NEW BOOKS - SPRING 2010

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François Chartier
TASTE BUDS AND MOLECULES
Internationally renowned sommelier F. Chartier shares the results of his gourmet foray along the aromatic path of the volatile compounds of wines and foods. This pioneering research is helping to shed light on the links that exist between your favourite foods and vintages.
216pp (Les Éditions La Presse)
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Elise Marie Collins
AN A-Z GUIDE TO HEALING FOODS
Yoga instructor, nutrition expert E. Collins has compiled a comprehensive list of healing foods, their vitamin and mineral content, and what they do to promote health, prevent disease, and decrease symptoms of illness. The A-Z Guide to Healing Foods inspires the reader to explore, prepare, procure, grow, taste, savor, and above all, enjoy healing foods. This guide will steer readers toward fabulous foods that foster an overall sense of well-being.
176pp - PubDate: Jan. 2010 (Conari Press)
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Tara Springett
THE FIVE-MINUTE MIRACLE
Discover the personal healing symbols that will solve your problems. The basics of The Five-Minute Miracle came to Tara Springett, a psychotherapist, in meditation one day.  A synthesis of Tibetan Buddhist principles and humanistic psychology, the core of the practice is to make contact with our Higher Consciousness (in whatever form we perceive it) and receive a healing symbol to overcome our problems.
160pp - PubDate: Dec. 2009 (Weiser Books)
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Nina Parkerr
LESS IS MORE
Meditations on simplicity, balance, and real abundance. Less Is More is a glorious celebration - in words and images - of simple and profound answers.
128pp - 4-color photos; PubDate: Oct. 2009 (Conari Press)
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Barb Rogers
CLUTTER NO MORE - 12 Steps to Freeing Your Life From Your Stuff
Clutter No More identifies a widespread addiction - the addiction to messiness, to stuff, to clutter - and offers the possibility of relief through a 12-step approach. Clutter is a wall built bit by bit of things that will keep the world out. As with other addictions, it becomes a prison that keeps the addict in.
160pp (Conari Press)
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Monica Holy
FRINGE DWELLER ON THE NIGHT SHIFT - True Stories for an Afterlife Paramedic
By day, Monica Holy’s life looks like millions of others. She paints, jogs, talks to friends, and worries about her children. Monica’s nightlife is a different story. Since birth, she has entered extraordinary worlds of consciousness through the portal of lucid dreams. While there, she conducts souls to the other side and to the light and teaches, guides, and heals.
208pp - PubDate: Oct. 2009 (Weiser Books)
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Eileen Holland
THE SPELLCASTER'S REFERENCE - Magickal Timing for the Wheel of the Year
Need to bless a newborn babe? Wondering what color candle to use for a winter handfasting or what herbs are best to use when the moon is in Cancer? Magick is intent, but any witch will tell you that intent requires forethought and preparation. And even the most seasoned ritualist needs a reference to determine the best timing and most powerful ingredients for their magical work.
256pp (Weiser Books)
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Juanita Rose Violini
ALMANAC OF THE INFAMOUS, THE INCREDIBLE, AND THE IGNORED
This Almanac is a fact-collector’s dream directory of history’s mysteries and unexplained events. Each date has one or more historical events, a quote, an illustration, and a “secret power.” Topics include the Crystal Skull, UFO encounters, and other enigmas of nature, uncanny experiments in science, oincidences, the unsolved, and the downright peculiar.
304pp - two-color illustr. - PubDate: Oct. 2009 (Weiser Books)
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Jock Whitehouse
THE LEDGE OF QUETZAL - BEYOND 2012
A successful American businessman’s life takes a dramatic turn when he finds himself wandering the mystical terrain of southern Mexico, accompanied by great sages of Mexican mythology who are teaching him how to survive the changes coming as the Mayan calendar ends. In this quest he discovers that the end of the calendar is not an end time but merely a time of great stillness - and a great opportunity to transform ourselves and the world.
144pp - illustr. (Weiser Books)
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Sue Patton Thoele
EXCELLENT AS YOU ARE
A woman's book of confidence, comfort, and strength. In Excellent as You Are, Sue Patton Thoele offers us food for thought, insightful stories, and motivational quotes.
96pp - full-color photos (Conari Press)
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