His father and uncles are enchanters, his mother a powerful sorceress, yet nothing seems magical about Christopher Chant except his dreams. Night after night, he climbs through the formless Place Between and visits marvelous lands he calls the Almost Anywheres. Then Christopher discovers that he can bring real, solid things back from his dreams. Others begin to recognize the extent of his powers, and they issue an order that turns Christopher's life upside down: Go to Chrestomanci Castle to train to be the controller of all the world's magic.
A caterpillar falls in the water and a tadpole rescues her. When the water starts drying up, the caterpillar rescues the tadpole. Later when they meet as a butterfly and a frog they realize they are old friends.
The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
"Life is difficult." With this first sentence, Dr. M. Scott Peck revolutionized the way we live our lives, and it is no less true today than when it was written twenty years ago. In this guide to confronting and resolving our problems-and suffering through the changes-we learn that we can reach a higher level of self knowledge. Written in a voice that is timeless in its message of love and understanding, The Road Less Traveled can help us learn the very nature of loving relationships: how to recognize true compatibility; how to distinguish dependency from love; how to become one's own person; how to be a more sensitive parent.
This book not only chronicles this author's fascinating, and at times terrifying, personal experiences with haunted houses and ghostly encounters, but it also provides authentic Witches' spells, rituals, charms, herbs, and oils to conjure, banish, and protect against the spirits of the dead. With the aid of this book, you will learn how to properly conduct a séance, how to use a Ouija board to communicate with spirits, know how to recognize and interpret messages from the dead who appear in dreams, see how to investigate a haunting like professional ghost-hunters do, and much more.
The Power of Full Engagement-Tony Schwartz, Jim Loehr
Publishers Weekly: The authors, founders of and executives at LGE Performance Systems, an executive training program based on athletic coaching programs, offer a program aimed at stressed individuals who want to find more purpose in their work and ways to better handle their overburdened relationships. Just as athletes train, play and then recover, people need to recognize their own energy levels. "Balancing stress and recovery is critical not just in competitive sports, but also in managing energy in all facets of our lives. Emotional depth and resilience depend on active engagement with others and with our own feelings." Case studies demonstrate how some modest changes can have an ...
