List of Books

100 Years Lost

Also known as Hundred Years Lost,<ref name=":16">"You borrowed Hundred Years Lost?”

“Yeah.”

“You start it?”

“Yeah.  About a quarter of the way through.” - excerpt from Left in the Dust 16.3</ref> the annotated diary of Hazel, detailing her 104 years on The Paths. A seminal work, which includes retrospective notes both from Hazel herself at later points on her journey, and from the head of the Wray family at the time a given edition was published. <ref>I find before me the daunting task of revising, annotating, and producing the ninth edition of 100 Years Lost, with the bar for quality set high by my predecessors, my father, grandfather, and my grandfather’s mentor.

100 Years Lost may be the most contentious and important text in the Finder community, and provoked a metamorphosis across the community that continues even today.  Without Hazel and her work, Finding might still yet be relegated to a select few, dismissed as madmen and gamblers, plumbing the realms of Dream. - 16.4 Bonus: 100 Years Lost</ref>

A copy was lent to Avery Kelly by the Garrick Family.<ref name=":16" />

Published and annotated by Paris J. Writ.<ref>-Paris J. Wray- Excerpt from 100 Years Lost, Excerpts</ref>

A Circle of Cold Iron

A book found in the Blue Heron Institute library.<ref name=":11">She went to the table to drop off the books: Fae Courts Across History, A Circle of Cold Iron, and Dark Somnambulism. While there, she investigated what Lucy was collecting.

A minute later, she found some books with menacing looking eyes on the cover and directed Lucy to them, to better sort through it.  Apotropaic Protections.

She found more for the Kennet Others.  Vessels, The Rusty Nail, Anima and Animus, Other Soldiers. To throw any observers off the trail, Avery gathered some more books on different kinds of Other: Dying Giants, Divine Hands: Servants and Messengers, Hardest Bargains: Envoys, and At the Threshold of Death.  They covered giants, divine servants and messengers, envoy incarnates, and the undead, respectively. - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.2</ref> Covers Fae and the binding thereof, going in depth on what works best per court.<ref>According to ‘A Circle of Cold Iron’, one good thing about beating a Faerie is that if you can get the victory, it tends to be decisive; they fold. - BINDING AND COUNTERMEASURES</ref>

A day with dad, a minute-by-minute play by play, told as a bedtime story.

A book in Verona's library.<ref name=":18">“A day with dad, a minute-by-minute play by play, told as a bedtime story. Mathematically deconstructing the shapes of the most common garden gnomes. An autobiography of Lena Ackley, who admits in the foreword that her life isn’t that interesting and she only wrote the book to pad out the days of her retirement. Skinned Knees, a coffee table book with, you guessed it, pictures of kids’ skinned knees. Nipponklugheit, a pseudointellectualist, pretentious ramble, hurriedly translated into Japanese by one colleague of the author, then translated into German by another, and translated back into English by the disinterested wife of the creator. That is, in fact, all the title, from Nipponklugheit to ‘disinterested wife of the creator’.”- Excerpt from Crossed with Silver 19.1</ref>

Advanced Argumentives

A book on Diagrams specifically Argumentative ones, contains information about Murrells Yoke. Written in 1997 by Blanchard and Murrel.<ref>“Blanchard and Murrel, advanced argumentatives… nineteen ninety-seven,” Thea said, checking the spine for the date.

“I’ve got that one or one of the other years of that one in a box in my basement,” Zed said.

