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From the mountains of Northern Italy to the remote forests of Nigeria, diverse fairies from around the world come together in this little encyclopedia . . .

Naughty and nice, unpredictable and typically tiny, fairies remain one of the most enduring folk creatures, featuring in mythologies across cultures and throughout history. This little encyclopedia rounds up more than 90 fairies from around the world, including:

– The Alux, a fairy of Mayan legend whom farmers called on for rain
– The Banshee, a fairy of Irish lore whose cries were associated with death
– The Hulijing, a fairy from Chinese mythology, who could shape-shift into a fox
– The Yumbo, a silver-haired Senegalese fairy, who dances in moonlight

And so many more! With detailed illustrations throughout, this book offers a fun and information-packed guide to these small yet powerful beings.

Cynicism is making us sick; Stanford psychologist Dr Jamil Zaki has the cure – a ‘ray of light for dark days’ (Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author).

For thousands of years, people have argued about whether humanity is selfish or generous, cruel or kind. But recently, our answers have changed. In 1972, half of Americans agreed that most people can be trusted; by 2018, that figure had fallen to 30%. Different generations, genders, religions and political parties can’t seem to agree on anything, except that they all think human virtue is evaporating.

Cynicism is a perfectly understandable response to a world full of injustice and inequality. But in many cases, cynicism is misplaced. Dozens of studies find that people fail to realise how kind, generous and open-minded others really are. And cynical thinking worsens social problems, because our beliefs don’t just interpret the world; they change it. When we expect people to be awful, we coax awfulness out of them. Cynicism is a disease, with a history, symptoms and a cure. Through science and storytelling, Jamil Zaki imparts the secret for beating back cynicism: hopeful scepticism. This approach doesn’t mean putting our faith in every politician or influencer. It means thinking critically about people and our problems, while simultaneously acknowledging and encouraging our strengths. Far from being naïve, hopeful scepticism is a more precise way of understanding others, and paying closer attention re-balances how you think about human nature. As more of us do this, we can take steps towards building the world we truly want.

‘A fascinating, profound and immediately practical guide to shaping your life to come, while living more richly in the moment’ Oliver Burkeman

‘A timely idea from one of today’s leading behavioral scientists … both personal and thoroughly grounded in the latest research’ Angela Duckworth

‘A fascinating window into who you might become tomorrow – and how you can have more say in that evolution today’ Adam Grant

Few people would pass up the chance to travel through time and see what life will be like for our future selves. But while we want to envision the best possible future, why do some of us fail to make decisions that will truly make that a reality, while others succeed? Why do some of us choose steak over vegetables at dinner, waving off concerns of raising our cholesterol? Why do some splurge on luxury cars that we can’t really afford, while others choose cheaper models and save more for the future? Why are so many of us so disconnected from our future selves?

In YOUR FUTURE SELF, Hal Hershfield reveals his groundbreaking research that shows that, in our minds, our future self often looks like a stranger. Many of us view the future as incredibly distant, making us more likely to opt for immediate gratification that disregards our health and wellbeing in the years to come. People who are able to connect with their future selves, however, are better able to balance living for today and planning for tomorrow. YOUR FUTURE SELF explains the science, describes the mental mistakes we make in thinking about the future, and gives us practical advice for imagining our best future so that we can make that a reality.

– Designed by Grace Duong, founder of Mystic Mondays
– Deluxe keepsake box with magnetic closure
– 80 full-color hexagonal cards in stylish printed travel case
– Full-color, 11 X 17″ illustrated foldout poster

Use the power of crystals to tap into your intuition and supercharge your intentions. Created by Grace Duong of Mystic Mondays, The Crystal Grid Deck uses beautiful, vibrant illustrations to channel the magic of 80 gemstones, from rose quartz and lapis lazuli to amethyst and Tiger’s Eye. Featuring bold, 3D renderings of crystals, these deluxe hexagonal cards fit together, allowing users to magnify their intention-setting by creating grids and spreads. Each card offers users a glimpse into the properties of the stone, with notes on uses, zodiac connections, chakra work, and more printed on the reverse.

