Leanna Burns, author of From A to Z: Feed Your Soul and Lose the Weight, Soul Beautiful, Naturally, and Living the Soul Dolce Vita, now brings us this unique guide to making your soul wishes come true. We arrive on this planet as soul wishers, yet over time we may stop making soul wishes for one reason or another. And this is not a good thing, since soul wishes are so full of good and benefit all of us on our journey. Naturally, what benefits each and every one of us benefits this planet we live on. This would have to be the number one reason for making soul wishes in that they help to make the world a better place. Leanna Burns considers soul wishes to be an integral part of every soul's journey here on earth. And as such they are the way in which a soul learns and grows and progresses forward. The assistance of soul wishes from other souls intermingled with our own individual soul wishes bring this process about. Soul wishes help to lead each soul to its destiny.

“Nobody ever read [the great old books] like Lawrence did—as madly, as wildly or as insightfully. . . . You will be jolted awake.” —A. O. Scott, The New York Times A Penguin Classic Lawrence asserted that 'the proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it'. In these highly individual, penetrating essays he has exposed 'the American whole soul' within some of that continent's major works of literature. In seeking to establish the status of writings by such authors as Poe, Melville, Fenimore Cooper and Whitman, Lawrence himself has created a classic work. Studies in Classic American Literature is valuable not only for the light it sheds on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American consciousness, telling 'the truth of the day', but also as a prime example of Lawrence's learning, passion and integrity of judgement. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Three Wishes is a book containing three very different stories, all are contemporary and contain a hint of the supernatural.

*** 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Finalist *** When I was seven, my mother died. I struck a bargain with the Gods to bring her back to life. For thirteen years now, I have served as a Harbinger of Death, coaxing dying wishes out of mortals so that the God of Death may grant them moksha, liberation from the cycles of birth and death. The man about to die this evening claims he has nothing to offer me. He is dying a content man, a rarity in our world. But when the God of Death arrives to lead his soul away, the man changes his mind about dying and flees, surreptitiously planting on me an enigma. I only know I cannot trust any God with this secret. And that I will pay an unbearable price for this concealment. Yet again, I underestimate how savagely the Gods can wound me. Set in Burlington, Ontario, this contemporary fantasy novel weaves Hindu mythology and South Indian folklore into a quest for belonging across different worlds – the World of Mortals and the World of Gods, India and Canada, the past and the present, the world outside and the one within. It is an offering to lovers of whimsical worlds and heartbreaking prose, and to anyone yearning to simply belong.

In Search of Soul explores the meaning of “soul” in sacred and profane incarnations, from its biblical origins to its central place in the rich traditions of black and Latin history. Surveying the work of writers, artists, poets, musicians, philosophers and theologians, Alejandro Nava shows how their understandings of the “soul” revolve around narratives of justice, liberation, and spiritual redemption. He contends that biblical traditions and hip-hop emerged out of experiences of dispossession and oppression. Whether born in the ghettos of America or of the Roman Empire, hip-hop and Christianity have endured by giving voice to the persecuted. This book offers a view of soul in living color, as a breathing, suffering, dreaming thing.

Gods, Faes, demons and sorcerers are all dispensable in this epic saga set in the Arthurian legend period. Love. Magic. Betrayal. Corruption. Welcome to the new Camelot... Before he was Merlin... Meet Emrys, a young wizard with uncommon powers, trying to find his way in a world suspicious of the unknown. A wizard of light magic, he attracts darkness like honey does bees. Enter Atrox, Merlin's ever foe, and sometimes friend. A deity banished to the Underworld, he is tasked with creating havoc on earth and corruping the hearts of easily influenced humans. And who is the woman entering Merlin's life, mysterious and elusive, with a hint of sadness that tugs at his heart? Will his love save her, or become both their doom? As these opposites' fates intertwine in fights, bonds and heartache, Merlin grows in his powers...Perhaps too much. Read on to find out how one man's choices changed destiny as it was written. After all, they say the road to Hell is paved with good intentions...