Witches 
October 2024
Adult Nonfiction
The Apprentice Witch's Spell Book
by Marian Green

This collection of more than 40 spells and magic charms, written by experienced witchcraft author Marian Green, is designed to encourage readers to embrace elemental magic, the power of the planets, the magic of time, kitchen witching, and dream weaving to attract magic forces. 
Wild witchcraft : folk herbalism, garden magic, and foraging for spells, rituals, and remedies
by Rebecca Beyer

Learn how to cultivate your own magical garden, harness the power of herbalism, and better connect with nature through practical and sustainable tips from an experienced Appalachian witch forager.
Waking the witch : reflections on women, magic, and power
by Pam Grossman

A practicing witch explains her own journey into witchcraft and how it helped her find strength, empowerment and a deeper purpose while also meditating on why witches have intrigued people for centuries and how they helped shape the modern world.
The book of spells : 150 magickal ways to achieve your heart's desire
by Ella Harrison

With simple, easy-to-follow steps to guide you along on your witchcraft journey, this practical guide to harnessing the power of magical intention to enhance and transform your life shows how to turn your wishes into focused intentions that are at the heart of successful spellcasting.
Royal witches : witchcraft and the nobility in fifteenth-century England
by Gemma Hollman

Follows the lives of four royal women in fifteenth-century England who were accused of using the“dark arts” to influence or kill the king by men who used the specter of witchcraft for political gains.
The Weiser field guide to witches : from hexes to Hermione Granger, from Salem to the Land of Oz
by Judika Illes

Join Illes on a midnight ride through the famous and the infamous witches of history, popular culture, and modern day. Learn the difference between a Gardenerian and a Wiccan. Study the Witches' Travel Guide to visit sacred sites. And discover the truth when you read about How to Tell if YOU are a witch!
Brujas : the magic and power of witches of color
by Lorraine Monteagut

"Witchcraft has made a comeback in popular culture, especially among feminists. A growing subculture of witches, led by Afro-Caribbean immigrants, Indigenous Americans, and other witches of color, are reclaiming their ancestral traditions and contributing their voices to the feminist witchcraft today. Brujas chronicles the magical lives of these practitioners as they develop their healing arts, express their progressive politics, and extend their personal rituals into community activism." 
The modern witchcraft guide to runes : your complete guide to the divination power of runes
by Judy Ann Nock

Teaches readers the history of ancient runes, which hold powerful messages meant to guide and inform, and how to use them in your craft to enhance your magical powers.
Basic witches : how to summon success, banish drama, and raise hell with your coven
by Jaya Saxena

An enchanting lifestyle guide offers readers a“magical” boost to solve problems and get through their day using tongue-in-cheek spells, potions and talismans, complete with historical and pop culture sidebars about witchcraft.
Becoming the witch : the art of magick
by Danae Moon Thorp

""I am a witch" takes the reader through the origins and evolution of witchcraft to sacred thinking to the heart of nature and to ways of creating a magickal life." This is a beginner book but it is different in its tone. The author offers a more lyricaland soft tone that appeals to readers who enjoy the romance of witchcraft lore. Her tone can be almost meditative taking you on the journey at times. With some edits, it could be a unique way to teach the craft."
Adult Fiction 
Dead man's hand
by James J. Butcher

In a Boston divided between the ordinary Usuals and the paranormal Unorthodox, Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby flunks out of magically elite Auditor training and becomes the prime suspect when his former mentor, the most dangerous witch alive, is murdered.
The black bird oracle : a novel
by Deborah Harkness

When the Congregation demands she and Matthew test the magic of their 7-year-old twins, Oxford scholar and witch Diana Bishop, forging a different path, confronts her family's dark past and reckons with her desire for even greater power?— if she can let go of her fear of wielding it.
Old flames and new fortunes : a novel
by Sarah Hogle

Using the language of flowers to help the hopeful manifest their love lives, flora fortunist Romina Tempest, when her shop's potential financier shares news of his wedding, must fake-date her colleague to score an invite, which leads to an unexpected—and unwanted—reunion with the man who broke her heart.
Moon Witch, Spider King
by Marlon James

This second book in the The Dark Star trilogy delves into the world of Sogolon, where she, a 177-year-old witch, tells her side of the story of what happened to a mysterious boy, as well as her century-long feud with the powerful Aesi, chancellor to the king.
Nettle & Bone
by T. Kingfisher

To save her sister and topple a throne, Marra is offered the tools she needs if she completes three seemingly impossible tasks with the help of a disgraced ex-knight, a reluctant fairy godmother and an enigmatic gravewitch and her fowl familiar.
That time I got drunk and saved a demon
by Kimberly Lemming

Saving the fiery demon Fallon, spice trader Cinnamon finds her quiet life turned upside down when he drags her along on his quest to kill an evil witch enslaving his people.
The very secret society of irregular witches
by Sangu Mandanna

Breaking all the rules, Mika Moon travels to the mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic and, as she gets close to the House's residents, must decide whether to risk everything to protect a found family she didn't know she was looking for.
It takes a coven
by Carol J Perry

When her best friend, River, fears she may have somehow unleashed a terrible curse on the city, Lee Barrett, with some help from Poe and her clairvoyant cat, investigates unexplained deaths in the Wiccan community, which result in a shockingly wicked revelation.
The witches of Cambridge : a novel
by Menna van Praag

Estranged from her beloved fellow witches by secrets, art-history professor Amadine wishes that her empathic abilities could extend to the mind-reading gift of her student, Noa, who considers her powers a curse and takes a reckless chance to get rid of them..
Lolly Willowes, or, The loving huntsman / : Or the Loving Huntsman
by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Lolly Willowes is a twenty-eight-year-old spinster when her adored father dies, leaving her dependent upon her brothers and their wives. After twenty years of self-effacement as a maiden aunt, she decides to break free and moves to a small Bedfordshire village. Here, happy and unfettered, she enjoys her new existence nagged only by the sense of a secret she has yet to discover. That secret and her vocation is witchcraft and with her cat and a pact with the Devil, Lolly Willowes is finally free.