Michele's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:05:25 -0700 60 Michele's bookshelf: all 144 41 https://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Rebels & Devils: The Psychology of Liberation]]> 17980026 Rebels & Devils brings together some of the most talented, controversial and rebellious people of our time. Many, such as Timothy Leary, William S. Burroughs, Robert Anton Wilson, Osho and Aleister Crowley are world-famous. Other contributors, such as S. Jason Black, Joseph Matheny and Peter J. Carroll, though highly accomplished in their own fields, are not as well-known. Still others are lesser-known—for now. But, every contributor, in every article, in every aspect of their lives, has had but one focus: to bring freedom to their world.

In all of human history, the essence of the independent mind has been the need to think and act according to standards from within, not without: To follow one's own path, not that of the crowd. Inevitably, it follows that anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes an authority or established convention": a rebel.

Usually rebellion is done so quietly that no one notices. But, when others—especially others with power—recognize an individual's 'disobedience,' the rebel becomes the REBEL. And, if enough people come to agree with—and follow—the REBEL, there becomes a DEVIL.

Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, there is ... GREATNESS.]]> 428 Christopher S. Hyatt Michele 0 to-read 3.25 1995 Rebels & Devils: The Psychology of Liberation
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]]> <![CDATA[The Red Book: A Reader's Edition]]> 13707603 The Red Book, a large, illuminated volume he created between 1914 and 1930. Here he developed his principle theories—of the archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the process of individuation—that transformed psychotherapy from a practice concerned with treatment of the sick into a means for higher development of the personality.

While Jung considered The Red Book to be his most important work, only a handful of people have ever seen it. Now, in a complete facsimile and translation, it is available to scholars and the general public. It is an astonishing example of calligraphy and art on a par with The Book of Kells and the illuminated manuscripts of William Blake. This publication of The Red Book is a watershed that will cast new light on the making of modern psychology.
212 color illustrations.]]> 582 C.G. Jung 0393089088 Michele 0 to-read 4.43 The Red Book: A Reader's Edition
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]]> <![CDATA[A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)]]> 16029682 210 Ursula K. Le Guin 0544084373 Michele 0 currently-reading 4.03 1968 A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)]]> 29127
The unicorn had lived since before memory in a forest where death could touch nothing. Maidens who caught a glimpse of her glory were blessed by enchantment they would never forget. But outside her wondrous realm, dark whispers and rumours carried a message she could not ignore: "Unicorns are gone from the world."

Aided by a bumbling magician and an indomitable spinster, she set out to learn the truth. but she feared even her immortal wisdom meant nothing in a world where a mad king's curse and terror incarnate lived only to stalk the last unicorn to her doom...

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451450524]]> 294 Peter S. Beagle Michele 0 to-read 4.16 1968 The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented Alphabetically by the Metal Horn Unicorns]]> 100022768  
Alumna starts out the book by introducing the very necessary metal, aluminum, on her element page. Dr. Zinko rounds out the alphabet by presenting facts and other fun information about the metal, zinc, on his element page.  Other members of the Metal Horn Tribe from Unimaise, plus some of their magical elemental friends, will give some great insight into the properties of 23 additional pure metals from the periodic table. 

There is one special unicorn in the book whose horn and hooves are an alloy created by combining copper and zinc. Cornum, the Brass Horned unicorn will reveal some interesting things about that metal.
 
While not all elements in the Periodic Table are represented by letters of the alphabet, some in this book, are introduced by alternate designations.  For instance, Tungsten is also known as Wolfram so “W” is used as the entry for that alphabetical letter in this book.  The letter “W” is also used as the atomic symbol for tungsten in all periodic tables.
 
Each element page in this book contains terms that might not be completely familiar.  Refer to the definitions in the back of the book to get a clear understanding of each meaning.  There is also a fun unicorn themed Periodic Table at the back of the book. 
 
The Metal Horn unicorns from Unimaise and their other techno-magical unicorn friends are the perfect group to introduce you to metals and other elements in the Periodic Table.  Hopefully the Magical Elements of this periodic table book will spark an interest in the magical and real world properties of all the metals and other elements known today.  You may be surprised at how prominently they feature in our every day lives.]]> 45 Sybrina Durant Michele 0 to-read 4.49 Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented Alphabetically by the Metal Horn Unicorns
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]]> Mythical 13321431

After bringing her back from the frozen brink, she reveals some disturbing details of an armed takeover of her research facility, sounding like the earmarks of a terrorist attack, though nothing in the area is of any strategic or political value.


Upon inspecting the scene for himself, Marcus uncovers an ongoing struggle that has lasted for thousands of years, much worse than any terror plot, holding mankind's future in the balance.


With time running out, limited resources and only a frozen stranger to help, he must stop a terrible bloodline of ancient tyrants and evil men bent on world domination and total destruction, before they kill the last magical creatures on Earth.-]]> 117 William Petersen 1465802134 Michele 0 to-read 3.40 2011 Mythical
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]]> <![CDATA[The Old Astronomer to His Pupil]]> 34513201 2 Sarah Williams Michele 0 4.53 The Old Astronomer to His Pupil
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]]> Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales 38374793 The original vision of Grimms' tales in English for the first time

When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children’s and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as “Rapunzel,” “Hansel and Gretel,” and “Cinderella” would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would publish six other editions, each extensively revised in content and style. For the very first time, The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm makes available in English all 156 stories from the 1812 and 1815 editions. These narrative gems, newly translated and brought together in one beautiful book, are accompanied by sumptuous new illustrations from award-winning artist Andrea Dezsö.

From “The Frog King” to “The Golden Key,” wondrous worlds unfold—heroes and heroines are rewarded, weaker animals triumph over the strong, and simple bumpkins prove themselves not so simple after all. Esteemed fairy tale scholar Jack Zipes offers accessible translations that retain the spare description and engaging storytelling style of the originals. Indeed, this is what makes the tales from the 1812 and 1815 editions unique—they reflect diverse voices, rooted in oral traditions, that are absent from the Grimms’ later, more embellished collections of tales. Zipes’s introduction gives important historical context, and the book includes the Grimms’ prefaces and notes.

A delight to read, The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm presents these peerless stories to a whole new generation of readers.]]> 188 Jacob Grimm 1984293311 Michele 5 4.04 1812 Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales
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]]> <![CDATA[Essential Writings of Taoism: The Tao te Ching and the Chuang Tzu]]> 9199249 239 Lao Tzu Michele 0 to-read 4.19 2008 Essential Writings of Taoism: The Tao te Ching and the Chuang Tzu
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]]> Complete Works of Oscar Wilde 5289 1270 Oscar Wilde 0007144350 Michele 0 4.47 1908 Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
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]]> <![CDATA[The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso]]> 6656 This Everyman’s Library edition–containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize—winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli’s marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations.

Translated in this edition by Allen Mandelbaum, The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity.

Mandelbaum’s astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece of that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets.]]> 798 Dante Alighieri 0679433139 Michele 0 currently-reading 4.09 1304 The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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]]> <![CDATA[The Reality Revolution: The Mind-Blowing Movement to Hack Your Reality]]> 52638438
Brian Scott wants to help you find the answer. After walking away unscathed from a near-fatal shooting in his home, Brian began a fanatical search for answers. He deepened his research into parallel realities, quantum mechanics, and consciousness to uncover what happened in his close call with death. Along the way, he developed a series of techniques capable of creating profound transformations.

In The Reality The Mind-Blowing Movement to Hack Your Reality , Brian introduces you to the techniques that have helped his clients find lasting love, create wealth, and revitalize health. You’ll learn how to surf through parallel realities and unlock the power of your mind through a mix of researched and science-backed techniques like qi gong, meditation, quantum jumping, energy work, and reality transurfing. If you’re ready to create an incredible reality for yourself, this book shows you the way.]]> 400 Brian Scott 154450618X Michele 0 currently-reading 4.09 The Reality Revolution: The Mind-Blowing Movement to Hack Your Reality
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]]> <![CDATA[Angels and Archangels: A Magician's Guide]]> 45439572
“The ultimate goal of working with angels is to become one ourselves. That’s what people actually are―unconscious angels.”
― Damien Echols

“Angels do not belong to any one single religion, system, or dogma,” teaches Damien Echols. “They are almost pure energy―the very substance the cosmos is made of. They’re also incredibly willing to work with us if asked.” With Angels and Archangels, this bestselling author presents an essential resource for understanding what angels are, how they make themselves available, and magickal practices to invoke their power to transform your life.

