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Working with Your Soul is an inspiring and uplifting new book for anyone who is seeking a deeper and higher context for their life. Using case histories from her rich experience as counsellor, psychotherapist and spiritual consultant, bestselling author Ruth White seeks to define both soul and spirit. She demonstrates how life itself can be seen as guidance from our souls, whether by the gifts it holds for us, or the actual and metaphoric 'knocks on the head' and 'kicks from behind' that challenge our direction and our creative relationship to living. Working with Your Soul is a book for those who long to know more about the intentions of their souls for this present lifetime, to define their life purpose and to be guided more clearly about the meaning and lessons of life. In it, you will explore the following: What is soul and what choices does it make? How can I decode the messages from my soul? Evolution and karma; Being an ambassador for the soul's purpose; Soul contracts and how to change, modify, or re-negotiate them. Packed with practical exercises to help you work with your soul, this is an essential and much-needed book for our times.

In 1955, 13-year-old Lyric finds her whole life changing when her family moves from the hills of Virginia to a town in Michigan and her older sister, Summer, begins descending into mental illness.

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In a time and place where women have few choices in life, Lorelei Starr, a dreamy blue-eyed descendant of the first English and Scotch-Irish settlers in the Virginia hills, looks at the distant horizon from her isolated mountaintop home, and wonders if there is something out there that will fill the hollow place in her chest.Throughout childhood she wavers between two fantastic realms of imagination. One is a patch of tangled woods where the hopeless Old Thing hides and cries away the years. The other is the enchanted ice palace where the sleeping beauty waits for the kiss of the prince. Lorelei learns about love from her older siblings, who nurture her as their abusive father and distant mother cannot do. Daily she walks down the mountain to the school in the hollow. The rest of her time is filled with "woman's work".Memories of certain incidents come to haunt Lorelei - a sister being whipped by Dad, another being taken away to a sanitorium. Then there's the smell of strawberries, which are forever associated with a harsh blow from Mommie.But there are also moments of joy, such as the visit from the traveling peddler who touches her heart by showing her a bit of kindness, and her first visit to town when she rides in an automobile and sees a moving picture show.When Lorelei is ten, her mother dies needlessly. This death is followed by another one that carves a deeper wound, and she plans her escape from this bitter home. When the opportunity comes, Lorelei leaves behind everything familiar - family, kin, and the teacher who declares his love for her. As a teenager in the roaring twenties, Lorelei is swept into the carefree world of flappers, bobbed hair, the Charleston, the IT girl, and the notorious speakeasy. Most important she becomes a bit player in the high society world of old money. Here she meets a different kind of creature - men who are rich and handsome, well-bred and well-educated. One of them steals her heart away, but how can a simple wildflower ever compete with that exotic orchid by his side?On a trip back to Starr Mountain for yet another funeral, Lorelei comes to the realization that a girl must create her own choices in life, and she finally comes face to face with the promise of happiness.

In 1954, when mine closings bring an economic crisis to Way Down Deep, West Virginia, 13-year-old Ruby Jolene Hurley makes a birthday wish to find the treasure rumored to have been buried by one of the town's founders.

When Garnet's mother decides it's time for a change, she drops off her daughter at her aunt June's house in Black Rock, Virginia, while she goes to Florida to find a job. Garnet has never met her Aunt June, so she feels angry and abandoned. But Aunt June thinks Garnet is there for a reason. Each week, Garnet and June visit a different religious service as Aunt June, who has cancer, tries to find God. After a miraculous spiritual healing occurs and an unexpected visitor comes to town, Garnet learns the power of love and forgiveness, and what being a family truly means.

Ted Jarrett has been a central figure in Music City's thriving rhythm & blues scene since the 1950s, working as a hit songwriter, musician, producer, label chief, artist manager, talent scout, and disc jockey. You Can Make It If You Try provides a fascinating and instructive look at one man's drive to succeed in the world of music. In rich and frank detail, Jarrett and co-writer Ruth White describe the circumstances under which he discovered and nurtured top R&B talent; introduce the numerous musicians, nightclubs, record labels, and radio stations on the scene; and explain the inspiration behind Jarrett's best known songs. Jarrett's autobiography also offers an insightful look into the interaction of white and black musical cultures in Nashville and shares the personal challenges one man faced in pursuing a life of music.

"They Call Him Pastor reveals how the leadership of married men can be a resource for the healthy continuation of parish life. It focuses on twenty parishes, located in all four census regions of the United States, that are administered by married men (ten deacons and ten laymen). In each parish, the author conducted individual interviews with the deacons and the lay leaders, their wives, their children, the sacramental minister (priest), the bishops, and a representative group of parishioners. The research revealed that these parish leaders tended to practice collaborative leadership, and that their marital status was a key factor for the acceptance and cooperation of their congregations."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Drawing on personal experience, White shows how working with guides and angels can help reduce anxiety and bring about life changes. The book explains what guides and angels are, their purpose in our lives and contains a range of practical exercises to help make contact with them.