Witch and Yale historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont. The orphaned daughter of two powerful witches, Bishop prefers intellect, but relies on magic when her discovery of a palimpsest documenting the origin of supernatural species releases an assortment of undead who threaten, stalk, and harass her. Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar...

In Elizabethan London, Oxford scholar and reluctant witch Diana Bishop seeks a magical tutor, while vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont confronts elements from his past at the same time the mystery of the enchanted manuscript Ashmole 782 deepens.

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, hires investigator Sam Coppersmith to track down a killer with supernatural abilities.

As a new Initiate with the Alchemists' Council, Jaden is trained to maintain the elemental balance of the world, while fending off interference by the malevolent Rebel Branch. Bees are disappearing from the pages of the ancient manuscripts in Council dimension and from the outside world, threatening its very existence. Jaden navigates alchemy's complexities, but the more she learns, the more she begins to question Council practices. Erasure - a procedure...

What if the heart is another name for God? The heart is the locus of physical and spiritual being, and represents the "central wisdom of feeling as opposed to the head-wisdom of reason" (Cooper, 82). It is compassion and understanding, life-giving and complex. It is a symbol for love. Since God is love and love is a factor of the heart, God seeks to relate to us from His heart to ours. The Lotus flower begins its journey upward from the muddy water...

The Alchemist's Handbook is a major contribution to the study of alchemy. What was formerly, handed down under oath of secrecy is, presented here in clear, concise, practical working manual for the sincere aspirant. This concise handbook discusses, the fundamental principles of alchemy; directions for the formation of an inexpensive home laboratory, with illustrations of the necessary equipment. Alchemy, the author tells us, is the "raising of vibrations."...

Hubo un grito vital al nacer que permitió abrir nuestros pulmones para que el aire se precipitara en ellos, fue el grito primal que nos salvó de ahogarnos. Así, el ser humano, para vivir, tiene como necesidad suprema el alimentar el hambre de ese grito inaugural del instinto: 'Así fue que seguí mi instinto', nos comparte el autor de Huelga de Hambre a Dios. Sucede, a veces, que del hambre se hace huelga para excavar y vaciarse de uno mismo. Aquí...

"Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story. Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math. Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Reed created Dodger and her brother. He's not their father. Not quite. But he has a plan: to raise the...