We have sorted the list by print size and type. Religion reporter Wicker (formerly of the Dallas Morning News and author of Lily Dale) proffers a tendentious, confused book about the alleged demise of. The Library offers a number of book kits to be checked out individually or by other groups or libraries.
Digital Archive of the Winchester Sun (2010-17).KY Libraries Unbound (E-Books, Audio & Magazines).“Both witty and wise.a fascinating read for the curious about the state of magic in America. For the curious and open-minded, her book is marvelous.” - Booklist (starred review) “Readers will find themselves unable to put this book down, absorbed in the story Wicker has to tell.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review) a fascinating read for the curious about the state of magic in America.” She lives in Brookfield, Wisconsin with her husband. She is a former religion reporter for the Dallas Morning News and has won numerous journalism awards, including the Clarion Award, the Wilbur Award, the Sunday Magazine Editor’s first place for feature writing, and seven first place prizes from the Dallas Press Club. From voodoo temples in New Orleans to witches’ covens in Salem to a graveyard in north Florida, Wicker learns things that repel her, challenge her and change her in ways she never could have imagined.Ĭhristine Wicker is the author of the highly acclaimed national bestseller Lily Dale. In Not in Kansas Anymore, national bestselling author and award-winning religion reporter Christine Wicker leaves no talisman unturned in her hunt to find what’s authentic and what’s not in America’s burgeoning magical reality. Voodoo, hoodoo and Santeria are attracting middle-class believers across the country. Her work has included Not in Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic is Transforming America and God Knows My Heart: Finding a Faith that Fits. The community of Wiccans, witches, and pagans is growing faster than any other religious group in the United States. 13 quotes from Christine Wicker: Its often the outcasts, the iconoclasts, the hyper-religious, the young people, sometimes middle-aged women, those who have the least to lose because they dont have much in the first place, who feel the new currents and ride them the farthest. Christine Wicker is the author of New York Times bestseller Lily Dale: The True Story of the Town that Talks to the Dead. Of course, we never tell anyone.īut others are bolder. published three books: Lily Dale, Not in Kansas Anymore, Fall of the Evangelical Nation. We heed premonitions, scrutinize our dreams, and note inexplicable synchronicities.
soldiers chant to pagan gods of war, and one otherwise normal family has determined that they are, in fact, elves.įor many of us, magic is entering our lives in subtle ways. Soccer moms are getting voodoo head washings in their backyards, U.S. Magic has stepped out of the movies, off the pages of fairy tales and into the modern mind.
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