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What if magic isn’t found in dusty rituals or strict traditions, but in the shimmer of everyday life? In Kindling Magic, Linda A Lavid invites you to rediscover wonder through the lens of chaos magic—a playful, creative approach that celebrates personal experience, intuition, and imagination. Blending stories, folklore, psychology, and practical exercises, this book shows how magic is already alive in your hands, waiting to be kindled. Inside you’ll discover: Moments of wonder—personal testimonies that reveal how awe, synchronicity, and memory can shift perception. Tales and ...

Welcome to Woodberry Lane, where the gardens are overgrown and the bodies are freshly inconvenient. Meet Hattie Moon—a woman of a certain age who talks to her dead husband, solves murders, and still believes a good shortbread can fix just about anything. Along for the ride: her best friend Muriel (she brings the whiskey), a son who thinks “downsizing” means putting his mother in a home, and enough quirky characters to keep the rumor mill spinning at full tilt. Inside, you’ll find three mysteries with more twists than a bag of pretzels. There’s scandal, some bodies, and the ...

Kindling the Ordinary brings together three volumes from Linda A. Lavid’s Chronicles of a Wandering Mind series: Weaving Metaphors, Kindling Magic, and Interpreting Strangers. Across these works, readers are invited to reimagine daily life as a field of possibility—where the smallest details and oddest encounters spark meaning, transformation, and delight. Weaving Metaphors explores how unexpected pairings—cribs and books, feathers and apples, grief and pie—become portals to reflection, journaling, and healing. Kindling Magic reveals a playful path into everyday enchantment, where ...

We are all collectors—of things, of memories, of selves we used to be. From childhood treasures to digital tabs, from egg cups and paperclips to emotional fragments we can't quite release, Curating Collections explores the deeply human impulse to gather, hold on, and make meaning. Blending poetic nonfiction, memoir, metaphor, and reflection, this book is a love letter to what we keep and why. With tenderness and wit, author Linda Lavid invites you to rummage through your own life's keepsakes—both tangible and intangible—discovering how they reflect your identity, longing, and growth. ...

In Challenging Constructs, Linda A. Lavid invites readers on a journey through ordinary days that crack open into extraordinary experiences. From a morning commute bathed in otherworldly glow, to quiet revelations in nature, to meditations that turn whimsical (a squirrel with Robert De Niro’s head, anyone?), these moments point to a powerful truth: connection is the cure for fear, and love is its expression. Part memoir, part guide, this book blends: Personal stories of transformation and resilience Science side notes that ground mystical insights in psychology and neuroscience Reflective...

Interpreting Strangers is a poetic exploration of the human impulse to see, judge, and understand the unfamiliar. Blending black and white collage imagery with lyrical reflections, the book invites readers to look beyond surface impressions and connect with the quiet stories behind anonymous faces. Each entry pairs a striking visual with a meditation on perception, emotion, and the fragile narratives we construct about others — and ourselves. Structured in four parts — Impression, The Stranger, The Mirror, and The Keep — each page becomes a portal into ambiguity, empathy, and ...

Exploring Fractals follows Ben, a quiet, curious boy who discovers fractals by tracing the jagged edges of coastlines and falling down online rabbit holes. As he learns about infinite patterns repeating within themselves, he starts seeing fractals everywhere: in broccoli spirals, family arguments, weather maps, and even his recurring dreams. Through sketches, conversations with a teacher, and gentle moments with his friend Ani, Ben comes to understand that life’s chaos and rough edges hold hidden order — and that we, too, can choose which parts of our patterns to repeat or break. This ...

What if making abstract art wasn’t about technique or talent—but about finding yourself along the way? Unlocking Abstracts is a poetic and practical guide for creatives seeking meaning, play, and presence through the language of abstraction. No art degree required—just curiosity and a willingness to begin.

What do a ladder and a cat have in common? Or grief and a slice of apple pie? Welcome to Weaving Metaphors, a soulful and surprising journey into the art of seeing meaning in the everyday. With warmth, wit, and a touch of midnight musing, author Linda A. Lavid invites you to explore unlikely pairings—two random nouns at a time—and discover how they connect, clash, or conspire to tell us something deeper about life. Part journal, part creative practice, and part spiritual whisper, this book is for thinkers, feelers, wanderers, and anyone who believes the world is more than it seems. Each...

