 | Chess Garden by Brooks Hansen
Buy used from: $0.01 Heartbreaking novel of religious ideas, fantasy and parental love.
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 | The Myth of the Eternal Return: Or, Cosmos and History by Mircea Eliade
Buy used from: $0.99 A classic of comparative religion. I'll never look at the week between Christmas and New Year's the same again, when, according to tradition, the dead return to visit the living.
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 | Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles' Tragic Hero and His Time by Professor Bernard Knox
Buy new: $22.50 / Used from: $7.10 Masterful analysis by a master of classical studies. Man may be subject to fate, but he is free to recognize and accept his destiny or deny it.
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 | A Trip To The Stars: A Novel by Nicholas Christopher
Buy new: $12.00 / Used from: $0.24 Best novel ever about fate, alien dogs, vampires, celestial maps and jazz drummers.
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 | Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning (Dover Books on Astronomy) by Richard H. Allen
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $1.64 A book to dip into for years. Full of esoteric goodies. Plus, open it to any page and it just looks cool.
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 | The Physiognomy by Jeffrey Ford
Buy used from: $1.81 Miners who turn to blue stone, werewolves with mechanical hearts,a monkey bartender -- holy cr*p!!
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 | One Hundred Poems from the Japanese by Kenneth Rexroth
Buy new: $9.56 / Used from: $2.48 Crystalline in its beauty and perfection. Short, too!
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 | Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy by William Barrett
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $1.42 A mind-expanding read when I was 22. But existential freedom gets scarier every year.
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 | The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $4.31 Ouch! The truth hurts. For those who feel that breath of the void.
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 | The Historical Figure of Jesus by E. P. Sanders
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $6.30 A great book for anyone who needs an objective platform for their leap of faith.
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 | The Aeneid by Virgil
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $4.42 Jupiter told the Romans that their empire would have no boundary in time or space. I wonder what he told us?
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