Download or read book The Fine Art of Holding Your Breath written by Charity Tahmaseb and published by Collins Mark Books. This book was released on with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets-like war-have their own casualties. MacKenna's mother died when she was a baby, a casualty of the first Gulf War. Now seventeen, MacKenna has spent her life navigating the minefield of her dad's moods, certain of one thing: she is destined to follow in her mother's combat boots. But when she pursues an ROTC scholarship, she finds herself at war before even enlisting. Her father forbids her from joining the military, inexplicable considering he'd raised her to be a "warrior princess." MacKenna turns to her grandmother, who arms her with an ammo crate containing her mother's personal effects from the war. Hidden in the crate's false bottom is a journal, one her mom stashed there hours before her death. While MacKenna untangles the secrets of her parents' tragic love story, her own life unravels. Dad's behavior becomes erratic, her best friend grows distant and even hostile, and a boy from her past returns-with a life-threatening secret of his own. If ever a girl needed her mother, it's now. The pen might be mightier than the sword, but are a mother's words strong enough to slice through years of hidden pain? Can those words reach through the battlefields of the past to change MacKenna's future?

Download or read book The Fine Art of Keeping Quiet written by Charity Tahmaseb and published by Collins Mark Books. This book was released on with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Breath written by James Nestor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020 Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR “A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe—and how we’ve all been doing it wrong for a long, long time.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe. Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.

Download or read book The Ghosts You Left Behind written by Charity Tahmaseb and published by Collins Mark Books. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Katy and Malcolm want a future, they’ll need to survive the past. When Katy and Malcolm discover a secret stash of Springside ghosts, they can’t tell if they’re on a rescue mission, walking into a trap—or dealing with something far more sinister. But the simple act of freeing the ghosts sets the past on a collision course with the present. Katy has always known the past can haunt. Usually, that’s something she can fix with freshly brewed coffee and some Tupperware. This time, old enemies lurk in the shadows, pulling strings and weaving inescapable webs. When she falls in, survival may be impossible. But to escape, Katy must navigate threads from the past, deal with capricious spirits, dubious allies, and ruthless adversaries. And if she fails? No one she loves will have a future. Coffee & Ghosts is a cozy paranormal mystery/romance serial told over multiple episodes. This series bundle contains all three novella-length episodes of Season Four: Episode 1: The Ghosts You Left Behind Episode 2: Misty Sandborne and the Vampire Husband Episode 3: The Necromancer’s Nephew

Download or read book Straying from the Path written by Charity Tahmaseb and published by Collins Mark Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Must Love Ghosts written by Charity Tahmaseb and published by Collins Mark Books. This book was released on with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Now and Later written by Charity Tahmaseb and published by Collins Mark Books. This book was released on with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nothing but the Ghosts written by Charity Tahmaseb and published by Collins Mark Books. This book was released on with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Complete Coffee and Ghosts written by Charity Tahmaseb and published by Collins Mark Books. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come for the coffee, stay for the supernatural adventure. There's more than one way to catch a ghost, and it's never been this fun! Katy and her grandmother have always used coffee to catch ghosts. It pays the bills and keeps them in high-end beans. After her grandmother dies and a rival ghost hunter moves to town, Katy fears things will never be the same. She's right. Malcolm changes everything. When Christmas brings both strangers and ghosts of the past to Springside, Katy fears her new business, new relationship, and quiet hometown will never be the same. She’s right, again. Once she uncovers long-held family secrets, Katy finds herself entangled in past and present—and on a mission to find the truth. To unravel the mystery that links her family with Malcolm’s, she’ll need to bargain with a powerful entity and face retribution from the necromancer community. Where Katy must go, Malcolm can’t follow. She’ll need to make the ultimate sacrifice. To save Malcolm, Springside, and everything she loves, Katy will need to give them up forever. Coffee & Ghosts is a cozy paranormal mystery/romance told in a series of novellas. The Complete Coffee and Ghosts contains all books in the series and is perfect if you like quirky stories that are a little bit scary, a little bit romantic, and a whole lot of fun.

Download or read book Just a Matter of Time A Young Adult Paranormal Short Story written by Charity Tahmaseb and published by Collins Mark Books. This book was released on with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dragon Whispers written by Charity Tahmaseb and published by Collins Mark Books. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here be dragons … six of them. Often mercurial, preternaturally perceptive, always inscrutable. What if you had to barter for your village while tied to a stake? Or if the one thing you always wanted—a dragon of your own—was forever denied? Where might a midnight chase through a stately hotel lead? From adversary to lover to devoted friend, from epic to urban fantasy—follow six heroines as they encounter six very different dragons. They’ll barter and bargain, chase and be chased, and in the end, learn the true meaning of dragon’s bane. Dragon Whispers gathers together the dragon stories from The (Love) Stories for 2020 project: Aleag the Great Knight at the Royal Arms Fire and Ivy Dragon’s End Heart Whisper Dragon’s Bane Let the adventure begin!

