Bewitching Fiction - Pagan Themed Novels
Explore bewitching fiction with our curated list of pagan-themed novels. Dive into magical tales of witchcraft, folklore, and ancient traditions in these captivating books.
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Sherwood Forest
by Lisa Croll Di Dio
The forest was a place of shadows and secrets...and in Sherwood, the Old Ways were very much alive... Enter the forest...it is May Eve, in the springtime of the world. Danu, who has led the forest people for 35 years, passes her legacy on to one younger and stronger, Maid Marian. Together with the powerful priestesses, Aspen, Rowan, Willow and Laurel, she is charged with the task of encircling Sherwood with protective magic, for this a time of transition, a time of choice, a perilous time for those who know the Goddess. The lines have been drawn and even the Fairy Queen plays her hand in a battle between faith and fear, wisdom and greed, magic and intolerance...
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The Mists of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The magical saga of the women behind King Arthur's throne. âA monumental reimagining of the Arthurian legends . . . reading it is a deeply moving and at times uncanny experience. . . . An impressive achievement.ââThe 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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IN LAND WINTER
by Grant R.
Losing custody of her daughter after she is attacked by right-winged gossips, self-proclaimed witch Pippa finds herself homeless, jobless, and friendless and begins a journey to reclaim her power and transform her life. 25,000 first printing.
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Tex and Molly in the Afterlife
by Richard Grant
Molly's and Tex's abrupt and accidental deaths have granted them a unique opportunity to brazenly reinvent their personal realities--not to mention a chance to commune with various forsaked ancient deities and down-and--out woodland spirits. But a pair of gentle souls once firmly rooted in the Earth cannot so easily vacate this corporeal plane. There are despoilers, witches, wolves, outlaw hackers, and rabid survivalists running wild through the soon-to-be corporately mutated Great North Woods. And Tex and Molly aren't about to vanish forever into the fast-moving eddy of Time until they take one last shot at profoundly influencing Eternity and this Life that is no longer theirs. Like a racous pagan dance in Thomas Pynchon's garden, here is a novel rich in intelligence, wit, unrestrained joy, and serious strangeness--a truly breathtaking flight of the imaginatino--written with style and heart by an award-winning storyteller whom the Washington Post once proclaimed "either a genius or a madman."
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The Return of the Goddess
by Elizabeth Cunningham
Between sex and the sacred, these and other remarkable characters are transformed utterly, united in an urgent call to save a sacred grove. Blackwood, an old estate in the Hudson Valley and the heart of this compelling novel, shelters an ancient stand of trees, a repository of healing power that will be lost to the world if the trees fall. Like forests the world over, Blackwood is under immediate threat from developers who worship no god but "the bottom line." Against.
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The Heart of the Fire
by Cerridwen Fallingstar
Suspenseful blend of magic, romance, danger and eroticism.
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Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country
by Rosalind Miles
Last in a line of proud queens elected to rule the fertile lands of the West, true owner of the legendary Round Table, guardian of the Great Goddess herself . . . a woman whose story has never been told -- until now. Raised in the tranquil beauty of the Summer Country, Princess Guenevere has led a charmed and contented life -- until the sudden, violent death of her mother, Queen Maire, leaves the Summer Country teetering on the brink of anarchy. Only the miraculous arrival of Arthur, heir to the Pendragon dynasty, allows Guenevere to claim her mother's throne. Smitten by the bold, sensuous princess, Arthur offers to marry her and unite their territories, allowing her to continue to reign in her own right. Their love match creates the largest and most powerful kingdom in the Isles. Yet even the glories of Camelot are not safe from the shadows of evil and revenge. Arthur is reunited with his long-lost half-sisters, Morgause and Morgan, princesses torn from their mother and their ancestral right by Arthur's father, the brutal and unscrupulous King Uther. Both daughters will avenge their suffering, but it is Morgan who strikes the deadliest blows, using her enchantments to destroy all Guenevere holds dear and to force Arthur to betray his Queen. In the chaos that follows, Arthur dispatches a new knight to Guenevere, the young French prince Lancelot, never knowing that Lancelot's passion for the Queen, and hers for him, may be the love that spells ruin for Camelot.
