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Magic and New Age

The Learned Art of Witches and Wizards: ***
Animal-Speak: *****
The Illustrated Book of Signs and Symbols: ****
Animal Magick: ****
Dancing With Dragons: ****
Magickal, Mystical Creatures: *****
Dragonlore: **+
The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Fortune-Telling: ****
The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Spells & Magic: ****
The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Superstitions: ****
Merlin's Book of Magick and Enchantments: **
The Concise Lexicon of the Occult: ****
The Giant Book of Magic: ***
Odin's Gateways: ****
The Complete Book of Amulets & Talismans: ****
Monsters: An Investigator's Guide to Magical Beings: *****
Ask and It is Given: ****
Eyewitness Books: Witches and Magic Makers: MG?: ****
Star Cats: A Feline Zodiac: ****
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Divination: ****+
Tarot for Writers: ***+
The Complete Book of Magical Names: *****
The Book of Alchemy: ***
The Full Guide to Becoming a Real Wizard, Witch or Necromancer: **
Magick Made Easy: ***+

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Nature

The Ghosts of Evolution: ***+
The Encyclopedia of World Wildlife: ***
On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition: ****
The Smart Neanderthal: ****
Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide: ***+
Aliens in the Backyard: Plant and Animal Imports into America: ***+
Animal Wise: ****+
Never Cry Wolf: ****
Great Cats (with Dr. Susan Lumpkin, consulting editors): ****
Your Inner Fish: ****+
Let Them Eat Shrimp: ****
Eyewitness: Butterfly & Moth: MG?: *****
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World: ****+
The Hidden Life of Trees: ****+

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Paranormal, Cryptozoology, and Unexplained Phenomena

The Encyclopedia of Monsters: *****
Cryptozoology A - Z (with Jerome Clarke): ****
Monsters: An Investigator's Guide to Magical Beings: *****
The Complete Guide to Mysterious Beings: ***
A Natural History of the Unnatural World (with the "Cryptozoological Society of London"): MG? **+
The Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures: *****
The United States of Cryptids: ***+
Mysteries of the Unexplained: ***
Reader's Digest Facts and Fallacies: ***
The World's Most Incredible Stories: The Best of the Fortean Times (editor): ***
The Mammoth Encyclopedia of the Unexplained (with Damon Wilson): ****
Unsolved Mysteries Past and Present (with Damon Wilson): *****

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Photography

How to Take Great Photographs With Any Camera: ****
On Feathered Wings: Birds in Flight: *****
Photography for Beginners Box Set: 2 in 1: **+
Artist's Photo Reference: Wildlife: ***
Confessions of a Compact Camera Shooter: ***+

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Politics

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo (with Jill Twiss), illustrations by EG (Gerald Kelley) Keller: CH: ****
How to Be an Antiracist: *****
The Prince: ***
A is for Activist: CH: ***+
Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America: ****+
The Rights of Man: ***+
What Unites Us (with Elias Kirschner): ****+
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart presents Earth (the Book) (et al., editors): *****
The Mueller Report (with Rosalind S. Helderman and Matt Zapotosky): ****

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Psychology and Sociology

Thinking 101: ****
Predictably Irrational: ****
The Hero With a Thousand Faces: ****
White Fragility: ****
Duh!: The Stupid History of the Human Race: ***+
The Third Man Factor: ****
Hey, Idiot!: Chronciles of Human Stupidity: ****
How to Be an Antiracist: *****
You Are Not So Smart: ****
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: ****
The Lost Tomb: ****+
How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question: ****+

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Reference

Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words: *****
The Painted Word: **+
The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Fortune-Telling: ****
The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Spells & Magic: ****
The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Superstitions: ****
The Concise Lexicon of the Occult: ****
The Complete Book of Magical Names: *****
The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the Wild West; The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life series: ***+
Thing Explainer: YA?: ****
What's That?: The Oxford Visual Dictionary of Nearly Everything: ****
The Forgotten Arts & Crafts: ***

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Religion and Spirituality

The Hidden Messages in Water: Nonfiction, Spirituality: ***
Spiritual Traditions: Essential Teachings to Transform Your Life: Nonfiction, Spirituality: ***
Ask and It is Given: ****
The Dragon Slayer With a Heavy Heart: ***

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