her mother died of heartbreak, her brother in jail, she has no one to turn to. Her boyfriend after seducing her decides not to marry her because of her unworthy family. Even though raised in a cultural milieu that makes her feel at home in London, she is estranged from the society she lives in. Se decides not to work in an office and prefers to work as a maid first for her aunt and then for others. She continues to recoil from reality, dreaming of when she was little and loved by her parents. Until, unexpectedly the woman that washes her mother corpse calls her to a new insight towards something that had always been there: her muslim faith.
The contact with women in the Mosque, Coran lessons, the adoption of integralist habits (veil and traditional attire)help her steady up her life and give her a reason to go on and to take a mature and suffered decision when she finally falls in love again with a young practicing moslem.
The novel is permeated with a sense of expiation of guilt, the guilt of the father that was corrupt, the guilt of the brother that sold drugs, the heroine's own guilt for having given herself away to a man that didn't respect her. This guilt can only be forgiven and accepted, not expiated. This is the cardinal point around wich the novel revolves. Naturally I read it as a practicing christian and so maybe I haven't captured the most intimate sense, but I can't help comparing the heroine's passive attitude to an active christian persuasion of "divine providence" that operates through life's drawbacks and problems.
The message emerging from Najwa's reversion to her people's faith is that in difficulties and depression it is better and more soothing to "give-up", to collapse one's self and accept your destiny, and not to stand up and fight. Fight for a better life, more opportunities, a greated respect.
I found this novel a little deluding because of its message, however it is well written, the editing is fantastic, because with four time intervals we get the whole picture. Its essentially a feminine read for the way it is written. I am curious to read Leila Aboulela's previous novel to better understand her mentality.
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Don't Tempt Me (Pearl Island Trilogy 3)
Julie Ortolon
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Adrian St. Claire, the sexy chef at the Pearl Island Bamp;B, is as tempting as the dishes he serves. In fact, he's never had a woman tell him no--until his family needs help searching for a legendary heirloom on the sunken ship in the island's cove. To find the treasure they need the help of a woman whose history is as linked as theirs to the island's romantic past.As the owner of the Pirate's Pleasure, Jackie Taylor is far more interested in running her cruise ship along the Texas coast than in chasing tales of lost booty, and even less interested in tangling with a man who collects female admirers just by walking down the street. On top of that, helping the St. Claires could dredge up secrets she'd like to remain buried.Enticed by Jackie's resistance, Adrian soon has something more than treasure hunts and casual flirtation in mind....and he's not a man who takes no for an answer. But will they each have the courage to risk their hearts for the greatest treasure of all--falling in love?
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FInished.......2007-03-09
I was glad to read the third in the trilogy. I enjoyed it as much as the others. I love the whole family and felt like I knew them. I would have to say that jackie's character was the weakest of any in the trilogy, but still enjoyable. I wish it could continue!
great new author.......2007-02-08
I really enjoyed reading this and all the rest of Julie Ortolon's books.
I am hooked on this author !! She wrote 2 trilogys and like all trilogys the 2nd is never as great as the first or third, can't wait for her to write more !!
Final book of the Pearl Island Series.......2006-01-30
This novel will knock your socks off. I enjoyed this in less than one day. It has a mix of ghosts, treasure hunts, romance and real life. Adrian is the oldest brother, chief and hunk who finds someone who doesn't fall at his feet. Jackie is a the daughter the con-artist who tests Andrian every chance she can get. The romance takes over a year to develope - a nice change. Buy all three and enjoy the treasure hunt.
Sweet conclusion to the Pearl Island trilogy.......2005-08-11
Adrian St. Claire is the chef of a B&B on an island just off the coast of Galveston. After repeated attempts to get pleasure boat captain Jackie Taylor to help them locate a family heirloom, Adrian decides to do it in person.
Jackie reluctantly enters into the partnership, warning him that her participation and difficulty in living down the legend of her treasure-seeking and now deceased (and disgraced) father may cause problems. While the head of the excavation wants no part of her, Adrian and the St. Claire's stand by her.
Adrian has stayed on Pearl Island to take care of his 2 sisters when the three were orphaned at a young age. He has always been a little antsy and wonders what if he would have pursued his dreams outside of Texas.
Soon, Adrian is romancing a hesitant Jackie, and she succumbs to his charms. When the opportunity to follow is dreams comes up, and his association with Jackie is questioned, Adrian has some important decisions to make.
The story is engaging and had great chemistry. It was a great end to the Pearl Island trilogy and will serve as a nice diversion from work for an afternoon or two.
My Favorite St. Claire Book!.......2004-05-04
Of course when you are talking about the three St. Claire books by Julie Ortolon, it's hard to pick just one. I think (personally) I did like "DON'T TEMPT ME" the most, because Adrian St. Claire is one hot man! And the Heroine, Jackie is a perfect match for him.
