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  • Language: English

    Published by Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc), 2004

    0767916336 / 9780767916332

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    Paperback. Condition: Good. The purpose of meditation is to quiet the mind so that it can sink down into contemplation of its true nature. You cannot stop your mind by an act of will any more than you can stop the beating of your own heart. Some cultures describe mind as a drunken monkey, reeling from place to place with no rhyme or reason. Like meditation/ knitting calms the monkey down.I believe that in the quiet/ repetitive, hypnotic rhythms of creating craft, the inner being may emerge in all its quiet beauty. The very rhythm, of the knitting needles can become as incantatory as a drumbeat or a Gregorian chant.-- from The knitting SutraKnitting as prayer? Craft as spiritual path? In this wonderfully allusive story of the quest to master a craft, Susan Gordon Lydon's love of knitting and her search for spiritual insight become powerfully and lyrically intertwined.Lydon's journey begins when she knits a turquoise chenille sweater to help a broken bone in her arm knit. In pursuit of a perfect silver button for her sweater -- and a medicine man for her arm -- she ends up on a Navajo reservation where a community of women live by the proceeds of their craft in a unified cycle of livelihood, art, and spirituality. They remind Lydon of the women on the Shetland Islands who developed classic knitting patterns and of the women who gather at her local yarn shop. From old-fashioned quilting bees to the hundreds of knitters who communicate on the Internet, she recognizes in craftspeople the confluence of self, community, creativity, ritual, and the urge to beautify the everyday.Each new knitting project she begins and every new skill she masters bring her closer to serenity and insight that have sometimes eluded her through years of spiritual explorations. In one passage, her arm healed and her passion for knitting rekindled, Lydon finds herself selling old books and clothes to buy a particularly extravagant yarn. The red sweater it becomes represents the lessons in daring and self-trust she learns while crafting it. Even a bout with cancer (I particularly didn't want to die because I wanted to finish my Alice Starmore sweater) and the hiatus from knitting a tendinitis diagnosis demands guide her to take the lessons she has learned from knitting -- sitting still, focusing the mind, asking for help -- and apply them to the rest of her life.Dedicated to all the women who knit too much, Lydon's rich insights will delight and inspire all who seek the extraordinary in the everyday.…

  • Language: English

    Published by Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc), 2004

    0767916336 / 9780767916332

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    Paperback. Condition: Fair. The purpose of meditation is to quiet the mind so that it can sink down into contemplation of its true nature. You cannot stop your mind by an act of will any more than you can stop the beating of your own heart. Some cultures describe mind as a drunken monkey, reeling from place to place with no rhyme or reason. Like meditation/ knitting calms the monkey down.I believe that in the quiet/ repetitive, hypnotic rhythms of creating craft, the inner being may emerge in all its quiet beauty. The very rhythm, of the knitting needles can become as incantatory as a drumbeat or a Gregorian chant.-- from The knitting SutraKnitting as prayer? Craft as spiritual path? In this wonderfully allusive story of the quest to master a craft, Susan Gordon Lydon's love of knitting and her search for spiritual insight become powerfully and lyrically intertwined.Lydon's journey begins when she knits a turquoise chenille sweater to help a broken bone in her arm knit. In pursuit of a perfect silver button for her sweater -- and a medicine man for her arm -- she ends up on a Navajo reservation where a community of women live by the proceeds of their craft in a unified cycle of livelihood, art, and spirituality. They remind Lydon of the women on the Shetland Islands who developed classic knitting patterns and of the women who gather at her local yarn shop. From old-fashioned quilting bees to the hundreds of knitters who communicate on the Internet, she recognizes in craftspeople the confluence of self, community, creativity, ritual, and the urge to beautify the everyday.Each new knitting project she begins and every new skill she masters bring her closer to serenity and insight that have sometimes eluded her through years of spiritual explorations. In one passage, her arm healed and her passion for knitting rekindled, Lydon finds herself selling old books and clothes to buy a particularly extravagant yarn. The red sweater it becomes represents the lessons in daring and self-trust she learns while crafting it. Even a bout with cancer (I particularly didn't want to die because I wanted to finish my Alice Starmore sweater) and the hiatus from knitting a tendinitis diagnosis demands guide her to take the lessons she has learned from knitting -- sitting still, focusing the mind, asking for help -- and apply them to the rest of her life.Dedicated to all the women who knit too much, Lydon's rich insights will delight and inspire all who seek the extraordinary in the everyday.…

