Alice Forster regularly talks with her dead sister Meggie in the virtual world of Soul Beach
- an online paradise where dead teenagers
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Soul Food" is a feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind & feed the spirit. Drawn from many traditions ranging from Rumi Kabir & Blake to Rilke Emily Dickinson & Paul Celan this wide-ranging selection

Includes:: enormously varied work by celebrated contemporary poets such as Jane Hirshfield Denise Levertov Thomas Merton & Mary Oliver as well as by many lesser-known writers from all periods & places. The anthology opens with a series of poems on human life & spiritual sustenance starting with Rumi: ' This being human is a guest house./ Each morning a new arrival...'. The poems which follow explore many ways of keeping body & soul together offering food for thought on knowing yourself living with nature who or what is God... All are universal illuminations of the meaning of life speaking to readers of all faiths as well as to searchers & non-believers. " Soul Food" shows how poetry can help feed our hunger for meaning in times of spiritual starvation."

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Other children get given xylophones. Susan just had to ask her grandfather to take his vest off. Yes. Theres a Death in the family. Its hard to grow up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse & wields a scythe
- especially when you have to take over the family business & everyone mistakes you for the Tooth Fairy. & especially when you have to face the new & addictive music that has entered Discworld. Its lawless. It changes people. Its called Music With Rocks In. Its got a beat & you can dance to it but... Its alive. & it wont fade away.
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Be careful what you wish for. You never know who might be listening.' There's no getting away from it. From whichever angle Death is a horrible inescapable business. But someone's got to do it. So if Death decides to take a well-earned moment to uncover the meaning of life & discover himself in the process then there is going to be a void of specific

Dimensions that needs to be occupied particularly so when there is trouble brewing in Discworld. There aren't too many who are qualified to fill Death's footsteps & it certainly doesn't help the imminent cataclysm that the one person poised between the mortal & the immortal is only sixteen years old...

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In this poignant moving book Muhammad Ali shares the beliefs he has come to live by & which he has passed on to his children. Some of the wisdom is his own; some comes from the teachings of true Islam from his spiritual studies & from people he has met in the course of his extraordinary life. Here as he recalls his early days as a young warrior in Louisville Kentucky & his meteoric rise to fame as Heavyweight Champion of the World a title he won three times he tells of the many battles he won & lost both inside & outside the ring & his conversion to Islam in the 1960s. Now working tirelessly as a worldwide ambassador for peace he talks of the damage caused when religion is used to tear people apart the essential need for unity in this troubled world & how his faith sustains him on this the most important journey of his life
- the journey to forgiveness & peace. Together with his daughter Hana in this timely spiritual memoir Ali draws upon his rich reserve of notes tapes & journals & writes with compassion warmth & of course humour on how we can liberate mind body & spirit when we pursue & embrace the one essential truth
- love.

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Here I am!" Flora called to Richard as she went downstairs. For a second Meg felt disloyalty. It occurred to her of a sudden that Flora was always saying that & that it was in the tone of one giving a lovely present. She was bestowing herself. The soul of kindness is what Flora believes herself to be. Tall blonde & beautiful she appears to have everything under control -- her home her baby her husband Richard her friend Meg Kit Megs brother who has always adored Flora & Patrick the novelist & domestic pet. Only the bohemian painter Liz refuses to become a worshipper at the shrine. Flora entrances them all dangling visions of happiness & success before their spellbound eyes. All are bewitched by this golden tyrant all conspire to protect her from what she really is. All that is except the clear-eyed Liz: it is left to her to show them that Floras kindness is the sweetest poison of them all." ...

The Soul of Leadership decodes the mysterious qualities that have propelled historys greatest leaders to the top of the ranks & shrouded them in legend
- Gandhi Martin Luther King Winston Churchill Buddha
- & provides a hands-on approach to understanding & mastering these qualities. The 10 Fundamental Principles which Deepak Chopra believes all leaders should follow include: * A leader is the symbolic soul of the group. * Inner qualities determine the outcome of any situation. * For every need the right response can be found. * Great leaders can respond to all situations from the higher levels of spirit. * A leader focused only on external goals (money victory power) will fail. Using well-known examples of great leaders & a clear concise breakdown of the virtues that a great leader must possess The Soul of Leadership demystifies leadership & empowers us all to become leaders in our own right
- from managing a family crisis to starting our own business.


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With extraordinary images The Soul of Scotland (Anam na H-Alba) presents a rich new portrait of a diverse & beautiful country avoiding the cliched photographs of the same old castles & postcard views repeated in so many books on the subject. In this glorious book divided into sections on city countryside & wilderness internationally acclaimed photographer Max Milligan turns his artists eye on the glens lochs villages towns islands peat bogs beaches & mountains of his native land from Shetland to The Borders. The pictures are spectacular & exquisite haunting & immediate; lovers of Scotland will see new perspectives in the way that Milligan observes the textured details of wilderness & cityscape farmland & suburb & highlights the variety of people who inhabit these places & their distinct cultural styles. From welders in a Rosyth shipyard to Glasgows vibrant streetlife at night & on to the crofter combing his highland cattle at the Islay Show all of Scotland is recorded here with drama tenderness & wry humour. ...

In the previous volume of this bestselling series of fantasy novels our hero Richard Rahl wielder of the Sword of Truth & his lover Kahlan unwittingly released upon the New World a terror from the malign & wild magic of the Old World. The Chimes now run free in the Midlands & Richard & Kahlan powerful in their own right begin to see their own magic undermined leaving the people of the New World vulnerable to the encroaching evil that Darken Rahl first unleashed in WIZARD'S FIRST RULE. ...

William Roache has been an actor on Britains best-loved soap opera Coronation Street for over 48 years
- making him the worlds
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