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  • The Call of the Orphanage Kissing Gate
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    The Call of the Orphanage Kissing Gate
    Marcus Overington

    The Call of the Orphanage Kissing Gate will captivate your attention as you take a youthful journey with a mischievous boy called Mark.


    Mark’s father died when he was two years old; he was placed in the care of what was then called Denbighshire County Council.


    This book tells true, gripping stories of the adventures and antics that Mark and his close friends, Pigeon and Kipper, get up to. There is a plethora of humour and emotion in store for you as you join Mark on his adventures.


    A white steel kissing gate was the entrance to the orphanage in Ruthin, North Wales, and when Mark walked through for the first time, it slammed shut, claiming him for the orphanage. Today, this kissing gate is all that remains of the original boundary fence, and it is featured on the front cover.


    The book gives the reader an extraordinary insight into the emotions and drama of being fostered out and living life in an orphanage in the 1950s.


    When Mark leaves the orphanage, he passes through the gate one final time and is released from the call of the orphanage kissing gate.

    £9.99
  • The Word According To Gordon Brittas
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    The Word According To Gordon Brittas
    Donna Lloyd

    Join Donna Lloyd as she takes you on a guided tour through the entire seven series of The Britta’s Empire.


    Through this jaunt she provides a religious commentary on each episode, giving an explanation of the biblical references, as well as sharing her insights into the chaos and mayhem of Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre.


    This book, as Gordon Brittas would say, is ‘Semper Omnibus Facultas’ – ‘Open to All’. Written for anyone who would like to explore this 1990s comedy series and the religious context it includes.


    It’s fun, fast and fascinating. So, sit back and enjoy an eeeeexcellent journey as we lunge from disaster to disaster under the infuriating, but lovable, manager of Gordon Brittas.


    ***


    ‘…a thoughtful and insightful exploration of a most unexpected aspect of The Brittas Empire. I hope everyone who reads it enjoys it as much as I did!’

    – Andrew Norris

    £16.99
  • Snowflakes of Light – Volume 2
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    Snowflakes of Light – Volume 2
    Basilio Bulgaro

    Our troubled times made me reconsider my path from antiquity to today. I wanted to answer the questions that excite every person: Why was I born? Why have I lived? Why will I die?


    To answer them, I spent ten years researching more than a thousand years of human history and writing a 1,100-page historical saga with mystical elements. This answer is enough for me. By telling people this, I hope to inspire them to answer their own questions. May they remember that they are Snowflakes of Light, brought into this world devoid of Deities.


    That is why the book is called Snowflakes Light. Snowflakes are delicate, airy, sophisticated, and fragile. They can only exist in a certain environment: the Material Ocean. It was created by the Great Lord of the White Light, a place where our trials and errors in spiritual growth would be within reasonable limits.


    The Material Ocean is actually a vast cage where we learn to fly so we can embark on the Eternal Journey to the Great Radiance—our natural environment.


    This monstrously large cage is not to the taste of the High Lords of Light and Darkness. They believe we have lied to ourselves and made the wrong choice by accepting life in a limited space, following the White Master’s Will. The security of the Material Ocean makes us cling to this way of being, reincarnate many times, and ignore our true nature.


    We remain in separate, livable realities, afraid to take responsibility for flight to the Light of the Infinite. The Dark Radiant armies are tearing down the prison of our existence to be absolutely free, and we are desperately defending it. You will find out how this happens when you read the book.

    £17.99
  • The Peace Sutras
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    The Peace Sutras
    Stephen Sturgess

    We stand at a crossroads in human history. Our technological power has outpaced our spiritual maturity. This book offers not just analysis but a way forward through personal transformation that leads to global change.


    The solutions presented here are radical because they go to the root. They don’t ask you to change your beliefs but to question the very thoughts that sustain conflict. They don’t demand you become perfect, but to recognise the peace already within you.


