Celebrating the Great Mother: A Handbook of Earth-Honoring Activities for Parents and Children
10 best books like Celebrating the Great Mother: A Handbook of Earth-Honoring Activities for Parents and Children (Cait Johnson): The Fifth Sacred Thing, Ghost World, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth, Blueberry Girl, The Sleeper and the Spindle, Tank Girl, Herbal Healing for Women, Herbs for Reducing Stress & Anxiety, Women Healers of the World: The Traditions, History, and Geography of Herbal Medicine, Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty
| Author | Starhawk |
| ISBN | 0553373803 |
11/2015 I live in the sweetness of this book, whether I am reading it or not. There are times when I need this book the way I need air. This has been one of those times. I slipped into it the way Madrone slipped into Sara's pool, unable to resist, entirely yielding myself to the narrative. It's prose that speaks...
| Author | Daniel Clowes |
| ISBN | 1560974273 |
Ghost World has become a cultural and generational touchstone, and continues to enthrall and inspire readers over a decade after its original release as a graphic novel. Originally serialized in the pages of the seminal comic book Eightball throughout the mid-1990s, this quasi-autobiographical...
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
| Author | Ina May Gaskin |
| ISBN | 0553381156 |
What you need to know to have the best birth experience for you.
Drawing upon her thirty-plus years of experience, Ina May Gaskin, the nation’s leading midwife, shares the benefits and joys of natural childbirth by showing women how to trust in the ancient wisdom of their bodies for a healthy...
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 0060838086 |
This is a prayer for a blueberry girl . . .
A much-loved baby grows into a young woman: brave, adventurous, and lucky. Exploring, traveling, bathed in sunshine, surrounded by the wonders of the world. What every new parent or parent-to-be dreams of for her child, what every girl dreams of for...
The Sleeper and the Spindle
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1408859645 |
A thrillingly reimagined fairy tale from the truly magical combination of author Neil Gaiman and illustrator Chris Riddell – weaving together a sort-of Snow White and an almost Sleeping Beauty with a thread of dark magic, which will hold readers spellbound from start to finish.
On the eve...
| Author | Alan C. Martin |
| ISBN | 1840234350 |
She’s back to wreck her own unique brand of havoc! From the depths of the outback she charges, astride her fabulous tank! Run for the Hills! It’s... Tank Girl!
Join everybody’s favourite beer-swilling, chain-smoking, kangaroo-worrying lunatic as she blitzes her way through a dazzling...
| Author | Rosemary Gladstar |
| ISBN | 0671767674 |
Comprehensive and easy-to-use, Herbal Healing for Women explains how to create remedies -- including teas, tinctures, salves and ointments--for the common disorders that arise in the different cycles of a woman's life. A complete women's health-care manual, this book discusses: common disorders...
Herbs for Reducing Stress & Anxiety
| Author | Rosemary Gladstar |
| ISBN | 1580171559 |
I read the 2014 updated version of this book, but Goodreads didn't have it listed. I imagine there isn't that much difference between my version and this one.
The book is a very good primer on herbs for the nervous system. Rosemary Gladstar is a well-known herbalist, and her books are very easy...
Women Healers of the World: The Traditions, History, and Geography of Herbal Medicine
| Author | Holly Bellebuono |
| ISBN | 1629145890 |
A celebration of the healing traditions that made yoga, acupuncture, and aromatherapy popular.
The recent trend toward holistic living has heightened our national fascination with herbal remedies and less conventional therapies such as acupuncture, yoga, aromatherapy, and ethnobotany....
Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty
| Author | Nikita Gill |
| ISBN | 1409173925 |
They have lightning in their souls, thunder in their hearts, chaos in their bones.
Nikita Gill's poetry has captured hearts and minds all over the world; her inspirational words have been shared hundreds of thousands of times online, been plastered across placards on international women's...
Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul
| Author | Nikita Gill |
| ISBN | 0316420743 |
Poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of fairytales poetically retold for a new generation of women.
Traditional fairytales are rife with cliches and gender stereotypes: beautiful, silent princesses; ugly, jealous, and bitter villainesses; girls...
| Author | Anne Hill |
| ISBN | 0553378058 |
In our rushed, stressed society, it's sometimes difficult to spend meaningful time as a family. Now Starhawk, Diane Baker, and Anne Hill offer new ways to foster a sense of togetherness through celebrations that honor the sacredness of life and our Mother Earth.
Goddess tradition embraces...
Beautiful Babies: Nutrition for Fertility, Pregnancy, Breastfeeding, and Baby's First Food
| Author | Kristen Michaelis |
| ISBN | 1936608650 |
Did you know that simple changes in your diet could increase your fertility by 60 percent? That what you eat when you're pregnant could affect whether your child will need to wear glasses or braces? That increasing your intake of certain nutrients before you become pregnant could radically decrease...
The She Book is a collection of 107 poems and prose written for you. Because this is your year to live the life of your dreams, to heal, to witness, to be the one who queens. Once a silent star in the sky, lost, alone and unnoticed, she began to dream her life awake. Sensitivity brought light to her dark side...
Herbal Remedies for Children's Health
| Author | Rosemary Gladstar |
| ISBN | 1580171532 |
I would like to thank Storey Publishing for allowing me an ARC of this book via Netgalley for an open and honest review.
A comprehensive look at herbalism and dealing with remedies for children.
Despite my interest in herbalism for many years now, I still classify myself as a novice...
The Consultant’s Guild has served the Aurelian Empire for over a thousand years, working in the darkness to hunt dissension and eliminate traitors.
Now the Emperor is dead.
For Shera, an assassin in the employ of the Consultants, the Emperor’s death is the beginning of a nightmare....
The Illustrated Herbiary: Guidance and Rituals from 36 Bewitching Botanicals
| Author | Maia Toll |
| ISBN | 1612129684 |
2018 INDIES Winner Gold — Body, Mind, Spirit (Adult Nonfiction)
Nautilus Book Awards Gold Winner
Rosemary is for remembrance; sage is for wisdom. Would meditating on the starflower help heal you? Does the spirit of sweet violet have something to offer you today? Contemporary...
| Author | Philip Smith |
| ISBN | 0486275728 |
The age-old charm of Irish folklore gives special sparkle to this collection of eight tongue-in-cheek tales. Wicked old hags, clever leprechauns, courageous tailors, evil giants, and other characters come to life in such fanciful yarns as "Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary," "Conal and Donal...
Favorite Celtic Fairy Tales
| Author | Joseph Jacobs |
| ISBN | 0486283526 |
Experience the whimsy, charm and magic of the Celtic imagination in this captivating collection of timeless stories that have enchanted generations of youngsters and adults.
Among the eight popular tales included here are "The Fate of the Children of Lir," a haunting narrative of four children...
| Author | Starhawk |
| ISBN | 0553378392 |
In The Fifth Sacred Thing, readers fell in love with Maya Greenwood, the 98-year-old writer who led Northern California's successful 21st century rebellion against a racist, totalitarian regime of the South. Walking to Mercury takes readers back to the 20th century and powerfully dramatizes the...
I read this book as someone familiar with Starhawk's political and spiritual writing, and also with The Fifth Sacred Thing, so there was nothing here that surprised me on those counts. As a novel, I think this is a stronger effort than Fifth Sacred Thing: the characters are more three-dimensional and...
