Author: Kaitlin B. Curtice
Publisher: Convergent Books
ISBN: 0593577817
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
A vibrantly illustrated children’s book about an Indigenous girl who finds awe in the resting and waiting that winter teaches us and shares with her friends how Creator’s gift of gratitude can transform the way we see the world. Your thankfulness is your gift to Earth. Winter’s Gifts is the tale of a young Potawatomi girl named Dani whose family celebrates the darkest season of the year by treasuring the slowness that winter brings. Dani’s schoolmates think it’s silly to think that Earth gives us presents, but on a magical snowy day, her family and Creator give Dani the courage to teach her friends about the gifts of winter—resting, remembrance, and gratitude. Can Dani help them receive winter’s gifts? Winter’s Gifts is a joyful and tender family story of honoring creation, the power of storytelling, and how a new perspective can transform us.
Winter's Gift
Author:
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1627531440
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
It may be Christmastime but on a small, forlorn farm the holiday season is best forgotten, along with painful memories of loved ones lost. Mother Nature has other plans, however, and a chance snowstorm brings together two unlikely hearts, one human and one beast, yet both yearning for comfort, companionship, and that most elusive gift of all, hope. This lustrous jewel of a story, quietly told and perfectly complemented by soft, evocative paintings, reminds even the most cynical of readers that the heart indeed can recover and go on.Jane Monroe Donovan's parents encouraged her to follow her heart and it led to her love of sketching and painting. Her affection for animals is reflected in much of her subject matter. Jane makes her home in Pinckney, Michigan, with her husband Bruce and their two sons, Ryan and Joey. Other members of their family include their two dogs, Belle and Grizzly, a Siamese cat named Maylee, and their two horses, Ameera and Cherokee Rose. In addition to Winter's Gift, Jane has also illustrated three other titles for Sleeping Bear Press: My Teacher Likes to Say; My Momma Likes to Say; and Sunny Numbers: A Florida Counting Book.
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1627531440
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
It may be Christmastime but on a small, forlorn farm the holiday season is best forgotten, along with painful memories of loved ones lost. Mother Nature has other plans, however, and a chance snowstorm brings together two unlikely hearts, one human and one beast, yet both yearning for comfort, companionship, and that most elusive gift of all, hope. This lustrous jewel of a story, quietly told and perfectly complemented by soft, evocative paintings, reminds even the most cynical of readers that the heart indeed can recover and go on.Jane Monroe Donovan's parents encouraged her to follow her heart and it led to her love of sketching and painting. Her affection for animals is reflected in much of her subject matter. Jane makes her home in Pinckney, Michigan, with her husband Bruce and their two sons, Ryan and Joey. Other members of their family include their two dogs, Belle and Grizzly, a Siamese cat named Maylee, and their two horses, Ameera and Cherokee Rose. In addition to Winter's Gift, Jane has also illustrated three other titles for Sleeping Bear Press: My Teacher Likes to Say; My Momma Likes to Say; and Sunny Numbers: A Florida Counting Book.
Winter's Gifts
Author: Kaitlin B. Curtice
Publisher: Convergent Books
ISBN: 0593577817
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
A vibrantly illustrated children’s book about an Indigenous girl who finds awe in the resting and waiting that winter teaches us and shares with her friends how Creator’s gift of gratitude can transform the way we see the world. Your thankfulness is your gift to Earth. Winter’s Gifts is the tale of a young Potawatomi girl named Dani whose family celebrates the darkest season of the year by treasuring the slowness that winter brings. Dani’s schoolmates think it’s silly to think that Earth gives us presents, but on a magical snowy day, her family and Creator give Dani the courage to teach her friends about the gifts of winter—resting, remembrance, and gratitude. Can Dani help them receive winter’s gifts? Winter’s Gifts is a joyful and tender family story of honoring creation, the power of storytelling, and how a new perspective can transform us.
Publisher: Convergent Books
ISBN: 0593577817
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
A vibrantly illustrated children’s book about an Indigenous girl who finds awe in the resting and waiting that winter teaches us and shares with her friends how Creator’s gift of gratitude can transform the way we see the world. Your thankfulness is your gift to Earth. Winter’s Gifts is the tale of a young Potawatomi girl named Dani whose family celebrates the darkest season of the year by treasuring the slowness that winter brings. Dani’s schoolmates think it’s silly to think that Earth gives us presents, but on a magical snowy day, her family and Creator give Dani the courage to teach her friends about the gifts of winter—resting, remembrance, and gratitude. Can Dani help them receive winter’s gifts? Winter’s Gifts is a joyful and tender family story of honoring creation, the power of storytelling, and how a new perspective can transform us.
