Hermann Hesse understood trees to be symbols of transcendence and rebirth, of instinctive growth present in all natural life. This elegant collection of his essays, poems, and passages on trees, accompanied by thirty-one of his watercolor illustrations, reveals his inspired thoughts on nature, spirituality, and self-knowledge. Together, his writings and paintings mirror the seasons and landscapes as he experienced them, and help remind us that trees' annual rings are representations of our own days' struggle, happiness, and purpose.

In the author's words: They struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfill themselves according to their own laws . . . Whoever has learned to listen to trees no longer wants to be one. He wants to be nothing except who he is.

I have always had a connection with butterflies and other fleeting and ephemeral beauties, while I have never succeeded in maintaining permanent, committed and so-called solid relationships, writes Hermann Hesse in a letter from 1926. This preference, occasionally resembling an elective affinity, for flowers and butterflies, that are of everlasting things, a fleeting allegory - as he says in one of his poems, has left its mark on Hesse's entire oeuvre.

For fans of One Dark Window and Divine Rivals comes a dark, delicious gothic fantasy about a woman who vows to vanquish the creatures of the dark haunting their villages.

But the blood coursing through her veins holds a secret...

When Amalie stabs Theo Vallon in the heart with an ash spike, she finally proves her uncle wrong: Vampires do exist, and she will be the one to vanquish them.

When Theo attacks her alone late that night, she comes face to face with her deadly mistake. He can't die, at least not in the way the legends proclaimed, and her life will be payment for her naivety.

Instead, Theo offers her a bargain. The truth about her bloodline for help only she can offer him.

He swears they both want the same thing. His death.

But the curse of the Shadow won't release its claws that easily, and creatures of the dark are better known for seduction than honesty.

Amalie can't relinquish her chance to avenge her mother's death and rid the region of the vampire's dark plague, but as her blood surges toward the darkness she was created to satisfy, she realizes she may have traipsed willingly into the spider's den.

And she may not want to retreat.

Living a healthy lifestyle is not always easy. The conflicting health advice can feel overwhelming. Tapestry of Health takes the complex world of healthy living and gives you a set of clear, uncomplicated health principles that will show you how to feel your best and thrive, no matter your starting point.

The book shares practical and easy-to-implement health plans that will help you:
- transform your health and weight
- improve your nutrition
- optimize your sleep
- manage your stress

Doctor Monti and Doctor Bazzan are clinical and academic pioneers in the emerging medical specialty of integrative medicine. They have started the first-ever department of integrative medicine at a US medical school. In their book they share the principles and health plans they have used with their own patients over the last two decades to create transformative results. Their approach to health integrates all aspects of well-being, including the physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social, and nutritional.

They present here evidence-based restorative approaches and emerging cutting-edge strategies. They also offer a new perspective on how we view wellness in a way that reflects the shift from seeking medical care only when we are sick to one when we mindfully take responsibility for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. All this makes Tapestry of Health your partner on your path to optimal wellness.

The new collection of short stories from Oddity Prodigy Productions captures that feeling of magic on city streets, just out of the corner of your eye. Included in these pages are tales of fairies, witches, trolls, gods, dragons and even geese that give you a glimpse of a world that is more than meets the eye.

There are stories about nightclubs that cater to a different kind of clientele, stories about secret wars going on beneath our feet, stories about rediscovering what it means to be alive in a world that wants to grind you down, all this and more awaits.

Join us as we take a walk, Beneath the Yellow Lights.

This story has haunted me since I was a child, begins Anne Sinclair in a personal journey to find answers about her own life and about her grandfather's, Léonce Schwartz. What her tribute reveals is part memoir, part historical documentation of a lesser known chapter of the Holocaust: the Nazi's mass arrest, in French the word for this is rafle and there is no equivalent in English that captures the horror, on December 12, 1941 of influential Jews--the doctors, professors, artists and others at the upper levels of French society--who were then imprisoned just fifty miles from Paris in the Compiègne-Royallieu concentration camp. Those who did not perish there, were taken by the infamous one-way trains to Auschwitz; except for the few to escape that fate. Léonce Schwartz was among them.

Doctors Newberg and Monti's team at Thomas Jefferson University's Marcus Institute of Integrative Health are at the forefront of research in brain functioning and applications of the most advanced understanding in real-world strategies to expand options for optimizing our complex neurophysiology.

Their findings show that optimal brain health is achievable by successfully weaving together a tapestry of our bio-psycho-social-spiritual dimensions. Brain Weaver also coincides with a decades-long surge in the public's interest in whole-person treatments--body, mind and spirit evidence-based integrative therapies that include pharmaceuticals, electromagnetics, nutrition and meditation. Brain Weaver's timeliness is all the more important now to address a new paradigm for post-pandemic wellness that emphasizes our individual and collective responsibility for proactive healthcare

For over fifty years the Shah Pahlavi dynasty ruled Iran until Ayatollah Khomeini's 1979 Islamic Revolution seized power and began its own reign of tyranny. The questions about the revolution shape The Golden Cage while the answers shed light on Islamic Iran's current events and tell us why it strives for nuclear energy, chants Death to Israel, and claims to be the most powerful force in the Middle East and Muslim world.

