Surviving Magic

Surviving Magic
Author: Chloe Garner
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2021-04-13
Genre:
ISBN:

If Valerie is going to learn how to use magic, she must first learn how to survive it. Valerie grew up a normal girl. In high school, she was popular, smart, happy.But all that changes when her mother's former life - a life kept hidden from Valerie - collides into Valerie's reality.Forced to walk away from everything she's always known, Valerie finds herself in a magic school where she may be protected, but she certainly isn't liked. Facing classmates who resent her for being there and a faculty who are caught up in the same secret war that threatened her mother, Valerie is going to have to flourish or perish in her new reality.Click now to enroll in The School of Magic Survival.

Emergency Magic

Emergency Magic
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 196
Release:
Genre: Charms
ISBN: 9781610594974

Sometimes itAEs not enough to wrestle the alligator or jump from a moving car. Sometimes survival depends on fate, or the favor of the gods, or on the mysterious powers of the mind. ThatAEs when you need Emergency Magic. Offering 150 spells for 75 different dire situations, Emergency Magic gives readers the tools to escape all kind of potential danger. YouAEll learn spells for: Making your mother-in-law love you Keeping your boyfriend faithful Fitting into your wedding dress Protecting your cad from theft Getting rid of ghosts Landing a new job aand 69 other worst-cast scenarios. Fun and engaging, Emergency Magicis also rooted in ancient tradition -- these spells are not a joke! They have been used for centuries to keep people safe, happy, and healthy.

Second Half

Second Half
Author: Kelsey Chittick
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-03-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781951407490

Kelsey Chittick was in a very good place in her life. Her children had reached that sweet spot where they could make their own breakfast and dress themselves, but didn't yet have phones or social media. Her husband, the love of her life since college, had finished a grueling six years in the NFL and had successfully transitioned into a new career which he loved. They lived in the quaint, beautiful town of El Segundo, California. Everything was good, and in her mind, they had arrived.But yet something felt wrong. She spent her days feeling anxious and woke up feeling as if she couldn't breathe. At times, she thought she was losing her mind. Then one day, tragedy struck. On 11/11, her husband Nate a huge, happy, intense, and passionate man-dropped dead at 42 in front of her kids. Kelsey's biggest fear had come true and she had to decide how to move forward. Through miracles, gifts and a clear intention, she began to walk the journey of grief with her children resolved that they would not just survive, but thrive.In Second Half, Survivng Loss and Finding Magic in the Missing, writer and comedian Kelsey Chittick pays a heartfelt and hilarious tribute to Nate Hobgood Chittick's tremendous spirit, muses about marital life and co-parenting, and shares her own dark and inspiring journey through heartbreak and loss. Second Half is Kelsey's story of turning his death into an affirmation of life, the power of love, and the pursuit of peace and gratitude.

Survival Lessons

Survival Lessons
Author: Alice Hoffman
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2020-08-18
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1504064542

The New York Times–bestselling author and cancer survivor tells how to hold on to joy in times of sorrow in this “absolutely beautiful book” (Sue Monk Kidd). The prize-winning author of such modern literary classics as Practical Magic, The World That We Knew, and The Marriage of Opposites, Alice Hoffman is also a cancer survivor. In Survival Lessons, she shares her transformative journey, showing us how to re-envision our own lives and relationships with our friends and family, and the significance of the everyday choices we make. Sorrow and joy are both part of the human experience, and the beauty of the world is easy to overlook during periods of crisis, illness, or loss. Here, Hoffman offers wit, wisdom, and comfort in “an optimistic instruction manual [for] anyone struggling with self-care in a time of trouble” (Story Circle Book Reviews). “In this gem of a book, Alice Hoffman acknowledges the sorrows of life, while reminding us of its joys. Survival Lessons is filled with love, insight, and lots of practical advice—including a crazy-good brownie recipe.” —Will Schwalbe, New York Times–bestselling author of The End of Your Life Book Club “Hoffman’s storytelling artistry enlivens each intimate, thoughtfully distilled, charming, and nurturing lesson in living.” —Booklist “[Survival Lessons] is not about [Hoffman’s] breast cancer per se but about making choices that will improve readers’ lives and relationships and remind them ‘of the beauty of life.’” —Library Journal “Full of smart intentions and kind reminders . . . Uplifting advice we’ll gladly take.” —Better Homes & Gardens

Magic When You Need It

Magic When You Need It
Author: Judika Illes
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2010-05-07
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1458755673

Many spells and charms can take days or even weeks to complete. In Magic When You Need It, Judika Illes offers a collection of super-powered magic to help you right now. Is your career in a slump? Are you being visited by ghosts? Short on cash. Magic When You Need It can help with these problems and more. Divided into four sections: Money and Ca...