Housed in a stunning, fully-illustrated keepsake box, with magnetic closure, and separate travel case for the cards, this breathtaking set is an essential addition to your mystical toolbox. An accompanying 11 X 17″ poster shows all 80 crystals together, for convenient reference that doubles as bold artwork suitable for display.

From the best-selling author of Practical Magic Nikki Van De Car comes an essential guide to cultivating magical self-sufficiency and enchanted resilience through spell work, gardening, herbal remedies, and more.

Whether we live on a farm or in a high rise, we can always create a life that is entwined with the natural world. A homestead is not a log cabin or a hermitage out in the woods — it is a way of being, a life lived with the intention of returning to our roots and tapping into the essential elements of fire, water, air, and earth. And a homesteading witch isn’t just a person who lives atop a beautiful mountain, but anyone who understands that by harnessing and honoring these elements you can create whatever it is that you need.

The Witchy Homestead is your guide to finding, creating, and living this essential magic — it is a comforting companion as you build a wellspring of magical self-sufficiency, and a seasoned teacher as you cultivate enchanted resilience. Through this book, author Nikki Van De Car will offer magically-tinged suggestions for growing or finding your own food regardless of where you live, engaging in natural healing practices, connecting to the ancient magic of the world around you, and for protecting all that you have created.

Engage in deep yet playful, imaginative yet practical explorations of what brings you pleasure-in all its forms-with this empowering, stunningly illustrated deck and guidebook set from cut-paper artist and creator of Resilience Alchemy Maude White.

Pleasure Alchemy offers the simple yet radical idea that by exploring and expanding the ways we facilitate and participate in pleasurable experiences, we can take charge of our own desires and needs. Pleasure Alchemy provides us with a toolset of ideas for rethinking and rearranging our pre-existing notions around what brings us pleasure-in all facets of our lives. This deluxe deck and guidebook form a practical and grounding toolset that aims to bring us back into our bodies, back into an understanding of what pleasure feels like, and back into a mindset of how we can actively seek out and experience what is pleasurable for us. This inspiring, deeply usable, set is meant to be used for pleasure, enjoyment, self-reflection, self-expression, and fun.

– Deluxe set. This set includes 78 beautiful cards (3 X 5 inches) in an interior travel case; a 216-page, full-colour, fully illustrated guidebook (4 ¾ X 6 inches); and a keepsake magnetic closure box.
– Stunning cut paper artwork by celebrated artist Maude White. The entire set is gorgeously illustrated in Maude White’s signature cut-paper style against a beautiful spectrum of soothing colours.
– Immersive guidebook with spreads, exercises, and cards meanings. Within the guidebook, each element of the 82-card system (divided among the Pleasure Seekers, Remedies, and the Elements of Pleasure) is explored with journaling prompts, thoughtful exercise ideas, card spreads to pull, and advice on how to incorporate the system into the user’s life.
– Explore pleasure in all its forms. The Pleasure Alchemy system is based on the idea that to truly understand what we find pleasurable-from food to activities to romance-we must be open to curiosity, play, and self-exploration. This set provides a toolkit of ideas to engage in this journey.
– Pair with Maude White’s Resilience Alchemy deck for even more insight. Built to stand on its own as a system, Pleasure Alchemy can bring even more strength and insight when used in combination with the Resilience Alchemy system.

A note on packaging: In order to help honour our planet and reduce waste, we have only shrink wrapped the interior cards, rather than the keepsake box. Please feel confident that your product is not defective or used, but rather represents a step we are taking to protect our collective home. When you open your deck, you will find that the actual cards inside the box are shrink wrapped for protection and to ensure first use by the buyer.

This mini Himalayan mood lamp is made from real salt and rotates through a rainbow of colors!