101 Ways to Meditate: Discover Your True Self is a primer to illuminate the landscapes within and beyond. Easily explained and specific, 101 Ways to Meditate, supplies a wide selection of processing, imagery, release, and inspirational meditations to make meditative practice life-affirming, insightful and fun. A 31-day journal is also included. Whether to explore metaphysical questions, experience higher awareness, or come to terms with the mystery within, meditation serves. This book was a finalist in the 2011 Global E-Book Awards.

There are several aspects to writing fiction. Rendering what John Gardner in The Art of Fiction describes as a 'vivid and continuous dream' is a complicated affair. Story is created from the imagination of a writer, who in turn must translate it onto a page of symbols so that another person can read, absorb, and experience the story in a similar fashion. It's a remarkable process when you think about it. In On Creative Writing the process of writing fiction is demystified and cut in palatable bites to help any writer who has the passion and mad desire to tell a story. Reviews: Bitten by ...

This book was previously published as PALOMA by Linda A Lavid. Paloma, a woman with three identities, is running hard and fast. Someone wants her dead. But which identity is the killer after? Max Laurent, retired FBI agent, throws himself into the mix. Paloma must outwit the assassin. Max must outwit Paloma. Before coming to terms with past misunderstandings and a child long ago abandoned, they must, together or apart, unmask the killer before it's too late. From Roundtable Reviews Emotional and completely enthralling, FLY AWAY GIRL* is a rollercoaster ride of intrigue and deception. Paloma...

Embark on a transformative journey with "Personal Archetypes for Stress Relief: A Holistic Guide," where ancient wisdom meets modern life. This book introduces 52 archetypes, each embodying a unique aspect of the human experience, offering readers a rich tapestry of tools for managing stress and enhancing well-being. From the wisdom of the "Ancestral Guardian" to the tranquility of the "Restful Space," these archetypes guide you through life's challenges with clarity and purpose. The book goes beyond traditional stress management, delving into the spiritual and psychological depths of each ...

Quigley Tree drops out of college. At age 23, she's been a complete failure. If she doesn't do something soon, her life will careen into a deep, dark, irrevocable void. Tick Tock. That soon is now. From the publisher: Five-Star Review from Readers' Favorite by Lorraine Cobcroft: Quigley Tree, the protagonist of Linda A. Lavid’s novel of the same name, is a young woman with an odd name. A college dropout from a dysfunctional home, and recently escaped from a relationship with a narcissist, Quigley needs to find a new place to live, quickly. A unique idea sets her on a path to find ...

A contemporary short story of three aging friends, two sisters and an ex husband, who continue to mess up and learn lessons.

The Lure of Chianti & Fava Beans: How to Write a Killer Mystery is for writers. If you are a new writer (bravo!), this primer on mystery writing presents the basic building blocks that must be considered before your story is started. If you are a writer who wants to expand into mysteries or have a mystery subplot in your current work, this manual explains the critical details in fleshing out a great story. Also included are fiction writing basics.

Murder in the Pachysandra introduces Hattie Moon, an elderly widow, who steps out of her dusty world of cat hair, mixed-up days, and rambling conversations with her dead husband, to solve the murder of her paperboy Jason Meeks. She, along with her friend Muriel Manning, unravel clues the police have missed. Suddenly, the amateur sleuths find themselves swirling in a deceitful, troubling world of marital infidelity, drugs, the dark web, and a diabolical force that hovers, ready to pounce.

Hattie Moon, a modern-day Miss Marple, is thrown into a mystery close to home when her son Howie, gets engaged. While his bride-to-be is charming, Hattie learns the woman is a widow who lives with her mother and sister, who are also widows. Naturally, Hattie becomes concerned...as she should.

Beneath every veneer, beneath the person who is you, there are secrets, never acknowledged, never told nor shared. It is your sexuality, and mine, a compendium of dark influences, of seeds sown, of lost fleeting moments that run us wild, ragged. Ever constant, we deny our nature of want, desire, guilt, shame. Ever constant, we succumb to the subterranean pull of pleasure and pain. It is here where the story begins. Welcome.

A life-long bachelor and company president takes the plunge with a company secretary.