“If it wasn’t in a box in your basement, you might’ve been able to look up Murrell’s Yoke?  Under Nature, chapter five.”- Excerpt from Wild Abandon 18.9</ref>

Alchemy Basics 1: Elemental Alchemy

Book on Alchemy on the Atheneum Arrangement, contains notes from an apprentice Alchemist, further study requires permission from Ray Sunshine or a sworn statement that she'd completed basic studies in alchemy by an alchemist.<ref>Alchemy Basics 1: Elemental Alchemy.  Texts converted from study notes for an apprentice alchemist.  Further studies required permissions she hadn’t been given, which needed the A-okay from Raymond, or a signed and sworn declaration that she had completed basic studies in Alchemy with an Alchemist, and received their firm and stated approval.- Excerpt from Dash to Pieces 11.9</ref>

An autobiography of Lena Ackley

Ackely herself admitted her life isn't very interesting and only wrote it to fill out her retirement.<ref name=":18" />

Anima and Animus

A book found in the Blue Heron Institute library covering Animus and Anima.<ref name=":11" />

The Anti-Sanctuary

A foundational text for Blackforester, it is generally considered a black market item given it deals with a Rapacious practice.<ref>Because Blackforesters can attract unwanted attention, the practitioner community doesn’t quite encourage the dissemination of its texts, and it remains a niche field. For the Blackforester that wishes to pursue academic research, some effort is likely required to find a text that likely exists only in very robust collections and shadier circles, especially when many keep to their own. Expect to deal with shady characters - not necessarily Blackforesters, and to do a little hunting. - Pact Dice: Blackforester</ref>

Architects

A text which includes detailed information on The Page of Suns,<ref name=":17">Commentary on Hazel’s decision is better fit elsewhere, and discussion of the Page of Suns is more thoroughly covered in other works, including Architects and Gadsen’s Page of Suns, PSBN: 9029819018435. - 100 Years Lost, excerpted in 16.4 Bonus: 100 Years Lost</ref> and Architect Theory generally.<ref>Hazel has inadvertently stumbled onto her own list of Architects.  The Architect theory suggests that certain prominent Others act as pillars of the Paths and may be the originators of it, but each theorist maintains their own lists ... Arguments can be made about the Child being counted among the key Paths fixtures.  Many of these arguments can be found in Architects. - 100 Years Lost, excerpted in 16.4 Bonus: 100 Years Lost</ref>

Astral Bodies

A series of books, in at least three volumes, that presumably covers Angels.<ref name="FA">Johannes seems to bear harsh wounds, no doubt tying back to his ambitious claim, with no use of one eye, one hand and one leg, though the tissues appear undamaged.  He bears a set of antique pipes as his implement, and has a Gatekeeper of the Seventh Ring (ref Astral Bodies: vol 3, and Prime Movers) as his familiar, named Faysal Anwar, which takes the form of a rather large Afghan Hound. - Excerpt from Bonds 1.6</ref>

At the Threshold of Death

A book found in the Blue Heron Institute library covering Undead.<ref name=":11" /> Contains lots of woodcuts of undead. Has a chapter titled "Summoning and Binding". Others described include Vampires, Ghouls, Banes, Revenants, Widows, Dirge-things and Dirge-beasts.<ref>Avery opened the book on undead.  She found the table of contents, sandwiched between some woodcut prints of skeletons and echoes.  Lucy joined her, standing beside her, and ran a finger down the list.

“Summoning and Binding.”
[...]
Avery opened the text, and it was a tough read.  It was better written than the last one had been, the art was higher quality, with illustrations for everything.  In one woodcut, a pair of vampires were weedy, emaciated things with bat features and wings and other stuff all mixed in, huddled in a nook while an onlooker held a lantern, shining it into the alcove.

There were ghouls, far more common, who could thrive because unlike Vampires, they could eat the dead, who were plentiful and not innocent.

There were Banes, Revenants, Widows, Dirge-things, Dirge-beasts and… - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.2</ref>

Apotropaic Protections

A book found in the Blue Heron Institute library on protecting against the Evil Eye.<ref name=":12">Avery looked over the books, to verify what she’d suspected once she’d seen Lucy’s initial picks.

Deft Deflection, Apotropaic Protections, A Practitioner Alone, Walls of Chalk, Blinded Eye, Curse Lifted…

Avery paged through the initial stuff there.  Counter-practice, countering the evil eye, dealing with large numbers and forces, warding diagrams, counter-augury, counter-curses.

