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  The Law of Attraction

  The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham

  by Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks

  This book presents the powerful basics of the original Teachings of Abraham . Within these pages, you’ll learn how all things, wanted and unwanted, are brought to you by this most powerful law of the universe, the Law of Attraction. (that which is like unto itself is drawn). You’ve most likely heard the saying “Like attracts like,” “Birds of a feather flock together,” or “It is done unto you as you believe” (a... (more)
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  The Vortex

  Where the Law of Attraction Assembles All Cooperative Relationships

  by Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks

  This leading edge work by Esther and Jerry Hicks, who present The Teachings of Abraham, will help you understand every relationship you are currently involved in as well as every relationship you have ever experienced.This book uncovers a myriad of false premises that are at the heart of every uncomfortable relationship issue, and guides you to a clear understanding of the powerful creative Vortex that... (more)
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  Writing Down Your Soul

  How to Activate and Listen to the Extraordinary Voice Within

  by Janet Conner

  You could pray, or meditate, or dream, or visit a shaman, or a minister, or a hypnotherapist. With so many routes into inner consciousness, why write? Of all the ways to get in touch with God, as you understand God... to hear the small, still voice pointing you in the right direction... why take the time to write? One reason: it works. It works amazingly well. If you want to engage in a vibrant conversation with... (more)
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  The Intention Experiment

  Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World

  by Lynne McTaggart

  The book you hold in your hands is revolutionary, a groundbreaking exploration of the science of intention. It is also the first book to invite you, the reader, to take an active part in its original research. Drawing on the findings of leading scientists on human consciousness from around the world, The Intention Experiment demonstrates that thought is a thing that affects other things. Thought... (more)
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  Divine Horsemen : The Living Gods of Haiti

  by Maya Deren

  Includes photographs and drawings. Foreword by Joseph Campbell This is the classic, intimate study, movingly written with the special insight of direct encounter, which was first published in 1953 by the fledgling Thames & Hudson firm in a series edited by Joseph Campbell. Maya Deren's Divine Horsemen is recognized throughout the world as a primary source book on the culture and spirituality of Haitian... (more)
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  Gift of the Jaguar

  by John Franklin

  In Gift of the Jaguar, John and Sharon Franklin interweave a spiritual parable with the healing traditions of Peru in a richly portrayed story. Filled with guilt over his sister’s death and stalked by a black jaguar, Juan is confronted with his own fear of dying but with a strange twist. He can see through the jaguar’s eyes. Desperate for help, he reaches out to a childhood friend, the intriguing Rosa, and her... (more)
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  Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories (Library of America)

  by Shirley Jackson

  "The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable," writes A. M. Homes. "It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming, of things taking a turn for the worse." Jackson's characters-mostly unloved daughters in search of a home, a career, a family of their own-chase what appears to be a harmless dream until, without... (more)
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  Philip Roth: Novels 1993-1995: Operation Shylock / Sabbath's Theater

  by Philip Roth

  The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works continues with two novels that heralded the beginning of a more than decade-long creative explosion-one remarkable in an older writer and hailed by critics as unparalleled in American literary history. In the diabolically imaginative Operation Shylock (1993), a character named Philip Roth encounters a look-alike who claims Roth's... (more)
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  Lynd Ward: Six Novels in Woodcuts (Library of America)

  by Lynd Ward

  This two-volume boxed set collects the six woodcut novels, each composed of a single wordless image per page, that Ward created in the 1920s–30s, from the first, oddly apostrophied Gods’ Man to the triumphantly bleak, dissertation-worthy Depression tale Vertigo. In his entertaining and perceptive introduction, Spiegelman attests that Ward “is one of only a handful of artists anywhere who ever made a ‘graphic... (more)
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  Possess Me

