| My favorite books, study and fun, WITH a direct link to the worlds biggest on-line bookstore, AMAZON - incredibly effective and fast, the book they can't find has not been printed (well, they even find some that HAVE not been printed yet :) I've ordered from the other half of the globe, and had some books as fast as 3(!) days. And all that for an average of 20% discount, which more than covers the shipping charges! Click on the titles to order directly (or just enjoy reading the synopsis and reviews :) Incidentally (I must be crazy to share, but boyohboy, do they deserve it) if you have the patience of an angel and can wait for a new book to become 'old', or if it already IS and no longer listed (this doubles as my 'book inventory', so if a link doesn't work, its off the shelves) try 1stchoiceusedbooks. The website is eyecandy, from hunt-for-me lists and and and... oh, look fer yerselfs. Page #2 (click next) has all the steamy novels I don't admit to owning, romance/vampire/time travel type stuff as well as incredible military sagas. |
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Llewellyn's Witches Calendar 2006 DVD set, all time favorite just for fun and them long winter nights (couldn't resist buying OR listing it) Sex and the City - all 7 seasons Go Green? Gardening ‘stuff’: Roots, Shoots, Buckets, and Boots & Square Foot Gardening & Sunlight & Let It Rot! Your Body's Many Cries For Water |
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************************HERBALS************************ Maria Treben - Health through God's Pharmacy (not listed) Maria Treben - Health from God's Garden (not listed) Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs John Lust The Herb Book David Hoffmann:The New Holistic Herbal $13.56 James Duke:The Green Pharmacy & Field Guide to Medicinal Plants Nancy Evelyn:Pocket Guide Herbal First Aid $6.95 Susun S. Weed: Healing Wise (Wise Woman Herbal Series, Book 4) - $12.95 Susun S. Weed: New Menopausal Years, The Wise Woman Way: Alternative Approaches for Women 30-90 (Wise Woman Herbal Series, Book 5) NEW EDITION –$12.95 Judy Griffin: Mother Nature's Herbal $10.99 Penelope Ody: Healing With Herbs:Simple Treatments for over 100 Common Ailments Penelope Ody: Home Herbal $15.96 Julia Lawless: The Encyclopedia of Essential Oils $19.96 Theodore Roszak:Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind James Redfield The Celestine Prophecy & The 10th Insight: Holding the Vision Find out for yourself why virtually everyone you know has this book, described as an "adventure in pursuit of a spiritual mystery", on their coffee table: A man goes on a journey of self-discovery attempting to retrieve an ancient Peruvian manuscript full of insights into life and spirituality, in a powerful and revelatory modern fable. The manuscript found in the debth of the rainforest makes a powerful prediction about the fate of humankind, as the world moves into a new era of increased awareness and spirituality. You will find what you always knew, but never been able to put in words. Ageless, for all religions, and all believes, it puts its finger onto the knowlege of ALL. Their website Celestine Vision explains the books in detail. Have you ever wondered about Taoism, and just how people who practice it seem to radiate peace and sunshine? Join Pooh and Piglet in their discoveries just what Tao (the way) is, and how to achieve it. Charming and easy, you'll find you might have been on the right way all along, and just needed Pooh to remind you that, after all, the most favorite day is TODAY: The Tao of Poo And while you're still smiling from the inside, find a quiet spot under a tree and read on :) to the Masters:Tao te Ching & Peace is Every Step-The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life Indiana Jones and the White Witch Ever wondered how to break the news to someone, without 'actually' coming out of the closet? This is the most exiting story I can imagine, while it subtly (well, allright, not all THAT subtly) points out what a Witch is all about! If pragmatic Indy can be convinced to practice Magick, anybody can.... Susan Petrey Gifts of Blood TECHNICALLY belongs in the goo romance section, but this book has the ability to teach you what’s important in life. I know it has made quite an impact in mine, which is why it got elevated to ‘here’. In a heartbreaking way Susan tells about the gift of blood. Nothing gruesome as the title suggests, but touching to the core little stories about what life (and blood) is all about. Not only for vampire fans, but this will make you one if you are not already fascinated. Jean M. Auel - The earth children series: Get pulled back in time and experience (!) how to survive on your own. See through Ayla's eyes how a medicine woman has her own idea about magick. These are all-nighters! Clan of the Cavebear & Valley of Horses & The Mammoth Hunters Plains of Passage & Shelters of stone - NYR |
