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Sometimes you search far and wide for happiness and contentment and sometimes it's right under your nose. In Being Happy Now, the author chronicles 365 days of living in the moment and finding something to be thankful for. What started off as a book project soon became a new way of living life. The author became more brave and happy and less fearful and stressed. She discovered the key to being happy is to live in the moment and be grateful. Being Happy Now is a true account of one person's journey to find the good in her daily experience. It's honest, genuine, and entertaining. And upon reading the book, you just might find yourself starting your own journey to happiness and fulfillment.

In Volume I, we heard the distinct yet disparate voices of Elisabeth and Katelyn Lowrie, and Jan McLoughlin, as they struggled to come to terms with one another and themselves. We witnessed Elise-despairing over failing communications with her headstrong daughter-retreat to the attic, there to embark upon her memoir composed as a long letter to her only child. Meanwhile, downstairs, buoyed up by her bottles of whisky and cartons of unfiltered cigarettes, Jan-the outspoken landowner returning after fifty years-launches out on telling her life story to Katie aloud.In Volume II, we watch Katie spanning the gap between the two older women while hatching a plan that may enable the Lowries (and Donald Duncan, Katie's 10-year-old son) to remain living on the place.Three single mothers of three bastard children from three generations, each of whom claims Cliffport-a ghost town on Santa Cruz County's northern coast-as her rightful home. Three women baring their hearts and minds to one another and to us. Three naked ladies, each in her own way as resilient, enduring, and irrepressible as the wild bulbous Amaryllis belladonna plants rooted out West, and surviving on their own along California's Central Coast.

Less than a month after the celebrations of Millennium Night, the island of Lombok - sister to its famous neighbour, Bali - is torn apart by riots, part of the religious and ethnic tensions that are threatening the stability of the whole of Indonesia.After a life spent wandering the world, Denise Laing has settled in the tourist resort of Senggigi and seems to have found a fragile inner peace. But the riots, and the arrival of her estranged daughter, set off a personal crisis that shakes this peace to its roots.The final part of a trilogy set in Indonesia, Lombok Flames explores the struggle to find meaning in the modern globalised world and the role of religion in that struggle.