Search Results: Titles starting with R from Lifeways Books & Gifts

Race Cars is a children's book about white privilege created to help parents and educators facilitate tough conversations about race, privilege, and oppression.Written by a clinical social worker and child therapist with experience in anti-bias training and edited by a diversity expert, Race Carstells the story of 2 best friends, a white car and a black car, that have different experiences and face different rules while entering the same race. Filled with bright, attention-grabbing illustrations, a notes and activities section at the back helps parents, guardians, and teachers further discuss these issues with children.

Used/ Mystery. This book is very good condition, pages are crisp and clean, cover is clean. The Race is a political thriller written by Richard North Patterson. It is set during the 2008 presidential election in the United States, and revolves around fictional Ohioan Senator Corey Grace and his quest to become the Republican presidential nominee.

The brilliantly colored tarot deck that has been popular for decades is now presented in a charming keepsake tin. For this deck, the artwork of Pamela Colman Smith has been updated and enhanced with a vibrant palette of colors, bringing new energy and radiance to the familiar scenes of 78 cards. Radiant Rider-Waite's brightness and subtle shading highlight the traditional symbolism that readers rely on for insightful readings. The card backs feature a star-filled deep, blue sky. Radiant Rider-Waite Tarot includes an instruction booklet with an Introduction by Stuart R. Kaplan.

When Jessica Swift's husband passed away unexpectedly, she began painting rainbows to process her grief as well as to express her gratitude for the love and compassion she was shown during that difficult time. To Swift, rainbows represent freedom, resilience, inherent worthiness, forgiveness, self-respect, tenacity, growth, kindness, healing, and so much more. Each card in this deck features a healing affirmation, a thoughtful question, and Swift's stunning rainbow artwork. A perfect gift for anyone suffering through challenge or loss, this deck offers comfort and compassion.

Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out in society at large and Buddhist communities in particular, this urgent call to action outlines a new dharma that takes into account the ways that racism and privilege prevent our collective awakening. The authors traveled around the country to spark an open conversation that brings together the Black prophetic tradition and the wisdom of the Dharma. Bridging the world of spirit and activism, they urge a compassionate response to the systemic, state-sanctioned violence and oppression that has persisted against black people since the slave era. With national attention focused on the recent killings of unarmed black citizens and the response of the Black-centered liberation groups such as Black Lives Matter, Radical Dharma demonstrates how social transformation and personal, spiritual liberation must be articulated and inextricably linked. Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Lama Rod Owens, and Jasmine… Read More

The impulse to preserve and revere the body parts of the holy deceased has been part of the human experience since the buddha lost his baby teeth and John the Baptist lost his head. With postmortem accounts of Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, and a crowd of other holy souls, this book tells the hidden histories of these bodies that have meant so much.

The gods meet their cataclysmic end in this acclaimed work of fiction from the inimitable author of "Possession" and "The Children's Book," now in paperback. As the bombs rain down on Britain, one young girl struggling to make sense of her new life, whose dark, war-ravaged days feel very removed from the peace and love being preached in church and at school.

"Kat Van Tassel wants nothing to do with Sleepy Hollow's ghostly history. But when her mother gives her the original Katrina van Tassel's diary on the two-hundredth anniversary of the Headless Horseman's haunting, a new legend begins to take shape, weaving together the past and the present in eerie ways. When a new girl in town opens Kat's eyes to the possibility that ghosts are real, it makes her question who she truly wants to be...and be with. Can Kat uncover a two-hundred-year-old secret, and trace its shocking reverberations in her own life, in time to protect what she truly loves?"

Used/Magic. This book is in good condition, pages are crisp and cover is clean.
Featuring a Wiccan curriculum for each of the five age groups, this book offers a variety of sample lessons and both a structure and a prototype for readers who want to develop "Sun Day School" or "Moon Day School." Glossary and recommended reading list included.

A kinder, more compassionate world starts with kind and compassionate kids. In Raising Good Humans, mindfulness mentor, parenting coach, and mother of two Hunter Clarke-Fields offers parents practical and breakthrough strategies for conflict resolution and positive communication. Parents learn to break free from ingrained "reactive parenting" habits in order to forge better relationships with their children--relationships built on respect and cooperation.