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SORCY'S FAVORITES HUMOR and MAGICKAL all-nighters |
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| Terry Pratchett's very best: The witches trilogy (actually, there's 5 now...) Hilariously funny and touching, the three witches will enter your heart: Granny Weatherwax, the crone (although nobody dares call her that. Nobody who does not care to turn green, hop about, and catch flies with his tongue, anyways. Very good at headology, Granny is). Nanny Ogg, the mother (despite her old age, she is proud to say she's never turned down a proposal. And wearing her red boots, much to Granny's disapproval, she's getting plenty :). Magrat, the maiden (a wet-hen, who jingles from all that occult jewelry she just might need one day. Imagine three as different as these fire up the broomsticks (in Nanny’s case, that means running downhill at mach 2 until it catches, damn them dwarf engineers) , travel to 'forrin' places to make sure the princess does NOT marry the prince..... while having plenty of drinks with 'basically nothing but fruit in it', topped by little paper umbrellas. I think they call thems Banananana-daicrees: Witches Abroad The natural number of a witches coven is ONE, as far as Granny is concerned. All the more interesting to get these three together to make sure the right fool, errrr.... lost prince gets to be King. Eh? Wyrd Sisters On Discworld, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a little too late. The town witch (Granny) insists on turning the baby into a perfectly normal witch, thus mending the magical damage of the wizard's mistake. But now the young girl will be forced to penetrate the inner sanctum of the Unseen University - and attempt to save the world with one well-placed kick in some enchanted shins! Equal Rites Ever wonder what those magic circles made of stone in the English countryside are for? They're to keep the elves out. Elves are nasty, vicious, and they love cruelty. So, when an infestation of Faerie Trash invades the Kingdom of Lancre, the solution is Granny Weatherwax and the witches she leads, who are not exactly nice people, either, exhibiting, as they do, positive glee in slaughtering the vicious little bastards: Lords and Ladies Granny and Nanny in a rewrite of the, well, shall we call it Phantom of the Opera? Heaven help those Granny wants to. Help, I mean. Maskerade A rewrite of Lords and Lady’s (but totally different), this time with vampires. As long as Terry keeps writing about my three witches, I surely hope he finds more plots to write the same stories over... the tummy ache from laughing remains: Carpe Jugulum They say that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, which just goes to show they' re as confused about anatomy as they generally are about everything else, unless they're talking about instructions on how to stab him, in which case a better way is up and under the ribcage. Anyway, we do not live in a perfect world and it is foresighted and useful for a young woman to become proficient in those arts which will keep a weak-willed man from straying. Learning to cook is also useful'. Nanny Ogg, one of Discworld's most famous witches, is passing on some of her huge collection of tasty and above all interesting recipes, since everyone else is doing it, in Nanny Ogg's Cookbook . But in addition to the delights of the Strawberry Wobbler and Nobby's Mum's Distressed Pudding, Mrs Ogg imparts her thoughts on life, death, etiquette ('If you go to other people's funerals they'll be sure to come to yours'), courtship, children and weddings, all in a refined style that should not offend the most delicate of sensibilities. Well, not much. Most of the recipes have been tried out on people who are still alive. Follow the amazing stories of everyday life of the city guards from Ankh Morpork Guards Guards . Some of them don't quite fit their uniforms, what with all the dwarfs and trolls who gets themselves recruited these days..... bad enough one of the new recruits is FEMALE, now it is found out she has the habit of turning into a wolf at full moons...although, she DOES have this knack of sniffing out clues.... Complete (similarities with living militias are strictly intended) with the haughty city leader, the