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The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters
J W Ocker - Quirk Books
Format: Hardcover
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Meet the monsters in our midst, from bigfoot to Mothman and beyond!Welcome to the United States of Cryptids, where mysterious monsters lurk in the dark forests, deep lakes, and sticky swamps of all fifty states. From the infamous Jersey Devil to the obscure Snallygaster, travel writer and chronicler... |
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God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican
Gerald Posner - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply reported, New York Times bestselling expos of the money and the clerics-turned-financiers at the heart of the Vatican - the world's biggest, most powerful religious institution - from an acclaimed journalist with "exhaustive research techniques" (The New York Times)... |
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The Undying: Pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care
Anne Boyer - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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"The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms 'the ideological regime of cancer,' Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable... |
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The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
Robert Hillman - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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A tender and wise novel about love, family, and forgiveness in 1960s Australia, in which a lonely farmer finds his world turned upside down by a vibrant woman determined to open the first bookstore his town has ever seen--and to leave her haunting memories of the Holocaust far behind."Beautifully... |
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How to Read the Bible
Harvey Cox - HarperOne
Format: Print book
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Renowned religion expert and Harvard Divinity School professor Harvey Cox deepens our experience of the Bible, revealing the three primary ways we read it, why each is important, and how we can integrate these approaches for a richer understanding and appreciation of key texts throughout... |
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UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens: What Science Says
Donald R Prothero - Indiana University Press
Format: Hardcover
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UFOs. Aliens. Strange crop circles. Giant figures scratched in the desert surface along the coast of Peru. The amazing alignment of the pyramids. Strange lines of clouds in the sky. The paranormal is alive and well in the American cultural landscape. In UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens, Donald... |
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The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist's Point of View
Tim Crane - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Contemporary debate about religion seems to be going nowhere. Atheists persist with their arguments, many plausible and some unanswerable, but these make no impact on religious believers. Defenders of religion find atheists equally unwilling to cede ground. The Meaning of Belief offers... |
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