Books by Patsy Stanley

A stock pot of romance is simmering between Chefs Lady Pepper King and Sir Basil G. Soupstone while Arabella, the Spy Cat, sneakily searches the restaurant for Chef Pepper King's secret recipe. A light hearted, illustrated short story involving two chefs, a restaurant in a Big City, a spy cat named Arabella, with a bunch of RV's and trailers ready to hit the road. Chef's Creed included! A 30 page 6x9" Hardback.

Twenty seven pages of illustrations of skaters and a lovely little short story about an outdoor impromptu ice skating party make up this 6"x9" picture book. Story and delicate illustrations done by Patsy Stanley, the author and illustrator.

Jim, Dossie and Hector leave their families behind to go on the road, working, traveling, and living in different places. The three of them become enthusiastic students of Nature''s magic as they learn about Nature''s ways and Beings, including elves, fairies and all manner of Nature''s folk. The magic of their life suits them until a parting of the ways looms on the horizon, and an endurance contest begins between Jim and Dossie. Then new thoughts must be thought, and new roads traveled. This plain and simple story is particularly for those whose soul might be partial to the color blue.

Billy Silly Beak and Pearl, the Purple Eared Bird Girl, live in a cold northern land of black and white. Pearls'' purple ears are the only color in the landscape for Billy Silly beak, but he fights his attraction to her because she is so different. Pearl doesn''t follow the local social structures or worry about them, instead, she listens to the Wind''s advice, sometimes wears pink earmuffs, and does what Nature leads her to do. Lonesome and proud Billy Silly Beak doesn''t know what to do about Pearl. A winter love story between two birds. 25 pages- a 6x9" book involving Billy Silly Beak, Pearl the Purple Eared Bird Girl, and Moody Zamboni, the Ice Floe Boy who is supposed to come to the rescue.

Two well behaved birds, Chirpy and Cheep Cheep, live in a suburb under a tree house. They go about their days as usual, flying here and there, checking out their neighborhood and returning home to discuss any changes each evening. But one day, Chirpy becomes adventurous and doesn''t follow his usual route. Instead, he takes a much longer route and returns home with a set of false teeth in his mouth. How he got them and where and what happens next in this unexpected turn of events becomes Chirpy''s Montana Adventure. A humorous short adventure. 25 pages. Illustrations and story created by the author for all age readers.

Susan Sugar DIamond, Away in a Desert is # 4 in the ongoing Desert store series. In the earlier series, Mama loses Cowboy Johnson unexpectedly and flees to The Makepeace Ranch to hide out with his ashes just before Christmas while a huge blizzard stops most of the misfits from going home to the desert store for their yearly Christmas gathering. But the desert store does not stay empty. Arrivals are expected. Timmon, Hector, and Annie await the appearance of Cowboy Johnson''s angry father Matthew, but unexpected guests show up first, beginning with Susan Sugar Diamond and Lana English. Perry, Matthews other son, decides to stay out at the ranch with William the Dude, Emma, and Mama. An intensely moving and luminous gathering of people who have all reached a crossroads in their lives and are trying to figure out how to move on. This is book number four in the fascinating, humorous and touching lives played out in the Desert Store series. We know each of them by now. They are familiar friends. Each of the characters are living out many of the same issues we have. We have made them our allies because of their Goodness and abilities, they are like ourselves and they stand by us, sharing their thoughts and feelings and lives with us. 205 pages.  

In book number one in the "Desert Store" series, Mama and Geena, both misfit psychics, flee their desperate situation and come across a gas station-turned-grocery store in the New Mexico desert. Mama nicknames the store owner Cowboy Johnson after she hears his name wrong. He is not a cowboy, but a lover of classic cars. He is the person they've been searching for. They move into the store, which gradually fills with other misfits and hermits. To accommodate everyone, William the Dude( Geena's nickname for him) and Cowboy Johnson build a motel, restaurant, and gift shop called Cowboy Johnson's Desert Oasis. Each year, the misfits gather at the store to celebrate Christmas and support one another. This heartwarming story takes readers back to a time defined by open roads and endless love.

Emerald Hawks, an Appalachian mountain girl, has inherited the Healer's abilities passed down through her mother's generations. Emerald loves her mountain home, and is learning the Healer's ways when her father uproots their large family and moves north to find work. Shy and reticent, Bolen and Thursta, Emerald's mother and father, her brothers West and Hank, sisters Lottie and Lucy, and Neil and Flint, a cousin and a nephew, share their tribulations and laughter while encountering the ways of their challenging new world. A strongly flavored story of a southern mountain home lost to a small girls' time, a home she3 can never go back to. This coming of age story is an unforgettable journey through a young girl's childhood that will touch your heart and cling to your spirit. An unforgettable read! 339 pages. 6"x9" available in PB and E-book.

  Avalon Blue, past sixty, hides the secret initiations holding her hostage, forcing her to stay a loner traveling the world in eccentric clothes of her own design. In Winter’s Lee, a small northern fishing village, she meets Lucian and Melanie, cousins and best friends who have settled in Winter’s Lee, planning to be bored and lonely until their demise from old age.  That is, until an unexpected, muddy, squalling little messenger flings itself into their arms, bringing a new emotional, imaginative, journey involving Shamans, animal totem, tattoos and a mysterious island into their lives.     An inspiring, humorous story woven through with ageless magic, a story where the never ending expansion of the soul meets love in daily life.    

