Witchycakes #1: Sweet Magic

Kara LaReau

Welcome to the most magical bakery -- Witchycakes! Little Blue, a witch-in-training, delivers baked goods all over their town, and helps their neighbors with a touch of magic. Cozy up with this sweet chapter book with irresisitible full-color art on every page!In a magical bakery called Witchycakes there's a young witch-to-be named Blue. Blue's Mama bakes with magic and Blue makes the deliveries! They ride their bike all over town with their basket filled with magical scones, tartes, and pies to deliver. There's always something going on in Shelville and Blue loves to help their neighbors -- especially if helping them means they get to use a little bit of magic.Cook up some love with Blue as they use magic and problem-solving to be the best helper they can be in their whimsical little town. And there's a special magical recipe at the end of the book!Fresh from the oven. . . another WITCHYCAKES book! Don't miss Witchycakes #2: Changing Magic

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The Soft Life Handbook: A Feminine Guide to Slow Living, Boundaries, and Romanticizing Your Life

Airy Fairy Press

Are you tired of rushing, overgiving, and feeling like softness is a luxury you can’t afford? It’s time to reclaim your peace, your power, and your pace. The Soft Life Handbook is a beautifully written lifestyle guide for women who are ready to live slower, feel deeper, and choose themselves—gently and without guilt. Part soulful manifesto, part practical toolkit, this book offers a new definition of serenity, not stress. Through 16 transformative chapters, you’ll explore themes Setting boundaries without shame Embracing rest, beauty, and emotional minimalism Creating cozy rituals, sacred spaces, and soft routines Living by the seasons and reconnecting with your body Healing burnout and redefining ambition with intention Whether you're burnt out from hustle culture or simply craving a more meaningful daily rhythm, this book will guide you home to yourself—with poetry, compassion, and wisdom. Inside you'll also 30 journal prompts for self-discovery 10 soft rituals and recipes (from tea blends to sensory baths) Affirmations and reflections to protect your peace A heartfelt conclusion with a final letter-writing ritual to your future self This is the handbook for the modern feminine intuitive, poetic, and powerful. If you’ve ever whispered, “I just want to feel like myself again,” this book is your answer.

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Forgiving What You Can't Forget: Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That's Beautiful Again

Lysa TerKeurst

*#1 New York Times Bestseller* You deserve to stop suffering because of what other people have done to you. Have you ever felt stuck in a cycle of unresolved pain, playing offenses over and over in your mind? You know you can't go on like this, but you don't know what to do next. Lysa TerKeurst has wrestled through this journey. But in surprising ways, she's discovered how to let go of bound-up resentment and overcome the resistance to forgiving people who aren't willing to make things right. With deep empathy, therapeutic insight, and rich Bible teaching coming out of more than 1,000 hours of theological study, Lysa will help you: Learn how to move on when the other person refuses to change and never says they're sorry. Walk through a step-by-step process to free yourself from the hurt of your past and feel less offended today. Discover what the Bible really says about forgiveness and the peace that comes from living it out right now. Identify what's stealing trust and vulnerability from your relationships so you can believe there is still good ahead. Disempower the triggers hijacking your emotions by embracing the two necessary parts of forgiveness.

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My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh

A shocking, hilarious and strangely tender novel about a young woman’s experiment in narcotic hibernation, aided and abetted by one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature. Our narrator has many of the advantages of life, on the surface. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents in college, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friend. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? This story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs, designed to heal us from our alienation from this world, shows us how reasonable, even necessary, that alienation sometimes is. Blackly funny, both merciless and compassionate – dangling its legs over the ledge of 9/11 – this novel is a showcase for the gifts of one of America’s major young writers working at the height of her powers.

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The Silent Patient

Alex Michaelides

Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him.... The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.

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Sacred Wild: An Invitation to Connect with Spirits of the Land

Elyse Welles

Enter the realm of land spirits—your best allies for protection and growth—and build personal relationships with stones, plants, animals, elementals, and much more. If you've ever experienced a special sense of place or a draw to the outdoors, you've been in the presence of land spirits. They are everywhere on earth and can be valuable members of your personal spirit team, if only you reach out. Equal parts guide and grimoire, this book is perfect for anyone interested in earth-based faith, magic, travel, and environmentalism. Through more than sixty exercises, rituals, spells, and meditations, you can learn how to recognize and create sustainable, magical practices for the mutual benefit of ourselves and our planet. Your greatest spiritual allies are right under your feet.

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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2

Beth Brower

“I was sitting at my desk reading, with a cup of tea, my windows flung open, when I heard The Tenant enter his garret, just on the other side of the wall from myself.” The Year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighbourhood of St. Crispian’s. But Emma’s plans for a charmed and studious life are sabotaged by her eccentric Cousin Archibald, her formidable Aunt Eugenia, and the slightly odd denizens of St. Crispian’s. Emma M. Lion offers up her Unselected Journals, however self-incriminating they may be, which comprise a series of novella-length volumes. Armed with wit and a sideways amusement, Emma documents the curious realities of her life at Lapis Lazuli House.

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