While standard Himalayan salt lamps glow orange (or pink), this 2-1/4-inch mood lamp rotates through a full spectrum of colors, each associated with a different mood or emotion to create feelings of tranquility and peace in any working or living space.

Also included is a 2-inch white base with lightbulb and a 32-page book with everything you need to know about your mood lamp and the meanings behind each color.

Do you beat yourself up after making a mistake? Do you treat yourself worse than you would a good friend?

If these questions strike a chord, it’s likely that you contend with unhealthy self-criticism. This mental habit is the cause of so much emotional suffering, and lies at the root of most of the problems that psychotherapists and counsellors encounter.

In Everyone’s a Critic, psychotherapist Julia Bueno shares seven case studies, inspired by her practice. They explore some of the reasons why we learn to turn against ourselves, encourage readers to be more curious about their self-critic, and inspire a practice of greater self-compassion instead.

Praise for Everyone’s a Critic:

‘Julia Bueno explores such an important topic, and one that holds so many people back: our inner critic. This book discusses where it may come from and, through case studies, how we can rewrite the script. Gently enquiring, authoritative and reassuring.’ Annalisa Barbieri

‘A quiet revelation: an investigation into the lacerating self-criticism many of us unleash upon ourselves without even being aware of it. One thinks, feels and learns. A compelling and important book.’ Hannah Betts, journalist

‘This is most certainly not a self-help book to beat yourself up with. Julia Bueno explains how self-criticism affects many of us and digs far deeper than the usual social-media-blaming… It’s an important, timely book that many will benefit from reading and acting upon.’ Louise Chunn, founder of therapist-matching site Welldoing

‘If you’ve ever felt that little voice – or a very loud one – at the back of your mind telling you you’re no good, Julia Bueno’s book is the ideal way to answer back.’ Harry Mount, editor of the Oldie

This playful, inspirational book invites fantasy lovers and fans of Dungeons & Dragons to celebrate and incorporate different elements of this iconic tabletop game in their lives and help them live their best, geekiest life. Written by Kat Kruger, the Dungeon Master of the popular Dungeons & Dragons actual play podcast d20 Dames, you’ll learn how to take the skills, knowledge, and sense of adventure from your D&D campaign to help you better understand everything from how you interact with the world around you to facing the random events that life sometimes throws at you.

With advice from classic player classes-like the Fighter, Warlock, Bard, Monk, or Ranger-and ways to take your experiences as a player (or a Dungeon Master) and use them in your day-to-day life, How to Be More D&D also features interactive elements like “Building Your Character” and “Dungeon Master State of Mind,” quizzes like “What is Your D&D Class,” and paired with rich, full-color art from the world of Dungeons & Dragons. Whether it is building your real world “character,” discovering your ideal class and strengths, harnessing the three pillars of play for everyday use, or using roleplaying techniques to your advantage, How to Be More D&D explores how to enjoy the campaign known as life and is a perfect gift for any tabletop gamer or D&D fan.

Dungeons & Dragons, D&D, their respective logos, and the dragon ampersand, are registered trademarks of Wizards of the Coast LLC. ©2022 Wizards of the Coast. All rights reserved.

In this enlightening book, those who have been influenced by angels tell their inspiring stories, including a workaholic saved from self-destruction by his guardian angel, a girl whose fear of death was dispelled by an angel’s comforting words, and more uplifting accounts.

Discover what the cards hold with this clear, inspiring guide to tarot.

The Book of Tarot will help the modern tarot reader understand the spiritual and intuitive power of the cards, no matter their experience level. With this book, you will deepen your intuition, understand the deck and symbols, interpret the cards and, most importantly, learn how to use the cards as a means of self-discovery, manifestation and personal growth.

Alice Grist has over twenty-five years of experience with reading the cards and in this book she shares her vast knowledge and secrets. This gentle and enlightening book brings the tarot fully into the twenty-first century, while allowing you to gain some serious tarot wisdom.