For the magician―or anyone seeking to enlist helping forces on the path of awakening―invoking angels and archangels gives you access to incredible potential for manifestation, healing, and spiritual growth. In this lucid and information-packed guide, Damien shares his unique understanding and experience of magickal practices refined in the crucible of his wrongful death row imprisonment. Here you’ll

• A clear presentation of angels and archangels as they have been honored in mystical traditions for thousands of years
• The names and qualities of individual angels and archangels, as associated with the elements, the Zodiac, the Tree of Life, and the Tarot
• Foundational practices and meditations for building your skills with magick
• How to call on angels for blessing, protection, invocation, the creation of talismans and sigils, and more
• Advanced angel magick rituals, including the Rose Cross, the Celestial, and the Shem Operation
• The Holy Guardian Angel―the key contact for stepping into your true nature beyond ego consciousness

“When working with angels and archangels,” says Damien, “I’ve come to realize that they don’t carry out the tasks we charge them with just because we ask them to―they do it because they perceive the divine within us.” Angels and Archangels is an essential resource for every magickal library, an invitation by one of the most exciting modern teachers of the art to discover the enormous potential waiting for your call.]]> 288 Damien Echols 1683643267 Michele 0 to-read 4.38 Angels and Archangels: A Magician's Guide
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]]> Two Grimoires 12919884
The first of these grimoires, entitled The Focus of Life & The Papyrus of Amen-AOS, is dated 1905-6. Much of the lettering remains in pencil, some of it giving clues to the underlying meaning of the imagery. An important element of this grimoire is that it features an early form of the ‘exteriorisation of sensation’ which Spare subsequently developed into the Sacred Alphabet which is a feature of The Book of Pleasure.


The second, slightly later notebook is The Arcana of AOS & the Consciousness of Kia-Ra, dated 1906. This is in some ways the more finished of the two notebooks, and picks up some of the imagery from the earlier notebook as well as adding some new elements.

These two grimoires by Spare are at once enigmatic and full of haunting beauty. The paintings and drawings from each notebook are here reproduced in full colour. With an Introduction by Michael Staley and analytical essays by Stephen Pochin and William Wallace, this publication adds to our understanding of Spare’s early years as an artist, mystic and philosopher and sheds light on the early development of his sigillisation techniques.]]> 156 Austin Osman Spare 9781906073 Michele 0 to-read 4.23 2011 Two Grimoires
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]]> The Focus of Life 5989691
This concise treatise offers parables similar to Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, but directed towards magick, sexuality, and the occult.]]> 80 Austin Osman Spare Michele 0 to-read 4.06 1921 The Focus of Life
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]]> A Book of Satyrs 4666435 44 Austin Osman Spare 1872189571 Michele 0 to-read 3.85 1907 A Book of Satyrs
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]]> <![CDATA[Ethos: The Magical Writings of Austin Osman Spare - Micrologus, the Book of Pleasure, the Witches Sabbath, Mind to Mind and How by a Sorceror]]> 665929 174 Austin Osman Spare 1872189288 Michele 0 to-read 4.04 2001 Ethos: The Magical Writings of Austin Osman Spare - Micrologus, the Book of Pleasure, the Witches Sabbath, Mind to Mind and How by a Sorceror
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]]> The Book of Automatic Drawing 708772 56 Austin Osman Spare 1872189644 Michele 0 to-read 4.19 2005 The Book of Automatic Drawing
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]]> Earth Inferno 4666438
Conceived as an anti-establishment reaction to the publicity surrounding his inclusion in the Royal Academy summer show in 1904, the book was developed over the remainder of that year and was eventually published in 1905. Originally printed by the Co-Operative Printing Society, the book was designed by the artist and self-published in an edition of 265 numbered and signed copies.

Influenced heavily by Dante's Inferno the book is decorated with poems and aphorisms in an aesthetic style and clearly shows the design influence of Spare's early supporter Charles Ricketts. Each pair of pages contains a painting and a commentary toward that painting. In addition to excerpts from Dante, the book also contains excerpts from Edward FitzGerald's translation of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

The book introduces the reader for the first time to Spare's fundamental concepts such as Kia, Ikkah and Sikah and Zos.]]> 34 Austin Osman Spare 1872189563 Michele 0 to-read 4.05 1905 Earth Inferno
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]]> <![CDATA[Anathema of Zos: The Sermon to the Hypocrites]]> 1781330
Austin Osman Spare was an artist, philosopher and occult magician. Like Aleister Crowley with whom he had a brief association, Spare was a genius in his own time unappreciated and vilified by a society that could little understand him. His was the inspiration that led to the formation of the 'Illuminates of Thanateros' (IOT) in England in the late 1970’s and the practice of what is now known as Chaos Magic.]]> 68 Austin Osman Spare 1872189261 Michele 0 to-read 4.11 1927 Anathema of Zos: The Sermon to the Hypocrites
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]]> <![CDATA[The Equinox: Volume III, Number 10]]> 440383 Book by Crowley, Aleister 288 Aleister Crowley 0877287198 Michele 0 to-read 4.20 1986 The Equinox: Volume III, Number 10
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]]> Gems from the Equinox 774734 1184 Aleister Crowley 156184019X Michele 0 to-read 4.37 1974 Gems from the Equinox
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]]> Eight Lectures on Yoga 420531
Speaking in turns as mystic, magus, philosopher, scientist and seasoned adventurer, few sacred cows escape the Mahatma Guru Sri Paramahansa Shivaji, who even delights in poking fun at himself.

The first series of lectures is introductory, and is entitled Yoga for Yahoos. The elements of Yoga are introduced, examined and demystified with a view to extracting the practical essence of Yoga doctrine. Yoga is also correlated to astrology and the Qabalah.

The second, more advanced series of lectures is entitled Yoga for Yellowbellies. Here Crowley weaves Yoga into a conceptual framework that encompasses Western philosophy, magick and mathematical physics. He introduces relativity and quantum mechanics, and discusses their implications for ontology and consciousness.

Crowley's humor suffuses thee talks, which are as entertaining as they are illuminating, and his wit elucidates concepts that elude rational explanation.

Revised second edition, introduced and annotated by Hymenaeus Beta, Frater Superior of Ordo Templi Orientis. Includes a new author's portrait and index.]]> 128 Aleister Crowley 1561840076 Michele 0 to-read 4.11 1939 Eight Lectures on Yoga
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]]> <![CDATA[The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography]]> 440358 Book of the Law which contains the gospel that Crowley proclaimed for all mankind: the Law of Thelema, or Do What Thou Wilt.

Generations before his time, Crowley invoked sex, drugs, and Eastern philosophy in his perpetual and often bizarre search for self-realization. The Confessions, skillfully edited and annotated by John Symonds and Kenneth Grant, serves as the perfect introduction to Crowley's extraordinary life and thought.]]> 960 Aleister Crowley 0140191895 Michele 0 to-read 3.98 1969 The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
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]]> The Holy Books of Thelema 254659 322 Aleister Crowley 0877286868 Michele 0 to-read 4.15 1969 The Holy Books of Thelema
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]]> Moonchild 320377 336 Aleister Crowley 0877281475 Michele 0 to-read 3.49 1917 Moonchild
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]]> Magick in Theory and Practice 849939 464 Aleister Crowley 0486232956 Michele 0 to-read 4.11 1929 Magick in Theory and Practice
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]]> Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4 123659 The Book of the Law was re-scanned for this edition, using the latest technology, for the clearest facsimile possible.

Aleister Crowley devoted twenty-five years to writing and producing the four parts of this book. It is his magnum opus, in which he systematically expounds the mystical and magical theories and techniques taught in his magical orders, the A∴A∴ and the O.T.O.