  • Language: English

    Published by Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed (edition First Edition), 2004

    0767916336 / 9780767916332

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  • Language: English

    Published by FT Press, 2009

    0137029012 / 9780137029013

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  • Language: English

    Published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

    1534626077 / 9781534626072

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    Paperback. Condition: Good. Can you find love in a hopeless place?Nobody would ever describe Scarlet Williams as a ray of sunshine, but that doesn't mean she deserves the flood that wipes out her basement flat, making her temporarily homeless.Enter Joy Hudson, local mayor & sunshine specialist, who opens her house to flood refugees and ends up with Scarlet on her doorstep. Two more opposing characters you couldn't fail to meet, and yet, somehow, they strike up a friendship. But when the rain stops and the sun comes out, could that friendship blossom into something more?Fans of contemporary lesbian romance will love Scarlet & Joy's story, bursting with real characters and shot through with British wit. From the international best-selling author of>London Calling and>This London Love comes a heart-warming tale of love & redemption.Find out if opposites really do attract: buy>Nothing To Lose today>.…

  • Language: English

    Published by HarperOne (edition First Edition), 1997

    0062512021 / 9780062512024

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  • Language: English

    Published by Sourcebooks Landmark (edition ), 2011

    1402240252 / 9781402240256

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  • Language: English

    Published by Quail Creek Publishing, LLC (edition ), 2011

    0615549667 / 9780615549668

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  • Language: English

    Published by HarperOne, 1997

    0062512021 / 9780062512024

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  • Language: English

    Published by Sourcebooks Landmark (edition ), 2011

    1402250770 / 9781402250774

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  • Language: English

    Published by HarperCollins Publishers Inc, 1997

    0062512021 / 9780062512024

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    Hardback. Condition: Good. The purpose of meditation is to quiet the mind so that it can sink down into contemplation of its true nature. You cannot stop your mind by an act of will any more than you can stop the beating of your own heart. Some cultures describe mind as a drunken monkey, reeling from place to place with no rhyme or reason. Like meditation/ knitting calms the monkey down.I believe that in the quiet/ repetitive, hypnotic rhythms of creating craft, the inner being may emerge in all its quiet beauty. The very rhythm, of the knitting needles can become as incantatory as a drumbeat or a Gregorian chant.-- from The knitting SutraKnitting as prayer? Craft as spiritual path? In this wonderfully allusive story of the quest to master a craft, Susan Gordon Lydon's love of knitting and her search for spiritual insight become powerfully and lyrically intertwined.Lydon's journey begins when she knits a turquoise chenille sweater to help a broken bone in her arm knit. In pursuit of a perfect silver button for her sweater -- and a medicine man for her arm -- she ends up on a Navajo reservation where a community of women live by the proceeds of their craft in a unified cycle of livelihood, art, and spirituality. They remind Lydon of the women on the Shetland Islands who developed classic knitting patterns and of the women who gather at her local yarn shop. From old-fashioned quilting bees to the hundreds of knitters who communicate on the Internet, she recognizes in craftspeople the confluence of self, community, creativity, ritual, and the urge to beautify the everyday.Each new knitting project she begins and every new skill she masters bring her closer to serenity and insight that have sometimes eluded her through years of spiritual explorations. In one passage, her arm healed and her passion for knitting rekindled, Lydon finds herself selling old books and clothes to buy a particularly extravagant yarn. The red sweater it becomes represents the lessons in daring and self-trust she learns while crafting it. Even a bout with cancer (I particularly didn't want to die because I wanted to finish my Alice Starmore sweater) and the hiatus from knitting a tendinitis diagnosis demands guide her to take the lessons she has learned from knitting -- sitting still, focusing the mind, asking for help -- and apply them to the rest of her life.Dedicated to all the women who knit too much, Lydon's rich insights will delight and inspire all who seek the extraordinary in the everyday.…

