A Coven of Magical Delights in Fiction
Discover enchanting reads with our curated list of coven delights in fiction. Explore magical books filled with spells, sisterhood, and supernatural wonders for every witchy reader.
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The Giuliana Legacy
by Alexis Masters
This mystical journey of one woman's awakening to her soul's true purpose and passion will inspire and delight you. A dramatic journey into the age-old Mysteries of Love, The Giuliana . Legacy is an inspirational story of one woman, Julia Giardani, and her awakening to her soul's special gifts. This awakening leads her on a quest to save her ancestors' ancient spiritual tradition from extinction, and kindles her passion to aid humanity in its timeless search for love and redemption. You are sure to delight in the heroine's triumphs, despair over her pain and her setbacks, lose yourself in the magnificent panoramas of Cyprus and Tuscany, and connect with the multidimensional characters that people this sweeping, generational story. Its sensitivity, epic scope and timeless truths render The Giuliana Legacy a true tale of the millennium— one which will fascinate you and resonate in your heart and soul for many years to come. The Giuliana Legacy traces the heroine's discovery of a frayed tapestry of mystical and healing traditions—a tapestry only Julia can restore. To recapÂture all the threads and reweave them into a pattern relevant to her world, she must travel from her native California to the distant island of Cyprus, her legacy's primal source, then on to the rustic hills of Tuscany. There she finds and revitalizes the abandoned family farm, discovering also its Sacred Gardens—the magical realm of the Giardani Goddess—and there, among the ghosts and legends of her Etruscan ancestors, Julia's true inheritance unfolds, allowing her psychic and spiritual gifts to flourish. But before Julia can fulfill her ineluctable destiny as the Giardani Heiress, she must offer her life to uphold the eternal power of Love her family long ago pledged to serve.
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The Wild Mother
by Elizabeth Cunningham
The delicate relationship growing between Adam Underwood and Eva Brooke is nearly destroyed with the reappearance of his former wife, Lilith.
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Daughter of the Shining Isles
by Elizabeth Cunningham
Cunningham recasts Mary Magdelene as a powerful young Celtic woman named Maeve who was raised by a band of witches. She becomes a student at the famous Druid college at Mona, where she meets Esus, a Jewish student from Galilee.
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The Mists of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The magical saga of the women behind King Arthur's throne. “A monumental reimagining of the Arthurian legends . . . reading it is a deeply moving and at times uncanny experience. . . . An impressive achievement.”—The New York Times Book Review In Marion Zimmer Bradley's masterpiece, we see the tumult and adventures of Camelot's court through the eyes of the women who bolstered the king's rise and schemed for his fall. From their childhoods through the ultimate fulfillment of their destinies, we follow these women and the diverse cast of characters that surrounds them as the great Arthurian epic unfolds stunningly before us. As Morgaine and Gwenhwyfar struggle for control over the fate of Arthur's kingdom, as the Knights of the Round Table take on their infamous quest, as Merlin and Viviane wield their magics for the future of Old Britain, the Isle of Avalon slips further into the impenetrable mists of memory, until the fissure between old and new worlds' and old and new religions' claims its most famous victim.
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Mama Day
by Gloria Naylor
A powerful generational saga at once tender and suspenseful, overflowing with magic and common sense, this book "resonates with genuine excitement … a big, strong, admirable novel” (New York Times Book Review). On the island of Willow Springs, off the Georgia coast, the powers of healer Mama Day are tested by her great niece, Cocoa, a stubbornly emancipated woman endangered by the island's darker forces.
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The Fifth Sacred Thing
by Starhawk
An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of a twenty-first century California clan caught between two clashing worlds, one based on tolerance, the other on repression. Declaration of the Four Sacred Things The earth is a living, conscious being. In company with cultures of many different times and places, we name these things as sacred: air, fire, water, and earth. Whether we see them as the breath, energy, blood, and body of the Mother, or as the blessed gifts of a Creator, or as symbols of the interconnected systems that sustain life, we know that nothing can live without them. To call these things sacred is to say that they have a value beyond their usefulness for human ends, that they themselves became the standards by which our acts, our economics, our laws, and our purposes must be judged. no one has the right to appropriate them or profit from them at the expense of others. Any government that fails to protect them forfeits its legitimacy. All people, all living things, are part of the earth life, and so are sacred. No one of us stands higher or lower than any other. Only justice can assure balance: only ecological balance can sustain freedom. Only in freedom can that fifth sacred thing we call spirit flourish in its full diversity. To honor the sacred is to create conditions in which nourishment, sustenance, habitat, knowledge, freedom, and beauty can thrive. To honor the sacred is to make love possible. To this we dedicate our curiosity, our will, our courage, our silences, and our voices. To this we dedicate our lives. Praise for The Fifth Sacred Thing “This is wisdom wrapped in drama.”—Tom Hayden, California state senator “Starhawk makes the jump to fiction quite smoothly with this memorable first novel.”—Locus “Totally captivating . . . a vision of the paradigm shift that is essential for our very survival as a species on this planet.”—Elinor Gadon, author of The Once and Future Goddess “This strong debut fits well against feminist futuristic, utopic, and dystopic works by the likes of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ursula LeGuin, and Margaret Atwood.”—Library Journal
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The Temple of My Familiar
by Alice Walker
Returning frequently to Suwelo's visits to Mr. Hal and his stories about Fanny, this tale transcends time and examines such contradictions as black vs. white, man vs. woman, sexual freedom vs. sexual slavery, past vs. present, etc.
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
Sethe. Proud and beautiful, she escaped from slavery but is haunted by its heritage - from the fires of the flesh to the heartbreaking challenges to the spirit.
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Like Water for Chocolate
by Laura Esquivel
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico blends poignant romance, bittersweet wit, and delicious recipes. This classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her daughter to be weeps so violently she causes an early labor, and little Tita slips out amid the spices and fixings for noodle soup. This early encounter with food soon becomes a way of life, and Tita grows up to be a master chef, using cooking to express herself and sharing recipes with readers along the way.
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The Year the Horses Came
by Mary Mackey
"A fascinating evocation . . . well up there with the best of its kind". says Marion Zimmer Bradley, of this saga of ancient Europe and a young girl's struggle to face the challenges confronting her people at the very time she must face her own coming womanhood.
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How to Spin Gold
by Elizabeth Cunningham
Embittered and defiant, our narrator decides to leave everything she knows and throw herself at the mercy of the wild. There she finds the Wise Woman of the Western Wood, revered for her healing skills but feared as a witch. She becomes her reluctant apprentice, hoping that this enigmatic figure has the power to reveal her true name and identity.