Witchcraft and witches throughout history have long captured the imagination, yet hidden away in archives are records of long forgotten cases. Many of these are tragic, some are unusual – perhaps even inexplicable – but all are fascinating in their own right.Devon's Forgotten Witches 1860–1910 takes a deep dive through these records, bringing to the surface accusations of witchcraft in the county that have languished, unacknowledged, in the British Newspap...

How did our ancestors use the concept of demons to explain sleep paralysis? Is that carving in the porch of your local church really what you think it is? And what's that tapping noise on the roof of your car..?The fields of folklore have never been more popular – a recent resurgence of interest in traditional beliefs and customs, coupled with morbid curiosities in folk horror, historic witchcraft cases and our superstitious past, have led to an intersection of ide...

How did our ancestors use the concept of demons to explain sleep paralysis? Is that carving in the porch of your local church really what you think it is? And what’s that tapping noise on the roof of your car..?The fields of folklore have never been more popular – a recent resurgence of interest in traditional beliefs and customs, coupled with morbid curiosities in folk horror, historic witchcraft cases and our superstitious past, have led to an intersection of ideas that is driving...

All of the Harper Witches stories collected together for the first time!Includes: The Language of Spells, The Secrets of Ghosts, and the prequel novella The Garden of Magic.The Language of SpellsGwen Harper left Pendleford thirteen years ago and hasn’t looked back. Until an inheritance throws her into the mystical world she thought she’d escaped. Confronted with her great-aunt’s leg...

Step back into the magical world of Pendleford with The Secrets of Ghosts. Don’t miss the magical, heart-warming story from the bestselling author of The Language of Spells!On her twenty-first birthday Katie Harper has only one wish: to become a real Harper woman. Mystical powers are passed down her family generation after generation – some even call them witches – yet every spell Katie attempts goes disastrously wrong.When her magic does ...

A magical Harper Family prequel novella from the best-selling author of The Language of Spells, that introduces Iris Harper - the original Harper witch.Iris Harper has lived in Pendleford for decades. The local witch is mistrusted by the townsfolk, but that doesn't stop some coming to her begging for potions, spells and quick-fixes.As time has marched on suddenly Iris is aware that her days are beginning to fade. Her sumptuous garden is turning aga...

“I weary of writing more about these buildings, because it seems to me that I shall not be believed if I write more...I swear by God, in Whose power I am, that all I have written is the truth.” – Francisco ÁlvaresIn the Lasta Mountains of northern Ethiopia, high on an arid plateau in the foothills, the settlement of Lalibela slumbered for centuries as little more than a pilgrimage site at the end of a long and weary footpath. The ancient trade routes between the Eritrean coast and ...

Walt Whitman was a great American poet, but many people did not get him when he was alive. His family was like most other families, but his friends were different from most other people living then. He was a teacher and reporter, and then he worked for the government. When he was a young man, he was very serious, but when he was older he liked to play around and have fun. Walt Whitman wrote many poems about America, and his most famous work was Leaves of Grass. It was a lot of poe...

The Book of Norman is an autobiography of the adventures of a young bull calf during the first few months of his life. It begins with his stay at the OSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Stillwater, Oklahoma up to his journey back home to his owners Bob and Sandy Carroll of Bristow, Oklahoma. It was written by Tracey Alden then a veterinary student at OSU who then became a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 1999. She took care of Norman during his stay at the hospital and was instrumental in ...

Motherhood doesn’t come with a rule book. Sometimes you wonder if anyone feels the same way you do. Am I feeding them right? Am I loving them enough? Can I exchange this one for a newer model that doesn’t cry so much? There’s nothing better than feeling understood, like there’s someone else out there who gets it.This collection of two life long friends’ motherly stories, quotes, and memories – both fond and ones they’d sooner forget – will show you there’s no such thing as a perfec...

This drama that explores what happens to an African American family in 2015, when an inheritance becomes the focal point that leads to the discovery of things about thmselves that are both revealing and forever life changing.The main cast of seven characters include a widow, her two children, a brother and a sister in law.This is the kind of mainstay drama that will pull and push the reader and audience and in the process make one ask and comtemplate questions about the com...