ROSE PETALS AND TEA LEAVES, roses of the Alhambra and other stories is an openhearted and heartwarming book about roses, love, loss, grief, history, religion and faith against the background of beautiful places like Paris, Seville, Cordoba and Granada. It includes the poems the "Roses of the Alhambra" and "Girl in the White Dress", published for the first time, as well as some beautiful pictures of the roses of the Alhambra. Most stories in this book were first published in ROSE PETALS AND TE...

Most people know Jesus from the four gospels in the Bible and have built up a picture from that material. In our times, other writings have been found that show a very different Jesus, such as the gospels of Thomas, Mary Magdalene and Judas. The Jesus in those writings is much more spiritual, sometimes even a mystic, showing us the way to our inner selves through insights that we also come across in Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism.

This touching novel tells us about Jesus’ childhood, the unto...

Barbara Bahtiar was born in 1963 in Alkmaar (Holland) as the eldest of three sisters. Her youngest sister died shortly before her first birthday, so grief has been part of her life from the beginning.

As a child, she used to read a lot of books, especially fairy tales about foreign countries. She travelled to imaginary beautiful places which comforted her in her loss. Besides this, she developed the gift of writing, first in her diaries, later as an intuitive psychologist by writing meditatio...

ROSE PETALS AND TEA LEAVES, roses of the Alhambra and other stories is an openhearted and heartwarming book about beautiful places inside our heart. It is a book about roses, love, grief, loss, history, religion and faith against the background of beautiful places like Paris, Seville, Cordoba and Granada. It includes the poems the "Roses of the Alhambra" and "Girl in the White Dress", published for the first time, as well as some beautiful pictures of the roses of the Alhambra. Most stories i...