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The Wolf and the Raven
by Diana L. Paxson
Born to rival kings in fifth-century Rhineland, Sigfrid and Brunahild each learn the ancient arts of their heritage, until their powers surpass those of their teachers, and they are united in perfect love and glory. Reprint.
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Ishmael
by Daniel Quinn
One of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following. This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author. âA thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our species on the planet . . . laid out for us with an originality and a clarity that few would deny.ââThe New York Times Book Review Teacher Seeks Pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person. It was just a three-line ad in the personals section, but it launched the adventure of a lifetime. So begins an utterly unique and captivating novel. It is the story of a man who embarks on a highly provocative intellectual adventure with a gorillaâa journey of the mind and spirit that changes forever the way he sees the world and humankindâs place in it. In Ishmael, which received the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship for the best work of fiction offering positive solutions to global problems, Daniel Quinn parses humanityâs origins and its relationship with nature, in search of an answer to this challenging question: How can we save the world from ourselves? Explore Daniel Quinnâs spiritual Ishmael trilogy: ISHMAEL ⢠MY ISHMAEL ⢠THE STORY OF B Praise for Ishmael âAs suspenseful, inventive, and socially urgent as any fiction or nonfiction you are likely to read this or any other year.ââThe Austin Chronicle âBefore weâre halfway through this slim book . . . weâre in [Daniel Quinnâs] grip, we want Ishmael to teach us how to save the planet from ourselves. We want to change our lives.ââThe Washington Post âArthur Koestler, in an essay in which he wondered whether mankind would go the way of the dinosaur, formulated what he called the Dinosaurâs Prayer: âLord, a little more time!â Ishmael does its bit to answer that prayer and may just possibly have bought us all a little more time.ââLos Angeles Times
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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 âThis is wisdom wrapped in drama.ââTom Hayden, California state senator âStarhawk makes the jump to fiction quite smoothly with this memorable first novel.ââLocus âTotally captivating . . . a vision of the paradigm shift that is essential for our very survival as a species on this planet.ââElinor Gadon, author of The Once and Future Goddess âThis strong debut fits well against feminist futuristic, utopic, and dystopic works by the likes of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ursula LeGuin, and Margaret Atwood.ââLibrary Journal
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Catmagic
by Whitley Strieber
In the quiet little town of Maywell, New Jersey, a laboratory project is about to change the world--if it is allowed to succeed. Also, some people there are witches. Amanda Walker is not a witch--yet. She is an artist who is looking for work, unaware that someone has a dark plan for her. Here is a critically acclaimed book from the bestselling author of Communion. Martin's.
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Me 'n God in the Coffee Shop
by Rene Donovan
Me 'n God in the Coffee Shop is a spiritual journey, a lullaby, an awakening. Its pages hold starlight and the fragrance of new mown grass. With a blending of magic, mystery and ancient beliefs the reader is carried to a place of warm and tender joy, a place that whispers, "You are a miracle "
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The Dragon and the Unicorn
by A. A. Attanasio
Fire-lords capture one of the demons of the Furor, a godlike being, to serve them; the demon is then reborn of a woman and becomes the wizard Merlinus--Novelist.
