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October 18, 2021

5:05 PM By Lindz No comments Edit This

Book Review: Halloween Yoga

Book Title: Halloween Yoga

Author: Teresa Anne Power

Publisher: Stafford House Books

Publisher Date: Fall/Autumn, 2022 (16 Pages, E-book)

Series: Little Mouse Adventures (Book #4)

Genres: Children, Animals, Yoga, Fitness, Adventure, Holiday, Halloween

ISBN: 9781734478693 Board Book | ~~9781734478617~~ E-Book

Get excited for Halloween and learn some simple not-so-spooky yoga poses at the same time with Little Mouse and friends! Your ghosts and goblins will stretch like witches, ghosts, and black cats with this charming board book set to rhyme from bestselling author Teresa Power. Sample text: "Before you go out to trick or treat," says Tammy’s mom, "Let’s do some Halloween yoga poses to keep calm."

Discliamer: I received a free ARC e-copy of this book from the publisher for an honest review. My opinions and thoughts are my own.

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Are you looking for more fun and a healthy way to get your child or children to enjoy Halloween? Well, maybe this new book soon to be coming out will do the trick. “Halloween Yoga” is a sweet and cute addition to a book. It occurs during Halloween. It’s little mouse’s favorite time of year; What yoga pose will little mouse and his best friend learn from the McDowell family and friends.

I wonder what kind of Halloween yoga poses Tammy and her friends learn that are Halloween-related. Children will learn new poses but also enjoy this book as they read. This book shows how to stay calm before going trick or treating.

Can you child or children guess what the pose will be? This book continues to help children with different situations and the poses that change during each adventure. Children will learn that wellness and health will keep each child or children calm and enjoy their experience.

In each book in this series, Children learn different kinds of poses to do or enjoy. Little Mouse adventures are enjoyable to all to read—what an excellent book to add to your collection of books; or your yoga classrooms. Children can love reading about the little mouse and his best friend. Children can learn some not-so-spooky, and Halloween-themed yoga poses to try and stay calm.

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July 6, 2020

7:01 AM By Lindz 1 comment Edit This

Book Review: Mindfulness at the Park

Book Title: Mindfulness at the Park

Author: Teresa Anne Power

Publisher: Stafford House Books

Publisher Date: September 1, 2020 (32 Pages, Paperback)

Series: Little Mouse Adventures (Book #2)

Genres: Children, Animals, Yoga, Fitness, Adventure

ISBN: 9781734478600 Hardcover | 9781734478617 E-Book

Lovable, curious Little Mouse is back to help kids use yoga and mindfulness to solve problems and manage emotions in Mindfulness at the Park, the second book in the acclaimed Little Mouse Adventures series!

Little Mouse and his family live in a cozy burrow nestled in Tammy McDoodle’s backyard.

Tammy and her mother love to practice yoga and mindfulness together, and Little Mouse loves to follow along!

In this beautifully illustrated book, Little Mouse, along with Tammy’s wise, lovably lazy cat, Mr. Opus, follow Tammy’s family on an adventure to a bustling neighborhood park filled with new sights, sounds and people.

Blending humor and fun, Mindfulness at the Park gently imparts ways to navigate the excitement and uncertainty of new experiences. Kids will delight in Little Mouse’s adventures, while adults will love watching children apply their new-found skills to quiet their minds and manage stressful situations

Discliamer: I received a free copy of this book from the publisher for an honest review. My opinions and thoughts are my own.

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Looking for a series or a good children book that may help with stress or stress-related things? Well, this book takes a look at a way to help your child or children. I love the way you can use yoga to help with emotions and stress.

This one is done well. It fun and enjoyable. Your child or yourself can learn from Little mouse adventure in the park. Your child or children will learn some good life lessons as well. Parents and grandparents will enjoy the book as well.

The pictures are fun. They are also enjoyable to look at as well. I see the problem solving throughout this book. The lesson taught in the book helps children learn a skill in their real world as well. Grandparents and parents alike will enjoy having the teaching of yoga and life lesson that children learn at a young age.

We know children get excited or scared. This book teaches about breathing and how to calm the mind in a fun and learnable experience.

