Access to the books

It's been a good long while since we've had a listing of all the books, and Christmas is right around the corner for the kid programs to which all of the proceeds from on line sales are donated ... so here's the lineup:

You'll find all of the below with their links for more information about the books at MY WEBSITE ... or you can just do your clicking from here for any book you want to look at! The best deal for the kids is for you to use these links for print books; not sure how it works but they get a better percentage! Kindle also has all of these, as does Amazon.

(ps: don't ask me why Danann is out of line - he often is)

  

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The seven Mamm Speaks books contain the STORY part of the Mamm Books - the Family Story that Mamm (and other Voices at times) tells to the younger generations. 

We've brought them out for a couple of reasons.

One is that I've long wondered what kind of a read just that story line alone would be like, without being set into the current generations. So I've finally gone ahead and gotten that story line into a 'stand alone' format. And it WORKS! That 'history' story line really can and does stand alone, a mighty fine read independently of the other 'today' twining story line.

The other is that some of our readers have requested some books with LARGE PRINT so that they can more easily read them. The 'history' story line of these books, together with (next up!) the short stories, seem a natural choice for these readers. 

Rather than the massive missive that resulted when I had that 'history' story line of the Mamm Books sorted out from the 'today' part, it's been divided into seven more manageable parts. 

Otherwise it would have been a book the equivalent of almost two full reams of paper, MUCH too big to handle. They're on 8 1/2 by 11 paper, and the font is set at 18.

So that's it for the time being. 

We've still got another short story book called SNARK ... and more from the Younglings, adventures they're having 'in real life' as well as the ones they get themselves into at the 'play pretend' clearing in the forest.

The rest of the adult Characters' books will come out as they get written. Alianora's timeline is from 500-800 CE, 

Sass has 800-1100, 

Caileen's will be 1100-1400, 

Aine's got 1400-1700, 

I reckon the Younglings will manage to get us through from 1700 to the Present one way or another (they're looking forward to America's Wild West days!), 

and the adult Dunnottar Folk Lineages, together with the Characters who are now among the Sidhe of the Ages, will have to take us from NOW to and through the FUTURE when Danann and Sidhelagh get back (see DANANN).

I'm afraid there are wars of all kinds yet to be fought by all and sundry of the generations of this our family ... some historic and some still ahead of our Now ... peace does come but it is oh too dearly bought. We have such a very long path ahead of us.

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It is in this little book that we begin to discover some of the directions the coming books of SONG might be taking and the Characters who will people them.

We also get a chance to fill in some of the bits and pieces from the Mamm Books. 

 - Sass and her travel companions of her Pilgrimage Journey (Sampson the horse and David and Goliath the Dogs of War) take a detour on the Spiral to stop in at the Dimension of the Ancient Greek Gods ... 

 - Talorc and Caileen are outraged at the behavior of a town they happen across on their own Journey ... 

 - Alianora and Drustann run into a 'situation' but it is Dothann who takes charge when the adults hesitate ... 

 - The Warrior Twins take a day just for themselves for once ... 

 - Rua wants to know where the snow comes from and starts out to find the answer for herself - but Danann has a Story for her ... 

 - On the day they meet Kalann Aine remembers the day Brann's father died, and Brann's own bloody birth ... 

 - A rare scene with young Danann and Sidhelagh, newly married and on their Journey, as they meet up with Mamm who is itching to send Attila packing once and for all ... 

 - What happens when far in the future Loki and Aduan team up with the Giants of the Nors, looking to come to the Realm of Earth for a bit of a rampage? ...

 - A sneak peek at what LittleMamm and David, Samm and Sarr, are finding in the Far Western Lands ...

 - Again far in the future, our Family takes to Pioneering - in the Stars - and a young Alianora is left as Keeper of the Faith and a task she does not want ...

 - Merri and Sidhelagh are in the branches of the Grove; by the time Danann catches up with them they are with the Geats in Sweden, flying there on the wings of Eagles. But is this story in the ancient Past ... or the Far Future ... ?

 - Ullin is called to Stonehaven when some lost-looking youths show up. We find out what those giant Worm droppings are all about, but the youths don't.

 - In their twenties, Brann, Dothann, and Rua take a break from their studies to start a town near Lindesfarne down in Britannia ... 

 - At fifteen Rua questions Mamm about Family Matters and learns a bit more about the Family's origins ... 

 - Diann and Corrbed take the young cousins Colum, Saorsa, Marra, and Mamm the Younger to the 'play pretend' clearing in the Forest. We find out a little more about the roles of Dedan and Saba, and see what these four young cousins are like at age ten or so. Since we haven't seen them since they were infants, the change is considerable.

 -- Also included are some of the adventures of the Younglings of Dunnottar from their own books: 

 - Catan takes Brann to meet some of her own Kin; 

 - Diann and Brann save an infant of the Sea Folk, and get an earful; 

 - Corrbed, Brann, and Diann find themselves in the Court of Croesus and Thales teaches them a thing or two or three; 

 - Rua drags the lot of them along with her to Skye because she wants Scathach to make her a Warrior, only to find trouble that dragons have to get them out of; 

 - and we are with the Younglings as they struggle to find their way through the anger and pain their young lives have already brought to them. They are devastated when their Heroes fail - even Hera, Loki, Scathach, Alexander the Great, Brann the Blessed, and Boudicca cannot see in the darkness of the world in which our Younglings of Dunnottar must make their way.

Who Do You Think You Are!?

To those who ask this question, the answer lies in another question:

'Who' I am? What does that matter? Am I not, to you, 'who' you think I am, 'who' you see me as?

Who do you think you are?

