How did 2.3 billion people become overweight? How did heart disease, cancer, and other degenerative diseases become the leading causes of death worldwide? Our ancestors, especially our distant, Paleolithic ancestors, before the advent of agricultural, enjoyed remarkably robust health. What went wrong?During the twentieth century—the Dark Ages of nutrition—flawed nutritional theories gained widespread acceptance, prompting radical departures from traditional foods and time-honored f...

Pottersville does not celebrate Valentine's Day. It collects it.★★★★ “It held me spellbound until the very last page, leaving me eager for more.” -Literary TitanAfter her ballet career ends, Angie returns home, uncertain about her future. She takes a job behind the bar, hoping for a fresh start—but as Pottersville's legendary Valentine season begins, the town's pressure to "find true love" closes in.Fighting the expectation...

Wyatt Arden thinks he leads a pretty normal life. He lives on a boring, everyday farm outside of a sleepy little town called Ven, doing boring chores for his mom when he’s not in school. He yearns for a chance to enlist in the Imperial Army and bring some excitement to his life, but he’s sure that will never happen. Wyatt soon learns that it only takes one strange dream for everything normal about his life to change. In that dream, he envisions a beautiful, powerful sword, a blade linked t...

She struggles with regret and secrets. Forced to relive her past, can she rewrite her future?Veronica Silver’s life feels like an endless list of “what ifs?” Pregnant at sixteen, she was torn from the girl she loved and shoved into a loveless marriage with the father of her child. But her conflicted mind is in for a reboot when a piano falls out of the sky and triggers a harrowing journey down memory lane.Reviewing her actions with the help of a mysterious ...

If she notched her bedpost, it’d look like a ruler. But she knows she’ll only ever have one true love… until a trek through time proves her wrong.Ashley Silver is stuck in mourning. Since the woman of her dreams was killed outside a time-traveling pub, the stripper has been scattering ashes across the country—and drowning her sorrows in meaningless sex. Then, when a potion with the potential to resurrect her love shatters in her face, she doubles down on h...

A realm of gilded thrones. A land of tarnished dreams. One world, with two sides.The fate of seven kingdoms is at stake during an epic card game. A runner flees her broken marriage and barrels straight into her high school reunion. A housebroken husband trades his beloved beagle for a sad, gray donkey. And a brother and sister chase a ghost down a long and lonesome highway into the haunted forest of their past.Young men and the difficult women who save them...

Muriel had the chance of a lifetime and had spent a year planning for it. She was going to see something for the last time ever on Planet Earth and even though it was desperately sad, everyone on the Planet was jealous of her.What had humans done, again. Muriel thought that humans were a virus on the planet, killing and devouring as they went and what she was about to see was proof of that.A short story about the horrors of what we are doing to this world.

She’s going to be famous. Her dreams are within reach. And if it all comes to pass, she will be murdered…Boston, Massachusetts, 1990. Music is the one sure thing twelve-year-old Robin Gates has in her life. Though she’s disgusted by the looks she gets from grown male patrons, playing guitar and singing in her mother’s strange bar provides a path to her envisioned future. Until she reads a newspaper from 2006 that contains her obituary…As ...

Ayurveda is one of the World's oldest and most comprehensive systems of natural medicine, and is particularly useful for addressing the chronic conditions Western medicine finds difficult to treat. This authoritative book provides a comprehensive introduction to Ayurvedic medicine for the practitioner or student. The authors describe the foundations and principles of Maharishi Ayurveda in detail, and drawing on the latest scientific research into its efficacy, show what it can offer clinic...

In conjunction with many dedicated and visionary people from all over the world, Ronald J. Blanchett has spent the past 20 years working to bring sound healing and sound therapy into mainstream awareness. He couldn't be more excited about how all of this effort has paid off. All his sounds have been recorded in the highest audio quality to provide the best experience possible. Let go of anxiety and negative thoughts with this soothing, smooth, and deep-brain calming music. If you are feeli...

In this book, an international team of leading marine mammal scientists, with a remarkably diverse set of backgrounds and areas of expertise, lead you through a synthesis of current knowledge on baleen whales. Baleen whales are the largest animals ever to have lived on this planet. They also have the lowest and most intense voices on Earth, most likely evolved to take advantage of ocean acoustic transmission conditions so as to be detectable across ocean basins. Some baleen whales can live...

"Writer L. Carol Lewis and illustrator Christopher B. Clarke have created a picture book of "blessings," designed to impart an "attitude of gratitude" in every reader. The simple story line reminds children and adults of everyday reasons to be thankful. Touching on various subjects, including appreciating life, nature and family, the book imparts basic values without being too preachy. The theme is especially effective since it's told through the eyes of Little Lumpy Lulu, a school-aged ch...