About
Charlie Lovett is Writer-in-Residence at Summit School in Winston-Salem, NC. His plays for children have been seen in over 1,000 productions in all 50 states and five foreign countries.
He is the author of 11 previous books, including works on Lewis Carroll and the acclaimed memoir Love, Ruth.
The Program is his first novel.
A Mediums Guide to the Paranormal
Description
<p>Do angels, ghosts and demons really exist, or are they a figment of our over active imagination? Can ghosts, demons and spirits harm you? If you don't believe in them they can't bother you right? How can you protect yourself against the paranormal? Do we live once and it's all over or do we come back time and again to live new lives? In this book, you will gain information about the paranormal from a psychic-mediums perspective. As a psychic medium I have gathered a lot of information about the other side. The book covers over more than 40 years of paranormal related information interspersed with my own personal paranormal encounters. Anyone who is interested in the paranormal including ghosts, demons, orbs and hauntings will enjoy the many topics covered in this book. Those interested in spiritualism, new age topics and metaphysics will find many of the chapters such as past lives, possession and death and the soul connection. People who are experiencing their own paranormal occurrences such as hauntings and spirit attachments will find help and information to help them. People of all ages, walks of life and many religions will find something of interest in the book. Even those who do not believe in the paranormal will enjoy many of the thought provoking topics covered in this book.</p>
Reviews
<strong>Kirkus Reviews</strong> (April 1, 2011)<br /><br />This dynamic theater story stars Aggie, a girl whose enthusiasm, mad
talent and diva qualities lead her astray. Steamed that she doesn’t get
the lead in the school’s production of <em>Hello, Dolly</em> and
convinced it’s because she’s fat, Aggie writes a roman à clef musical.
It features two girls, the fat one an undisguised Aggie, the thin one
suspiciously similar to the girl playing Dolly, Cynthia of the recent
boob job. Aggie’s friends (techie Suzanne, ever-loyal Elliot and
lyricist Cameron) support Aggie’s hostility toward Cynthia despite
knowing it’s unfair: Cynthia’s nice and actually deserved the lead
because of her singing skill. They mount a major production of Aggie’s
show that, astonishingly, succeeds. Aggie’s almost failing math, Cameron
comes out to his parents (and it goes badly) and Aggie resents the
parental support that Karl, her father’s partner, gives Cameron—Aggie’s
possessive of her stepfather’s attention. The prose, sometimes
unpolished and forced but always infused with warmth, brims with
musical-theater references. Unlike most arcs about fat teens, this one
never equates emotional growth with weight loss; Aggie’s refreshingly
non-symbolic fatness is just part of her. Like Elphaba in the song that
Cameron rewrites, Aggie tries defying gravity—and succeeds, musically,
socially and romantically. Given the ratings of <em>Glee</em> and the emerging popularity of teen lit combining queer themes and musicals, this should be a hit. <em>(Fiction. 13 & up)</em>
