Author: Cliff SeruntinePublisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 0738735531
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Cliff Seruntine describes his family's adventures living on a secluded homestead in Nova Scotia.
Soaring Earth
Author: Margarita EnglePublisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1534429549
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
In this powerful companion to her award-winning memoir Enchanted Air, Newbery Honor–winning author Margarita Engle recounts her teenage years during the turbulent 1960s. Margarita Engle’s childhood straddled two worlds: the lush, welcoming island of Cuba and the lonely, dream-soaked reality of Los Angeles. But the revolution has transformed Cuba into a mystery of impossibility, no longer reachable in real life. Margarita longs to travel the world, yet before she can become independent, she’ll have to start high school. Then the shock waves of war reach America, rippling Margarita’s plans in their wake. Cast into uncertainty, she must grapple with the philosophies of peace, civil rights, freedom of expression, and environmental protection. Despite overwhelming circumstances, she finds solace and empowerment through her education. Amid the challenges of adolescence and a world steeped in conflict, Margarita finds hope beyond the struggle, and love in the most unexpected places.
The Real Middle Earth
Author: Brian BatesPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466891092
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
J.R.R. Tolkien claimed that he based the land of Middle Earth on a real place. The Real Middle Earth brings alive, for the first time, the very real civilization in which those who lived had a vision of life animated by beings beyond the material world. Magic was real to these people and they believed their universe was held together by an interlaced web of golden threads visible only to wizards. At its center was Middle Earth, a place peopled by humans, but imbued with spiritual power. It was a real realm that stretched from Old England to Scandinavia and across to western Europe, encompassing Celts, Anglo Saxons and Vikings. Looking first at the rich and varied tribes who made up the populace of this mystical land, Bates looks at how the people lived their daily lives in a world of magic and mystery. Using archaeological, historical, and psychological research, Brian Bates breathes life into this civilization of two thousand years ago in a book that every Tolkien fan will want.
Aigion
Author: Barbara A. StrachanPublisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1466977043
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This fairy tale begins with the life of the gods on the planets Yax, Evca, and Urck. The fairy tale's main characters are Aigion and Deek who are gods from the planet Urck that are sent to enchanted earth on a magical quest. On their descent to enchanted earth, Aigion and Deek are met with Misfortune, the witch who adds terror, bad luck, and misery to their quest upon enchanted earth. Aigion and Deek descends upon earth and are captured--Aigion by the monster Xecorpidious and Deek by the witch Axxica. Aigion is rescued by the ladybug Simone, Smatious the Mouse, and Ukas the Elf, who, together with the creatures of the enchanted forest, plan the escape of Deek. Spekle, a mortal, is also captured by the witches of the enchanted castle. While Deek and Spekle are at the mercy of the witch Axxica, Simone and her friends and volunteers from the creatures that live in the enchanted village rescue Deek and Spekle. A magical, beautiful venture into the realms of the enchanted village where the elves, dwarfs, fairies, witches and other enchanted creatures all help to make this fairy tale one that will be remembered for an eternity.
Author: Monthly literary registerThe Curse of the Enchanted Elements
Author: Gwendolyn Van Den EyndePublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 172838365X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Abida has always felt alienated in the human world. When the eldest make a capital mistake, the pieces of the puzzle finally fit. Donovan is a mere survivor, down to earth, no sentimental bullocks needed as far as he is concerned. Then he meets Abida. Their pacifistic mission is reinforced and unfolds in mysterious ways. Who would have thought that the search for something small would result in something so grand? This is a sensational fantasy story.
