Timmy has never been in a world where trees with luminous leaves swayed gently, and flowers that glittered with gems carpeted the ground. He has never met a talking cat, created a bridge of vines with a giant staff, or use a magic eyeglasses in making decisions. In his life, all Timmy knows is to live a simple life with his mother and his little sister Emma, in their small, thatched-roof house, tucked away in the seclusion of the forest. As their mother warned them in her story: “Do not follow the golden stag.” His simple life started to change when his sister did the other way around. He found himself in an adventure where he finds not only friends, but a great journey that equipped him with skills he never dreamed existed.

Extreme adventure can reveal who we truly are. When you throw yourself amongst the elements, pitting yourself in a battle of survival where the next breath, the next step, is all that matters. From this place, the soul can reveal itself. Your truth, your essence, is fully revealed in all its glory, provided you are ready and able to listen.

Find out what happens to a beloved book sent to a new home in this sweet and hopeful picture book from award-winning author of Warning: Do Not Open This Book!, Adam Lehrhaupt. When a little girl outgrows her favorite book and it is donated to the library, Book worries it will never be read again. It sits alone and neglected on a library shelf, and one unlucky day, Book falls from its perch and lands behind the shelf out of sight. How will anyone find it now? Young readers will delight in following Book’s journey and the chance encounter that saves it from being forgotten.

Essays on small art films and big-budget blockbusters, including Antonia's Line, American Beauty, Schindler's List, and The Passion of the Christ, that view films as life lessons, enlarging our sense of human possibilities. For Alan Stone, a one-time Freudian analyst and former president of the American Psychiatric Society, movies are the great modern, democratic medium for exploring our individual and collective lives. They provide occasions for reflecting on what he calls “the moral adventure of life”: the choices people make—beyond the limits of their character and circumstances—in response to life's challenges. The quality of these choices is, for him, the measure of a life well lived. In this collection of his film essays, Stone reads films as life texts. He is engaged more by their ideas than their visual presentation, more by their power to move us than by their commercial success. Stone writes about both art films and big-budget Hollywood blockbusters. And he commands an extraordinary range of historical, literary, cultural, and scientific reference that reflects his impressive personal history: professor of law and medicine, football player at Harvard in the late 1940s, director of medical training at McLean Hospital, and advisor to Attorney General Janet Reno on behavioral science. In the end, Stone's enthusiasms run particularly to films that embrace the sheer complexity of life, and in doing so enlarge our sense of human possibilities: in Antonia's Line, he sees an emotionally vivid picture of a world beyond patriarchy; in Thirteen Conversations about One Thing, the power of sheer contingency in human life; and in American Beauty, how beauty in ordinary experience draws us outside ourselves, and how beauty and justice are distinct goods, with no intrinsic connection. Other films discussed in these essays (written between 1993 and 2006 for Boston Review) include Un Coeur en Hiver, Schindler's List, Pulp Fiction, Thirteen Days, the 1997 version of Lolita, The Battle of Algiers, The Passion of the Christ, Persuasion, and Water.

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Exciting journey of a young, inquisitive boy called DaDa as he embarks on an adventure to investigate his surroundings is followed in the children's book Little Da Da's Big Adventure, written for children between the ages of 4 and 8. DaDa is a courageous and daring young man with a big heart and an expansive mind. Enjoys learning new things and is always curious to find out what lies ahead. Little DaDa was a curious, courageous African American child who was constantly seeking out new experiences. He left one day on a trip to discover the uncharted. With nothing but his big imagination and big heart to lead him, he packed his bag with a few supplies and started out on foot. One day, DaDa decides to set out on a big adventure. He packs his backpack with all the essentials, including a map, a compass, and a snack for the road. He sets out into the great unknown, ready for anything that might come his way. On the way, DaDa encounters many challenges and obstacles, but he never gives up. He is determined to see all the wonders of the world, from the tallest mountains to the deepest oceans. He makes new friends and learns important lessons about bravery, perseverance, and friendship.