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This unique, creative cookbook for teens is on the New York Times best seller list and has received the Notable Indie Award as well as the Gold Seal of Literary Excellence award.  

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Students are starting to cook and bake at an early age and they need to have a reference to encourage their future attempts at preparing food in their homes. Working with these young adults inspired the author to create this book. One of her goals is to convey that it does not matter what your age is, you can cook and bake. The book not only reflects teens are in a league of their own in the kitchen arena, but can be used by any age person who wants to develop kitchen skills and be adventurous in creating their own recipes.

Students helped test and photograph each recipe in the book. This collaboration showed the author that the young cooks/bakers are capable of following the recipes, using kitchen tools and techniques, and developing their own methods in the kitchen.

The book is written using step-by-step instructions along with color photo of each recipe. This cookbook includes 200 kitchen tested and photographed recipes connecting with the upcoming generation and inspiring any age or level cook/baker to make future attempts in the kitchen arena.

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Art of Life and Curiosity invites you to open any page of the book to discover new perspectives and provide space to break free from old patterns of thought and behaviour. This interactive mental health wellbeing book can enable opportunities to explore universal life topics to improve holistic wellness in unique ways. By combining theoretical modalities and ancient teachings from the Native American Medicine Wheel, Mindfulness practice, and other wisdoms, readers engage in a semi guided practice of contemplation, self-discovery, and compassionate self-care. 

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Art of Life and Curiosity may be a lifelong mentor whose guidance transforms with your changing developments and needs. Mairead’s survival of religious childhood sexual abuse and Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder has influenced her training as a trauma informed Counsellor, Art Therapist and Wellness Coach, leading to the development of Art of Life and Curiosity. Readers are encouraged to create their own Wellness Wheel using the easy to follow written and visual directions. Mairead’s creative, symbolic art works and reflective questions, add personal allegories to enhance the reader’s involvement in the book by presenting gentle opportunities for contemplation and transformation.

About Mairead Ashcroft: Creativity and the teachings and philosophies of universal elders encouraged Mairead to realize her seventeen-year longing in the arrest, conviction, and incarceration (2015) of the man who sexually abused her as a young child, an ordained member of the Catholic Church. As a result of discovering that the old ways still have wisdom relevant to our wellbeing today, Mairead developed and illustrated the Art of Life and Curiosity to share her insight with others. This work of love and compassion is dedicated to Mairead’s four adult children who endured the seventeen-year struggle by her side. 

Without focusing on her own story of trauma, Mairead uses compassion to support others who have experienced similar challenging life events resulting in Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Mairead has dedicated many years of study on the effects of trauma on the brain and body, enhancing her counselling, art therapy and life coaching practice and her approach to recovery. Mairead participated in changing Australian laws by speaking in Parliament during the Victorian Inquiry 2011, and Australian Royal Commission into institutional responses into childhood sexual abuse 2014. 

In 2012,  Mairead was awarded and Inspirational Woman’s Award by the Hobson’s Bay City Council in the area of childhood sexual abuse and domestic violence advocacy. Mairead and her adorable sidekick, Moon Shadow the Therapy Dog, are friendly faces in their hometown of Altona, Melbourne. You can find out more about Mairead on her web page at www.artoflifewithmairead.com or her blog www.artoflifewithmairead.blogspot.com.au. You can get your copy of Art of Life & Curiosity: Creative Mental Health, Wellbeing & Life Exploration on Amazon. 

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Healthcare providers and the public had no education about how to conduct end of life grieving until 1969 when Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross published her experiences with hospice patients who were at the end of their life. She was a Swiss-American psychiatrist, a pioneer in near-death studies, and author of the internationally best-selling book, On Death and Dying (1969). In her book, Kübler-Ross discusses her theory of the five stages of grief, now known as the “Kübler-Ross model”. Since then, grief has been expanded into different areas other than end of life. 

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This book also describes the five stages of grief and adds two more stages. It also delves deeper into the emotions involved in the grieving  process as well as how an individual manages many grieving areas, such as death, divorce, job loss, etc. 

The book is written for anyone going through a grieving process. The author believes pain, suffering, and grief are inevitable, but how to cope and improve life is only done with experience and knowledge. 

This book is not just about grief. It includes other emotions that come into play. Forgiveness is also associated with grief. The book discusses the different types of forgiveness and how each one functions. Understanding the emotions involved with forgiveness helps relieve the pain of hostility and grudges a person may hold. 

Acceptance is the last stage in Kubler-Ross’s five stages of grief, but the author takes this a step further into social acceptance, which also plays a role in grief. He discusses acceptance by others, such as friends and family. He includes rejection by others, which can produce grief. He also discusses acceptance of others, such as people of other races, gender, etc. Rejection of others, such as being prejudiced, can lead to grief by the victims and others around them. 

