Principles of Magick by Jeffrey Pierce5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() While magick itself offers a certain amount of mystical influence, it is most effectively used as a key that allows us to unlock our own potential, our own power, and open ourselves to a deeper and fuller version of reality. Ritual and spellwork are tools that allow us to strip away the illusions that limit our growth and power, providing us with insight, wisdom, and understanding. ![]() In order to grow, evolve, and move toward our deeper calling and the power it holds, when we were born into this lifetime we accepted certain illusionary limitations that prevent us from embracing the fullness of our spiritual identity. We are intensely powerful beings composed of the same material that is at the heart of all Creation. The secret? We've never needed magick to be any of that. It doesn't provide us with a blank check with which to detail how we want the events of our world to play out. ![]() Magick isn't a series of words, actions, and materials that bend natural laws and warp mundane reality. ![]()
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All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() That quasi- telepathic pact between author and reader held little interest for a general audience. ![]() But regular people don't read books there. “Where I come from, nobody reads novels unless they're like my mother- fetishizing the artistic media of a bygone era, probably because it was the last time she was happy. ![]() The house in which mariam petrosyan5/12/2023 ![]() As the tribe leaders struggle to maintain power, they defer to the awesome power of the House, attempting to make it through days and nights that pass in ways that clocks and watches cannot record."Okay by chapter 3 I was so utterly confused I had no idea what the heck was going on in this book. ![]() From the corridors and crawl spaces to the classrooms and dorms, the House is full of tribes, tinctures, scared teachers, and laws-all seen and understood through a prismatic array of teenagers’ eyes.But student deaths and mounting pressure from the Outsides put the time-defying order of the House in danger. Not that it matters to anyone living in the House, a hulking old structure that its residents know is alive. Not sure about this one."Bound to wheelchairs and dependent on prosthetic limbs, the physically disabled students living in the House are overlooked by the Outsides. ![]() How high we go on the dark5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Make no mistake, this is a book about death.īut it's not a singular nor reductive depiction of death. Nagamatsu's collection of interlinked stories unflinchingly inhabits the ripple effects of a 30,000-year-old Arctic plague, released from melting permafrost: an aimless young man works at a euthanasia theme park for terminally ill kids, placing them on the roller coaster that will kill them before the plague does a test subject pig gains sentience, only to realize its true purpose as an organ donor people connect in VR online chat rooms to make suicide pacts. John Mandel's pandemic tale Station Eleven, but at least the latter is mostly about a performance troupe thriving in the hopeful post-apocalypse. ![]() The book has drawn comparisons to Emily St. How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu's debut novel about a climate change virus in 2030 that alters humanity centuries into the future, could hit all too hard for those grieving the loss of loved ones to coronavirus, as well as the loss of their former lives pre-pandemic. ![]() The truth project dante medema5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() If your life began with a lie, how can you ever be sure of what's true? Now she isn't sure of anything-not the mother who lied, the man she calls Dad, or the girl staring back at her in the mirror. But when Cordelia's GeneQuest results reveal that her father is not the person she thought he was, but a stranger who lives thousands of miles away, her entire world shatters. ![]() All she needs to do is mail in her DNA sample, write about her ancestry results, and get that easy A. And getting partnered with her longtime crush, Kodiak Jones, is icing on the cake. While her peers stressed, Cordelia planned to use the same trace-your-roots genealogy idea her older sister used years prior. Seventeen-year-old Cordelia Koenig intended to breeze through her senior project. Told through a series of poems, text messages, and emails, this contemporary YA is perfect for fans of Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin. "A heart-wrenching quest for identity every YA reader will relate to, and a deep dive into the meaning of family." -Ellen Hopkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author Debut author Dante Medema explores the emotional fallout after a teenage girl discovers she is the product of an affair. ![]() Ducks 2 years in the oil sands5/12/2023 ![]() The author will be at Calgary’s Wordfest at Central Library Nov. Kate Beaton now lives back in Cape Breton with her family. But thanks to her staggering skill as a cartoonist and obvious efforts to be unusually fair as a storyteller, the now-39-year-old Beaton paints a nuanced and sympathetic picture of her co-workers, even amid recurring