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CEO and publisher at Audrey Press, and creative director of the popular blog and website Jump into a Book, and co-founder of Multicultural Children’s Book Day; these are the many hats of Valarie Budayr .

Valarie is also the award-winning, best-selling author of Mom’s Choice Award Winner A Year in the Secret Garden and Kirkus Top Pick Dragons Are Real.

As a publisher, Audrey Press has offered readers amazing and innovative titles like the YA thriller, Ascension by Hannah Rials, the wildly popular Donna Ashton book, The Waldorf Homeschool Handbook and most recently HOW TO COACH GIRLS by Mia Wenjen and Alison Foley.

Alison Foley, Boston College's Women's Head Soccer Coach, and Mia Wenjen, parenting blogger at PragmaticMom to help coaches, both ...more

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Books for Grown-Ups that Encourage Ecotherapy

So what is Ecotherapy? Simply put, it is healing through connection with the earth and nature. There are other terms and words used to describe healing with nature. Green therapy, forest bathing [also known as shinrin-yoku in Japan], ecopsychology, and nature therapy all use the same principles of interacting and connecting with nature as a means to heal the mind and body. Connecting with nature a

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	A Year in the Secret Garden by Valarie Budayr (Goodreads Author), Marilyn Scott-Waters (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.34 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dragons Are Real 4.72 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fox Diaries: The Year the Foxes Came to Our Garden 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thrive: Living A Self-Healed Life it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ultimate Guide to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Valarie Budayr (Goodreads Author), Roscoe Welply (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Meeting Your Soul on the Labyrinth: SoulCollage® and the Labyrinth as Pathways for Transformation

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The Healing Power of Chanting: An Inspirational Journey Of Freeing The Inner Voice

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“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
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“Look at this world! So vast! So wide! Huge masses of land spread across it; multitudes of green and brown islands dotted the blue expanse of the oceans. He felt like a bird contemplating the sky.”
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“The door through which he had glimpsed such wondrous light, he had walked through. He had encountered both beauty and pain. Now he understood that was how it would always be—no matter where he went in the world.”
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“Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.”
― Tim Burton, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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