This profusely illustrated new edition brings together the complete texts of all four parts of Liber ABA (Book 4) in one volume under the overall title Magick. This edition incorporates Crowley`s own additions, corrections, and annotations, and restores dozens of passages omitted from all earlier editions.

Magick is the fundamental textbook of modern magick in the New Æon. It also has invaluable teachings for students of Yoga and meditation. Crowley mastered the practices of Yoga during his studies in the East, and writes about them lucidly, without recourse to the imprecise language of mysticism.

Beginning with a discussion of the universal origin of world religions in mystical revelation, Magick then explores the theory and practice of mysticism and magick in the light of modern scientific thought. Crowley`s own revelation, The Book of the Law, is then treated as a case study, with an autobiographical study of events leading to its reception.

Extensively cross-referenced and annotated, this edition features over 100 diagrams and photographs, as well as a glossary, bibliography, and detailed index.]]> 844 Aleister Crowley 0877289190 Michele 0 to-read 4.35 1994 Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4
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]]> The Book of Lies 123656 The Book of Lies (full title: Which is also Falsely Called BREAKS. The Wanderings or Falsifications of the One Thought of Frater Perdurabo, which Thought is itself Untrue. Liber CCCXXXIII [Book 333]) was written by English occultist Aleister Crowley (using the pen name of Frater Perdurabo) and first published in 1912 or 1913.

The book consists of 93 chapters, each of which consists of one page of text. The chapters include a question mark, poems, rituals, instructions, and obscure allusions and cryptograms. The subject of each chapter is generally determined by its number and its corresponding qabalistic meaning. Around 1921, Crowley wrote a short commentary about each chapter, assisting the reader in the qabalistic interpretation.

Several chapters and a photograph in the book reference Leila Waddell, who Crowley called Laylah, and who, as Crowley's influential Scarlet Woman, acted as his muse during the writing process of this volume.]]> 196 Aleister Crowley 0877285160 Michele 0 to-read 3.82 1913 The Book of Lies
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]]> <![CDATA[The Book of Thoth (Egyptian Tarot)]]> 243001 287 Aleister Crowley 0877282684 Michele 0 to-read 4.12 1944 The Book of Thoth (Egyptian Tarot)
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]]> <![CDATA[777 and Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley]]> 123658 Gematria, 777, and Sepher Sephiroth.

Gematria, reprinted from "The Temple of Solomon the King," The Equinox, Vol. 1, No. 5. It provides essential explanations of theoretical and practice Qabalistic number analysis and philosophy. "An Essay ion Number," also included, provides invaluable insights into key numbers as well as techniques and safeguards for practical magical work.

777 itself contains, in concise tabulated form, an overview of the symbolism of the major world religions, as well as the system of correspondence of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. In short, it is a complete magical and philosophical dictionary—a key to all religion and practical occultism—an amazing work whose value has been recognized through many edition since its first appearance in 1909 and subsequent enlargement in 1955.

The thrid text is Sepher Sephiroth, a unique dictionary listing hundreds of Hebrew words arranged by numerical value. It was compiled jointly by Crowley and Allan Bennett and first appeared in The Equinox, Vol. 1, No. 8.]]> 336 Aleister Crowley 0877286701 Michele 0 to-read 4.04 1973 777 and Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley
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]]> Blood Dark 33670827
Blood Dark tells the story of a brilliant philosopher trapped in a provincial town and of his spiraling descent into self-destruction. Cripure, as his students call him—the name a mocking contraction of Critique of Pure Reason—despises his colleagues, despairs of his charges, and is at odds with his family. The year is 1917, and the slaughter of the First World War goes on and on, with French soldiers not only dying in droves but also beginning to rise up in protest. Still haunted by the memory of the wife who left him long ago, Cripure turns his fury and scathing wit on everyone around him. Before he knows it, a trivial dispute with a complacently patriotic colleague has embroiled him in a duel.]]> 544 Louis Guilloux 1681371456 Michele 0 to-read 3.99 1935 Blood Dark
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]]> Cyrano de Bergerac 15638
This translation, by the American poet Brian Hooker, is nearly as famous as the original play itself, and is generally considered to be one of the finest English verse translations ever written.]]> 240 Edmond Rostand 0451528921 Michele 0 to-read 4.04 1897 Cyrano de Bergerac
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]]> Metamorphoses 1715
In Metamophoses, Ovid brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation—often as a result of love or lust—where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Erudite but light-hearted, dramatic and yet playful, Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 723 Ovid 014044789X Michele 0 to-read 4.09 8 Metamorphoses
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]]> Metamorphoses 116504 120 Mary Zimmerman 0810119803 Michele 0 to-read 4.07 2002 Metamorphoses
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]]> <![CDATA[The Way I See It: A Look Back at My Life on Little House]]> 6903814 Little House on the Prairie.



Melissa, as Mary, is remembered by many as “the blind sister”—and she was the only actor in the series to be nominated for an Emmy. In The Way I See It, she takes readers onto the set and inside the world of the iconic series created by Michael Landon, who, Melissa discovered, was not perfect, as much as he tried to be. In this memoir she also shares her memories of working with guest stars like Todd Bridges, Mariette Hartley, Sean Penn, Patricia Neal, and Johnny Cash.


In addition to stories of life on the set, Melissa offers revealing looks at her relationships off-set with her costars, including the other Melissa (Melissa Gilbert) and Alison Arngrim, who portrayed Nellie Oleson on the show. And she relates stories of her guest appearances on iconic programs such as The Love Boat and The Brady Bunch.



Filled with personal, revealing anecdotes and memorabilia from the Little House years, this book is also a portrait of a child star who became a successful adult actress and a successful adult. These are stories from “the other Ingalls sister” that have never been told.]]> 243 Melissa Anderson 0762759704 Michele 3 2.79 2010 The Way I See It: A Look Back at My Life on Little House
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]]> Prairie Tale 6408579
To fans of the hugely successful television series Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert grew up in a fantasy world with a larger-than-life father, friends, and family she could count on, and plenty of animals to play with. Children across the country dreamed of the Ingalls’ idyllic life—and so did Melissa.

With candor and humor, the cherished actress traces her complicated journey from buck-toothed Laura "Halfpint" Ingalls to Hollywood starlet, wife, and mother. She partied with the Brat Pack, dated heartthrobs like Rob Lowe and bad boys like Billy Idol, and began a self-destructive pattern of addiction and codependence. She eventually realized that her career on television had earned her popularity, admiration, and love from everyone but herself.

Through hard work, tenacity, sobriety, and the blessings of a solid marriage, Melissa has accepted her many different identities and learned to laugh, cry, and forgive in new ways. Women everywhere may have idolized her charming life on Little House on the Prairie, but Melissa’s own unexpectedly honest, imperfect, and down-to-earth story is an inspiration.]]> 367 Melissa Gilbert 1416599142 Michele 4 3.55 2009 Prairie Tale
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]]> <![CDATA[Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated]]> 7284508 Little House on the Prairie viewers hated Nellie Oleson and her evil antics, Arngrim grew to love her character—and the freedom and confidence Nellie inspired in her.

In Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, Arngrim describes growing up in Hollywood with her eccentric parents: Thor Arngrim, a talent manager to Liberace and others, whose appetite for publicity was insatiable, and legendary voice actress Norma MacMillan, who played both Gumby and Casper the Friendly Ghost. She recalls her most cherished and often wickedly funny moments behind the scenes of Little House: Michael Landon's "unsaintly" habit of not wearing underwear; how she and Melissa Gilbert (who played her TV nemesis, Laura Ingalls) became best friends and accidentally got drunk on rum cakes at 7-Eleven; and the only time she and Katherine MacGregor (who played Nellie's mom)  appeared in public in costume, provoking a posse of elementary schoolgirls to attack them.

