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Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

BREN BROWN - Random House
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A timely and important new book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture, from the #1 bestselling author of Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of ImperfectionHELLO...
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Yoga and the Pursuit of Happiness: A Guide to Finding Joy in Unexpected Places

Sam Chase - New Harbinger Publications
Format: eBook

Enlightenment isn't a strange, mystical, or faraway place. It's a fundamental human experience available to us all in different ways and in different moments.Learn how the ancient philosophy of yoga, modern neuroscience, and positive psychology can help you discover your life's...
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Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Harpercollins
Format: Hardcover

Continuing her journey from a deeply religious Islamic upbringing to a post at Harvard, the brilliant, charismatic and controversial New York Times and Globe and Mail #1 bestselling author of Infidel and Nomad makes a powerful plea for a Muslim Reformation as the only way to end the horrors...
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UFO Hunters Book Two

William J Birnes - Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Format: Print book

A young girl digs up a thousand-year-old humanoid skull from a cave in northern Mexico. But the skull contains no human DNA.An amateur videographer taking footage of lights over Mount Shasta, California, captures a giant floating triangle on tape. It's not a plane. It's not a helicopter....
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Judas: The Most Hated Name in History

Peter Stanford - Counterpoint, 2016.
Format: Print book

In this fascinating historical and cultural biography, Peter Stanford deconstructs that most vilified of Bible characters: Judas Iscariot, who famously betrayed Jesus with a kiss. Beginning with the gospel accounts, Stanford explores two thousand years of cultural and theological history...
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Emergence : seven steps for radical life change

Derek Rydall - Atria Books/Beyond Words, 2015.
Format: Print book

"Are you struggling to improve something about yourself--your health, your mindset, your relationships? Throw aside the self-help books and recognize this one simple, radical truth: the answer is already in you. The harder we try to change, the deeper in the hole we get. We find a new partner...
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The Secret

Rhonda Byrne - Atria Books/Beyond Words; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it. In this...
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The Power of Mercury: Understanding Mercury Retrograde and Unlocking the Astrological Secrets of Communication

Leslie Mcguirk - Harperelixir
Format: Print book

A lively guide to surviving and thriving during Mercury Retrograde - and to unlocking the astrological secrets of Mercury, the planet that rules communication.Mercury Retrograde: We've all heard about its effects. E-mails disappear into black holes. Flights are delayed and trains run late....
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The Science of Enlightenment: How Meditation Works

Shinzen Young - Sounds True
Format: Print book

Enlightenment - is it a myth or is it real? Across time and culture, inner explorers have discovered that the liberated state is a natural experience, as real as the sensations you are having right now. For decades, one of the most engaging teachers of our time has illuminated the many...
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Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions

Phil Zuckerman - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

David Brooks, The New York TimesAs secularism becomes more prominent and self-confident, its spokesmen have more insistently argued that secularism should not be seen as an absence as a lack of faith but rather as a positive moral creed. Phil Zuckerman, a Pitzer College sociologist, makes...
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Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

Bill Nye - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful...
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Aliens: The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Jim Al-Khalili - Picador
Format: Print book

In these lively and fascinating essays, scientists from around the world weigh in on the latest advances in the search for intelligent life in the universe and discuss just what that might look like. Since 2000, science has seen a surge in data and interest on several fronts related to E.T....
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Islamic Fascism

Hamed Abdel-Samad - Prometheus Books, 2016.
Format: Print book

This polemic against Islamic extremism highlights the striking parallels between contemporary Islamism and the 20th-century fascism embodied by Hitler and Mussolini. Like those infamous ideologies, Islamism today touts imperialist dreams of world domination, belief in its inherent superiority,...
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Make Me One with Everything: Buddhist Meditations to Awaken from the Illusion of Separation

Lama Surya Das - Sounds True
Format: Print book

What did the Dalai Lama say to the hot dog vendor? "Make me one with everything!" It's a familiar joke, muses Lama Surya Das, and one that holds a profound truth: that in addition to inner peace, meditation is a path for all-inclusive connection. In Make Me One with Everything,...
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How Would Buddha Act?: 801 Right-Action Teachings for Living with Awareness and Intention

Barbara Ann Kipfer - New Harbinger Publications
Format: Print book

How much better would our lives be if we fully understood the consequences of our actions, and if we stopped to think before acting or reacting? Based on the Buddhist teachings of Right Action, this inspirational guide will help you gain insight into the importance of your actions, improve...
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The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition

Julia Cameron - Penguin Books
Format: Print book

"Without The Artist's Way, there would have been no Eat, Pray, Love." - Elizabeth GilbertSince it was first published twenty-five years ago, The Artist's Way has inspired millions to overcome the limiting beliefs and fears that inhibit the creative process. The Artist's...
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Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

SHARON SALZBERG - FLATIRON Books
Format: Print book

We all yearn for connection, yet often feel trapped by our sense of isolation, anger, and envy. Ultimately, our minds get in the way of fulfilling this yearning; we spin stories and assumptions around in our heads that keep us feeling alienated from one another. In Real Love, bestselling...
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Mamaleh Knows Best: What Jewish Mothers Do to Raise Successful, Creative, Empathetic, Independent Children

Marjorie Ingall - Harmony
Format: Print book

We all know the stereotype of the Jewish mother: Hectoring, guilt-inducing, clingy as a limpet. In Mamaleh Knows Best, Tablet Magazine columnist Marjorie Ingall smashes this tired trope with a hammer. Blending personal anecdotes, humor, historical texts, and scientific research,...
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Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

Bill Nye - St Martins Pr
Format: Hardcover

"Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful...
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The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained

Whitley Strieber - Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Format: Print book

Two of today's maverick authors on anomalous experience present a perception-altering and intellectually thrilling analysis of why the paranormal is real, but radically different from what is conventionally understood.Whitley Strieber (Communion) and Jeffrey J. Kripal (J. Newton...
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Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis

Annie Jacobsen - Little
Format: Print book

The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena, from the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Pentagon's Brain and international bestseller Area 51.
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The Hand on the Mirror: A True Story of Life Beyond Death

Janis Heaphy Durham - Grand Central Publishing; First Edition / First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

An unbelievably believable story about the afterlife, with documenting photographs from the former publisher of a major metropolitan newspaper. In 2004, Janis Heaphy Durham's husband, Max Besler, died of cancer at age 56. The daughter of a Presbyterian minister, she practiced her faith...
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The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness

John Yates - Atria Books
Format: Paperback

A revolutionary, science-based approach to meditation from a neuroscientist turned meditation master, The Mind Illuminated is an accessible, step-by-step toolkit for anyone looking to start - or improve - their daily meditation practice.The book that bestselling meditation teacher Sharon...
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The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy

Cyndi Dale - Sounds True; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Welcome to the first comprehensive encyclopedia of the human energetic anatomy. Here is a reference that no personal or professional health-care library should be without-an in-depth, illustrated guide to the invisible energies of the spirit, psyche, and consciousness that influence every...
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Introduction to Islam

Tariq Ramadan - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback

Whether the issue is violence, terrorism, women's rights, or slavery, Muslims today are expected to provide answers and to justify what Islam is-or is not. But little opportunity exists, either in the media or in society as a whole, to describe Islam. In simple, direct language, An Introduction...
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Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

Rebecca Pacheco - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover

From an acclaimed master yoga teacher and creator of one of the most popular yoga blogs on the Internet comes a contemporary guide to the full mind-body practice, combining intention and enlightenment with athleticism and physicality.While the practice of yoga encourages fitness, its benefits...
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The Lovers: Afghanistan's Romeo and Juliet, the True Story of How They Defied Their Families and Escaped an Honor Killing

Rod Nordland - Ecco
Format: Print book

A riveting, real-life equivalent of The Kite Runner - an astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women's rights in the Muslim world.Zakia and Ali were from different tribes,...
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Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East

Gerard Russell - Tantor Audio; Unabridged CD edition
Format: Audio CD

Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distinctive and strange faiths: one regards the Greek prophets as incarnations of God, another reveres Lucifer in the form of a peacock, and yet another believes that their followers are reincarnated...
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Living in a Mindful Universe: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Heart of Consciousness

Eben Alexander - Rodale Books
Format: Hardcover

Dr. Eben Alexander, author of international phenomenon Proof of Heaven, shares the next phase of his journey to understand the true nature of consciousness and how to cultivate a state of harmony with the universe and our higher purpose.In 2008, Dr. Eben Alexander's brain was severely...
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Living Truth: The Path of Light

Miao Tsan - Bright Sky Press
Format: Paperback

In The Living Truth, Venerable Master Miao Tsan explains the cause of our problems and how to resolve them by living according to the universal Truth of life. Distilling the wisdom presented in his previous books and lectures, this book shows us, in simple and direct terms, how to overcome...
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Advanced Shamanism: The Practice of Conscious Transformation

