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Dive into epic mythology and heroic journeys where flawed champions clash with wrathful gods for ultimate survival. Transform your daily commute into a dramatic, sweeping saga that spans from the chaotic birth of the cosmos to the bloody battlefields of antiquity. Experience the thrilling rise...

Master essential Dutch phrases effortlessly during your nighttime routine and wake up ready to speak with confidence. Designed for absolute beginners, this calming audio experience bypasses the frustration of dry memorization and tedious grammar drills. Simply drift off to sleep as you absorb...

Experience hypnotic true ghost stories and eerie internet lore designed to lull you into an unnerving sleep. Embrace the quiet terror of the mundane with narratives calibrated for late-night listening and battling insomnia. This collection reframes unexplainable moments into a soothing rhythm...

Author Shane Simmons explores tales of bravery, lore, and bizarre customs within the East Tennessee region. The mountains of East Tennessee are chock full of unique folklore passed down through generations. Locals spin age-old yarns of legends like Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, and Dragging Canoe...

A modern bestiary with an ancient heart: meet twelve emblematic animals and restore your relationship with the natural world, from the editor of Cunning Folk. The bear deities, Artio and Artaius, who’ll rise from sleep; the salmon of wisdom who gifts understanding of the universe’s past...

Enjoy chilling tales of the Loup Garou, the Boo Hag, the Moon-Eyed People, and many more supernatural entities in this collection of spooky Southern US encounters. Beneath live oaks laden with Spanish moss, on humid nights thick with the scent of honeysuckle, creatures and spirits stalk the...

Explore the vast and wondrous legends behind 35 of the world’s tree species and enjoy a new approach to nature–based spirituality. In this nature connection and spiritual wellness tool, Dawn Nelson offers a new way of connecting with trees—and in turn the landscape and nature around...

With the inquisitive heart of an adventurer and the rigor of a scholar, this spellbinding work leads listeners through centuries of dark folklore, lost legends, and the wild inspirations behind Bram Stoker's immortal classic. Volcanic cataclysms, secret aristocratic scandals, mysterious...

This volume serves up a bountiful combination of local history, classic recipes, and colorful Midwestern food lore. Iowa's delectable cuisine is quintessentially midwestern, grounded in its rich farming heritage and spiced with diverse ethnic influences. Classics like fresh sweet corn and...

Meet the matriarchs of Filipino myth – defiant goddesses, powerful witches, terrifying shapeshifters – and their real-life counterparts, as Carla Montemayor journeys to discover her own ancestry and the stories of her people. When Carla Montemayor discovers that her great-great grandmother...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Here is a rosary of soaring myth, gripping narrative, and deep wisdom, all told with breathtaking verve that enchants and sweeps us along, from first word to last. A superb, inspiring read.” —GABOR MATÉ, author of The Myth of Normal From "one of the...

Bloomsbury presents Cunning Folk by Tabitha Stanmore, read by Anna Wilson-Jones. "Rich and lively."—New York Times Book Review A vibrant look at an unsettled and strangely familiar time that overturns our assumptions about the history of magic. Imagine: it’s the year 1600 and you’ve lost...

The forgotten book on world mythology by Alan Watts is now an audiobook for the first time. Alan Watts is today remembered as a trailblazing interpreter of Eastern philosophy, but The Two Hands of God reveals a different side of his multifaceted genius. In this ambitious work, Watts takes...

Explore the complex and rich tradition of Goddess worship across the Indian subcontinent through this stunning compilation of Her complete story She is benevolent and nurturing, yet fierce and terrible, a warrior and a lover. She creates and gives life, is death personified, and the one who...

Discover the beguiling history of witchcraft, magic, and superstition through the centuries and across the world in this stunningly audiobook. A History of Magic, Witchcraft and the Occult charts the extraordinary narrative of one of the most interesting and often controversial subjects in the...

"As the United Arab Emirates' ambassador to Russia...Ghobash records from a uniquely broad perspective about being Muslim in a post-9/11 world. His Oxford-educated British accent lends further gravitas for American ears." — Library Journal From the Ambassador of the UAE to Russia comes Letters...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: “Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime." —The New York Times Book...

Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a “brilliant, well-documented” celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution. Centuries after the infamous witch hunts that swept through...

Sie agieren im Verborgenen. Mythen und Verschwörungstheorien ranken sich um sie: Geheimbünde faszinieren die Menschen seit jeher. Es heißt, sie lenken die Geschicke des Vatikans. Sie bestimmen die Agenda des amerikanischen Präsidenten. Und sie sind die Drahtzieher hinter Finanzkrisen und Kriegen.

Dieses Buch enthüllt die Hintergründe und die Macht der geheimen Gesellschaften. Sind sie tatsächlich ein Hort des Bösen, oder erlangt man durch sie tiefere Erkenntnisse? Die Autoren suchen nach Symbolen, versteckten Hinweisen und entlarven Halbwahrheiten.

'A groundbreaking reclamation of the forgotten women who slay dragons. A must-read for dragon fans.' Professor Daniel Ogden A seminal chronicle of the hidden history and mythology of female dragon slayers from ancient world expert and author of Goddess with a Thousand Faces Jasmine Elmer. The...