Download or read book The Shaman Boy written by Caroline Pitcher and published by Egmont Books (UK). This book was released on 2007 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luka and his brother, Jez, live in a village scarred by a recent war. Their parents have vanished and they must help each other survive. Luka's sight has nearly gone but he doesn't want to accept what's happening to him; he wants to see and he discovers he has a very special power: he can shapeshift. It is this gift that gives him his freedom, and he becomes the cloud cat, swallow, otter, and wolf. Through the animals, Luka can enter another world of landscapes and colors--yet Luka is in danger. The village witch, Vaskalia, uses her old magic to stake a claim on his gift, and Luka discovers that the shaman's gift can be used for evil as well as good. Jez tries to help him but he is powerless against the dark magic. It is only through his shapeshifting that Luka can fight the evil and save his village.
Download or read book The Shaman Boy written by Jacq Pollock and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shaman Boy is the transformational story of a boy living in what some would categorize as a dystopia. This novel unsettles conventions of time and defies traditional categorization of alternate worlds. It is an intricately woven tapestry of dense description in both poetic form and prose. Coarse language contradicts the poetic strains reminding the audience that the world is often an eclectically beautiful contradiction. Exotic language is fused in the text to allow the reader to escape into a linguistic journey across distant and foreign lands. Unlike a traditional hero's journey, the protagonist Drum does not physically travel to these new and unfamiliar places. As his physical and psychological character shifts, the space that surrounds him mirrors his change. The peppering of triumph and challenge draws an intimate parallel to the universalities of life. While at the same time the fusion of the magical and spiritual realms demonstrates the possibilities when approaching the world with an open mind. Each unexpected experience in this fiction begs the comparison to our contemporary social ideals and calls the reader to question their own life philosophies. This is a story of love and loss that will be sure to leave your jaw dropping all along the way.
Download or read book Shaman written by Kim Stanley Robinson and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy and 2312, has, on many occasions, imagined our future. Now, in Shaman, he brings our past to life as never before. There is Thorn, a shaman himself. He lives to pass down his wisdom and his stories -- to teach those who would follow in his footsteps. There is Heather, the healer who, in many ways, holds the clan together. There is Elga, an outsider and the bringer of change. And then there is Loon, the next shaman, who is determined to find his own path. But in a world so treacherous, that journey is never simple -- and where it may lead is never certain. Shaman is a powerful, thrilling and heartbreaking story of one young man's journey into adulthood -- and an awe-inspiring vision of how we lived thirty thousand years ago.
Download or read book The Shaman s Apprentice written by Mark J. Plotkin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a Tirio village deep in the heart of the Amazon rain forest, the shaman Nahtahlah has a place of honor in his tribe. Young Kamanya wants to learn the healing secrets of the forest plants--he hopes that he, too, will become the tribe’s shaman, so that he can cure his people. When the villagers fall sick with an illness that Nahtahlah cannot cure, many lose faith in the shaman’s wisdom--until a foreign woman helps them understand its value while giving Kamanya an opportunity to realize his dream. Lynne Cherry returns to the rain forest with ethnobotanist Mark J. Plotkin to tell an important story about the healing plants of the earth-and why we must protect them.
Download or read book Urban Shaman written by Serge Kahili King and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first practical guide to applying the ancient healing art of Hawaiian shamanism to our modern lives. Uniquely suited for use in today's world, Hawaiian shamanism follows the way of the adventurer, which produces change through love and cooperation—in contrast to the widely known way of the warrior, which emphasizes solitary quests and conquest by power. Now, even if you can't get out into the wilderness or undertake a long apprenticeship with a shaman, you can learn to practice the art of shamanism. You'll learn how to: —Interpret and change your dreams —Heal yourself, your relationships, and the environment —Cast the shaman stones to foretell the future —Design and perform powerful rituals —Shapechange —Make vision quests to other realities And more.
Download or read book Urban Shaman written by C.E. Murphy and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joanne Walker has three days to learn to use her shamanic powers and save the world from the unleashed Wild Hunt. No worries. No pressure. Never mind the lack of sleep, the perplexing new talent for healing herself from fatal wounds, or the cryptic, talking coyote who appears in her dreams. And, as if all thats not bad enough, in the three years Joannes been a cop shes never seen a dead body–yet shes just come across her second in three days. Its been a bitch of a week. And it isn't over yet.
Download or read book Shaman s Crossing written by Robin Hobb and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nevare Burvelle is the second son of a second son, destined from birth to carry a sword. The wealthy young noble will follow his father—newly made a lord by the King of Gernia—into the cavalry, training in the military arts at the elite King's Cavella Academy in the capital city of Old Thares. Bright and well-educated, an excellent horseman with an advantageous engagement, Nevare's future appears golden. But as his Academy instruction progresses, Nevare begins to realize that the road before him is far from straight. The old aristocracy looks down on him as the son of a "new noble" and, unprepared for the political and social maneuvering of the deeply competitive school and city, the young man finds himself entangled in a web of injustice, discrimination, and foul play. In addition, he is disquieted by his unconventional girl-cousin Epiny—who challenges his heretofore unwavering world view—and by the bizarre dreams that haunt his nights. For twenty years the King's cavalry has pushed across the grasslands, subduing and settling its nomads and claiming the territory in Gernia's name. Now they have driven as far as the Barrier Mountains, home to the Speck people, a quiet, forest-dwelling folk who retain the last vestiges of magic in a world that is rapidly becoming modernized. From childhood Nevare has been taught that the Specks are a primitive people to be pitied for their backward ways—and feared for their indigenous diseases, including the deadly Speck plague, which has ravaged the frontier towns and military outposts. The Dark Evening brings the carnival to Old Thares, and with it an unknown magic, and the first Specks Nevare has ever seen . . .