    Against the bleak canvas of conflict and war, the call for peace and harmony emerges not as a naive dream but as the essential, life-affirming truth of our spiritual nature. Peace is far more than the absence of conflict and war; it is the active cultivation of wholeness, connection, and respect for the inner Self of every being.


    The persistent failure of national leaders to achieve true and lasting peace, despite countless summits, treaties, and declarations, points to a profound deficiency far deeper than political miscalculation or resource scarcity: spiritual ignorance.


    This is not merely a lack of religious adherence but a fundamental disconnect from the direct, experiential knowledge of the inner Self… the silent, boundless awareness that is the very source and substance of peace itself.

    £9.99
  • The Gathering of a 'Peculiar' People
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    The Gathering of a 'Peculiar' People
    Rosalie West

    “The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”

    (John F Kennedy, President of the United States)


    Since its inception nearly two hundred years ago, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly referred to as the Mormons) has been subjected to continuous persecution: members imprisoned and murdered, their homes looted, and their churches burnt, sometimes with the approbation of government authorities.


    Few people, however, realise that during the nineteenth century, this ‘American’ church was in fact mainly British. Tens of thousands of British citizens became converts, mostly choosing to ‘gather’ in America.


    There, the Saints’ unity in religious, political, and economic belief aroused animosity among their neighbours, escalating into violent confrontation. In 1848, encouraged by a state extermination order, a mob drove them out of Illinois. What followed was a historic migration across the plains of North America to a desert valley in the Rocky Mountains, founding what is now the State of Utah.


    Over the next few years, thousands more followed, many walking 1,300 miles and suffering severe hardship on the way. From the Salt Lake Valley, they spread outwards, settling over six hundred towns and cities, including Las Vegas and San Francisco.


    This is their story, that of the British Latter-day Saints: their background, conversion, decision to ‘gather’, and experiences as pioneers in the ‘Wild West’.


    £12.99
  • Being Normal
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    Being Normal
    Toussaint Bama

    What if the greatest teacher of your life were already within you?


    Thirty-seven trillion cells are cooperating right now in your body, without conflict, without any hierarchy of domination, without internal competition. Each one plays its role with faithfulness, serves the whole without asking anything in return, and receives from the whole exactly what it needs. None seeks to be extraordinary. All are ordinary. And it is this silent accumulation of ordinary acts accomplished with accuracy that produces the most extraordinary miracle of all: life.


    This book was born from a spontaneous dialogue between a physician devoted to wisdom and an attentive intelligence. From reflection to reflection, three foundations emerge—example, observation, andconstantly gentle and supple attention—then deeper lessons on intention, freedom, responsibility, collaboration, respect, and the art of being normal. Each lesson is born from the previous one, naturally, as the body itself teaches.


    The path leads from cells toward the laws of life, from the laws of life toward the freedom of intention, and from intention toward trust in the source of all.


    The body does not theorize. It demonstrates. One need only look at it with the right eyes.

    £7.99
  • This is the Path I walked On
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    This is the Path I walked On
    Mary Kay

    Sometimes, when I least expect it, the memories come rushing in—moments from a life shaped by loss, courage and resilience.


    From my father Bill’s beginnings in Yorkshire, my mother’s quiet strength, and life aboard a cattle ship. This is the story of two remarkable people and the family they built across oceans.


    Through New Zealand’s timber, English coal towns, and life in Australia. And hardships that bound us together.


    My beautiful Alsatian, Bindie. The wonders of Airbus nights and the comfort of Sunday lemonade beer with Dad.


    With warmth and tenderness, this memoir celebrates ordinary endurance and small joys that make life unforgettable.

    £11.99
  • Embrace the Magic Within
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    Embrace the Magic Within
    Krishna Dass

    The words we speak have the power to uplift someone; in the same way, some words we speak have the power to destroy and ruin an innocent person. Use your words carefully, not wilfully, for it has the power to destroy an innocent life.


    Yet well-spoken words can inspire lives.


    Embracing the magic within is essential for building good character, a good foundation, and thus becoming stronger than yesterday.


