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101+ Creative Journaling Prompts: Inspiration for Journaling and an Introduction to Art Journaling

101+ Creative Journaling Prompts is an inspiring collection of writing prompts (that you’ll actually want to use!) designed to help you dig deeper to discover more of your true self and to inspire you on those days where you aren’t quite sure what to write about. If you’re looking for a deeper connection with your journal, author and artist Kristal Norton sheds light on a more rewarding form of journaling with a brief introduction to art journaling and 20 bonus art prompts. She also shares pages of her creative journal that were inspired by the prompts in the book, showing how each prompt can be used and interpreted in many ways. This book is overflowing with inspiration: • 101 creative writing prompts that encourage introspection, great for traditional journaling as well as art journaling • Visual examples of prompts interpreted by the author • 20 quick and easy art prompts to get you started adding color and imagery to your journal • Bonus video of author and artist Kristal Norton creating an art journal page from start to finish using this book for inspiration • A PDF version of all the prompts in this book so that you can print, cut out, and put them in a jar for easy access when you’re feeling stuck

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The Gift of Inspiration for Women

Are we born inspired? If not, where do we find it, and when did we lose it? We are women helping women. Put wings on what’s in your heart and DreamSTRONG! Delight in this beautiful gift book and keep it close by—as you would a trusted companion. We’ve tucked surprises inside its covers. You will find more than words in this book. There are beautiful mandalas to color throughout and a gift bookmark in the front. Sacred and meaningful messages are whispered to you from within these pages; we know you will find them.

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Wild Animal Designs: 21 Wild Animal Patterns for Inspiration, Relaxation and Creativity

Wild Animal Designs

21 Wild Animal Patterns for Inspiration, Relaxation and Creativity

Are you ready to relieve stress and get creative? Our Wild Animal Designs: 21 Wild Animal Patterns for Inspiration, Relaxation and Creativity is exactly what you need. You’ll benefit by reducing your stress and anxiety after a long, hard day. Coloring has also been shown to increase your creativity. How does coloring help stress for adults? It’s been scientifically proven to help you take your attention away from your problems. This is the first step to stress relief. Because coloring regulates your amygdala, you get therapeutic relief from stress. You get a small dose of dopamine when you color which helps reduce anxiety and fear. Neuroscience has proven that when we stimulate this area of our brain to produce positive feelings, it can literally rewire our brains. Coloring can now be thought of as a very inexpensive and creative therapy session. Since it requires focus, even if you only color for a short period of time, it can improve symptoms associated with ADD. Why choose this coloring book? This book provides 21 patterns to provide you with the ultimate coloring experience. You get to be creative and be transported back in time to your carefree childhood days. It’s time to unwind with one of the most popular relaxation methods available: adult coloring. Find out for yourself just why adult coloring has become amazingly popular. Choose the best picture that suits your day and start coloring. Our digital version means that you can print out high quality digital images and color until your heart’s content!

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Maximize Your Child’s Bilingual Ability: Ideas and inspiration for even greater success and joy raising bilingual kids

Praised by parents of bilingual kids around the world…

“There are many resources out there for bilingual families, but Maximize Your Child’s Bilingual Ability is uniquely special.” —Ana Paula in the U.S.

“The most useful, practical, and motivating book on the market.” —Arancha in Spain

“Looks at bilingual upbringing from a different angle. Full of passion, enthusiasm, positivity, and interesting insights.” —Jana in the U.K.

“If you are a parent looking to raise your child with two or more languages, look no further. This is the book you need.” —Alisa in France

“A treasure trove of wonderful practical ideas and creative tips.” —Julia in the U.S.

“The perfect guidebook for our family’s ongoing multilingual journey.” —Jonathan in Japan

“An ideal read when you’re expecting, and a good present for future parents to a bilingual baby!” —Julie in the U.K.

“A very inspirational book. A must-read for bilingual families.” —Gabi in Argentina

Make the most of your bilingual journey!

Adam Beck, founder of the popular blog Bilingual Monkeys and the lively forum The Bilingual Zoo, provides a roadmap to greater success and joy raising bilingual kids in this practical and comprehensive guide for parents and teachers. A longtime practitioner of bilingual development in children, Beck shares the best of his personal experience as an educator and parent, offering a wealth of actionable advice in his engaging and empowering book.

