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• Which is More Round, The World or Your Tummy?: Offbeat Reflections on Serious Living by Leslie Miklosy 
• The Seed Handbook: The Feminine Way to Create Business (Book and CD)
  Plant the Seeds and Pick the Blooms: 36 Affirmations for a Life of Balance, Creativity, and Fulfillment (Cards) by Lynn Franks
• Forever Ours: Real Stories of Immortality and Living from a Forensic Pathologist by Janis Amatuzio
• Toward a Philosophy of Perception: The Magnitude of Human Potential – Cloud Optics by Margaret Harrel

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	Which is More Round, The World or Your Tummy?: Offbeat Reflections on Serious Living written by Leslie Miklosy, 2005 iUniverse, Lincoln, Nebraska
Gifted with a video screen running in my mind at all times often kept me in trouble as a child. For example, when my mother would admonish me to “Wipe that look off your face,” my internal movie immediately began to show me all the silly ways that I would not be able to accomplish wiping a look off my face. This of course made me giggle. Which then resulted in even more trouble! I wish I had known Leslie Miklosy back then because he says, “If you can wipe that smile off your face, you didn't deserve it in the first place.” He also says, “A dull mind is good protection, against the pyrotechnics of extravagant thoughts.” Oh, that he could have convinced my poor mother that it was nothing personal! This fantastic book of quips, quotes, and musings is also brilliantly illustrated! This one is a must have for those with a need to know that there is at least one other out there who understands that life is seriously not to be taken too seriously!   Other Reviews
	The Seed Handbook: The Feminine Way to Create Business (Book and CD) Plant the Seeds and Pick the Blooms: 36 Affirmations for a Life of Balance, Creativity, and Fulfillment (Cards) Lynn Franks, 2005 - Book/CD pub. by Hay House, London - Affirmation cards pub. by Chronicle Books, San Francisco
SEED is the acronym for Sustainable Enterprise Empowerment Dynamics. Lynn Franks began this organization with the mission to encourage the entrepreneurial spirit with a value-based foundation. Not the values of Lynn Franks but the values of the individual entrepreneur with a reminder to give as you receive and never forget to laugh. The handbook is a fantastic design leading you through a year of exercises from the planting to the harvesting of your business idea. She also leads you through the internal changes that have to take place to allow success to blossom. Combining feminine principles with the masculine energy of prior business practices, Franks has proven that SEED principles do lead to consistent abundance. The CD included with the book is a visual and auditory feast designed to assist the entrepreneur with templates for creating business basics. Finally, Lynn has written a series of 36 affirmation cards for daily reminders. Ann Field illustrates the cards with playful images and the words from the affirmation intertwined in fun, colorful styles. Initially designed to target the female demographic, men have become intrigued with and involved with the SEED system of success. Plant a seed with Lynn Franks and watch it bloom! Other Reviews
	Forever Ours: Real Stories of Immortality and Living from a Forensic Pathologist Janis Amatuzio, MD, 2004 New World Library Novato, CA
Janis Amatuzio learned the healing power of compassion at her father's side as she accompanied him on house calls in the days after World War II and before HMO's. Her father's willingness to give the gift of intent listening to his patients taught her, long before her medical school experience, what was important in healing. Ultimately, as a pathologist who speaks for the dead as a county coroner and medical examiner, she can scientifically report what has happened to the body in front of her. Janis Amatuzio insists on informing the family and friends of the deceased personally. It has been through these personal contacts that she has begun to weave the greater truth that immortality is real and the body is merely the vessel. In Forever Ours, Janis Amatuzio writes stories of the mystical love and peace that the dead have passed from beyond the veil to their loved ones. The respect for and awe of the privilege she has been afforded bleeds through each encounter. Just as Janis Amatuzio gently learned from her father that we all die, she gently reminds us that we are never alone. Our loved ones are forever ours. Other Reviews
	Toward a Philosophy of Perception: The Magnitude of Human Potential – Cloud Optics Margaret Harrell, 2005 AuthorHouse Bloomington, IN
There is no denying that Margaret Harrell has led an incredibly full and interesting life. New York 's Greenwich Village in its heyday, a long marriage to a Belgian poet, and an academic background that includes Duke University in Durham, NC and the C.G. Jung Institute in Switzerland, are just some of the highlights for this gifted author and teacher. Her latest book, Toward a Philosophy of Perception, is based upon a synopsis of her previous series, Love in Transition. Harrell's mission is to lead others to acceptance of their potential to add to the collective unconscious through their personal, transcendent experiences. Using cloud photographs as a meditative tool, Harrell maintains that access to the pinnacle of human potential is possible. Other Reviews