Books published by Balboa Press Australia

From as young as eight years of age and continuing throughout her life, Viviana has experienced events that fall way beyond the parameters of normal everyday life. Her astonishing experiences have shown her that you are not yourself, you are not what you think you are. You are far greater and far more than you could ever possibly imagine. Viviana's experiences will challenge your views on reality, science, spirituality, and just about everything you believe is true. Through sharing her story with you, you will be offered a fresh new look at the world around you and how you operate within it. This book will inspire a powerful shift in perception as you discover just how equally amazing, unique, and important you are, in the greater scheme of things.

We all want the best for our lives, but when it comes to figuring out how to get it, we are often left in the dark. Some sources tell us how we think and perceive the world around us influence what comes into our lives. But how we can adapt them to achieve the best often sounds too complicated or unlikely to succeed. So we keep on with the status quo. In her book, After the Tumbles and Tangles: A Guide to Good Thoughts, author Angie Salamah shows us how to change the undeniable relationship between our thoughts and the lives we create for ourselves does not have to be difficult. This collection of short, thought-provoking poems has the power to inspire you to take small, accessible steps to a healthier emotional life. Using familiar concepts, After the Tumbles and Tangles: A Guide to Good Thoughts shows how optimism is the key to lasting life changes. Salamah's After the Tumbles and Tangles: A Guide to Good Thoughts doesn't propose anything shocking, unrecognisable, or earth-shattering. Rather, by revisiting common-sense approaches to happiness, you will find just the encouragement you may need to improve your life.

This book has been written with one simple truth in mind. Every human ever born has been fearfully and wonderfully made and has some specific, hidden value within them. However, everyone comes to times of feeling and wondering seriously, if there is anything of value in them or their life. Many wonder from time to time, if we have anything of value, beauty or importance to aim for or look forward to beyond our present circumstances; especially if what we are going through is painful and drawn out. It is possible to learn to find treasures in every person place and situation that we go through. It is true that sometimes though; we need some assistance to look beyond the hidden boundaries of the preconditioning of supposed normality. Healing to our emotional eyes and the eyes of our understanding, always, definitely helps. Once we have begun such a journey, the joy grows from day to day, and so does the many surprises as we learn to see treasures instead of trash.

A selection of 101 poems in this illustrated collection take you through the varying dimensions of the spiritual realm; cat antics, the blues, legends, rediscovering friendship, tongue-in-cheek humour, nostalgia, and tributes to important people.I have known Amber Jo Illsley for many years. I am a very prosaic kind of writer, but we need a poet of Amber's talents to bring to our attention the wonders of our environment. Her book of poetry will bring to life for you, a very wide range of topics; from humour to spiritual in nature, being expressed in her own distinctive way for your enjoyment. - Gary Laughlin Jeffery, BSc., writer, apiarist and animal rights supporter.

We're all born worthy and deserving and with the unlimited potential to create whatever we desire. Why is it so many of us never find the joy, happiness, and success that is rightfully ours? Why do we experience so much depression and anxiety in our society? In Blue Sky Thoughts, author Gary Muller discusses the reasons we experience these never-ending cycles of negativity. It has nothing to do with luck. You have far more control over your life than you think. This handbook provides some essential insights for starting the process of positive change in your life. These insights create the opportunity to alter long-held negative beliefs that have been sabotaging your life. Each message is designed to open your heart, open your mind, and raise your awareness. Born out of Muller's professional studies, teachings from mentors, and his life experiences, Blue Sky Thoughts will help to restructure this negativity and replace it with a new positive program of healthy beliefs and thoughts that will allow you to live life to its fullest potential. Begin creating love, happiness, prosperity, and success; you deserve to have blue skies.

Today's society depends on technology. Whether it's for work productivity or simply for entertainment, young people especially are drawn to their devices. They feel the need to have several and, of course, the latest versions. And while it can be beneficial, technology has allowed individuals to live with limited contact with others. As technology continues to isolate people from one another, it's absolutely time for any book that seeks to enhance connection, awareness, and humanity. Author Phoenix De Vries's book Calling All Youth presents an intriguing array of choices, meditations, and ideas, each of which provokes serious thought in the individual. It is through such productive and personal epiphanies that true and lasting change can be inspired. Calling All Youth is not an argument against the use of technology. Quite the contrary; it has a role in life. But we must not sacrifice relationships with others. Calling All Youth's offers a powerful message of hope through conscious reconnection to self and others.

The truth will never be handed to you on a silver platter-especially when it doesn't reflect well on the superpowers of the world. The Unknown Ethnic Cleansings, written by the son of a Pole who died in a concentration camp. It focuses on the Ukraine, Lithuania, and other countries that few have singled out for their horrific actions. While Germany was making demands upon Poland, Ukrainian commandos in eastern Poland were preparing an uprising. They prepared a list of local Polish notables for elimination, and beginning in September 1939, Ukrainian deserters from the Polish army began forming their own units. Soon, Ukrainian militias were attacking Polish villages, and Ukrainians were expressing gratitude to Hitler. After every massacre of the Polish population in villages and towns, Ukrainian women and children arrived on horse-drawn carriages to plunder homes before torching them to the ground. They were not alone. Discover how various nations have conspired to kill innocent people, and get an honest account of atrocities the world must never forget with this history highlighting the darkest days in Poland's history.

