New Book Reviews by Valerie Sziraky The Book of Irish Weirdness
by assorted authors
Set your imagination free with these thirty-five Irish folktales featuring such characters as banshees, leprechauns, ghosts, giants and demons. This book features authors like W.B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker who take us back to the early 19th and 20th centuries and escort us on a magical journey across the Irish landscapes. A wonderful summer read!
$13.95

Restoring the Goddess
by Barbara G. Walker
This book offers a fascinating matriarchal alternative to patriarchal religion. This new religious view is called "thealogy" and gives people an extraordinary alternative to male-dominated religious concepts. Walker recognizes the beautiful power of the female to create life and celebrates our Earth as being the true source of life. Using interviews from women across the country, she shows us that women are beginning to redefine their views on modern religion and religious history.
$25.95

The Art of Spiritual Warfare
by Grant Schnarr
Based on Sun Tzu's The Art of War, this book leads us onto the "noble" battlefield where we are encouraged to fight for our own spiritual well-being rather than overcoming enemies. Schnarr takes excerpts from Tzu's work and crafts them into lessons that can be learned for this spiritual warfare. He also ends each chapter with exercises that can assist in your personal growth. A very useful and fascinating book!

The Spiritual Universe
by Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D.
This consulting physicist and American Book Award-winning writer has created an interesting marriage of modern quantum physics to ancient questions of religion and philosophy. He deeply explores the nature of the soul by asking provocative questions based on historical data and answers these questions using the latest theories in quantum physics. His main argument is for the existence of the soul as more than a physical body. The book is written in simple enough terms for "the rest of us" to be able to fully understand the material. A fascinating read!
$17.95

Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence for Past Lives
by Tom Shroder
What a fresh perspective on the theory of past lives! Tom Shroder, a respected editor for the Washington Post, accompanied Dr. Ian Stevenson on research trips that would change his beliefs about past life theory forever. This book holds the stories of thousands of young children who speak of remembering previous lives. These stories include children who are able to name former family members who are still alive and previous homes that are still there as well as numerous accounts of experiences that took place only years ago. Shroder, who began as a hardened skeptic, walked away with factual evidence that could not be discounted.
$24.00

Work as a Spiritual Practice
by Lewis Richmond
Most of us spend at least 25% of our time in the workplace every week so why not learn how to turn it into a spiritual experience from which we can grow? Find creativity, inspiration and accomplishment in your work life through the Buddhist teachings espoused in this book. This essential guide will shed new light on the modern workplace and show you how to get the most out of your work experience and create a union of your work and spiritual life.
$13.00