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The World of Lore
Monstrous Creatures
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Spooky Canada
Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
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Demoniality
Incubi and Succubi : Book of Demonology
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I Want to Believe
Investigators' Archive
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The Dead Roam the Earth
True Stories of the Paranormal From Around the World
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The Unidentified
Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession With the Unexplained
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Gory Details
Adventures From the Dark Side of Science
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Making the Monster
The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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Cursed Objects
Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items
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Bigfoot to Mothman
A Global Encyclopedia of Legendary Beasts and Monsters
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The Lady and Her Monsters
A Tale of Dissections, Real-life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece
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The Penguin Book of the Undead
Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters
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The Witches
Salem, 1692
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Monsters of the Gévaudan
The Making of A Beast
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Cabinet of Curiosities
A Historical Tour of the Unbelievable, the Unsettling, and the Bizarre
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The Lost Tomb
And Other Real-life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
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Unexplained
Real-life Supernatural Stories for Uncertain Times
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Strange, Spooky and Supernatural
Curious Tales of Fascinating People. Places and Things
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The United States of Cryptids
A Tour of American Myths and Monsters
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The Hammer of the Witches
Malleus Maleficarum, 1486
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Inside Secret Societies
Behind the Scenes of the Knights Templar, the Order of Assassins, Opus Dei, the Illuminati, the Freemasons and Many More
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The Occult Book
A Chronological Journey, From Alchemy to Wicca
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Sister of Darkness
The Chronicles of A Modern Exorcist
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The Book of Séances
A Guide to Divination and Speaking to Spirits
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The Secret History of Bigfoot
Field Notes on A North American Monster
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The Paranormal Conspiracy
The Truth About Ghosts, Aliens and Mysterious Beings
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Overthrowing the Old Gods
Aleister Crowley and the Book of the Law
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The Mystery Traditions
Secret Symbols and Sacred Art
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Our Missing Hearts
A Novel
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The Sixteen Pleasures
A Novel
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The Lions of Fifth Avenue
A Novel
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The Underground Library
A Novel
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The Library at Mount Char
A Novel
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Cherry Cheesecake Murder
A Hannah Swensen Mystery With Recipes
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Digital Madness
How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis-and How to Restore Our Sanity
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The Death of Truth
How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons They Needed to Destroy Trust and Polarize the World -- and What We Can Do About It
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The Coming Wave
Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
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The Encyclopedia of Misinformation
A Compendium of Imitations, Spoofs, Delusions, Simulations, Counterfeits, Impostors, Illusions, Confabulations, Skullduggery, Frauds, Pseudoscience, Propaganda, Hoaxes, Flimflam, Pranks, Hornswoggle, Conspiracies & Miscellaneous Fakery
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Future Crimes
Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It
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Cryptography
The Key to Digital Security, How It Works, and Why It Matters
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Tech Agnostic
How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs A Reformation
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Bullspotting
Finding Facts in the Age of Misinformation
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
A Novel
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Fire Weather
The Making of A Beast
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The Book of Charlie
Wisdom From the Remarkable American Life of A 109-year-old Man
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Bad Cree
A Novel
Large Print
Biography of A Friendship
A Memoir
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Soseol-eul jochneun hichihaikeo
Hitchhikers in pursuit of stories
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On the Surface
A Thriller
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The Carry-on Imperative
A Memoir of Travel, Reinvention & Giving Back
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Nobody Important
Just A Renegade Cop
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Traces of A Boy
Reflections of the Unfathomable
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When Women Talk
10 Influental Women Share Stories of Learning, Life and Leadership
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Monsters of the Wilderness
Oswalds Curse
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The Historians
Healing at Hidcote
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In Harmony With the Tao
A Guided Journey Into the Tao Te Ching
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Personal Storytelling
Discovering the Extraordinary in the Ordinary
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The Flourishing Postpartum Planner
Your Guide to the Fourth Trimester
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Transitions
From Farmhand to Career Diplomat
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Dream Count
A Novel
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The Wedding People
A Novel
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A Mind of Her Own
A Novel
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Broken Country
A Novel
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Time Travel in North Vancouver
A Peek Into the Past
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At the Bridge
James Teit and An Anthropology of Belonging
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What Was Said to Me
The Life of Sti'tum'atul'wut, A Cowichan Woman
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British Columbia
Land of Promises
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East Side Story
Growing Up at the PNE
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Stewards of Splendour
A History of Wildlife and People in British Columbia
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Go Do Some Great Thing
The Black Pioneers of British Columbia
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Sheltering in the Backrush
A History of Twin Islands
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Echoes Across Seymour
A History of North Vancouver's Eastern Communities Including Dollarton and Deep Cove
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Where Mountains Meet the Sea
An Illustrated History of the District of North Vancouver
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The Geography of Memory
Reclaiming the Cultural, Natural and Spiritual History of the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First People
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On the Edge of Empire
Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871
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