The arrival of the Internet, television and telephone plays a key role in easing our daily schedules. Unfortunately, the time for smiling or laughing has never been an easy pearl to find. Refreshment of mind seems to be as far away as the moon unless we do it from the school or any other sort of formal or informal training. As human beings, we need some important pillars at our side so that we shall be real human beings. Coping with stress, as a single way to stay pure and intact, is the only way that helps. Unfortunately this is not easy for all of us and the appropriate psychotherapy as an ultimate way to get out from the stressful state is extremely costly. Therefore, through our peace of mind, reflection and laughter, we are able to overcome all odds that trigger our hidden accumulated stress and fatigue to cause us troubles and impede our well-being.

Bound to Tradition, by Akinyi Princess of K’Orinda-Yimbo

Print: $32.99

A heart-rending and poignant love story filled with physical and mental conflict brought about when a young, naive African girl brought up to observe strict tribal traditions falls in love with her wealthy European employer, who is also her mentor and protector. Throughout the book, Khira struggles to balance the demands of western society with her grandfather's fierce expectations that she adhere to Luo customs. Despite the fact that she grows into an extremely mature and tolerant wife, caring mother, and astute business woman, in the shocking ending, her loyalty to an ageless African ritual causes her undoing. The book is skillfully-written, with sexual tension, tender and passionate love scenes, suspense and surprises, and the author demonstrates a substantial knowledge of Kenyan history, Luo tribal customs and the international business world. The only downside for me was the fact that it sometimes it is a little too wordy and doesn't move forward fast enough.

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Varlarsaga, Vol 2 - Recovery, by K.S. Mulholland (book)

Print: $29.66

By K.S. MULHOLLAND. Voices haunt the mind of the youthful Prince Mylor from his earliest memories: Voices that plead, beckon, seduce... Voices that offer him a new home. After escaping from a cell deep beneath Penda fortress in the mountain locked realm of Ravenmoor and sailing with strange Elvish folk to their far-off island home, Corin returns with them to his own forsaken country, there to confront the evil threatening to overthrow the kingdom. Yet the mysterious Voices lure him once again to sail away with the elves into the far North where lies a vast, unexplored land and the pursuit of answers to the riddle of the Voices...

Varlarsaga, Vol 1 - Escape, by K.S. Mulholland (book)