Read the New York Times bestseller everyone is talking about. This beautiful hardcover gift edition with ribbon bookmark features a new preface by author and spiritual teacher Michael A. Singer. This special deluxe edition makes the perfect gift for any occasion.If you’ve ever wondered what it would it be like to free yourself from limitations, soar beyond your boundaries, and discover true inner peace and serenity, The Untethered Soul can show you the way. Whether this is your first exploration of inner space, or you’ve devoted your life to the inward journey, this book will transform your relationship with yourself and the world around you.By tapping into traditions of meditation and mindfulness, Singer shows how the development of consciousness can enable us all to dwell in the present moment and let go of painful thoughts and memories that keep us from achieving happiness and self-realization. Copublished with the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) The Untethered Soul begins by walking you through your relationship with your thoughts and emotions, helping you uncover the source and fluctuations of your inner energy. It then delves into what you can do to free yourself from the habitual thoughts, emotions, and energy patterns that limit your consciousness. Finally, with perfect clarity, this book opens the door to a life lived in the freedom of your innermost being.Visit www.untetheredsoul.com for more information.

Ninth century Norway -- a land shattered into thirty warring kingdoms, where a woman can seize power, if she is bold enough.Daughter of a Norse king, fifteen-year-old Åsa prefers swordplay to needlework and dreams of becoming a shield-maiden. When she spurns a powerful warlord, he attacks, killing her father and brother and taking her captive. To save her surviving people, Åsa must wed the murderer. To take vengeance, she must bide her time while secretly mastering the warrior's craft and the dark mysteries of sorcery.

The saga of Sirocco Wind from the East continues in this second book of the series. Cast adrift in a world torn by war, chaos and prejudice, Judith Itzchaki, Adrian D'Arcy, Brother Louis and their friends must make crucial decisions about their faith and lives as they travel to Constantinople to find the third scroll. Adrian D'Arcy longs to be reunited with Judith, but he is taken captive by ruthless men and is forced to play out a sequence of events, engineered by his old friend, Baron le Brun, that he hates. Brother Louis fulfills a lifelong dream of serving God in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, but finds he is not happy or complete in that service. He encounters a different kind of temptation when he embarks for Acre and meets a beautiful girl. These three characters, along with Leon Fitzgerald and others, find themselves separated, alone, struggling with inner conflicts, and facing desperate situations in the city of Constantinople as the Crusaders attack. Will evil men and wicked plans thwart their plans, thrust them into the vortex of evil and war, and destroy their lives? Will they ever meet each other again? Set against the background of the Fourth Crusade and the siege of Constantinople, Mistral Wind from the North will grip your mind, stir your heart, and give you answers to your deepest longings. In the pages of this book, you will learn the meaning of love, faith and courage for your own journey. This is a story you do not want to miss.

Marj Charlier's The Rebel Nun is based on the true story of Clotild, the daughter of a sixth-century king and his concubine, who leads a rebellion of nuns against the rising misogyny and patriarchy of the medieval church. At that time, women are afforded few choices in life: prostitution, motherhood, or the cloister. Only the latter offers them any kind of independence. By the end of the sixth century, even this is eroding as the church begins to eject women from the clergy and declares them too unclean to touch sacramental objects or even their priest-husbands. Craving the legitimacy thwarted by her bastard status, Clotild seeks to become the next abbess of the female Monastery of the Holy Cross, the most famous of the women's cloisters of the early Middle Ages. When the bishop of Poitiers blocks her appointment and seeks to control the nunnery himself, Clotild masterminds an escape, leading a group of nuns on a dangerous pilgrimage to beg her royal relatives to intercede on their behalf. But the bishop refuses to back down, and a bloody battle ensues. Will Clotild and her sisters succeed with their quest, or will they face excommunication, possibly even death? In the only historical novel written about the incident, The Rebel Nun is a richly imagined story about a truly remarkable heroine.

