Forest Song Cookbook--a GREAT holiday gift!

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Hidden Passages: Tales to Honor the Crones is a collection of eight uplifting stories about girls and women who, when faced with life’s challenges, turn to their cultural grandmothers for comfort and advice. Though the stories are set in different eras and cover different kinds of issues, each one reflects a reverence for the divine in every woman.

ISBN 978-0-9796545-6-5

Perfect Paperback 300pp

Released November, 2007

$15.95

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“Hidden Passages: Tales to Honor the Crones is a book destined to become a classic.”— Lillith ThreeFeathers, columnist and feature writer for If Journal.

“I truly love Hidden Passages: Tales to Honor the Crones. I have two daughters, ages 16 and 12, who are reading it now! This is a book that women of all ages can enjoy and relate to in so many ways!”— Shay L. Stringer

Excerpt

“Tichu considered what the women had said. The fire festered like a wound, melting the snow around its base to a sickly oozing slush. Sitting cross-legged, the women waited, still as ice, unwilling to disturb her reflection. At last she drew her hand from Harugi’s, kissed the Crone on both her cheeks, and rose to speak. ‘When I die,’ she poked her chest fiercely with her finger, ‘it will be in Grandmother Spider’s arms, not on the end of a spear.’ Her voice, sharp as flint, chiseled between her clenched teeth.” Hidden Passages: Tales to Honor the Crones , p. 179

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Forest Song: Finding Home is the story of Judy Baumann’s struggle to escape to her true home in the woods and to grow into her power there. A cast of magical characters, including a wise woman and the woman’s consort, help the girl in this enterprise. The story, situated between Germany and Poland, begins in 1929 and ends in 1933 when Judy becomes a woman.

ISBN 978-0-9814739-8-7

Perfect Paperback 404 pp

Released March, 2008

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“Forest Song: Finding Home sings indeed—with verbal imagery and plot turns that keep you eager for every morsel.” —Jim McConkey, author of Journey to the Far Side of Earth

“Forest Song: Finding Home is a book not to be missed by maiden, mother, or crone. SpiderHawk has done it again! One more MUST read that will become a classic.” —Helen Collins, creator, editor, and publisher of Folk Music Ministry Magazine

Excerpt

“My first memory is of the forest’s call. Oh, no, it wasn’t the wind in the trees or the splashing of rain against arthritic trunks. Those sounds were there, in their proper seasons, along with the singing of the birds by day and the chirping of the crickets at night. But there was something else curling through all that, wispy and fragile, that I sometimes could not catch, something as sweet as wistfulness that would whisper near my ear as I lay in my bed.” Forest Song: Finding Home , p. 12

Forest Song: Little Mother is the second of the Forest Song series and continues Judy Baumann’s story. In this episode, Judy reluctantly moves from her teacher’s house into a home of her own. From there she helps the forest denizens hide Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany and in the process discovers sexual love. In the end she becomes a mother in an unconventional way.

ISBN 978-1-935407-47-8

Perfect Paperback 328 pp Released March, 2009

$15.95

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Forest Song: Little Mother is a truly beautiful book and one which Vila’s fans will be clamoring to own. Those of you who have not had “The SpiderHawk Experience”, should do so now! You will be thrilled with your book.—Jo Gray, Author of Tails from the Cat Basket

Forest Song: Little Mother is magnificent. I could not stop reading it! This is a book all women should read…—Dawn Thomas, editor of Oracle ezine

Excerpt

Slanting through tree bones, the late afternoon sun gilded the decaying leaves. The woods were as silent as the flat cardboard trees Bożena’s class had erected for their version of Swan Lake. Only my crunching disturbed the forest’s peace. I stopped often to listen to the quiet. At ease in the golden pocket of time where nothing of the war could distract me, I plucked a rosary of random thoughts from my mind and idly fondled them. Forest Song: Little Mother, p. 205

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Forest Song Cookbook is a celebration of Polish, German, Swedish, and even Passover cuisine! A collection of recipes for all the scrumptious dishes served in the first two volumes of the Forest Song series, it is an adventure in European dining! If you like to eat, you’ll love this book! ISBN: 978-1-61584-330-5 Soft cover, comb binding Released July, 2009
100 pp $9.97
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Reviews

I just loved Vila SpiderHawk’s Forest Song: Finding Home and Forest Song: Little Mother, and so when I saw Forest Song Cookbook, I naturally snatched it right up! And am I ever glad I did! I am having such fun making these delicious recipes. Surprisingly easy to make, these dishes are just a delight!

~Alicia Rochelle Eberly


When I read Forest Song: Finding Home, and Forest Song: Little Mother, the meals that were prepared sounded so absolutely wonderful! And now, here comes Forest Song Cookbook! What a treat and a joy! SpiderHawk is as thorough and graceful with her recipes as she is with her prose. One more feather in her cap! Order today for only $9.97!
~Nell Bloom