good first Sergeant who always saves the day and the troops depend on (he hates politics, parades and his dress uniform and rather be walking the beat), the down to earth straight arrow (if slightly naïve) constable, the filthy shirk on everyone’s payroll awaiting retirement and the minority greenhorn (in this case, a female dwarf, which is scary in itself, as dwarfs as a principle NEVER reveal their sex, and courtship is a very sensible affair, sometimes including a few blackened eyes). Completing the series: Men at Arms & Feet of Clay & Jingo & The fifth Elephant & Thud What is bored DEATH to do when he gets fed up with his job and is, well, bored to death? Go on vacation. After a fit (or not so fit) apprentice is found, that is. There's got to be more life to DEATH than this, right? After all, when one had worked an eternity without ever going out, it's high time for a break! And just when you thought all was settled? Errr.... who takes over when Santa disappears? There IS only one other who can come through walls, although the concept of the chimney is not one the substitute seems to be getting a hang of. HOHOHO??? Reaper Man & Mort & Soul Music & Hogfather Can you imagine an Angel working closely with a Devil? After all, they have been holding the same job (although on different sides) for centuries, and an old, trusted enemy is almost like a friend. Nothing wrong with doing lunch every once in a while. And then they find themselves frantically trying to prevent the Apocalypse (if possible, without being found out by their bosses, if it's all the same to you), for both have been quite comfortable with their lives on earth, and do not care one iota to go back to their respective 'offices', thank you very much! Good Omens More treasures of the Disc World (have you noticed that every time somebody says ‘interesting times’ some disaster or other is about to happen???) Especially if you are a wizard of unseen university and accident prone to begin with you are bound to end up in ‘interesting’ locations. The problem is finding the way BACK. The Light Fantastic & The Last Continent & Interesting Times The Truth & Pyramids & Thief of Time The last hero (German) The 160 pages cover the series' longest and most awesome (but still comic) journey yet, a mission to save all Discworld from a new threat. An old threat, actually. Aged warrior Cohen the Barbarian has decided to go out with a bang and take the gods with him. So, with the remnants of his geriatric Silver Horde, he's climbing to the divine retirement home Dunmanifestin with the Discworld equivalent of a nuke--a fifty-pound keg of Agatean Thunder Clay. This will, for excellent magical reasons, destroy the world. It's up to Leonard of Quirm, Discworld's da Vinci, to invent the technology that might just beat Cohen to his goal. His unlikely vessel is powered by dragons, crewed by himself and two popular regular characters, and secretly harbors a stowaway. Before long we hear the Discworld version of "Houston, we have a problem...." The last hero (US) - HC Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, Book 28)(US) Going Postal (Discworld, Book 29)(US)  Robert Lynn Asprin: Demon is just a word for someone from another dimension. Which means, if YOU happen to end up on oh, say, Perv, YOU'RE the 'Demon'. What's a poor magician's apprentice to do when he finds himself stuck with a Pervert, excuse me, make that Pervect, and his master who summoned him is dead? Travel to The Bazar in Deva for starters, for the universe's biggest adventure. Too bad nobody told him that deveels are the best merchants, and if you feed it (it, in this case, being a dragon), you bought it. Unicorns included: Another fine Myth Hit or Myth Little Myth Marker M.Y.T.H. Inc. in Action M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link Myth Conceptions Myth Directions Myth-Ing Persons Myth-Nomers and Im-Perfections Sweet Myth-Tery of Life Something M.Y.T.H. Inc Myth-Ion Improbable Myth Alliances Myth-taken Identity Equally priceless, the excursions of a haphazard company of (misfit) mercenaries. Phules Company & Phule's Paradise & A Phule and his Money & Phule me Twice Esther Friesner hysterically funny trilogy: Bumbling magic student Kender Gangle sets off a calamitous chain of events when he chases an earth cat named Scandal into a cloud and finds himself the quarry of a jealous wizard, a baby-faced barbarian, and a demon on an entirely different plane. The only problem is that in THIS world, the cat is the mystical creature, and every rumor you’ve ever heard about them is true. Here, anyway. And what this kitty