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  Spirit Bear: Book 1

  Touching Spirit Bear

  by Ben Mikaelsen

  Will the attack of the Spirit Bear destroy Cole's life or save his soul? Cole Matthews has been fighting stealing and raising hell for years. So his punishment for beating Peter Driscal senseless is harsh. Given a choice between prison and Native American Circle Justice, Cole chooses Circle Justice: He'll spend one year in complete isolation on a remote Alaskan island. In the first days of his banishment, Cole... (more)
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  The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

  A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

  by Anne Fadiman

  When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover.Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos. The Hmong, traditionally a close-knit and fiercely people, have been... (more)
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  Godless

  by Pete Hautman

  "Why mess around with Catholicism when you can have your own customized religion?" Fed up with his parents' boring old religion, agnostic-going-on-atheist Jason Bock invents a new god -- the town's water tower. He recruits an unlikely group of worshippers: his snail-farming best friend, Shin, cute-as-a-button (whatever that means) Magda Price, and the violent and unpredictable Henry Stagg. As their religion... (more)
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  Skellig

  by David Almond

  Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house. But now his baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps into the crumbling garage and encounters a strange being who changes his world forever.
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  Parable: Book 1

  Parable of the Sower

  by Octavia E. Butler

  When unattended environmental and economic crises lead to social chaos, not even gated communities are safe. In a night of fire and death Lauren Olamina, a minister's young daughter, loses her family and home and ventures out into the unprotected American landscape. But what begins as a flight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of human destiny... and the birth of a new faith.
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  Whirligig

  by Paul Fleischman

  Upset by a recent event at school, Brent sets out to kill himself, but when he accidentally kills an innocent bystander with his car, he is forced to make reparations to her parents by taking a cross-country journey setting up whirligigs in her memory. Reprint. AB. SLJ.
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  Cosmic Trigger: Book 1

  Cosmic Trigger

  Final Secret of the Illuminati

  by Robert Anton Wilson

  Cosmic Trigger deals with a process of deliberately induced brain change ... This is called 'initiation' or 'vision quest' in many traditional societies and ... <a> dangerous variety of self-psychotherapy in modern terminology. I do not recommend it for everybody ... The main thing I learned is that 'reality' is always plural and mutable. From the Preface
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  The Woman with the Alabaster Jar

  Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail

  by Margaret Starbird

  Margaret Starbird’s theological beliefs were profoundly shaken when she read Holy Blood, Holy Grail , a book that dared to suggest that Jesus Christ was married to Mary Magdalen and that their descendants carried on his holy bloodline in Western Europe. Shocked by such heresy, this Roman Catholic scholar set out to refute it, but instead found new and compelling evidence for the existence of the bride of... (more)
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  Change Your Thoughts—Change Your Life

  Living the Wisdom of the Tao

  by Wayne W. Dyer

  Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses, which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of our existence. The classic text of these 81 verses, called the Tao Te Ching or the Great Way, offers advice and guidance that is balanced, moral, spiritual, and always concerned with working for the good. In this book, Dr.... (more)
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  An End to Suffering

  The Buddha in the World

  by Pankaj Mishra

  An End to Suffering is a deeply original and provocative book about the Buddha's life and his influence throughout history, told in the form of the author's search to understand the Buddha's relevance in a world where class oppression and religious violence are rife, and where poverty and terrorism cast a long, constant shadow. Mishra describes his restless journeys into India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, among... (more)
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  Canaan Trilogy: Book 1

  Sarah

  by Marek Halter

  Sarah’s story begins in the cradle of civilization: the Sumerian city-state of Ur, a land of desert heat, towering gardens, and immense wealth. The daughter of a powerful lord, Sarah balks at the marriage her father has planned for her. On her wedding day, she impulsively flees to the vast, empty marshes outside the city walls, where she meets a young man named Abram, son of a tribe of outsiders. Drawn to this... (more)
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  Entering the Castle

  An Inner Path to God and Your Soul

  by Caroline Myss

  Internationally renowned motivational teacher and popular theologian Caroline Myss has created a transcendent work of unique insight and revelation in Entering the Castle. A highly original inner path to self-knowledge, the Castle is also the road to spiritual knowledge of God and your own soul. In fact the soul is your spiritual castle and doing interior soul work helps you find your path in the world. Teresa of... (more)
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  American Gods

  by Neil Gaiman

  Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she's been killed in a terrible accident. Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, a strange man in the seat next to him introduces himself. The man calls himself Mr. Wednesday, and he knows more about Shadow than is possible. He warns Shadow that... (more)
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  Nature, Man and Woman

  by Alan W. Watts

  A provocative and enduring work that reexamines humanity's place in the natural world -- and the spirit's relation to the flesh -- in the light of Chinese Taoism. That human beings stand separate from a nature that must be controlled, that the mind is somehow superior to the body, and that all sexuality entails a seduction -- a danger and a problem-are all assumptions upon which much of Western thought and culture... (more)
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  The Eye of The I

  by David R. Hawkins

  This is the second volume of a trilogy that began with "Power Vs. Force" and ends with "I: Reality and Subjectivity." "The Eye of the I" (which calibrates at 950) is more advanced than "Power vs. Force" (which calibrates at 850) and brilliantly reveals the very core of the spiritual process critical to the state of Enlightenment.The intrinsic power of the information provided in this startling classic is... (more)
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  Snow in August

  by Pete Hamill

  In 1940s Brooklyn, friendship between an 11-year-old Irish Catholic boy and an elderly Jewish rabbi might seem as unlikely as, well, snow in August. But the relationship between young Michael Devlin and Rabbi Judah Hirsch is only one of the many miracles large and small contained in Pete Hamill's novel. Michael finds himself in trouble when he witnesses the 17-year-old leader of the dreaded Falcons gang beating an... (more)
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  The Alchemist

  by Paulo Coelho

  Original title: "O Alquimista""My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams."The Alchemist is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns... (more)
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  Home

  by Marilynne Robinson

  Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of John Ames in Gilead , Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. Home is an entirely independent, deeply affecting novel that takes place concurrently in the same locale, this time in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton, Ames’s closest friend.   Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father.... (more)
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  The Moral Landscape

  How Science Can Determine Human Values

  by Sam Harris

  Bestselling author Sam Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith—that a moral system cannot be based on science.
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  The Nature of Personal Reality

  Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know

  by Jane Roberts, Seth

  The words of Seth, the personality channeled through Jane Roberts, show readers that they possess hidden powers within themselves that have the potential to transform their lives. By learning to control their own experiences, they can create a new, fulfilling reality.