  • Language: English

    Published by HarperCollins Publishers Inc, 1997

    0062512021 / 9780062512024

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    Hardback. Condition: Fair. The purpose of meditation is to quiet the mind so that it can sink down into contemplation of its true nature. You cannot stop your mind by an act of will any more than you can stop the beating of your own heart. Some cultures describe mind as a drunken monkey, reeling from place to place with no rhyme or reason. Like meditation/ knitting calms the monkey down.I believe that in the quiet/ repetitive, hypnotic rhythms of creating craft, the inner being may emerge in all its quiet beauty. The very rhythm, of the knitting needles can become as incantatory as a drumbeat or a Gregorian chant.-- from The knitting SutraKnitting as prayer? Craft as spiritual path? In this wonderfully allusive story of the quest to master a craft, Susan Gordon Lydon's love of knitting and her search for spiritual insight become powerfully and lyrically intertwined.Lydon's journey begins when she knits a turquoise chenille sweater to help a broken bone in her arm knit. In pursuit of a perfect silver button for her sweater -- and a medicine man for her arm -- she ends up on a Navajo reservation where a community of women live by the proceeds of their craft in a unified cycle of livelihood, art, and spirituality. They remind Lydon of the women on the Shetland Islands who developed classic knitting patterns and of the women who gather at her local yarn shop. From old-fashioned quilting bees to the hundreds of knitters who communicate on the Internet, she recognizes in craftspeople the confluence of self, community, creativity, ritual, and the urge to beautify the everyday.Each new knitting project she begins and every new skill she masters bring her closer to serenity and insight that have sometimes eluded her through years of spiritual explorations. In one passage, her arm healed and her passion for knitting rekindled, Lydon finds herself selling old books and clothes to buy a particularly extravagant yarn. The red sweater it becomes represents the lessons in daring and self-trust she learns while crafting it. Even a bout with cancer (I particularly didn't want to die because I wanted to finish my Alice Starmore sweater) and the hiatus from knitting a tendinitis diagnosis demands guide her to take the lessons she has learned from knitting -- sitting still, focusing the mind, asking for help -- and apply them to the rest of her life.Dedicated to all the women who knit too much, Lydon's rich insights will delight and inspire all who seek the extraordinary in the everyday.…

  • Language: English

    Published by Custard Books, 2020

    1912019833 / 9781912019830

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    Condition: very_good. Cover may have light wear, pages in very good condition and binding is sturdy; may have other light shelf wear or creases. May have notes or highlighting.

  • Language: English

    Published by Quail Creek Publishing, LLC (edition ), 2011

    0615513263 / 9780615513263

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  • Language: English

    Published by Custard Books (edition ), 2014

    0993321275 / 9780993321276

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  • Language: English

    Published by Custard Books, 2021

    1912019167 / 9781912019168

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  • Language: English

    Published by Pearson Education (US), 2009

    0137029012 / 9780137029013

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    Hardback. Condition: Good. Millions of investors have been left to figure out where it all went wrong, but they are determined to regain control of their own investments. In this text, Lydon brings together two of this generation's most proven investment approaches: low-cost, flexible ETFs and powerful trend-following strategies.…

