Category: Book Reviews

Kathy Kinney and Cindy Ratzlaff’s new release, Queen of Your Own Life: The Grown-Up Woman’s Guide to Claiming Happiness and Getting the Life That You Deserve (Harlequin, March 2010) sends an important message: The Queen has gone mainstream! This in itself is a cause for celebration.
It was five years ago that I reviewed The Queen [...]

The latest release from A.R.E. Press, Edgar Cayce and the Kabbalah: A Resource for Soulful Living by John Van Auken, is the first of its kind in addressing wisdom from the psychic readings of Edgar Cayce as it relates to the spiritual teachings of the Kabbalah. Van Auken combines his love of Kabbalah with his [...]

The Little Manual of Success: 9 Essential Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires
Vikas Malkani
0 Books
147 pp, $14.95
Review by Christine Gertz
Vikas Malkani, the founder of SoulCentre and the author of the Little Manual of Happiness and the Yoga of Love, has written an advice book for people who would like to attain monetary wealth without sacrificing spiritual happiness. [...]

Walking The Faery Pathway by Harmonia Saille
O Books
www.o-books.net
Review by Kate Russell
The subject of faeries is one that has fascinated and inspired us for eons. But such an ethereal topic can be hard to research. There are lots of images, but little writing on the subject, and this is where Harmonia Saille cuts out a new [...]

After a year of bailouts and a barely-breathing economy, many Americans want to know what 2010 will bring. Has corporate America really learned its lesson? Author Blaine Loomer isn’t waiting around to find out. He offers up a holistic solution to ending corruption in America’s big businesses that will also create some much-needed progress in [...]

Last Day of My Life
Jim Moret
Phoenix Books
Review by Christine Gertz
While driving on a winding road outside of Los Angeles, Jim Moret, a well-known anchor and analyst on several news networks and television programs, thought about seriously ending his life. He was worried about his career, his family and his future, but his few minutes thinking [...]

Craft of the Wise: A Practical Guide to Paganism and Witchcraft
Vikki Bramshaw
O Books
405 pp, $29.95
Review by Christine Gertz
Craft of the Wise is a witchery textbook, but don’t assume by the use
of the term textbook that it is dull and dry. On the contrary: it is
informative and a useful reference for junior witches.
Each chapter explores a [...]

Cosmic Conversations: Dialogues on the Nature of the Universe and the Search for Reality
Stephan Martin
New Page Books
287 pp, $16.99
Review by Christine Gertz
An astronomer and educator, Stephan Martin, the author of Cosmic Conversations, sought out scientific, spiritual and cultural leaders to interview to discuss their perceptions of the universe, and to articulate how they feel the [...]

The Novice: Why I Became a Buddhist Monk, Why I Quit and What I Learned
Stephen Schettini
Greenleaf Book Group Press
345 pp, $24.95
Review by Christine Gertz
In a hotel room in Teheran on his way to India, Steve Schettini casts the I Ching and the coins respond to him with the result of “The Wanderer”. This cast encapsulates [...]

That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals:
A Book about Vegans, Vegetarians and All Living Things
Ruby Roth
North Atlantic Books
48 pp, $16.95
Review by Christine Gertz
Artist, teacher and vegan, Ruby Roth wrote That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals because the children in her art classes were interested in vegetarianism when they found out that she was a vegan. This [...]

Claude Lecouteux
Inner Traditions
273 pp, $19.95
Review by Christine Gertz
Revenants are spirits that return from the dead to perform a task or to harass the living. They can assume a corporeal form and are strong enough to overcome and kill armed men. In many of the stories a revenant is malevolent, often harming humans and animals, though [...]

by Marlene Buffa
A Boulangerie is a bakery which sells breads and rolls. A pâtisserie is a French bakery that specializes in pastries and sweets.

My friend Ann and I walk two miles to the nearby gourmet grocery store.  Contained within the store, resides a most decadent Boulangerie.  The bakery also sells pastries and sweets, making it [...]