Ms. Ortolon has woven the perfect romance with some fascinating folklore. I have no idea if Lafitte's treasure is real or not - - but Julie has made it so "real" in her writing that I'm ready to get my diving certification and go a-hunting!
The characters, Adrian and Jackie have some terrific by-play. I absolutely loved Jackie's come-backs to Adrian's teasing. There are parts that will make you laugh out loud!
And lets not forget the romance! Ahh--mazing! This is one sexy book when it comes down to the hero and heroine finally getting "together!" Ms. Ortolon should have issued fans with that brownie recipe! It's Hot!
Get the whole set of three....read them all! You'll love 'em!
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Very Hot!.......2006-06-11
"Don't Tempt Me" is a very sexy book. We all have fantasies and reading about Samantha's and having her get to act out a few, is very hot and sexy.
Not only does she get to satisfy her "cravings" but she also finds love in the end. This is a very good read.
delightful torrid romantic suspense .......2006-05-07
Boudoir photographer Samantha Sawyer enjoys her vocation as she believes her pictures help couples rekindle the passion. She sets her background on her personal fantasies, which has never come true. Still she dreams one day to share quality bed time with someone who loves her.
As her business booms Sam needs an assistant. She hires Rick West who is perfect for the job, but soon she dreams that he is her one. Sam begins setting up for her passionate fantasy with Rick as her partner. However, though Rick reciprocates and wants to star in her sex games, he is undercover using her erotic photography business as a front; he knows once his Sam learns the truth their fantasy will turn into a nightmare.
Dawn Atkins provides a delightful torrid romantic suspense with Rick's undercover work coming later in the story line. Sam and Rick are likeable protagonists in and out of bed. Her occupation adds a fun element as she employs it to herself with the hunk that stirs her insides. Sam's vivid imagination has Rick performing under cover work with her and that makes this a fine tale that readers will enjoy.
Harriet Klausner
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Explicitly illustrated erotic fiction.
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THROUGH BLUE SKIES TO HELL: America's "Bloody 100th" in the Air War over Germany
Edward Sion
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This book provides a comprehensive look at the air war over Europe during the climactic year of World War II, combining firsthand experience with expert analysis. The centerpiece of the work is a mission-by-mission diary of 1st Lieutenant Richard R. Ayesh, bombadier on a B-17 Flying Fortress, who flew with the 100th Bombardment Group, 13th Combat Wing of the 8th Air Force-the legendary "Bloody 100th." He was a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, Croix de Guerre, Air Medal with Four Oak Leaf Clusters, and numerous other medals.
This book follows Ayeth's progress from his youth during the Great Depression in Wichita, Kansas, a city which at the time was rapidly becoming the air capital of the nation, to his arrival in England as a Lieutenant in a bomber crew assigned to assault the Third Reich.
Once in Europe, the author provides a comprehensive look at the principles of American daylight strategic bombing, while relaying to the reader the overall military situation on the ground and in the air over Europe just after D-Day. This work is uniquely self-contained and covers all aspects of the Air War in a clear, concise, yet non-technical manner. Topics include photo-reconnaisance, munitions and bomb types, combatant aircraft characteristics, fighter tactics, bomber tactics, bomber formations, strategic target selection, combatant and defensive radars, counter-measures (and counter-counter measures), logistics, ground crews, and air scouts. The author, interweaving his analysis with the urgent firsthand diary of a participant in the Bloody 100th, describes the air war in full fashion, in the process revealing a number of insights. Throughout 35 combat missions, the unaltered combat diary of Lt. Ayesh is presented mission-by-mission, punctuated by tragedy and unbelievable heroism, with explanations and commentary on the significance of the events and actions described en route. The result is one of the most frank and exciting works on the air war over Europe to date.
There is no varnishing of words in this book, either through the diary or the analysis that accompanies it. Instead, after the gallant Lt. Ayesh is followed on his perilous return home in U-boat infested waters, the book assesses the effectiveness of US strategic daylight bombing in crippling and ultimately paralyzing the Nazi war machine. Finally, the complex moral issues raised by area bombing, city bombing and the controversies surrounding them are explored, all with 21st century implications.
EDWARD M. SION, Ph.D., a native of Kansas, is currently Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Villanova University. He has held visiting positions at Arizona State, the University of Toulouse and the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute. A recipient of numerous grants from the National Science Foundation and NASA, he has authored or co-authored 185 peer-reviewed publications, primarily on the end stages of stellar evolution. He currently resides with his wife and two children in Radnor, PA.
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50 page square bound comic book with color illustrations.