Winter's Graces
Author: Susan Avery Stewart
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1631523805
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Filled with unexpected good news about growing older, Winter’s Graces highlights eleven qualities that ripen with age—including audacious authenticity, creative ingenuity, necessary fierceness, self-transcending generosity, and a growing capacity to savor life and to ride its ups and downs with humor and grace. Decades of research have established that the catastrophic conditions often associated with late life, such as severe dementia and debilitating frailty, are the exception, not the rule. Still, the mistaken idea that aging equals devastating decline persists, causing enormous and unnecessary suffering, especially for women. Drawing on decades of experience as a psychology professor and psychotherapist, Susan Stewart, PhD, weaves together inspiring folk stories that illustrate the graces of winter and recent research that validates them, along with a wealth of user-friendly tools and practices for amplifying these graces and bringing them to life. Written primarily for women over 50 seeking good news about growing older, Winter’s Graces offers adults of all ages a compelling vision of aging that celebrates its many gifts, acknowledges its challenges, and reveals how the last season of life can be the most fulfilling of all.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1631523805
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Filled with unexpected good news about growing older, Winter’s Graces highlights eleven qualities that ripen with age—including audacious authenticity, creative ingenuity, necessary fierceness, self-transcending generosity, and a growing capacity to savor life and to ride its ups and downs with humor and grace. Decades of research have established that the catastrophic conditions often associated with late life, such as severe dementia and debilitating frailty, are the exception, not the rule. Still, the mistaken idea that aging equals devastating decline persists, causing enormous and unnecessary suffering, especially for women. Drawing on decades of experience as a psychology professor and psychotherapist, Susan Stewart, PhD, weaves together inspiring folk stories that illustrate the graces of winter and recent research that validates them, along with a wealth of user-friendly tools and practices for amplifying these graces and bringing them to life. Written primarily for women over 50 seeking good news about growing older, Winter’s Graces offers adults of all ages a compelling vision of aging that celebrates its many gifts, acknowledges its challenges, and reveals how the last season of life can be the most fulfilling of all.
Rewilding
Author: Micah Mortali
Publisher: Sounds True
ISBN: 1683644220
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Reconnect with your wild essence as you awaken your innate bond with the natural world “Rewilding is a return to our essential nature. It is an attempt to reclaim something of what we were before we used words like ‘civilized’ to define ourselves.” —Micah Mortali In his long-awaited book Rewilding, Kripalu director Micah Mortali brings together yoga, mindfulness, wilderness training, and ancestral skills to create a unique guide for reigniting your primal energy—your undomesticated true self—and deepening your connection with the living earth. For hundreds of thousands of years, humans lived intimately with the earth. We were in the wild and of the wild. Today, we live mostly urban lives—and our vital wildness has gone dormant. As a result, we’re more isolated, unhealthy, anxious, and depressed than ever, and our planet has suffered alongside us. With Rewilding, Mortali invites us to shed the effects of over-civilization and explore an inner wisdom that is primal, ancient, and profound. Whether you live in the middle of a city or alongside the woods, the insights and practices on these pages will bring you home to your wild, wise, and alive self. Highlights include: Practice-rich content—mindfulness exercises, guided meditations, yoga and pranayama, inward sensing, forest bathing, and much moreThe “life-force deficit”—explore how our separation from nature affects us physiologically and spirituallyAncestral skills—such as tracking, foraging, building fires, and finding shelterDevelop a sense of calm, clarity, connection, and confidence in both your daily life and the great outdoorsWhat you can learn from nature’s teachers—lessons from mountains, rivers, trees, and our animal kinRewild in the wild—guidelines around safety, preparedness, appropriate gear, and packing listsA mindful rewilding flow—put everything together in an immersive, step-by-step rewilding experienceAwaken your authentic spiritual connection with the natural world as you come home to your true selfUnderstand the relationship between our health and the health of our planet—and how we can begin to heal both Part celebration of the natural world, part spiritual memoir, and part how-to guide, Rewilding is a must-read for anyone who wants to embrace their wild nature and essential place in the living earth.