Teresa is an internationally recognized children’s yoga expert, keynote speaker, and the bestselling author of The ABCs of Yoga for Kids and Little Mouse Adventures series. Also available in Spanish, French, Italian and Danish, her books have won multiple awards. She has also developed a complete line of ABCs of Yoga for Kids products, including yoga pose cards, a coloring book, poster, and a guide for parents and teachers. Teresa is also the founder of International Kids’ Yoga Day, an event she created in 2016 to celebrate the health and wellness of our youth worldwide through the practice of yoga. She has appeared on both local and national television and radio, and has been featured in/on CBS Los Angeles, Telemundo Los Angeles, Good Morning America, Reader’s Digest, Publishers Weekly, Foreword Magazine, Story Monsters Ink, Sirius XM, Parenting Special Needs Magazine, USA Today Magazine, Girls World Magazine, Green Child Magazine, Yogi Times, Glamour.com, Parenting.com and more. Teresa was also named KNX-AM “Hero of the Week” in 2016, honoring her dedication to helping yoga become accessible to children all over the world. In addition she has a monthly column in the Palisadian Post called “The Pose”. Teresa has spoken at numerous libraries, schools, yoga studio, and school conferences, volunteers her yoga expertise, and has worked with SOS Mentor, the Boys & Girls Club of Los Angeles and Santa Monica, Children’s Bureau, Choose Health LA Child Care, Let’s Move West LA, Pathways, Connections for Children, the Neighborhood Youth Association, and CalTAC PBIS. She also teaches workshops focusing on how yoga supports early childhood education positive behavioral interventions and supports. (EC-PBIS) A graduate of University of Southern California, she earned her J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law, and completed a yoga training program with Indigo Yoga.

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September 21, 2018

1:00 AM By Lindz No comments Edit This

Book Tour: Death Logs Out by EJ Simon + Giveaway

Book Title: Death Logs Out
Author: EJ Simon
Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Death, Adventure,
Series: Michael Nicholas #3
Publisher: Endeavour Media
Publish Date: 201-07-13 (303 Pages, Paperback)
Disclaimer: I received a free Advance Reader Copy from the author/Publisher for an honest review. I also got it though IReadBookTours.
Description: Is Alex Nicholas really dead?

Two years since the brutal shooting of Alex Nicholas, a gambling underworld boss in Queens, NYC. But his brother, Michael, a respected CEO, struggles with a secret: his murdered brother has been communicating with him via his laptop using AI. This AI-Alex can foresee dangers in Michael’s path, and appears to be trying to help him – even controlling machinery and electronics via WiFi. Meanwhile, trouble is stirring in the historic capital cities of Rome, Berlin and Paris. Inside the Vatican, Monsignor Kurt Schlegelberger has designs to build his power and prepare for the sudden ascension of the Free Forces Party, a throw-back to the Nazis.

Schlegelberger will stop at nothing, but first he must deal with a new threat: someone appears to know the true story behind a series of murders in the US, committed by clergy to cover their tracks of child abuse within the Church. Alex’s re-appearance puts Schlegelberger’s plans in jeopardy. Dead or alive, the way to finish off Alex for good can only be to get to his close family, namely his brother Michael…

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Do we ever really know what really happens after death? Did Alex really die or is he still alive somewhere? The author put us in to story as Michael is wondering about this as he find out that his brother Alex as somehow getting in touch with several of his ex-wives.

Sofia is reached out by her uncle but doe not really know for sure. Then she is kidnapped? Will she survive or is this a mad woman going to get her revenge on Michael? Michael goes to his buddy a retired policeman. Whatever happens when they recruit a friend to save Sofia? There seem to be more going on that someone once Sindy Steel gone?

What does the Vatican want? There seems to be more of terrifying going on? Who is the Free Force Party? Kurt seem to want more power then what he got. We got back to learn some history about the Nazi occupation. There are more action and twist as you turn the page.

The author takes you for a ride of a lifetime. Learn a bit about the Vatican church. You also get to tour a bit of Paris. What will happen to Michael as he goes to hunt down the bad guys that murdered his to brothers. Alex is mentioned and talked to though out the book. What is AI? Is it real?