    One must not limit oneself.


    The thoughts carefully written in this book are to help you understand your potential. You are worth much more than what you think you are. Never let others decide what your self-worth is. It doesn’t matter wherever you are in life. You have the power within you to rise above all…

    £16.99
  • Tributaries of Consciousness
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    Tributaries of Consciousness
    Bruce Wilson PhD and Lizbeth Wilson PhD

    “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”

    – Albert Einstein


    Tributaries of Consciousness is a selective cross-section of journeys inspiring you toward an increased understanding of how your subjective experiences come about.


    While travelling through these pages, on your river of awareness, you will encounter tributaries of experience that trigger your consciousness and illuminate your understanding.  

    £9.99
  • From My Inside Out!
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    From My Inside Out!
    Mick Hollis

    Some thoughts arrive quietly. Others leave a mark that stays for a lifetime.


    In From My Inside Out!, Mick Hollis opens a window into the experiences that shape us all—love and loss, grief and healing, hope and resilience, and memory and legacy. Through a collection of original reflections and thought-provoking quotes, he explores the emotions that often live beneath the surface, giving voice to feelings many struggle to put into words.


    At times comforting, at times challenging, these pages encourage readers to pause, reflect, and see life from a different perspective. Whether you are searching for inspiration, navigating change, remembering someone dear, or simply seeking a moment of connection, you may find a thought here that feels as though it was written just for you.


    Honest, heartfelt, and deeply human, From My Inside Out! is more than a collection of words—it is an invitation to explore the moments, memories, and emotions that make us who we are.


    Because sometimes the deepest truths come not from the world around us, but from within.

    – Mick Hollis

    £6.99
  • Thomas: One Family, Two Journeys
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    Thomas: One Family, Two Journeys
    Wendy A Hughson

    Thomas: One Family, Two Journeys is based on a true story. This book is filled with adventure, hope and despair but ultimately never-ending love.


    Meet Thomas, a twenty-six-year-old man setting out to find a new life on the other side of the world. When war breaks out, a sense of duty makes him return to Britain to serve his country, where fate would have it he will fall in love. After the war Thomas returns with his family to resume his wonderful new life in Newfoundland, or so he hoped.


    Meet Wendy, Thomas’s granddaughter who has recently retired after working in the local cancer centre in Edinburgh. Looking for a memorable adventure to celebrate her ruby wedding anniversary, Wendy and her husband, Dave, set sail on a luxury cruise to find out more about her family’s time in Newfoundland. Her very own ‘Who do you think you are?’


    Thomas and Wendy unite in Newfoundland, albeit one hundred years apart. What really happened to Thomas? Will Wendy get the answers she is looking for?

    £11.99
  • Danger on the Beach
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    Danger on the Beach
    Geoff Brown

    Chris and Geoff are a rare couple who have dedicated a lifetime to saving lives at sea. Serving with HM Coastguard for 25 years, they were involved in over 1,000 rescues, covering all aspects of maritime search and rescue. The first few years were spent on watchkeeping duties on Cornwall’s north coast, in addition to being part of the cliff rescue team. During their career they received three Chief Coastguard Commendations, and the team achieved the Department of Transport Rescue Shield, the highest achievement in the service, and five commendations from the RSPCA for the rescue of animals. Chris also worked at the MRCC Falmouth as a radio operator. The team was featured in the BBC 999 series and also “Saving Lives at Sea”. Throughout this time they somehow managed to fit in with the raising of a family of seven children, who were even trained to call out the team when a casualty occurred.


    This book of their escapades tells the story of many of these incidents, from the sad to the humorous and from the ridiculous to the downright dangerous. It also reflects that the team had other “normal” lives, but with amazing characters, they were all committed to dropping everything to save a life, whether searching for a Russian spy ship, a cliff rescue, a vessel ashore in the surf or the loss of a dear friend.


    It’s a must for anyone going to the coast, as the underlying message of sea and beach safety may just save your life!

    £9.99

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