Everywhere, Tradition is collapsing. Local fundamentalist reactions - hailed by some as evidence that 'God is back' - cannot hope to stem the flood. In our time, Don Cupitt says, religion is no longer about gaining immortality, or the forgiveness of our sins: it is about becoming reconciled to our life’s transience, to time and death.

At 40, and the mother of lots of children, I feel more energized, refreshed and motivated then I have felt in many years. My youngest sweet baby just turned a year and I am back at my pre-pregnancy weight and have been since she was 2 months old. I do my very best to follow these simple, healthy steps each and every day, and when I don’t follow my regimen or leave steps out, I certainly know it! I have trained my body to want good things and I am thankful when the not-so-wise choices make me feel….blah! It makes me even more motivated to stay the course to keep myself healthy and young at heart!

Volume I contains fifty-four stories. Volume II, which is a continuation of Volume I, has forty-two stories. The stories are stand-alone stories; that is, they are independent from each other so that these books can be read in any sequence the reader chooses. There is no particular reason why they should be read in the way the author sequenced them. The reader can select stories based on the time there is to read one or more stories. The books are designed for busy people who need to escape from the problems of work, family, or self-imposed rituals for governing activities of the day. Please read these stories to explore and enhance that which is not yet part of your day or evening accomplishments.

The Fountain Pen Plus Five is a bouquet of half a dozen stories with bizarre twists, guaranteed to keep readers glued till the last page has been turned. Pandit recounts the story of an urchin who sold movie tickets at a premium for a living, or so the world thought, and his passion to help friends even by risking physical abuse. But then, by his own admission, he risked himself every single day. The Heiress is the tale of a middle aged housewife and her relationship with an old widower, scandalous to few, innocuous to others; was she an angle or a demon? ORC4851 is the story of a teenager obsessed to learn driving and how he spontaneously uses an opportunity to fulfill his goals and grows up in the process. The Owl is a dark tale of sexual promiscuity, infidelity, and vendetta. Brown and Grey is the story of a retired family man getting sucked into the virtual world of cyber sex, threatening to destroy his peace and family. The Fountain Pen is the outrageous tale of a woman and the mystery behind her eminence in the world of mathematics, her association with a peddler and the vintage fountain pen that forever changed her life.

The 2020 Lent Book from Bloomsbury explores the vivid imagery of the Psalms and the Gospels as a path into scriptural prayer. Scripture, and especially the Book of Psalms, has always formed the substance of the daily prayer of Christian monks and nuns. Monastic men and women spend more time among the scriptures each day than in most other activities. How do such regular interactions with the texts of the Old and New Testaments help us renew our Christian imaginations; how might these reflective encounters enable all of us to discover the wind of the Spirit, the fountain of living water and the fire from which God speaks, within the printed pages of our Bibles? In The Wind, the Fountain and the Fire, Mark Barrett, a Benedictine monk of Worth Abbey, offers a Lenten pathway through scripture, opening the gateway of sacred imagery as a mode of prayerful reflection. For each week of Lent he has selected a different image: the Dust; the Mountain; the Well; the Light and the Tomb. In these richly imagined biblical symbols we are invited to find keys which can unlock both our experience of scripture and our understanding of our own hearts.

Turbo battles an overflowing water fountain of doom in the ninth Super Turbo book! The Superpet Superhero League has finally figured out how to reach the water fountain all the students use. This is so much easier than battling Whiskerface and his Rat Pack every time they go to the cafeteria to quench their thirst! But as soon as the last superpet has taken their turn at the drinking fountain, they all realize they have a big problem. The water won’t stop flowing. Is this actually a terrifying Fountain of Doom?! How will the superpets stop the fountain from flooding the school? And which of the pets can even swim?! Find out in Super Turbo’s latest adventure! With easy-to-read language, illustrations, and comic panels on almost every page, the Super Turbo chapter books are perfect for emerging readers!

The Shinning boys have always followed the straight and narrow path through life - never deviating from the course for the greater good, but never fully applying their abilities to fight for it either. That all changed the day their younger sister became the victim. The problem: the villain they have to face to save her is time itself. The only possible solution: a handful of myths about artifacts believed to have the ability to reverse the grip of time. Their one lead sets them on a quest to find an ancient civilization of Mermaids to unlock the secrets of the Fountain of Youth. What they discover along the way is more than they could have ever anticipated. The three boys will come face-to-face with their own demons as they are forced to make a choice. What price are they willing to pay to save their sister?