History perhaps is best described through life stories we each can hold dearly. The Golden Cage is one such story about three brothers the author knew through their sister, Pari, a childhood friend. Each brother subscribes to a different political ideology that tears Iran and their lives apart. As Pari observes, her brothers live deluded lives in golden cages of ideology. These words mark the beginning of this story, illuminating the multifaceted, oppressive Iran of today and years past.

Along the ancient Silk Road where Europe, Asia, and Russia converge stands the four-thousand-year-old homeland of a peaceful people, the Uyghurs. Their culture is filled with music, dance, family, and love of tradition passed down by storytelling through the ages.

For millennia, they have survived clashes in the shadow of China, Russia, and Central Asia. Rebiya Kadeer's courage, intellect, morality, and sacrifice give hope to the nearly eleven million Uyghurs worldwide on whose behalf she speaks as an indomitable world leader for the freedom of her people and the sovereignty of her nation.

Her life story is one of legends: as a refugee child, as a poor housewife, as a multimillionaire, as a high official in China's National People's Congress, as a political prisoner in solitary confinement for two of nearly six years in jail, and now as a political dissident living in Washington, DC, exiled from her own land.

Set in what was then contemporary Russia at the turn of the century, in a large port town on the Black Sea, The Prodigal Child is a story of a boy with a gift for composing poetry and songs--his inspiration drawn from within--who attracts the attention of a Princess. This wealthy and sophisticated woman rescues Baruch from his hard life, though it is one he also adores as a Jewish boy coming of age in his Orthodox Jewish community. But his freedom turns into a prison for him as he hopelessly falls in love with the Princess, who has no interest in the boy other than for the entertainment he provides her with his art. Falling deeper and yet with no rescue this time, he becomes ill and in his throes loses his gift, the very reason he had met the Princess in the first place. Of no use to her any longer, he is returned to his family to suffer tragic consequences.

In this book it is discovered that the simplest constructable theory of balanced derangements, internally based on geometry's minimal volume complement (the hyperbolic figure eight knot) externally counterbalanced as the n-hypersphere of maximal volume, defines an arena projected under 5 perpetual actions (time, space, charge, mass and temperature) with Planck constant boundaries. The external charge and mass boundaries of that minimal arena partition into the exact charge and mass values that define the fundamental particles of matter. And the 44 derangements of this 5-dimensional arena define the constants of Nature. In other words, the partition parameters of the simplest possible self-balanced geometry precisely define the constructive parameters of physical reality (the parameters of quantum field theory and general relativity).

A starving young immigrant doctor of Italian and Greek descent, Dario Asfar struggles to establish his practice, and is desperate to provide for his wife and newborn son. When the vulgar, self-indulgent French aristocrat Philippe Wardes dismisses his personal physician's advice to abstain from alcohol and gambling, he turns to Dr. Asfar for a second opinion. Understanding the opportunity before him, Dario obliges Wardes, and others like him, knowing well that the rich want to eat of the forbidden fruit without paying for the sin. At first Dario's plan is just for survival, but soon he begins to enjoy increasing rewards by selling himself as a master of souls who can miraculously cure restless minds, and in so doing sheds light on the lies we tell ourselves in the name of family and love.

Coming to Life is a remarkable journey through developmental biology that reveals miraculous processes in the microscopic world of cells. Through an accounting of groundbreaking discoveries, Christiane Nusslein-Volhard tells us many answers to historical and contemporary questions in science. For example, she brings us the newest knowledge about embryonic forms, explains the genetic mechanisms that influence adult development of all animals, and shares insights into the ethical standards society moist uphold in the face of new scientific discoveries.

As the author leads us from laboratory research to its applications in human beings, we also come to understand why children look like their parents, how an embryonic cell knows to become an eye rather than an eyelash, and other incredible influences hat result in variety in life. Complete with her own hand-drawn illustrations, Coming to Life gives a rare opportunity to understand a Nobel Prize-winner's passion for science in concise, understandable language. 55 b/w illustrations.

RE: INVENTIONS COME IN ALL SHAPES AND SIZES

It starts with a dose of curiosity, a dash of entitlement and a measure of courage

RE: INVENT YOUR LIFE! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? is for those who dare to dream and who question where they are in life. It captures the real perspectives of people who have experienced profound Ah-Ha Moments. From Fortune 500 C-Suite Executives and Entrepreneurs, to Exhausted Dads, Homemakers and Artists, their stories encourage readers to define what they REALLY want to do with their one and only fabulous life, and gives them the inspiration to DO it.

