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Kris Waldherr

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Kris Waldherr is an award-winning author and illustrator whose books for adults and children include Bad Princess, Doomed Queens, and The Book of Goddesses. The New Yorker praised Doomed Queens as “utterly satisfying” and “deliciously perverse.” The Book of Goddesses was a One Spirit/Book-of-the-Month Club’s Top Ten Most Popular Book. Her picture book Persephone and the Pomegranate was noted by the New York Times Book Review for its “quality of myth and magic.” Waldherr is also the creator of the Goddess Tarot, which has a quarter of a million copies in print. Her Kirkus-starred debut novel The Lost History of Dreams was named a CrimeReads Best Book of the Year and her Unnatural Creatures: A Novel of the Frankenstein Women was an Editor's C ...more

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Doomed Queens

3.77 avg rating — 2,234 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions
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The Lost History of Dreams

3.56 avg rating — 1,665 ratings — published 2019 — 11 editions
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The Book of Goddesses

4.19 avg rating — 372 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions
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Bad Princess: True Tales fr...

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Goddess Tarot Deck and Book...

4.20 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions
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Unnatural Creatures: A Nove...

4.36 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions
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The Lover's Path: An Illust...

4.10 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions
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Persephone and the Pomegran...

4.01 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions
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The Lover's Path Tarot Prem...

4.45 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions
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Harvest

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Kris Waldherr Kris Waldherr said: " I'm delighted to share my latest novel Unnatural Creatures: A Novel of the Frankenstein Women with you. Unnatural Creatures has been a true labor of love that's taken me three years to author. My intent in writing it was to reveal the untold stories ...more "

 

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“Her unusual dark hair and sultry eyes made her stand out--- Anne Boleyn was Tudor England's Angelina Jolie amid a sea of Reese Witherspoons.”
Kris Waldherr, Doomed Queens

“The Executioner shall not have much trouble, for I have a little neck. I shall be known as La Reine Sans Tete”
Kris Waldherr, Doomed Queens

“In ancient times, women who had ceased their monthly flow were believed to hold their life-giving powers within themselves, like the dark moon. They were thought to be creating something powerful with their retained womb blood—pregnant with wisdom instead of new life. Valued and honored in their communities, these sage women had skills and powers no younger woman could possess. Like Hekate, they were crones, crowned”
Kris Waldherr, The Book of Goddesses

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Erik: Are you very tired?
Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead.
Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.”
Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“It is the province of the tarot reader to move backwards, forwards, even sideways in time.”
Sasha Graham, 365 Tarot Spreads: Revealing the Magic in Each Day

“Tarot is always whispering to you. Tarot weaves truth, stories, secrets, and tales. All you need to do is slow down and listen.”
Sasha Graham, Tarot Diva: Ignite Your Intuition, Glamourize Your Life, Unleash Your Fabulousity!

“Her unusual dark hair and sultry eyes made her stand out--- Anne Boleyn was Tudor England's Angelina Jolie amid a sea of Reese Witherspoons.”
Kris Waldherr, Doomed Queens

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