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Beautiful Necessity: The Art and Meaning of Women's Altarsby Kay TurnerISBN 0500281505 (0-500-28150-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beautiful Necessity: The Art and Meaning of Women's Altars'Book summary:Ancient spiritual traditions - Goddess, Celtic, African, Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic, Greek Orthodox - are being revived and remade by women who create amazing altarpieces. Kay Turner has been exploring the subject of women's altars for over 20 years. She has found them in the studios of artists in Detroit, New York or San Francisco and kitchens and bedrooms in Mexican-American homes in Texas. The statues, flowers, pictures, photographs, amulets, stones, shells and other things that make the altars represent their makers' histories, beliefs and desires. From Mama Lola celebrating Afro-Caribbean gods in Brooklyn, to a Wiccan in California worshipping the goddess Aphrodite, Kay Turner draws out the personal stories that lie behind the altars, most reproduced here in colour, and explains their universal appeal and significance. [via]
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Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Womenby Elizabeth WurtzelISBN 0385484011 (0-385-48401-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women'Book summary:Elizabeth Wurtzel, an ex-rock critic for The New Yorker, won controversial fame with her bestselling 1994 memoir Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, which described how Prozac saved the precocious Harvard grad from suicide. Her second book, Bitch is a celebration of the defiant, rock-and-roll spirit of self-destructive women through the ages: Delilah, Amy Fisher, Princess Di, and hundreds more (including the awesomely reckless Wurtzel). There is no comprehensible central line of argument, perhaps because the author did her exhaustive research and writing on a speedy Kerouacesque drug binge that, by her own admission, sent her to rehab upon the book's conclusion. But Wurtzel has the remains of a fine mind: her insights are often sharp, sometimes bitchy, and always shameless as she zooms in a very few pages from The Oresteia to O.J. to her first crush on a fictional character Heathcliff) to Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me, Richard Pryor, Chrissie Hynde, Leaving Las Vegas, Gone with the Wind, Sylvia Plath's "Daddy," Schindler's List, Oliver! Carousel, and Andrea Dworkin. Most pop culture pundits incline to grandiose blather, but Wurtzel is punchy, and her quotes are more often apt than pretentious. Bitch is like a Mr. Toad's Wild Ride in a library, with frequent rampages through the film and music archives. Like rock music, Wurtzel's prose style lives for the moment. She glories in breaking rules to bits, is never giddier than when she's saying something shocking, and apparently has no moral code except self-expression--with the attitude volume knob cranked up to 11. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Bull from the Seaby Mary RenaultISBN 0375726802 (0-375-72680-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Clan of the Cave Bearby Jean M. AuelISBN 0375431802 (0-375-43180-2)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Clan of the Cave Bear'Book summary:When her parents are killed by an earthquake, 5-year-old Ayla wanders through the forest completely alone. Cold, hungry, and badly injured by a cave lion, the little girl is as good as gone until she is discovered by a group who call themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. This clan, left homeless by the same disaster, have little interest in the helpless girl who comes from the tribe they refer to as the "Others." Only their medicine woman sees in Ayla a fellow human, worthy of care. She painstakingly nurses her back to health--a decision that will forever alter the physical and emotional structure of the clan. Although this story takes place roughly 35,000 years ago, its cast of characters could easily slide into any modern tale. The members of the Neanderthal clan, ruled by traditions and taboos, find themselves challenged by this outsider, who represents the physically modern Cro-Magnons. And as Ayla begins to grow and mature, her natural tendencies emerge, putting her in the middle of a brutal and dangerous power struggle.
Although Jean Auel obviously takes certain liberties with the actions and motivations of all our ancestors, her extensive research into the Ice Age does shine through--especially in the detailed knowledge of plants and natural remedies used by the medicine woman and passed down to Ayla. Mostly, though, this first in the series of four is a wonderful story of survival. Ayla's personal evolution is a compelling and relevant tale. --Sara Nickerson [via]
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The Compass Roseby Gail DaytonISBN 0373802161 (0-373-80216-1)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Compass Rose'Book summary:The legends of the Godstruck were just that -- legends.
Until, in an attempt to defend her people, Captain Kallista Varyl called on the One for aid and was granted abilities such as no one had seen in centuries.
Now Kallista has been charged with a new destiny as one of the most powerful women in the land -- but her power is useless if it cannot be controlled.
