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New Jewish Wedding Book
Anita Diamant
$24.00, weight 350 grams, PB
This book offers step-by-step guidance to planning a Jewish wedding ceremony and the party that follows - from hiring a rabbi and wording the invitation to organizing a processional and hiring a caterer. There is also a chapter for converts, non-Jews, and same sex couples.
Also by this author: 'The New Jewish Baby Book'.

Ceremonies for Real Life
Carine Fabius
$24.00, weight 250 grams, PB
Birth, death, marriage, divorce, first menstruation, menopause ...
Ceremonies for Real Life will empower you to celebrate life's turning points. Each ceremony comes complete with instructions, a list of all the items you'll need, and an adaptable script designed to bring the sacred into the events of everyday life.

Your Marketing Sucks
Mark Stevens
$38.00, weight 370 grams, HC
Stevens shows how to conceive an innovative, effective marketing strategy--like Bill Gates's battle cry of ''putting a computer on every desk and in every home''--and then monitor the results. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to build their business, from small business owners to Fortune 500 managers marketing vast product lines.

Saving Our Children
Maggie Dent (AFCC Member)
$27.50, weight 275 grams, PB,
Teaching children the magic of silence and stillness. So often in our busy world, children are caught up in a pace that is dictated by others, and not at all cognisant of their needs. This book focusses on how those issues may be addressed, and at the same time how we give our children the gift of resilience and a sense of well being. These are issues on which most parents reflect, but are not sure how to address. Saving our children is the guide.

Passages in Men's Lives,
Gail Sheey
$8.95, weight 350 grams, PB
This book offers all men - and the women in their lives - an essential guide to self-discovery. Bold, imaginative men - celebrities as well as everyday heroes - share their real desires, deepest fears, and fervent cravings for a new start. Decade by decade, Sheehy uncovers the issues facing men today: surviving job change, finding new passion and purpose to invigorate the second half of their lives, enjoying family life and fatherhood, defeating depression, dealing with male menopause and learning what keeps a man young.

In Memoriam
Edward Searl
$30.00, weight 350 grams, PB
A guide to modern funeral and memorial services. Searl offers sensitive, practical advice for one of life's most difficult ceremonial passages. This book includes new material on writing obituaries, alternative settings, interment of ashes, cremation and selecting monuments and memorials. Also offers information on writing a eulogy, traditional and non-traditional memorial customs and grieving. Features eleven sample services. A useful resource for both the secular and the religious celebrant.

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Seasons of Life
Compiled by Nigel Collins
$27.50 weight 400 grams, PB
This book of prose and poetry is a gem. It is an anthology that deals with the rites of passage - birth, adolescence, marriage and death. A useful reference text for celebrants, Funeral Directors, and others involved in ceremony.

The Art of Ritual
Renee Beck & Sydney Barbara Metrick
$28.00, weight 320 grams, PB
Beck & Metrick explain the power, relevance, and need for ritual, describing the various types of rituals and their myths, symbols, and history as well as how to prepare, perform them.

Sharing the Future
Jane Wynne Willson
$17.00, weight 135 grams, PB
A simple concise 'how to' book that leads the practitioner through each step of composing a secular wedding ceremony, including also suggested poetry and music. The author is a member of the British Humanist Society and has also written New Arrivals ($17) and Funerals without God ($16)

The Red Hat Society
Sue Ellen Cooper
$22.00, weight 480gms, PB,
Believing that a woman's 50th birthday should be a time for celebration, not a milestone to be feared, Sue Ellen Cooper started giving a red hat to all her friends approaching the big five-oh. When she and her friends went to tea wearing their hats, the first chapter of the Red Hat Society was born. It is now spreading around the world. This book helps you discover that fun really does begin at fifty!

101 Poems that could save your life
Daisy Goodwin
$25.00, weight 260gms, HC,
Emotional bandaid for life's tricky moments. A literary alternative to Prozac. Great to just dip into.

Planning for a Healthy Baby
Belinda Barnes & Suzanne Bradley
$30.00, weight 270 grams, HC
It is now recognised that the planning the best start for your baby needs to begin well in advance - even before conception. Many of the causes of miscarriage or damage and ill health to the unborn can be pre-empted by a practical programme of health care that is easy to follow. Uses the Foresight programme.

All I really need to know, I learned in Kindergarten
Robert Fulghum
$25.00, weight 250 grams, PB
Fulghum engages us with musings on life, death, love, pain, joy, sorrow. The little seed in the Styrofoam cup offers a reminder about our own mortality and the delicate nature of life . . . a spider who catches (and loses) a full-grown woman in its web one fine morning teaches us about surviving catastrophe . . . the love story of Jean-Francois Pilatre and his hot air balloon reminds us to be brave and unafraid to "fly" . . . life lessons hidden in the laundry pile . . . magical qualities found in a box of crayons . . . hide-and-seek vs. sardines--and how these games relate to the nature of God.

Quilting Illusions
Celia Eddy
$18.95, HC weight 840 grams
Optical illusions are a feature of visual art. Quilt makers too, have exploited ancient pattens and developed their own designs, known as Eye-Fooler quilts. With clear, step-by-step illustrated instructions, Celia Eddy sets out a range of simple techniques based on perspective, circles and grids. Add another dimension to your quilt making. Find out how to create perspective and 3D effects and interlace layers of pattern.

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Abbreviations:

HC        Hard Cover
PB         Paper Back
RRP      Recommended Retail Price
S           Spiral Bound
SH        Second Hand