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Pub. Date
c1990
Description
Psychologist Baker traces the history and current status of hypnosis, reviewing the role played by suggestion and examining the major contemporary theories and misconceptions regarding the phenomenon. Current research points to the conclusion that there is no state of altered consciousness produced by hypnosis and that what we term hypnosis is in fact a complex hybrid of social compliance, relaxation, and suggestibility that can account for many esoteric...
Author
Series
The Zack files volume 22
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Zack is hypnotized, but the past life channeled through him isn't ready to leave.
Author
Series
Hamster princess volume 6
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A little girl in a red cape asks for Princess Harriet Hamsterbone's help with a pack of weasel-wolves who want to eat her grandmother, but after meeting everyone, Harriet is not sure whom to trust.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Description
A surrealist tale by the best-selling author of Mosquitoland follows the experiences of a 16-year-old history enthusiast whose perspectives transform when he suddenly gains the ability to see changes in others, from mysterious scars and odd behaviors to rewritten histories and the unconscious ways that friends hurt one another.
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Set in one of James' thematic stalking grounds: the Victorian world of 1880s New York high society. Ms. Lucy Carlton, from a pedigreed family of long standing, is married to a crass nouveau riche husband. She feels hemmed in by the stifling codes of female propriety and subservience, and yearns to break free into a more bohemian world. Her father and husband want her to conform to traditional mores, and hand her over to a neurologist to cure her of...
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
In 1945 when the atomic bombs were dropped in WWII, our protectors" and watchers" in outer space saw that Earth was on a collision course with disaster. The prime directive of non-interference prevented them from taking any action, but then they came up with a brilliant plan to save Earth and assist her in her ascension. They couldn't interfere from the outside", but maybe they could influence from the inside". So the call went out for volunteers...
31) Infinite
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"One rainy night, the unthinkable happens: Dylan Moran’s car plunges off the road into a raging river, his beautiful wife drowning as he struggles to shore. In the aftermath, through his grief, Dylan experiences sudden, strange visions: wherever he goes, he’s haunted by glimpses of himself. Dylan initially chalks it up to trauma, but that changes when he runs into a psychiatrist who claims he’s her patient. She says he has been undergoing a...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Lenny Flem Jr. is the only one standing between his evil-genius best friend, Casper, and world domination as Casper uses a spectacularly convincing fake mustache and the ability to hypnotize to rob banks, amass a vast fortune, and run for president.