New Releases by Joan Grant

HISTORICAL NOVEL? OR ONE OF THE MOST ASTOUNDING AUTOBIOGRAPHIES EVER WRITTEN? The memories of a wanderer in the stormy and licentious era of Renaissance Italy... Carola, the illegitimate child of an Italian nobleman, spent her childhood in a castle near Perugia until the day Fortune cast her into the hostile outer-world of 16th-century Italy. As a member of a group of strolling players, Carola was to gather both harsh experience and gentle wisdom from the strong man Bernard, from the harlot Lucia, from the hunchback-jester Petruchio, and from Sofia, who would be burned as a witch. Finally, when she finds her long-sought peace in love, the freedom she has won carries her triumphantly beyond the barrier of death and from her Life As Carola. "Here is an unusual book that shines with fire...that is packed with incident, that is vivid, dramatic and skillfully put together—and yet one that this reviewer finds harder to value correctly than any that has ever fallen into his hands."—New York Times "During the last twenty years, seven books of mine have been published as historical novels which to me are biographies of previous lives I have known."—Joan Grant, from her autobiography Far Memory

A successful Finnish Spitz dog breeder writes about life with her champion Finnish Spitz in Canada. Joan started almost forty years ago by importing the eighth dog into Canada and retired recently, after exporting the very first foreign bred Finnish Spitz into Finland. This book is a wealth of information for anyone interested in raising quality puppies or the Finnish Spitz breed. Show more Show less

In ancient Egypt, a Pharaoh who by strength of extra-sensory powers also became a priest was called a Winged Pharaoh.

In this new book, the unlikely pals -- he''s from the land, she''s from the sea -- are curious about where the waves go. So they sail away through storm and wind to a beautiful tropical island. Along the way they meet many friendly creatures from both their worlds. This sequel to the award-winning Cat and Fish features Neil Curtis''s superb black-and-white craftsmanship and illustrations, including a wonderful fold-out of "twelve wise owls." Spiraling and curving text is a visual treat, drawing children in, and Joan Clark''s lively story delivers an encouraging message about the joys of friendship and being oneself.

When Cat and Fish meet in the park one night they know they come from different worlds, but they like each other''s looks. So begin the adventures of an unlikely pair, who find that learning new ways can bring unexpected delightes.

This is Joan Grant''s autobiography of her childhood and the development of her psychic talents and ability to recall earlier lives. It is a fascinating and breathtaking story which draws the reader vividly into the midst of her many rich and colorful experiences. It is poignant, charming, insightful, and inspiring -- and records in great detail how she came to write her novels. Like her novels, Far Memory is a treat. As The London Times put it, "Joan Grant is a writer with unique qualities...Her conceptions have originality and novelty; her style is simple and beautiful." Far Memory is a major contribution to new age biographies.

A sequel to Eyes of Horus. The story of Ra-ab continues, as does the effort to rid Egypt of corruption.

"Whether you approach it as a believer, a skeptic, or merely an open-minded individual just interested in the unchartered areas of human existence, Many Lifetimes is an unusual and disturbing book. Basically, it is about reincarnation. In a wider sense, it is a startling, fresh approach to physical and mental illness, uniting the thinking of an ''analytically-oriented'' psychiatrist with Joan Grant''s extra-sensory abilities, particularly the recalling of past lifetimes. Denys Kelsey, using hypnotherapy, found that many patients could be regressed not only to infancy but also to birth, to experiences while in the womb, and even to the moment of conception. Soon after he met Joan Grant, in 1958, he realized that by the use of the same hypnotherapy, he could enable some patients to extend their recall to earlier lifetimes. Joan Grant had developed a remarkable ''far memory,'' enabling her to recall in minute detail previous lives, male and female, lived in dynastic Egypt, America, Italy, England, and other places. Consequently she was sometimes able to help her husband''s patients by perceiving the relevant incidents of their earlier lives, thus providing independent checks on the accuracy of their recall. Some of the case studies described in this book rank among the most extraordinary in the history of psychotherapeutic medicine. The authors have achieved dramatic results in showing patients that the origin of their present problems often lies in the events in past incarnations. The authors fully recognize how controversial their beliefs may seem to some people. The success of their therapy offers convincing evidence of the validity of their approach on such diverse subjects as parenthood, dangers of jealousy, one-upmanship, the alarming insights of infants, and the causes and effects of ghosts."--front and back flaps.