Category: Books

Siobhán Barry-Bratcher's new young adult novel is giving kids insight into how the Summer of Love impacted their generation and as much as her own.

Finding one's place in the world and fending off bullies are challenges confronted by every generation of teenagers. Siobhán Barry-Bratcher's new novel is giving today's younger generation valuable insight into what it was like to face those challenges during a period in history when so many of America's adult citizens believed their country was in the throes of a nervous breakdown.

The new edition of "The Ancient Wisdom of the 12 Days of Christmas: The Hidden Teachings behind the Song" reveals an ancient goal-setting ceremony which, while practiced by a core few, was kept hidden in plain sight since the middle ages. It was camouflaged within a Christmas carol so as to avoid the persecution of it's practitioners, to be brought forth someday when the time was right.

The book The Ancient Wisdom of the Twelve Days of Christmas: The Hidden Teachings Behind the Song by Rain on the Earth, has just been released in its 2nd edition. With content especially pertinent to the season, the book reveals an ancient ceremony that has been ongoing while hidden in plain sight. The familiar Christmas carol, "The 12 Days of Christmas" is part of a goal-setting ceremony meant to cause transformation in the practitioner's life. Like a plot twist from "The DaVinci Code" the practice was kept secret and passed forward only from one teacher/guardian to the next. The author, informally known as Rain, said, "The 12 gifts spoken of in the song are actually symbolic references. In times of old the ceremony had to be camouflaged inside of a Christmas carol so as to avoid the persecution and death of its practitioners by the religious establishment of the day."

Steve N. Lee's "An Inconvenient Doofus" shows ordinary people how to fight deforestation, pollution, poverty, human/animal rights abuses and climate change, and thus save the Amazon, feed the starving and free the oppressed.

Author Steve N. Lee is giving away An Inconvenient Doofus, a 62 page, 21,500 word book on tackling green issues.

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What makes An Inconvenient Doofus so different? Not only is it crammed with ideas with which anyone can truly make a difference to climate change, poverty and rights, but most of the ideas are not only simple, but will actually save readers money.

A study on consciousness, aspects of theism and secret sects, stumbles upon the discovery of an ancient link centered on an enigmatic figure ─the Bull of Heaven. The story of Jesus is traced back to its hidden ancestral origins ─the myth of Theseus and the epic of Gilgamesh.

More than three years in the making, George Sopasakis's debut book, The Thread of Ariadne, brings under scrutiny some surprising details embedded within four specific pivotal stories from antiquity that greatly enhance our perceptions of reality and human consciousness.

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George Sopasakis

"They Never Surrendered: The Lakota Sioux Band that Stayed in Canada" by Ron Papandrea is a page-turning exploration of the Lakota Sioux.

They Never Surrendered: The Lakota Sioux Band that Stayed in Canada by Ron Papandrea is a mesmerizing historical book that follows the lives of the Lakota Sioux after their astonishing victory at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

Society’s attitudes toward drugs and its ways of regulating them are often “inconsistent,” “incoherent” and ultimately unjust, according to "Drugs and Justice," a new book by a team of University of Utah scholars.

Society’s attitudes toward different drugs and its ways of regulating them are often “inconsistent,” “incoherent” and ultimately unjust, says a new book by a team of University of Utah scholars.

This new book teaches about cultivating tranquility and balance in our romantic relationships. But beyond the surface lies pertinent insight for solving some of our world's biggest problems.

Coral Qadar, the author of for Sakinah: Collected Notes and Reflections for The Muslim Bride, says her first book can "significantly change the world as we know it." The book title employs part of a verse from the Quran that describes the state of tranquility and satisfaction -- Sakinah -- that God intends for husbands and wives to share and enjoy. The title also alludes to a more global view: seeing the world arrive at such a state of peace, starting with healing the Muslim family.

Book details post-life messages received from Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Ronald Reagan, Princess Diana and 14 others.

One of the most interesting compilations of predictions, past experiences and mysteries from life yesterday and today is expressed in an interview book unlike any other published.

What They Want You to Know...Messages from Beyond the Grave is Carter Shepard's second book in the spiritual genre and is replete with comments and thoughts from some of the most powerful and elite people of our society...who, by the way, are all deceased!

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Sociologist Andrew Szasz, author of "Shopping Our Way to Safety," says that "buying green" offers little real defense against environmental hazards.

Like a marketer's dream come true, Americans have responded to environmental hazards by shopping, as if buying bottled water and organic vegetables will protect them and their loved ones.

"...if a person claims to have a mystical experience, to be in communion with God, whether Christian, Jew, Muslim, or whatever, how can anyone, especially a religious leader refute the claims of someone who received information directly from God? Mainstream religions do not like mysticism in any form because it is uncontrollable."

Author Fred Reiss has published a new book: Ancient Secrets of Creation: Sepher Yetzira, the Book That Started Kabbalah, Revealed.