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The continuing adventures of Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son and apprentice to the local Spook, who faces danger and death daily in his job protecting the region from evil.

"Two leading authors on the alien abduction and the religious anomalous experience present an intellectual analysis of why paranormal phenomena are a real, however fantastical, part of the natural world that can be authenticated through key changes in perspective."-- Publisher's description. "Two of today's maverick authors on anomalous experience present a perception-altering and intellectually thrilling analysis of why the paranormal is real. Whitley...

Barely recovered from being kidnapped by the now-jailed hermit, Melissa and Jed find themselves still in danger for reasons that are rooted in the past history of their New Hampshire village. Sequel to Fours Crossing.

When her father announces plans for a housing development in the woods considered sacred by the mysterious hermit, the village is attacked by seemingly supernatural wild dogs; and Melissa realizes that she must find and pacify the hermit, even if it means traveling to the Otherworld. Sequel to "Watersmeet."

Maddy, a young woman who runs sheep on her family farm, develops an unusual relationship with an elusive mountain creature called a fey.

"Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era-tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft-even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific thinking grappled with events deemed impossible by its leading intellectuals. Eire observes how levitating saints and flying witches...

In Academy City, where science is used to develop supernatural abilities, Kamijo, a student and possessor of the Imagine Breaker, a supernatural power that negates others' powers, works to keep safe his friend Index, the young nun with a vast amount of magical knowledge who is in danger from a secret sorcery society.

Overview: The village of Coven Tree is again bedeviled. This time a mysterious impressario named Dr. Hugo Dredd offers to save the townspeople from a terrible drought by lending the services of young Bufu the Rainmaker-but at a dreadful cost

Tom is dismayed when his master the Spook decrees that they will be spending the winter on gloomy and forbidding Anglezarke Moor but soon discovers the reason for his master's decision, as they tangle with two dangerous witches and struggle to keep a dark mage from resurrecting an ancient evil.

In Academy City, where science is used to develop supernatural abilities, Kamijo, a student and possessor of the Imagine Breaker, a supernatural power that negates others' powers, works to keep safe his friend Index, the young nun with a vast amount of magical knowledge who is in danger from a secret sorcery society.