She had to walk around the table to Lucy’s other pile.

Famulus: The Familiar Bond, Implementum: The Practitioner’s Tool, Demesnes: A Place of One’s Own.- Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.2</ref>

A Practitioner Alone

A book on "dealing with large numbers and forces" found in the Blue Heron Institute library.<ref name=":12" />

Bear shit

A photo book, sorted by hue and shade.<ref>“Bear s-word,” Luna said, picking one up. “Sorted by hue and shade, a photobook. F?” - Excerpt from Crossed with Silver 19.1</ref>

Black Lamb's Blood

Main Article: Black Lamb's Blood

A book purporting to be the autobiography of a Diabolist, arguing for greater acceptance of diabolists and for modifying the Awakening ritual and Seal of Solomon to regulate their behaviour.

Blessed Wrongs

A book in the Hillsglade House library.<ref name=":0">I looked at the books, noting the differences from the ones in the rest of the house.  They were better taken care of, for one thing, and they tended to be narrow.

Cassandra’s Gaze.

Deleterious Craftings

Draoidh.  The book had a little ivory mask inset in the spine, with round staring eyes and a very curly beard.

Glamour.

Poppets.

Shamanism: ‘Animus’, volumes one through six, and Shamanism: ‘Umbra’, volumes seven through ten.

Vestige: Glimmers and Gasps.

Wū zhěn: Eastern Vodun Practices.

I finished reading spines along the one wall.  I traced spines with my fingertips as I passed on to the next wall.

Blessed Wrongs.

Dryads, Varieties.

Jokes from the Faerie Folk.

Lilith’s Children.

Maddening Things.

Observations on Bacchae interacting in Modern Society.

On Others. Editions from 1964 through 2012 were lined up on the shelf.  Thicker texts.

Pitiable: Transcriptions from informal dialogues with Vampir. - Excerpt from Bonds 1.3</ref>

Blinded Eye

A book on countering Augury found in the Blue Heron Institute library.<ref name=":12" />

Cassandra’s Gaze

A book in the Hillsglade House library.<ref name=":0" />

Classifying Others: Fiends and Darker Beings

A book on Diabolism written by Rose Thorburn Senior.<ref name=":1">

The Worst of the Others.

Devils and Details.

Dark Contracts

Classifying Others: Fiends and Darker Beings.

Hellfire: Bindings

Infernal Wrath

Pacts and Prices

I tried to swallow, but my mouth was too dry.  I didn’t know much, but I knew this was a bad idea of the worst kind.

These were the books that held a place of prominence on grandmother’s bookshelf.  These were the tools she expected us to employ.

No small wonder she’d made the enemies she had.

These books?  They each had the same set of initials on the spine.  R.D.T.

She’d written them. - Excerpt from Bonds 1.3</ref> Chapter 4 contains precautions for dealing with abstract entities such as Barbatorem.<ref name=":5">Those looking to interact with Barbatorem at any length should see about precautions against abstract entities in Classifying Others: Fiends and Darker Beings, chapter four, and the texts on means of attack and defense against Others, in Infernal Wrath, chapter two. - Excerpt from Dark Names, quoted in Bonds 1.7</ref> Chapter 7 describes and gives examples of the Choir of Darkness, with a particular focus on the absolute nature of their destruction. The book is particularly focused on distinguishing true Demons from those Others which are merely awful, although it describes a great deal about Diabolism generally. There are 9 chapters in total.<ref>Though it’s scarcely more than speculative fiction, it illustrates the nature of the First Choir for the seventh of our nine chapters here. They devour.  They take. [...] The focus of this text remains the identification of that fine line that separates demons from those Others which are foul but not true fiends. - excerpt from Interlude 7</ref>

Compact Word

A text on Contract and Rhetoric practice, used as a text book for those studing law practices. Currently in it's 4th edition. Written by Clark Hall.<ref>Compact Word, 4th Edition, Clark B. Hall representing the Hall Circle

A classic text on contract practices and rhetoric in the modern, North American and European contexts. The assumed reference for tutors of those areas introducing their students to Law practices.