Mastering her "Godstruck" abilities is the first step. The next, learning that she cannot unlock the secrets of the Compass Rose and defeat her nation's enemy alone. And finally she must stop a demon-possessed king . . . [via]
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The Concept of the Goddessby Sandra Billington, Miranda GreenISBN 0415197899 (0-415-19789-9)
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A Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddessesby George HartISBN 0415059097 (0-415-05909-7)
Softcover, Routledge
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A Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, Devils and Demonsby Manfred LurkerISBN 0415039444 (0-415-03944-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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Even Cowgirls Get the Bluesby Tom RobbinsISBN 0395245109 (0-395-24510-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Fata Morganaby William KotzwinkleISBN 0380646919 (0-380-64691-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fata Morgana'Book summary:Mystery is taken to the level of enchantment in this lyrical thriller set in the glitter of nineteenth century Paris.
At the fashionable salon of Ric Lazare you can have your fortune told by an amazing machine of unerring accuracy. But the police think Lazare is a con man and send Inspector Picard to investigate. Picard prefers lemon tarts and prostitutes to high society, and is unprepared for the string of murders that pulls him across the continent until he is tangled in the killer's last seductive knot.
A landmark in the history of detective fiction. [via]
Firelordby Parke GodwinISBN 0380775514 (0-380-77551-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Goddess: A Beginner's Guideby Teresa MooreyISBN 0340683902 (0-340-68390-2)
Softcover, Hodder & Stoughton Canada
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Goddess Of Lightby P. C. CastISBN 0425201961 (0-425-20196-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Goddess of Springby P. C. CastISBN 0425197492 (0-425-19749-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Goddesses in World Mythologyby Martha Ann, Dorothy Myers ImelISBN 019509199X (0-19-509199-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Goddesses Who Ruleby Beverly Moon, Elisabeth BenardISBN 0195121317 (0-19-512131-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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The Greek Mythsby Robert GravesISBN 0140010262 (0-14-001026-2)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Greek Myths'Book summary:Robert Graves, classicist, poet and unorthodox critic, retells the Greek legends of gods and heroes for a modern audience. He demonstrates with a dazzling display of relevant knowledge that Greek mythology is 'no more mysterious in content than are modern election cartoons'. All the scattered elements of each myth are assembled into a harmonious narrative, and many variants are recorded which may help to determine its ritual or historical meaning. Full indexes and references to the classical sources make the book as valuable to the scholar as the general reader. And a full commentary on each myth interprets the classical version in the light of contemporary archaeological and anthropological knowledge. [via]
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Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Greek Myths: ISBN 0140171991 (0-14-017199-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Greek Myths: ISBN 0385177909 (0-385-17790-9)
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Haunted Echoesby Cindy DeesISBN 0373514158 (0-373-51415-8)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazonsby Jane YolenISBN 0064408485 (0-06-440848-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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History of Pagan Europeby Prudence Jones, Nigel PennickISBN 0415158044 (0-415-15804-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Illuminatus Trilogyby Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert AntonISBN 0440539811 (0-440-53981-1)
Softcover, Dell Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illuminatus Trilogy'Book summary:Product Description "The biggest sci-fi cult novel to come along since Dune."--The Village Voice. From the Publisher Filled with sex and violence--in and out of time and space--the three books of The Illuminatus are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the coverups of our time--from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill. [via]
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In the House of the Moonby Katherine Ketcham, Jason EliasISBN 0446518166 (0-446-51816-6)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Laurens van der Post was a prisoner in Java when the atom bombs that ended the war destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Both a moving memoir of his experiences in the camp and a meditation on the morality of the bombs, this is also a compassionate contemplation of the Japanese guards and their western prisoners. [via]More editions of In the House of the Moon:
A.K.A. Goddess: The Grail Keepersby Evelyn VaughnISBN 0373513216 (0-373-51321-6)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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Key of Lightby Nora RobertsISBN 051513628X (0-515-13628-X)
Softcover, Jove Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Key of Light'Book summary:Nora Roberts invites you to unlock your dreams... Three women. Three keys. Each has 28 days to find her way through a dangerous quest. Nora Roberts brings us a unique series with a twisteach novel is written in real time, and the novels will be published in consecutive months.[via]More editions of Key of Light:
Kindling the Celtic Spirit: Ancient Traditions to Illumine Your Life Throughout the Seasonsby Mara FreemanISBN 0062516868 (0-06-251686-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Last Rainbowby Parke GodwinISBN 0380780003 (0-380-78000-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Lidia's Italian-American Kitchenby Lidia Matticchio BastianichISBN 037541150X (0-375-41150-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Literature and the Godsby Roberto CalassoISBN 0375725431 (0-375-72543-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literature and the Gods'Book summary:Brilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calassos lifelong study of the gods in the human imagination. By uncovering the divine whisper that lies behind the best poetry and prose from across the centuries, Calasso gives us a renewed sense of the mystery and enchantment of great literature.
