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Author
Series
Cass Neary novels volume 4
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Cass Neary needs cash to get home to New York, and she’s already sold her camera - like losing a limb, for a photographer of her experience. Her best chance is to get in on the deal that Griffin, an old flame, is about to cut with a notoriously particular bookseller for a gorgeous, ancient illuminated manuscript: The Book of Lamps and Banners. This Book is more than just a beautiful object - its text and images are said to have a powerful...
42) The 49th mystic
Author
Series
Beyond the circle volume 1
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Some say the great mystery of how one can live in two worlds at once died with Thomas Hunter many years ago. Still others that the gateway to that greater reality was and is only the stuff of dreams. They are wrong. In the small town of Eden, Utah, a blind girl named Rachelle Matthews is about to find out just how wrong. When a procedure meant to restore Rachelle's sight goes awry, she begins to dream of another world so real that she wonders if...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It stinks that Danny's older brother moved out and went to college. But you know what's worse? He left behind an angry ghost in his room! With the help of his friends Nat and Gus, Danny interviews everyone his Brooklyn neighborhood to find out about spirits. Is it an Arabian ghoul? A Korean gwishin? A Polish haunting? Maybe the answer lies with Danny's own bubbe and her tales of a dybbuk, a Jewish mythological ghost. Regardless of its origins, what...
45) Tsarina
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Within the walls of Russia's Winter Palace, Natalya seeks a magical Faberge egg containing the power of the land and the mystics, that promises a life of love for her and Alexei Romanov and the preservation of Romanov Russia.
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The sleeping figure on the cover hints at the dream logic that drives this visual feast of a graphic novel. It can't all be explained, and it isn't meant to be explained. Ron Regé, Jr. is one of the singular cartoonists of his generation, an unusual but skilled stylist and storyteller with an acutely passionate moral and idealistic core that stands out amongst his peers. Halcyon is a spiritual cousin to Regé's 2012 graphic novel The Cartoon Utopia,...
49) The Tao of physics: an exploration of the parallels between modern physics and Eastern mysticism
Author
Publisher
Shambhala Publications
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Studies similarities between the concept of a harmonious universe that emerges from the theories of modern physics and the vision of a continuously interactive world conceived by Eastern mystics.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era-tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft-even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific thinking grappled with events deemed impossible by its leading intellectuals. Eire observes how levitating saints and flying witches...
Author
Publisher
Topple Books/Little A
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"For centuries, women who emerge as mystic leaders have played vital roles in American culture. For just as long, they've been subjugated and ridiculed. Today, women and others across the nation are once again turning to their mystic powers to #HexThePatriarchy and help fight the forces that seem bent on relegating them to second-class citizenry. Amid this tumult, Lucile Scott looks to the past and the stories of five women over three centuries to...
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