Arngrim relays all this and more with biting wit, but she also bravely recounts her life's challenges: her struggle to survive a history of traumatic abuse, depression, and paralyzing shyness; the "secret" her father kept from her for twenty years; and the devastating loss of her "Little House husband" and best friend, Steve Tracy, to AIDS, which inspired her second career in social and political activism. Arngrim describes how Nellie Oleson taught her to be bold, daring, and determined, and how she is eternally grateful to have had the biggest little bitch on the prairie to show her the way.]]> 302 Alison Arngrim 0061962147 Michele 5 4.07 2010 Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated
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]]> <![CDATA[A Ghost, a Witch, and a Goblin]]> 2361836 The Ghost-Catcher" is from Bengal, based on "The Ghost Who Was Afraid Of Being Bagged" by Lālavihārī De in 1883.

"Baba Yaga, A Russian Witch Story" was by Père Castor in 1932.

"The Goblin And The Tailor" is Scottish, based on "The Sprightly Tailor" by Joseph Jacobs in 1892.]]> 48 Joseph Jacobs 0590044478 Michele 0 to-read 3.83 1970 A Ghost, a Witch, and a Goblin
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]]> <![CDATA[Book of Pleasure in Plain English]]> 22466893 154 Austin Osman Spare Michele 0 currently-reading 4.20 1913 Book of Pleasure in Plain English
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]]> SantaLand Diaries 178357 138 David Sedaris 0349119759 Michele 0 to-read 4.33 1998 SantaLand Diaries
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]]> Me Talk Pretty One Day 505585
Sedaris's move to Paris poses a number of challenges, chief among them his inability to speak the language. Arriving a "spooky man-child" capable of communicating only through nouns, he undertakes language instruction that leads him ever deeper into cultural confusion. Whether describint the Easter Bunny to puzzled classmates, savoring movies in translation (It Is Necessary to Save the Soldier Ryan), or watching a group of men play soccer with a cow, Sedaris brings a view and a voice like no other--"Original, acid, and wild," said the Los Angeles Times--to every unforgettable encounter.
--jacket]]> 272 David Sedaris 0316777722 Michele 0 to-read 3.95 2000 Me Talk Pretty One Day
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]]> <![CDATA[Crystals for Healing: The Complete Reference Guide With Over 200 Remedies for Mind, Heart & Soul]]> 27869547
Whether you’re working through grief or holding onto grudges, seeking love or increasing gratitude, Crystals for Healing offers the basics for beginners to explore the deep connection between mind, body, and spirit.

Learn the fundamentals to clear emotional blockages, stimulate creativity, and elevate your mood through the vibrational power of healing crystals, with:
- Clear descriptions of crystals and their unique healing properties
- Over 200 remedies, plus profiles of 95 crystals covering colors, primary uses, corresponding chakra, and placement recommendations
- Daily meditations and mantras for a truly holistic approach
- Guidelines for creating grids to harness the positive power of crystals and healing stones

Discover a more fulfilling life through the power of crystal healing as explained by ordained metaphysical minister, intuitive energy healer, and Usui Reiki practitioner Karen Frazier.]]> 360 Karen Frazier 1623156769 Michele 0 currently-reading 4.31 2015 Crystals for Healing: The Complete Reference Guide With Over 200 Remedies for Mind, Heart & Soul
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]]> Guts 6395833 16 Chuck Palahniuk Michele 0 to-read 3.87 2004 Guts
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]]> <![CDATA[Crystals for Beginners: The Guide to Get Started with the Healing Power of Crystals]]> 36349582
Discover how crystals can help you fight stress, cope with anxiety, and more. Crystals for Beginners takes a step-by-step approach to introducing you to crystal healing. Never touched a crystal before? Don’t worry—this book will guide you through the myths and confusion as it shows you how crystals can help improve your life.

Crystals for Beginners features:

Crystal Healing 101—Find out how crystals work and how to use them—learn about the ten crystals you should consider for starting your collection.
Useful Remedies—Discover how to help treat negative emotions and foster positive growth using specific crystal prescriptions and healing mantras.
Illustrated Guides—Identifying crystal types is easy thanks to 50 detailed crystal profiles that feature images of both worked and unworked versions.
Balance your body, spirit, and mind with Crystals for Beginners.]]> 273 Karen Frazier 162315992X Michele 5 You don't have to be a beginner to learn from this book!

Great reference book for those of us that have a difficult time remembering details. I can see myself using this book frequently as issues arise. It's like a crystal dictionary. Loved it!]]> 4.28 2017 Crystals for Beginners: The Guide to Get Started with the Healing Power of Crystals
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You don't have to be a beginner to learn from this book!

Great reference book for those of us that have a difficult time remembering details. I can see myself using this book frequently as issues arise. It's like a crystal dictionary. Loved it!
]]> <![CDATA[Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse]]> 2266758 340 Sarah Williams 0548323860 Michele 0 to-read 4.09 1868 Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse
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]]> Advanced Magick for Beginners 19215063 141 Alan Chapman Michele 0 4.36 2008 Advanced Magick for Beginners
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]]> The Book of the Law 30118892 56 Aleister Crowley Michele 0 currently-reading 3.78 1904 The Book of the Law
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]]> Prometheus Rising 28597 284 Robert Anton Wilson 1561840564 Michele 0 currently-reading 4.25 1983 Prometheus Rising
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]]> <![CDATA[Carl Jung: How to Believe (Guardian Shorts)]]> 19267016 20 Mark Vernon Michele 0 currently-reading 3.88 2013 Carl Jung: How to Believe (Guardian Shorts)
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]]> <![CDATA[Condensed Chaos: An Introduction to Chaos Magic]]> 19079194 194 Phil Hine 1618696602 Michele 0 4.26 1995 Condensed Chaos: An Introduction to Chaos Magic
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]]> <![CDATA[Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic]]> 19267039 Aleister Crowley and Austin Spare. But he is truly original in his approach to his work, and shows that the magician does not attain mastery haphazardly or mysteriously.

Liber Null contains powerful rituals a nd exercises for committed occultists who are aware of their own being. Psychonaut, the companion to Liber Null, is a manual comprising the theory and practice of magic aimed at those who seek to perform group magic or who work as shamanic priests to the community. Both treatises will serve as invaluable guides to the operation of real magic, the quest for adeptship and spiritual illumination through the Western magical path. A welcome treat to the experienced occultist, this book will also provide a coherent and original series of magical instructions for the serious student.]]> 225 Peter J. Carroll Michele 0 4.15 Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic
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]]> <![CDATA[The Waste Land and Other Poems]]> 400412 Librarian Note: Also available as an Alternate Cover Edition.

“And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you
I will show you fear in a handful of dust”

When The Waste Land was published in 1922, initial reaction to the poem was decidedly negative. Critics attacked the poem's "kaleidoscopic" design, and nearly everyone disagreed furiously about its meaning. The poem was even rumored to a hoax. Eventually, though, The Waste Land went on to become what many regard as the most influential poem written in English in the twentieth century.

"In ten years' time," wrote Edmund Wilson in Axel's Castle (1931), "Elliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English." In 1948, T.S. Eliot was awarded the Nobel Price "for his work as a trail-blazing pioneer of modern poetry."

In addition to the title poem, this selection includes "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Geronition," "Ash-Wednesday," and other poems from Eliot's early and middle work.

Includes:
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Preludes
- Gerontion
- Sweeney Among the Nightingales
- The Waste Land:
I. The Burial of the Dead
II. A Game of Chess
III. The Fire Sermon
IV. Death by Water
V. What the Thunder Said
Notes on 'The Waste Land'
- Ash-Wednesday
-J ourney of the Magi
- Marina
- Landscapes:
I. New Hampshire
II. Virginia
III. USK
- Two Choruses from 'The Rock']]> 88 T.S. Eliot Michele 0 to-read 4.24 1922 The Waste Land and Other Poems
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]]> <![CDATA[A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat]]> 128461 A Season in Hell is here added Rimbaud's longest & possibly greatest single poem The Drunken Boat, with the original French en face Illuminations, Rimbaud's major works are available as bilingual New Directions Paperbooks. The reputation of A Season in Hell, which is a poetic record of a man's examination of his own depths, has steadily increased over the years. Upon the 1st publication of Varese's translation by New Directions, the Saturday Review wrote: "One may at last suggest that the translation of A Season in Hell has reached a conclusive point..." Concerning the 25-stanza The Drunken Boat, Dr Enid Starkie of Oxford University has written: "(It's) an anthology of separate lines of astonishing evocative magic which linger in the mind like isolated jewels." Rimbaud's life was so extraordinary that it has taken on the quality of a myth. A biographical chronology is included.]]> 103 Arthur Rimbaud 0811201856 Michele 0 to-read 4.34 1872 A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
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]]> The Ice Queen 177515 Practical Magic, a miraculous, enthralling tale of a woman who is struck by lightning, and finds her frozen heart is suddenly burning.