From the banishment of the classical divinities during the Age of Reason to their emancipation by the Romantics and their place in the literature of our own time, the history of the gods can also be read as a ciphered and splendid history of literary inspiration. Rewriting that story, Calasso carves out a sacred space for literature where the presence of the gods is discernible. His inquiry into the nature of absolute literature transports us to the realms of Dionysus and Orpheus, Baudelaire and Mallarmé, and prompts a lucid and impassioned defense of poetic form, even when apparently severed from any social function. Lyrical and assured, Literature and the Gods is an intensely engaging work of literary affirmation that deserves to be read alongside the masterpieces it celebrates. [via] 
Lunaticsby Bradley Denton, Gordon Van GelderISBN 031214363X (0-312-14363-X)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Mary Magdalene : Myth and Metaphorby Susan HaskinsISBN 015157765X (0-15-157765-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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The Masks of God: Occidental Mythologyby Joseph CampbellISBN 014019441X (0-14-019441-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Maternal Face of God: The Feminine and Its Religious Expressionsby Leonardo BoffISBN 0062541595 (0-06-254159-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Mirror of the Godsby Malcolm BullISBN 0195219236 (0-19-521923-6)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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The Myth of the Goddessby Anne Baring, Jules CashfordISBN 0140192921 (0-14-019292-1)
Softcover, Arkana
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Occidental Mythologyby Joseph CampbellISBN 0140043063 (0-14-004306-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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Oh My Goddess!by Sally SwainISBN 0140233830 (0-14-023383-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Our Lady of Fatimaby William Thomas WalshISBN 0385028695 (0-385-02869-5)
Softcover, Image Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Lady of Fatima'Book summary:"The future of our civilization, our liberties, our very existence may depend upon the acceptance of her commands." --William Thomas Walsh
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This was the conclusion reached by William Thomas Walsh, distinguished author, historian, and teacher, after he had thorougly investigated the miracle of Fatima. Here is the whole remarkable story of the appearance of the Blessed Virgin Mary to three simple children at an obscure Portuguese village in 1917. Her prophecies of World War II and the rise of communism, her plea to humanity to do penance, her promise that world peace and the conversion of Russia would take place if her messages were heeded -- these are some of the dramatic events in this fascinating account of a modern miracle.
Our Lady of Fatima is a magnificent re-creation of an event whose effects are still reverberating throughout the world -- the appearance in person of the Mother of God with a "peace plan from heaven."More editions of Our Lady of Fatima:
Path of Fateby Diana Pharaoh FrancisISBN 0451459504 (0-451-45950-4)
Softcover, Roc
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Politics of Women's Spiritualityby Charlene SpretnalISBN 0385177704 (0-385-17770-4)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Politics of Women's Spirituality: Essays by Founding Mothers of the Movementby Charlene SpretnakISBN 0385172419 (0-385-17241-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Reflowering of the Goddessby Gloria Feman OrensteinISBN 0080351786 (0-08-035178-6)
Softcover, Pergamon Press
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Renaissance Moonby Linda NevinsISBN 0312152000 (0-312-15200-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Sapphire Roseby David EddingsISBN 034537472X (0-345-37472-X)
Softcover, Del Rey
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The Serpent's Toothby Diana L. PaxsonISBN 0380756803 (0-380-75680-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Sex, Time, and Power: HOw Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolutionby Leonard ShlainISBN 0142004677 (0-14-200467-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Shakti Mantras: Tapping into the Great Goddess Energy Withinby Thomas Ashley-FarrandISBN 0345443047 (0-345-44304-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Sister Light, Sister Darkby Jane YolenISBN 0312930917 (0-312-93091-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Light, Sister Dark'Book summary:[via]Raised on a mountainside, Jenna learned the arts of the warrior, and from the mountain women the magic of the ancient lore. But the greatest magic of all was her ability to call forth her dark sister from the depths of the mirror of the land of light and shadow.