has to say when he finds he can speak isn’t always pretty. Magyk by Accident & Magyk by Hook or Crook & Magyk by Design Also good reads: Wishing Season & Split Heirs & Gnome Man’s Land & Elf Defense & The Chick is in the mail Mercedes Lackey is one of those authors you fall in love with on the first touch, and then can't stop living the fantasy... honor, truth, dignity, integrity... I don't mind leaving this world with her for a few hours: Bardic Voices: Possessing the potential to be the greatest bard her world has ever seen, young Rune rashly brags about her abilities and must prove herself by meeting the Ghost of Skull Hill, who forces her to fiddle an entire night. How she beats the ghost, secures her wish, and bravely sets out to meet the other free bards, finds her own gypsy bard to love, combining their fortunes for a life on the open road, and adventure over adventure featuring all the bards in such loving detail they’ll become family this series is sentimental, dreamy, and beautifully explains the magick of music. THE FREE BARDS: The Lark and the Wren The Robin and the Kestrel The Eagle and the Nightingales 4 and 20 Blackbirds Fiddler's Fair Bedlam Bard Series: A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Bedlam Bard Beyond Worlds End Spirit white as lightning Mad Maudlin Music to my Sorrow (HC) The BARDS Tale: #2 - Fortress of Frost & Fire #3 - Prisons of Souls The Chaos Gate Castle of Deception ELVES AND MAGICK: The Elvenbane The Elvenblood Elvenborn The Chrome Born The Otherworld In these most famous and coveted trilogies The Herald Mages of Valdemar: Magic's Pawn & Magic's Promise & Magic's Price an ancient age in the history of Valdemar comes to life--an age when the kingdom was ravaged by the ungoverned fury of bandit warlords, ferocious ice dragons, and the wild magic of wizards. And always you’ll find a broad mind that you can’t help follow, passionate and honorable. The first trilogy will forever remain my favorite, featuring the life and (very realistic) story and development of a young mage who learns with terror what it means to not only be the most powerful magician (as if that wasn’t enough) but also discover he’s ‘fey’ Arrows Fall & Arrows FLight & Arrows of the Queen Winds of Fate & Winds of Change & Winds of Fury Storm Warning & Storm Rising & Storm Breaking Owlflight & Owlsight & Owlknight Oath bound & Oath blood & Oath breakers The black gryphon & The white gryphon & The silver gryphon Sword of Ice & By the sword & The Sword of Knowledge Trilogy Exiles Honor & Exiles Valor Joust & Alta (Joust #2) & Sanctuary (Joust #3) The obsidian Trilogy book 1 - The outstretched shadow & The obsidian Trilogy book 2 - To light a candle & The obsidian Trilogy book 3 - NYR & INDIVIDUAL STORIES: Brigthly Burning Burning Waters Children of the Night The Fire Rose Black Swan Firebird Tiger Burning Bright Sacred Ground Lammas Night The Serpents Shadow The Gates of Sleep Take a Thief Sun in Glory and Other Tales of Valdemar The Fairy Godmother: A Tale of the Five Hundred Rheap the Whirlwind Phoenix and Ashes - NYR Crossroads and other tales of Valdemar (short stories) Dec 2005 One of my favorite mystery series: The Brother Cadfael Series of a Benedictine Monk/Herbal Healer in the 12th century.... well, a monk who formerly was a mercenary, but who's counting?? You would not believe how much I learned in these, herbally speaking! #1 - A Morbit taste for Bones #2 - One Corps too many #3 - Monks Hood # 4 - St. Peters Fair #5 - The Leper of St. Giles #6 - The Virgin in the Ice #7 - Potters Field #8 - The Devils Novice #9 - Dead Man’s Ransom #10 - The Pilgrim of Hate #11 - An Excellent Mystery #12 - A Raven in the Foregate #13 - The Rose Rent #14 - The Hermit of Eyton Forest #15 - The Confession of Brother Haluin #16 - The Heretic Apprentice #17 - The Sanctuary Sparrow #18 - The Summer of the Danes #19 - The holy Thief # 20 - Brother Cadfael's Pencance #21 - A rare Benedictine |
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| Catty Murder Mysteries |
