Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds
10 best books like Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds (Leo Braudy): Hallucinations, The Wise and the Wicked, Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds, Aquicorn Cove, The Varieties of Religious Experience, The Unicorn in the Barn, The Gift, Lair of the White Worm, Vampire City, BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
| Author | Oliver Sacks |
| ISBN | 0307957241 |
Have you ever seen something that wasn’t really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing?
Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication,...
Ruby Chernyavsky has been told the stories since she was a child: The women in her family, once possessed of great magical abilities to remake lives and stave off death itself, were forced to flee their Russian home for America in order to escape the fearful men who sought to destroy them. Such has it always...
| Author | Bernd Heinrich |
| ISBN | 0060930632 |
In Mind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich, award - winning naturalist, finds himself dreaming of ravens and decides he must get to the truth about this animal reputed to be so intelligent.
Much like a sleuth, Heinrich involves us in his quest, letting one clue lead to the next. But as animals can only...
| Author | Katie O'Neill |
| ISBN | 1620105292 |
When Lana and her father return to their seaside hometown to help clear the debris of a storm, the last thing she expects is to discover a colony of Aquicorns—magical seahorse-like residents of the coral reef. As she explores the damaged town and the fabled undersea palace, Lana learns that while she...
The Varieties of Religious Experience
| Author | William James |
| ISBN | 1402199031 |
"I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch of learning in which I am particularly versed. To the psychologist the religious propensities of man must be at least as interesting as any other of the facts pertaining...
| Author | Jacqueline K. Ogburn |
For years people have claimed to see a mysterious white deer in the woods around Chinaberry Creek. It always gets away.
One evening, Eric Harper thinks he spots it. But a deer doesn’t have a coat that shimmers like a pearl. And a deer certainly isn’t born with an ivory horn curling...
| Author | Barbara Browning |
| ISBN | 1566894689 |
Praise for Barbara Browning:
“A provocative novel . . . that blurs the boundaries between life and performance, dance, art, and viral video.”—Slate
“Deftly blending highbrow intellectual concerns with the informality of Facebook-era communiqués, Browning’s newest...
| Author | Bram Stoker |
| ISBN | 0646418424 |
In a tale of ancient evil, Bram Stoker creates a world of lurking horrors and bizarre denizens: a demented mesmerist, hellbent on mentally crushing the girl he loves; a gigantic kite raised to rid the land of an unnatural infestation of birds, and which receives strange commands along its string; and...
| Author | Paul Féval père |
| ISBN | 0974071161 |
Some tell of a great city of black jasper which has streets and buildings like any other city but is eternally in mourning, enveloped by perpetual gloom. Some call it Selene, some Vampire City, but the vampires refer to it among themselves by the name of the Sepulchre... To destroy the dreaded vampire...
BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
| Author | John Palfrey |
| ISBN | 0465042996 |
Libraries today are more important than ever. More than just book repositories, libraries can become bulwarks against some of the most crucial challenges of our age: unequal access to education, jobs, and information.
In BiblioTech, educator and technology expert John Palfrey argues...
