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About conscious optimism: The balance is off, way off. Compared to the yin of negativity in our surroundings today, the yang of positivity has never in history looked more diminished. We must rebel against it now or forever surrender our purpose of life to this haunting phenomenon. Luckily, there is still hope. It lies in the unprecedented efficacy of conscious optimism to reverse the effects of negativity.

Do you feel ill and emotionally unstable? Do you experience neck pain, headaches, and sore throat? You may have a problem with your chakras, but don't worry. You can heal yourself naturally. A chakra (literally "wheel") is a center of energy. There are seven major centers in your body. The chakras are the spinning wheels in which energy flows through from the universe and gives you power. This book will teach you everything you need to know to start balancing your chakras and healing your body and will guide you on the path to a healthier mind, body and spirit.

The Bane brothers, banished Watchmen of the Empyrean realm, are sentenced to Earth to prove their worth before they can return home. But none of them are feeling the effects of their punishment more than Iain. A half-breed, Iain has two choices if he wants to survive his new home: feed on the essence of shades (the underlings responsible for slaughtering his people) or find his pure. He's almost lost his appetite for both when a human crosses his path. She's smart, powerful, and from their soul shattering first touch - destined to be his.

Abigail and Collin have an eight year old daughter through their arranged marriage. Abigail is being abused by her hot-tempered husband, however, and one day he simply drops dead. The community believes the death was no accident and the Bishop begins to investigate. Abigail is excommunicated pending the outcome but is rescued by the man she has loved all along, who joins her in her new adventure outside the Amish community.

Eden Forever is a slightly satirical science fiction novel that may be considered a cautionary tale if we allow our fresh water resources to dry up. When this happens in my story, only a few decades from now, we desalinate ocean water that makes us vulnerable to a superbug and it spells the end for human life as we know it. Enter biorobotics technology and the discovery of a planet the survivors can move to as biorobots.

As a child, Alice was stolen from her backyard in a tiny Indiana community, but against the odds, her policeman father tracked her down within 24 hours and rescued her from harm. In the aftermath of the crime, her family decided to move to Chicago and close the door on that horrible day. Yet Alice hasn’t forgotten. She devotes her spare time volunteering for a website called The Doe Pages scrolling through pages upon pages of unidentified people, searching for clues that could help reunite families with their missing loved ones.

Shelley Keegan is an ex-Olympic figure skater whose past has haunted her ever since the entire world saw her take a bad fall during a televised skating routine. Her fall cost the USA the gold medal, and she hasn't been able to get back on the ice since then. As she struggles to find her passion again, she arrives in Snowy Pine Ridge looking for some solace and cheer during the Christmas season. Hoping to avoid awkward questions or gossip, she decides not to tell anyone in the quaint little town who she is—but her hope of remaining anonymous gets more complicated.

Melinda expects to spend January lounging by her farmhouse's fireplace, paging through the seed catalogs' promises of spring. After all, the slower pace of rural life was one of the reasons she'd left the city behind. Instead, she must face her fears when the worst of winter's threats arrive at her door. Braving blizzards to care for her animals, thawing her acreage's water lines, and anxiously watching over the pregnant sheep in her barn fill her shorter days and longer nights. She trudges on because Horace's offer stands firm: He'll sell her the farm in the spring if she still wants to stay.

All thirty-four-year-old Mae Van Dorn wants is to live alone, with little connection to the oodles of people who have always let her down. But she soon finds herself living with her estranged brother in a town she’s never been to and working for the founder of the local megachurch, though she’s as misanthropic as they come. The pastor seems to not be quite as Christian as he should be, but the people in his orbit may just teach Mae that the human race isn’t so bad after all.

It is one year after the triplets changed their lives and relocated to Asheville, each starting off in a new direction. Once again, the holidays bring challenges and change, happiness and heartbreak, and the power of unbreakable family bonds. Join these strong, funny, and loving women as the holiday spirit lifts them as high as the Blue Ridge Mountains as they celebrate old traditions and create a few new ones along the way.

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With the Sefer Raziel in hand, Rachel races to escape with it before anyone discovers her. Hidden within the pages of the book are secrets that could destroy armies and reshape worlds—certainly enough to bring Rachel’s pursuers to their knees. Except she can’t read it. As Redeemers close in and escape from the planet’s surface restricted, Rachel has no choice but to trust someone who betrayed her—and hope she isn’t making an even worse mistake.

The awakened angels took no time in reasserting themselves as the dominant species in the universe. As galactic powers vie for control of the angels’ battleship, the angels show them how inferior human technology is. As Rachel Jordan looks on helplessly, furious angels take out their wrath on the sinful human empires that sprang up in their absence. The only ones spared the angel’s judgment? The Redeemers.

The Sefer Raziel led Rachel Jordan astray. Instead of answering all her questions, it posed infinitely more. Now at the helm of an ancient starship more advanced than anything humans can build, she’s at the center of an intergalactic controversy. Her government wants the ship. If Rachel were to hand it over, she’d be acclaimed as a hero.

Despite the best of intentions, Rachel Jordan has unleashed an apocalypse on the holy universe—possibly the apocalypse. As mankind faces the unforgiving judgment of the angels, she turns to every source she can think of for help. Even the unthinkable. The ancient Adversary that once nearly wiped out humanity is the only force ever known to have stood against the angels. By Rachel’s reasoning, that might make them humanity’s only allies worth having.

Emma Gray is a young attorney with beauty she’s unaware of and grit that’s easily overlooked. But all she really wants is the ordinary life she didn’t have as a child. On a rainy night in Boston, she walks into a pub to meet a group of colleagues. Conversations and cocktails flow, but something more sinister is at play. Not everyone will survive the night.

The solar plexus chakra is the third step on a staircase that leads up from the base of your spine toward enlightenment. Bestselling author and chakra expert Cyndi Dale has curated contributions from nine energy medicine practitioners that will teach you everything you need to know about this radiant energy center. The third entry in Llewellyn's Chakra Essentials series, this book features many hands-on practices, including guided meditations, mantras, vibrational remedies, and recipes to heal and activate the solar plexus.

Archangel Michael, spirit guides, past lives and other loving spirits unravel these mysteries as they share messages about life and Heaven. Learn how our thoughts and choices create energy, and the energy we create during our lifetime determines how we spend our eternity in Heaven.

In American Indians and the American Dream, Kasey R. Keeler examines the long history of urbanization and suburbanization of Indian communities in Minnesota.

Fifty-six-year-old Neena Lee is desperate to revive her travel writing career, though panic attacks have disrupted her work, and the new upstart editor has fired everyone else over the age of forty.