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In this celebrated work, his only novel, Wilde forged a devastating portrait of the effects of evil and debauchery on a young aesthete in late-19th-century England. Combining elements of the Gothic horror novel and decadent French fiction, the book centers on a striking premise: As Dorian Gray sinks into a life of crime and gross sensuality, his body retains perfect youth and vigor while his recently painted portrait grows day by day into a hideous
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Why do we believe in the soul? Does it actually exist? If so, what is it? Does it differ from the self? Is it part of the material world? Does it survive the body after death? In The Spiritual Universe, Fred Alan Wolf brings the most modern perspective of quantum physics to the most ancient questions of religion and philosophy. Taking the reader on a fascinating tour of both Western and Eastern thought, Wolf explains the differing view of the soul...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Accompanied by an eccentric, human-sized rat, Liza embarks on a perilous quest through an underground realm to save her brother, Patrick, whose soul has been stolen by the evilest of creatures--the spider-like spindlers.
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"How far would you go to find The One? A simple DNA test is all it takes. Just a quick mouth swab and soon you'll be matched with your perfect partner--the one you're genetically made for. That's the promise made by Match Your DNA. A decade ago, the company announced that they had found the gene that pairs each of us with our soul mate. Since then, millions of people around the world have been matched. But the discovery has its downsides: test results...
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"Corazon yearns to finally start training as a babaylan (a mystical healer and spirit guide) under her powerful guardian, Aunt Tina. As soon as her magic awakens, Corazon plans to bring her parents back from the dead and no longer have to rely on a soul key to allow visits with their ghosts for a few hours every Saturday night. But when a vengeful ghost steals Corazon's precious key, the fragile balance between the human world and the spirit world...
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Series
Give the dark my love volume 2
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Told in two voices, Grey hopes to revitalize plague-ravaged Lunar Island, but knows that his alliance with the emperor threatens his love for necromancer Nedra, who wants to keep her revenant sister with her even as she tries to free the souls of the dead.
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Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
1st ed.
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viii, 280 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Singer Gladys Knight recounts her life experiences, from her childhood to the late 1990s, looking at her success, beginning as a child prodigy to her days on the "chit'lin circuit" to superstardom, as well as the challenges she faced, including racism and addiction.
10) Secondhand souls
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Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. People are dying, but their souls are not being collected. Someone -- or something -- is stealing them and no one knows where they are going, or why, but it has something to do with that big orange bridge. Death Merchant Charlie Asher is just as flummoxed as everyone else. He's trapped in the body of a fourteen-inch-tall "meat" waiting for his Buddhist nun girlfriend, Audrey, to find him...
11) Day of the dead
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Jump!, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
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pages cm.
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English
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"In this book, early fluent readers will learn about the history of Day of the Dead, including when, where, and who first celebrated it, its meaning, the traditions associated with it, including setting up altars, making sugar skulls and papel picado, and visiting cemeteries and graves of loved ones, and how it is celebrated in different parts of the world today. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they...
12) Soul
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Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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English
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Middle-school band teacher Joe's true passion is jazz, but when he travels to another realm to help someone find their passion, he soon discovers what it means to have a soul.
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English
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In his groundbreaking first book, Your Soul's Plan, Robert Schwartz brought the idea of pre-birth planning into the mainstream. Now, his brilliant sequel Your Soul's Gift delves even deeper by exploring the pre-birth planning of spiritual awakening, miscarriage and abortion, caregiving, abusive relationships, sexuality, incest, adoption, poverty, suicide, rape, and mental illness. Working with a team of gifted mediums, Schwartz brings forth great...
14) Vicious spirits
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Gumiho volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"Somin and Junu are helping Miyoung and Jihoon heal from their recent trauma when a new supernatural threat arises"--
15) Thief of fate
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Providence Falls volume 3
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English
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After changing the course of history when he stole Cora McLeod from her destined soulmate, Finley Walsh, in 1844, Liam O'Conner, desperately trying to make amends, has three months to restore the balance by reuniting Cora and Finn or pay the ultimate price.
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CBS DVD
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 966 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Melinda Gordon has chilling, heart-stopping, amusing and emotional encounters with ghosts and those they haunt. At the tense intersection of the Living and the Dead, there is a mind-bending mystery that puts Melinda in lethal jeopardy--but also brings hope and miracles. Melinda's husband Jim is now a practicing physician at Grandview's haunted hospital. With the spirit world growing stronger, Melinda and Jim must find a way to balance their romance,...
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
8 videodiscs (1275 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Maka is a Meister and Soul is her Weapon. As students at the Grim Reaper's Death Weapon Meister Academy, their study habits couldn't be more different. But in battle against the supernatural forces of evil, they're a freakin lethal team.
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English
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An outstanding feast of distinctively American culinary genius, this comprehensive collection of authentic African-American recipes was assembled by a well-known cooking columnist for Ebony magazine. Freda DeKnight was baking bread and biscuits by the time she was five years old. In the course of her career as a teacher and counselor of culinary arts, she assembled and shared thousands of fabulous recipes, the best of which appear here. Filled with...
19) Kitchen 304
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English
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Kitchen 304 is a cookbook dedicated to the food of my childhood and the love of cooking spawned in my adulthood.
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English
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This book has been on and off the radar for several years but I didn't start researching, testing and writing recipes until 2011. But the book took a while because I wanted it to be more than just another "southern cook book". I wanted it to reflect my family's history while paying all due respect to the major influences in my cooking and the recipes shared within the book. I tried to approach the book from an instructor's perspective. By this I mean...
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