The Book of Tarot offers an easy and entertaining manifesto to an empowering everyday tarot practice.

Living With Angels offers a practical introduction to angels and how to experience and communicate with them, as well as easy-to-follow exercises on how to contact your guardian angel. You will learn: how to call and work with your guardian angel and the archangel of your zodiac sign; how to call on angels and archangels for specific purposes, including protecting your family, travelling in safety, or nurturing close relationships; how you can work with angels to create a better life for yourself and others

Everyday Tarot takes a fresh approach to a timeless art, giving modern soul-seekers the tools they need to access their inner wisdom and create an inspired life, using the cards as their guide. This contemporary approach to Tarot is empowering, uplifting, powerful, and practical — instead of seeking to tell the future, this method allows readers to unlock their full potential by connecting more deeply to their own instincts and intuition.

This unique book draws on the knowledge of Brigit Esselmont, the renowned Tarot reader and founder of Biddy Tarot. Her distinctive approach blends Tarot with personal growth, creating an actionable wellness practice that speaks to contemporary readers. Beginning with Esselmont’s personal story of leaving behind a corporate career to pursue a more grounded, passionate life, this beautiful and useful volume explains how Tarot really works, with a focus on how we approach the cards and draw on our inner wisdom for guidance. Everyday Tarot moves through concrete areas of life (career, romantic relationships, major goals) and incorporates exercises and sample spreads, alongside a quick-start guide to reading the cards that reinforces big picture concepts and builds confidence as readers begin creating powerful and positive change.

Dive into this beautifully designed journal, filled with prompts, questions, tarot advice, plenty of writing space, and more to help you record and reflect on your tarot journey. This journal is a companion to Black Tarot, a tarot deck and guidebook that draws influence from the moon and the water and features exclusively Black figures. Customize your journal and chart your own tarot journey with the four enclosed sticker sheets.

– SPECIFICATIONS: 6 inch by 8-inch, 176-page flexibind journal

– DELUXE PACKAGING: This guided journal is full-color inside and out, with beautiful illustrations

– STICKER SHEETS INCLUDED: Includes 4 sheets of full-color stickers

– PAIRS WITH TAROT DECK: This guided journal is a companion guide to Nyasha Williams’s Black Tarot

In this revised paperback edition of Everyday Tarot, featuring a new foreword by the author and an appendix of tarot card meanings, you’ll learn to master the methods of Biddy Tarot founder Brigit Esselmont as she blends divination with actionable self-help so you can manifest the life you want.

This approachable guide, from the founder of the incredibly popular website Biddy Tarot, brings the allure and guidance of Tarot to contemporary, goal-focused readers through relatable exercises and an emphasis on intuition. Everyday Tarot takes a fresh approach to a timeless art, giving modern soul-seekers the tools they need to access their inner wisdom and create an inspired life, using the cards as their guide. This approach to Tarot is empowering, uplifting, powerful, and practical — instead of helping readers tell the future, this method allows each person to unlock their full potential by connecting more deeply to their own instincts.

This unique book draws on the knowledge of Brigit Esselmont, the founder of Biddy Tarot. Her distinctive approach blends Tarot with personal growth, creating an actionable wellness practice that speaks to contemporary readers. Beginning with Esselmont’s personal story of leaving behind a corporate career to pursue a more grounded, passionate life, this beautiful and useful volume explains how Tarot really works, with a focus on how we approach the cards and draw on our inner wisdom for guidance. Everyday Tarot moves through concrete areas of life (career, romantic relationships, major goals) and incorporates exercises and sample spreads, alongside a quick-start guide to reading the cards that reinforces big picture concepts and builds confidence as readers begin creating powerful and positive change.

This revised and expanded paperback edition features a new foreword by the author and a complete appendix of tarot card meanings for easy reference.