Be careful what you wish for. A small town librarian lives a quiet life without much excitement. One day, she mutters an idle wish and, while standing in her house, is struck by lightning. But instead of ending her life, this cataclysmic event sparks it into a new beginning.

She goes in search of Lazarus Jones, a fellow survivor who was struck dead, then simply got up and walked away. Perhaps this stranger who has seen death face to face can teach her to live without fear. When she finds him, he is her opposite, a burning man whose breath can boil water and whose touch scorches. As an obsessive love affair begins between them, both are forced to hide their most dangerous secrets—what turned one to ice and the other to fire.

A magical story of passion, loss, and renewal, The Ice Queen is Alice Hoffman at her electrifying best.]]> 211 Alice Hoffman 0316154385 Michele 0 to-read 3.54 2005 The Ice Queen
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]]> <![CDATA[The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls]]> 7327100
"It was the dog who found me."

Such is the stark confession launching the harrowing scene that begins The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls as Emilie Autumn, a young musician on the verge of a bright career, attempts suicide by overdosing on the antipsychotics prescribed to treat her bipolar disorder. Upon being discovered, Emilie is revived and immediately incarcerated in a maximum-security psych ward, despite her protestations that she is not crazy, and can provide valid reasons for her actions if someone would only listen.

Treated as a criminal, heavily medicated, and stripped of all freedoms, Emilie is denied communication with the outside world, and falls prey to the unwelcome attentions of Dr. Sharp, head of the hospital's psychiatry department. As Dr. Sharp grows more predatory by the day, Emilie begins a secret diary to document her terrifying experience, and to maintain her sanity in this environment that could surely drive anyone mad. But when Emilie opens her notebook to find a desperate letter from a young woman imprisoned within an insane asylum in Victorian England, and bearing her own name and description, a portal to another world is blasted wide open.

As these letters from the past continue to appear, Emilie escapes further into this mysterious alternate reality where sisterhoods are formed, romance between female inmates blossoms, striped wallpaper writhes with ghosts, and highly intellectual rats speak the Queen's English.

But is it real? Or is Emilie truly as mad as she is constantly told she is?

The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls blurs harsh reality and magical historical fantasy whilst issuing a scathing critique of society's treatment of women and the mental health care industry's treatment of its patients, showing in the process that little has changed throughout the ages.

Welcome to the Asylum. Are you committed?]]> 264 Emilie Autumn Michele 0 to-read 4.14 2009 The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
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]]> The Metamorphosis 485894 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes."

With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."]]> 201 Franz Kafka 0553213695 Michele 0 to-read 3.92 1915 The Metamorphosis
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]]> Memories, Dreams, Reflections 612188 Memories, Dreams, Reflections is that book, composed of conversations with his colleague and friend Aniela Jaffé, as well as chapters written in his own hand, and other materials. Jung continued to work on the final stages of the manuscript until shortly before his death on June 6, 1961, making this a uniquely comprehensive reflection on a remarkable life. Fully corrected, this edition also includes Jung's VII Sermones ad Mortuos.]]> 430 C.G. Jung 0679723951 Michele 0 to-read 4.17 1962 Memories, Dreams, Reflections
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]]> <![CDATA[Modern Man in Search of a Soul]]> 646175 A provocative and enlightening look at spiritual unease and its contribution to the void in modern civilization

Considered by many to be one of the most important books in the field of psychology, Modern Man in Search of a Soul is a comprehensive introduction to the thought of Carl Gustav Jung. In this book, Jung examines some of the most contested and crucial areas in the field of analytical psychology, including dream analysis, the primitive unconscious, and the relationship between psychology and religion. Additionally, Jung looks at the differences between his theories and those of Sigmund Freud, providing a valuable basis for anyone interested in the fundamentals of psychoanalysis.
]]> 244 C.G. Jung Michele 0 to-read 4.20 1931 Modern Man in Search of a Soul
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]]> Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art 7743117 Sacré Bleu is part mystery, part history (sort of), part love story, and wholly hilarious as it follows a young baker-painter who joins the dapper Henri Toulouse-Lautrec on a quest to unravel the mystery behind the supposed suicide of Vincent van Gogh.]]> 403 Christopher Moore 0061779741 Michele 0 to-read 3.77 2012 Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art
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]]> <![CDATA[Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty]]> 20483085 you were a princess,
or an orphan.
A wicked witch,
fairy godmother,
prom queen,
valedictorian,
team captain,
Big Bad Wolf,
Little Bo Peep.
But you are more than just a hero or
a villain, cursed or charmed. You are
everything in between.
You are everything.

In fifty poems Christine Heppermann places fairy tales side by side with the modern teenage girl. Powerful and provocative, deadly funny and deadly serious, this collection is one to read, to share, to treasure, and to come back to again and again.]]> 107 Christine Heppermann 0062289578 Michele 0 to-read 3.54 2014 Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty
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]]> Collected Poems, 1909-1962 142080
Poet, dramatist, critic, and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of Collected Poems 1909-1962 includes his verse from Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) to Four Quartets (1943), and includes such literary landmarks as 'The Waste Land' and 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats'.]]> 221 T.S. Eliot 0151189781 Michele 0 to-read 4.30 1963 Collected Poems, 1909-1962
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]]> Survivor 22283 Fight Club comes this wickedly incisive second novel, a mesmerizing, unnerving, and hilarious vision of cult and post-cult life.

Tender Branson—last surviving member of the so-called Creedish Death Cult—is dictating his life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the airplane, which will crash shortly into the vast Australian outback. Before it does, he will unfold the tale of his journey from an obedient Creedish child and humble domestic servant to an ultra-buffed, steroid- and collagen-packed media messiah, author of a best-selling autobiography, Saved from Salvation, and the even better selling Book of Very Common Prayer (The Prayer to Delay Orgasm, The Prayer to Prevent Hair Loss, The Prayer to Silence Car Alarms). He'll reveal the truth of his tortured romance with the elusive and prescient Fertility Hollis, share his insight that "the only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage," and deny responsibility for the Tender Branson Sensitive Materials Sanitary Landfill, a 20,000-acre repository for the nation's outdated pornography. Among other matters both bizarre and trenchant.

Not since Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night and Jerzy Kosinski's Being There has there been as dark and telling a satire on the wages of fame and the bedrock lunacy of the modern world. Unpredictable, compelling, and unforgettable, Survivor is Chuck Palahniuk at his deadpan peak; and it cements his place as one of the most original writers in fiction today.]]> 289 Chuck Palahniuk 009928264X Michele 0 to-read 3.92 1999 Survivor
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]]> <![CDATA[Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI]]> 29496076 A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history.

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.

Then, one by one, they began to be killed off. One Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, watched as her family was murdered. Her older sister was shot. Her mother was then slowly poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more Osage began to die under mysterious circumstances.

In this last remnant of the Wild West—where oilmen like J. P. Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes such as Al Spencer, “the Phantom Terror,” roamed – virtually anyone who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll surpassed more than twenty-four Osage, the newly created F.B.I. took up the case, in what became one of the organization’s first major homicide investigations. But the bureau was then notoriously corrupt and initially bungled the case. Eventually the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including one of the only Native American agents in the bureau. They infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest modern techniques of detection. Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most sinister conspiracies in American history.

In Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann revisits a shocking series of crimes in which dozens of people were murdered in cold blood. The book is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, as each step in the investigation reveals a series of sinister secrets and reversals. But more than that, it is a searing indictment of the callousness and prejudice toward Native Americans that allowed the murderers to operate with impunity for so long. Killers of the Flower Moon is utterly riveting, but also emotionally devastating.]]> 359 David Grann 0385534256 Michele 0 to-read 4.12 2017 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
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]]> <![CDATA[Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers]]> 32145 Stiff an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers—some willingly, some unwittingly—have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. In this fascinating account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries and tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them.]]> 304 Mary Roach 0393324826 Michele 0 to-read 4.06 2003 Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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]]> Killosophy 24389742 146 Criss Jami 1506149359 Michele 0 to-read 3.84 2015 Killosophy
author: Criss Jami
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average rating: 3.84
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]]> <![CDATA[Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories]]> 92497 402 Charles Bukowski 1574230026 Michele 0 to-read 4.13 1996 Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories
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]]> The Love Poems of Rumi 67377




'These poems reflect the deepest longings of the human heart as it searches for the divine. They celebrate love. Each poetic whisper is urgent, expressing the desire that penetrates human relationships and inspires intimacy with the self, silently nurturing an affinity for the Beloved. Both Fereydoun Kia, the translator, and I hope that you will share the experience of ravishing ecstasy that the poems of Rumi evoked in us. In this volume we have sought to capture in English the dreams, wishes, hopes, desires, and feelings of a Persian poet who continues to amaze, bewilder, confound, and teach, one thousand years after he walked on this earth' - Deepak Chopra]]> 64 Deepak Chopra 0712670408 Michele 0 to-read 4.28 1273 The Love Poems of Rumi
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]]> <![CDATA[The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three: 1925-1930]]> 18520 ]]> 408 Virginia Woolf 0156260387 Michele 0 to-read 4.47 1980 The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three: 1925-1930
author: Virginia Woolf
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]]> <![CDATA[The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Vol. One, 1888-1912]]> 313388 566 Virginia Woolf 0156508818 Michele 0 to-read 4.31 1975 The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Vol. One, 1888-1912
author: Virginia Woolf
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]]> <![CDATA[Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing]]> 14945 Moments of Being contains Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing. In "Reminiscences," the first of five pieces, she focuses on the death of her mother, "the greatest disaster that could happen," and its effect on her father, the demanding Victorian patriarch. Three of the papers were composed to be read to the Memoir Club, a postwar regrouping of Bloomsbury, which exacted absolute candor of its members.


"A Sketch of the Past" is the longest and most significant of the pieces, giving an account of Virginia Woolf's early years in the family household at 22 Hyde Park Gate. A recently discovered manuscript belonging to this memoir has provided material that further illuminates her relationship to her father, Leslie Stephen, who played a crucial role in her development as an individual and as a writer.

]]> 230 Virginia Woolf Michele 0 to-read 4.25 1976 Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
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]]> Mrs. Dalloway 14942 194 Virginia Woolf 0151009988 Michele 0 to-read 3.79 1925 Mrs. Dalloway
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]]> <![CDATA[Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps]]> 17829704 http://www.CharlotteEriksson.com

The story of The Glass Child, Charlotte Eriksson, is one of those you usually see on movies. Only 18 years old she left everything she had and knew to dedicate her life to her music and art. A vague dream about reaching out turned out to be a fight for freedom, real art and belonging. A journey about self-discovery, learning solitude, the difference between having a home and feeling at home and finally, slowly, finding a home in oneself. In music, in words, in moments. Charlotte spent a year homeless on the road, sleeping at friends’ and fans’ floors, learning and searching. Aiming to inspire others to create their own lives and showing that you can become exactly who you want to become, if you just want it bad enough. ”I wanted to turn my life into art. My very existence into a poem. This is my story. It’s been a beautiful adventure. It always will be.”

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"Instant coffee and a tip from the sound-guy. I'm learning sounds, laying wide awake on different sofas every night. I know the difference between a well built wall and broken strength. I'm learning mindfulness, reading about gurus and poets every day on different trains to nowhere. I don't know what I'm learning but I hope I will understand one day. I'm selling my heart with each album and a silent prayer that they’ll be gentle with it, gentle with me. And then the concerned looks they throw when I point at my worn out bag and broken guitar case as the answer to where I live. Sure I could spend a year or two selling my days and time for money, and I could buy all these things people want to have without never really needing it. It's just that when I'm on that stage every night, it all just seems so stupid. My guitar, my voice, my words, my story. That's all I want, that's what makes my heart beat. What am I supposed to do with belongings and material stuff when all I want is this. The open road and a new beginning every day.
I don't have a lot and I gave away the things you're supposed to have to be able to live. I don't own any keys and I threw my phone in the river. My family will always remember me as the confused one who left and never came back. I'm searching. I will be forever wandering. I don't know what I'm looking for, but I will spend the rest of my life trying to find it."

"I want my life to be the greatest story.
My very existence will be the greatest poem.
Watch me burn."


Reviews of Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps:

"This book is a beautiful journey. Charlotte's words are like magic and you just can't stop reading. This book gave me answers to life that I didn't know I was looking for!" - Hanna Olofsson

This book was such an emotional and beautiful experience that really consumed my soul while reading it I felt like I was there in person with her on her amazing journey every step of the way, This book made me cry it made me smile and it made me realise facts about myself it is a truly emotional and inspiring reading experience. I would recommend this book to anyone who can appreciate the genius and brilliance of an artist or someone who wants to discover themsselves." - Mattias Bergstöm]]> 113 Charlotte Eriksson Michele 0 to-read 4.08 2013 Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps
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]]> Revolution 7558747
PARIS: Alexandrine Paradis lived over two centuries ago. She dreamed of making her mark on the Paris stage, but a fateful encounter with a doomed prince of France cast her in a tragic role she didn’t want—and couldn’t escape.
 
Two girls, two centuries apart. One never knowing the other. But when Andi finds Alexandrine’s diary, she recognizes something in her words and is moved to the point of obsession. There’s comfort and distraction for Andi in the journal’s antique pages—until, on a midnight journey through the catacombs of Paris, Alexandrine’s words transcend paper and time, and the past becomes suddenly, terrifyingly present.]]> 472 Jennifer Donnelly 0385737637 Michele 0 to-read 4.01 2010 Revolution
author: Jennifer Donnelly
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]]> Suicide Notes 3097601 I'm not crazy. I don't see what the big deal is about what happened. But apparently someone does think it's a big deal because here I am. I bet it was my mother. She always overreacts.

Fifteen-year-old Jeff wakes up on New Year's Day to find himself in the hospital. Make that the psychiatric ward. With the nutjobs. Clearly, this is all a huge mistake. Forget about the bandages on his wrists and the notes on his chart. Forget about his problems with his best friend, Allie, and her boyfriend, Burke. Jeff's perfectly fine, perfectly normal, not like the other kids in the hospital with him. Now they've got problems. But a funny thing happens as his forty-five-day sentence drags on: the crazies start to seem less crazy.

Compelling, witty, and refreshingly real, Suicide Notes is a darkly humorous novel from award-winning author Michael Thomas Ford that examines that fuzzy line between "normal" and the rest of us.]]> 295 Michael Thomas Ford 0060737557 Michele 0 to-read 3.80 2008 Suicide Notes
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]]> Necrophilia Variations 2224824 Necrophilia Variations is a literary monograph on the erotic attraction to corpses and death. It consists of a series of texts that, like musical phrases, take up the theme and advance it by means of repetition, contrast, and variation. To love someone dead is merely nostalgia, but to make love with someone dead is necrophilia, and this book is about that.

Although a work of fiction, Necrophilia Variations uses literary means to probe the psychopathology of sexual perversion. Eros, the book asks, is naturally drawn to beauty, and yet nothing would seem to be less inherently beautiful than a cadaver. How is it that a necrophile ends up confusing the two, or making the leap, such that he finds beauty in what most people would find repugnant? How does he come to desire that which would seem to be intrinsically undesirable?