James Endredy - Bear & Company
Format: Paperback

A step-by-step guide to authentic advanced shamanic practices * Offers hands-on instructions for more than 30 practices, including sacred Fire ceremonies, direct shamanic viewing, shamanic death and rebirth, working with healing stones, shamanic lucid dreaming, shamanic healing, and advanced...
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Facing East: Ancient Health and Beauty Secrets for the Modern Age

Jingduan Yang - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

In Facing East, Dr. Jingduan Yang, a fifth-generation practitioner of Chinese medicine and a respected authority in integrative medicine, joins forces with style icon and wellness advocate Norma Kamali to reveal the ancient healing secrets, adapted for the modern age, that will help preserve,...
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There Were Giants Upon the Earth: Gods, Demigods, and Human Ancestry: The Evidence of Alien DNA

Zecharia Sitchin - Bear & Company; First Ed 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

The crowning work of the best-selling Earth Chronicles series • Reveals the existence of physical evidence of alien presence on Earth in the distant past • Identifies and describes the demigods, such as Gilgamesh, descended from these visitors • Outlines the tests of this...
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And Breathe: The Complete Guide to Conscious Breathing for Health and Happiness

Rebecca Dennis - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Paperback

The next step beyond the yoga and mindfulness trends: a program dedicated to the art of conscious breathing with techniques to combat stress, boost energy, and improve overall healthIf you've ever heard anyone tell you to "just breathe" when you are stressed or even just...
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Love the Home You Have

Melissa Michaels - Harvest House Publishers
Format: eBook

What if the house of your dreams is the home you have? Meet Melissa Michaels, creator of the popular blog The Inspired Room and the best contentment coach you’ll ever meet. With humor and candor Melissa reveals how to transform your rooms (and your life) from plainly livable to fabulously...
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How The Secret Changed My Life: Real People. Real Stories.

Rhonda Byrne - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

An awe-inspiring compilation of the most uplifting and powerful real-life stories from readers of the worldwide bestseller The Secret. Discover how everyday people completely transformed their lives by applying the teachings of The Secret.Since the very first publication of The...
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Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World

Katherine Zoepf - Penguin Press
Format: Print book

For more than a decade, Katherine Zoepf has lived in or traveled throughout the Arab world, reporting on the lives of women, whose role in the region has never been more in flux. Only a generation ago, female adolescence as we know it in the West did not exist in the Middle East. There...
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Greatest love

Zhi Gang Sha - Benbella Books

Feel the greatest love. Experience the greatest love. Embody the greatest love. The greatest love is love that truly lasts and has no conditions. It is the love of a mother for her child. It is the love we read about in poems. It is the love we long to have. We all have challenges that...
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God: A Human History

REZA ASLAN - Random House
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer explores humanity's quest to make sense of the divine, and sounds a call to embrace a deeper, more expansive understanding of God. In Zealot, Reza Aslan replaced the well-worn portrayal...
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The New Health Rules: Simple Changes to Achieve Whole-Body Wellness

Frank Lipman M.D. - Artisan
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller Frank Lipman, M.D., is "at the vanguard of a revolutionary way to deliver medical care" (O, The Oprah Magazine). A leading expert in the field of functional medicine, Dr. Lipman focuses on the root causes of illness and guides his patients to the deepest,...
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The Oil Pulling Miracle: Detoxify Simply and Effectively

Birgit Frohn - Inner Traditions / Bear & Company
Format: eBook

Using coconut, sesame, and other oils to heal chronic conditions, strengthen the immune system, and prevent illness * Details the process of oil pulling, including when to do it, how long to swish the oil in your mouth, and other oral care techniques that complement it * Explains the health...
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Saudi, Inc.: The Arabian Kingdom's Pursuit of Profit and Power

ELLEN R WALD - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A history of the most profitable company in the world, Saudi Aramco, and the story behind the family that ruthlessly maneuvered to control this multi-trillion dollar enterprise.The Saudi royal family and Aramco leadership are, and almost always have been, motivated by ambitions of long-term...
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Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife

Leslie Kean - Crown
Format: Print book

"While exploring the evidence for an afterlife, I witnessed some unbelievable things that are not supposed to be possible in our material world. Yet they were unavoidably and undeniably real. Despite my initial doubt, I came to realize that there are still aspects of Nature which are neither...
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Return to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remember Past Lives

Jim B. Tucker - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Dr. Tucker, in a follow-up to his book Life Before Life, explores American cases of young children who report memories of previous livesA first-person account of Jim Tucker's experiences with a number of extraordinary children with memories of past lives, Return to Life focuses mostly...
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The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life