Publisher: Sounds True
ISBN: 1683644220
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Reconnect with your wild essence as you awaken your innate bond with the natural world “Rewilding is a return to our essential nature. It is an attempt to reclaim something of what we were before we used words like ‘civilized’ to define ourselves.” —Micah Mortali In his long-awaited book Rewilding, Kripalu director Micah Mortali brings together yoga, mindfulness, wilderness training, and ancestral skills to create a unique guide for reigniting your primal energy—your undomesticated true self—and deepening your connection with the living earth. For hundreds of thousands of years, humans lived intimately with the earth. We were in the wild and of the wild. Today, we live mostly urban lives—and our vital wildness has gone dormant. As a result, we’re more isolated, unhealthy, anxious, and depressed than ever, and our planet has suffered alongside us. With Rewilding, Mortali invites us to shed the effects of over-civilization and explore an inner wisdom that is primal, ancient, and profound. Whether you live in the middle of a city or alongside the woods, the insights and practices on these pages will bring you home to your wild, wise, and alive self. Highlights include: Practice-rich content—mindfulness exercises, guided meditations, yoga and pranayama, inward sensing, forest bathing, and much moreThe “life-force deficit”—explore how our separation from nature affects us physiologically and spirituallyAncestral skills—such as tracking, foraging, building fires, and finding shelterDevelop a sense of calm, clarity, connection, and confidence in both your daily life and the great outdoorsWhat you can learn from nature’s teachers—lessons from mountains, rivers, trees, and our animal kinRewild in the wild—guidelines around safety, preparedness, appropriate gear, and packing listsA mindful rewilding flow—put everything together in an immersive, step-by-step rewilding experienceAwaken your authentic spiritual connection with the natural world as you come home to your true selfUnderstand the relationship between our health and the health of our planet—and how we can begin to heal both Part celebration of the natural world, part spiritual memoir, and part how-to guide, Rewilding is a must-read for anyone who wants to embrace their wild nature and essential place in the living earth.
The Fires of Vengeance
Author: Evan Winter
Publisher: Orbit
ISBN: 0316489816
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
In this "relentlessly gripping, brilliant" epic fantasy (James Islington), an ousted queen must join forces with a young warrior in order to reclaim her throne and save her people. Tau and his Queen, desperate to delay the impending attack on the capital by the indigenous people of Xidda, craft a dangerous plan. If Tau succeeds, the Queen will have the time she needs to assemble her forces and launch an all out assault on her own capital city, where her sister is being propped up as the 'true' Queen of the Omehi. If the city can be taken, if Tsiora can reclaim her throne, and if she can reunite her people then the Omehi have a chance to survive the onslaught. "This gritty series set in a South African–inspired fantasy world is an intense reading experience, and the second book is just as phenomenal as the first."—BuzzFeed News "The Fires of Vengeance is epic fantasy at its finest."—Winter Is Coming The Books of The Burning Series The Rage of Dragons The Fires of Vengeance The Lord of Demons
Publisher: Orbit
ISBN: 0316489816
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
In this "relentlessly gripping, brilliant" epic fantasy (James Islington), an ousted queen must join forces with a young warrior in order to reclaim her throne and save her people. Tau and his Queen, desperate to delay the impending attack on the capital by the indigenous people of Xidda, craft a dangerous plan. If Tau succeeds, the Queen will have the time she needs to assemble her forces and launch an all out assault on her own capital city, where her sister is being propped up as the 'true' Queen of the Omehi. If the city can be taken, if Tsiora can reclaim her throne, and if she can reunite her people then the Omehi have a chance to survive the onslaught. "This gritty series set in a South African–inspired fantasy world is an intense reading experience, and the second book is just as phenomenal as the first."—BuzzFeed News "The Fires of Vengeance is epic fantasy at its finest."—Winter Is Coming The Books of The Burning Series The Rage of Dragons The Fires of Vengeance The Lord of Demons
Gifts
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0152051236
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A darkly compelling fantasy about a world in which each person has a magical, dangerous gift.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0152051236
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A darkly compelling fantasy about a world in which each person has a magical, dangerous gift.
Winter
Author: Ruth Burgess
Publisher: Wild Goose Publications
ISBN: 1849525110
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
A liturgical resource book that covers the months of November, December and January. It includes prayers, stories, responses, songs, poems, reflections, liturgies and meditations for the major Christian festivals of All Saints', Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, as well as for Remembrance, Blue Christmas, Christingle, New Year, Christian Unity and other occasions. The material is written by Iona Community members, associates, friends and others.
Publisher: Wild Goose Publications
ISBN: 1849525110
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
A liturgical resource book that covers the months of November, December and January. It includes prayers, stories, responses, songs, poems, reflections, liturgies and meditations for the major Christian festivals of All Saints', Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, as well as for Remembrance, Blue Christmas, Christingle, New Year, Christian Unity and other occasions. The material is written by Iona Community members, associates, friends and others.
