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Top 10 Best "Authors" Books

#10

The Absent Author (A to Z Mysteries)

Ron Roy
John Steven Gurney

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Authors of the Impossible

Jeffrey J. Kripal

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Authors of the Impossible

Most scholars dismiss research into the paranormal as pseudoscience, a frivolous pursuit for the paranoid or gullible. Even historians of religion, whose work naturally attends to events beyond the realm of empirical science, have shown scant interest in the subject. But the history of psychical phenomena, Jeffrey J. Kripal contends, is an untapped source of insight into the sacred and by tracing that history through the last two centuries of Western thought we can see its potential centrality to the critical study of religion. Kripal grounds his study in the work of four major figures in the history of paranormal research: psychical researcher Frederic Myers; writer and humorist Charles Fort; astronomer, computer scientist, and ufologist Jacques Vallee; and philosopher and sociologist Bertrand Méheust. Through incisive analyses of these thinkers, Kripal ushers the reader into a beguiling world somewhere between fact, fiction, and fraud. The cultural history of telepathy, teleportation, and UFOs; a ghostly love story; the occult dimensions of science fiction; cold war psychic es...

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#9

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Luigi Pirandello

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#8

Authors Bookcase Card Deck (History Channel)

Inc. U. S. Games Systems

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#7

The Hummingbird's Daughter

Luis Alberto Urrea

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#6

Secret Lives of Great Authors

Robert Schnakenberg
Mario Zucca

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#5

Demigods and Monsters

Rick Riordan
Leah Wilson

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#4

Authors Bookcase Card Deck (History Channel)

Inc. U. S. Games Systems

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#3

Between My Thighs

Naija

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#2

About the Authors

Lisa Cleaveland
Katie Wood Ray

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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!



~Abraham Lincoln

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What Do Authors Do? (0046442866217)

Eileen Christelow

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#1

American Authors Card Game (Authors & More)

Thomas C. Clarie
Yury Shakov

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