In this fantasy novel, a giant named Böder sets out to prove his worth through a series of challenges and adventures across the continent of Durogg which is populated by manimals - those who are half human and half animal. Some years ago, these people had worked to rid themselves of Böder, a ten-meter-tall giant pest. The stories say he had been marauding among their farming communities and consuming everything is sight. But the truth, as always, is a little bit more complicated than that.Böder has been outcast and exiled to live on an island in the middle of a large river, when an opportunity arises that might help him to redeem himself. Although the populace at large distrusts and fears him, a merchant in need of a rambunctious giant seeks him out for assistance.So Böder, along with friends and family, sets out on a series of adventures in which he receives help from a princess, deals with some trolls, fights in the arena, faces giant reptiles, Locustmen and pirates and recovers a vast treasure. Whilst along the way he seeks to win the hearts of both a community and a lovely giantess.But only time will tell if Böder can ever fully redeem himself!T.J.C.

When author Sheelagh Maria Wright began her journey with the angels, she wasn''t looking for them and truly had no idea they existed in the real world. It was the birth and neardeath of her youngest son that changed her views and her life.In Living Your Life Purpose, she shares her story of near tragedy, heartbreak, and then a slow, but magical climb upward. She offers practical, real-life methods to help guide you on your path to your life''s work, to help yourself and others in a much broader way. Sheelagh Maria teaches how angels can help, but she also discusses how you can help yourself. She addresses such topics as how to connect with the angels, how to raise your vibration, and how to work with angels to heal issues with money, relationships, and more.Written with the help of Archangel Michael, Living Your Purpose presents practical information to help you understand why situations are the way they are and what you can do to make them better. It communicates the message that each person has the ability to work with their gifts to make their world a better place.

This story begins with the charismatic movement within the Christian church in the 1970s. Author Gwen Francis saw herself as only an observer at a Life in the Spirit seminar at an Anglican Church in New Zealand in 1975. Her subsequent experience of the Blessing of the Holy Spirit and various unasked-for gifts resulted in her admission to a psychiatric hospital. At the time, she was certain she was obeying God in all she said and did. In God is No Delusion, she explains the God she has known all of her life, and she discusses the force of evil that tries to separate us and help us destroy ourselves. Blending her life story and personal stories with her spiritual experiences, Francis offers evidence of a spiritual force she believes has communicated with humans and the living world since their beginning. Geared toward Christians who find it difficult to accept all the traditional teachings of their church and for the wandering flock who are looking for some spiritual guidance in a modern world, God is No Delusion shares both a message from God and a warning about the forces of evil.

Facts, Fiction, and the Bible: The Truth behind the Stories in the Old Testament serves as a reader's guide to conducting a thorough investigation of the stories contained in the books of the Bible's Old Testament. Its historical exploration helps to distinguish the stories'verifiable facts from their narrative fictions. The author, Gijsbert J.G. Sulman, builds upon a long history of Bible study and research to bolster his sifting of those facts from the Bible's fictions. The serious student of the Bible will find a wealth of resources at hand in the pages of Facts, Fiction, and the Bible. Twenty-two chapters treat the Old Testament's major themes, events, and figures. Plentiful illustrations, an extensive bibliography, and copious endnotes provide exhaustive visual and textual documentation to support the book's presentation. By taking stock of a wealth of research and integrating it with a careful reading of the biblical text, Facts, Fiction, and the Bible: The Truth behind the Stories in the Old Testament presents to the reader a careful and reasoned assessment of the truth lying behind and beneath the Old Testament's stories. With this in-depth survey in hand, the reader will come to know and to appreciate the Bible's stories and to discern what really happened.

The baggage we have created for ourselves in our life weighs us down. In Traveling Light, author Leonie van Hest explains how we can teach ourselves to travel light on our life's journey by shaking off negative thoughts and emotions like worry, fear, anger, revenge and lack of self-love. Traveling Light communicates we all have the ability and power within us to turn our lives into a more joyous journey. It discusses how to: ¿ think positive thoughts, especially about yourself; ¿ understand you are responsible for your own happiness; ¿ disallow others or outer circumstances to affect your good mood; ¿ ignore the well-meaning advice of others; ¿ know the difference between power over and power within; ¿ let your motive be "love" in everything you do; ¿ be grateful and content for what life offers you; ¿ get into a habit of making a positive difference in someone else's life; ¿ lead your life by faith instead of fear; and ¿ let go of control. Author van Hest shares how our life's purpose is to be the best we can be and spread our talents of kindness, love, encouragement, understanding, and wisdom.

You are Soul, an evolving divine spark of God consciousness. Thoughts and experiences are presented to enhance understanding and appreciation for the gift of life on Earth and the infinite "great beyond." The book provides one unique pathway toward finding the divine love, inner peace, joy, and the more meaningful existence that awaits all those who are willing to seek God within themselves and within all life.