In her first book-length work Sabin presents a first-rate fresh & thorough addition to the burgeoning field of earth-based spiritual practice volumes...written in a light informative style that magically mines depth breadth & brevity."--Publishers Weekly starred review Due to the sheer number of Wicca 101 books on the market many newcomers to the Craft find themselves piecing together their Wiccan education by reading a chapter from one book a few pages from another. Rather than depending on snippets of wisdom to build a new faith Wicca for Beginners provides a solid foundation to Wicca without limiting the reader to one tradition or path. Embracing both the spiritual & the practical Wicca for Beginners is a primer on the philosophies culture & beliefs behind the religion without losing the mystery that draws many students to want to learn. Detailing practices such as grounding raising energy visualization & meditation this book offers exercises for core techniques before launching into more complicated rituals & spellwork. Finalist for the Coalition of Visionary Resources Award for Best Wiccan/ Pagan Book" ...

The Wiccan Rede" is the heart & central tenet of the ancient Wiccan religion & contains all its fundamental teachings. This attractive edition will show you how to put the Rede's wisdom into practice & live by its underlying principle ' An ye harm none do as thou will'. Contents include: The Key to every verse of the Rede; How to cast spells for love money safety success & other desired outcomes; Prayers for oneself & others; How to cast a circle formally or in an emergency; The responsibilities of a practitioner; The science of numbers; & How to read the heavens. This handy book gives you a complete philosophical learning system that is easily translated into daily life. A work of integrity scholarship & devotion " The Wiccan Rede" should be the cherished companion of every dedicated responsible practitioner." ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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An astonishingly rich re-creation of the land of Oz this book retells the story of Elphaba the Wicked Witch of the West who wasnt so wicked after all. Taking readers past the yellow brick road & into a phantasmagoric world rich with imagination & allegory Gregory Maguire just might change the reputation of one of the most sinister characters in literature. ...

In idyllic Rosewood four very pretty girls just can't help but be bad... Hanna will stop at nothing to be Rosewood's queen bee. Spencer's digging up her family secrets. Emily can't stop thinking about her new boyfriend. & Aria approves a little too strongly of her mom's taste in men. Now that Ali's killer is finally behind bars the girls think they're safe. But those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. & they should know by now that I'm always watching... ...

The first in a new series LIZZY & DIESEL from bestseller JANET EVANOVICH. For fans of her Stephanie Plum series featuring SMOKIN SEVENTEEN & EXPLOSIVE EIGHTEEN. Meet br&-new heroine Elizabeth Tucker: Marblehead resident bakery worker unlucky in love...and descendant of witches. Life is pleasantly predictable for Lizzy until a tall black-haired dark eyed man shows up. His name is Gerwulf Grimoire also known as Wulf. & he wants what Lizzy has: knowledge. Almost simultaneously comes another man a different man but this one just as dangerous. His name is Diesel. & he wants several things Lizzy has only one of them being knowledge. Unbeknownst to Lizzy she has the ability to find empowered objects. A collection of stones that represent the seven deadly sins have made their way to Marblehead. If the stones are grouped together they have the power to unleash hell on earth. Wulf wants them. Diesel wants to stop him. & Lizzy is the key to all of it. Can Lizzy stay one step ahead of two men who both want her...both body & soul? ...

Revelatory investigation into the police handling of the Yorkshire Ripper Case which spanned over 14 years. Newly updated to include Sutcliffes bid for freedom in 2008 & the verdict from court in 2010. For over twenty years the dark secrets of the biggest criminal manhunt in British history have remained a closed book. Detectives refused all requests to tell the inside story of the Yorkshire Ripper investigation that logged over two million manhours of police work. The victims who survived maintained a wall of silence. & the detailed forensic evidence witness statements & autopsy reports have remained locked away
- until Wicked Beyond Belief was published. Award-winning writer Michael Bilton persuaded the key people to talk. After years of exhaustive research he has revealed the extraordinary truth behind the murder enquiry that left Peter Sutcliffe free to kill again & again. With exclusive access to the detectives involved to pathologists archives & confidential police reports the story of the hunt reads as tensely as any thriller. In this updated edition he charts the blunders & changes in the law that enabled Sutcliffe to demand a minimum term with the possibility of parole in 2010. He also explores what has happened to the Rippers surviving victims & their families in recent years. Wicked Beyond Belief is a shocking & important indictment of the most notorious murder hunt of the twentieth century.
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A scorchingly sexy novel from the New York Times ebook bestselling author of BECAUSE YOU ARE MINE. Vic Savian knows what he wants when he sees it. & what he wants is his sexy neighbour Niall Chandler. When he finds her in the hallway of their building being harassed by an aggressive suitor Vic steps in
- & finds himself greatly rewarded... Sleeping with her gorgeous neighbour
- when she didn't even know his last name
- was the craziest thing Niall's ever done. Now she can't seem to get enough of Vic or what he stirs in her. Suddenly she's exploring uninhibited pleasures she's never known before. But when her past returns to haunt her she & Vic are forced to venture beyond the pleasures of the flesh & risk it all on something deeper something found only in the heart.


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From Janet Evanovich the bestselling author of SMOKIN SEVENTEEN & WICKED APPETITE comes the eagerly awaited second in the Lizzy & Diesel series Lizzy Tuckers once normal life as a pastry chef in Salem Massachusetts turns upside down as she battles both sinister forces & an inconvenient attraction to her unnaturally talented but off-limits partner Diesel. When Harvard University English professor & dyed-in-the wool romantic Gilbert Reedy is mysteriously murdered & thrown off his fourth-floor balcony Lizzy & Diesel take up his twenty-year quest for the Luxuria Stone an ancient relic believed by some to be infused with the power of lust. Following clues contained in a cryptic nineteenth-century book of sonnets Lizzy & Diesel tear through Boston catacombs government buildings & multimillion-dollar residences. On their way theyll leave behind a trail of robbed graves public disturbances & general mayhem. Diesels black sheep cousin Gerwulf Grimoire also wants the Stone. His motives are far from pure & what he plans on doing with the treasure no one knows.. .but Lizzy Tucker fears shes in his crosshairs. Never far & always watching Grimoire has a growing vested interest in the cupcake-baker-turned-finder-of-lost-things. As does another dangerous & dark opponent in the hunt--a devotee of lawlessness & chaos known only as Anarchy. Treasures will be sought & the power of lust will be unmistakable as Lizzy & Diesel attempt to stay ahead of Anarchy Grimoire & his medieval minion Hatchet in this ancient game of twisted riddles & high-stakes hide-&-seek. ...

Matthew Bartholomew doctor of medicine & fellow of Michaelhouse Cambridge is travelling with a party from the college to accept the gift of the living of a parish in Suffolk. One of his companions Unwin an unworldly scholar is to be installed as priest. Their journey is not without incident
- they are chased by footpads pass through an eery village abandoned after the recent plague & find a man barely alive on a gibbet
- so they reach their destination with some relief. But their thoughts of recovering while enjoying the local Pentecostal Fair are soon curtailed as they are immediately thrust into the machinations of local boundary disputes between three landowners. Then all such squabbles seem mere trivia when Unwin is murdered in the very church which was to have been his home. While trying to investigate a possible motive for his killing Bartholomew discovers that this is not the first unnatural death in the village
- deaths which everyone has put down to the curse of the plague dead village. He is of too practical a mind to believe the superstitions but is he wily enough to work out the real motive behind the murders & who will gain from them?


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