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  Container Conjure - Crafting...

  Starr Casas

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  “Starr Casas guides you to understand the traditions and very much draws upon the lessons she’s learned over a lifetime of Conjure, but she also makes it abundantly clear that you are a magical container yourself, and your powers of enchantment are limited only by your imagination.”—from the foreword by Cory Thomas HutchesonThe Definitive Guide to Container and Jar MagicOne of the oldest and most traditional forms of magic, container spells are used for all sorts of purposes, from love to protection to money, and are an increasingly popular style of spellcasting. Container magic is known for its simplicity, featuring ingredients and containers commonly found in the home. Containers range from the portable, such as charm bags and coffee containers, to larger containers, such as living plants and tire planters. Container Conjure teaches readers, armed with nothing more than a handful of simple ingredients and their discernment, the ins and outs of performing container magic for themselves.Starr Casas is an acknowledged authority on and master of Conjure-style container magic. In Container Conjure, Mama Starr teaches you how to load your own containers and maintain control over your spellcasting. Starr’s container magic method is not limited to jars; she also uses dolls, sachets, fruit, and other organic material as “containers,” making this form of magic accessible to practitioners at any level.

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  Sports and Play - from...

  Ring W. Lardner

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  What does America call play? Mostly watching someone else do it. 
   
  In this sharp and irreverent essay from *Civilization in the United States*, celebrated humorist and sportswriter Ring W. Lardner turns his attention to America’s passionate—and often contradictory—relationship with athletics. 
   
  With baseball stadiums, football fields, boxing arenas, and racetracks packed with spectators, Americans proudly consider themselves a nation devoted to sport. Yet Lardner notices an inconvenient truth: while thousands cheer from the grandstands, comparatively few take part in the games themselves. 
   
  Moving briskly through baseball, football, boxing, horse racing, golf, tennis, and other popular pastimes, Lardner questions whether watching athletes perform provides the physical and mental benefits fans claim. He examines the expense, discomfort, danger, and absurdity surrounding competitive sports while exposing the national habit of transforming players into heroes. 
   
  Beneath the jokes lies a pointed cultural criticism. Why are the grandstands full while the playgrounds remain empty? Why do Americans admire physical achievement more eagerly than they pursue it themselves? And when does recreation become another form of passive consumption? 
   
  First published in 1922, *Sport and Play* is a concise, lively satire of spectator culture, hero worship, leisure, and the American obsession with organized athletics. 
   
  Narrated by John Riddle.

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  Unkindness of Ravens An

  Sally Cook

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  The  power and ancient symbology of the raven carries this story through its  historic presence for centuries at the Tower of London to current landscapes including the sandstone monolith of Mount Arapiles in Western Victoria. The ravens seemingly gloating presence adds to the atmosphere at this ancient Aboriginal rock site where many have taken up the climbing challenge and some have fallen. The story moves from this climbing area to one at Hanging Rock - principal  scene of the famous novel Picnic at Hanging Rock and the hugely successful movie "Picnic At Hanging Rock" made 50 years ago. An Unkindness of  Ravens also looks at the thousands of years of Aboriginal heritage at this former volcanic site and the overall ancient atmospherr of both sites,

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  Comics: The Call and the Cost -...

  CJ Standal

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  Discover the reason comic creators toil away over ink stained pages, even when circumstances don't reward that hard work. 
  This is what happens when comics meet the real world, coming face to face with politics, war, and big business. Witness creators navigate their passion and careers when faced with the intersection between art and commerce. 
  This stellar collection includes these essays: 
  1) The Cost of Comics: A History of the Comic Book Labor Movement 
  2) Marge Buell and Little Lulu: Women Warriors - America's Early Female Cartoonist Entrepreneur and Her Feminist Creation 
  3) Hector Oesterheld: Comics Own Martyr 
  4) David Mazzucchelli Walks Away from Superheroic Success for Indie Art 
  5) Jeff Smith and Bone: A Little Help from My Friends 
  6) A License to Cartoon: Art and Capitalism in the Works of Schulz, Davis, and Watterson 
  7) Epilogue or Why I Write: A Justification of Rejection, Torture, and Bliss

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  100 Mind-Blowing Stories -...

  Felix Grayson

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  Discover more books and audiobooks by Felix Grayson at FelixGrayson.com 
   
  100 Mind-Blowing Stories: Fascinating Stories of the Strange, Surprising, and Unbelievable 
   
  Get ready to explore the weirdest, wildest, and most jaw-dropping true stories ever told. From mysterious disappearances and cursed objects to bizarre historical moments and mind-bending scientific oddities, this audiobook is a nonstop ride through 100 unforgettable tales that defy belief. 
   
  Inside, you’ll discover: 
  
  A war fought against emus (and lost) 
  A molasses flood that destroyed a city 
  A man who survived two atomic bombs 
  The mystery of the disappearing lighthouse keepers 
  A woman who claimed to give birth to rabbits 
  A statue that weeps blood 
  A cursed diamond, a haunted typewriter, and a ghost army 
  A man who sold the Eiffel Tower… twice 
  
   
  These are the stories that make you lean in and say, “No way, that really happened?” 
   
  This audiobook is perfect for: 
  
  Curious minds who love the strange and unexplained 
  Trivia fans looking for the ultimate collection of conversation starters 
  Listeners who crave short, punchy, fascinating stories 
  Anyone who believes truth is stranger than fiction 
  
   
  Listen from beginning to end, or jump around randomly—each chapter stands on its own and delivers a fresh dose of the unbelievable. 
   
  Grab your headphones, settle in, and get ready to say “Whoa” about 100 times. This is 100 Mind-Blowing Stories—your front-row seat to the weirdest side of reality.

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  Shelter and Storm: At Home in...

  Tamara Dean

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  Living mindfully with nature during a time of uncertainty 
  In the midst of the environmental crises of the early twenty-first century, Tamara Dean sought a way to live lightly on the planet. Her quest drew her to a landscape unlike any other: the Driftless area of Wisconsin, a region untouched by glaciers, marked by steep hills and deeply carved valleys, capped with forests and laced with cold, spring-fed streams. There, she confronted, in ways large and small, the challenges of meeting basic needs while facing the ravages of climate change—an experience at once soul-stirring and practical that she recounts in Shelter and Storm. 
  Dean’s boundless curiosity and gift for storytelling imbue these essays with urgency and a sense of adventure. She invites readers to share in her discoveries while hunting for water, learning that a persistent weed could be food, or burning a hayfield to recreate a prairie. Contending with the fallout of fires, floods, and tornadoes, she offers responses to natural disasters that reflect the importance of community, now and for generations to come. Whether tracking down a rare, blue-glowing firefly, engineering a beaver-friendly waterway to appease a dying neighbor, or building a house of earthen blocks, Dean unites personal experience with science and history, presenting a perspective as informative as it is compelling. 
  Keenly attentive to the stakes for our planet’s future—and the implications of extreme weather, shifting agricultural practices, and political divides—Shelter and Storm illuminates a thoughtful way forward for anyone concerned about climate change and its far-reaching consequences or for anyone searching, as Dean has, for a more sustainable way to live.

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