The author shares true stories about encounters with ghosts and troubled souls, recounting her travels to haunted houses and ships where she had firsthand experiences with spirits in search of peace and closure.

"Let us descend,' the poet now began, 'and enter this blind world.'" --Inferno, Dante Alighieri Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver...

In Renthia, everything has a spirit: the willow tree with leaves that kiss the pond, the stream that feeds the river. But the spirits of the land want to rid it of all humans. The queen is the only woman who stands between the spirits and the end of humankind, and no matter how strong or good the queen is, the threat of danger always looms. And so, Daleina is one of the young women chosen and trained as heirs to the throne. She joins forces with Ven,...

Amy Stewart explores the dizzying array of herbs, flowers, trees, fruits, and fungi that humans have, through ingenuity, inspiration, and sheer desperation, contrived to transform into alcohol over the centuries.

"The memoir of Mary Ann Winkowski, the real life "Ghost Whisperer" and consultant on the Top 30 CBS show "Ghost Whisperer.""--Provided by the publisher.

"Describes ancient history, medieval lore, and modern portrayals of ghosts in today's popular culture"--

During her most recent visit to the Fairy Realm, Jessie inadvertently allows a baby fairy to be captured by water sprites who want to hold the child captive until their missing moonstone is returned.

Violet, her cousin Leon, and the Pixie Tricker Sprite have a serious problem: the fairy they are dealing with now is a water sprite named Aquamarina, who is not only messing up plumbing all over town, but has made a home in a fish tank at the pet store, and has turned anyone who sees her into fish--in the water she is powerful so the three fairy-hunters must come up with a way to trick her onto dry land where she can be overcome.

An A-to-Z compendium of elements in the spiritual and supernatural world that influence mortal life explores the nature of numerology, reincarnation, ghosts, and other phenomena, in a volume with case stories and predictions for future events.

Discovering a young woman's brutalized body in an old Charleston graveyard, Amelia Gray, a cemetery restorer who sees ghosts, places her own life in danger as she tries to help a police detective assigned to the case.