Bones, Shells and Curios

Bones, Shells and Curios
Author: Michele Jackson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2014-05-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9780971961272

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Throwing the Bones

Throwing the Bones
Author: catherine yronwode
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780971961234

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Hoodoo Shrines and Altars

Hoodoo Shrines and Altars
Author: Phoenix LeFae
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2015-05-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9780996052337

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Sticks, Stones, Roots & Bones

Sticks, Stones, Roots & Bones
Author: Stephanie Rose Bird
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2004
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780738702759

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Tracing the magical roots of "hoodoo" back to West Africa, the author provides a history of this nature-based healing tradition and offers practical advice on how to apply hoodoo magic to everyday life.

Remarkable Creatures

Remarkable Creatures
Author: Tracy Chevalier
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2010-01-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101152451

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From the New York Times bestselling novelist, a stunning historical novel that follows the story of Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot, two extraordinary 19th century fossil hunters who changed the scientific world forever. On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary learns that she has a unique gift: "the eye" to spot ammonites and other fossils no one else can see. When she uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home, she sets the religious community on edge, the townspeople to gossip, and the scientific world alight. After enduring bitter cold, thunderstorms, and landslips, her challenges only grow when she falls in love with an impossible man. Mary soon finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth, a middle-class spinster who shares her passion for scouring the beaches. Their relationship strikes a delicate balance between fierce loyalty, mutual appreciation, and barely suppressed envy, but ultimately turns out to be their greatest asset. From the author of At the Edge of the Orchard and Girl With a Pearl Earring comes this incredible story of two remarkable women and their voyage of discovery.

Sophie's World

Sophie's World
Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 735
Release: 2007-03-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466804270

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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

I Have Something to Tell You

I Have Something to Tell You
Author: Regan Hofmann
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2009-09-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1439109648

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For ten years, Regan Hofmann lived a double life. To the world, she was a woman from Princeton who went to prep school, summered in the Hamptons and rode Thoroughbred horses. She had a great job, a loving family and friends and looks that made men turn their heads. From the outside, she seemed to have it all. On the inside, though, coursing through her veins and weighing heavily on her mind, was the truth: that she was HIV-positive. At first, Hofmann faced her mortality alone, shamed by a disease society considered the exclusive property of gay men, injection drug users and sex workers. Burdened by her secret, she withdrew from the world she once knew. Over time, though, Hofmann began to accept her mortality -- and HIV -- and reconsidered the way she wanted to live her life. After nearly a decade of silence, Hofmann did what she never imagined having the courage to do: she came out to the world about what she was going through. Regan Hofmann not only has the courage to fight HIV and the debilitating stigma that surrounds it, but she writes about her experience with unflinching honesty and a deep affection for the family and friends who support her. I Have Something to Tell You is a memoir of disease and survival, and an inspiring account of a life driven by a sense of purpose and a search for love in the face of the unthinkable. More than anything, it is a story that reminds us that while life can change in an instant, we each hold the power to decide how we use the time we have. With humor, vitality and an unquenchable passion, Regan shows us a life fully lived.

The Oracle of the Bones/Book With Casting Bones and Casting Map Cloth

The Oracle of the Bones/Book With Casting Bones and Casting Map Cloth
Author: Claire O'Neil
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Total Pages:
Release: 1994-07-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780312110390

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An exciting new oracle system based on the ancient African and Caribbean tradition of bone-casting. This unique pack contains everything needed to become an adept bone-caster in very little time, including four ceramic bones, a lay diagram--onto which the bones are cast--and an illustrated book with complete instructions and interpretations.

Curiosity

Curiosity
Author: Joan Thomas
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2011-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0771084188

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LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARGARET LAURENCE AWARD FOR FICTION A QUILL & QUIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR Award-winning novelist Joan Thomas blends fact and fiction, passion and science in this stunning novel set in nineteenth-century Lyme Regis, England—the seaside town that is the setting of both The French Lieutenant's Woman and Jane Austen's Persuasion. More than forty years before the publication of The Origin of Species, twelve-year-old Mary Anning, a cabinet-maker's daughter, found the first intact skeleton of a prehistoric dolphin-like creature, and spent a year chipping it from the soft cliffs near Lyme Regis. This was only the first of many important discoveries made by this incredible woman, perhaps the most important paleontologist of her day. Henry de la Beche was the son of a gentry family, owners of a slave-worked estate in Jamaica where he spent his childhood. As an adolescent back in England, he ran away from military college, and soon found himself living with his elegant, cynical mother in Lyme Regis, where he pursued his passion for drawing and painting the landscapes and fossils of the area. One morning on an expedition to see an extraordinary discovery—a giant fossil—he meets a young woman unlike anyone he has ever met . . .

Cabinet of Curiosities

Cabinet of Curiosities
Author: Gordon Grice
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0761189378

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Exactly the book for every young explorer who loves finding stuff in nature and bringing it home. Cabinet of Curiosities is a lavishly illustrated introduction to the wonders of natural history and the joys of being an amateur scientist and collector. Nature writer Gordon Grice, who started his first cabinet of curiosities at age six when he found a skunk’s skull, explains how scientists classify all living things through the Linnaeus system; how to tell real gold from fool’s gold; how to preserve butterflies, crab shells, feathers, a robin’s egg, spider specimens, and honeycombs; how to identify seashells; the difference between antlers and horns; how to read animal tracks. And then, what to do with your specimens, including how to build a cabinet of curiosities out of common household objects, like a desk organizer or a box for fishing tackle.