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Just east of the greater Phoenix area, the Superstition Mountains are a wild, rugged range of volcanic peaks, mesas, and canyons. A network of trails covers this wilderness, reaching into Sonoran desert canyons, pine forested valleys, mysterious volcanic rock formations, and jagged peaks. North of the Superstitions and still only a two-hour drive from Phoenix, the Mazatzal Mountains are one of Arizona's largest and most remote wilderness areas. You...
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James George Frazer attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices whose influences had extended into 20th-century culture. His thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship and periodic sacrifice of a sacred king. Frazer proposed that mankind progresses from magic...
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"When Abigail Holland awakes to the sound of a nighttime intruder in her rambling Denver Victorian, she knows exactly what the black shrouded figure is after—the map she recently inherited from her grandfather. Whoever he is, the man who grapples with her, then escapes, is willing to kill for the location of a treasure King Farrell hunted for more than ten years. The Devil’s Gold has claimed hundreds of lives, and it was her grandfather’s obsession....
4) The maid
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 93 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Alone for the first time and away from her family in rural Philippines, Rosa Dimaano arrives in the cosmopolitan city state of Singapore to work as a maid. Her employers Mr. and Mrs. Teo runs a Chinese Teochew dialect opera troupe takes well to their new domestic help. So do their mentally disabled son, Ah Soon. In Chinese superstition, the seventh month of the lunar calendar is regarded as the month when the gates of hell open for forsaken spirits...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 78 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Français
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This film is one of the most magical to come out of Africa--hardly surprising since Madagascar is unlike anywhere else on earth. Raymond Rajaonarivelo follows his epic first film on the Malagasy liberation struggle, Taba Taba, with a very different, poetic film exploring the relationship between traditional and modern concepts of human freedom. He writes: "In French magie and image are made from the same letters... In this film, there will be Magic...
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Roscoe Riley rules volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Roscoe is determined to guess the weight of a giant pumpkin in order to win books for his school library and candy for himself, but is overwhelmed by superstitions, especially about a certain black kitten.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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In Fortune Falls, where superstitions are real, and all children must pass regular "luck tests" to see if they are worthy, ill-fortuned Sadie has always been deemed as unlucky, and shunted aside for her luckier younger brother--but when she finds an unusually intelligent black cat named Jinx, her fortunes begin to change for the better.
9) Zip it!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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When Pine City Porcupines' bat boy Chad breaks an important unofficial rule of baseball: Do not talk to the starting pitcher when he has a perfect game going, the team may lose the game unless Chad can find a baseball card to help break the superstition.
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County Cork mysteries volume 8
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English
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"A few months ago, Boston expat Maura Donovan was rekindled with her mother after more than twenty years of absence. Since then, Maura has been getting accustomed to Irish living, complete with an inherited house and a pub named Sullivan's. But now, her mother has returned - and she's brought Maura's half-sister in tow. To make matters more confusing, a handful of Cork University students are knocking on Maura's door asking about a mystical fairy...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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530L
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English
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Born in Russia, where left-handers are frowned upon, Anya learns to use her right hand, except when she draws with her imagined secret society of famous artists--then when she moves to America, everything is different.
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Harper
Pub. Date
©2014.
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First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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Seeing a four-leaf clover at a show-and-share, Fancy Nancy becomes superstitious and goes overboard trying to keep track of everything that is lucky and unlucky before deciding to settle on what she truly believes.
14) Superstitions
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Sidgwick & Jackson
Pub. Date
c1979
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175 p. : ill.
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English
15) Tidelands
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Fairmile novels volume 1
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English
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Midsummer Eve, 1648. England is in the grip of a civil war between renegade king and rebellious parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote tidelands, the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor, a descendant of wisewomen, trapped by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead, she meets James, a young man on the...
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Random House
Pub. Date
c2006
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1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
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307 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Although everyone credits him and his superstitions for the Slugger's first winning streak in 108 baseball seasons, eleven-year-old Danny Gurkin believes that his discovery of a secret from the team's past may be the real reason behind the ball club's success.
18) The Banshee
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Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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32 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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English
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When Terry wakes up in the middle of the night to horrible screeching, he thinks the Banshee has come to pay his family a visit.
19) Superstitions
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1992
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255 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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English
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