Genre search:Biography

Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith (the Filmmaker, Folklorist, and Mystic who Transformed American Art)

by John Szwed
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
Biographies, Counterculture, Comparative and Western Religion, Indigenous Peoples, Pacific Northwest, Florida, Greenwich Village, Crowley, R Crumb, Magickal Childe, OTO — 1 more, Magic
Collection
Gifts

Messalina - empress, adulteress, libertine: the story of the most notorious woman of the Roman world

by Honor Cargill
Paper Book, 2023
Tags
Women in Graeco-Roman World, Messalina, Rome, Claudius, Biographies, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Anna

The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun

by The Countess of Carnarvon
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
Tutankhamun, Valley of the Kings, Lord Carnarvon, Howard Carter, Egypt, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Don

Austin Osman Spare, revised edition: The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist

by Phil Baker
Paperback, 2023
Tags
AO Spare, Biographies, Gardner, Photographs
Collection
Don

A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives

by Philip Matyszak
Paperback, 2023
Tags
Graeco-Roman World, Biographies, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Don

Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"

by Zora Neale Hurston
Paper Book, 2018
Tags
Afro-Diasporic Religions, Africa, Slavery, Slave Trade, Africatown
Collection
Don

Cleopatra: a life

by Stacy Schiff
Paper Book, 2010
Tags
Cleopatra, Pharaohs and Governance, Egypt, Egyptian History, Women in History, Biographies, Alexandria, Alexander the Great, Rome, Plutarch, Julius Caesar — 7 more, Mark Antony, Cicero, Isis, Octavian, Pompey, Ptolemies, Bibliographies
Collection
Gifts

Cleopatra: A Life

by Stacy Schiff
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Cleopatra, Pharaohs and Governance, Egypt, Egyptian History, Women in History, Biographies, Alexandria, Alexander the Great, Rome, Plutarch, Julius Caesar — 8 more, Mark Antony, Cicero, Isis, Octavian, Pompey, Ptolemies, Bibliographies, In Storage
Collections
Whealton, In Storage

Ravenmaster

by Christopher Skaife
Paperback, 2019
Tags
British Occult Sites, Tower of London, Ravens, Raven Folklore, Ravenmaster
Collection
Gifts

Returning Light: 30 Years of Life on Skellig Michael

by Robert L. Harris Autore
Paperback, 2022
Tags
Skellig Michael, Ireland, British Isles, Eire, Natural History, Seabirds, Puffins, Gannets, Storm Petrels, Hermitages, Monasteries — 3 more, Islands, Isolation, Environmentalism
Collection
Don

Pharaohs of the sun: the rise and fall of Tutankhamun's dynasty

by Guy De la Bedoyere
Paper Book, 2023
Tags
Pharaohs and Governance, 18th Dynasty, Egypt, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Don

Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan: Infernal Wisdom from the Devil's Den

by Carl Abrahamsson
Paperback, 2022
Tags
Church of Satan, LaVey, Satanism, Interviews
Collection
Don

City of the Beast: The London of Aleister Crowley

by Phil Baker
Paperback, 2022
Tags
Crowley, London, Psychogeography, Site Guides, Magic
Collection
Don

The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance

by Ross King
Paperback, 2022
Tags
Libraries, Vespasiano da Bisticci, Hermetica, Plato, Cosmo de Medici, Marsilio Ficino, Florence
Collection
Don

The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone

by Edward Dolnick
Paperback, 2022
Tags
Decipherment of Hieroglyphics, Egyptian, Rosetta Stone, Champollion, Young, Dendera Zodiac
Collection
Don

Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women

by Annabel Abbs
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
Women's Studies, Women's Lives, Walking, Hiking, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

Why Religion?: A Personal Story

by Elaine Pagels
Paperback, 2020
Tags
Biography, Spiritual Memoir, Gnosticism and Non-Canonical Texts
Collection
Gifts

Clanlands: whisky, warfare, and a Scottish adventure like no other

by Sam Heughan
Paper Book, 2020
Tags
Scotland, Highlands, Scottish Folklore, Paganism, British Isles, Europe
Collection
Anna

Toil and Trouble: A Women's History of the Occult

by Lisa Kröger
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
History of Magic, Women's Studies, Tarot, Witchcraft
Collection
Anna

Toil & Trouble: A Memoir

by Augusten Burroughs
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
Biographies, Memoir, Autobiography, Spiritual Biography, Witches
Collection
Don

See no stranger : a memoir and manifesto of revolutionary love

by Valarie Kaur
Paper Book, 2020
Tags
Interfaith, Revolutionary Love, Conflict Resolution
Collection
Don

Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death

by Anthony Everitt
Paper Book, 2019
Tags
Graeco-Roman World, Alexander the Great, Biography, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

by Reza Aslan
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
Christianity, Historical Jesus, Bibliography, Zealots
Collection
Gifts

Ghostland : in search of a haunted country

by Edward Parnell
Paper Book, 2019
Tags
British Occult Sites, British Isles, Fiction, Landscape, M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood, Machen, Susan Cooper, Wicker Man, Night fo the Demon, Lovecraft — 2 more, Hodgson, Alan Garner
Collection
Don

Brujas: The Magic and Power of Witches of Color

by Lorraine Monteagut Ph.D.
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
Witchcraft, People of Color, Indigenous, Brujas, Curanderas, Wicca, Autobiographies, Memoirs, Women
Collection
Don

True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant

by Brad Ricca
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
Jerusalem and the Temple, Speculative Archaeology, Holy Land, Lost Ark, Ark of the Covenant, Religious Artifacts, Knights Templar
Collection
Don