Download or read book The Adventurer s Guide to Dragons and Why They Keep Biting Me written by Wade Albert White and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready for dragons, robots, and an even more dangerous quest in this hilarious, unputdownable sequel to The Adventurer's Guide to Successful Escapes. Anne, Penelope, and Hiro are nominated for Best Illegal Quest That Nearly Destroyed the Entire World at the annual Quest Academy Awards, but they barely get to enjoy it before a strange boy tricks Anne into activating a new quest. Her charge: kill the dragon queen. The problem is, Anne doesn't want to kill any dragons. But the mysterious boy does, even if it means igniting a devastating war between people and dragons. The only chance Anne and the others have to stop it is to get to the queen first. Along the way, they'll have to navigate ancient mines, avoid erupting volcanoes, outsmart robots, and survive the dragon trials. And, of course, get a passing grade on their quest. Packed with action, humor, and endless heart, this is a truly irresistible middle grade fantasy tale.

Download or read book The Adventurer s Guide to Treasure and How to Steal It written by Wade Albert White and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy gets a clever refresh in the final book of this witty, action-packed, and hilarious middle grade adventure trilogy. At Saint Lupin's Completely Ordinary School Where Nothing Bizarre Ever Happens Most Especially Not Illegal Quests That Destroy Famous Landmarks, students are not taught about pirates. They're not taught how to identify them, how to befriend them, or even how to fight them...which leaves the school completely open to pirate invasion. And on the first day of classes, that's precisely what happens. When a pirate captain and her crew steal an ancient Prophecy Medallion, Anne, Penelope, and Hiro are caught up in yet another adventure. After accidentally activating a quest, Anne and her friends have no choice but to complete the task and deliver the medallion to the supreme pirate ruler, Octo-Horse-Pirate. But the quest and the medallion are not what they seem, and Octo-Horse-Pirate is no run-of-the-mill villain. To complete the quest, Anne will have to uncover the truth about her mysterious past-and, just maybe, save the whole world in the process. Filled to the brim with heart-pounding action, miniature dragons, attacking chickens, and (sometimes friendly) pirates, The Adventurer's Guide to Treasure (and How to Steal It) is a laugh-out-loud, fast-paced adventure that will leave you breathless.

Download or read book Here s How We Survive The Love Stories for 2020 written by Charity Tahmaseb and published by Collins Mark Books. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From urban fantasy to epic, fairy tales to the future, contemporary to the historical, this full-length collection from Charity Tahmaseb contains four dozen stories and spans fifteen years of writing. Sometimes somber, often humorous, these quirky and imaginative stories revolve around love lost and love found, familial and sibling love, friendships, and more. Genre-encompassing and often genre-defying, these tales run the gamut of invisible prom dates to dragons to the end of the world. Here’s How We Survive gathers together all 48 stories from the (Love) Stories for 2020 project and includes award-winning and previously-published stories along with ones written exclusively for this collection.

Download or read book The Fine Art of Insincerity written by Angela Hunt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Angela Elwell Hunt returns to the genre—contemporary women’s fiction—that has brought her some of her greatest success with this novel about three sisters who have struggled with being committed in their marriages. Three grown Southern sisters have ten marriages between them—and more loom on the horizon—when Ginger, the eldest, wonders if she’s the only one who hasn’t inherited what their family calls “the Grandma Gene”: the tendency to like the casualness of courtship better than the intimacy of marriage. Could it be that her two sisters are fated to serially marry, just like their seven-times wed grandmother, Mrs. Lillian Irene Harper Winslow Goldstein Carey James Bobrinski Gordon George? It takes a “girls only” weekend, closing up Grandma’s treasured beach house for the last time, for the sisters to really unpack their family baggage, examine their relationship DNA, and discover the true legacy their much-marrying grandmother left behind…

Download or read book You are Your Instrument written by and published by Backbeat Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open up new avenues of expression through a pain-free, healthy, fluid approach to music-making; Overcome performance anxiety, general tension,and muscular injury; Increase your learning skills and facilitate more effective motor coordination. The New England Journal of Medicine cites that 50% of all professional musicians suffer from varying levels of muscular injury.

Download or read book The Art of Thai Massage written by Bob Haddad and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Presents guidelines for effortless and effective practice, including body mechanics, breathing patterns, flowing movements, incremental pressure, and exercises to improve sensing and to strengthen intuition as you work • Offers ways to refine and improve classic techniques that are often performed incorrectly, explains broad healing concepts behind individual techniques, and discusses the awareness and sensitivity with which they should be performed • Answers common questions, clarifies misunderstandings, and presents ways to work with focused intention on a deeper level, and with more grace, ease, and efficiency UNLIKE OTHER BOOKS ABOUT THAI MASSAGE, this guide offers a deep and insightful view of important and often neglected aspects of this work. Many of these concepts and techniques also apply to table massage, physical therapy, yoga, and other healing arts. This book guides the reader through the conceptual, spiritual, and practical approaches behind effective bodywork. An entire section is dedicated to awareness of breath for massage, movement, and everyday activities. Assessment guidelines help the therapist to work with others based on physical appearance, preexisting conditions, and elemental predisposition. Exercises are presented to sharpen sensing abilities and intuition, and to find, coax, and release blockages in the body. Twelve important Thai massage techniques that are often taught and performed incorrectly are described in great detail. Other chapters offer ways to create customized sequences of practice and to move from one technique to another with ease and grace. Finally, the chapter on medicinal herbs discusses the preparation, use, and benefits of herbal compresses, poultices, balms, oils, and baths, and it offers easy recipes for all of these therapies. This manual contains information that has never been previously available in print. Full of exercises and insights to help therapists hone their bodywork skills, it reveals key principles that give way to effective treatment and explores traditional Thai massage with a special focus on intention, awareness, sensitivity, and spirituality.