The author states that he felt compelled to write about all the hatred, pain, and suffering causing grief around the world. He wrote with empathy for his patients who grieve. The book is written from a research perspective, but also contains the author’s personal experiences.

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Jean Heringman Willacy was an intrepid world traveller and photographer who, at sixty years old, began leading an extraordinary double life, alternating between a picturesque English village and volatile Afghanistan

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When Jean died at the age of eighty-four in 2004, her daughter, Sue Heringman, discovered an unusual legacy. Sue knew about her mother’s work in Afghanistan from when she would return to the UK and share her stories and show her slides and photographs. 

What Sue did not know was that Jean had kept detailed diaries of her life in Afghanistan and saved boxes and boxes of Afghan-related material. This material ranged from maps and tourist pamphlets, to rare eye-witness accounts together with photos of Mujahideen fighters, a collection of Afghan refugee children’s wartime drawings and several invaluable cassettes with spontaneous, on-the-street tape recordings from her travels around the country and in the refugee camps in Pakistan.

There was no question of what to do with it all once Sue read this sentence in a final diary entry: “I have a lifetime of memories and experiences during my years in Afghanistan and would deeply love seeing something rewarding from those days.The Keeper of Families: Jean Heringman Willacy’s Afghan Diaries is the compilation Sue made to chronicle those years, the most incongruous of her mother’s life. Jean didn’t set out to create a legacy of kindness and friendship, but through her advocacy for Afghan refugees, especially women and children, that is exactly what happened. Sue felt she owed it to Jean and to her adopted, extended Afghan family to make every effort to transcribe all the diary material and to publish her compelling narrative, together with everything she had so lovingly preserved of their lives together. You can find out more about Jean and get your copy of The Keeper of Families: Jean Heringman Willacy’s Afghan Diaries on Amazon. 

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Pam Henry Smith was a fourth grade teacher who assigned her students a creative writing project. Their assignment was to write and create their own story. The story wasn’t written in one day. Rather the assignment took months to complete. Students would work on their story in class each day. Pam watched as students began to enjoy the process and even work together on their stories. She always wrote her own story because she believes that teachers should create a participative learning class room. MEET MACK began as one of those stories Pam wrote along with her students.

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MEET MACK is the true story of the adventures of an amazing Amazon parrot named Mack. Mack came into the author’s family as a gift given to the author’s grandparents by her father. 

The book tells how this parrot brought joy, frustration, and love to the author’s whole family. It will make readers laugh and cry, but it truly shows a bond that formed between a parrot and a family.

Create a memory for a child. Read MEET MACK together and explore the world of parrots.

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Every journey is best pursued by having an authentically wise guidebook to aid you in your understanding of your ULR ( Understanding of Life and Reality), how to wisely journey through life and reality. 

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An authentically wise understanding (ULR understanding of life and reality) is informed both about how and why to travel, and journey wisely. It is self-evident that truth and love matter to a life wisely lived, but it is not plainly evident whose explanation of life and reality (ELR) contains the very best explanation of constitutes enduring truth and authentic love. 

The God of the Bible said if left to ourselves, collectively you will be plagued by wars and rumors of wars, that famine and pestilent would plague your days. And you will in your intimate relationships as couples and families would find loving oneness much longed for but difficult to find and even more challengingly to sustain. 

Your much self-heralded humanly constructed ELRs, have not resulted in an enlightened, informed, progressively enriched existence but a reality persistently plagued by unity/chaos, clarity/confusion, peace/despair, and all life still finally ends in death. 

You were warned by the God of the Bible, you would come to suffer from a mind and heart condition similar to snow blindness termed reality blindness: better equipped to see analytically but yet persistently, congenitally spiritually blinded. Reality blindness is a congenital condition of humanity, a manifestation of being spiritually stillborn, if you elect to exist outside of a right standing with God. 

When all things are relative being equally true and false at the same time in the same relationship nothing is relevant: real gold is equal to fool’s gold, momentary lust and enduring love are equally valid emotional expressions. Humanly sourced understanding results in a form of mental, emotional hypothermia: reality began at your birth, all meaning is temporary, and in death you return to nothingness. 

In our various hypothermic states of existence, you numb your inevitable despair by self-medications found in drugs, sex, achievement, entertainment, etc. or some lash out with a coping strategy of hurting themselves or others. 

But wait! All is not lost. Your existence failure is not new nor unexpected nor unexplained. God created you with love hungry hearts only He can satisfy. God is both the great physician and ultimate parent who can both heal you spiritual today and gift you with an eternal relationship for all of your tomorrows including a post-physical-death forever home. 