Inside, you'll find over 26 action-oriented Power Tools to:

- Let go of fear

- Discover that change creates opportunities

- Connect with yourself in a new way

- Identify and dismantle the excuses that keep you stuck

Whether it's creative, professional, spiritual, emotional or physical, Reinvention is possible within any realm. This is the consummate guidebook to getting started.

#HappyReinventing

Fonchito is a little boy with his heart set on winning the affection of his classmate Nereida. She is beautiful, and all he hopes for is her permission to kiss her on the cheek. But she is shy and agrees under only one condition: that Fonchito bring the moon to her. Bring her the moon? What is Fonchito to do? And in that moment his love inspires him to find a way to do the impossible.

This first children's book by Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the world's greatest writers, is an enchanting story about the magic in discovering how high you can reach for those you love, even if they ask for the moon.

I've always been into number one.

The Great One. 1's on the Enneagram. Beyonce's first solo album.

And relationships? One night only seems to be my preferred status. I'm sure a therapist would have opinions, but I boil it down to this: my schedule is slammed as a pharma rep, and I get bored easily.

And I might only be attracted to F-boys.

So, imagine my momentary psychotic break when I come face-to-face with the one hockey player I broke my unofficial rule for. While being treated in urgent care.

Our TWO no-name hookups were months ago, and I had zero idea he was the captain of Pucks Deep, our rival hockey team. The guy all the Snowballs players have a deep-seated grudge against.

Now, all of it is back to bite me because I just found out Jordan has a connection to one of Alberta's hardest-to-reach hospitals. To make things worse? The practice arena for Pucks Deep is under renovation, and their team is forced onto the same ice as the Snowballs.

In order to meet my sales goals, I need to get my addiction treatment drug on the formulary at Jordan's hospital.

But that means fraternizing with the enemy.

While somehow keeping it a secret from my Snowball family.

I'm the number one sales rep in the province, and the Snowballs are MY number one team. I need Jordan's help to keep the first title. But if anyone finds out about us? He might knock me out of the running for the second...

What happens on the island stays on the island...

Spending a month on Love Island for wolf shifters is not my idea of a good time. I'm about to start my second year of law school, and instead of banking hours at a coveted internship, I'm stuck sipping pina coladas on a white sand beach in the middle of the Caribbean.

Okay, yeah. I hear how that sounds.

But hear me out. The whole point of this island? It's a glorified dating show. I have to spend each night with a new, single, testosterone-fueled alpha in a private beach hut because the Council of Wolves believes mating bonds are on the fritz.

Why did I say yes to this? Because my dad made me a deal: he'll pay off ALL of my student loans if I endure one season at Wolf Island.

I had a plan. A good plan that would keep me from getting dragged into someone else's love story. But then my skin starts buzzing around Lukas, and he gets this idea in his head...

He says we're perfect allies since he doesn't want to find a mate either. If we can stay together, we can enjoy our month in paradise without the awkward first dates.

It seems like a perfect plan.

Until Lukas paints on my skin and my lungs forget how to work.

Until the directors change our two twin beds into a single queen.

Until my never-present wolf starts stirring under the surface...

I thought my nightmare was over. I was dead wrong.

I was sure I did the right thing by trying to take the relic dagger from Nathan Black, but it turns out, I was walking right into his trap for my friend Evelyn. Now Nathan's gone, but he used the dagger to mark my skin before Rowan defeated him as alpha.

Even though I'm home safe, the wound won't heal, and my life is unraveling.

Now, I'm being hunted by Kael, a deadly mercenary with orders to finish what the dagger started. He's cold, ruthless, and the last person I need in my life. But when he corners me, ready to strike, something unexpected happens-he hesitates.

Kael isn't just any enemy. He's my fated mate.

But instead of salvation, this bond feels like a curse. Kael's mission is to end my life. He believes the bond we feel is being caused by the dagger, and if we can sever the bond between my blood and the relic, both of us can go our separate ways.

I hope to gods he's right.

Because even though I begin to crave him, body and soul, I can't have a rogue wolf as my mate.

Fate doesn't exist. Not for me, anyway.

I've survived as a Sigma for years. Relying on myself through my job as an EMT helping those who can't help themselves.

Something my pack never afforded me, even when they knew the cruelty of our Alpha.

But when I receive word that shifters are unaccounted for, and my best friend is one of the missing?

I have to go back.

I expected to face some of my demons at the pack gathering, but I didn't expect the rival Alpha to stare at me like that. I didn't expect him to know my name, and I definitely didn't anticipate him showing up at my hotel room after dark.

What could Rowan Steele want with someone like me? Especially when my Alpha already turned on him once, and Nathan Black wouldn't think twice at ripping out Rowan's throat for touching property that wasn't his to claim...

He leans against the doorway, filling the frame so only a sliver of moonlight slips through. What are we going to do about this?

I scoff, backing up a step. About you crossing Kitimat territory?

I haven't crossed anything. This is neutral land.

I'm Kitimat territory. You're standing in my room.

His eyes bore into mine, like flecks of onyx. I thought you didn't belong to anyone...