What happened when Belle visited Buckingham Palace, when Billy fell down a hole, and when Benny tempted Belfry down from a tree with dog food? In these entrancing short stories, written by schoolchildren from Ruskington village in Lincolnshire, England, join the six bell characters in some of their funny, heartwarming, and magical adventures. Discover what Bessie, Belle, Boo, Billy—and his pet bat, Belfry—Bob, and Benny get up to when no one is looking. All sales will contribute to the much-needed restoration of the six bells in the bell tower of All Saint’s Church.

The Bells of Mindfulness is part of the Parallax Press Moments series of short ebooks. Thich Nhat Hanh presents a dramatic vision of the future of our planet, a call for environmental awareness, and Buddhist teachings on interconnectedness. Ultimately, Nhat Hanh believes that engaging with the world is the key to our individual and collective survival. Selected from his best-selling title The World We Have.

In the village of the ghost bells, the church chimes ring—even though the church has no bells. One of the neighbors wants to buy dreams—or is she a dream that someone else is dreaming? Where and why do dreams become nightmares? These are only some of the fascinating questions raised in Village of the Ghost Bells, Edla Van Steen’s second novel. First published in 1983 as Coraçôes mordidos, the novel tells the story of the would-be utopian community built on an old plantation of the outskirts of São Paulo, Brazil. Its atmosphere is dreamlike, often verging on the supernatural, and strange events signal the transformation of the utopian dream into a nightmare. Ultimately destroyed by greed, corruption, and exploitation, the community becomes a microcosm of the Brazilian socioeconomic system, in which it takes all of a person’s warmth, idealism, passion, and humor to survive the bleak environment.