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Vila SpiderHawk and her husband live in the woods of
She can be contacted at http://www.vilaspiderhawk.com, where
she maintains a reader site with book excerpts and discussions, updated news
and announcements, and more.
Vila SpiderHawk's First Chapters Freebook
Read first chapters from each of Vila's Forest Song series in this Freebook...
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Forest Song Cookbook by Vila SpiderHawk
This wonderful collection of recipes from
author Vila SpiderHawk comes from her novels, Forest Song: Finding Home
and Forest Song: Little Mother. Characters from each novel share their
favorite recipes, for everything from delicious stews and soups to
scrumptious desserts. Interspersed throughout are excerpts sharing snippets of the
stories of both novels.
80+ delicious and simple recipes
Excerpt with every recipe
Also Available as Instant Download in
PDF, Kindle, Sony Reader, RTF, Plain Text, iPhone, Online Viewing
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$5.99
Acclaim for Forest Song Cookbook
I received the cookbook today, and I'm thrilled and excited! Thank you so much
for personally autographing it for me. I've already looked through it and picked
out the first thing I'm going to make-- Gerda Felden's roast
beef!
I will treasure this
cookbook and keep it forever, and when I prepare these dishes I'll always think
of the wonderful characters that you created in your
books.
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Hidden Passages by Vila SpiderHawk
Hidden Passages is a
collection of eight finely crafted stories about strong, loving women in the
midst of their crone years, celebrating life and sharing their wisdom, courage,
and passion with other women, old and young.
Vila SpiderHawk’s stories celebrate crones in a way that makes the reader feel and remember their own memories of women in their lives. Readers meet Grandmother Spider, Lavinia, Cara, Mima Po, and more. Each of the crones in Hidden Passages share their hearts with readers young and old, through Ms. SpiderHawk and her wonderfully woven tales.
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“Hidden Passages:
Tales to Honor the Crones is populated with wise, skillful women passing on the
secrets of seeing beauty in what, at first glance, is not beautiful. This is an irresistible read for maidens,
mothers, and crones alike!” Smoky
Trudeau, author of Redeeming Grace
“These stories have
deepened my veneration of womankind in all her stages of life. Those who read this book will find themselves
living with more love for life itself.
This book is a gift—a precious and priceless one.” Esmerelda Little Flame, author of The Temple of the Twelve
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Forest Song: Finding Home by Vila SpiderHawk
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 witch, the
witch’s consort, a family of fairies, an ancient oak, and a bevy of animals
each help her in this enterprise.
‘We lived
just at the edge of the frontier, as Mama called it, at the border of
civilization. According to her the woods
beyond our field was a lawless place, full of perils far worse than I could
imagine, and so she made me promise to stay in our back yard or, if I was with
my brother or an adult, the field beyond.
But never did she allow me near the woods. She worried about the forest and other
dangers too, man dangers. That's what
she called them. Man dangers.’
The story,
situated between
Forest Song: Finding Home
Forest Song: Finding Home weaves a wondrous tale of a young girl finding her
true home and growing to womanhood in a unique and adventurous tale. I
felt the characters' thrills and despairs, their highs and lows, their breadth
and their depth. Their joys became my joys, their mourning, mine.
All are so beautifully created that each and every one touched my
soul. In Judy’s home, I could feel the wooden floors, the sparseness
of decor. I experienced her mother’s withdrawal from her, yet
also her very solid strength. I felt the cold of the iron fence and
smelled the rich pungent earth as Judy walked in the forest. I
warmed by the crackling fire and smelled the delicious soup she ate. I
sang with her, I cried with her, I winced when her fingers hurt from sewing too
long. I also grew with her, hoped with her, and finally, simply loved
her. 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
Vila SpiderHawk has rare narrative gifts.
Forest Song: Finding Home sings indeed—with verbal imagery and
plot turns that keep you eager for every morsel.
—Jim Mc Conkey, author of Journey to
the Far Side of Earth
This story is for you who have longed to enter the
forest... and never come out. It’s for anyone who has longed to be able to talk
with the trees, earth, and animals as his or her best friends. It’s for anyone
who has hungered for the wisdom of the wild. If your great treasure is a secret
wildness within you, follow Judy into the forest. She will take you to a realm
where you can set it free.
—Esmerelda LittleFlame, author of Temple of the
Twelve
This is a magickal book in every way. Vila SpiderHawk
writes like a poet, in beautiful language which is nevertheless fully
accessible, never calling attention to itself at the expense of the story. This
particular story has a flavour of folk tales. There is a lot of painless
teaching here, not only about those old ways of living and interacting with
nature, but also about what it is to be human in all its depth and complexity.
Nor is she afraid to confront the darker aspects of human nature, which she
does with deftness and delicacy whilst never shirking the truth. Overall, her
tale is full of sweetness, warmth, and characters we accept as real. As a
former children’s librarian and the wife of a children’s author, I know the test
of a good book for children or young adults is whether it can be enjoyed by
adults too. This is a book to be reveled in at any age!
—Rosemary Nissen-Wade, Author of Secret Leopard
Forest Song is
a must read for anyone who is more at home among trees which scrape the sky
than brick-and-mortar skyscrapers. Here we meet Judy, a young girl who will
stop at nothing to escape the iron-gated prison that is her family home for the
trees and creatures of the forest, her true home. Vila SpiderHawk’s exquisite prose
paints detailed images of Judy’s experience; we feel her every emotion, hear
every bird call, smell every earthy scent, experience for ourselves everything
Judy experiences as she grows from gawky girl into Wise Woman of the Woods.
SpiderHawk truly knows the forest, and does a masterful job of
conveying the wisdom you will garner if you listen, just listen, to the
music of the trees.
—Smoky Trudeau, author of Redeeming Grace and The
Cabin
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Forest Song: Little Mother
Editorial Reviews
Forest Song: Little Mother is
magnificent. It is such a moving story. It took me on an emotional roller
coaster. I could not stop reading it! I would say “Just one more chapter”
and then when that chapter ended I said the same thing. The night I finished
it, it was after 3 a.m. I laughed and cried as I watched Judy grow
into a woman. The characters are so well developed that I feel as if I know
Judy and her forest family. This is a book that all women should read, since
it explores all aspects of being a woman and the magic that is within all
of us. I think it is important to make sure that women know about great women
writers and I count Vila SpiderHawk at the top of my list.
Dawn Thomas, editor of Oracle
ezine
Once again SpiderHawk has come through with a gripping, engaging
story interwoven with the wisdom of the ages. Forest Song: Little Mother is powerful! I could not put it
down! This is a must read book!
Helen Collins, editor and publisher of Folk Music Ministry magazine
WOW! I thought Vila SpiderHawk’s Hidden Passages:
Tales to Honor the Crones was the best book I’d ever read. And then I read her Forest Song: Finding Home
and decided IT was the best. But now
that I’ve read Forest Song: Little Mother, I just don’t know. I’d have a terrible time choosing which one I
love best. I’ve given SpiderHawk’s
Hidden Passages and Forest Song: Finding Home as birthday, Mother’s Day, and
Christmas gifts, and now I’ll have an easy time figuring out what to give
everyone – Forest Song: Little Mother!(If they haven’t already bought it for
themselves.) Boy, if you haven’t read
SpiderHawk’s work yet please do! But be
careful. Her books are addictive! Now I
can’t wait for the next of the Forest Song series! What a wonderful writer!
Susan Blakehard
Forest Song: Little Mother
