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Magdalene's Lost Legacy: Symbolic Numbers and the Sacred Union in Christianity

Magdalene's Lost Legacy: Symbolic Numbers and the Sacred Union in Christianity

by Margaret Starbird

In Magdalene's Lost Legacy, author Margaret Starbird decodes the symbolic numbers embedded in the original Greek phrases of the New Testament-revealing the powerful presence of the feminine divine. The New Testament contains wide use of gematria, a literary device that allows the sums of certain phrases to produce sacred numbers. Exploring the hidden meanings behind these numbers, Starbird reveals that the... (more)

Robert Langdon: Book 1

Angels & Demons

by Dan Brown

An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization -- the Illuminati.... (more)

Violín

by Anne Rice

In the grand manner of Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice's new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to dazzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation.

Return from Tomorrow

by George G. Ritchie, Elizabeth Sherrill

At the age of twenty, George Ritchie died in an army hospital. Nine minutes later, he returned to life. What happened to him during those nine minutes was so compelling it changed his life forever. This is one of the most starling and hopeful descripitions of the realm beyond ever written.

The Bad Popes (Sutton History Classics)

by E.R. Chamberlain

The Secret Archives of the Vatican

by Maria Luisa, with Mary Willis Ambrosini

A History Of Pagan EuropePrudence Jones, Nigel Pennick

A History Of Pagan Europe

by Prudence Jones, Nigel Pennick

GNOSTIC PARALLELS: A COMPARISON OF THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS, 5TH ED.BURTON [ED] THROCKMORTON

GNOSTIC PARALLELS: A COMPARISON OF THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS, 5TH ED.

by BURTON [ED] THROCKMORTON

The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead

The Book of the Dead is the name now given to a collection of religious and magical texts known to the ancient Egyptians as The Chapters of Coming-forth by Day. Their principal aim was to secure for the deceased a satisfactory afterlife and to give him the power to leave his tomb when necessary. Copies of The Book of the Dead written on papyrus rolls were placed in the tombs of important Egyptians, each roll... (more)

The Diving Comedy Paradisio Volume 1: Italian Text and TranslationDante Alighieri/Charles S. Singleton

The Diving Comedy Paradisio Volume 1: Italian Text and Translation

by Dante Alighieri/Charles S. Singleton

Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend

by Miranda J. Aldhouse-Green

The ancient Celts were the greatest and most powerful of the early European peoples residing north of the Alps. Warlike, exuberant, and superstitious, they saw divinities in every facet of life and nature, venerating deities of the sun, thunder, water, war, healing, hunting, fertility, and death. They practiced human and animal sacrifice, and a powerful priesthood--the Druids--presided over much of their... (more)

1000 Faces of God

by Rebecca Hind

This book is a lavish collection of religious art , spanning thousands of years and covering all of the world's major religious traditions. This unique book will provide a visual source of inspiration for any one interested in theology and art.

The DaVinci CodeDan Brown

The DaVinci Code

by Dan Brown

Divine Comedy: Book 2

Purgatorio

by Dante Alighieri

This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin," all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own... (more)

Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton

Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenie’s vivacious cousin enters their household as a "hired girl," Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent. In one of American fiction’s finest and most intense narratives, Edith... (more)

The Poet and the Murderer

by Simon Worrall

In The Poet and the Murderer , acclaimed journalist Simon Worrall takes readers into the haunting mind of Mark Hofmann, one of the most daring literary forgers and remorseless murderers of the late twentieth century. He was a young Mormon boy who loathed what he believed to be the hypocrisy of his faith, and who devised secret ways to infiltrate and undermine the church. Mark Hofmann began his career by... (more)

The Twelve Ceasars

Before I Got Here: The Wondrous Things We Hear When We Listen to the Souls of Our Children

Before I Got Here: The Wondrous Things We Hear When We Listen to the Souls of Our Children

by Blair Underwood

Blair Underwood, known to millions as a star of television and film, has delivered brilliant performances as a lawyer in L.A. Law and as a love interest in Sex and the City; currently, he is the voice of the title character in Nick at Nite's Fatherhood. But his proudest accomplishment is being a loving husband and father of three children who keep him in touch with the true meaning of life -- not fame, but... (more)

Joan of Arc (Penguin Lives)

by Mary Gordon

With the passion and grace that mark her bestselling novels of women and faith, Mary Gordon contemplates one of history's earliest and most powerful female martyrs Eternally fascinating, an enigma no less in our time than in her own, Joan of Arc has haunted Gordon's consciousness since childhood. Who was this girl who came from nowhere, supported an equivocal cause, triumphed for a scant few months, failed as a... (more)

How Green Was My Valley

by Richard Llewellyn

Llewellyn's tale of a young man's coming-of-age in a small Welsh mining town--the basis for the beloved film of the same name--is "a beautiful story told in words which have Welsh music in them . . . a book which will live in the mind and memory of its readers" (Atlantic Monthly)

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Magdalene's Lost Legacy: Symbolic Numbers and the Sacred Union in Christianity

by Margaret Starbird

Angels & Demons

by Dan Brown

Violín

by Anne Rice

Return from Tomorrow

by George G. Ritchie, Elizabeth Sherrill

The Bad Popes (Sutton History Classics)

by E.R. Chamberlain

The Secret Archives of the Vatican

by Maria Luisa, with Mary Willis Ambrosini

A History Of Pagan Europe

by Prudence Jones, Nigel Pennick

GNOSTIC PARALLELS: A COMPARISON OF THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS, 5TH ED.

by BURTON [ED] THROCKMORTON

The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead

The Diving Comedy Paradisio Volume 1: Italian Text and Translation

by Dante Alighieri/Charles S. Singleton

Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend

by Miranda J. Aldhouse-Green

1000 Faces of God

by Rebecca Hind

The DaVinci Code

by Dan Brown

Purgatorio

by Dante Alighieri

Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton

The Poet and the Murderer

by Simon Worrall

The Twelve Ceasars

Before I Got Here: The Wondrous Things We Hear When We Listen to the Souls of Our Children

by Blair Underwood

Joan of Arc (Penguin Lives)

by Mary Gordon

How Green Was My Valley

by Richard Llewellyn