Written in a style that ranges from the lugubrious to the ludicrous — from purple prose to black humor — Necrophilia Variations exhibits a world of depravity from the inside out. Each of its texts utilizes the first person — not because it is autobiographical but rather because it is personal, even intimate. Why intimate? Because that's how death is — near you, beside you, eventually inside you as well. It would be nice to say that that's how sex is too — intimate — but then it's no secret just how impersonal sex can be, especially when your lover is unconscious or worse.

If you have ever contemplated the curious points of contact between eros and thanatos — if you have ever wondered why femmes fatales are alluring, or why sex can be made more exciting by games that simulate danger and pain, or why that bit of French slang that deems orgasm a "little death" seems so appropriate — then you may well enjoy this book. And if you do, then your joy in reading may even unlock the necrophiliac mind for you — since a text is, like a corpse, the remains of a living being, and as a reader you will no doubt be determined to extract pleasure from it.]]> 200 Supervert 0970497113 Michele 0 to-read 3.98 2005 Necrophilia Variations
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]]> The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer 746458 297 Brian Masters 0340591943 Michele 0 to-read 3.99 1993 The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer
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]]> Ten Days in a Mad-House 1642216 92 Nellie Bly Michele 0 to-read 3.84 1887 Ten Days in a Mad-House
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]]> <![CDATA[Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue]]> 796267
Es un relato cargado de erotismo y acción, en el que se desarrolla la historia de Justina, una hermosa muchacha, ingenua y confiada, pero de convicciones firmes, quien en el transcurso de la novela se encuentra con depravados personajes que sólo la tratan como un objeto satisfactor de sus perversos deseos.]]> 264 Marquis de Sade 950877035X Michele 0 to-read 3.47 1787 Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue
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]]> Gonzo 54250 240 Hunter S. Thompson 0978607600 Michele 0 to-read 4.24 2006 Gonzo
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]]> Hell's Angels 10882
" En France on n'a pas ça et aux Etats-unis, pays pourtant pas avare en déjantés, ils n'en ont qu'un comme lui. Même s'il n'a rien écrit depuis plus de vingt ans, Hunter S. Thompson demeure là-bas une légende. ", Eric Neuhoff, Le Figaro littéraire.]]> 295 Hunter S. Thompson 222109073X Michele 0 to-read 3.99 1966 Hell's Angels
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]]> Freedom: Credos from the Road 1007813 Customize Yourself; Originals Don't Come Off an Assembly Line Toughness
Temper the Steel to Forge a Strong Blade Fairness
Treat Me Good, I'll Treat You Better; Treat Me Bad, I'll Treat You Worse Presented in the form of fifty credos, this book gives Sonny Barger's perspective on how to live a life that embodies the most fundamental of American freedom.]]> 212 Ralph Barger 0060532564 Michele 5 3.89 2005 Freedom: Credos from the Road
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]]> <![CDATA[Hell's Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club]]> 51550
Narrated by the visionary founding member, Hell's Angel provides a fascinating all-access pass to the secret world of the notorious Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club. Sonny Barger recounts the birth of the original Oakland Hell's Angels and the four turbulent decades that followed. Hell's Angel also chronicles the way the HAMC revolutionized the look of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle and built what has become a worldwide bike-riding fraternity, a beacon for freedom-seekers the world over.

Dozens of photos, including many from private collections and from noted photographers, provide visual documentation to this extraordinary tale. Never simply a story about motorcycles, colorful characters, and high-speed thrills, Hell's Angel is the ultimate outlaw's tale of loyalty and betrayal, subcultures and brotherhood, and the real price of freedom.]]> 288 Ralph Barger 0060937548 Michele 5 3.71 1975 Hell's Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club
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]]> Kiki's Memoirs 221160 298 Kiki de Montparnasse 0880014962 Michele 0 to-read 3.99 1929 Kiki's Memoirs
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]]> Bellwether 24985 Sandra Foster es una experta en el análisis de tendencias y patrones humanos dedicada a las modas. Bennett O'Reilly es un especialista en teoría del caos que observa la conducta de un grupo de monos. En principio, sus caminos nunca tendrían por qué haberse cruzado, aunque trabajan en la misma empresa. Pero cuando un paquete acaba en la oficina equivocada, se pone en marcha un sistema del caos lleno de equívocos y coincidencias... que dejan a Bennett sin monos, sin dinero y casi sin trabajo.
Sandra acude al rescate aportando un rebaño de ovejas y una idea para un nuevo proyecto a pesar de sus diferentes campos de estudio, sus investigaciones pueden complementarse. Y ¿qué otro animal más que la oveja podría ilustrar mejor la teoría del caos y la mentalidad de rebaño que caracteriza la conducta humana y su aceptación de las modas?
Connie Willis se corona de nuevo en Oveja mansa como una escritora excepcional. La cultura pop, la teoría del caos y (por supuesto) los asuntos del corazón chocan en esta novela brillante, llena de contratiempos absurdos, malentendidos y humor.]]> 248 Connie Willis 0553562967 Michele 0 to-read 3.91 1996 Bellwether
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]]> We Should All Be Feminists 22738563 We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from her much-viewed TEDx talk of the same name—by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.

With humor and levity, here Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century—one rooted in inclusion and awareness. She shines a light not only on blatant discrimination, but also the more insidious, institutional behaviors that marginalize women around the world, in order to help readers of all walks of life better understand the often masked realities of sexual politics. Throughout, she draws extensively on her own experiences—in the U.S., in her native Nigeria, and abroad—offering an artfully nuanced explanation of why the gender divide is harmful for women and men, alike.

Argued in the same observant, witty and clever prose that has made Adichie a bestselling novelist, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman today—and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.]]> 52 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Michele 0 to-read 4.41 2012 We Should All Be Feminists
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]]> <![CDATA[Psychic Witch: A Metaphysical Guide to Meditation, Magick & Manifestation (Mat Auryn's Psychic Witch, 1)]]> 45901734 Uncover the Secrets to Becoming a Powerful Psychic Witch

Popular writer and witch Mat Auryn reveals his most closely guarded tips, practices, and meditations for unlocking your psychic abilities and elevating your witchcraft into exciting new territory. Featuring over ninety exercises, this groundbreaking book helps your magick and your senses reach their full potential.

Witchcraft and psychism are two sides of the same coin--they complement and strengthen one another. Psychic Witch provides everything you need to not only master the perception and manipulation of energy, but also to perform magick anywhere and at any time. This ingenious book teaches you how to use subtle energy in new ways and manifest your perceptions into instant magickal results.]]> 228 Mat Auryn 0738760846 Michele 0 to-read 4.27 2020 Psychic Witch: A Metaphysical Guide to Meditation, Magick & Manifestation (Mat Auryn's Psychic Witch, 1)
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]]> A Thousand Flamingos 29606282 99 Sanober Khan 9385945092 Michele 0 to-read 4.00 A Thousand Flamingos
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]]> The Cottingley Secret 32600721 The Girl Who Came Home turns the clock back one hundred years to a time when two young girls from Cottingley, Yorkshire, convinced the world that they had done the impossible and photographed fairies in their garden. Now, in her newest novel, international bestseller Hazel Gaynor reimagines their story.

1917… It was inexplicable, impossible, but it had to be true—didn’t it? When two young cousins, Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright from Cottingley, England, claim to have photographed fairies at the bottom of the garden, their parents are astonished. But when one of the great novelists of the time, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, becomes convinced of the photographs’ authenticity, the girls become a national sensation, their discovery offering hope to those longing for something to believe in amid a world ravaged by war. Frances and Elsie will hide their secret for many decades. But Frances longs for the truth to be told.

One hundred years later… When Olivia Kavanagh finds an old manuscript in her late grandfather’s bookshop she becomes fascinated by the story it tells of two young girls who mystified the world. But it is the discovery of an old photograph that leads her to realize how the fairy girls’ lives intertwine with hers, connecting past to present, and blurring her understanding of what is real and what is imagined. As she begins to understand why a nation once believed in fairies, can Olivia find a way to believe in herself?]]> 383 Hazel Gaynor 006249984X Michele 0 to-read 3.82 2017 The Cottingley Secret
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]]> The Salt in His Kiss: Poems 44281101 From the author of I Find You In the Darkness, a brand-new poetry collection about love, longing, and one woman's everlasting connection to the sea

My soul reminds me that
I am a Mermaid.
A woman who longs to be held by the sea...