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Continuing the literary work he began with The Art of Happiness, in this book, Tibet's revered spiritual teacher the Dalai Lama discusses the importance of giving and receiving love as the quintessential step to achieving a life of true happiness and fulfillment. In his characteristic direct and simple-to-understand fashion, the Dalai Lama offers guidelines and illustrative examples from his own life that instruct readers on how to move away from self-centered egotistic concerns and habitual tendencies to rigidly judge and categorize others, in order to become more compassionate and accepting of everyone we encounter throughout the day. To assist this process, he also shares exercises and techniques that have been part of Tibetan Buddhist teachings for many centuries.
By committing ourselves to becoming more compassionate and nonjudgmental about others, the Dalai Lama maintains, we are primarily benefiting ourselves, for the end result is one of open-hearted relationships capable of transforming all aspects of our lives and leading us ever closer to a life guided by the principles of wisdom and unshakeable joy. As with all of his writings, How To Expand Love is written in a simple yet elegant style, while imparting profound and powerful teachings that, if committed to, can lead to a realization of our true state of oneness with all of life. This is a very valuable book for today's fractious times. Larry Trivieri Jr. This text refers to the hardcover edition.
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Love and compassion are beneficial both for you and for others.
Through your kindness toward others, your mind and heart will open to peace.
Expanding peace to the larger community around you will bring unity, harmony, and cooperation.
Expanding peace further still to nations and then to the world will bring mutual trust, mutual respect, sincere communication, and finally successful joint efforts to solve the world's problems.
All this is possible once you learn
HOW TO EXPAND LOVE
With this illuminating and instructive handbook, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers sensible, everyday guidelines for transforming self-centered energy into outwardly directed compassion. Drawing on exercises and techniques established in Tibetan monasteries more than a thousand years ago, the Dalai Lama describes a seven-step, self-directed program to help us open our hearts and minds to the experience of unlimited love, transforming every relationship in our lives -- and guiding us ever closer to wisdom and enlightenment.
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"In our quest for true happiness and fulfillment during the course of our lives, nothing is more essential than giving and receiving love. But how well do we understand love's extraordinarily transformative powers? Can we really cultivate and appreciate its priceless gifts? In How to Expand Love, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers a simple yet illuminating program for transforming self-centered energy into outwardly directed compassion. Drawing on exercises and techniques established in Tibetan monasteries more than a thousand years ago, the Dalai Lama guides us through seven key stages. First, we learn ways to move beyond our self-defeating tendency to put others into rigid categories. We discover how to create and maintain a positive attitude toward those around us, in ever-widening circles. By reflecting on the kindnesses that close friends have shown us, particularly in childhood, we learn to reciprocate and help other people achieve their own long-term goals. And in seeking the well-being of others, we foster compassion, the all-encompassing face of love. In this accessible and insightful book, His Holiness the Dalai Lama helps us to open our hearts and minds to the experience of unlimited love, transforming every relationship in our lives and guiding us ever closer to wisdom and enlightenment. "
Customer Reviews:
Expand the Circle of Love.......2007-08-18
A very well written book. The author gives new meaning to Love and compassion. There are meditations to help the reader in the process of developing loving relationships.
Only Love Heals .... .......2006-07-12
Spiritual wisdom of the heart whose root is compassion. The Dalai Lama is so generous in sharing his thought process on why an expansion of love is valuable to everyone. Love heals in a way nothing else can. It is the force that turned around a Jewish zealot who arrested Christians from Saul to Disciple Paul on the road to Damascus, turned a tax collector into a Apostle, and conquered the once pagan Roman Empire into the Holy Sea. Buddhism has grown into popularity in the West as its approach to love concentrates on compassion to such a high extent that there can only be love left in its wake. A brilliant illumination on the nature of love. This book is for Buddhists and non-Buddhists. We are affected by the thoughts we expose ourselves to, in whatever media they appear, do your dharma and karma a universe of good .... and open your heart and head to the Dalai Lama's teachings on expanding love.
Words of Distilled Spiritual Wisdom .......2005-10-31
I am not a Buddhist but this book is definitely one of the finest books when one is searching for spiritual wisdom and life's guiding light. No, it is certainly not a religious book and meditations can be practiced outside of Buddhism.
How to Expand Love by Jeffrey Hopkins (from the teaching of Dalai Lama) truly spells out the map/road to see higher consciousness of human beings. The most amazing thing about this book is that it can be perfectly appropriate for someone who just started opening themselves to learn about love and compassion. It can also be a book for someone who has some foundation of spirituality to learn more. It helps ones who want to further expand their heart to give and to receive love and compassion. The meditations practices described in the book is so easy to follow but it takes commitment. It can be a book you speed read once to get the feel of what it is like. But certainly if one wants to use this book as a primary tool in expanding love and compassion, one need to periodically go back and read certain chapters, using certain chapters as the central meditation practice.
