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A detailed, step-by-step introduction to alchemy that explores its mysteries while illustrating its use as a modern spiritual system of attainment, including an overview of the history of alchemy, from the first meldings of Egyptian technology, through the Middle Ages--the golden age of alchemy--right up to contemporary techniques. It demystifies the relationship between alchemy and chemistry, and provides evidence to detractors that alchemy is much...
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Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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The Alchemy Reader is a collection of primary source readings on alchemy and hermeticism, which offers readers an informed introduction and background to a complex field through the works of important ancient, medieval and early modern alchemical authors. Including selections from the legendary Hermes Trimegistus to Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton, the book illustrates basic definitions, conceptions, and varied interests and emphases; and it also illustrates...
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Apothecary series volume 3
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English
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Teenagers Janie and Benjamin continue to explore the secrets of the Pharmacopoeia while Benjamin risks everything to find a way to connect with his father.
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English
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"A special 25th anniversary edition of Paulo Coehlo's extraordinary international bestselling phenomenon--the inspiring spiritual tale of self-discovery that has touched millions of lives around the world.Combing magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical...
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Funimation
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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A fugitive alchemist with mysterious abilities leads the Elric brothers to a distant valley of slums inhabited by the Milos, a proud people struggling against bureaucratic exploitation. Ed and Al quickly find themselves in the middle of a rising rebellion as the exiled Milos lash out against their oppressors.
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Song of ice and fire volume 2
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English
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A medieval fantasy on the land of the Seven Kingdoms, chronicling the intrigues of its ruling families as they jockey for power. By the author of A Game of Thrones.
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English
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Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient passageways and abandoned rooms. A young woman lives there, tucked among the sprawling tunnels of the Underthing, snug in the heart of this forgotten place. Her name is Auri, and she is full of mysteries.
11) Ghostwalk
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After the mysterious drowning of his mother Elizabeth Vogelsang, who was writing a controversial biography of Isacc Newton, Cameron Brown recruits his former lover to complete the book. This plunges her to into probing two series of murders, the 17th century murders of several who stood between Newton and his studies and present day targets of those who offend the an animal rights group.
12) A riddle in Ruby
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Riddle in Ruby volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"In an era called The Chemystral Age, magically augmented alchemy and chemistry have thrust an alternate version of eighteenth-century colonial America forward into industrialization. Thirteen-year-old Ruby is a smuggler's daughter and picklock prodigy, and she and her mostly faithful servant, Cram, navigate a world filled with cobalt gearbeasts, alchemical automatons, and devilish secret societies"--
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Fullmetal alchemist light novels volume 6
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Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. The brothers and their allies close in on answers about the Philosopher's Stone, forcing a showdown with the homunculus Lust.
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As the authors show, the writings of medieval alchemists may seem like the ravings of brain-addled fools, but there is more to the story than that. Recent scholarship has shown that some seemingly nonsensical mysticism is, in fact, decipherable code, and Western European alchemists functioned from a firmer theoretical foundation than previously thought. They had a guiding principle, based on experience: separate and purify materials by fire and reconstitute...
15) Copper Beach
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Dark legacy volume 1
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English
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After a deadly incident in the private library of an obsessive rare-book collector, Abby Radwell, a psychic who is able to detect paranormal secrets in old texts, needs an investigator who can also play bodyguard.
16) The fire rose
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English
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Accepting employment as a governess after hard times hit her family, medieval scholar Rosalind Hawkins is surprised when she learns that her mysterious employer has no children and only wants her to read to him each night through a speaking tube.
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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Expecting to cover zoning meetings and school plays, Paul Tomm signs on as a cub reporter with a small-town paper near his Connecticut alma mater. When Jaan Puhapaev, a professor doing his research on the ancient art of alchemy, dies under suspicious circumstances, Paul is called back to the campus to write an obituary. But Puhapaev had no family or friends, and the only person who seems to have known anything about him is the beautiful next-door...
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Riddle in Ruby volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Publisher Annotation: In this second volume, Ruby Teach has become the enemy?s prisoner. She bargained with her freedom to protect her friends?but her friends aren?t about to abandon her, either. That?s not what friends do. Ruby?s blood holds a secret, one that could turn the tides of the looming war for whomever unlocks it first. Ruby?s father, former pirate Captain Teach, and her friends?a motley crew made up of a young aristocrat, a servant, and...
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Fullmetal alchemist volume 7
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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A group of outcasts is determined to discover the alchemical secrets of Alphonse Elric's creation. Now, Ed must go into the Devil's Nest to rescue his brother and face an artificial human being called a homunculus.
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Fullmetal alchemist volume 21
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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President Bradley is set up for an assassination attempt, while Ed meets someone from his past, and Al is separated from his body.
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