Searching. Journeys. Secrets. Love. This fourth book of the Keys to the Kingdom series has it all. While Judith searches for a the sacred temple treasures beneath the holy city of Jerusalem, Thomas and Gabrielle hunt for each other, and Lady Matilde leaves her home to find an old lady who holds an important message. Evil men, goaded by the lure of gold lurk in the shadows and attack. Adrian and Judith travel to England where they try to free two boys who are held hostage by King John. Judith seeks to find the fourth scroll that she believes was hidden in the kitchen garden wall of the castle in Lincoln, and Adrian is searching for the lost charter, written by Henry I and lost for centuries to use as a document that would limit the powers of the kings. They are separated when they flee the king's soldiers -- Judith flees to a safe haven near Shrewsbury, and Adrian is injured and almost captured by the soldiers of the king who want to try him for murder and kidnapping. He is assumed dead. Judith goes to Palestine in search of Micah and the temple treasures. Meanwhile, Thomas and Alonzo seek to find Gabrielle who is a slave of an Arab sheik. She is able to escape, but is followed closely by her two half-brothers who want to kill her and Thomas so they can inherit all of their father's wealth. Gabrielle is captured by them and held, yet she is able to escape. She has a baby, and in the escape, she is separated from her child as a friend takes the child to Jerusalem. Thomas finds her at last and they go to Jerusalem to search for the baby. Lady Matilde decides to go to Palestine to help Judith locate the woman, Josephine, who is the mother to Micah. Judith had given two of the scrolls to Micah and now he has disappeared. The Arab sect of the Assassins is on the trail to find the gold. They capture Judith and force her to take them to the treasure which was hidden below the city in the old water tunnels. Does Thomas and Gabrielle find their child and will he survive? Can Judith get free of her captors and not reveal the secret of the location of the temple treasures? Will Adrian be able to help Judith and not be killed himself? Will Lady Matilde find the old woman and survive her attacks of illness? This tale is one of arduous journeys, difficult days, pain, lost loves, and trouble. Yet it is one of the abiding and enduring love of God, peace in the midst of trials, and grace to cover all our mistakes.

An orphan leaves Dark Ages London to study medicine in Persia in this “rich” and “vivid” historical novel from a New York Times–bestselling author (The New York Times). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift—an acute sensitivity to impending death—never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer. Arab madrassas are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his perilous way to Persia. Christians are barred from Muslim schools, but claiming he is a Jew, he studies under the world’s most renowned physician, Avicenna. How the woman who is his great love struggles against her only rival—medicine—makes a riveting modern classic.The Physician is the first book in New York Times–bestselling author Noah Gordon’s Dr. Robert Cole trilogy, which continues with Shaman and concludes with Matters of Choice.

While Gina Lindsey and Chance Marshal enjoy a quiet sunshiny day in NE Washington, searching for a good hunting spot, Gina is suddenly fired upon by unknown assailants. She is wounded in the shoulder. She and Chance escape to the car, but are followed there. When Chance goes on a routine border patrol as his work as a border patrol agent later that day, they stop two people coming illegally across the border from Canada and Chance's partner is shot and almost killed. These two events launch Gina and Chance into an investigation that threatens their lives at every turn and tries their skills, faith, and endurance. Chance discovers evil at a weapon's retreat he attends out of Chewelah, Washington. As he and his friend try to escape the ranch, they are hunted like animals. They get out, but only at great risk and effort. Meanwhile, Gina goes undercover with the FBI to ferret out the organization that is involved with human trafficking and drugs. Gina takes a job at a school that is located on the Columbia River south of Northport, Washington. There she speaks with a girl she suspects has been captured and taken into slavery. She faces incredible odds as she tries to get hard evidence, uncover the gang involved in the sex slavery ring, and get out alive. In the midst of it all, she searches for her real mother who left her when she was three. In the climax, she has to rescue her Aunt Bobbi from the clutches of the gang, and find a way out of the ranch and school, taking one of the young girls with her. Chance and his two friends stake out Boundary Dam where they believe the gang is going to denotate a bomb that will destroy the dam and cast Seattle into darkness, allowing them to take over the government. Chance has to save Gina and also stop the gang from blowing up the dam. The ending holds several suprises as both Gina and Chance discover what they truly need in life and as they find the source of their joy. This book will keep you turning the pages until the very last word.

The first installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit Netflix series.\nIn the middle years of the ninth century, the fierce Danes stormed onto British soil, hungry for spoils and conquest. Kingdom after kingdom fell to the ruthless invaders until but one realm remained. And suddenly the fate of all England—and the course of history—depended upon one man, one king. \nFrom New York Times bestselling storyteller Bernard Cornwell comes a rousing epic adventure of courage, treachery, duty, devotion, majesty, love, and battle as seen through the eyes of a young warrior who straddled two worlds.

Jodi Fischer is excited to visit friends and missonaries to the First Nations people in Chilanko Forks, B.C. during spring break, traveling there with her best friend, Lexie Marshal, and her brother, Brian. But the mystery she encounters is more than she expected or wanted. Someone is trying to force the missionaries from the area and they are leaving broken feathers as a curse. Scot, the son of the missionary, and his sister, Dawn, join the others in a wild adventure to find who is behind the plot to drive the missionaries away, and to stop them. Things worsen as Jodi learns that the crooks are planning on killing the missionary men and burning the buildings. Danger lies at every turn as Jodi and her friends try to unravel this puzzling mystery. Will Jodi succeed in solving the mystery and helping the missionaries? Will she find the answer to the jealousy and anger that burns in her heart? Can she forgive those who have wronged her? Fasten your seat belts because this story is one wild ride.