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[close] THE GARDEN - A Love Story for the Soul. Winner of the Premier's Book Awards. 2013 Signed Edition.

This book will touch the very essence of who you are, an essence which is the oneness of all life. The Garden is a journey to the eternal presence of life itself.

Inspired by the Upanishads ancient poems that teach pure awareness, this unique book speaks directly to the heart and portrays a beautiful perception of a perfect world. It is a love story that transcends time and space and the illusion of separation. An allegorical novel told in simple lyrical style and brilliantly illustrated.

This gentle tale weaves together a world of unity where opposites play together in a deep absorption of what is real and what is illusion. A tapestry of deeper meanings, there to be discovered by an open heart, conveying a profound message for all seekers, waking us up to who we really are.

Told in four parts: The First Awakening, The Sleeping, The Dreaming and The Reawakening, The Garden mirrors the Upanishads Three States and One Reality: Waking to an outside world, Dreaming in the mind, Dissolving in deep sleep and Awakening to pure awareness.

The condensed narrative, multi-layers and deeper meanings in this love story are so designed that each reader needs to think about the words over and over again, through a sustained process of inner reflection and self inquiry. Each reader will discover many different levels and meanings, and this will lead to their own independent "awakening" in The Garden.

Through direct pointing at pure awareness, The Garden opens the heart, allowing the reader to experience oneness or nonduality: a self-realisation where feelings, thoughts and perceptions are seen as the ever-changing appearances of awareness itself.

Think of Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet meets Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha and you will be walking in The Garden.

Enlightenment is simply the art of being. The art of pure awareness. The art of love. There is only openness, where everything and nothing are one. The cup and the water, though not together, they are one. And in this openness, we are open to all life. The boundless all. The clear state of being awake. The invisible source of being. Inside you and me, there is peace and refuge. The nameless. The perfected. It is our home.

So journey into life, journey into the fullness and perfect presence of oneness and see the wonderful miracle that you already are.

"It is the beautiful illustrations of sacred geometry woven into Celtic patterns and nature's gifts that makes this little book really special. The reader is taken through a love story of the soul and I could not help but think of that other great poem of love by Khalil Gibran, The Garden of The Prophet, as I read through these pages. This is a book to languish over in the quiet of your mind and can be used as an excellent tool for inspiration, illumination and opening of the heart." -- Elizabeth Peru, Insight Publishing [close]

[close] Human lie detector Charmaine Digby is having a bad year. After eating her way through a divorce, she's out of work and up to her eyeballs in debt. In need of a life makeover Char comes home to the senior citizen haven of Port Merritt, Washington, and is ecstatic when she parlays her eye for lies into a job as the County Coroner's new assistant. But her joy is short-lived when a hunky doctor at the hospital reports the suspicious death of Trudy, Port Merritt's beloved Story Lady. Even more stunning, Trudy isn't the only recent patient whose heart mysteriously stopped.

Is it mad to think that dear old Trudy could be the latest victim of a serial killer?

With no physical evidence of foul play, Char's on the case, much to the irritation of Detective Steve Sixkiller, who doesn't want her to stick her pretty nose for trouble in his investigation. But she's a woman on a mission to uncover the truth, and she'd better keep her eyes open or the next body on the way to the morgue could be hers....

Praise for Trudy, Madly, Deeply:
"Trudy, Madly, Deeply is hysterical and riveting! Wendy Delaney had me at Page 1." ~ NYT bestseller Vicki Lewis Thompson

"Full of twists, turns, and laughs! Trudy, Madly, Deeply is a great mix of mystery and romance peppered with plenty of wonderful small town charm. I can't wait for the next one in this series!" ~ Ann Charles, award-winning author of the Deadwood Mystery Series
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When four teens discover their little town is being invaded by creatures from another world, they reluctantly set out to battle the extraterrestrials. However, the enemy has special powers one of which is melting metal. So, with conventional war fare virtually off the table, our unlikely heroes turn to a more primitive selection of weapons: crossbows, baseball bats, and other non metallic devices. But can their primitive arsenal be effective against high-tech laser pistols and rifles? The teens have learned a secret about the aliens that just might tip the odds in their favor. [close]