The Enchanted
Author: Rene DenfeldPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062285521
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
“The Enchanted wrapped its beautiful and terrible fingers around me from the first page and refused to let go after the last. A wondrous book that finds transcendence in the most unlikely of places. . . . So dark yet so exquisite.” — Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus An astonishing and redemptive novel for readers of Alice Sebold and Toni Morrison, told from the point of view of a convict whose magical interpretations of prison life allow him to find absolute joy while isolated from the rest of humanity and a female investigator who experiences her own personal salvation in her work as a death penalty investigator. This is an enchanted place. Others don’t see it but I do. The enchanted place is a high security prison and is relayed through the eyes of an inmate on death row who escapes his surroundings by immersing himself in books, and by re-imagining the world that surrounds him. Instead of focusing on the cloudy medical vines that snake across the floor, empty and waiting for the warden’s finger to press the red buttons, our narrator sees golden horses as they run deep under the earth, heat flowing like molten metal from their backs. A woman and fallen priest haunt the prison halls--an unnamed female investigator only known as the Lady who is known for discovering information relating to soon-to-be executed inmates’ backgrounds that can be used to overturn their sentences. She is put on the case of a man named York and as she digs into his past, the experience brings up ghosts of her own and threatens to destroy everything that she has come to know about the enchanted place. The Enchanted is a magical novel about redemption, the humanity that can lie within what is monstrous, and the human capacity to transcend and survive.
Enchanted Oracle
Author: Barbara MoorePublisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 0738714100
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Seek your destiny through trailing vines and gnarled trees in a secret realm rich with myth and magic...Enter an enchanted world filled with fairies, goddesses, and sorceresses; a magical world of possibility and power; a world in which you can weave your future. Featuring hauntingly beautiful fairy imagery by renowned fantasy artist Jessica Galbreth and insightful instruction from acclaimed tarot author Barbara Moore, the Enchanted Oracle presents a stunning 36-card oracle deck featuring Jessica Galbreth's original watercolor artwork, and a lyrical and lovely 240-page guidebook by Barbara Moore that presents a variety of ways to work with oracle wisdom, including spells, enchantments, and journaling.
Enchanted Air
Author: Margarita EnglePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481435221
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother s tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom. But most of the time she lives in Los Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of the summers when she can take a plane through the enchanted air to her beloved island. Words and images are her constant companions, friendly and comforting when the children at school are not.
Baldr's Magic
Author: Nicholas E. BrinkPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1591437644
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
A guide to using ecstatic trance to connect with your ancestors, rediscover your extrasensory powers, and reclaim the peaceful nature of humanity • Illustrates ecstatic trance postures to connect with the ancient Nordic people, to journey to exact points in time, and to access powers such as seeing into our future • Explains how the coming new age of peace and veneration for Mother Earth was predicted in Norse mythology as the rebirth of the compassionate god Baldr • Expands on the stories of the early Nordic gods and goddesses from the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda Connecting Norse mythology, ecstatic trance, the Universal Mind, and the dawn of a new age of peace and veneration for Mother Earth, Nicholas Brink reveals how we can use ecstatic and hypnotic trance to learn more directly and deeply from our distant ancestors, rediscover our extrasensory powers, and reclaim the original magical nature of humanity. The imminent rebirth of a peaceful, balanced, connected world was predicted in Norse mythology as the return of Baldr, the gentle and compassionate Nordic god of truth, healing, and rune work. Illustrating ecstatic trance postures to connect with the ancient Nordic people and their beliefs, to journey to exact points in time, and to access specific powers, such as seeing into our future, Brink explores humanity’s evolving cycle of consciousness from the era when the Great Mother goddess was the center of life through the transition to the worship of power and physical strength in the Bronze Age and the world of the Vikings. He explores the coming return of Baldr and the imminent new age of peace and respect for the earth. Through hypnotic divination, the author expands the stories of the early Nordic gods and goddesses from the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda, in particular the fertility deities of the Vanir, such as Freyr, Freyja, and Idunn, who came before the warrior deities of the Æsir, such as Odin, Thor, and Loki. He details the epic battle of Ragnarǫk and the birth, life, death, and rebirth of Baldr. Brink shows how these ancient stories happen outside of time, in the past, present, and future, thus Baldr’s return is replayed in our death-rebirth experiences of life, in each dawn, with each spring, and now with the birth of a new age that we see happening all around us. Through the power of trance at this time of rebirth, we move full circle to reclaim the magic of the earliest times, the times of the Garden of Idunn.