The Cambridge Book of Magic

The Cambridge Book of Magic
Author: Paul Foreman
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2015
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0992640423

The Cambridge Book of Magic is an edition of a hitherto unpublished sixteenth-century manuscript of necromancy (ritual magic), now in Cambridge University Library. Written in England between 1532 and 1558, the manuscript consists of 91 'experiments', most of them involving the conjuration of angels and demons, for purposes as diverse as knowing the future, inflicting bodily harm, and recovering stolen property. However, the author's interests went beyond spirit conjuration to include a variety of forms of natural magic. The treatise drew on astrological image magic and magico-medical texts, and the author had a particular fascination with the properties of plants and herbs. The Cambridge Book of Magic gives an insight into the practice and thought of one sixteenth-century magician, who may have been acting on behalf of clients as well as working for his own benefit.

SPARKY

SPARKY
Author: Juliette M Engel
Publisher: TrineDay
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2020-03-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1634242963

Sparky's story shines the spotlight on crimes against American children that were sanctioned on a national scale by the United States government. At the age of six in 1955, she was sold by her parents to the Sex Magick cult run by the CIA under its illegal program of secret experimentation on mind control called Monarch. By the time she was ten, she'd been purposely split into multiple identities, each one associated with a different age and place as her family moved around the country to avoid Child Protective Services and the police. With each new identity, she forgot the last one. In Imperial Beach, California, inside a tough neighborhood of gangs and brothels abutting the Tijuana Sewer and the Mexican border, she discovered her own courage in the determined persona of a new character, Sparky MacGregor. As she grew older, Sparky's memory faded as she was moved from one location to the next. At the age of seventeen, she escaped from a camp in Big Sur, and left childhood behind. She became a physician, raised a family and moved to Moscow where she founded and ran an underground railroad for child sex trafficking victims from the former USSR. Years later, she returned to Imperial Beach to speak at an international conference on border security. The memory of her lost childhood suddenly returned.

Magic Study

Magic Study
Author: Maria V. Snyder
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2012-08-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1459248279

From New York Times Bestselling Author Maria V. Snyder Beyond Ixia, the roots of magic run deep… After the discovery of her magical abilities leads to an execution order, Yelena has no choice but to flee to Sitia, her long-lost birthplace. There, she has the chance to meet the family she never knew. But Sitia is unfamiliar, and she’s treated with suspicion and even hatred by the people she thought she could trust—including her own brother. Then Yelena is given the chance to travel to Sitia’s capital. In the Citadel, she’ll have the chance to hone her magical abilities under the tutelage of master magicians. As she learns the laws of magic—Yelena also discovers those who will do anything to break them. And when a rogue magician who targets young female victims emerges, Yelena must put her life at risk to stop him. Will her newfound magic save Yelena—or will it be her downfall? The Chronicles of Ixia Series by Maria V Snyder Book One: Poison Study Book Two: Magic Study Book Three: Fire Study Book Four: Storm Glass Book Five: Sea Glass Book Six: Spy Glass Book Seven: Shadow Study Book Eight: Night Study Book Nine: Dawn Study

The Transformations of Magic

The Transformations of Magic
Author: Frank Klaassen
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2015-06-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0271061758

In this original, provocative, well-reasoned, and thoroughly documented book, Frank Klaassen proposes that two principal genres of illicit learned magic occur in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic (in its extreme form, overt necromancy), which could not. Image magic tended to be recopied faithfully; ritual magic tended to be adapted and reworked. These two forms of magic did not usually become intermingled in the manuscripts, but were presented separately. While image magic was often copied in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, The Transformations of Magic demonstrates that interest in it as an independent genre declined precipitously around 1500. Instead, what persisted was the other, more problematic form of magic: ritual magic. Klaassen shows that texts of medieval ritual magic were cherished in the sixteenth century, and writers of new magical treatises, such as Agrippa von Nettesheim and John Dee, were far more deeply indebted to medieval tradition—and specifically to the medieval tradition of ritual magic—than previous scholars have thought them to be.

Believing in Magic

Believing in Magic
Author: Cookie Johnson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2016-09-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1501125184

In her powerful and inspiring memoir, Cookie Johnson, wife of NBA legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson, shares details of her marriage, motherhood, faith, and how an HIV diagnosis twenty-five years ago changed the course of their lives forever. On November 7, 1991, basketball icon Earvin “Magic” Johnson stunned the world with the news that he was HIV-positive. For the millions who watched, his announcement became a pivotal moment not only for the nation, but for his family and wife. Twenty-five years later, Cookie Johnson shares her story and the emotional journey that started on that day—from life as a pregnant and joyous newlywed to one filled with the fear that her husband would die, that she and her baby would be infected with the virus, and that their family would be shunned. Believing in Magic is the story of Cookie’s marriage to Earvin—nearly four decades of loving each other, losing their way, and eventually finding a path they never imagined. Never before has Cookie shared her full account of the reasons she stayed and her life with Earvin “Magic” Johnson. Believing in Magic is her very personal story of survival and triumph as a wife, mother, and faith-filled woman.