When Ghosts Speak

November 1, 2007
Those familiar with the CBS television series "Ghost Whisperer" will recognize Winkowski as the show's paranormal investigator and consultant whose stories have provided much of the framework for the series. Winkowski claims she has been seeing and talking to ghosts for more than 50 years, and she views her life work as helping earthbound spirits cross over into the light. Here, she offers insights in prodigious detail into what it's like to communicate with earthbound spirits. Via a compelling combination of journal, insightful wit, and honest soul search, she clarifies the very notion of ghosts and enables readers to explore this subject without the oversimplification or sensationalism often attributed to ghosts in movies. Libraries seeking a variety of titles on the subject of the paranormal can consider adding this resource. Those seeking to recommend a work blending both an understanding of ghosts and real-life encountersin the vein of Jeff Belanger's "Our Haunted Lives: True Life Ghost Encounters" and Leslie Rule's "Ghosts Among Us: True Stories of Spirit Encounters"will find this a kindred title.Leroy Hommerding, Ft. Myers Beach P.L. Dist., FL

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