Locally & Independently Published Spirituality Books

Bookshop Santa Cruz has hundreds of locally and independently published books on our shelves. Our consignment program allows us to continue to accept all of the professionally-produced, self-published books from our local authors and to devote our resources to prominently featuring them throughout the store.

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Joan of Arc: The Mystic Legacy (Paperback)

By Marcia Quinn Noren
$17.00
ISBN-13: 9780615516615
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Published: Golden Fields Press, 11/2011
This well documented biography relies upon Joan of Arc’s own recorded testimony as the primary resource for comprehending the controversial life story of the girl who at age seventeen, reversed the outcome of the 100 Years War. Thirty-seven exclusive, full color images from historic sites in France breathe life into each chapter.

Free to Fly: It Is Your Reality (Paperback)

By Rev Dempsey Harshaw
$11.95
ISBN-13: 9781452532479
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Published: Balboa Press, 2/2011
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“Consciousness is all there is. It is all You really are. Absolutely everything you feel and experience is your unconditional unlimited Power. You can make no mistakes. It is your Reality. Who You really are and always will be is absolutely unlimited and free.” FREE to FLY.

Bronze Buddha (Paperback)

By Baba Hari Dass
$12.95
ISBN-13: 9780918100276
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Published: Sri Rama Publishing, 1/2011
Contains the three works Bronze Buddha, Crest Jewel, and Mul Nakshatra. In Bronze Buddha we are transported to Tibet, India, and Nepal to witness the lives of a few great and powerful monks. In Crest Jewel, written about the same time as Bronze Buddha, we are gifted with the story of an honest seeker of truth and his path to clarity and peace. Mul Nakshatra, written approximately twenty years after Bronze Buddha, is a tale of one woman’s overcoming of obstacles on the path to enlightenment.

Birthright: What It Is and How to Get Yours Back (Paperback)

By M. S. Jane Fleming, Jane Fleming M. S.
$16.99
ISBN-13: 9780615391359
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Published: Mewe Publications, 9/2010

Part personal life coach and part think-for-yourself manual, Birthright provides a model for discovering and using innate guidance instead of adopting the belief of outside sources. Drawing on her personal experiences, Jane Fleming finds her true voice through Birthright’s lessons and uses this information to direct her own life’s journey. The message?

FOLLOW THE WISDOM WITHIN!

Opening the Gates of the Heart: A Journey of Healing (Hardcover)

By Carolyn CJ Jones
$29.95
ISBN-13: 9780982635209
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Published: Gate Lady Publishing, 10/2010
Opening the Gates of the Heart uses Carolyn CJ Jones’ award-winning photographs of old wrought-iron gates, combined with her uplifting prose, to describe the powerful and compelling journey she experienced during her journey from the depths of despair to joy and inner peace. Read and experience the journey.

Dancing at the Edge of Death: The Origins of the Labyrinth in the Paleolithic (Paperback)

By Jodi Lorimer
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780957832954
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Published: Kharis Enterprises Publishing, 1/2009
How can the labyrinth represent both spiritual journey and Minotaur’s prison? Jodi Lorimer takes readers down fascinating pathways of discovery into ancient painted caves. Her Ariadne’s thread leads to the shaman/artists of Ice Age Europe. Travel the path of the labyrinth and meet the Minotaur as you never have before.

Streetwise Spirituality (Paperback)

By Carol Marleigh Kline
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9781935254263
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Published: Norlightspress.com, 4/2010
Streetwise Spirituality is a practical guide to surviving and thriving in Earth School, this crazy, unpredictable world. Readers reach their own inner teachers – who tell us why we’re here, and how to make love work. Stories and interactive exercises weave insight and spiritual teachings to create the owner’s manual we all needed at birth.

Grace Immersion: A 50-day Plunge Into God’s Amazing Grace (Paperback)

By René Schlaepfer
$12.99
ISBN-13: 9781450731959
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Published: Twin Lakes Church, 9/2010
Is “God” to you mostly a vague feeling of guilt and constant disapproval? Do you have a nagging sense you’re not doing enough? Do you feel guilty when you enjoy yourself? In Grace Immersion, you’ll observe the author’s journey from a guilt-oriented Christianity to a new grace-focused Christian faith.

A Light in the Mind: Living Your Life Just as It Is (Paperback)

By Carolyn Atkinson
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780692007587
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Published: Everyday Dharma Zen Center, 1/2010
Are you waiting for your life to be a little bit different than it is much of the time? Would you like to feel slightly better, so that then you can finally begin to enjoy your life? In this book, Carolyn Atkinson looks directly at the startling and inspiring practice of living our lives right now--just as they are.

The Morning Messages: We Are Here Transmissions (Paperback)

By Peggy Black
$17.95
ISBN-13: 9781935723080
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Published: Motivational Press, Inc., 5/2010

These messages will open new doors and bust down some old doors while stretching your beliefs, and encouraging a fresh ways of looking at reality. It is recommended that you mentally sip them, allowing the ideas to touch the taste buds of your mind, exploding in flavors of incredible, expanded concepts and realizations.

Don't miss Black's companion title Morning Message: Invitations is an inner-active book of forty-four invitations of powerful exercises to expand consciousness as a daily oracle or guide.

Art in My Heart; The Power of Watercolor Mandala Making (Paperback)

By Michele Faia
$27.95
ISBN-13: 9780979935404
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Published: Self-published, 12/2007
Full of mandalas painted by the author and her students, this book presents an original, fun and simple how-to process for learning the beginner’s basics of watercolor and creating mandalas. It is also an inspirational story of how the author discovered how to paint mandalas, then taught others what she’d learned about the power of mandalas as a spiritual and healing tool.
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