 Addition Jones fled Cross Grove as a young man after the town accused him of murder. No one ever heard from him again. Now middle-aged, successful, and wealthy, but still haunted by his old life and his ridiculous name, he decides to return to his hometown to put his past to rest. With great malice and intent to do as much harm as he can, Grady Miller flings the name Addition Jones and what he did to him in his daughter Nell’s face, then dies. Nell grabs on to the name and sets out to right the wrongs her father did to Addition Jones. They meet and a battle between good and evil, love and hate begins, played out between two lonely outcasts and a town that doesn’t like to forgive its own sins.   

  A Christmas romance about two lonely hearts, Big Al and Vetta, living in the big city, featuring a bakery, a music shop, and an airplane. Humorous black and white illustrations by the author, 8.5”x11”, 63 pages. A short, fun, romantic Christmas read.   

  Wizard Reuben Ashtar, and later, his son Foxglove, attended the Great Homnom School of Wizardry, where the  headmasters, in self defense from their odiferous cheese grating, grumbling ways, hastily designated each one in turn, Official Dreadful Noise Controllers, and sent them out into the world to conquer any Dreadful Noises they encountered. It was a position they each held with mostly no degree of success, but one that afforded vast relief from cheese grating and grumbling to the headmasters and other wizardry school students.  After many years Wizard Reuben Ashtar retired and after laying about a long while, he decided to build Landoshar, a magic kingdom for children. Wisely, he set aside a part of Landoshar for the Dreadful Noises and put them in it, but everyone knows they are most excellent escape artists, and very good at causing embarrassment.  Everything went along as planned until the magic land of Landoshar was almost finished; then Reuben made a doleful discovery! Many of the odorous, cheese grating Dreadful Noises he had chased for many years, mostly without any success, had escaped and were busy scaring away the elves, trolls, fairies, and the other magic beings living in Landoshar! Reuben and Foxglove set out to find the Dreadful Noises and return them to their part of Landoshar, but as we know, most numerous, naughty Dreadful Noises have other plans. Find out what they are up to and where they might strike next on their adventures with Wizard Reuben Ashtar and Foxglove!  

"An Older Wine" is a collection of short stories starring a cast of memorable, eccentric characters. Prepare to dive deep into unexpected developments and heartwarming humor in the undaunted, endearing snapshots of life in this endearing book. In "Blackberry Beach" and "Randy Purvis" a modest, homespun, homesick woman sends inspiration to her faraway family in the form of homemade blackberry jam, and attends a concert under the stars. Join her in picking the blackberries and in the kitchen while she makes the jam and while she dances on the bleachers under the stars. In "Thanksgiving Dinner at the Car Parts Factory", an older woman recalls the turkey dinner that changed her life when she was the youngest employee on the third floor of a car parts factory, with big troubles at home. In "Charlie's Big Fish Story" a bunch of advertising guys play a fish prank on their too solemn boss with unexpectedly confusing and hilarious results. Lending a fresh perspective to handling life's situations, this collection of short stories is plainly human, without any frills, always surprising, and sometimes hilarious. The stories in "An Older Wine" book are emotional, humorous, sympathetic, intense reads.

Red Leaf is a young Native American boy whose grandfather is teaching him the traditions of the sacred path their ancestors walked. First, Red Leaf learns to be a Fire Keeper. Then he goes in the sweat lodge and then out on vision quest. Later, he dances and his family holds a giveaway feast for him. The Rituals are honored and powerful and purposeful. The preparations and traditional rituals described in this charming, coming of age story were practiced long ago, and are still practiced today.    

An isolated, high mountain village of indigenous people called the Mokie lose their Shaman. With no Shaman to guide them, the Mokie abandon their old traditional ways. The young Mokie grow up with no spiritual traditions to help them understand their home and hold them there. Their roots loose, they seek new places and begin to cross the Green Mountains and settle into the cities on the other side. The older Mokie mourn the loss of their traditions and their young people. They grow more and more hopeless until one day, a strong winter storm blows a large noisy black crow and an oddly dressed newcomer into their village. Is the stranger the Shaman they need to save their old traditions and make their way of life better again?   

The mental body energies lie between the astral body energies and the lower sub-planes of the soul body. This book offers a brief metaphysical explanation of how the mental body utilizes the energies of four basic time frames - from past lives through this lifetime, now,and into to the future - to direct its workings.

  This book combines a philosophical, scientific, and metaphysical view on life and the Matter that exists in all of life.When developing a spiritual understanding of the five basic elemental energies, fire, air, earth, water, and ether, one comes to understand the feminine nature of life, its magnetism, organization, responsibilities, and how everything connects.This book is about understanding the larger, universal, spiritual nature of women. It offers a brief explanation of the spiritual nature of the elements, their power and organic spirituality, and its spiritual practitioners. From there, the character of hue-mans, their environment, including the universe, can be intuited and re-organized. Approximately 85 pages.