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Into the Forest
by Jean Hegland
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE ⢠Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home. Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them. No single event precedes society's fall. There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity runs out and gas is nowhere to be found. The sisters consume the resources left in the house, waiting for the power to return. Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other. Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale, Into the Forest is a mesmerizing and thought-provoking novel of hope and despair set in a frighteningly plausible near-future America. Praise for Into the Forest â[A] beautifully written and often profoundly moving novel.ââSan Francisco Chronicle âA work of extraordinary power, insight and lyricism, Into the Forest is both an urgent warning and a passionate celebration of life and love.ââRiane Eisler, author of The Chalice and the Blade âFrom the first page, the sense of crisis and the lucid, honest voice of the . . . narrator pull the reader in. . . . A truly admirable addition to a genre defined by the very high standards of George Orwell's 1984.ââPublishers Weekly (starred review) âBeautifully written.ââKirkus Reviews âThis beautifully written story captures the essential nature of the sister bond: the fierce struggle to be true to oneâs own self, only to learn that true strength comes from what they are able to share together.ââCarol Saline, co-author of Sisters âJean Heglandâs sense of character is firm, warm, and wise. . . . [A] fine first novel.ââJohn Keeble, author of Yellowfish
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Bell, Book, and Murder
by Rosemary Edghill
For readers who desire a unique dose of witchcraft, mystery, and thrill, here's a real treat. "Bell, Book, and Murder" offers all three of Edghill's Bast novels--"Speak Daggers to Her", "Book of Moons" and the first softcover edition of "The Bowl of Night".
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J. K. Rowling
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches.
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Juniper
by Monica Furlong
In this highly acclaimed prequel to the award-winning Wise Child young Princess Juniper returns to her Cornish palace and discovers that her power-mad aunt is using black magic to usurp the throne. And only Juniper can stop her. "A rich, deeply colored novel of a young girl's coming of age".--School Library Journal.
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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 Forever King
by Molly Cochran
The Holy Grail's protectors are few and weak, an ex-FBI agent, an old gentleman, and a ten-year-old boy, Arthur Blessing.
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The Donovan Legacy
by Nora Roberts
Three extraordinary cousins--Morgana, Sebastian, and Anastasia--who have inherited some most unusual magical talents from their Celtic ancestors--find true love, in a trio of novels--Captivated, Entranced, and Charmed. Reprint.
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Dance Upon the Air
by Nora Roberts
#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Robertsâhailed by Publishers Weekly as âa storyteller of immeasurable diversity and talentââpresents the first book in a trilogy about friendship, fate, and the mysterious ways of the heart. When Nell Channing arrives on charming Three Sisters Island, she believes that sheâs finally found refuge from her abusive husbandâand from the terrifying life she fled so desperately eight months ago⌠But even in this quiet, peaceful place, Nell never feels entirely at ease. Careful to conceal her true identity, she takes a job as a cook at the local bookstore cafĂŠâand begins to explore her feelings for the island sheriff, Zack Todd. But there is a part of herself she can never reveal to him, for she must continue to guard her secrets if she wants to keep the past at bay. One careless word, one misplaced confidence, and the new life sheâs so carefully created could shatter completely. Just as Nell starts to wonder if sheâll ever be able to break free of her fear, she realizes that the island suffers under a terrible curseâone that can only be broken by the descendants of the Three Sisters, the witches who settled the island back in 1692. And now, with the help of two other strong, gifted womenâand the nightmares of the past haunting her every stepâshe must find the power to save her home, her love, and herself. Donât miss the other books in the Three Sisters Island Trilogy Heaven and Earth Face the Fire
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Heaven and Earth
by Nora Roberts
In the second book in her Three Sisters Island Trilogy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts returns to the haunting shores of New Englandâand to the lives of three passionate, powerful women⌠Ripley Todd's job as a sheriffâs deputy keeps her busy and happy, and she has no trouble finding men when she wants themâwhich, lately, isnât all that often. Sheâs perfectly content, except for one thing: she has special powers that both frighten and confuse her. Distraction soon arrives in the handsome form of MacAllister Bookeâa researcher whoâs come to investigate the rumors of witchcraft that haunt Three Sisters Island. Right from the start, he knows thereâs something extraordinary about Ripley Todd. Fascinated by her struggle with her amazing abilities, he becomes determined to help her accept who she isâand find the courage to open her heart. But before Ripley and Mac can dream of what lies in the future, they must confront the pain of the past. For Three Sisters shelters centuries of secretsâand a legacy of danger that plagues them still⌠Don't miss the other books in the Three Sisters Island Trilogy Dance Upon the Air Face the Fire