From the nuts and bolts to starting a business to the emotional highs and lows that accompany this endeavor, it's all here. Part how to, part Reiki memoir, Deb Karpek is not shy about sharing what has worked for her and more importantly, what has not. She takes you on her journey as she faces and transcends her fears, learns how to 'Do It Afraid,' and comes out on the other side with a thriving Reiki practice. Her personal stories will not only show...

Pat McMahan's twenty-six years of intensive rock hunting have resulted in one of the most comprehensive collections of sagenite, plume, and banded agates in the world. More than 1,250 of the choicest and most rare are presented in this book, with the author's personal commetary. Most of the agates included in this book were collected in the field by the author. McMahan built his collection through prospecting in all eleven states of the American...

The surreptitiously placed note reads: "Billion dollar bounty on your life. David born in Scottsdale, Arizona, forty years ago." With the note's discovery, Sara Alessa Giustino feels threatened and knows what she must do. Her life depends on finding David, a friend from the past -- someone she met over two hundred years ago in Paris. Five hundred years ago, the Kryios, an advanced race from Andromeda, saved Sara's life on Earth; they bestowed upon...

A STORY FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES This is Book 5 of the "Kenady's Happiness World" series and Book 2 of the "Fort Verde Days Adventure" of the series. Kenady, the girl leader who is now 8 1/2 and Pablo, her boy BFF, who is now 7 1/2, team up one again with Howdy and Doody, the twin monkeys, to create a totally new magical adventure. Sunshine, the magical 'Indigo Girl' from the 'old Fort Verde Days' adventure returns. She saves them from a bad storm...

Angela is not getting any younger. Is she getting wiser? Some think not. Once again she has exposed her body to danger, just by doing something she's done many times in earlier days. And she has once again revealed her soul to another soul. What will come of it? Encounters. Of every sort. Natural and otherwise. We all have them. Is anything ever simply an accident? Is there truly no such thing as coincidence? Go with Angela on this ride, possibly...

A STORY FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES. One of Allen's major goals has been to write a "different" type od children's book, and he has accomplished that. His books are adventurous and magical, cloaked with realism, while at the same time educational. "CORDELIA" is even more unique, in that the story is written for a little baby girl who has not yet arrived! She is a little girl squirrel in the story who doesn't know how to read yet, either! This is a magical...

YOU AND I ARE MORE THAN WE THINK WE ARE, more than we can possibly conceive. I've watched hundreds of people safely walk across eight-hundred-degree coals. I've witnessed clients heal chronic, supposedly incurable conditions in a heartbeat and release decades-long debilitating emotions in a thrice. I've watched hundreds of us manifest our thoughts in such a way that reality immediately reflects our intentions. All of this points to nothing if it doesn't...

A FUN, ADVENTUROUS STORY for CHILDREN and ADULTS of ALL AGES! Kenady, Pablo, along with Howdy and Doody the twin monkeys, from small town CAMP VERDE, ARIZONA, have yet another exciting, educational, magical adventure. Dr. Lana Holcomb, Kenady's Veterinarian mother, Mayor Charlie German, Mayor of Camp Verde and Marshal Nancy Gardner, Town Marshal play the major, fictitious adult roles. "Mama Lana" takes the kids and monkeys camping in the forest to...

Throughout the ages, many of the living have been deeply troubled by death. We have been taught to fear dying. Our mythologies and superstitions portray the supposed end of life as fearsome, capricious and monstrous. And yet...it has been said by sages that death is the last great enemy to be overcome. Throughout the ages, there have walked among us those who willingly have extended their lifetimes. They have remained beyond their allotted span within...

When Mary Elizabeth Shellabarger -- known throughout her life as Bess -- passed away, she left three battered old suitcases filled with journals, photographs, and documents for her grandniece Alice. A note on top of the contents of one of the suitcases declared, "Alice Elizabeth Selch will write my memoirs." So, like any faithful grandniece, Alice did as instructed. The result is Three Scuffed Suitcases, a fascinating portrait of an indomitable...