Maximize Your Child’s Bilingual Ability will enable you to…

*Deepen your grasp of the key factors (including the two “core conditions”) for successfully nurturing a bilingual child

*Strengthen your efforts by taking even more mindful and effective action on a regular basis

*Boost your child’s language development, day by day, and bilingual ability over the years of childhood

*Empower your spirit and feel greater motivation, enthusiasm, and perseverance

*Experience a more joyful adventure with your child and a richer, closer relationship

Maximize Your Child’s Bilingual Ability is available as a paperback and e-book at Amazon and at many global Amazon sites.

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Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago

The heartbreaking story of the love affair between Boris Pasternak, the author of Doctor Zhivago, and Olga Ivinskaya—the true tragedy behind the timeless classic

When Stalin came into power in 1924, the Communist government began persecuting dissident writers. Though Stalin spared the life of Boris Pasternak—whose novel-in-progress, Doctor Zhivago, was suspected of being anti-Soviet—he persecuted Boris’s mistress, typist, and literary muse, Olga Ivinskaya. Boris’s affair with Olga devastated the straitlaced Pasternaks, and they were keen to disavow Olga’s role in Boris’s writing process. Twice Olga was sentenced to work in Siberian labor camps, where she was interrogated about the book Boris was writing, but she refused to betray the man she loved. When Olga was released from the gulags, she assumed that Boris would leave his wife for her but, trapped by his family’s expectations and his own weak will, he never did. 

Drawing on previously neglected family sources and original interviews, Anna Pasternak explores this hidden act of moral compromise by her great-uncle, and restores to history the passionate affair that inspired and animated Doctor Zhivago. Devastated that Olga suffered on his behalf and frustrated that he could not match her loyalty to him, Boris instead channeled his thwarted passion for Olga into the love story in Doctor Zhivago. 

Filled with the rich detail of Boris’s secret life, Lara unearths a moving love story of courage, loyalty, suffering, drama, and loss, and casts a new light on the legacy of Doctor Zhivago.

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The Changemaker Coloring Notebook: Stress Relief and Inspiration for a Life Lived in the Present Moment

Do you find yourself trying to carve out time to think and reflect, to tune into yourself? Do you love the calm and focus that comes when you are deeply immersed in coloring? Or, perhaps you seek a positivity boost or a return to simpler times. If you answered yes to any of these questions, then The Changemaker Coloring Notebook is for you. Thirty original illustrations are paired with inspirational quotes from The Changemaker Ripple Effect. Lined note pages provide space for a month of journaling or jotting down thoughts and ideas that emerge while drawing. …” I love that the drawings arise from nature images. I find the combination of the quotations and the natural imagery meditative and soothing. What a wonderful combination to help settle the mind and uplift the spirit. —Amy Colvin author of: Cultivating Compassion- Simple Everyday Practices for Discovering Peace and Resilience. …”I love the concept of this coloring book. It inspires you by quotes, allows you to relieve stress by coloring and being creative, and gives you a chance to jot down thoughts, ideas, distractions and your own favorite quotes to reflect on.” —Kathleen Teipner Sandoval, Director of Operations, The Children’s Cabinet & First Lady of Nevada. …”I LOVE Sarah Boxx’s The Changemaker Coloring Notebook. It’s not often that one gets so much sage advice in one place – presented in a way that’s inspiring and loving. So many of these quotes resonated: Ralph Waldo Emerson: “You can’t do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” Amelia Earhart: “The most effective way to do it is to do it.” John Muir: “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” But this isn’t just a book of quotes. It’s a coloring book of magical illustrations, mostly of nature, embedded in a notebook. Space to be inspired, think and reflect. I highly recommend Sarah Boxx’s The Changemaker Coloring Notebook.” —Barrie Atkin, President, Atkin & Associates, LLC

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The Long Steep Path: Everyday Inspiration from the Author of Pay It Forward

*Please note that all interior images are rendered in black and white. By Catherine Ryan Hyde, the bestselling author of DON’T LET ME GO and PAY IT FORWARD, this entertaining and life-affirming collection of autobiographical stories explores the rewards and challenges of building a happy life of self-knowledge and creative inspiration, from a writer who has been through it all.

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Some Smiles, Some Tears: stories of inspiration, compassion

Tim Moriarty wrote more than 500 Sunday columns over a 12-year period for several newspapers while serving as an English teacher and journalism professor. Each column is designed to encourage you to reflect, identify with and in some cases, shed a tear or brighten your day. From the Heartland, SOME SMILES, SOME TEARS, is written from his heart, often in first person, with themes that we deal with everyday within ourselves, our family, our friends and our community.