My bookshelf·Index Published

2000

6 books

No. 0397 X-file · No fixed address

Destiny of Souls

Michael Newton

Michael Newton was a counseling psychologist and hypnotherapist in Los Angeles, an atheist when he started, who says he stumbled into this by accident when a client under hypnosis went past a past life and started describing what happened between…

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Destiny of Souls
No. 0178 ghost story · No fixed address

House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski

A family moves into a house in the Virginia countryside and finds a closet where there wasn’t one, then a hallway, and then measure the place and discover the inside is a quarter inch bigger than the outside. The hallway…

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House of Leaves
No. 0172 novel · No fixed address

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Michael Chabon

Josef Kavalier gets smuggled out of Prague in 1939 in a coffin with the Golem, a kind of Jewish Frankenstein’s monster, lands on his cousin Sammy Clay’s bedroom floor in Brooklyn, and the two of them invent a comic book…

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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
No. 0078 field guide · Desert Southwest

A Naturalist’s Guide to Canyon Country

David B. Williams

David Williams spent nine years in Moab, working as a ranger at Arches and teaching for the Canyonlands Field Institute, and this is the field guide that came out of it, illustrated in line drawings by Gloria Brown. It covers…

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A Naturalist’s Guide to Canyon Country
No. 0070 History · Desert Southwest

Anasazi America

David E. Stuart

Everybody wants the ruins of Chaco Canyon to be a mystery. Stuart, an anthropologist at New Mexico who’s spent his career there, knows it isn’t. Chaco was a boom town. There were great houses five stories high, dead-straight roads running…

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Anasazi America
No. 0028 travelogue · American West

On the Rez

Ian Frazier

Frazier spent years going out to Pine Ridge with his friend Le War Lance, an Oglala Lakota man he met in New York, and the book is what that friendship showed him. Some of it is history — Crazy Horse,…

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On the Rez