This book is in very good condition, pages are clean and crisp, cover is clean, some discoloring due to age. Ralphs Journey is bound to evolve into a universal classic. Unfortunately and sadly, this will not happen until the twenty-second century, when most of you will not be around.

By Kwok Man-Ho. Book condition good, dust jacket very good. The ancient Chinese system of analyzing your character and predicting your future is presented with beautiful photographs and illustrations.

The story of Rama, a god-turned-prince, and his quest to rescue his wife Sita after she is kidnapped by a demon king. Includes a detailed pictorial glossary of the cast of characters and sketches of the work in progress.

Harper Trophy, 2006. Paperback. New. Ramona struggles to understand her place in her mother's world now that she has a little sister. By Beverly Cleary.

For 12 years the author lived in some of the biggest, most impressive national parks in the world, working as a ranger- a job she loved. She chaperoned baby sea turtles, pursued bad guys on horseback, won arguments with bears, and slept with a few too man rattlesnakes. Hell yeah, it was the best job in the world! Fortunately, Andrea survived. In this candid and wryly humorous account of her and others' extraordinary careers, Lankford unveils a world in which park rangers struggle to maintain their idealism in the face of death, disillusionment, and the loss of a comrade killed holding the thin line of protecting the park from the people, the people from the park, and the people from each other.

Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it help us understand why there is so much irrationality in the world? Steven Pinker, author of Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates's new favorite book of all time") answers all the questions hereToday humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding--and also appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that developed vaccines for Covid-19 in less than a year produce so much fake news, medical quackery, and conspiracy theorizing? Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are simply irrational--cavemen out of time saddled with biases, fallacies, and illusions. After all, we discovered the laws of nature, lengthened and enriched our lives, and set out the benchmarks for rationality itself. We actually think in ways that are sensible in the low-tech contexts in which we spend most of our lives, but fail to take advantage of the powerful tools of reasoning we've discovered over the millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, correlation… Read More

Penguin Classics, 2013. Hardcover. New. A new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro s favorites, from Mary Shelley s"Frankenstein"and Ray Russell s short story Sardonicus, considered by Stephen King to be perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written, to Shirley Jackson s"The Haunting of Hill House"and stories by Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Ted Klein, and Robert E. Howard. Featuring original cover art by Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, these stunningly creepy deluxe hardcovers will be perfect additions to the shelves of horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and paranormal aficionados everywhere. "The Raven: Tales and Poems"is a landmark new anthology of Poe s work, which defied convention, shocked readers, and… Read More

Gods meddle in the fates of men, men play with the fates of gods, and a pretender must be cast down from the throne in this masterful first fantasy novel from Ann Leckie, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards.Absolutely wonderful. . .utterly brilliant. -- The New York Times Book ReviewFor centuries, the kingdom of Iraden has been protected by the god known as the Raven. He watches over his territory from atop a tower in the powerful port of Vastai. His will is enacted through the Raven's Lease, a human ruler chosen by the god himself. His magic is sustained by the blood sacrifice that every Lease must offer. And under the Raven's watch, the city flourishes. But the Raven's tower holds a secret. Its foundations conceal a dark history that has been waiting to reveal itself. . .and to set in motion a chain of events that could destroy Iraden forever.

Astrology continues to be a popular trend--people are looking to the stars, the moon, and the sun for guidance, for relationship advice, even for cocktail recipes. Book Riot offers a new take on reading your sign, aimed appropriately at book lovers. Reading the Stars is where your favorite books, authors, and characters meet astrology, answering key questions: What should you read based on your sign? Do you and your favorite fictional characters share the same sign? What about authors? And what does that mean for you? You'll gain more insight into your own personal life and your favorite books with this in-depth guide. Reading the Stars opens with an introduction to astrology, teaching you how to read your sign, what your rising sign is, and more. Then it takes that information a step further, allowing you to learn even more about yourself in a new way. Let's say you're a Sagittarius--optimistic, friendly, and curious--what book should you read? What author also shares your sign and speaks to those… Read More

Houghton Mifflin Co.. Paperback. Very Good. This book compiles an anthology of readings about religious philosophy, and is a standard text used many universities and collages.