PSBN: 6841795780006

Paid access to online text, fees paid to the Atheneum arrangement, profits directed to the Hall Circle; $210 CAD permanent or $21 for 30 days.

Level: Intermediate

Schools: Contract, Rhetoric, Law- Excerpt from Crossed with Silver 19.16</ref>

A Crest of One Colour

Covers an intersection of Heroic and Incarnate practices, specifically the Complex combination of the two when summening Named with Incarnation essences blended in.<ref> A Crest of One Colour - A book knitting Incarnate practices with Heroic practices. A dense book of formulas, where each section can be read six times; once for each major Incarnation. When summoning a heroic figure, can imbue them with a share of Death, War, Fortune, etc, for additional power. The degree of power depends on how many Incarnate practices you know.- Wildbow on Discord</ref>

Curse Lifted

A book on counter-curses found in the Blue Heron Institute library.<ref name=":12" />

Dark Contracts

A book on Diabolism written by Rose Thorburn Senior.<ref name=":1" /> Contains templates and recommendations for preparing contracts with demons.<ref name=":6">I’ve left you something, or perhaps it is more correct to say I’ve left you someone.  I refer to him as Barbatorem,

making a small joke, as I tend to do, but he is an older one, bearing some status and a few stories from years past, with no name of any meaning that has survived the passage of time.  You should be able to find those stories and notes on that status in Dark Names, p. 38.
[...]
For him, the conversation is ongoing, and you’ll need to see the notes on his page in Dark Names so you can continue from where I, and each member of our line, left off.  Failure to do so may confuse or irritate him.
[...]
If you intend to deal with him, use one of the templates outlined in Dark Contracts, which I left to the right of the desk.  Page 15, 17, 29 and 77 are good places to look, if you find yourself in a hurry.  Do not improvise, for words must be chosen with utmost care.  The final third of the book has recommended terminology with examples, which you can insert into the templates as needed. - Excerpt from Bonds 1.6</ref>

Dark Names

A book on Diabolism by Rose Sr, found in the Hillsglade House library. Contains (among other things) notes on Barbatorem, including the ongoing conversation between him and the Thorburn Family, details on what it means for him to be so old that his original name (if any) is lost,<ref name=":6" /> and a description of how Rose bound him, all found on p38.<ref>Bonds 1.7</ref>

We see some of Barbatorem's entry in Bonds 1.7.

Dark Somnambulism

A book on various nightmare Others owned by the BHI. Contents include: Chapter five, summoning.  Chapter six, dangers.  Chapter seven, binding.<ref>“And for this one…” Lucy grabbed the Dark Somnambulism one.  “Nightmares… just the table of contents tells us there are a lot of types.”

“Yeah,” Avery said.  “And again, summoning and binding, except there’s a chapter for each.  Chapter five, summoning.  Chapter six, dangers.  Chapter seven, binding.  They split them up and stuck a big warning chapter in there, it looks like.” - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.2</ref> Others covered include nightmare-related Echoes, Bogeymen, Hags, Jinn, and Incarnations; as well as Succubi and Dark Riders.<ref>Avery kept reading the book on the Others that were related to bad dreams.  Nightmare seemed to be a really broad category that covered a lot of things.

Tadra Ikati, or Night Echoes. Echoes, often driven by the unresolved, could find connection to dreaming friends and family who shared some similar unanswered questions or needs. [...]

