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bibliography Biographies. biography Folk songs. History. Juvenile works. Meditations. Picture books.Ptacin, Mira
Summary: "A young writer travels to Maine to tell the unusual story of America's longest- running camp devoted to mysticism and the world beyond. They believed they would live forever. So begins Mira Ptacin's haunting account of the women of Camp Etna-an otherworldly community in the woods of Maine that has, since 1876, played host to generations of Spiritualists and mediums dedicated to preserving the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.9 PTABechtel, Stefan
Summary: "After the American Civil War, while bodies still littered battlefields, the movement known as Spiritualism began to sweep across America as thousands of people, mostly from shock and grief, tried to make contact with the recently departed. The movement captivated Europe as well, especially England in the aftermath of the Great War and Great Influenza Epidemic...The movement's most famous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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Summary: "The story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth. In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet-and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 ALFKlimo, Jon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.P. Tarcher 1989
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.8 WILMidorikawa, Emily
Summary: "Out of the Shadows tells the stories of six enterprising Victorian women whose apparent ability to move between the realms of the dead and the living allowed them to cross rigid boundaries of gender and class, and to summon unique political voices. The clairvoyance of the Fox sisters from upstate New York inspired some of the era's best-known female suffrage activists and set off an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.9092 MIDSelzer, Adam.
Summary: Abraham Lincoln is one of the most haunted--and haunting--presidents in U.S. history. Sightings of Lincoln's ghost, as well as the ghost of his assassin, have been reported for more than 150 years. Visited by eerie premonitions, morbid dreams, and unusual events that seem too bizarre to be coincidence, Lincoln has become the source of dozens of myths and paranormal mysteries. Investigating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Llewellyn Worldwide 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.70 SELStar, Konstanza Morning
Summary: Medium is a beginner-friendly book designed to help you gain strong and clear spiritual perception through a nine-step process. It takes you inside the medium’s mind and body, demonstrating how to actually experience contact with a spirit person through clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, and other spiritual senses. Featuring instructions for creating and conducting a home practice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.9 STAJaher, David
Summary: In 1924 the wife of a Boston surgeon came to embody the raging national debate over Spiritualism, a movement devoted to communication with the dead. Reporters dubbed her the blonde Witch of Lime Street, but she was known to her followers simply as Margery. Her most vocal advocate was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who believed so thoroughly in Margery's powers that he urged her to enter a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAGERY JAHKeene, M. Lamar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.91 KEEWatkins, Susan M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moment Point 2005
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Summary: An investigation into the role of the spirit world in directing the course of human events details the occult practices of world leaders while examining the impact of visions and unearthly voices in influencing the choices of native cultures, prophets, and military figures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Duckworth 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.9 BRECortland, Sherri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.9 CORVan Praagh, James.
Summary: PARAPSYCH Lecturer, nationally known medium, and president of Spiritual Horizons in Los Angeles, Van Praagh conveys a strong message of the probability of life after death. He claims he is able to receive messages from dead loved ones and sees himself as a healer of grieving hearts. Here he tells moving stories of love and loss, and writes of relatives and friends of loved ones contacted who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.91 VANVan Praagh, James.
Summary: Shares stories of regret, remorse, and advice as received from spirits during the author's career as a medium, in a guide that counsels readers on being kind to others, letting go of emotional baggage, and self-forgiveness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Spirit Van PraaghLawlor, Anthony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.01 LAWWashington, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2000
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Summary: After more than a decade of being a practicing medium, Theresa Caputo brings the powerful lessons she has learned about grief, healing, and finding happiness in the wake of tragedy. In almost every reading she gives, Spirit insists that people begin to embrace their lives again. Easily said, but not everyone knows where to begin, and putting back together the pieces of a life marked by loss is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155 CAPVan Praagh, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.91 VANMiller, Russell.
Summary: Arthur Conan Doyle remains one of our favorite writers; his work is read with affection--and sometimes obsession--the world over, but his life was no less fascinating than his fiction. Conan Doyle grew up in relative poverty in Edinburgh. He struggled both as a young doctor and in his early attempts to sell short stories, having only limited success until Sherlock Holmes propelled him to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN MILRohr, Richard
Summary: In the revised and updated edition of Falling Upward, Richard Rohr seeks to help readers come to terms with the two halves of life. In this book, Rohr teaches us that we can’t understand the meaning of "up" until we have fallen "down." More importantly, Rohr describes what "up" can look like in the second half of life.Most of us tend to think of the second half of life in chronological terms,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 2023
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Summary: "In a world transformed by secularization and globalization, torn by stark political and social distrust, and ravaged by war and pandemic, Christians are facing a crisis of faith. In The Afternoon of Christianity, Tomas Halik reflects on past and present challenges confronting Christian faith, drawing together strands from the Bible, historic Christian theology, philosophy, psychology, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Notre Dame Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 248.4 HALThompkins, Allison V.
Summary: "Allison Thompkins was born with cerebral palsy and a mission to improve the world for people with disabilities. In this book written with one finger and eye movements, Allison shares eight essential spiritual practices to help people with disabilities connect with the Divine and live joyful, meaning-filled lives: surrender, prayer, grace, synchronicity, meditation, gratitude, service, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House, Inc. 2024