The Totems


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Garret Hunters earliest memory of Banister House was one of fear. Upstairs, the dead animal heads and the dark oil painting of the long gone Banister men bothered him. But downstairs, the wooden animal carvings that decorated the double doors of the formal dining room frightened him the most. Only in his adult life would he learn how much influence they had over him.




Totem


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The Totem


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"Something is on the prowl in the forests and foothills outside the small Wyoming town of Potter's Field, something that mutilates but does not feed, that kills indiscriminately and without reason, at night, by moonlight. As the body count mounts, police chief Nathan Slaughter and the town's medical examiner try to find out who or what is doing the killing....Morrell embeds compelling human drama in a taut, hell-for-leather plot consisting of equal parts police procedural, medical detective story, biological horror story, disaster novel and Gothic thriller. Beneath its multi-genre surface, The Totem engages broader sociological issues....A thriller of rare ambition and achievement, as thought-provoking as it is exciting and scary." Washington Post Book World




Wolf Totem


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China's runaway bestseller and winner of the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize Published in China in 2004, Wolf Totem has broken all sales records, selling millions of copies (along with millions more on the black market). Part period epic, part fable for modern days, Wolf Totem depicts the dying culture of the Mongols--the ancestors of the Mongol hordes who at one time terrorized the world--and the parallel extinction of the animal they believe to be sacred: the fierce and otherworldly Mongolian wolf. Beautifully translated by Howard Goldblatt, the foremost translator of Chinese fiction, this extraordinary novel is finally available in English.




Crackstone Chronicles


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It is the Spring of 1924 in New York City, where John Crackstone, a detective, specializes in missing person cases. On the surface a man of his time, John enjoys the good life, but can't quite afford it. However, he is not who he thinks he is. While solving the disappearance of a wealthy client, John uncovers clues that point to his own lost identity. Sometimes life is like a Monty Python episode; 'now, for something completely different'. John discovers he has been on the wrong journey for almost two years. The three novels of the Crackstone Chronicles, Extinction, Connections and Extraordinary Solution carry the reader through time and space, exploring the question: why would extraterrestrials visit Earth, let alone conceal themselves here? The three parts to the Crackstone Chronicles, Extinction, Connections, andMagical Solution will provide an adventurous ride through time and space, ending up with answers to the question: are other civilizations here on Earth, and why are they here?




Beautiful Slave's Happy Life


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In his previous life, Chen Chun didn't raise a peach. When she woke up again, she found that she had become a good chicken woman who could lay eggs during the coming of age ceremony ... After completing her mission as an adult female slave, she had quietly fled in accordance with the wishes of others. He had originally wanted to grow some fields, raise a few little buns, and randomly remodel some of the tribes that had fallen behind. One, two, three ... Why did men come to this door?




Totempole


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Totempole is Sanford Friedman’s radical coming-of-age novel, featuring Stephen Wolfe, a young Jewish boy growing up in New York City and its environs during the Depression and war years. In eight discrete chapters, which trace Stephen’s evolution from a two-year-old boy to a twenty-four-year-old man, Friedman describes with psychological acuity and great empathy Stephen’s intellectual, moral, and sexual maturation. Taught to abhor his body for the sake of his soul, Stephen finds salvation in the eventual unification of the two, the recognition that body and soul should not be partitioned but treated as one being, one complete man.




Clash of the Totems and the Catastrophe of Callistus


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Join Ellery in her second year at the Quinton Earth Science School as one by one, another friend goes missing — lost without a trace. But Ellery is on the verge of losing herself. She is unable to cope with being the chosen one to bring back balance to Mother Earth, scorning those that love her most.




Chrysalis


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Welcome to the house on Boleskine, home of Aleister Crowley. Head of the occult. A master of magick with the demonic gifts of deception and manipulation. The user and abuser of drugs and narcotics to achieve his own personal goals of transcendence and ascension. Using murder and mayhem as common tools, he's attempting to build his empire, and it looks like nothing stands in his way—except a loving mother and her powerfully gifted daughter. As the harbinger of dark magick and the religious leader of Thelema, a devious cult nestled in the bosom of Northern Scotland's Loch Ness, Aleister strives to create the ultimate hallucinogenic elixir, DMT, for the purpose of activating the pineal gland, a gland that, when activated, will give him the power of telepathic clairvoyance. His ultimate goal? To control and weaponize the interdimensional gateways we know as the portals.Rose McCall is a beautifully divine matriarch whose sole intent is to keep her powerful daughter safe from the clutches of Crowley, who views the daughter as his key to the portal system. Travel to totems from around the world as Aleister attempts to solidify his endgame and reach total ascension for the purpose of becoming a deity to mankind. Rose has different plans, as she uses Aleister's mental incompetence against him to thwart his fulfillment of Satanic totalitarian rule over this dimension and the countless multiverses throughout time. Good and evil are going to clash as the righteous now decide to fight Aleister. Chrysalis is the first in the Aleister Crowley Trilogy: The House on Boleskine.




Guardian of the One


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Imagine the universe as a single entity to which all things are attached. Follow a Native American legend as the new Guardian of the One begins the task of bringing the world back to this understanding. Many powerful entities can not let this happen. Watch Gadge and Sammy, his Dreamer, as they unravel the mysterious links of the soul. Are they in time to save the wobbly cycle of life?