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Essential Kundalini Yoga: An Invitation to Radiant Health, Unconditional Love, and the Awakening of Your Energetic Potential
by Karena Virginia
by Karena Virginia
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date: Feb 01, 2017
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Giveaway dates: Dec 01 - Jan 07, 2017
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Grace Trail: Find Your Footing and Move Toward The Life You Were Meant To Live
by Anne Jolles (Goodreads Author)
by Anne Jolles (Goodreads Author)
Release
date: Nov 20, 2015
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Giveaway dates: Nov 23 - Dec 18, 2016
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The Adventures of Form and Content: Essays
by Albert Goldbarth
by Albert Goldbarth
Release
date: Jan 03, 2017
An astounding work of doubles by Albert Goldbarth, “a dazzling virtuoso who can break your heart” (Joyce Carol Oates)
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To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.
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... by treating nature as exterior and inferior to humans we saw no harm to ourselves in polluting the soil, the plants, the air and the water. We did not notice the effect of our pollution on whatever walked over it, ran across it, climbed up it, flew through it, or swam in it.
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