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

by Dava Sobel
Paperback, 2000
Tags
Fiction, Historical Fiction, Galileo

Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

by Barbara Ehrenreich
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
Biographies, Spiritual Memoir, Spiritual Autobiography, Mystical Experiences
Collection
Gifts

They Just Seem a Little Weird: How KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz Remade Rock and Roll

by Doug Brod
Paperback, 2022
Tags
Film and Popular Culture, Music, Kiss, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, Starz
Collection
Gifts

The lost city of Z: a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon

by David Grann
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
South America, Amazonia, Exploration, P.H. Fawcett, Lost City of Z, Lost Civilizations
Collection
Gifts

The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science

by Seb Falk
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
Dark and Middle Ages, Science and Technology, Medieval Science, Planetary Motions, Clock Mechamisms, Astrolabe, Epicycles, Astronomy
Collection
Don

The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

by Kara Cooney
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
Hatshepsut, Women in Ancient Egypt, Egypt, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Whealton

Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life

by Alison Weir
Paperback, 1999 First Edition
Tags
Dark and Middle Ages, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Plantagenets, Angevin Empire, Women's History, Crusades, Henry II
Collection
Anna

Life After Death

by Damien Echols
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
Counter Satanic Hysteria, Prison, Wrongful Conviction
Collections
Gifts, In Storage

Life After Death

by Damien Echols
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
Counter Satanic Hysteria, Prison, Wrongful Conviction
Collection
Don

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Paperback, 2015
Tags
Ecology and Natural History, Botany, Indigenous Teachings, Indigenous Philosophy, Human Ecology, Nature, Human-Plant Relationships, Potawotomi, Potawotami Life & Social Customs, Ecophilosophy
Collection
Anna

Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England

by Gemma Hollman
Paperback, 2021
Tags
Witchcraft, Political Accusations, Nobility, Wars of the Roses, House of York, House of Lancaster, Hundred Years War, Witchcraft Trials, Lives of Noble Women, Tudor Chroniclers, Joan of Navarre — 3 more, Eleanor Cobham, Jaquetta of Luxembourg, Elizabeth Woodville
Collection
Don

The Path of Elemental Witchcraft: A Wyrd Woman's Book of Shadows

by Salicrow
Paperback, 2022
Tags
Wicca and Modern Witchcraft, Elemental Magic, Communication, Divination, Healing, Protection, Glamour, Geomancy, Crystal Grids, Astral Travel, Enchantment — 4 more, Toning, Speaking with Animals, Transformation, Sex Magic
Collection
Anna

The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn

by Alison Weir
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
British Royal Family, Tudor England, Great Britain, Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII, Bibliography, Women's History, Biography, Ghosts and Hauntings
Collection
Gifts

Aleister Crowley in India: The Secret Influence of Eastern Mysticism on Magic and the Occult

by Tobias Churton
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
Crowley, India, Crowley Diaries, Mountaineering, Himalayas, Jnana Yoga, Samadhi, Yoga, Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism, Theravada Buddhism
Collections
Anna, Don

Psychedelic Refugee: The League for Spiritual Discovery, the 1960s Cultural Revolution, and 23 Years on the Run

by Rosemary Woodruff Leary
Paperback, 2021
Tags
Timothy Leary, Counterculture, LSD, League for Spiritual Discovery, Imprisonment, Exile, Underground, Millbrook Estate, Fugitive, Prison Break, Weather Underground — 4 more, Algeria, Black Panthers, Autobiography, Memoir
Collection
Anna

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

by S. C. Gwynne
Paperback, 2011
Tags
North America, Comanches, Quanah Parker, Native Americans, Captivity, American West, Texas, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

The Confessions of St. Augustine

by St. Augustine
Paperback, 1951
Tags
Catholicism, Confessions, Saint Augustine
Collection
Glenn

The Confessions of St. Augustine

by Harold C Gardiner
Paperback, 1962
Tags
Roman Catholicism
Collection
Glenn

Letters from Egypt: An Englishwoman on the Nile, 1862-69

by Lady Lucie Duff-Gordon
Paper Book, 2020
Tags
Travelers in Egypt, Letters, 19th Century, Luxor, Women's History, Women's Studies, Travelogues
Collection
Anna

Missing Witches: Recovering True Histories of Feminist Magic

by Risa Dickens
Paperback, 2021
Tags
Wicca and Modern Witchcraft, Feminism, Biographies
Collection
Don

Confessions of an Egyptologist: Lost Libraries, Vanished Labyrinths & the Astonishing Truth Under the Saqqara Pyramids

by Erich von Daniken
Paperback, 2021
Tags
Speculative Egyptology, Egypt, Giza, Saqqara, Labyrinths, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Don

Going clear : Scientology, Hollywood, and the prison of belief

by Lawrence Wright
Paper Book, 2013
Tags
New Religious Movements, Scientology
Collection
Gifts

All in the downs : reflections on life, landscape, and song

by Shirley Collins
Paperback, 2018
Tags
Performance Arts, British Folk Music, British Folk Song, Folk Singers, Traditional English Song, Sussex, English Folk Revival, Shirley Collins, Dolly Collins, Alan Lomax, Ashley Hutchins
Collection
Anna

The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life

by Tom Reiss
Paperback, 2006
Tags
Orientalism and Egyptomania, Biographies, Russian Revolution, Nazism, Bolsheviks, Khazaria, Muslim Identity, Jewish History, Bibliography, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Gifts
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