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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Our world has long suffered the toxicity of an unbalanced masculine rule--but the feminine is rising. With Wild Mercy, internationally recognized teacher Mirabai Starr shares the subversive wisdom and fierce compassion of feminine mystics across cultural boundaries and throughout history. From saints and sages such as Mother Mary and the Sufi poet Rabia, to goddesses and archetypal energies including Kuan Yin and Gaia, to inspiring contemporary teachers...
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Best selling crime novelist Charles suffers from terrible writer's block and is struggling to finish his first screenplay. His picture-perfect new wife Ruth is doing her best to keep him focused so they can fulfill her dream of leaving London for Hollywood. Charles' quest for inspiration leads him to invite the eccentric mystic Madame Acarti to perform a séance in his home. He gets more than he bargained for when Madame Acarti inadvertently summons...
Author
Series
Foggy Moskowitz novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Foggy Moscowitz is called to Mary's Shallow Grave, everyone's favorite bar. A man has been killed--shot three times--by a young girl. With no parents, no fixed abode, and no services to help her, Foggy is forced to shelter her in his beachside apartment. The victim was the son of the richest Seminole in Florida, Ironstone Waters, who sends several of his men, including Mister Redhawk, to collect the girl and find out what happened. With Ironstone's...
5) Zaddik
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Description
When a diamond that is part of a dowry for a massive wedding designed to unite two warring tribes of Brooklyn's Hasidim disappears, ex-cop Dov Taylor enters the world of New York City's Hebrew fundamentalists to retrieve the gem.
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 4
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Cayleb Ahrmahk is happy as a grig to be the greatest naval hero in Safehold history and husband of the beautiful Queen Sharleyan, hence co-ruler of the Charisian Empire. The Church of God Awaiting, however, is determined to bring the whole planet of Safehold under its sway, with disastrous implications for the survival of humanity.
Author
Pub. Date
[201]
Description
" 1912 London. Jessie Kenton hears her young brother, Georgie, scream in the middle of the night and wakes up the next morning to find him gone. Her parents never speak of him again. 1932. Twenty years later, Jessie is haunted by the same nightmare. Her other brother, Timothy, has inexplicably vanished from her parents' home. Wracked by guilt because of her failure to ever find Georgie, and convinced that the two events must be related, she sets out...
10) Mystic and rider
Author
Series
Twelve houses volume 1
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
The Mystic woman Senneth, accompanied by a team of Shapeshifters and Riders, is sent by the king into the land of Gillengaria to investigate reports of retaliation against those who use magic and discovers a perilous region under the control of a fanatical cult out to purge Gillengaria of all magic users, in the first in a four-volume series.
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
"It's beginning to look a lot like an American Christmas: irritable, unpleasant relatives; horrible weather, miserable travel; a slobbering dog - and one Jack Flanigan, "a harmless American of Irish origins," who is reluctantly but totally falling in love - with one Odessa Tatiana Alekseevna Shuskulya, a young woman from Russia who's studying at Harvard. (Jack, of course, is attending Boston College, the Jesuits' hangout in Chestnut Hill.)"--BOOK...
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 5
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Hiding secret agendas from their subjects throughout a terrible war in the Charisian Empire, the Emperor and his inner circle of advisors launch a desperate counter-attack against a corrupt Church of God Awaiting that is complicated by a discovery in the Church's Zion Temple.
Pub. Date
2002
Description
The story of Ganesh, a young, aspiring author whose unexpected talents as a healer bring him local fame and enable him to realize his ambitions as a writer. But he also realizes his limitations when his reputation as the legendary "mystic masseur" propels him to national renown and draws him far from his roots and his true self. Set amidst the large and prosperous Indian community in mid-20th century Trinidad.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their wordly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
In May 1373, a thirty year-old woman living in East Anglia suffered an illness. She received visions revealing to her secrets of the love of God. When she fully recovered, Julian recorded and richly explored those revelations, creating what became the first English-language book written by a woman. Drawing on Julian's writings, Frykholm's biography paints a picture of the 14th century and this woman's place in it. Through plague, church corruption,...
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
"Poet, essayist, musician, and visionary, Hildegard of Bingen is the most well-known female mystic of the Middle Ages, renowed in Europe for advising popes and bishops." This work tours the abbey Hildegard founded in the Rhine river valley, highlights key events in her life, along with audio accompaniments from selections of Hildegard's musical compositions.