Jessa Crispin - Touchstone
Format: Print book

A hip, accessible, and practical guide for artists and creative people looking to tarot for guidance and inspiration in the tradition of The Secret Language of Birthdays and Steal Like an Artist.What if the path to creativity was not as challenging as everyone thinks? What...
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Feminine Genius: The Provocative Path to Waking Up and Turning On the Wisdom of Being a Woman

LiYana Silver - Sounds True
Format: Paperback

There is a particular kind of insanity running rampant in the world that compels most women to stuff down, ignore, or hide parts of ourselves in order to be acceptable, attractive, or taken seriously. Which doesn't work. It actually ensures we remain unfulfilled, miserable, and at war with...
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Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

ROBERT WRIGHT - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller From one of America's greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped...
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A Pilgrim's Guide to the Camino de Santiago: St. Jean * Roncesvalles * Santiago (Aamino Guides)

John Brierley - Findhorn Press; Ninth Edition, Ninth edition edition
Format: Paperback

Now updated to include newer maps and photos—and lighter in weight to support carefree traveling—this comprehensive guidebook to the Camino de Santiago and its offshoots contains all the information needed by modern-day pilgrims wishing to walk the sacred Way of St. James. Overview...
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White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji

MOOJI. - Non-Duality
Format: Paperback

Most of us are eventually compelled to search for meaning and fulfillment amidst the increasing busyness, isolation, and uncertainty of daily life. When our outer pursuits have failed to bring lasting contentment, it is our great fortune that we are inspired to turn inward. If you have...
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An Appeal to the World: The Way to Peace in a Time of Division

DALAI LAMA - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

In this brief, urgent "appeal to the world," His Holiness the Dalai Lama addresses our time of division, calling on us to draw upon the innate goodness of our shared humanity to overcome the rancor, mistrust, and divisiveness that threaten world peace and sustainability. "I...
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Good Grief: Heal Your Soul, Honor Your Loved Ones, and Learn to Live Again

THERESA CAPUTO - ATRIA BOOKS
Format: Print book

The star of TLC's Long Island Medium and New York Times bestselling author Theresa Caputo provides a guide to overcoming grief, filled with inspiring lessons from Spirit and astonishing stories from the clients who have been empowered by Theresa's spiritual readings.After...
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God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican

Gerald Posner - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Revealing a history of mysterious deaths, shady characters, and moral and political tensions, exposes the inner workings of the Catholic Church to trace how the Vatican evolved from an institution of faith into an extremely wealthy corporate power. --Publisher's description.
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The Heart and Science of Yoga: Empowering Self-Care Program for a Happy, Healthy, Joyful Life

Leonard T. Perlmutter - AMI Publishers
Format: Paperback

In this encyclopedic introduction to Yoga Science, The American Meditation Institute founder Leonard Perlmutter shares his extraordinary knowledge of the world's oldest and most practical mind/body medicine. As one of the West s foremost guides to understanding the nature of consciousness,...
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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

Don Miguel Ruiz - Amber-Allen Publishing
Format: Paperback

In The Four Agreements, bestselling author don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience...
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The Gods Never Left Us: The Long Awaited Sequel to the Worldwide Best-seller Chariots of the Gods

Erich von Daniken - New Page Books
Format: Paperback

When Chariots of the Gods was published 50 years ago, it began a worldwide change in humanity's view of the cosmos. In an era of the military space race, Erich von Dniken boldly proclaimed that Earth had been visited by more advanced beings early in our history. But prescientific man had no concept...
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The Illustrated World's Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions

Huston Smith - HarperOne
Format: Paperback

Retaining all the beloved qualities of Huston Smith's classic The Religions of Man and the current fully revised and updated The World's Religions, this stunning pictorial presentation refines the text to its wonderful essentials. In detailed, absorbing, richly illustrated, and highly...
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To Ride A Silver Broomstick: New Generation Witchcraft

Silver RavenWolf - Llewellyn Publications
Format: Paperback

Selling more than 300,000 copies, this popular guide to the Craft has been helping a new generation of Witches-those practicing or wishing to practice the Craft on their own-for over a decade. Filled with Silver RavenWolf's warmth, humor, and personal anecdotes, To Ride a Silver Broomstick...
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What the Qur'an Meant: And Why It Matters

GARRY WILLS - Viking
Format: Hardcover

America's leading religious scholar and public intellectual introduces lay readers to the Qur'an with a measured, powerful reading of the ancient textGarry Wills has spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. In What the Qur'an Meant, Wills invites readers to join...
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