But you have to respond with a yes and to His offer of the Live Wise Solution: forgiveness and adoption. As directed by God, Live Wise is a Jesus sourced how-to guidebook for facing life and reality’s complexities and messiness with the singularly valuable wisdom and love of God only found in God’s ELRs: Jesus and the Bible. Initially God’s offer is a gift of forgiveness of your sins and an outpouring of love and peace that only need be accepted. Stop. Think. Believe. You make the call. Live Wise.

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The book is theinside story of the invention of an industrial product that became an American icon.  It takes place in the 1960-70’s at a small, privately owned company, Sandford Ink Company, located in Bellwood, Illinois. When the author interviewed for the job, Keith Beal, the Research and Development Director, gave him a tour of the manufacturing area. Beal made it a point to stop at a small table. At the table were three or four assemblers manually placing Sharpie pen “reservoirs” into Sharpie “barrels”, fitting the “ferrule” (top half of the pen) into place, spin welding the assembly, adding the ink with a foot-operated syringe, setting the tip and cap in place, and then placing the finished marker in a box that was partitioned to hold twelve rows of twelve—one gross of product. “This,” Keith told me, “Is the Sharpie Marker.” 

All the author wanted when he interviewed for the job of chemist at Sanford Ink Company was a way to support his young family. He would worry about making his mark in the world after his family had a place to sleep, a used car to drive, and food in the refrigerator. Furniture for the apartment could come later. 

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What happens next is today a piece of industrial Americana.

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The author was working as a veterinarian. She was asked to give a talk about her profession at her daughter’s school. She shared this story with the children. 

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An ambulance was on its way to pick up a very sick patient when… suddenly out of nowhere a cat runs across the road in front of the speeding ambulance! The driver hits the brakes but unfortunately hit the cat! Thinking quickly, the paramedic jumped out of the ambulance, bundled the cat into the ambulance, and raced to the nearest vet clinic. Will his life be saved?

The anonymous cat was transported by ambulance to the vet clinic. He undergoes veterinary treatment and surgery. He recovers and finds a wonderful new home with the paramedic. 

When the author finished telling the story, she was very surprised by the  reactions of the children. They had all sorts of questions about the procedures used to save the life of the cat, now named St. John by the veterinary staff. They wanted to know how you could become a veterinarian. They were so interested and curious, they inspired the author to write the beautifully illustrated book. Her hope is that by sharing the story of ST. JOHN THE AMBULANCE CAT, young readers will take away three messages:

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This book is a charming story about a family of geese. Gilda Goose and her husband Glen Gander have a nest in a maple tree on Timmy’s Pond. The story begins with three goslings who have hatched, Meeme, Shuely, and Freely and three eggs still in the nest that haven’t hatched.

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The story takes the goose family through many of the same issues that human families face such as safety of their nest, boundaries where young goslings should and should not go, as well as life lessons for the family. It’s a delightful book filled with characters like Mister Emerald Greeny Heron and Wendel the Blue Wind Breeze Blower.

The book is a perfect bedtime story book, but also offers many opportunities for teaching young children about nature. Parents and grandparents could expand on the themes about family. The characters lend themselves to art projects. Also exploring the differences between a duck and a goose.

The author offers three main takeaways from the book: 

1. Don’t belittle others.
2. Don’t talk loudly in public. It disturbs others.
3. Be patient. Victory comes soon after the storm.

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The book is a well-researched and scholarly presentation of The Gospel of the Four(Mathew, Mark, Luke, John). It shows how all four texts parallel each other intrinsically without the anomalies frequently and erroneously mentioned by many even devoted believers. It is a complete synchronization of the Synoptic Gospels with the Gospel of John, which takes account of all the relevant arguments relating to this particular subject. 

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The author carefully identifies and distinguishes differences and similarities in the four narrative accounts of the life and ministry of Jesus. He provides passages in quotation and chapter and verse references revealing the fact that Jesus made several different visits to towns in Galilee and Judea, purged the temple on two occasions and gave the Sermon on the Mount more than once. An examination of the timing and nature of the miracles also provides fresh insight into that aspect of the ministry of Jesus.

This is a considerable work of New Testament scholarship, which will surely stimulate Christian scholars and layman in their search for additional truth. The mass of detail and cross referencing should not act as a deterrent to the general Christian reader because the author has taken great care to present his argument and postulations in a coherent and accessible format and style. Regardless whether readers agree or disagree with some or all of the author’s assertions, this work will undoubtedly help some to find new truth. 

The author wishes no more than to shed further light and help, “…to give knowledge of salvation to His (God’s) people by the remission of sins. Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the Sunrise from on High has visited us. To give light to them who sit in the darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace” (Luke 1:77-79).

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