The tiny kitten sat alone in a window with a small sign that read, "Looking for home. Will work for food." Finally, a nice couple gently picked her up and took her to live with them in their New York City apartment/photographer's studio. And, indeed, work for food she has.Happy Birthday, the Cat is a charming collection of illustrated tales by Birthday the cat. She tells about her adoption on her new owner's birthday, her trips to Central Park and Vermont, and her many photo shoots with other animals, such as parrots, ducks, and turtles. Throughout her stories of high adventure, the authors (and Birthday's owners), Don and Noriko Carroll, have lavishly illustrated the book with photos of their beloved cat. The combination makes for a compelling tale as told from the feline point of view.In picture after picture-Birthday drenched with water during her first bath, Birthday running from a mischievous parrot, Birthday with her beloved rolly ball held firmly in her mouth-the little cat entertains and delights with her sweet expressions and precious narrative. It's a book that's guaranteed to be a best-seller with cat lovers everywhere. The tiny kitten sat alone in a window with a small sign that read, "Looking for home. Will work for food." Finally, a nice couple gently picked her up and took her to live with them in their New York City apartment/photographer's studio. And, indeed, work for food she has.Happy Birthday, the Cat is a charming collection of illustrated tales by Birthday the cat. She tells about her adoption on her new owner's birthday, her trips to Central Park and Vermont, and her many photo shoots with other animals, such as parrots, ducks, and turtles. Throughout her stories of high adventure, the authors (and Birthday's owners), Don and Noriko Carroll, have lavishly illustrated the book with photos of their beloved cat. The combination makes for a compelling tale as told from the feline point of view.In picture after picture-Birthday drenched with water during her first bath, Birthday running from a mischievous parrot, Birthday with her beloved rolly ball held firmly in her mouth-the little cat entertains and delights with her sweet expressions and precious narrative. It's a book that's guaranteed to be a best-seller with cat lovers everywhere.

Happy Birthday, The Cat: True Meow Stories By Birthday

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Carroll, Noriko

Carroll, Don

Pets & Animal Care

Andrews McMeel Publishing

More than 320 species of hummingbirds inhabit North, Central, and South America. Seventeen species nest in the United States alone, and seven of those inhabit the Las Vegas area. But only one Black-chinned Hummingbird chose to nest on the back porch of Las Vegas residents Noriko and Don Carroll.When Noriko and Don Carroll moved from New York City to suburban Las Vegas, they found a tiny nest on a clothesline on their back porch. As the Carrolls settled into their new home, so did a female hummingbird they named Honey. For weeks, the Carrolls watched in fascination as they witnessed an event few humans are privy to-the birth and growth of two hummingbirds. First Flight is the beautifully photographed story of Honey and her two chicks, Ray and Zen. In over 50 stunning, full-color close-ups, it captures the grace, the beauty, and the simultaneous strength and fragility of one of nature's tiniest birds. Professional photographer Don Carroll's images of his tiny housemates are woven throughout with Noriko's charming narrative describing the mother bird and her developing brood. Not just for bird enthusiasts, First Flight is a magical mix of hummingbird field guide, personal story, and new life taking flight. Readers will be captivated by the inherent drama as it unfolds in miniature, and they'll cheer as babies Ray and Zen make their own first flights out into a bright new world.

First Flight: A Mother Hummingbird's Story

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Shows how to create striking photographs using strobes, altered light, front and rear projection, multiple exposures, montage, collage, and other darkroom techniques

Focus on Special Effects

Carroll, Marie

Amphoto

Newpro UK Ltd

The suspense quickens in The End of Democracy, Don Carroll’s exciting sequel to his first novel, Hacking Toward Consciousness and the second installment in The Consciousness Trilogy. Will Dawson is on the run from the CIA, his former employer, which hopes he will lead them to the elusive Melissa Dowling. Secret research on psychic development is being conducted in Antarctica. A young Navajo named Manuelito and his dog Ooljee have their own intuitive gifts to share. Ex-hacker Blaine Astrid's journey toward healing and wholeness deepens as she finds friendship with Aasia, a refugee from the Srebrenica genocide, and private eye Gordon Slade has a case of love for Joy the librarian. As these captivating characters follow their hearts to greater consciousness and a deeper understanding of their world—with a few words from the wise and a bit of quantum field theory to shed light on why dualistic democracy is destined for failure—love and mystery entwine to show us all the possibilities for transformation. Carroll proves again he is a master of inspiration and insight with a wonderfully original story not to be missed.