  by R. G. Alexander

  Three exciting new paranormal erotic novellas set in New Orleans, with a voodoo twist that's "pure magic". (Eden Bradley) In the Big Easy, there's a legend women long for: a sexual voodoo spirit who can fulfill their darkest fantasies. And in these three steaming-hot novellas, he helps three New Orleans couples achieve the ultimate satisfaction... In Release Me, Allegra heads down to New Orleans to heal... (more)
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  John Adams: Revolutionary Writings 1755-1775

  by John Adams, Gordon S. Wood

  Propelled by the power of his pen and the clarity of his judgment, an ambitious young provincial lawyer named John Adams became a major figure in the American Revolution. This first of two volumes gathering his essential writings to 1783 includes the complete newspaper exchange between "Novanglus" (Adams) and "Massachusettensis" (Loyalist Daniel Leonard), as well as extensive diary excerpts and characteristically... (more)
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  John Adams: Revolutionary Writings 1775-1783

  by John Adams, Gordon S. Wood

  This second of two volumes gathering the essential writings of one of the towering figures of the American Revolution traces John Adams's career from his leading role in the debate over independence (he was "our Colossus on the floor," remembered Thomas Jefferson), to his tireless efforts to establish the fledgling government of the United States and supply its army in the field, to his crucial diplomatic service... (more)
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  Prejudices

  by H. L. Mencken

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  Novels & Stories, 1963-1973

  Cat's Cradle / God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater / Slaughterhouse-Five / Breakfast of Champions / Stories

  by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

  Like Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) was a Midwestern everyman steeped in the rhythms of American speech whose anger at the way things are was matched only by his love for the best that we can be. His cunningly relaxed delivery was so original, so finely calibrated, and so profound an articulation of the Sixties' spirit that many critics overlooked the moral seriousness behind the standup-comic... (more)
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  Discover the Power of Meridian Tapping

  by Patricia Carrington

  The book explores Meridian Tapping, a revolutionary technique based on ancient Chinese concepts combined with modern psychology that is providing astounding results in the field of stress-free living. One of the forms of Meridian Tapping is EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques). It is a companion book to the independent documentary "The Tapping Solution" by Nick Ortner. In addition to an in-depth study of the origins... (more)
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  The Civil War

  The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It

  by Brooks D. Simpson, Stephen W. Sears, Aaron Charles Sheehan-Dean

  After 150 years the Civil War is still our greatest national drama, at once heroic, tragic, and epic-our Iliad, but also our Bible, a story of sin and judgment, suffering and despair, death and resurrection in a "new birth of freedom." Drawn from letters, diaries, speeches, articles, poems, songs, military reports, legal opinions, and memoirs, The Civil War: The First Year gathers over 120 pieces by more than... (more)
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  Philip Roth: The American Trilogy

  by Philip Roth

  Gathered together for the first time in this seventh volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works is the acclaimed American Trilogy , a major milestone in contemporary American literature. In American Pastoral (1997), Swede Levov is wrenched from the tranquility of his domestic life and into the turbulent 1960s by his cherished daughter, an antiwar terrorist. I Married... (more)
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  Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs (Library of America)

  by Ambrose Bierce

  A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of Bierce's writings. In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians) , his collection of short fiction about the Civil War, which includes the masterpieces "An... (more)
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  Harlem Renaissance: Four Novels of the 1930s (Library of America)

  HARLEM RENAISSANCE: Four Novels of the 1930s traces the flowering of the Renaissance in diverse genres and forms. It opens with Langston Hughes's Not Without Laughter (1931), an elegantly realized coming-of-age tale that follows a young man from his rural origins to the big city. Suffused with childhood memories, it is the poet's only novel. George S. Schuyler's Black No More (1931), a satire founded on... (more)
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  Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s (Library of America)

  HARLEM RENAISSANCE: Five Novels of the 1920s leads off with Jean Toomer's Cane (1923), a unique fusion of fiction, poetry, and drama rooted in Toomer's experiences as a teacher in Georgia. Toomer's masterpiece was followed within a few years by a cluster of novels exploring black experience and the dilemmas of black identity in a variety of modes and from different angles. Claude McKay's Home to Harlem ... (more)