cascades of toxic masculinity and, indeed, worse. ![]() The dislocation and isolation so many feel while working in the Patch far from home was compounded by the fact Beaton was one of just a few women among thousands of men in the camps. The next issue of Calgary Herald Headline News will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĪ welcome email is on its way. ![]() The god of small things novel5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Shifting backward and forward in time with effortless grace, Roy fashions a compelling nexus of personalities that influence the twins' "eerie stealth'' and furtive interdependence. ![]() ![]() The events of a crucial December day in 1969-including an accidental death that may have been no accident and the violent consequences that afflict an illicit couple who have broken "the Love Law''-are the moral and narrative center around which the episodes of the novel repeatedly circle. The family's prosperity is derived from a pickle factory and rubber estate, and their prideful Anglophilia essentially estranges them from their country's drift toward Communism and their ``inferiors' '' hunger for independence and equality. The major characters are Estha and Rahel, the fraternal twin son and daughter of a wealthy family living in the province of Kerala. A brilliantly constructed first novel that untangles an intricate web of sexual and caste conflict in a vivid style reminiscent of Salman Rushdie's early work. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pecan Pie and Deadly Lies is a sweet, down-home story of love overcoming all obstacles-from the crossroads of small town and suspense. ![]() Can he convince Kasey he’s innocent, and will she clear his name in time? Or will their dreams of the future be the victim of a deadly lie? Pecan Pie and Deadly Lies 27 copies, 3 reviews. The Shell Collector 29 copies, 12 reviews. But as the evidence stacks up, the accusations against him put a damper on the sparks flying between them. A Heartfelt Christmas Promise: A Novel 30 copies, 5 reviews. But just when she’s ready to fall, everything she ever believed about him is called in to question.Ĭody has waited a long time for genuine love, and he can’t let this chance with Kasey slip away. Pecan pie and deadly lies (2016 edition) Open Library It looks like you're offline. Unexpectedly reunited with Cody, she finds herself open to love again. Pecan Pie and Deadly Lies by Nancy Naigle, 2016, Center Point Large Print edition, in English - Center Point Large Print edition. Desperate to prove he’s innocent, he turns to his only alibi, award-winning photographer Kasey Phillips, who recently toured with him and his band.Īfter an exciting life on the road, Kasey has settled down in small-town Adams Grove with her five-year-old son. At least that’s how he feels since he’s been accused of murdering his scheming agent. ![]() etina (cs) Deutsch (de) English (en) Español (es). Welcome to Adams Grove…where the pies are delicious but the lies are to die for.Īmerica’s beloved country superstar Cody Tuggle never expected to be one of America’s most wanted. Pecan Pie and Deadly Lies by Nancy Naigle, Sep 17, 2013, Brilliance Audio edition, audio cd. ![]() Mermaid Moon by Susann Cokal5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She apprentices herself to the witch to learn the magic of making and unmaking, and with a new pair of legs and a quest to complete for her teacher, she follows a clue that leads her ashore on the Thirty-Seven Dark Islands. Now Sanna is sixteen and an outsider in the seavish matriarchy, and she is determined to find her mother and learn who she is. The night of her birth, a sea-witch cast a spell that made Sanna’s people, including her landish mother, forget how and where she was born. Sanna is a mermaid - but she is only half seavish. An award-winning author tells of a mermaid who leaves the sea in search of her landish mother in a captivating tale spun with beautiful prose, lush descriptions, empathy, and keen wit.īlood calls to blood charm calls to charm. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Ellen preferred the language of observation and laughter. Outrage, dread, impassioned sincerity - those are the native idioms of that terrain, often coming in manic succession. The flagrant ironies of those landscapes can whipsaw a writer back and forth. ![]() ![]() Every toxic combination of culture and delusion is available in that expanse. The American West is hard on writers, and particularly Ellen's stretch of the West, which runs from Utah across the Navajo Reservation, past Lake Mead and the Mojave Desert, over Mount Whitney and down onto the "chive-green" lawns of San Marino, Calif. "I dream hard," she wrote in "The Anthropology of Turquoise." Knowing her, I find it easy to imagine that on the night she died, Ellen came to a waterfall in her dreams - a stream pouring over the edge of the slickrock - and jumped and simply kept falling. She worried about "progressive lunacy" and was told by a Navajo acquaintance to "go ahead and stay crazy." That she did. ![]() Like many people who truly know the desert Southwest, Ellen spent a lot of time thinking about perception. Last week, a writer named Ellen Meloy died suddenly in her sleep beside her husband at their home in Bluff, Utah. ![]() |