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"Magic, depravity, spiritual ambition, sensuality, and love - The Painted Alphabet binds mythic and modern time together in a rich, slyly suggestive novel based on an old Balinese poem. In a fresh and startling picture of Bali - where witches coexist with tourists and talking animals - the novel explores a kaleidoscope of vanity, desire, and the longing for goodness."--
2) Sponge Cake at Funerals And Other Quaint Old Customs: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection
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"Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post's Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla's affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic. Birth rituals, marriage ceremonies, funeral rites, holiday traditions,...
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The shaman is an enigmatic figure – a healer, magician and visionary who moves between the everyday
world and the realm of gods and spirits. "The Shamans Quest" describes the spiritual journeys of four
shamans from different corners of the world – the arctic snows of Canada, the central Australian desert,
the sacred mountains of Japan, and the forests of north-western South America.
From the North comes a tale of the Inuit shaman Enoyuk...
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"Varla Ventura, Coast to Coast favorite, Weird News blogger on Huffington Post, and author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces Weiser Books' new Collection of forgotten occult classics. Paranormal Parlor is an eerie assemblage of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla's sixth sense for tales of the weird and unusual. Early author and historian Charles M. Skinner collected folk tales from around the world, but he had...
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"Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post's Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla's affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic. The most revered of all mythical beings, the Unicorn, dashes across the...
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"Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post's Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla's affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic. Historian and U.S. Ambassador to Wales during the Victorian era William...
7) Taming the Pooka, Celtic Tales of the Trickster Fairy: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection
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"Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post's Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla's affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic. Perhaps one of the most notorious creatures from the fairy realm is the...
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Calico illustrated classics volume set 3
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
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Sixteen tales collected from German folklore and immortalized by the brothers Grimm.
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John Fahey is to the solo acoustic guitar what Jimi Hendrix was to the electric: the man whom all subsequent musicians had to listen to. Fahey made more than 40 albums between 1959 and his death in 2001, most of them featuring only his solo steel-string guitar. He fused elements of folk, blues, and experimental composition, taking familiar American sounds and recontextualizing them as something entirely new. Yet despite his stature as a groundbreaking...
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From the author of the stunning debut novel The Girl with Glass Feet comes another magical story of love, discovery, and natureWhen Elsa's father is killed in a tornado, all she wants is to escape--from New York, her job, her boyfriend--to somewhere new, anonymous, set apart. For some years she has been haunted by a sight once seen from an airplane: a tiny, isolated settlement called Thunderstown. Thunderstown has received many a pilgrim, and young...
11) Spinning silver
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"A fresh and imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairytale from the bestselling author of Uprooted, called "a very enjoyable fantasy with the air of a modern classic" by The New York Times Book Review. Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father is not a very good one. Free to lend and reluctant to collect, he has left his family on the edge of poverty--until Miryem intercedes. Hardening her heart, she sets out...
12) Sycorax
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A tale of witchcraft and retribution in 14th-century Yorkshire is told through the eyes of a penitent monk. In the credulous squalor of medieval Yorkshire, a peasant girl is accused of being a sorceress. The suffering inflicted upon her by male superstition sparks a spectacular and terrifying retort which initiates the legend of Sycorax. Many years later, the story is recounted by Edmund, a flawed monk at Byland Abbey, who sets out to write a history...
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Mythos volume 1
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What becomes of a god when no one believes? When heroes, Jason and Hercules, find themselves accidentally transported to the 21st century, they discover a world where they've practically been forgotten. The gods of Olympus are gone, existing in a separate dimension, forced only to observe as the world relegates their history to children's stories and fantasy. Some of the Olympians still remember the time when people came to them in droves, worshiping...
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"The first of two volumes, this companion to every song that Bob Dylan ever wrote is by far the most comprehensive book on the words of America's greatest songwriter. Here you'll find not just opinionated commentary or literary interpretation, but facts, first and foremost. Clinton Heylin is the world's leading Dylan biographer and expert, and he has arranged the songs-including a number that have never been performed-in a continually surprising chronology...
15) Celtic Mythology
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Celtic Mythology is a study on ancient folk tales and legends of old Ireland, Wales and other Celtic regions, which remained a precious legacy to their illustrative history. The book deals with different aspects of folklore and mythology: myths of the creation, tales of gods and their position and behavior, the mythical creatures and animals, folk tales of the divine land and many more. Well-grounded in history and sociology, the author relates these...
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"Clinton Heylin, master explicator of the Dylan canon, has, however improbably, sorted it all out for us through the tangled '80s and beyond, completing what he started in Revolution in the Air. The book is essential." -Jonathan Lethem The second of two volumes, this companion to every song that Bob Dylan ever wrote is not just opinionated commentary or literary interpretation: it consists of facts first and foremost. Together these two volumes form...
17) The Lady in Pink
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Deadly Ever After volume 2
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Coming home to find a dead body in your living room isn't the best way to end a long day's work, especially when that work is as New Never City's premier blue-haired PI. It's even worse when the corpse is your intern, electrocuted to death, and you're the one with enough voltage flowing through your veins to power Fairyland. Blue Reynolds has nabbed his fair share of criminals-with and without the help of his alluring half-fairy partner Isabella...
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"Would there be a Western civilization without the Greek myths? Would we be able to define our civilization and ourselves without some reference to the grand, violent, and venal doings of those denizens of Mount Olympus? Greek Mythology For Beginners presents the pantheon - that immortal collection of rogues and heroes, misfits and tyrants - and the stories about these deities and their dealings with the mortals. It delves into their undying influence...
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"The legends of the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades that poets, priests, prophets, shamans, storytellers, artists, singers, and historians have told throughout time are retold in this compilation of the stories that have found their inspiration in nine beautiful stars clustered together in the night sky. While particular attention in this cross-cultural study is paid to the influence of the Pleiades cluster on the living traditions of indigenous people...
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