Winter's Burn
Author: Elena Aitken
Publisher: Elena Aitken
ISBN: 1927968119
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A single mom, rock star, opposites attract, small-town romance from USA Today Best Selling Author, Elena Aitken. She’s a single mom. He’s a rock star. The only thing they have in common—is each other. Will it be enough? Single mom, Beth Martin is doing her best to raise her daughter Jules on her own after moving back to the her home town. She's been welcomed back by old friends and a great new job. Things are going well, but she can't help but feel like something—or someone—is missing. When sexy rock star, Slade Black comes to town, he just might be what Beth is looking for. But the exciting rock star lifestyle isn't really suited for small town life—and definitely not for single moms. Slade isn't one to give up on what he wants, and Beth is exactly what he wants. And if he isn't mistaken, he's exactly what she wants, too. But when Beth sets aside her responsibilities and takes a chance on him and their budding relationship, the consequences might be more than either of them can handle.
Publisher: Elena Aitken
ISBN: 1927968119
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A single mom, rock star, opposites attract, small-town romance from USA Today Best Selling Author, Elena Aitken. She’s a single mom. He’s a rock star. The only thing they have in common—is each other. Will it be enough? Single mom, Beth Martin is doing her best to raise her daughter Jules on her own after moving back to the her home town. She's been welcomed back by old friends and a great new job. Things are going well, but she can't help but feel like something—or someone—is missing. When sexy rock star, Slade Black comes to town, he just might be what Beth is looking for. But the exciting rock star lifestyle isn't really suited for small town life—and definitely not for single moms. Slade isn't one to give up on what he wants, and Beth is exactly what he wants. And if he isn't mistaken, he's exactly what she wants, too. But when Beth sets aside her responsibilities and takes a chance on him and their budding relationship, the consequences might be more than either of them can handle.
A Bushel's Worth
Author: Kayann Short
Publisher: Torrey House Press
ISBN: 1937226204
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD WINNER "A heartfelt meditation on farm, food, and family…a love story of the land and a life spent caring for it." —HANNAH NORDHAUS, author of The Beekeeper's Lament In this love story of land and family, Kayann Short explores her farm roots from her grandparents' North Dakota homesteads to her own Stonebridge Farm, an organic, community–supported farm on the Colorado Front Range where small–scale, local agriculture borrows lessons of the past to cultivate sustainable communities for the future.
Publisher: Torrey House Press
ISBN: 1937226204
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD WINNER "A heartfelt meditation on farm, food, and family…a love story of the land and a life spent caring for it." —HANNAH NORDHAUS, author of The Beekeeper's Lament In this love story of land and family, Kayann Short explores her farm roots from her grandparents' North Dakota homesteads to her own Stonebridge Farm, an organic, community–supported farm on the Colorado Front Range where small–scale, local agriculture borrows lessons of the past to cultivate sustainable communities for the future.
On the Wings of Winter
Author: Subimal Sinha–Roy
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1642493457
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
On the Wings of Winter is a collection of poems in different poetry forms, capturing the mood, the emotions and the ecstasy of the mind in turbulent times, trying to fly in the winter twilight hours of life to the inner depths introspection. You will feel the pains of the broken heart in “If You Grind My Heart” and find the mind sunk in the ocean of tears in “You Sink in My Tears”. In the cacophony of life, you would enjoy the music of silence in “Songs of Silence” and merge with the rhythms of stillness in “On a Tranquil Lake”. “Tapestry of Happiness” and “Searching You” will take you to the memory trove where you will see the facets of love and happiness, and in “I Will Come Back” you will know why hope does not die. Whenever you can call the time yours, you would like to open this book, and the poems will take you on a flight on the wings of your winter to the spring of joy and happiness. You will enjoy the rhythms and the imageries of the sonnets and the rhymes, feel the flow and the depth of the free verses and the haikus. The limericks will make you laugh.
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1642493457
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
On the Wings of Winter is a collection of poems in different poetry forms, capturing the mood, the emotions and the ecstasy of the mind in turbulent times, trying to fly in the winter twilight hours of life to the inner depths introspection. You will feel the pains of the broken heart in “If You Grind My Heart” and find the mind sunk in the ocean of tears in “You Sink in My Tears”. In the cacophony of life, you would enjoy the music of silence in “Songs of Silence” and merge with the rhythms of stillness in “On a Tranquil Lake”. “Tapestry of Happiness” and “Searching You” will take you to the memory trove where you will see the facets of love and happiness, and in “I Will Come Back” you will know why hope does not die. Whenever you can call the time yours, you would like to open this book, and the poems will take you on a flight on the wings of your winter to the spring of joy and happiness. You will enjoy the rhythms and the imageries of the sonnets and the rhymes, feel the flow and the depth of the free verses and the haikus. The limericks will make you laugh.