  • Language: English

    Published by Harry N. Abrams, 2010

    0810989026 / 9780810989023

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  • Language: English

    Published by Harry N. Abrams, 2010

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  • Language: English

    Published by Custard Books, 2018

    1912019922 / 9781912019922

    Series: Book 5 of 9 - London Romance Series

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  • Language: English

    Published by FT Press, 2009

    0137029012 / 9780137029013

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  • Language: English

    Published by Hachette Books, 2007

    0738211028 / 9780738211022

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    Hardback. Condition: Very Good. What if you could have slimmer hips, firmer thighs, flatter abs, more defined arms, and clearer, younger-looking skin in just six weeks? Based on years of her groundbreaking research and four clinical trials, Dr. Christine Lydon has developed an innovative diet and exercise regimen to burn fat and alter ones body chemistry, resulting in rapid, dramatic results that you will begin to see and feel within the first week. Governed by ten simple dietary guidelines and ten easy, at-home exercises, Ten Years Thinner emphasizes healthy eating from protein, carbohydrate, and fat sources and demands only twenty to twenty-five minutes of hand-weight exercises a day. There is no calorie counting, messy measuring, or complicated points to calculate; the program requires very little initial physical fitness and promises no more boring and time-consuming cardio workouts. With more than thirty-five delicious recipes and sixty-five easy-to-follow exercise photos, Ten Years Thinner is a simple, sustainable road map to the physique youve always dreamed of having.…

  • Language: English

    Published by Hachette Books, 2007

    0738211028 / 9780738211022

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    Hardback. Condition: Good. What if you could have slimmer hips, firmer thighs, flatter abs, more defined arms, and clearer, younger-looking skin in just six weeks? Based on years of her groundbreaking research and four clinical trials, Dr. Christine Lydon has developed an innovative diet and exercise regimen to burn fat and alter ones body chemistry, resulting in rapid, dramatic results that you will begin to see and feel within the first week. Governed by ten simple dietary guidelines and ten easy, at-home exercises, Ten Years Thinner emphasizes healthy eating from protein, carbohydrate, and fat sources and demands only twenty to twenty-five minutes of hand-weight exercises a day. There is no calorie counting, messy measuring, or complicated points to calculate; the program requires very little initial physical fitness and promises no more boring and time-consuming cardio workouts. With more than thirty-five delicious recipes and sixty-five easy-to-follow exercise photos, Ten Years Thinner is a simple, sustainable road map to the physique youve always dreamed of having.…

  • Language: English

    Published by Da Capo Lifelong Books (edition ), 2007

    0738211028 / 9780738211022

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  • Language: English

    Published by Custard Books, 2022

    1912019124 / 9781912019120

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  • Language: English

    Published by HarperOne, 1997

    0062512021 / 9780062512024

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  • Language: English

    Published by Custard Books, 2023

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  • Language: English

    Published by Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc), 2004

    0767916336 / 9780767916332

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    Paperback. Condition: Good. The purpose of meditation is to quiet the mind so that it can sink down into contemplation of its true nature. You cannot stop your mind by an act of will any more than you can stop the beating of your own heart. Some cultures describe mind as a drunken monkey, reeling from place to place with no rhyme or reason. Like meditation/ knitting calms the monkey down.I believe that in the quiet/ repetitive, hypnotic rhythms of creating craft, the inner being may emerge in all its quiet beauty. The very rhythm, of the knitting needles can become as incantatory as a drumbeat or a Gregorian chant.-- from The knitting SutraKnitting as prayer? Craft as spiritual path? In this wonderfully allusive story of the quest to master a craft, Susan Gordon Lydon's love of knitting and her search for spiritual insight become powerfully and lyrically intertwined.Lydon's journey begins when she knits a turquoise chenille sweater to help a broken bone in her arm knit. In pursuit of a perfect silver button for her sweater -- and a medicine man for her arm -- she ends up on a Navajo reservation where a community of women live by the proceeds of their craft in a unified cycle of livelihood, art, and spirituality. They remind Lydon of the women on the Shetland Islands who developed classic knitting patterns and of the women who gather at her local yarn shop. From old-fashioned quilting bees to the hundreds of knitters who communicate on the Internet, she recognizes in craftspeople the confluence of self, community, creativity, ritual, and the urge to beautify the everyday.Each new knitting project she begins and every new skill she masters bring her closer to serenity and insight that have sometimes eluded her through years of spiritual explorations. In one passage, her arm healed and her passion for knitting rekindled, Lydon finds herself selling old books and clothes to buy a particularly extravagant yarn. The red sweater it becomes represents the lessons in daring and self-trust she learns while crafting it. Even a bout with cancer (I particularly didn't want to die because I wanted to finish my Alice Starmore sweater) and the hiatus from knitting a tendinitis diagnosis demands guide her to take the lessons she has learned from knitting -- sitting still, focusing the mind, asking for help -- and apply them to the rest of her life.Dedicated to all the women who knit too much, Lydon's rich insights will delight and inspire all who seek the extraordinary in the everyday.…