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy: How is a regular Tomcat to break the news to his human (male, bachelor type) that he can talk? I mean really talk, human speak. Both of them are rather embarrassed by it and adjust rather peculiar (while Mr. Cat is thinking of catnip overload, Clyde considers the possibilities of the ‘I love me’ jacket). It gets easier on smartypaws Joe Gray after he runs into another speaking cat, Dulcie (who secretly is studying the ancient myth of cat-people in the hope of one day acquiring the change spell, but steals silky undies in the meantime). Besides, it does have its benefits to be able to yell ‘bad dog’ at the great Danes and watch them freak. So now the two can team up and fight crime in the small town, always desperately trying to stay one paw ahead of the local sheriff, who’s beg to eye them suspiciously for always being RIGHT in the middle of a crime scene. Who IS it who calls him to the scene and gives him the anonymous tips on where to find the murder weapon? And why is it that there are always cat hair and bite marks all over them? But it takes a broader mind than Chief Brady to accept the impossible. Or doesn’t it? Small wonders that it leaves the Cat on the edge : "I had to split. I witnessed a crime and someone is following me. Trust me. When I get this sorted out, I'll be home. I am still your cat, and I guess I miss you..." Joe Gray jumped down to the floor without hanging up the phone. He was trapped in an unfolding nightmare. First he found he could understand human speech (who would have guessed they had so little to say?). Then he found he could talk (useful for scaring dogs) and even read. He got worried when he found himself feeling human emotions like guilt and sympathy. He even caught himself planning his day! All that, Joe Gray could have handled. If only he hadn't found himself in the alley behind Jolly's Deli the night Beckwhite was murdered... he begins to wish that he was just a regular cat. Cat under fire Cat raise the dead Cat in the dark Cat to the dogs Cat spitting mad Cat laughing last Cat seeing double (US shipping) Cat seing double Cat fear no evil Cat cross their graves (German) Cat cross their graves (USA) Rita Mae Brown: Well, truth be told, it’s SNEAKY Pie Brown. Rita is only allowed to pose as the author, while it’s really her cat telling the story: Curiosity just might be the death of Mrs. Murphy--and her human companion, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen. Small town, horse/hunting town Crozet has yet to find out just HOW the four pawed population rules them all. Between the cats and the horses, crime doesn’t stand a snowball chance in hell. But it does get really dicey from time to time. Wish you were here Rest in pieces Pay Dirt Murder, she meoowed Murder at Monticello Murder on the Prowl Cat on the scent Pawing Through the Past Claws and Effect Catch as Cat can Tail of the tip off - not ordered Wiskers of evil – not ordered Wiskers Cat's Eyewitness – HC not ordered Lilian Jackson Braun: A true classic. Jim Qwilleran, a prizewinning reporter who's been on the skids but is now coming back with a job as feature writer (mostly on the art scene) for the Daily Fluxion, a small newspaper in a small backwater town; lives with his all-knowing and meddlesome cat (Siamese, yippee) Koko in a lushly furnished house in a moldering neighborhood, and has a raft of enemies all over town. He offers the newcomer a tiny apartment in his building at a nominal rent, and Qwilleran grabs it, surmising the deal will involve lots of cat-sitting. Days later, people begin to die like flies, and Qwilleran, guided by an insistent Koko, finds his landlord’s knifed corpse on the patio behind his house. It takes a while to put the meandering pieces together and to uncover an overriding motive behind the mayhem, but the best things here are Qwilleran's low-keyed charisma and the author's well- aimed, often funny barbs at the pretensions of the contemporary art world--as on-target today as they were some 30 years ago. Over time, living with the opinionated Siamese, especially when a genteel, but no less pushy female – YumYum (nobody could possibly remember or pronounce her royal name) – joins the twosome, Quinn comes to believe his cat is psychic because he has one additional whisker. After all, he himself (proud wearer of a gigantic mustache) feels a twinge every time something is about to go down. The cat who could read backwards The cat who moved a mountain The cat who saw stars The cat who ate Danish modern The cat who lived high The cat who went underground The cat who knew Shakespeare The cat who played post office The cat who had 14 tales The cat who saw red The cat who wasn't there The cat who turned on and off The cat who came for breakfast The cat who knew a cardinal The cat who went into the closet The cat who sniffed glue The cat who talked to ghosts The cat who said cheese The cat who blew the whistle The cat who played Brahms The cat who tailed a thief The cat who sang for the birds The cat who robbed a bank The cat who smelled a rat The cat who went up the creek (awaiting PB) |
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