Cowan: 248 books

A serial epic begins!The gods are long dead, burned to ash by their own divine power. Left adrift and facing extinction, humankind has surrendered itself to Fate—not an abstract concept, here, but a supernatural entity that guides one’s actions from birth to death.A fraction of mankind,...

The serial epic continues!Who plays god in a godless world? Man? Or Fate?The Mourning Dawn has risen, marking the coming of a new year—another grim anniversary of humanity’s schism into Unfated and Blessed factions. In both the Fateless Lands and the Blessed Realms, armies gather...

Some of the people involved in Lincoln’s assassination he called friends. This is the shocking true story of the men that wanted Lincoln dead. To maintain their grip on the nation, Republicans couldn’t allow Lincoln to welcome the Confederate states back into the Union with their voting rights...

Based upon his thirty years' experience teaching about the D&C at BYU, Dr. Richard Cowan provides concise, understandable answers to about 300 of the most typical questions about the D&C raised by Church members. Beginning with section 1, he moves through the scriptures, pausing to respond at places...

A man. A sofa bed. A twelve-foot-long albino alligator. Discuss.Welcome back to 2007: the social media revolution, a housing boom with no end in sight, a roaring economy. Good times! Joe Tudlong, though, hasn’t exactly seized this particular moment in history. In fact, he’s currently hiding...

In this collection of short stories we meet several new characters from the author’s fictional village of Linton Musgrove. Jerry Harrison, a writer of crime fiction, and his girlfriend, Emmeline Cargill, are recent arrivals in Linton Musgrove who appear in five of the stories. Oliver Melluish,...

The spiritual exploits of Saint Anthony the Great—the prototype of the Christian "Desert Father"—have been immortalized in stories and art since the fourth century. Here is the stunning account of a modern seeker's quest to get beneath the legends that surround Anthony and to determine...

Since its beginning, depth psychology has attempted to change the status quo of individual and cultural life by probing beneath surface appearances. Lyn Cowan explores a number of subjects, considering what possible meanings and implications for change might lie behind the conventional attitudes toward...

In a long and creative academic career, Professor Bernard J. Lee has published and taught on the cutting edge of Catholic theology. He has been a beloved teacher, generous mentor and cherished colleague during his academic tenures at Maryville University, St. Johns University (Collegeville), Loyola...

Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes looks at fantasy film, television, and participative culture as evidence of our ongoing need for a mythic vision—for stories larger than ourselves into which we write ourselves and through which we can become the heroes of our own story. Why do we tell and...

Cyberhenge examines the use of Internet technology in shaping religious traditions and rituals. Cowan asks how and why Neopaganism has embraced the Internet in such an innovative and imaginative way.

The idea of one's memory "filling up" is a humorous misconception of how memory in general is thought to work; it is actually has no capacity limit. However, the idea of a "full brain" makes more sense with reference to working memory, which is the limited amount of information...

Captive du passé, de Debra Cowan Lui… vivant ! Meredith est stupéfaite. Gage, son ex-fiancé, qu’elle croyait mort depuis deux ans, se tient devant elle, en chair et en os, dans ce chalet où ils ont vécu ensemble tant de moments heureux ! Parce qu’il enquêtait sur un réseau de criminels,...

Le démon des Highlands, de Maureen Child A Edimbourg où elle passe l’été, Emma est attaquée par un individu inquiétant. Par miracle, un inconnu surgi de nulle part met son agresseur en fuite et lui fait cette stupéfiante révélation : elle serait la descendante d’un clan des Highlands...