What does John Goldstin want with Michael? I know that once you start reading this book you will not want to put it down. It action packed. I do wish to that parent are aware that his is book has a lot of deaths in it. I would suggest this to be for children of ages 16 + with Mature in it. Please know this is only what i suggest and the parents have the right to allow there children to read it if choose to or not.

I thought this book acted like a lot of my real world that going on around me. Though not at lot but you might remember 9/11 and think of how real that might be if or what really happen to Malaysia plane that when down over the ocean. I know that fact or there but they may not be real in the story but sure feel that way when reading the book. Thank to the author I have enjoyed these books. I can not wait for more. Check out my review for Death Never Sleeps and Death Logs In

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Meet the Author:

E. J. Simon is the author of three commercial fiction thrillers, Death Never Sleeps, Death Logs In and Death Logs Out. He has just completed his fourth manuscript, Death in the Cloud.

He is a member of the Authors Guild, the Mystery Writers of America and the North Carolina Writer’s Network. He holds an M.A. in Corporate & Political Communications from Fairfield University and a B.A. in Journalism from the University of South Carolina. He lives with his family in Cary, North Carolina in the United States. For more information, visit his website: www.ejsimon.com.

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April 10, 2018

7:35 PM By Lindz No comments Edit This

Review: The Weaver's Daughter

Book Title: The Weaver's Daughter
Author: Sarah E. Ladd
Genres: Christian, Romance, Regency, Historical Fiction, Fiction, England, Historical Romance, Christian Fiction
ISBN: 9780718011888
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Publish Date: 10 Apr 2018
Disclaimer: I received this book though +Negalley and Thomas Nelson for an honesty and unbiased review
Description: Kate’s loyalties bind her to the past. Henry’s compel him to strive for a better future. In a landscape torn between tradition and vision, can two souls find the strength to overcome their preconceptions?

Loyalty has been at the heart of the Dearborne family for as long as Kate can remember, but a war is brewing in their small village, one that has the power to rip families asunder–including her own. As misguided actions are brought to light, she learns how deep her father’s pride and bitterness run, and she begins to wonder if her loyalty is well-placed.

Henry Stockton, heir to the Stockton fortune, returns home from three years at war seeking refuge from his haunting memories. Determined to bury the past, he embraces his grandfather’s plans to modernize the family’s wool mill, ignoring the grumblings from local weavers. When tragedy strikes shortly after his arrival, Henry must sort truth from suspicion if he is to protect his family’s livelihood and legacy.

Henry has been warned about the Dearborne family. Kate, too, has been advised to stay far away from the Stocktons, but chance meetings continue to bring her to Henry’s side, blurring the jagged lines between loyalty, justice, and truth. Kate ultimately finds herself with a powerful decision that will forever affect her village’s future. As unlikely adversaries, Henry and Kate must come together to find a way to create peace for their families, their village, and their souls—even if it means risking their hearts in the process.

The Weaver’s Daughter is about loyalties and traditions. What will happen when a daughter keeps her loyalties with her father and want to be loyal to her brother as well. Well, things get a bit dicey when Henry Stockton returns.

Kate struggles with wanting to keep her loyalties to her past or they at least bind her to the past. Her father is a weaver and Kate try and prove to her father and the others that she wants to help with wool. Her brother Charles has chosen to work at Stockton Mill.

We are shown what it like for the time period and the history during Weavers vs Mill owners are tested. Weavers are trying to save their job and livelihoods and mill owners are trying to provide and work with the progress of the coming future.

Henry seems drawn to Miss Dearborne. Will Miss Dearborne come around or will she fight for what in the past. She is seemed like torn between loyalties to her father and brother. She will have to make a choice.

There are tensions with Miss Dearborne father and Henry Stockton? Old man Stockton has tensions with Weavers or at least with the Dearbornes. When someone kills Henry grandfather, who did it and why.

Mr. Dearbone seem to think that Old man Stockton's grandson will be the same as his grandfather? Mr. Dearborne tells his daughter to stay away from Stockton Mill and the Stocktons. Kate seems to keep entering Stockton property and is found out. Find out why and you will need to read it and find out the ending.

