Author : Kathleen Alcalá
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,14 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780156005685
In the tradition of Isabel Allende and Laura Esquivel, Alcala presents a magical, multigenerational tale of family passions set along the Mexican-American border in the 1870s. "A strong and finely rendered book in which passions both ordinary and extraordinary are made vivid and convincing".--Larry McMurtry.
Author : Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Publisher : White Wolf Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 2007
Category :
ISBN : 9781588464903
This book includes: A comprehensive look at the spirit reflection of the World of Darkness, designed for mortal and supernatural chronicles alike, Extended rules on the interplay between the flesh and the spirit, providing ways to use spirits and the spirit-touched in any chronicle, A variety of mortal perspectives, as well as an extensive selection of antagonists that come from the other side, New spirits, Ridden, rules and setting lore for Vampire: The Requiem[Registered], Werewolf: The Forsaken[Registered], Mage: The Awakening[Registered] and more. Book jacket.
Author : Alison Lurie
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 16,26 MB
Release : 2002-02-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0142000450
Alison Lurie, one of America's greatest novelists, has written a loving memoir of world-famous poet James Merrill and his longtime partner David Jackson. Drawing on her forty-year friendship with Merrill and Jackson, Lurie reveals the couple's deep involvement with ghosts, gods, and spirits, with whom they communicated through a Ouija board. Among the results of their intense twenty-year preoccupation with the occult is the brilliant book-length poem "The Changing Light at Sandover", which Merrill called his "chronicles of love and loss." Recalling Merrill and Jackson's life together in New York, Athens, and Key West, Familiar Spirits is a poignant memoir infused with great affection and generous amounts of Lurie's signature wit.
Author : Mary Lindsey
Publisher : Philomel Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 10,95 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0399161864
"Paul has been training his whole life to be a Protector. Together he and his assigned Speaker will help lingering souls move from our world to the next. But no amount of training has prepared him for Vivienne--a Speaker with hot pink hair, piercings, and a blatant disregard for rules"--
Author : Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 2008-07-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1101097795
“A Wildly inventive and surprisingly playful sci-fi thriller.”—Washington Post Roommates Jaimie Locke and Kim Calloway are each looking to find a new life at college. It’s Jaimie’s first time Outside—away from her large, complicated family and their magical traditions—and she wants to learn what nonmagical life is like. Kim is anxious to escape the depression that’s been dragging her down since last year so she can make new friends and create the art she loves. But almost as soon as they unpack, Jaimie realizes that Kim’s depression is different from normal sadness. Something outside of Kim is literally forcing her to be depressed, pursuing and draining her. Just like that, the two girls—along with Jaime’s cousins and a Presence named Rugee—try to capture and rout the creature that is following Kim. No one said that college would be easy....
Author : Barbara Walker
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,98 MB
Release : 1995-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN :
This contributed volume explores the functions of belief and supernatural experience within an array of cultures, as well as the stance of academe toward the study of belief and the supernatural. The essays in this volume call into question the idea that supernatural experience is extraordinary. Among the contributors are Shelley Adler, David Hufford, Barre Toelken, and Gillian Bennett.
Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher : Rudolf Steiner Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781855840102
Speaking at a time of intense war in Europe, Rudolf Steiner reveals the spiritual roots of the crises of our times and the means by which we can overcome them. Since 1879, Steiner tells us that "backward" angels, or "spirits of darkness"--who were forced out of the heavens and made their abode on Earth following their defeat in a forty-year battle with the Archangel Michael--have influenced human minds. It is now possible for human beings to awaken more consciously to the truth of these profound changes and thus inwardly counter the fallen spirits' influences. We can come to the realization that definite spiritual causes lie behind earthly events in our rapidly changing times. In these fourteen lectures, given at the end of 1917 following four years of war in Europe, Steiner speaks on the complex spiritual forces behind the World War I, humanity's attempts to build theoretically perfect social orders, and the many divisions and disruptions that would continue on Earth into our own time. Humanity in general was asleep to the fact that fallen spirits, cast from the spiritual worlds, had become intensely active on Earth. This manifested mainly in human thinking and perception of the surrounding world. However, the defeat and fall of these spirits also ensured that a science of the spirit would always be available to humanity.
Author : Rita S. Berkowitz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 34,74 MB
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780028643502
You’re no idiot, of course. You know life is a journey and that physical birth and death are its points of transition. Many people, across cultures and faiths, believe the spirit lives on—and have experienced contact with the spirits of loved ones who have passed to the higher side. This contact is joyous, comforting, and healing—but you wonder if it’s really real and whether you can share in it, too. Don’t give up the spirit! The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Communicating with Spirits will show you exactly how to uncover your own mediumistic capabilities and connect with those no longer on the earth plane. In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you get: --Tips on how to connect with your personal divine energy through prayer, meditation, and dreams. --Information on the birth of the human soul—as perceived through theological, metaphysical, and spiritual viewpoints. --Exercises to help you develop your mediumistic abilities. --Tangible evidence of the continuity of life as presented through the experiences and spirit drawings of medium Rita S. Berkowitz.
Author : Leanna Renee Hieber
Publisher : Rebel Base Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 14,9 MB
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1635730597
New York, 1899, and the police department’s best ally is the secret Ghost Precinct, where spirits and psychics help solve the city’s most perplexing crimes . . . There’s more than one way to catch a killer—though the methods employed by the NYPD’s Ghost Precinct, an all-female team of psychics and spiritualists led by gifted young medium Eve Whitby, are unconventional to say the least. Eve is concerned by the backlash that threatens the department—and by the discovery of an otherworldly realm, the Ghost Sanctuary, where the dead can provide answers. But is there a price to be paid for Eve and her colleagues venturing beyond the land of the living? Searching for clues about a mortician’s disappearance, Eve encounters a charismatic magician and mesmerist whose abilities are unlike any she’s seen. Is he a link to mysterious deaths around the city, or to the Ghost Sanctuary? Torn between the bonds of her team and her growing relationship with the dashing Detective Horowitz, Eve must discern truth from illusion and friend from foe, before another soul vanishes into the ether . . . “There is something truly magical about Leanna Renee Hieber’s writing.” —Shana DuBois Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi/Fantasy Blog on Perilous Prophecy “Smart, boundlessly creative gaslamp fantasy.” —RT Book Reviews on Eterna and Omega “Will have readers chomping at the bit for more.” —Suspense Magazine on Eterna and Omega
Author : E. O. Higgins
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1908717416
December, 1917. The Great War is rampaging through Europe – yet Trelawney Hart has scarcely noticed. The arch-sceptic and former child prodigy has lost his way and now ekes out a lonely existence, taking his only comfort from the bottle. This dissolute lifestyle is interrupted, however, when spiritualist crusader and celebrated author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle arrives at the door of his London club and requests his help in investigating a man he believes to be a psychic medium of unparalleled gift. Driven on by his anticipation of exposing the psychic as a fraud, Hart accepts. But it is not long before he finds himself helpless amidst a series of seemingly inexplicable events – and he is forced to consider whether there may be much more to life than he had ever thought possible. Nominated for the Edinburgh Book Festival's 2014 First Book Award.