Download or read book The Shaman s Child written by Heather Wood Ion and published by Heather Wood Ion. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shaman's Child tells the story of a boy who is often teased because he is not like the others of his tribe. He finds that if he pays attention to what they call magic he does not see what they see. When the tribe faces trouble, the boy must discover a way to help.
Download or read book Shaman written by Noah Gordon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times Notable Book is a “sweeping historical drama” of a physician and his family on the Illinois frontier in the nineteenth century (The New York Times Book Review). Dr. Robert Judson Cole travels from his ravaged Scotland homeland, through the operating rooms of Boston, to the cabins of frontier Illinois. In the wilderness he befriends the starving remnants of the Sauk tribe, who have fled their reservation. In the process, he absorbs their culture and learns native remedies that enrich the classical medical education he received at Edinburgh University. He marries a remarkable settler woman he had saved from illness. The details of how their deaf son manages to become a physician also, despite his handicap, and the story of how the Cole family is sucked into the bloody vortex of the Civil War and survives, makes an exceptional reading experience.
Download or read book The Wisdom of the Shamans written by Don Jose Ruiz and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For generation after generation, Toltec shamans have passed down their wisdom through teaching stories. The purpose of these stories is to implant a seed of knowledge in the mind of the listener, where it can ultimately sprout and blossom into a new and better way of life. In The Wisdom of the Shamans: What the Ancient Masters Can Teach Us About Love and Life, Toltec shaman and master storyteller don Jose Ruiz shares some of the most popular stories from his family's oral tradition and offers corresponding lessons that illustrate the larger ideas within each story. Ruiz begins by explaining that contrary to the stereotypical image of "witch doctor," the ancient shamans were men and women who fulfilled several roles within their communities: philosopher, spiritual guide, medical doctor, psychologist, and friend. According to Ruiz, their teachings are not primitive or reserved for a chosen few initiates but are instead a powerful series of lessons on love and life that are available to us all. To that aim, he has included exercises, meditations, and shamanic rituals to help you experience the personal transformation these stories offer. The shamans taught that the truth you seek is inside of you. Let these stories, lessons, and tools be your guide to finding the innate wisdom that lives within.
Download or read book Badger Boy written by Elmer Kelton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-01-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rusty Shannon, ending his service as ranger assigned to protect settlers, returns to his home on the Texas frontier to face Civil War renegades and hostile Comanches.
Download or read book The Shaman s Secret written by Natasha Narayan and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kit is in a coma after being poisoned in China by her arch enemies the Baker Brothers. On board a ship to England, her friends are desperate for a cure. When they hear about an inventor who is working on electricity and electro therapy, the group change route to San Francisco, western America, to find him. Luckily Kit is cured in time but it's not long before she is in mortal danger once again; one of the dastardly Baker Brothers has turned into a shape shifting skinwalker and has cursed Kit. The gang must now travel to the Grand Canyon and enlist the help of a shaman medicine man. But the Wild West is full of dangerous outlaws: ruthless cowboys and highway robbers. Can they navigate though the dangerous Wild West and make it to the Grand Canyon in time? An enthralling journey into the heartland of America filled with danger and discovery.
Download or read book SHAMAN KING 1 written by Hiroyuki Takei and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shamans possess mysterious powers that allow them to commune with gods, spirits, and even the dead�地nd Manta Oyamada's about to learn all about them, because his class just welcomed a new transfer student: Yoh Asakura, a boy from way off in Izumo�地nd a shaman in training!
Download or read book The Blood Child written by Alexander Cogar and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a hero, yet feared as an enemy, a wounded lone survivor of a massacred army is named after an ancient legend. With no memories outside of his imprisonment and the empty darkness of his pain, he embraces the rumors, giving birth to a legend all his own. He reaches out to take hold of what light he can see, but dark shadows from his past form insurmountable obstacles to drag him back into the mud and the blood of his past.
Download or read book The Shaman s Crystals written by Michael Hart and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Broken People written by Sam Lansky and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE YEAR Vogue, O, The Oprah Magazine, Parade, Library Journal, Harper’s Bazaar and more “Profound and affecting.”—Chloe Benjamin “Broken People leads us through the winds of time and memory to offer a riveting portrait of transformation. I am better for having read it.”—Jamie Lee Curtis A groundbreaking, incandescent debut novel about coming to grips with the past and ourselves, for fans of Sally Rooney, Hanya Yanagihara and Garth Greenwell “He fixes everything that’s wrong with you in three days.” This is what hooks Sam when he first overhears it at a fancy dinner party in the Hollywood hills: the story of a globe-trotting shaman who claims to perform “open-soul surgery” on emotionally damaged people. For neurotic, depressed Sam, new to Los Angeles after his life in New York imploded, the possibility of total transformation is utterly tantalizing. He’s desperate for something to believe in, and the shaman—who promises ancient rituals, plant medicine and encounters with the divine—seems convincing, enough for Sam to sign up for a weekend under his care. But are the great spirits the shaman says he’s summoning real at all? Or are the ghosts in Sam’s memory more powerful than any magic? At turns tender and acid, funny and wise, Broken People is a journey into the nature of truth and fiction—a story of discovering hope amid cynicism, intimacy within chaos and peace in our own skin.
Download or read book The Shaman s Secret written by Karen Hughes and published by Kalika Magic. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
