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Touba and the Meaning of Night
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Shahrnush Parsipur |
From a distinctly Iranian perspective, *Touba and the Meaning of Night* reveals ongoing tension between rationalism and mysticism, tradition and modernity, male and female, East and West. Speaking in… |
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The Illuminatus! Trilogy The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan
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Robert Anton Wilson,Robert Shea |
The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels by American writers Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, first published in 1975.[1] The trilogy is a satirical, postmodern, science fiction-influ… |
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Manuscript found in Accra
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Margaret Jull Costa,Paulo Coelho |
"The latest novel from #1 internationally best-selling author Paulo Coelho is a classic of inspiration and reflection, a meditation on life, love, and the significance of change. A novel of philosoph… |
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Muerte subita
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Robert Fass,Álvaro Enrigue,Natasha Wimmer |
A 1599 Roman tennis match between the Italian painter Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Quevedo represents the way the world changed in their times, in a novel that goes from the execution of Anne Bole… |
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First phone call from heaven
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Mitch Albom |
The story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? As news o… |
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Ferney
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Long, James |
"Mike and Gally Martin should be idyllically happy as they move to a new cottage in Somerset. But then gally meets Ferney, an old countryman who seems to know everything about their house and its pas… |
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The boy in his winter
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Norman Lock |
"Huck Finn and Jim float on their raft across a continuum of shifting seasons, feasting on a limitless supply of fish and stolen provisions, propelled by the currents of the mighty Mississippi from o… |
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The fifth sacred thing
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Starhawk |
A world without poverty or hunger that honors the Four Sacred Things that sustain life--earth, air, fire, and water--is poised to clash with a nightmare society of authoritarian regimes and food and … |
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Lost horizon
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James Hilton |
It is a stimulating adventure, both of the mind and of the spirit. It is an almost incredible tale of three men and a woman who were transported into the timeless Utopia of a Tibetan lamasery. This p… |
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Rules for a knight
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Ethan Hawke |
"It is 1483, and Sir Thomas Lemuel Hawke, a Cornish knight, is about to ride into battle. On the eve of his departure, he composes a letter to his four young children, consisting of twenty virtues th… |
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The mirror thief
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Martin Seay |
In sixteenth century Venice, the famed makers of Venetian glass faced death if they tried to leave the island... but one man schemes to outwit the enforcers of the edict. In 1958 Venice Beach, Califo… |
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Diana, herself
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Martha Nibley Beck |
"Maybe, once or twice in your life, you've experienced a surge of destiny so strong it made you believe in miracles. Such bolts from the blue seem to hit when weariness or ill fortune have plowed thr… |
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Night of fire
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Colin Thubron |
"Award-winning, bestselling novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron returns to fiction with his first novel in more than a decade, a searing, poetic masterwork of memory. A house is burning, threate… |
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Savage theories
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Pola Oloixarac |
"A student at the Buenos Aires School of Philosophy attempts to put her life (academically and romantically) in the service of a professor whose nearly forgotten theories of violence she plans to pop… |
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Lady of Avalon
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
New York Times bestselling author Marion Zimmer Bradley brings the mesmerizing world of myth, romance and history to life in the spellbinding novel of epic grandeur!Before the legend of King Arthur a… |
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Aleph
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Paulo Coelho |
Aleph marks a return to the author's beginnings. In a frank and surprising personal story, one of the world's most beloved authors embarks on a remarkable and transformative journey of self discovery… |
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Ruby
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Mary Summer Rain |
"When antiques dealer Sadie Brennan's niece enters into a trauma-induced state of muteness, Sadie and her niece Savannah must solve the mystery of a homeless woman in Chicago named Ruby"--Provided by… |
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Eleven Minutes
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Paulo Coelho |
Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never f… |
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Key to Conspiracy
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Talia Gryphon |
In northern Russia after a devastating earthquake, paramortal psychologist and Marine Special Forces operative Gillian Key helps break up a ring of child traffickers preying on newly orphaned childre… |
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La Medusa
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Vanessa Place |
Contemporary Los Angeles. A trucker and his wife, a nine-year-old saxophonist, an ice cream vendor, a sex worker, and a corpse, among others--are borderless selves in a borderless city, a city imposs… |
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