Sakunthala Ranaweera (Saku) is an independent young woman fighting her own demons working on her life plan. She doesn't have any delusions about herself; she happily leads a vanilla way of life being true to her values. Scared by her childhood best friend, Niranga, Saku only trusts a handful of people and can be a praying mantis that bite off the heads of men who are not careful around her. She is also not one to forgive and forget easily. When Niranga returns after years, wanting to reconnect, Saku doesn't have the time to entertain such a whimsical idea. They are on two different life trajectories; nothing in common other than the innocent and sweet childhood they both left behind. Is her friend right about her? Who needs an enemy when she has her? Could she be the one sabotaging her chance of happiness, testing the bond she has with her family, her friends, and the patience of the man who loves her?

"Ah, my love... I was so in love with you, I can't explain it, but I can only make you feel it. I can't write, but I can whisper. You are the most peaceful, sweetest remedy for the troubles that befall me. Perhaps you remember, maybe my book has somehow ended up in your hands. Maybe we'll meet when I'm already gone. But I promise you, I owe you a heart full of love. I have stories that I can't tell you. There are nights when you unknowingly become my balm, I can't explain, but I can make you feel..." It is a work I started writing years ago, where I poured my thoughts onto paper because they couldn't fit inside me, and hopefully, I can say that they saved my life. In short, welcome to a new world, my world...

Walking the Labyrinth of My Heart: A Journey of Pregnancy, Grief and Infant Death breaks the lonely, silent suffering of bereaved mothers facing infant and pregnancy loss. Dianna Vagianos Armentrout details her pregnancy journey with her daughter, Mary Rose, who died an hour after birth of trisomy 18, a random genetic illness described as "incompatible with life." For five long months of pregnancy, she knew that her baby would not live and thrive, planning a funeral and seeking hospice for her unborn daughter. The heaviness of this grief, which most women bear alone, is shared here and will comfort mothers who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth and infant death. Through journal entries, essays and poetry, Dianna invites the reader to process grief and honor the life of the child, no matter how brief. In addition, readers will learn how to support the bereaved by remembering the baby and pregnancy. With eloquent language, fierce honesty and a record of the rawness of grief, readers in the midst of their own suffering will recognize the path that bereaved parents walk. Dianna's experiences with infertility, motherhood, infant loss and miscarriage infuse her writing with compassion for all women. Finally there is a book to honor the pregnancy, baby and loss, loving the children past their death, loving the wombs that nurtured them and accepting the sacred path of mothering children whose bodies are broken, but whose souls are intact and perfectly whole. This book shines with love and the knowledge that even the briefest life is holy. Read it. Share it. Spread the word. We no longer have to grieve our infants and pregnancies alone.

Philip Appleman sagely and eloquently addresses such questions as where we came from, whether there is a God, and if there is, why there is so much evil and turmoil in the world. Putting this in the illuminating context of our evolutionary development and cultural history, he also ponders the notion of an afterlife and what role it has in determining our behaviour while we are alive. Twenty-first-century thinkers, reflecting on the long and horrendous history of religious wars and atrocities, are no longer willing to pay the traditional deference to religious authority, preferring instead to seek inside their own lives, thoughts and actions for the answers to life's greatest questions. Appleman concludes that a life well lived, short as it is in the eons of our planet's existence, is its own reward.

My Life's Labyrinth covers a fascinating journey as we walk through life with Jesus Christ. It lifts our feelings when we're down and encourages our beliefs when we're searching. It makes each day a great discovery as Jesus goes before us organizing our day. As we go around each corner, there is a surprise that we had never dreamed of. Jesus knows what he is doing with our lives as we walk together along our life's labyrinth.

“[An] incisive, personal mediation.” —New York Times Book Review Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman’s perennially new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and soul. In What Is the Grass, Doty effortlessly blends biography, criticism, and memoir to keep company with Whitman and his Leaves of Grass, tracing the resonances between his own experience and the legendary poet’s life and work.

Collected lectures on shamanism, multi-dimensional reality, time travel, voyaging beyond the ordinary, and exploration of expanded consciousness spaces.