When she discovers that she has a brother, Chrysabelle is torn between fulfilling a debt that means returning to Corbinestri, a hidden vampire city, with Malkolm, and family duty, while dealing with power hungry witches and the Kabai Mata. "With the Ring of Sorrows still missin…
The art of living the "good life" requires skilful attunement to the lovely presences in everyday life. Lodged in a psychoanalytic sensibility, and drawing from ancient and modern religious and spiritual wisdom, this book provides the details, conceptual structures, and inner me…
Determined that the Sith dream of galactic domination will not die with him, Bane vows to learn the secret of a forgotten Dark Lord that will assure the Sith's immortality--and his own. But when Bane suddenly vanishes, his apprentice Zannah must find him--possibly even rescue hi…
Four students discover a manuscript, The Book of Skulls, which reveals the existence of a sect, now living in the Arizona desert, whose members can offer immortality to those who can complete its initiation rite. To their surprise, they discover that the sect exists, and is will…
Seeking the immortality promised in an ancient manuscript, The Book of Skulls, four friends, college roommates, go on a spring break trip to Arizona: Eli, the scholar, who found and translated the book; Timothy, scion of an American dynasty, born and bred to lead; Ned, poet and …
In this seventeenth-century Chinese novel, Han Xiangzi, best known as one of the Eight Immortals, seeks and achieves immortality ad then devotes himself to converting his materialistic, politically ambitious Confucian uncle--Han Yu, a real historical figure--to Daoism. Written i…
With a new Afterword by the author, this classic novel of suspense and betrayal is slated to be a major motion pictured directed by William Friedkin ("The Exorcist").
Four college students searching for the secret of eternal life embark on a journey to the Arizona desert where they encounter a mysterious, ancient sect called the Keepers of the Skulls who guard a mystic rite that controls all of their futures.