Beloved contemporary poet Alfa is back with a collection of all-new poems celebrating strength and female empowerment. With more than 180 poems focusing on resilience, inner strength, and self-love, The Salt in His Kiss celebrates the fantastic creature inside every woman.

]]> 189 Alfa Holden 1250233801 Michele 0 to-read 4.03 The Salt in His Kiss: Poems
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]]> <![CDATA[Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass]]> 43554866 The highly anticipated spoken word poetry collection from Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass

“'Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass' is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which came to me in their entirety, which I dictated and then typed out, and some that I worked laboriously picking apart each word to make the perfect poem. They are eclectic and honest and not trying to be anything other than what they are and for that reason I’m proud of them, especially because the spirit in which they were written was very authentic.” (Lana Del Rey)

Lana Del Rey brings her breathtaking poetry to life in an unprecedented audiobook. In this stunning spoken word performance, Lana Del Rey reads 14 poems from her debut book Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass accompanied by music from Grammy Award-winning musician Jack Antonoff. Lana’s debut book solidifies her further as “the essential writer of her times” (The Atlantic). This audiobook features Lana reading select poems from the book, including "LA Who Am I to Love You?", "The Land of 1,000 Fires", "Past the Bushes Cypress Thriving", "Never to Heaven", "Tessa DiPietro", "Happy", and several others. The result is an extraordinary poetic landscape that reflects the unguarded spirit of its creator.]]> 0 Lana Del Rey Michele 0 to-read 4.04 2020 Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
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]]> Utopia Avenue 51341638 Utopia Avenue might be the most curious British band you've never heard of.

Emerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967, folksinger Elf Holloway, blues bassist Dean Moss, guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet and jazz drummer Griff Griffin together created a unique sound, with lyrics that captured their turbulent times. The band produced only two albums in two years, yet their musical legacy lives on.

This is the story of Utopia Avenue's brief, blazing journey from Soho clubs and draughty ballrooms to the promised land of America, just when the Summer of Love was receding into something much darker - a multi-faceted tale of dreams, drugs, love, sexuality, madness and grief; of stardom's wobbly ladder and fame's Faustian pact; and of the collision between youthful idealism and jaded reality as the Sixties drew to a close.

Above all, this bewitching novel celebrates the power of music to connect across divides, define an era and thrill the soul.]]> 592 David Mitchell Michele 0 to-read 4.01 2020 Utopia Avenue
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sun Is Snowing: The Scrapbook]]> 26026530 Alternate cover edition for ISBN-13: 9781501052712

Sights, sounds, thoughts, memories, dreams, visions, love, wisdom and destiny- all await you within the covers of this scrapbook! The Sun Is Snowing, the very first title by the author C. JoyBell C., remains her best-selling work to-date and is often cited as a source of inspiration, healing, hope and freedom, for many the world over. This particular work is described by adoring fans of the book as being "very raw", "very human", "angelic" and "luminous." Think of it as the meeting point for mortals and immortals; open up the covers of this scrapbook and get lost in the personal creations of the author, where each page is a unique piece of art. Enter into a realm of delight, gentleness and unending possibilities, a gift that you can give not only to yourself but also share with your friends and family. Step into where the sun is always snowing, a place that you will never have to leave. You can stay. Here, now, you have a home.]]> 166 C. JoyBell C. Michele 0 to-read 4.19 2010 The Sun Is Snowing: The Scrapbook
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]]> <![CDATA[The Suns Snow And The Sands Move: A thing of magic, a gift of poetry and prose.]]> 15996355 288 C. JoyBell C. 1478252456 Michele 0 to-read 4.65 2012 The Suns Snow And The Sands Move: A thing of magic, a gift of poetry and prose.
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Poems of Anne Bronte]]> 2909971 180 Anne Brontë 0548673578 Michele 0 to-read 3.82 1971 The Complete Poems of Anne Bronte
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]]> <![CDATA[House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume Three]]> 22948966 Roger and Carolyn Perron purchased the home of their dreams and eventual nightmares in December of 1970. The Arnold Estate, located just beyond the village of Harrisville, Rhode Island seemed the idyllic setting in which to raise a family. The couple unwittingly moved their five young daughters into the ancient and mysterious farmhouse. Secrets were kept and then revealed within a space shared by mortal and immortal alike. Time suddenly became irrelevant; fractured by spirits making their presence known then dispersing into the ether. The house is a portal to the past and a passage to the future. This is a sacred story of spiritual enlightenment, told some thirty years hence. The family is now somewhat less reticent to divulge a closely-guarded experience. Their odyssey is chronicled by the eldest sibling and is an unabridged account of a supernatural excursion. Ed and Lorraine Warren investigated this haunting in a futile attempt to intervene on their behalf. They consider the Perron family saga to be one of the most compelling and significant of a famously ghost-storied career as paranormal researchers. During a seance gone horribly wrong, they unleashed an unholy hostess; the spirit called Bathsheba; a God-forsaken soul. Perceiving herself to be the mistress of the house, she did not appreciate the competition. Carolyn had long been under siege; overt threats issued in the form of firea mother's greatest fear. It transformed the woman in unimaginable ways. After nearly a decade the family left a once beloved home behind though it will never leave them, as each remains haunted by a memory. This tale is an inspiring testament to the resilience of the human spirit on a pathway of an eternal journey for the living and the dead.

]]> 402 Andrea Perron 1491829885 Michele 0 to-read 3.91 2014 House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume Three
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]]> <![CDATA[House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume Two]]> 17590756 502 Andrea Perron 1481712373 Michele 0 to-read 3.72 2013 House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume Two
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]]> <![CDATA[House of Darkness: House of Light- The True Story, Vol. 1]]> 10883896
Secrets were kept and then revealed within a space shared by mortal and immortal alike. Time suddenly became irrelevant; fractured by spirits making their presence known then dispersing into the ether. The house is a portal to the past and a passage to the future. This is a sacred story of spiritual enlightenment, told some thirty years hence. The family is now somewhat less reticent to divulge a closely-guarded experience. Their odyssey is chronicled by the eldest sibling and is an unabridged account of a supernatural excursion.

Ed and Lorraine Warren investigated this haunting in a futile attempt to intervene on their behalf. They consider the Perron family saga to be one of the most compelling and significant of a famously ghost-storied career as paranormal researchers. During a séance gone horribly wrong, they unleashed an unholy hostess; the spirit called Bathsheba...a God-forsaken soul. Perceiving herself to be mistress of the house, she did not appreciate the competition. Carolyn had long been under siege; overt threats issued in the form of fire...a mother's greatest fear. It transformed the woman in unimaginable ways.

After nearly a decade the family left a once beloved home behind though it will never leave them, as each remains haunted by a memory. This tale is an inspiring testament to the resilience of the human spirit on a pathway of discovery: an eternal journey for the living and the dead.]]> 528 Andrea Perron 1456747592 Michele 5 3.37 2011 House of Darkness: House of Light- The True Story, Vol. 1
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I read the book before I watched the movie, The Conjuring in theaters. I enjoyed it, but would have been somewhat disappointed if I had read it after seeing the movie. Gives you an insight to the actual happenings from the family’s point of view rather than the Warren’s. I would love to read the next 2 books.
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]]> Babushka Baba Yaga 81808
Baba Yaga is a witch famous throughout Russia for eating children, but this Babushka Baba Yaga is a lonely old woman who just wants a grandchild--to love.

"Kids will respond to the joyful story of the outsider who gets to join in, and Polacco's richly patterned paintings of Russian peasant life on the edge of the woods are full of light and color." -- Booklist

"A warm, lively tale, neatly mixing new and old and illustrated with Polacco's usual energetic action, bright folk patterns, and affectionate characterizations." -- Kirkus Reviews]]> 32 Patricia Polacco 069811633X Michele 5 4.26 1993 Babushka Baba Yaga
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