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10 best books like The New Age Herbalist: How to Use Herbs for Healing, Nutrition, Body Care, and Relaxation (Richard Mabey): Possession, The World According to Garp, The Crystal Cave, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Mists of Avalon, The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter, When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals, Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future, The Temple of My Familiar, The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs
| Author | A.S. Byatt |
| ISBN | 0679735909 |
Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire—from...
The World According to Garp
| Author | John Irving |
| ISBN | 0345915593 |
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields—a feminist leader ahead of her times. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes—even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with "lunacy and sorrow"; yet...
| Author | Mary Stewart |
| ISBN | 0060548258 |
Fifth century Britain is a country of chaos and division after the Roman withdrawal. This is the world of young Merlin, the illegitimate child of a South Wales princess who will not reveal to her son his father's true identity. Yet Merlin is an extraordinary child, aware at the earliest age that he possesses...
| Author | John Irving |
| ISBN | 0552135399 |
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying....
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
In 2007 I joined Goodreads and wrote reviews of some of the books that had most transformed me as a reader. I have since, over the years, taken an absurd amount of geek pride that my review of this book is (I think) the most popular one. And for everyone writing "GET OVER YOURSELF" in the comments, as a response...
The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter
| Author | Marc Bekoff |
| ISBN | 1577315022 |
Based on award-winning scientist Marc Bekoff’s years studying social communication in a wide range of species, this important book shows that animals have rich emotional lives. Bekoff skillfully blends extraordinary stories of animal joy, empathy, grief, embarrassment, anger, and love with...
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals
| Author | Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson |
| ISBN | 0385314280 |
This national bestseller exploring the complex emotional lives of animals was hailed as "a masterpiece" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and as "marvelous" by Jane Goodall.
The popularity of When Elephants Weep has swept the nation, as author Jeffrey Masson appeared on Dateline NBC, Good Morning...
| Author | Bron Taylor |
| ISBN | 0520261003 |
In this innovative and deeply felt work, Bron Taylor examines the evolution of “green religions” in North America and beyond: spiritual practices that hold nature as sacred and have in many cases replaced traditional religions. Tracing a wide range of groups—radical environmental activists,...
The Temple of My Familiar
| Author | Alice Walker |
| ISBN | 0753819481 |
A visionary cast of characters weave together their past and present in a brilliantly intricate tapestry of tales.
It is the story of the dispossessed and displaced, of peoples whose history is ancient and whose future is yet to come. Here we meet Lissie, a woman of many pasts; Arveyda the great...
The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs
| Author | Karen Page |
| ISBN | 0316118400 |
Winner of the 2009 James Beard Book Award for Best Book: Reference and Scholarship
Great cooking goes beyond following a recipe--it's knowing how to season ingredients to coax the greatest possible flavor from them. Drawing on dozens of leading chefs' combined experience in top restaurants...
A Circle of Stones: Journeys & Meditations for Modern Celts
| Author | Erynn Rowan Laurie |
| ISBN | 1573531065 |
In many times and cultures, people have used meditation and journeying as powerful tools in their spiritual quests. Modern westerners often lose sight of these ancient ways as they hurry through life, dashing from one day to the next. Some adventures souls seek to reclaim these techniques and make...
| Author | Tom Robbins |
| ISBN | 1842430343 |
I can't think of any other book I've read very recently that left my mind as thoroughly blown as Skinny Legs and All. I'd only read one other Tom Robbins book -- Still Life With Woodpecker -- so I was prepared for his playfulness, humor, intricate (but goofy) language, and overall trippy feel that all come...
Elves, Wights, and Trolls: Studies Towards the Practice of Germanic Heathenry: Vol. I
| Author | Kveldúlf Hagan Gundarsson |
| ISBN | 0595421652 |
Elves, Trolls, and Wights is the most complete study yet made of the various beings with whom the Vikings shared their world, from the smallest spirits of stones and plants to the great giants who strive against or aid the Norse gods. Elves, dwarves, giants, wights dwelling in rocks, streams, and oceans:...
The Tradition of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practices
| Author | Claude Lecouteux |
| ISBN | 1620551055 |
Examines how the ancient customs of constructing and keeping a house formed a sacred bond between homes and their inhabitants
• Shares many tales of house spirits, from cajoling the local land spirit into becoming one’s house spirit to the good and bad luck bestowed by mischievous house...
The New York Times Cook Book (Revised Edition)
| Author | Craig Claiborne |
| ISBN | 0060160101 |
Since it was first published in 1961, The New York Times Cook Book, a standard work for gourmet home cooks, has sold nearly three million copies in all editions and continues to sell strongly each year. All the nearly fifteen hundred recipes in the book have been reviewed, revised, and updated, and approximately...