Picking up where The Book of Séances left off, artist, author, and witch Claire Goodchild delivers a guide that is truly the first of its kind: The Book of Ancestors, a map for seekers looking to develop a relationship with their ancestors.

Through a combination of text and illustration, The Book of Ancestors explores the history of traditional genealogy topics, such as “how to research and build a family tree” and “the history of cemeteries.” Alongside these practical measures, Claire provides rituals, spells, and crafts from her own personal practice, drawing on the British and Slavic traditions of her heritage, alongside contributions from fellow witches including Codi Popovich and Marjorie from The Punk Priestess for a broader, more enriched lens.

As the text progresses, Claire guides her readers through the creation their own “Book of Ancestors,” a family grimoire of sorts, blending together their own ancestral legacies with witchcraft that can be passed down to future family. Visually, The Book of Ancestors pairs with The Book of Seances, containing witchy, esoteric, and funerary images in a Victorian style with lots of floral embellishments and classic colours. Whether a seasoned witch, or a newcomer to the spirit world, readers will walk away from The Book of Ancestors feeling empowered to perform their own rituals and spells, research family history, and form a lasting relationship with those who came before.

Jenny Cockell has always had memories of living before. In her first book, ‘Yesterday’s Children’, she described her search for the past life family which had haunted her from her earliest childhood. She remembered living as Mary Sutton, an Irishwoman who had died over 20 years before she was born. She gave an extraordinary account of how she successfully found Mary’s surviving children, and was reunited with them in the present.

Her new book, ‘Journeys Through Time’, brings readers up to date with her story. Jenny gives details of the four past lives that she remembers most clearly and explains how she has tried to trace them all. In particular, she remembers a life in Japan, which she has desperately sought to verify and uncover. Beginning with flashes of memories that she experienced in childhood, Jenny describes how she ‘found’ Mary and her children, her subsequent researches into her Japanese life, and what it all means. It is a page-turning account of one woman’s journey to find the lives she lived before.

Every one of us is watched over by a guardian angel, a divine coach and mentor, whose purpose is to help us realise our full potential. In this unique book, angel expert Theolyn Cortens leads you through her 12-week programme, teaching you how to harness the help of your guardian angel. You will discover how to: Meet, and work with, your guardian angel; Get in touch with your creative self; Uncover your heart’s desire and life’s purpose; Identify the things that stop you from achieving your desires; Nurture your ideas and plans to help manifest your dreams.

Linda shares her understanding of the afterlife and the communications she has received from those who have passed on. She gives advice on how you can learn to explore and trust your own intuition and begin to build a bridge of communication with your child. Going to a medium, having a private sitting or attending spiritualist meetings, forms an important part of the book. Linda also describes children’s natural spiritual awareness and relates the near-death and past-life experiences that some children recall. Linda tackles difficult issues that trouble parents such as abortion, miscarriage, the death of a baby and childhood suicide before demonstrating that a new spiritual awareness and peace can eventually grow from the darkness following the death of a child.

Discover the life, work, and magic of Pamela Colman Smith, the visionary artist behind the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot Deck, the most popular and renowned divination deck in the world. With rich imagery, stunning colors, and an iconic place in the realm of divination, the Rider-Waite Tarot is perhaps the best known deck in the world. Seasoned readers and fledgling diviners alike turn to these cards in search of inspiration, understanding, and even a hint at the future. But the story of their origin is less well known, with their brilliant creator’s name stripped away from them for decades. Now, for the first time, mystics, art-lovers, and fortune-tellers will uncover the magical story of Pamela Coleman Smith, rendered in full-color illustrations by artist Cat Willett, and inspired by the work of Pamela herself. From a childhood spent between the United Kingdom and Jamaica, to early artistic success in New York, to involvement in the secret occult society Order of the Golden Dawn, Pamela — or Pixie, as she was known to many — had a life full of enchanted inspiration and profound hardship. Through it all, her art acted as a guiding force, culminating in her custom illustrations for the deck that would become the Rider-Waite Tarot. Though she received little money and almost no credit for her contributions to the magical realm in her lifetime, Pixie’s impact on tarot, divination, and the worlds of mysticism and the arts have reverberated for nearly 150 years, and her story serves as an enchanted spark. Depicted in whimsical, full-color detail, with interludes tying Pamela to the resurgence of modern magic and the world of tarot throughout, this singular work is a must-read for witches, creatives, and activists.

