Closed Eyes

A little tiger takes an imaginative journey The little tiger lay on his back in the tall grass. "Close your eyes, little tiger," said his mother, "and go to sleep." But the little tiger is worried about what sleep might bring. His mother reassures him that once he closes his eyes, he will dream of magical places. And when he awakens, she will be right there, waiting for him. Alternating between real-life scenes with the baby tiger and his mother and enchanted dream scenes of sleep's possibilities, Kate Banks's simple, comforting text and Georg Hallensleben's bright, colorful illustrations make this a charming bedtime story for small children. Close Your Eyes is a 2002 New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year and a 2003 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Kim Alexis is a confident, courageous, powerful, intelligent, and sophisticated woman. She loves her job, husband, and kids. Life is good. Until, she discovers her husband Grant dead. The events surrounding his death are mystical as well as scandalous. Kims strength is tested. Her spirit is broken. Her life is threatened. Stability is gone. All she has to embrace is a spiraling world of betrayal, darkness and pain. Kim takes on a vigilantly persona to find the person or persons who murdered her husband. But the Police Department has their eye on Kim and emphatically believes she murdered her husband. Will they find the evidence and motive to prove this suspicion? This is a fast pace book full of spice, excitement, drama, passion, and entertainment. Once you pick it up it will be hard to put down.

Award-winning journalist and author Michele Weldon offers a distinctly honest and articulate portrayal of the domestic violence she experienced in a nine-year marriage to a man many considered to be the perfect husband. As an assistant professor of journalism at the Medill School, Northwestern University since 1996, public speaker, journalist for magazines and newspapers and seminar leader for The OpEd Project, Weldon defies the mythology about abuse victims. She conveys a poignant portrayal of a woman caught in abuse and her victorious escape to raise her three children alone. Working to understand and explain why and how this would happen, she offers hope to all women with similar stories, modeling the courage to break free, move forward and live a joyful life full of love.

Behind Closed Eyes tells the story of a young woman (Kiyani) who struggles on a daily basis with mental illness. After playing with a Ouija board, her troubled mind takes a further knock, when eerie things start happening to her. As she is plagued with nightmares of a sinister being, Kiyani struggles to work out if it is all in her mind, or if there some person or something out to get her. Can her friends help her back from the brink?

Take a Dark ride,through the self reflective writings of Bryan Eric Solomon,that gets brighter as your interests sparks your minds.You can feel what he felt,with in every single word,like a journey to place where,maybe you didn't plan on going.Characters are written out,like the best Rembrandt painting,with words that might resemble Poe,or even some of the best beat poets,like Kerouac.When asked,it took him one week to write an entire book of poems,the book being this one,Closed eyes of Sadness.So,sit down strap your arms down,fasten your heels,brace yourself, and hope,in some cases,well you never feel this way.

Conservative and subservient housewife Katherine Thurston wants for nothing. Her husband receives a hefty promotion within his company. Their twin five-year-old boys will start school just as the couple prepare for the arrival of twin daughters. Katherine believes she's living every woman's dream. She undoubtedly has the husband of every woman's fantasy. A husband she merely allows complete rule of her life. A husband that is so pristine, even she questions her ability to have met and married such a man. Katherine's blissful, idyllic world slowly comes to a shattering end as she discovers her immaculate husband has a few secrets, some of which could threaten her life. Now she must search deep within to find the strength and courage to overcome all the obstacles in her path before it's too late.

Dreams and nightmares have long puzzled and fascinated, yet this is the first book to explore such visions in the Ancient Egyptian world. The author traces the evidence from the first half of Egypt's long history, the Old Kingdom through the New Kingdom, a time-span of over 1,000 years. The book is arranged thematically, with chapters devoted to the literary use of dreams, to the political use of divine visions, to the technology used to ward away terrorizing nightmares. It also explores the Ramesside Dream Book, a unique text that reveals the desires and anxieties that could inspire an Egyptian's dreams, with images of sex and power, of gods and the dead. All the relevant passages are conveniently translated in an appendix.

After ten years living with Charles Carstairs and Charles’ maid, Winifred, in the penthouse of Belvedere Mansions Knightsbridge, eleven-year-old dachshund, Reggie, is in a reflective mood. He’s endured a rocky relationship with Winifred, (who doesn’t like dogs), and successfully plots to replace her with Zsa Zsa, a luscious (dog-loving) Hungarian maid. Finally freed from Winifred’s close supervision, Charles and Reggie climb aboard an emotional roller coaster and bond over shared experiences: the highs and lows of life. Canine philosopher, Reggie, thinks back on his relationship with Winifred and is wracked with guilt. Did he behave badly? Throughout the story, Reggie’s observations on the similarities and differences between man and dog are humorous and, at times, heartachingly poignant.

"The story of a serial killer loose in Colorado"--Dust jacket.

Feel, listen, predict, memorise... these activities stimulate children's powers of reasoning and imagination and help them visualise numbers, patterns, measures and shapes.