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This follow-up to the wildly successful Wiccapedia, written by the two authors of that book, gives listeners a broader knowledge of Wicca, nature magick, and spellcraft today.

Magic Medicine is an armchair traveler's guide to all substances psychedelic! Listeners will learn about their properties, use, lore, place in history, and their current research and applications as medicine.

Do indigenous legends hint at the recent existence of mammoths and mastodons?Join author Denver Michaels as he delves into folklore and eyewitness accounts to learn the truth about these extinction escapees.

Are you tired of feeling stuck in the same old dating patterns? Do you want to cultivate a more mindful, intentional approach to your dating life? Look no further than 30 Days to a Better Dating Experience. This comprehensive workbook offers a practical and effective mindfulness program designed to help you transform your dating life and find greater happiness and fulfillment in your relationships. With 30 unique mindfulness exercises, each accompanied by a corresponding hashtag that allows you to connect with others and share your insights online, this workbook provides a step-by-step ...

For the Christian, the spiritual battlefield has never been more dangerous. Are you equipped to face the giants challenging your faith, threatening your family, and invading the culture? Duncan Ray Brannan takes the lenses of 30 years in ministry, a command knowledge of Scripture, original language and culture, and a passion for martial history and focuses them like a laser. With the wisdom of a military strategist, he lays the lore and lessons of six ancient warrior cultures (samurai, Spartan, Viking, knight, gladiator, and legionary) beside the Bible's timeless wisdom.

Without Japan, you probably wouldn't have your car...but how much do you really know about this fascinating country's rich and colorful history? For a country that’s brought us household names as diverse as Nintendo, Toyota, and Sony, shockingly little is known about Japan’s rich and complex history. Like many westerners, you may have a love of Japanese culture and cuisine.

Artist Laura Matthews finds her new home in the Welsh mountains to be a place so charged with tales and legends that she is able to reach through the gossamer-fine veil that separates her own world from that of myth and fable. She and her husband, Dan, have given up their city life and moved to Blaencwm, an ancient longhouse high in the hills. Here, she hopes that the wild beauty will inspire her to produce her best art and will give her the baby they have longed for.

2024. The infamous leaders of the Ortega drugs cartel, (the largest in the world) the twins, Miguel and Carlito travel from Mexico City to Sinaloa, intent on taking over. On arriving by train, in just two hours they are turned around and put on another train back home. Sinaloa pertains to tell this astonishing tale. How the five main Sinaloa cartels came together for just a short period burying all feuds to ensure the Ortega twins were sent packing. A story of high level corruption at the highest levels of the Mexican and United States government. Of friendship, courage and ultimately, ...

In this captivating dual narrative novel, a modern-day woman finds inspiration in hidden notes left by her home’s previous owner, a quintessential 1950s housewife. As she discovers remarkable parallels between this woman’s life and her own, it causes her to question the foundation of her own relationship with her husband - and what it means to be a wife fighting for her place in a patriarchal society.

This audiobook presents a fundamental reinterpretation of changes to crime control in the age of the new police. It breaks new ground by providing a highly detailed, empirical analysis of everyday crime control in Victorian provincial cities - revealing the tremendous activity that ordinary people displayed in responding to crime - alongside a rich survey of police organization and policing in practice.

Born in China’s northwestern province, Sayragul Sauytbay trained as a doctor before being appointed a senior civil servant. But her life was upended when the Chinese authorities incarcerated her. Her crime? Being Kazakh, one of China’s ethnic minorities. The northwestern province borders the largest number of foreign nations and is the point in China that is the closest to Europe. In recent years, it has become home to more than 1,200 penal camps - modern-day gulags that are estimated to house three million members of the Kazakh and Uyghur minorities.

With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story and instantly became both the recognized master of the form and one of our best-loved fiction writers. Carver shows us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people; his stories are the classics of our time.

expressions of quandaries. life, happiness, dissatisfaction, bullying, choices, obstacles, ideas, thoughts....a twenty-something shares her mind. creative writing can sometimes help you figure things out. getting personal with others is difficult, but sharing sometimes does reach out and help others going through the same things.

Bruce happily left the job at the mechanic shop in Oklahoma City for a new life on a ranch near Elk City. He was nursing a broken heart from the rejection of a woman he had begun to love. Who was he kidding? No woman would want to take on a man like him and his four children. They had just begun to heal after the death of their mother. He believed the cowboy life of his childhood was a better fit for them and he was ready for whatever might come his way. Kathy discovered that she could make better money driving a truck and hauling crude oil than using the bachelor degree she had toiled to ...

In the depths of modern life, humanity’s quest for understanding and purpose continues as we gaze at the cosmos, pondering our place within it. In this search for truth, a new scripture emerges, bridging science and spirituality to offer profound insights and guidance. This modern-day Holy Bible explores the interconnectedness of human existence, space, infinite universes, and dimensions. It reveals how ancient spiritual wisdom aligns with cutting-edge scientific discoveries, guiding listeners to uncover the secrets of the universe and the purpose of their souls.

A continuation of The Elijah Mandate series. Inspired by the book of Galatians, Freedom for the Chained follows Jackson Paul "J.P." Rutledge from The Elijah Mandate who is called to a rural group of believers bewitched by a distorted gospel laced with evil. The former heir apparent to his father's position as the Supreme Leader of America, J.P. once relished cleansing America from Christians who "corrupted the minds of the people." An incurable brain cancer robbed him of that inheritance. In agony, he longed for death to extinguish his misery. Instead, God intervened and J.P. embarked on a ...

A modern romantic comedy about a piece of antique jewelry that can break a heart, save a business, and bring love. Darian Laird's girlfriend just broke up with him by text. Rough. This isn’t the worst of it. It wasn't his fault that he had to come back to London to run Laird's Custom Jewelers after his father became ill. This forces him to leave his dreams of owning his own business in the rear-view mirror. He orders his jewelry designer, Kassidy, to meltdown the antique engagement ring he'd bought for his ex and make it into something to help save the business. Kassidy and Darian have ...

We are constantly talking ourselves out of our dreams. We have been conditioned to accept safety, stability, and the status quo that has unfolded in front of us. Giving up prior to attempting any sort of change in our monotonous, unrewarding lives is something that we have all experienced. The dream seems too big, out of reach, and unrealistic.

This moment has been prophesized for thousands of years. Learn how to heal, thrive, and embrace a new, awakened reality with Toltec wisdom. The Aztec calendar is divided into natural time cycles known as suns, each lasting 6,625 years. We're undergoing the shift from the Fifth Sun to the Sixth Sun, a 29-year transitional period that is both challenging humankind and offering new opportunities for healing and realignment.

Join the author's journey through the past, as he reminisces good times and hard times spent with the two greatest friends he ever had. But this memoir is more than just an author's recollection of memories of his grandmothers. As you join 'Officer Fort' on a tour through some of his favorite memories of Nannie and Granny, perhaps you will see how these two women put God first, and helped steer a young man's life to a career in law enforcement. As you turn the pages, perhaps you will also remember friends or family that shaped your life. This memoir is sure to touch your soul, and at least ...