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The Dharma of Dogs: Our Best Friends as Spiritual Teachers

Tami Simon · Sounds True
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

We spend countless hours training our dogs, but how often do we consider what they have to teach us? "Our canine companions aren't just our best friends," explains Tami Simon. "Sometimes they can also be carriers of a special medicine and the wisdom lessons we most need."...
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The First Love Story: Adam, Eve, and Us

Bruce Feiler · Penguin Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Walking the Bible and Abraham comes a revelatory journey across four continents and 4,000 years exploring how Adam and Eve introduced the idea of love into the world, and how they continue to shape our deepest feelings about relationships, family,...
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Grace Without God: The Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging in a Secular Age

Katherine Ozment · Harperwave
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Meet "the Nones" - In this thought-provoking exploration of secular America, celebrated journalist Katherine Ozment takes readers on a quest to understand the trends and ramifications of a nation in flight from organized religion.Studies show that religion makes us happier, healthier...
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America's Most Haunted Hotels: Checking In with Uninvited Guests

Jamie Davis Whitmer · Llewellyn Worldwide
Pages: 264
Format: Print book

Journey into the mysterious world of haunted hotels, where uninvited guests roam the lavish halls, phantom sounds ring throughout the rooms, and chills run along the spine of anyone who dares to check in for a night. Join Jamie Davis Whitmer, author of Haunted Asylums, Prisons, and Sanatoriums,...
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The Great Pyramid Hoax: The Conspiracy to Conceal the True History of Ancient Egypt

Scott Creighton · Bear & Co
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Reveals how the only hard evidence that dates the Great Pyramid--the quarry marks discovered by Colonel Vyse in 1837--was forged * Includes evidence from the time of the discovery of the marks: Vyse's private field notes, surveys, facsimile drawings, and eye-witness testimony * Explains...
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Monsters Among Us: An Exploration of Otherworldly Bigfoots, Wolfmen, Portals, Phantoms, and Odd Phenomena

Linda S Godfrey · Penguin Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Have you ever seen something you couldn't explain? This meticulously researched and thrilling exploration of the otherworldly will challenge your idea of reality. Mysterious wolf-people, sentient mists, and UFOs ... if you've ever heard a curious bump in the night, caught a glimpse of a strange-looking...
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Dreams and Destiny: Dream Interpretation, Runes, Tarot, I Ching

David V Barrett · Southwater Pub
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

An examination of the world of dreams, and a guide to how we understand their significance, and how to use the ancient tarot and I ching to divine your destiny.
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Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis

Annie Jacobsen · Little
Pages: 528
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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Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

Anne Lamott · Riverhead Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow and Stitches comes a powerful exploration of mercy, its limitless (if sometimes hidden) presence, why we ignore it, and how we can embrace it."Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling and heartening book,...
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From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

Daniel C Dennett · Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

One of America's foremost philosophers offers a major new account of the origins of the conscious mind.How did we come to have minds?For centuries, this question has intrigued psychologists, physicists, poets, and philosophers, who have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled...
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The Heart of Life: Shamanic Initiation & Healing In The Modern World

Jez Hughes · Moon Books
Pages: 289
Format: Paperback

The Heart of Life is an exploration into the depths of what it means to be alive, when the 'cellophane packaging we wrap around life to keep it safe and sterile has been unwrapped and discarded'. It reveals how the ancient path of shamanism and indigenous wisdom can offer us solutions to the many...
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The End of White Christian America

Robert P Jones · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) , challenges us to grasp the profound political and cultural consequences of a new reality - that America is no longer a majority white Christian nation.For most of our nation's history, White Christian America (WCA)...
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

Colin Dickey · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

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