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Notable Recent Additions
The Lang Fairy Books (8/25/2009)
The Works of Lord Dunsany (8/19/2009)
Lost Books of the Bible (8/12/2009)
The Babylonian Talmud in Selection (8/3/2009)
Works of Chaucer (Middle English) (7/22/2009)
The Gospel of Ramakrishna (7/18/2009)
Hymns of the Eastern Church (7/5/2009)
Spider Woman (6/25/2009)
Cosmic Consciousness (6/21/2009)
The Biography of the Bible (6/16/2009)
The Buddhist Catechism (6/11/2009)
The Path on the Rainbow (6/1/2009)
The World Bible (6/1/2009)
The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola (5/28/2009)
Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art (5/25/2009)
The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary (5/20/2009)
Hindu Mythology, Vedic and Puranic (5/17/2009)
True Irish Ghost Stories (5/6/2009)
Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt (4/25/2009)
The Devils of Loudun (4/20/2009)
Folk-lore of Shakespeare (4/16/2009)
Illustrations of Masonry (4/9/2009)
The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries (3/29/2009)
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (3/11/2009)
Records of the Past, 2:4 (3/8/2009)
Arabian Wisdom (3/4/2009)
The Golden Mountain (3/1/2009)
Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 3 (2/26/2009)
Jesus An Essene (2/10/2009)
Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 2 (2/5/2009)
The Oera Linda Book (2/2/2009)
Secret Science Behind Miracles (1/26/2009)
Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 1 (1/22/2009)
Eighteen Treatises from the Mishna (1/12/2009)
The Wisdom of the Talmud (1/3/2009)
Genji Monogatari (12/31/2008)
Select Works of Sri Sankaracharya (12/28/2008)
Shinran and His Work (12/22/2008)
The Smoky God (12/19/2008)
Symzonia; Voyage of Discovery (12/8/2008)
The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala (12/2/2008)
The Creed of Half Japan (11/26/2008)
Abominable Snowmen (11/18/2008)
The Bustan of Sadi (11/9/2008)
Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Volume 1 (11/6/2008)
Principal Teachings of the True Sect of Pure Land (10/21/2008)