As long as people have lived, they have longed for wisdom and comfort from those who have died. In The Book of Séances, artist, author, and witch Claire Goodchild takes readers on a journey through the historical landscape of spiritualism and guides questers through safe practices for cultivating a connection with the other side.

The Book of Séances details the four types of spiritual encounters, teaches us how to protect ourselves, and breaks down the different tools — from spirit boards and tarot to dominoes and charms — that are essential for opening a bridge to the afterlife. Whether conducting solitary or group séances, this book offers a way to safely glimpse beyond the veil.

Through her evocative writing and singular art, Claire provides a comprehensive history of the séance, alongside an immersive guide to accessing and communing with the spirit world. The Book of Séances provides hauntingly lovely signposts into our own personal mythology as revealed through our conscious and unconscious lives.

* A celebration of anime food and its meaning. Anime Food Tarot is a bright, mouth-watering interpretation of the tarot that reimagines the classic figures in the Major and Minor Arcana as iconic foods and staple Japanese dishes that appear in anime. Find inspiration in the iconic dishes that form the Major Arcana like The Fool’s Pickled Plum Onigiri (Fruits Basket) or The World’s Ramen (Naruto) and let the themed Minor Arcana suits sate your curiosity and offer guidance with dishes like yakatori, ramune, curry rice, cup noodles, and more.

* Deluxe set: This set includes 78 full-colour illustrated cards (3 x 5 inches); an 88-page, full-colour illustrated paperback book (3 x 5 inches); and a keepsake magnetic closure box.

* Fully Illustrated tarot guidebook: This set includes a full-colour illustrated companion book to the tarot deck, providing anime references as well as context and meaning for each delicious card.

* The perfect gift: This joyful, beautiful tarot deck set is an ideal gift for anime foodies and fans, as well as tarot readers of all skills.

A complete deck of 78 tarot cards and an accompanying guidebook, gorgeously illustrated in rich, original line art that evokes the classic Rider-Waite designs, all ready for you to colour in, customize, and bring to life.

– A comprehensive, classic deck and guidebook: The 78 cards in this deck feature the Major and Minor Arcana in beautiful, simple black line art reminiscent of the classic Rider-Waite? tarot deck illustrations, and the guidebook includes the meanings of each card and information on how to pull and read cards and spreads.
– Complete set: This set includes 78 colourable illustrated cards (3 x 5 inches), shrink wrapped and housed in a card box; an 112-page, colourable illustrated paperback book (3 x 5 inches); a full-colour folded poster insert of suggested colour palettes (6 x 10 inches); and a keepsake magnetic closure box (3-1/2 x 5-3/8 inches).
– Ideal format for colouring: The cards and guidebook are printed on thick, uncoated paper stock ideal for colouring with pencils, watercolour, pens, markers, or your medium of choice, and the guidebook contains information on colouring basics for beginners.
– Includes a primer on colour magic: Many magical practitioners believe in the magical properties and intentions of different parts of the colour spectrum, and the guidebook includes information on these meanings to guide the user’s colour choices.
– A note on packaging: In order to help honours our planet and reduce waste, we have only shrink wrapped the interior tarot cards, rather than the keepsake box. Please feel confident that your product is not defective or used, but rather represents a step we are taking to protect our collective home. When you open your deck, you will find that the actual cards inside the box are shrink wrapped for protection and to ensure first use by the buyer.