Uplifting Spirits

ESCAPE TO THE SUGAR AND SPICE CAFE THIS CHRISTMAS When eternally optimistic Natalie Hope takes over at the Sugar and Spice bakery café could it be just the injection of Christmas spirit her regulars need? Newly dumped Rebecca is stuck in a job with no prospects, has lost her home and is struggling to see a way forward. To make matters worse, her ex-boyfriend is trying to take her to the cleaners. Pensioner Stanley is dreading his first Christmas alone without his beloved wife, who passed away earlier this year. How can he celebrate Christmas without her and will he ever feel whole again?

The Spirits Book (1857), written by Allan Kardec, is widely regarded as the most important piece of writing in the spiritist canon. It is the first in a series of five books that Kardec wrote that are collectively known as the Spiritist Codification. Although the other four books, The Medium's Book, The Gospel According to Spiritism, Heaven and Hell, and The Genesis According to Spiritism, are of great importance to the Spiritist movement, it is The Spirits Book that lays out the doctrine of the belief system.

This inspiring meditation on the intersection of science, nature, and spirit shows readers how to deepen their connection to the natural world. In Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed over millennia...

Bloomsbury presents Free Spirit the Mustang by Pippa Funnell, read by Harrie Dobby. Tilly dreams of having a pony of her own. One that only she can ride to stardom. Will her wishes come true when she joins Silver Shoe Farm Stables? Tilly is off on the trip of a lifetime to the Kentucky Horse...

'I adored it' JULIE HAWORTH 'Witty, well-observed and utterly charming' SOPHIE COUSENS 'Funny, tender and insightful' ERICKA WALLER Two sisters, one absent father and a grand inheritance . . . Maggie and Liz may be sisters (and yes, named after a pair of much more famous siblings), but that's...