Best Selling Books by Ruth White

Chinese edition of Belle Prater''s Boy, a 1997 Newbery Honor Book. In Traditional Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Working with Your Soul is an inspiring and uplifting new book for anyone who is seeking a deeper and higher context for their life. Using case histories from her rich experience as counsellor, psychotherapist and spiritual consultant, bestselling author Ruth White seeks to define both soul and spirit. She demonstrates how life itself can be seen as guidance from our souls, whether by the gifts it holds for us, or the actual and metaphoric ''knocks on the head'' and ''kicks from behind'' that challenge our direction and our creative relationship to living. Working with Your Soul is a book for those who long to know more about the intentions of their souls for this present lifetime, to define their life purpose and to be guided more clearly about the meaning and lessons of life. In it, you will explore the following: What is soul and what choices does it make? How can I decode the messages from my soul? Evolution and karma; Being an ambassador for the soul''s purpose; Soul contracts and how to change, modify, or re-negotiate them. Packed with practical exercises to help you work with your soul, this is an essential and much-needed book for our times.

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A mystical soft sci-fi for older teens and adults. At an unspecified time in the future a spiritual group of Earthlings establish their utopian society on a small Goldilocks planet at the edge of the known universe. It is here on Aquarius that Lily Reynolds spends a carefree childhood among the hills, streams and meadows of this new Eden. When the colonists have completed the building of homes and a school, tragedy strikes in the form of a deadly virus. Only twelve people survive, all of them children. Lily at the age of eleven, is the oldest. With no communication to other worlds, the youngsters wait for a promised starship for rescue. But it does not come. The children turn into teenagers with a limited knowledge of adult relationships. They have only each other and a few books to guide them. In time the teens become attuned to the mystical vibrations of the planet, as the Mansions of Karma appear periodically in the sky to remind them they are not alone, but forever a part of the great universal life force. And then one day the starship actually does come, but it is not there on a rescue mission

In "A Man Was a Real Man in Them Days," Ruth Burns celebrates the life and character of the pioneers who dared to challenge the vast prairie of the Llano Estacado of Eastern New Mexico. In the 1880s along the Rio Grande and Pecos Rivers, the cities of Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Ft. Sumner were bustling centers of commerce, but on the High Plains, due to the lack of dependable water, the prairie was inhabited only by occasional outlaws, Indian hunting parties, Hispanic mustangers and buffalo hunters. After the Civil War, cowmen began to bring their herds to the plains; and in 1898 when the railroad came, homesteaders poured in, lured by promises of free land. Barbed-wire fences were put up, and the day of the open range was at an end. Using interviews and letters collected by her mother in the 1930s and 1940s, Burns reveals the courage, determination, and good humor of these first settlers by using their own words, recorded while they were still living.

How much does one''s color matter? Are we the color we see when regarding ourselves in the mirror, the color others see when they look at us or the color assigned to us by our circumstances of birth? Ally, a slave, has to answer these questions and, ultimately, discover what freedom means. Much of her story recounts her perilous journey: pursued by slave catchers, enduring cold and hunger, following the North Star. After crossing the Ohio River, safety is not assured because of the Fugitive Slave Act, but she is helped by Underground Railroad "conductors" until she becomes too ill to continue to Canada and freedom. Ally succeeds in ways she could not foresee to find freedom and love.

The Ruth White Carr Collection includes photographs of the Women''s Glee Club, her Kappa Alpha Theta certificate, and a newsletter from Gould Farm containing a short obituary. There are also lantern slides of Chinese parables from her time in Peking, along with what appear to be her notes regarding related Bible passages.

In a time and place where women have few choices in life, Lorelei Starr, a dreamy blue-eyed descendant of the first English and Scotch-Irish settlers in the Virginia hills, looks at the distant horizon from her isolated mountaintop home, and wonders if there is something out there that will fill the hollow place in her chest.Throughout childhood she wavers between two fantastic realms of imagination. One is a patch of tangled woods where the hopeless Old Thing hides and cries away the years. The other is the enchanted ice palace where the sleeping beauty waits for the kiss of the prince. Lorelei learns about love from her older siblings, who nurture her as their abusive father and distant mother cannot do. Daily she walks down the mountain to the school in the hollow. The rest of her time is filled with "woman''s work".Memories of certain incidents come to haunt Lorelei - a sister being whipped by Dad, another being taken away to a sanitorium. Then there''s the smell of strawberries, which are forever associated with a harsh blow from Mommie.But there are also moments of joy, such as the visit from the traveling peddler who touches her heart by showing her a bit of kindness, and her first visit to town when she rides in an automobile and sees a moving picture show.When Lorelei is ten, her mother dies needlessly. This death is followed by another one that carves a deeper wound, and she plans her escape from this bitter home. When the opportunity comes, Lorelei leaves behind everything familiar - family, kin, and the teacher who declares his love for her. As a teenager in the roaring twenties, Lorelei is swept into the carefree world of flappers, bobbed hair, the Charleston, the IT girl, and the notorious speakeasy. Most important she becomes a bit player in the high society world of old money. Here she meets a different kind of creature - men who are rich and handsome, well-bred and well-educated. One of them steals her heart away, but how can a simple wildflower ever compete with that exotic orchid by his side?On a trip back to Starr Mountain for yet another funeral, Lorelei comes to the realization that a girl must create her own choices in life, and she finally comes face to face with the promise of happiness.

The Recovery Workbook is an invaluable, interactive tool to assist anyone who suffers from or is trying to help those that suffer from addiction.The book was written by someone who has traveled the path from addiction to sobriety and will help you attain and sustain relief from your addiction.This book and the tools it contains can be applied to any of the ways that the disease of addiction manifests itself. Ruth wrote it from the viewpoint of a recovering alcoholic but the clear and simple to understand process will work for gambling, narcotics or over-eating just as effectively.Because the disease of addiction hijacks specific parts of the brain, the recovery process is the same regardless of the substance or behavior one is addicted to.From adolescents to octogenarians, Ruth''s unique way of combining medical and scientific knowledge with the behavior modification aspect of the 12 step process will have you not only conquering your addiction but better understanding the path that led you there in the first place. By breaking down the 12 steps of A.A and explaining the physiological and psychological components of the disease of addiction, Ruth helps you better understand how the body and mind work together.This workbook allows the reader to catalogue their history and their progress through the process, while developing new coping mechanisms to replace old thoughts and behaviors. The same thoughts and behaviors that included "using" as a way to deal with their problems. These new approaches to dealing with emotional issues will assist the reader in understanding the reasons they used before and developing a better sense of self to use as a tool against relapse.Ruth''s Master''s Thesis was on ''trauma''s connection to addiction and relapse prevention'', so it makes sense that someone who relapsed multiple times, then spent years studying the process would understand the tools necessary to assist in relapse prevention. Ruth''s personal experience with addiction and her easy to like and understand teaching style have helped thousands of her clients to date. Let her help you, with The Recovery Workbook.