  • Language: English

    Published by Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc), 2004

    0767916336 / 9780767916332

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    Paperback. Condition: Fair. The purpose of meditation is to quiet the mind so that it can sink down into contemplation of its true nature. You cannot stop your mind by an act of will any more than you can stop the beating of your own heart. Some cultures describe mind as a drunken monkey, reeling from place to place with no rhyme or reason. Like meditation/ knitting calms the monkey down.I believe that in the quiet/ repetitive, hypnotic rhythms of creating craft, the inner being may emerge in all its quiet beauty. The very rhythm, of the knitting needles can become as incantatory as a drumbeat or a Gregorian chant.-- from The knitting SutraKnitting as prayer? Craft as spiritual path? In this wonderfully allusive story of the quest to master a craft, Susan Gordon Lydon's love of knitting and her search for spiritual insight become powerfully and lyrically intertwined.Lydon's journey begins when she knits a turquoise chenille sweater to help a broken bone in her arm knit. In pursuit of a perfect silver button for her sweater -- and a medicine man for her arm -- she ends up on a Navajo reservation where a community of women live by the proceeds of their craft in a unified cycle of livelihood, art, and spirituality. They remind Lydon of the women on the Shetland Islands who developed classic knitting patterns and of the women who gather at her local yarn shop. From old-fashioned quilting bees to the hundreds of knitters who communicate on the Internet, she recognizes in craftspeople the confluence of self, community, creativity, ritual, and the urge to beautify the everyday.Each new knitting project she begins and every new skill she masters bring her closer to serenity and insight that have sometimes eluded her through years of spiritual explorations. In one passage, her arm healed and her passion for knitting rekindled, Lydon finds herself selling old books and clothes to buy a particularly extravagant yarn. The red sweater it becomes represents the lessons in daring and self-trust she learns while crafting it. Even a bout with cancer (I particularly didn't want to die because I wanted to finish my Alice Starmore sweater) and the hiatus from knitting a tendinitis diagnosis demands guide her to take the lessons she has learned from knitting -- sitting still, focusing the mind, asking for help -- and apply them to the rest of her life.Dedicated to all the women who knit too much, Lydon's rich insights will delight and inspire all who seek the extraordinary in the everyday.…

  • Language: English

    Published by Sourcebooks, Inc, 2011

    1402240252 / 9781402240256

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    Paperback. Condition: Very Good. If the two of them weren't so stubborn. It's obvious to Georgiana Darcy that the lovely Elizabeth Bennet is her brother's perfect match, but Darcy's pigheadedness and Elizabeth's wounded pride are going to keep them both from the loves of their lives. Georgiana can't let that happen, so she readily agrees to help her accommodating cousin, Anne de Bourgh, do everything within their power to assure her beloved brother's happiness. But the path of matchmaking never runs smoothly. Praise for Searching for Pemberley: A precious jewel of a novel with a strong love story and page-turning mystery. Absorbing, amusing, and very cleverly written. -The Searcher, Newsletter of NEPA Genealogy Society An amazingly unique and engrossing tale.without a doubt a must read for any fan of Pride and Prejudice. -The Long and Short of It Fans of historical fiction and Austen should savor this leisurely read. -Publishers Weekly This was such a sweet, lovely read, with such rich characters and it was with much regret that it had to end. -A Bibliophile's Bookshelf.…