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Engage readers with a story of the winter solstice. Readers are introduced to the concepts of how Earth's tilt creates the seasons and why there are less hours of daylight in winter. Additional features include a table of contents, a phonetic glossary, an index, an introduction to the author, and sources for further research. A kid-friendly project inspires creativity and hands-on fun. Winter is a time of change. Snow falls and ice forms as temperatures...
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We take our memory for granted. Dementia will steal it in ways most of us could never imagine. Winter Solstice by Diana Howard burrows deep into the heart-rending poetic journey of a daughter trying to love and help her mother who is slowly losing her memory. Through poems and vignettes written over a period of 15 years, the reader will enter a world of denial, confusion, shame, fear, humor, sacrifice, patience and love - finding solace and empathy...
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Powerful, immortal, magical and cursed to the shadows of the night. Gordon O'Caha, a seven-hundred-year-old druid sorcerer, fell in battle centuries ago. When he recovered, he found he wasn't as he'd once been, purely magic. He was much, much more. Now, he shares his body with darkness-a demon gifted to him by the blood drinkers he'd been attacked by. His family and clan haven't turned their back on him. It's Gordon who has shut himself away from...
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A celebration and meditation on the season for drinking hot chocolate, spotting a wreath on a neighbor's door, experiencing the change in light of shorter days. All aspects of Winter, from the meteorological to the mythological, are captured in this masterful essay, told in wise and luminous prose that pushes back the dark.
Winter begins with the shortest day of the year before nightfall. As in her companion volume, Summer Solstice, the author meditates...
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The last time this happened was when the boys dug up some mouse litter in the exercise equipment room. What are you doing this time? I don't know why boys and girls that age are so interested in the little animals that are in school. Sometimes a feral cat running outside the window can make her chirp for a long time.
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Gabrielle is a flame haired, fire hearted French princess who dreams of becoming a Valkyrie warrior queen like her Viking ancestors from Normandy. Sent to Paris to learn the proper etiquette for a future French queen, she is called home to le Château de Beaufort for a forced marriage to a man she loathes when her father the king's precarious health takes a sudden turn for the worse. Chivalrous, solitary knight Sir Bastien de Landuc suffers an impossible...
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A Witchin' Winter Solstice Gone Wrong: Magic and Mayhem Universe is book 8 in the Magick and Chaos series. Scroogess Ebesneezer should be on top of the world. She's rocking her new job as the Christmas Witch. For the first time in her life, she has actual friends, not the Barbie dolls, she used to play dress up with when she was twenty-five… I mean ten. But actual, bona fide, real friends. She's spreading Christmas cheer around the world and making...
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For many people, the best part of the winter holidays is the anticipation: planning the perfect gifts, decorating the house, looking forward to seeing family and friends. Holidays can be particularly special for knitters, whose preparations often start months in advance and involve their own creations. In Handknit Holidays best-selling knitting author Melanie Falick presents an eclectic collection of more than 50 original gifts, decorations, and clothing...
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In the myth and folklore of ancient European cultures and spiritual traditions, the longest night of the year, called Winter Solstice, was a time of transition during which people sought out personal renewal and rebirth. The Fires of Yule provides a template and a pattern for entering deeply into the Winter Solstice Season, experiencing it in poetic and transformative ways through a contemporary calendar called The Thirteen Dayes of Yule. Readers...
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The meanderings and twists and turns of real-life told through the poetry of a crazy mind... or am I sane? You decide...
What if I told you all is not as it seems...
What if I told you this is the land of dreams...
Dive inside, come on, let's see... the twists and turns of the life we see.
20) Yule: The Ultimate Guide to the Winter Solstice and How It's Celebrated in Wicca, Druidry, Christian
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Learn more about the wonderful pagan ways of celebrating the winter solstice.
Are you interested in discovering the pagan background and equivalent of Christmas?
Do you want to learn how the winter solstice intertwines through different pagan traditions?
Do you want to make your own crafts to celebrate Yule?
This audiobook will introduce you to the history of Yule, how pagans celebrated this holiday in the ancient past, and how you can honor it...
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