April 21, 2017

12:30 AM By Lindz No comments Edit This

Book Tour: Red-Tailed Hawk by Nancy Schoellkopf

Book Title: Red-Tailed Hawk
Author: Nancy Schoellkopf
Genres: Fiction, ARC, Animals, Birds, Autism, Literary,Women's Fiction with magical realism, Family, death
Publisher: Butterfly Tree Publishing
Publish Date: 03/11/17 (177 Pages, Paperback)
Disclaimer: I received this book from +Laura Fabiani iRead Book Tours and it publisher for an honesty review and book tour
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Description: When Mariah Easter encounters a large hawk in her urban midtown neighborhood, her father Charlie is concerned. He can see a wild and mystical path opening before his daughter, a path he himself would never be able to resist. The hawk soon reappears: engraved with its twin on a golden thimble that has been an Easter family heirloom for generations. After the thimble is stolen at a funeral reception, Mariah and her mother Samantha set off on a road trip to find it, a journey that will bring healing to the grieving family and change Mariah's life forever.

Red-tailed Hawk is a coming of age story, the tale of a young woman's quest to discover the source of her own longing and to understand the mystical legacy of her family.

Nancy does it once more with the book called “Red-Tailed Hawk”. This book is about Mariah and her journey. What will Mariah learn along the way? Samatha also needs to learn something as well and so does her stepson.

The plot about this book is something different and amazing. There a love storyline. What a journey this book get the family on after a death in the family happens. Who has taken the special thimble that Mariah see as something special.

What do we learn about hawks. What will Mariah learn about herself. Samantha learns about something about herself. Will it bring healing to them all. We go along with Mariah when she goes on her journey. The plot is written well. I enjoyed every page of it. It got some surprises in it. I love the fact its got different meaning. Will Mariah find her twin or what happen? Will she find what is missing from her heart or her missing connection?

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Nancy Schoellkopf is the author of Yellow-billed Magpie, the first in her Easter Family series. Nancy has been telling stories and writing poems for many lifetimes. It goes without saying that she'd need a second income, so this time around she has happily taught amazing children in special education classes in two urban school districts in Sacramento, California. A full time writer now, she enjoys lavishing attention on her cats, her garden, and her intriguing circle of family and friends.

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April 20, 2017

12:30 AM By Lindz No comments Edit This

Yellow-Billed Magpie by Nancy Schoellkopf

Book Title: Yellow-Billed Magpie
Author: Nancy Schoellkopf
Genres: Fiction, ARC, Animals, Birds, Autism, Literary,Women's Fiction with magical realism
Publisher: Butterfly Tree Publishing
Publish Date: 08/03/15 (216 Pages, Paperback)
Disclaimer: I received this book from +Laura Fabiani iRead Book Tours and it publisher for an honesty review and book tour
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Description: Yellow-Billed Magpie is a love story, a spiritual journey, a quest to look beyond appearances to the mystical rhythms that guide the human heart. Unlike their black-billed cousins, yellow-billed magpies are rarely found outside California's Central Valley. When they begin showing up in Samantha O'Malley's dreams, she wonders: are they calling me home? Disappointed by failed fertility treatments and the break-up of her marriage, Samantha returns to her home town and slips into old habits, resuming her teaching career, even hooking up with an old lover. But she also renews her friendship with Craig, the school custodian she honors as her spiritual guide. The work they do together with Samantha's special education students will lead her to discoveries she never thought possible.

I enjoyed this book about Yellow-Billed Magpies. Nancy does a wonderful job writing the plot and the story. I enjoyed every part of it. I loved that there was an autism and other disabilities as part of the story as well.

You get a bit of a spiritual in the story as well. We learn about Magpies somewhat in the book. We also go on a quest with Samantha O’Malley. We meet Craig and her old lover. She goes back to her teaching career.

What discoveries will Samantha and Craig find by working together and with her students? Nancy writing is done well. I have not been into a book that felt so real. I feel the book show us what it like somewhat of our world. Is our world what we think or is it an illusion? I start to wonder this and if we are just experiencing it as humans.