Every time I pick up this book to read a chapter, I can just feel my heart is heated and warm, ready to channel love and compassion to friends, family, strangers and people who I sometimes get annoyed and upset. I am sure after re-reading the texts of this book a couple times, his words would just be another spiritual gateway for others learn about compassion.
It is another book to experience, another book for one to taste and to understand. Don't get frustrated when you cannot become the master of love and compassion after one reading. But make a commitment to ourselves we will activate our higher consciousness and awareness of our doings. We will do the very best we can to master love and compassion for human beings and for the nature.
The Dalai Lama on Love.......2005-09-06
"When I speak about love and compassion, I do so not as a Buddhist, or as a Tibetan, nor as the Dalai Lama. I do so as one human being speaking with another". With these words, the Dalai Lama opens his recent guide to expanding one's circle of loving relationships through the practice of love and compassion. This book is simply and eloquently written, and its teachings are wise. The Dalai Lama points out that human beings are essentially alike when superficial differences are pealed away. In addition, all religions are essentially alike to the extent they teach love, kindness, and peace and "a desire to help their fellow beings." (p.4) The Dalai Lama presents a way of understanding these insights and a means of bringing them into focus in one's life through the practice of lovingkindness. Some of the teachings in this book make use of specifically Buddhist beliefs such as the doctrine of rebirth. But the practices and principles of this book can be used with benefit regardless of whether the reader accepts or doesn't accept rebirth or other specifically Buddhist doctrines.
The Dalai Lama sets forth a process of reflective understanding and meditation in first understanding the nature of love and then learning to practice it. It is an inner-directed teaching in that it looks to the self and to self-understanding rather than to externals -- to things beyond one's control such as wealth or power or to success -- as the key to happiness. Thus, the first part of the Dalai Lama's teaching in this book is directed to an understanding of the basic purity of the human mind. Because the mind is pure, it is possible, for the Dalai Lama, to remove defilements such as hatred, lust, and ignorance. The radiant, empty character of the mind also links all human beings together in terms of establishing a commonality and an ability to love and be loved. It teaches that people ought not to be categorized in that beyond the defilements that plague all of us, we are essentially human with the need to be loved and to be free from suffering. This teaching of the pure, radiant mind ("Buddha nature") possessed by all is the most fundamental and difficult teaching in this book.
The Dalai Lama then presents a series of seven steps to increase one's ability to feel love and compassion for an ever-growing class of people and sentient beings. The process is presented in gradually expanding steps, and the reader can follow the path as it develops. Each step is accompanied by teachings and by suggested meditation practices. these seven steps are 1.creating a positive attitude towards others; 2. recognizing the kindnesses each of us has received; 3. reciprocating the kindness of others; 4. learning to love others (including learning the difference between disinterested love and love based upon attachment, such as physical or sensual desire or upon the receipt of benefits from those close to us); 5. practicing compassion, the desire to have others free from suffering; 6 becoming committed to altruism -- to training one's mind to and working for the welfare of others; and 7. realizing enlightenment in terms of being devoted to the welfare of others.
The teachings in this book are in part guides that everyone can use regardless of his or her religious beliefs, and in part a simple exposition of the bodhisattva path of Mahayana Buddhism. The Dalai Lama makes frequent reference to ancient Indian and Tibetan sources, including the Tibetan "Stages on the Path to Enlightement" (pp 7-8), and the teachings of the great Indian sage, Nagarjuna (pp. 190 -- 197). Each chapter of the book is headed by a short quotation from a Buddhist source that the Dalai Lama amplifies in the teachings that follow.
This book is short and a pleasure to read, but there is no suggestion that the teachings are easy. Work on the mind and on learning to love is a project of years and lives. The Dalai Lama has written an inspiring guide to learning to love.
Robin Friedman
How to Expand Love by the Dalai Lama is a Gift to Humanity .......2005-09-05
If you are interested in learning from a man, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who is the embodiment of inner peace, so that you can feel inner peace in your own life, than "How To Expand Love" will clearly and beautifully bring you answers no matter what path you may be on.
There are so many people in pain, attacking others, when they do not know how to recognize the love and goodness they are within. This book will help you to see and expand all of the good that you are, and then you can make a positive inner shift, where inner peace dwells, so that you feel inner peace in your life. You do not have to have any religious or spiritual leanings to learn from this beautiful book. All you need is a mind and heart that really wants to feel the inner peace you may have been searching for. It's a beautiful book with messages that will only uplift you and your life as this is what you deserve.
Barbara Rose, author of Stop Being the String Along: A Relationship Guide to Being THE ONE
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