"History comes alive in this textured account of the rivalry between Harry Houdini and the so-called Witch of Lime Street, whose iconic lives intersected at a time when science was on the verge of embracing the paranormal,"--Amazon.com.

A romance in 1880s New York between a spiritualist and a man who vows to destroy her. She is Lavinia, a runaway orphan from St. Louis who learned spiritualism from gypsies and now holds seances as Countess Lovaenya. He is Edward, son of her wealthiest client. He has discovered who she really is and intends to expose her.

"A young writer travels to Maine to tell the unusual story of America's longest-running camp devoted to mysticism and the world beyond. They believed they would live forever. So begins Mira Ptacin's haunting account of the women of Camp Etna--an otherworldly community in the woods of Maine that has, since 1876, played host to generations of Spiritualists and mediums dedicated to preserving the links between the mortal realm and the afterlife. Beginning...

1901. After the death of Queen Victoria, England heaves with the uncanny. Seances are held and the dead are called upon from darker realms. Helena Walton-Cisneros, known for her ability to find the lost and the displaced, is hired by the elusive Lady Matthews to solve a twenty-year-old mystery: the disappearance of her three stepdaughters who vanished without a trace on the Norfolk Fens. But the Fens are an age-old land, where folk tales and dark...

Jesus ascended to heaven. End of story. But then how do we explain the Christians, in nearly every century since, who claimed to have seen, heard, met, and touched Jesus in the flesh? In Seeing Jesus, Robert Hudson ponders the larger-than-life characters throughout Christian history who have encountered the actual face of the resurrected Christ and offers us a look at the deeper meaning these stories have for us today.

"As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle studied in Edinburgh under the vigilant eye of a diagnostic genius, Dr. Joseph Bell. Doyle often observed Bell identifying a patient's occupation, hometown, and ailments from the smallest details of dress, gait, and speech. Although Doyle was training to be a surgeon, he was meanwhile cultivating essential knowledge that would feed his literary dreams and help him develop the most iconic detective in...

"It's 1922. Despite prohibition, the '20s are just beginning to roar. Tabloids are afire with gossip about anything from postwar Germany to ghosts, and young Molly Goodman, fresh out of Vassar, is eager to jump into the action. On her first assignment, she lands an interview with the most famous magician of all time, Harry Houdini. Houdini tells her all about his friend and adversary, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle."--Cover.