Skada was the dark one, able to exist only when the moonlight cast a shadow or lamplight flickered in a darkened room.
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Sister of the Skyby Margaret AllanISBN 0451190408 (0-451-19040-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Something Wickedby Evelyn VaughnISBN 0373513917 (0-373-51391-7)
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A Song for Arbonneby Guy Gavriel KayISBN 0451458974 (0-451-45897-4)
Softcover, Roc
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Song of Kaliby Dan SimmonsISBN 031286583X (0-312-86583-X)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britainby Ronald HuttonISBN 0192880454 (0-19-288045-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Strands of Starlightby Gael BaudinoISBN 0451453166 (0-451-45316-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Strands of Sunlightby Gael BaudinoISBN 0451454081 (0-451-45408-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Tantrika: Traveling the Road of Divine Loveby Asra NomaniISBN 0062517147 (0-06-251714-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Terrierby Tamora PierceISBN 037581468X (0-375-81468-X)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Terrier'Book summary:Tamora Pierce has been creating strong, appealing heroines for teen fantasy fans for years, creating 2 main universes to house her multiple series. With Terrier, Pierce returns to the Tortall universe (home to her Song of the Lioness, Immortals, Protector of the Small, and Daughter of the Lioness series). Want to learn more? Read an exclusive essay from Tamora Pierce below. --Daphne Durham
An Essay from Tamora Pierce
Sixteen-year-old Beka Cooper lives far removed from knights, palaces, and the nobility. Her world revolves around thieves, beggars, taverns, and the lowest of the low. She's a trainee for the Provost's Guarda rookie cop, in a world where a cop makes her own name based on her personality, her attitude toward money, and her love of the law. Beka means to prove that she is out to make her mark in this hard and physical world.
She does face a large obstacle. She's shy. Painfully shy. Left to her own devices, she would have no friends. It's hard for her to talk to people she doesn't know. It's a problem for the Guards who train her, a real problem for Bekaunless she can figure out that a uniform is a kind of costume, one she can hide behind. One that will make her a more outspoken person. It will help a lot if people come to realize that under her shyness is a clever, determined young woman. It will help even more if she can make friends who can give her good advice. Luckily, she has one such friend living with her in her slum apartment: a purple-eyed black cat named Pounce. He can make himself understood in human speech if he wishes to. He's capable of doing weirdly intelligent things to help his young companion Beka. With Pounce to assist her, Beka cannot have an ordinary career.
Beka tells her own story in a journal that she keeps from her very first day as a Puppy. The Guards are dubbed "Dogs" in her time and their trainees are called "Puppies." In its pages she writes of her days with her training Dogs, the pair who are to teach her what they know of survival on the streets in the city's toughest slum. Both are veterans. Tunstall is an easygoing, funny man who can be a little crazy in a fight. Goodwin is a small, tough woman who is opposed to Beka's presence at the beginning, a hard Dog and a smart one. They take charge when Beka brings them word of two vicious sets of crimes. Like everyone else in Beka's life, her partners find out that once Beka gets a case in her teeth, she hangs onto it like a terrier until it's been solved.
I have all kinds of reasons why I went to the past of the Alanna books. In part I wanted to show how present-day Tortall came to be. I also knew George's fans would welcome any kind of return to the Lower City, even if it wasn't the Lower City of his time. I wanted to get away from the courts and nobility, the setting for so many of the Tortall books thus far. Since I didn't want to show any of the characters I've come to love as being old or even dead, I couldn't write books in the future of the current Tortall. I turned to the past, and I'm pretty sure my readers will be glad I did! --Tamora Pierce
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The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraftby Ronald HuttonISBN 0192854496 (0-19-285449-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft'Book summary:Here is a book that brings witchcraft out of the shadows. The Triumph of the Moon is the first full-scale study of the only religion England has ever given the world--modern pagan witchcraft, otherwise known as wicca. Meticulously researched, it provides a thorough account of an ancient religion that has spread from English shores across four continents.
