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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
Series
Harper torchbooks volume 1910
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1969, c1965
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Hampton Roads Pub Co, Inc
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
This volume is a comprehensive introduction and guide to Christian mysticism. It is a big book about a big possibility: the hope of achieving real, blissful, experiential unison with God. Among the topics covered here are a general introduction to mysticism, the Bible and mysticism, the history and types of Christian mysticism, biographical sketches of leading Christian mystics, and practical instructions about practicing mysticism today--Product...
Author
Language
English
Description
"This is what hooks Sam when he first overhears it at a fancy dinner party in the Hollywood hills: the story of a globe-trotting shaman who claims to perform 'open-soul surgery' on emotionally damaged people. For neurotic, depressed Sam, new to Los Angeles after his life in New York imploded, the possibility of total transformation is utterly tantalizing. He's desperate for something to believe in, and the shaman - who promises ancient rituals, plant...
11) The troupe
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Vaudeville: mad, mercenary, dreamy, and absurd, a world of clashing cultures and ferocious showmanship and wickedly delightful deceptions. But sixteen-year-old pianist George Carole has joined vaudeville for one reason only: to find the man he suspects to be his father, the great Heironomo Silenus. Yet as he chases down his father's troupe, he begins to understand that their performances are strange even for vaudeville: for wherever they happen to...
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Todo el mundo es un puzle y Mike Brink -un constructor de puzles reconocido e ingenioso- comprende sus patrones como nadie. En su momento una estrella en ciernes del fútbol americano, Brink cambió por completo a causa de un traumatismo cerebral que le provocó una enfermedad rara: el Síndrome de Savant Adquirido. La lesión le otorgó un superpoder mental: poder resolver puzles, calcular ecuaciones y ver patrones que las personas normales no pueden...
14) Kabbalah me
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A personal journey into the esoteric spiritual phenomenon known as Kabbalah, with discussions of its complex, mystical world by leading authorities.
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Harriet Tubman, freedom fighter and leader in the Underground Railroad, is one of the most significant figures in U.S. history. Her courage and determination in bringing enslaved people to freedom have established her as an icon of the abolitionist movement. But behind the history of the heroine called "Moses" was a woman of deep faith. In Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman, Therese Taylor-Stinson introduces Harriet, a woman born into slavery whose...
17) Fated
Author
Series
Soul seekers volume 1
Publisher
St Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Strange things are happening to Daire Santos. Crows mock her, glowing people stalk her, time stops without warning, and a beautiful boy with unearthly blue eyes haunts all her dreams. Fearing for her daughter's sanity, Daire's mother sends her to live with the grandmother she's never met, but who recognizes the visions for what they truly are-the call to her destiny as a Soul Seeker-one who can navigate the worlds between the living and dead."--Publisher's...
Author
Publisher
Blouse & Skirt Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Obsessed with girls, devoid of muscles and faced with hostile teachers and a reading disability, 15-year old Danesh has been struggling to survive life in the lower bowels of the Essequibo high school system. In a community wracked by alcoholism, suicide and corruption, he sees no purposeful path for himself. Then Medusa, a creature of savage beauty and determination, crashes into his life and reveals a whole new world beneath the muddy waves - a...
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