Are we not all God's Children?

I am a Daughter of the Creator and the Holy Spirit, Sister to Jesus, as are you Daughter and Sister, or Son and Brother. The titles are ours by birthright, gifts of the Holy Trinity, whether we claim them or not.

Because part of the gift is also freedom to choose to accept or to reject the path we are given. Choosing Acceptance carries the responsibility of Being, to the best of our ability, Daughters and Sons of God - yet even Rejection can be reversed; therein lies Hope ... and Mercy ... 

See, the Creator knows who we are, has known us since before our births, each and all of us.

Heaven knows we are not perfect Beings. We're going to fall flat on our faces time and again, we're going to get tired and cranky and whiny, we're going to know fear and pain and loss, we're going to doubt ourselves and the Creator who made us, we're going to say, 'What, are You crazy? We can't do this! We don't want to do this. We're falling down exhausted, our feet hurt, our backs are killing us, our hearts and wills are broken ... You're nuts if you think we can just keep going the way we are!' 

And then, just when we're absolutely positive that we can't and won't carry on any further comes another breath, another bit of strength, a little more will ... and we take just one more step. And another. And another.

By that third step we might be coming to realize something.

We don't have to do this thing, whatever it may be, all alone.

For one thing, we have one another. When the time comes that each and all of us are about to go down in flames, we look around us and know that together we're going to make it through that next step, and the next, and the next. And so we do.

More importantly, when we've reached the end of our collective rope will come something we may have been too tired, too hurt, too disheartened to have thought much about. And within us something will stir; we'll find what it takes to get us the rest we need, the healing we need, the heart and the will that we need.

That, my friend, is a part of the gift as well.

Do you think the Spirit who dwells within us each and all doesn't know full well (having been a part of many more than just us from the dawn of Creation) that we're going to become tired and cranky and whiny, know fear and loss and doubt, fall flat on our faces? 

When those times are upon us we'll find that sure enough we aren't strong enough, we aren't smart enough, we aren't tough enough, we aren't anything enough.

We aren't.

We don't have to be.

Someone Else already is.

Someone already has our aching backs. And our hurting feet. And our broken hearts, our exhausted wills.

What we are given to do we will also be given the means to do.

When we realize that, something inside of us relaxes. The absence of tensions we weren't even aware of frees up our own internal resources - believe that because it's true. It also opens a door, or a window perhaps, or maybe even just a bit of a chink in our walls (it doesn't really take all that much) that Hope can walk through, or come in like a breeze, or sneak up on us unexpectedly.

Such a simple thing, but so very hard to find out how to do - yet all we have to do is do it.

We are given a Command: Fear Not

That's not just a suggestion, folks.

That's a Command.

And it's followed by a Promise: I am with you

In other words: Don't worry. I've got this.

All that's required of us is to do the best we can with what we have to work with at any given time. What we need will come when it is most needed.

We, each and all, are gifted before birth with everything we'll ever need. We are known, cherished, Children of the Creator. 

So really ... think about it ... 

Someone who created the universes tells us, 'Don't worry. I've got this,' and proves it time and time and time again - and we're still fretting and fussing?

Well yeah, we are. 

Not that it does us any good. 

We've been doing it since we were old enough to know what worry is, we're doing it now, and we'll continue to do it. Probably most of us will spend our entire grown up lives that way - because we tend to forget that we are Children, Daughters and Sons, Sisters and Brothers, of ... hmmm ... 

Do you remember the powerful arms of your father from when you were a very little child? The comforting ones of your mother? The hugs of a strong sibling? Not worrying about stuff like bills and fatigue and pain and all that?

Yep.

Guess what.

Confidence in yourself is not required. Strength of your own isn't mandatory.

And it doesn't really matter a whit 'who' you are or 'who' you are not in your own eyes or in the eyes of others. You are not just your own self. You have never been 'only' anything or anyone. There's no 'only' about you, never has been. God doesn't create us to be 'only'; we are created to be Daughters and Sons, Sisters and Brothers.

So:

Who Do You Think You Are!?

Who Are Alaric and Mamm Without One Another?

And who are Mamm and Dannan of Perth?
Who Alianora and Forr?
Who MammTwo and Ethan?
Who the Warrior Twins?
Who LittleMamm and David?
Who Mamm and Alaric?
Who Joan and Davidson?
Who the Cousin Twins?
Who Julia and LittleEthan?
Who Galla Placidia and Ataulf?
Who Honoria and Gowan?
Who Sidhelagh and Danann?
Who Alianora and Drustann?
Who Sass and Thann?
Who Caileen and Talorc?
Who Aine and Kalann?
Who Tinne and Nion?
Who Saille and Coll?
Who Ullin and the Queen Harp?

These are the Warriors of Mamm of Dunnottar.

Having spent a great deal of time with them just lately, I know them pretty well.

They are individual Characters, make no mistake about that.

Yet you will never find one without their partner nearby, in spirit if not in life.

Now I may be slow, but I do catch on.

These couples are inseparable.

Each and all of them are living love stories.

You can't take any of them away from their partner; each would be incomplete without the other. 

They need each other.

And their love for each other changes history, creating a new future.

At the hearth of Dunnottar Mamm tells her own Story, hers and Alaric’s. It twines in and out, over and under, the Stories of them all.

The family is busy by day, but of an evening it is the Story they want. It connects them with their heritage, reminds them of the Legacy that is theirs to Protect and Preserve, and teaches them that they do indeed have within themselves all that they need to do what they have to do when they have to do it.

The Legacy?

Faith

Family

Friends

Freedom

Future

I have no fear of using the ‘F’ words.