When Remy O'Malley discovered her dual identity as a Healer and Protector, she went into hiding, but now someone is trying to draw her out by using her kidnapped father as bait and she will need every friend she has to save him.
Recounts the true story of Quang Van Nguyen, an orphan who was adopted by Thau, a sixty-four-year-old monk, who taught Nguyen an ancient form of Chinese medicine and shared his love of animals, nature, and life with his adopted son.
Philip Smith shares his memories of his father, a psychic healer who cured thousands of people, and describes what it was like to grow up in 1960s Miami with such a unique lifestyle.
Imprisoned by her wicked and power-hungry mother, Lady Rhiannon, Gwenore escapes to a women's healing community, later changing her name and becoming nursemaid and protector to the children of the magical king of Lir, who is now married to Rhiannon.
A child in Africa tells about the different jobs performed by his relatives, but has a special feeling for the work done by his grandfather, an expert in the traditional healing arts.
Josefina hopes to become a "curandera" or healer like Tia Magdalena, and she is tested just before her tenth birthday when a friend receives a potentially fatal snakebite.
Fourteen-year-old Clara Luna spends the summer with her grandparents in the tiny, remote village of Yucuyoo, Mexico, learning about her grandmother's life as a healer, her father's decision to leave home for the United States, and her own place in the world.
Marina and Fern, eager to learn magic just for fun, convince Xochitl to ask her grandmother, a curandera, to teach them, and as her apprentices the three learn about casting spells, healing, and life.