For centuries, pagan witchcraft has been linked with chilling images of blood rituals, ghostlike druids, and even human sacrifices. But while Robert Hutton explores this dark side of witchery, he stresses the positive, reminding us that devotion to art, the natural world, femininity, and the classical deities are also central to the practice of wicca. Indeed, the author shows how leading figures in English literature--W.B. Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, and Robert Graves, just to name a few--celebrated these positive aspects of the religion in their work, thereby softening the public perception of witchcraft in Victorian England. From cunning village folk to freemasons and from high magic to the black arts, Hutton chronicles the fascinating process by which actual wiccan practices evolved into what is now a viable modern religion. He also presents compelling biographies of wicca's principal figures, such as Gerald Gardner, who was inducted into a witch coven at the age of 53, and recorded many clandestine rituals and beliefs.
Ronald Hutton is known for his colorful, provocative, and always thoroughly researched studies on original subjects. This work is no exception. It will appeal to anyone interested in witchcraft, paganism and alternative religions. [via]More editions of The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft:
Unicorn and Dragonby Lynn Abbey, Robert GouldISBN 0380750619 (0-380-75061-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Virgin: Mary's Cult and the Re-Emergence of the Goddessby Geoffrey AsheISBN 0140190651 (0-14-019065-1)
Softcover, Arkana
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Watch the North Wind Riseby Robert GravesISBN 0374516790 (0-374-51679-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Whence the Goddesses: A Source Bookby Miriam Robbins DexterISBN 0080372813 (0-08-037281-3)
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The White Ravenby Diana L. PaxsonISBN 0380752298 (0-380-75229-8)
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The Winged Assassinby Catherine CookeISBN 0441894259 (0-441-89425-9)
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Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Womenby Susan Neunzig CahillISBN 0393316793 (0-393-31679-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women'Book summary:Spiritual experience has always been, and is especially today, a liberating source of women's identity and their resistance to oppression. These selections feature centuries of this tradition's most intuitive writing: women ancient, medieval, and modern articulate the spiritual dimension of life. From Ishtar of Babylonia and Isis of Egypt to the medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen, the contemporary African American poet Lucille Clifton, and the Buddhist shaman Joan Halifax, these visionaries see justice and love, loss, aging, and freedom; and it inspires artistic expression and political action. This deeply moving collection of poetry, essays, prayers, letters, memoirs, stories, and theologies by wise women is a source of empowering and uplifting thought for women in any time, at any age. [via]
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The Witch in Every Woman: Reawakening the Magical Nature of the Feminine to Heal, Protect, Create, and Empowerby Laurie Cabot, Jean MillsISBN 0385316496 (0-385-31649-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Witchlightby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0312858310 (0-312-85831-0)
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Woman's Mysteries, Ancient and Modern: A Psychological Interpretation of the Feminine Principle as Portrayed in Myth, Story and Dreamsby M. Esther HardingISBN 0091074819 (0-09-107481-9)
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Women's Ritesby Beverly ByrneISBN 0449129039 (0-449-12903-9)
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The Women's Wheel of Life: Thirteen Archetypes of Woman at Her Fullest Powerby Elizabeth Davis, Carol LeonardISBN 014019505X (0-14-019505-X)
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Wrapt in Crystalby Sharon ShinnISBN 0441006167 (0-441-00616-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wrapt in Crystal'Book summary:Wrapt in Crystal examines religious faith and the nature of love while providing a riveting murder mystery. Shinn's setting is the desert planet Semay, whose culture and language are mostly Spanish, with some French and Italian influences. Here, two orders of priestesses worship the goddess Ava: the Triumphantes, who live in worldly comfort and celebrate her with joy; and the Fideles, who renounce wealth to serve the poor and see her as the comforter of the hungry, the sick, and the sorrowful.
A serial killer is murdering members of both orders alternately, and Semay has asked Interfed, an alliance of federated planets with an elite peacekeeping force called the Moonchildren, for assistance. Cowen Drake, the Moonchild assigned, is under pressure to solve the case quickly, impressing Semay with the benefits of joining Interfed and keeping the priestesses safe. Though he has lost his own faith, Drake sets out to understand the victims, the orders, and the role of religion in Semay. His guides are the powerful, charismatic Jovieve, head of the Triumphantes, and the self-abnegating, dedicated Laura.
Readers will find the characters compelling, the suspense taut, and the developing love story moving. If you enjoyed Shinn's Samaria trilogy, you shouldn't miss this one. --Nona Vero [via]
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