The End of Democracy: The Failure of the Ego Self and the Search for Unitive Consciousness

Literature & Fiction

Little Peak Creek Publishing Company

The Nine and Twelve Workbook

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Addiction & Recovery

The Armageddon Choice: Struggle for Existence or Cooperation for Consciousness (The Consciousness Trilogy)

THIRTY DAYS OF CONTEMPLATIVE MEDITATIONS: Wesleyan Contemplative Order (Thirty Days of Meditations)

Religion & Spirituality

Worship & Devotion

Is there a map for the spiritual journey to greater consciousness? If so, how do we find it? And if there is such a map, we see why Melissa Dowling, who may have inadvertently stumbled onto an experience of the map as a Peace Corp volunteer in Afghanistan, is suddenly caught up in a high stakes game where her survival hangs in the balance. But how will such a map be helpful to anyone who is not committed to the disciplined work of evolving their consciousness? Even if they are committed to disciplined practices, is greater consciousness only a matter of practice and dedication or is it also something touched by that illusive quality known as Grace? If greater consciousness is simply a well honed technique available to any interested party, what happens when it becomes an asset for those working as professional spies? None of these questions can be answered without human characters struggling to understand the nature of consciousness in their own lives. And these characters inevitably are pulled deeper into the mystery of facing more questions such as whether or not achieving greater consciousness is something more than a matter of individual pursuit? Is it possible that greater consciousness inherently involves something larger than a single person’s consciousness, such as that of a monastic order or a nation? Is the earth as a meta-organism itself on a path toward greater consciousness? And is consciousness, whether manifest individually or collectively, a benign power or may it be utilized to control how people think and to promote and protect powerful moneyed interests? Gordon Slade is a private eye on a case with a cagey client. Blaine Astrid is a computer hacker and research assistant for a professor seeking the latest in biblical scholarship. William Dawson, a former CIA agent, is searching for his lost love whose valuable psychic abilities may have caused her disappearance. Father Charles “Cloudy” Hay, whose knowledge of the human soul makes him wary of the power of his own authority, struggles to lead from behind. Godfrey Adams, a gay man and an everyman, whose life has reached the place where his goals have largely been accomplished, is gloomy and depressed. He seeks spiritual direction to find himself and is not only pulled into a greater connection with life but also into increased questioning and uncertainty internally and into external events that come chaotically careening his way. The lives of these characters collide with daring conclusions, as they enter the uncharted frontiers of these questions about consciousness, all the while exploring hidden scriptures, biblical conundrums, and the Enneagram of Jesus. The vulnerability and longings of these characters in their search for truth and intimacy mirror our own yearnings and suspicions in a post-millennial age of technology. Written with sensitivity and wisdom, Hacking Toward Consciousness is a provocative perspective on the possibility of faith in our time and the possibility of following a hidden-in-plain-view map for evolving that matrix of human and divine wisdom that is called consciousness.

Hacking Toward Consciousness: St Issa and the Enneagram Enigma

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

One day, Davey is a post-modern hunter gatherer criss-crossing the reservation on his vintage Indian motorcycle foraging for cheap liquor and soup kitchen hand-outs, a Vietnam vet with undiagnosed PTSD, whose life is fated to go no where. A few months later, after a blood vessel explodes in the left side of his brain, Davey finds himself in a Convent in northern Sweden where a group of dedicated women are trying to understand the nature of consciousness in order to save the planet. They want to answer the question of whether visionary experiences may help set up the brain's biological platform for awakened consciousness. Led by an indomitable mother superior, Mother Mary, they are seeking the answer to this question through their own consciousness practices and through experiencing the visionary experiences of several extraordinary Beguines.As the novel unfolds we learn the Beguines are the forgotten women of the first women's liberation movement. They began to form communities in the early Middle Ages to have a protected space to pursue their emotional and spiritual journeys outside of male authority. Through modern technology Mother Mary's band of consciousness explorers seek to go back into Dark Age times to see what happened in the consciousnesses of several prominent Beguines, including Christina the Astonishing and Marguerite Porete, who was burned at the stake in Paris by the Inquisition in 1310 because she would not recant her mystical experiences.The CIA is intent on finding out what Mother Mary's group of consciousness explorers are up to. What is at stake they believe is knowledge of how to become enlightened-knowledge they fear will fall into the hands of a terrorist chieftain or the head of a rogue state. If being pursued by the CIA is not enough the Convent is also at odds with the Vatican bank. The seekers in the novel strive to side-step these ominous power-players, while the intensity of their small community throws them into the profoundly human dilemma of needing to understand the meaning of love.The Beguines and the Search for Visionary Consciousness is a novel of adventure, of characters navigating the power pitfalls of our culture, and most daringly a novel of ideas where readers, should they choose to, have the chance to encounter the meaning of love and consciousness in their own lives.Don Carroll is the author of King Arthur and the Consciousness Gene: How Truth Uses Deception and Illusion Masquerades as Truth. He also authored The Consciousness Trilogy: Hacking Toward Consciousness, The End of Democracy and The Armageddon Choice. In addition, he is the author of works of non-fiction, including The 9 & 12 Workbook and A Lawyer's Guide to Healing. More information is available at www.doncarroll.com.

The Beguines and The Search for Visionary Consciousness: "The Soul Who Lives Without a Why"

New Age & Spirituality

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