When Nothing Else Smile

When Nothing Else...Smile

'Okay, Lucy. Throw me a smile!'...The two girls grinned and a deep friendship was born. In the summer of 2001, Lucy Mortzou was a bouncy blonde seven-year-old having fun with her family and friends in the Greek islands. By the end of that year she was hospitalized and starting the fight of her life against an aggressive and rare form of cancer. Throw Me a Smile is the true story of Lucy's battle to survive, told in diary entries and personal recollections by the mother who stayed by her side as they fought this dreadful disease - navigating life in clinics and hospitals, enduring difficult treatments, and making and losing friends in the cancer wards of Athens. This is a compelling tale of ten months that would change their lives forever, which reveals with honesty and compassion the harsh realities of childhood cancer.

Body Mind Balancing: Using Your Mind to Heal Your Body features meditation methods from one of the twentieth century’s greatest spiritual teachers. Many everyday discomforts and tensions arise from the fact that we are alienated from our bodies. With the help of Osho’s Body Mind Balancing, readers will learn to talk to and reconnect with their bodies. After just a short time, readers will begin to appreciate how much the body has been working for them and supporting them, and from this new perspective one can find new ways to work with the body and create a more harmonious balance of body and mind. Accompanying the book is a CD featuring the meditative therapy “Reminding Yourself of the Forgotten Language of Talking to Your BodyMind,” spoken by meditation teacher Anando Hefley. Developed by Osho, it guides the listener in reconnecting with his or her body and creating a new and greater sense of well-being. Osho challenges readers to examine and break free of the conditioned belief systems and prejudices that limit their capacity to enjoy life in all its richness. He has been described by the Sunday Times of London as one of the “1000 Makers of the 20th Century” and by Sunday Mid-Day (India) as one of the ten people—along with Gandhi, Nehru, and Buddha—who have changed the destiny of India. Since his death in 1990, the influence of his teachings continues to expand, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world.

Inder was not left with plenty of choices but one. That single choice demanded the best of him and he did the whole journey to gather himself up to become able to fulfil the demands. He went far away from his home to get some room to understand & prepare himself for the fight with hurdles in his path to ultimate objective. He was fighting with many things at once; his alcoholic father, their poverty, social norms and most importantly with himself. At times he has even tried to run away from himself. But the things which were at stake had always brought him back. His love; the treasure of his life, his mother; the pure blessing and his will to give them everything, has always brought him back. And when he finally comes back, he comes back transformed. He comes back tall & solid with ultimate focus on what he wants in life. He comes back, to begin a new era...

There goes the roaring sound of the gunfire, the sharp clang of one sword clashing with another. These were some of the noises that could be heard by an observer of this war. It was the second Knights vs. Warriors War in Sienna's history. Anyone who had observed the first war would say that this one has the terror and viciousness of the first one multiplied by five. The first Knights vs. Warriors War happened from 1977 to 1982. It ended with a victory for the Warriors. The second one started in 1992 and ended in 1996. While this war took the lives of about five thousand innocent people, out of them all, these four were the most noteworthy: Gwyneth and Oliver Hardly and Helene and Richard Woodley. These were the parents of Julianna Hardly and Fae Woodley. Due to this fatal day, Julianna and Fae would never know the life they could have had. But those who know them personally would be certain that if they hadn't fallen into being adopted by the king and queen of Sienna, they never would have met. But because of their vastly different outlooks on life, that would not necessarily be a bad thing. It would make life much more peaceful for their adoptive parents too. But none of that is important anymore. Now it's time to enter the life and meet the parents that they do have. In one castle . . .

#1 Horror Bestseller and multiple Bram Stoker finalist Michaelbrent Collings brings you a "chilling collection of eight tales... as scary as they are satisfying" (Publisher's Weekly). A family that wins tablet computers at a deal to good to be believed... A man who is sent across the universe, only to discover the most dangerous world in existence... A hitman who realizes that his greatest contract is going to be himself... A man whose child has been targeted by a cult, and must decide what he is willing to do to save those he loves... Michaelbrent Collings brings you eight tales of people whose lives -- and sometimes deaths -- have fallen into decay. Tales of the ordinary and the extraordinary, the outrageous and the banal. Tales of lives bright, lives dim. Stories of a universe fallen, where every happiness has its opposite, and every smile will be inevitably darkled... Readers rave: "A fantastic collection" - Heather Escobedo "A Must-Have Book for Michaelbrent Collings fans" - D. Hilton "I was blown away by this collection of stories." "I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves surprise endings and twisted tales." - Jeffrey C. "Stories that will haunt your dreams." - Kimberly A "I couldn't put it down." - Shirley "If you enjoy horror, you'll love this book." - Jason "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll scream! What more can you want?" - E. Taylor