Ruby Sisson Library

With lucidity and elegance, the award-winning author of "The Dancing Wu Li Masters" shows how the pursuit of external power has produced our survival-of-the-fittest understanding of evolution; generated conflict between lovers, communities, and superpowers; and brought us to the edge of destruction.

Muladach mi is mi air m'aineol; (Capercaillie); (3:40) --; Lully lullay; (Nightnoise); (3:37) --; Nollaig na mban; (Cormac Breatnach); (5:01) --; Angels in the snow; (David Arkenstone); (3:49) --; The day's last night; (Seamus Eagan); (4:44) --; Airdi cuan; (Maighread & Triona Ní Dhomhnaill); (5:08) --; On a cold winter's day ; Christmas Eve; (Kevin Burke & Mícheál Ó Domhnaill); (4:05) --; Morning star; (Lisa Lynne); (4:10) --; The Wexford carol;...

Ashton is just a typical small town. But when a skeptical reporter and a pastor begin to compare notes, they suddenly find themselves fighting a hideous plot to subjugate the townspeople--and eventually the entire human race. A riveting thriller, "This Present Darkness" offers a fascinating glimpse into the unseen world of spiritual warfare

ever in history, until now, have we been able to hear from so many people around the world who have been brought back from clinical death. Modern medical resuscitation and digital communication have revealed a goldmine of intriguing near-death experiences (NDEs) that show us the character of God. John Burke has spent the last three decades studying the commonalities of more than 1000 NDEs. His investigative journey started as a skeptical agnostic,...

"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants -- and the equally powerful taboos Of all the things humans rely on plants for--sustenance, beauty, fragrance, flavor, fiber--surely the most curious is our use of them is to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities...

Two people find love as they search for a killer among the New Age crowd in a town in Arizona. They are Alexa Chambers, an art designer, and J.L. Trask, a hotel tycoon whose father was murdered. Suspense, sex and religion.