Night Slashers were Bogeymen who acted within dreams, gaining enough momentum and power to transition into reality.  Simple enough. [...] Dark Riders were Others, sometimes Fae, who found the displaced with a minimum of connections protecting them, like orphans and refugees, and ‘rode’ them while they were still asleep. [...] Night Hags were Others, sometimes Aware or Innocent, but most often Practitioners, who subsisted off of nightmares, prolonging their own life and well being.  Hags of other types subsisted on different things, but they tended to be Heartless to start and became Other. [...] Majnūn Jinn were one of a variety of Jinn, [...] an angry variety that stirred up nightmares and psychosis.  When they worked, they affected whole regions. [...] There were Nightmare Incarnates, and a variety of subtypes. [...] Incubi and Succubi, [...]  Once confused with demons, because they were so insidious. - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.2</ref>

Deaths in the Eastern Realm of the White Tailed Deer

Found in the Hillsglade House library. Consists of a list of Practitioner deaths and their causes within an area up to 2011, dating back to the colonization of North America.<ref name=":8">“Title is Standards, subtitle is ‘A history of practices for dealings between the gifted’.”

“Which shelf?”

“Ummm… Bookshelf seven, shelf five.”

I looked at the sheet I had sitting beside me.  I’d drawn out two octagons, with numbers at each side, excepting the sides that opened out into the second and third floor hallways.  I identified bookshelf seven, looked, and was pretty sure I could see the book she’d mentioned.  I wrote it down.  “Standards.  Sounds like a thrilling read.”

“The second book, bookshelf six, bottom shelf, right at the bottom, we’ve got ‘Deaths in the Eastern Realm of the White Tailed Deer.‘ [...] It’s not about deer.  It’s about the general area.  A straight list of practitioner deaths, times of death, and causes of death since we settled in the new world.  It’s only as recent as twenty-eleven, but I think it covers a list of executions and reasons for execution.  You can skim it for the executions and see if there are any trends.” - Excerpt from Damages 2.3</ref> Extremely long and heavy, so heavy Rose Jr couldn't lift it.<ref name=":9">“Me?  You said ‘you can skim’.  You usually say we instead of you, unless we’re arguing.  You’re assuming I’m reading this list of deaths?”

“I’m going to get started on Standards, since you’re already looking through… what was it?”

I double checked the cover of the book that now lay across my lap.  “…Prominent Feuds.”

“Right.  You’re reading that.  I’ll start on Standards, you get started on the deer book when you’re done reading what you’re reading.”

“I’m already pretty fed up with all this.  How long is this death-ledger?”

“Long.  But like I said, you can skim down the one column.  Will you go over it?”

I craned my neck, but I couldn’t see the bottom shelf on the floor above us.  “Can you show me?”

There was a pause.  “I could.”

I turned to look at Rose in the mirror.  “Please?”

She sighed.  “It’s too heavy to lift.”

"You were trying to con me,” I said.  “Trying to get me to commit to reading over some ridiculously huge tome.”- Excerpt from Damages 2.3</ref>

Deft Deflections

A book on countering the Practice, found in the Blue Heron Institute library.<ref name=":12" />

Deleterious Craftings

A book in the Hillsglade House library.<ref name=":0" /> Presumably concerns Curses.

Deleterious Practices and Curses.

A book on Curses on the Atheneum Arrangement.<ref name=":15" />

Demesnes

Main article: Demesnes

Subtitled A Place of One's Own.<ref name=":12" />A book with a green cloth cover covering the details of Demesnes. Of a set with Famulus and Implementum.<ref name=":2">Another series of books, in a stack in the corner, where the lawyers had left them.  Famulus, Implementum, Demesne.  Orange, purple and green cloth covers, respectively, they all matched otherwise, in size and the script on the spines.  I glanced each one over, then tossed them onto the desk, where they rewarded me with a series of satisfying impacts. - Excerpt from Bonds 1.3</ref><ref name=":3">

2. Study and enact the ritual noted in Famulus.  The familiar is your greatest ally, and will serve as a tool, a wellspring of power, an ambassador to dealing with more abstract things, and will be a lifelong companion.  Make this choice with the same respect you would with undertaking marriage, only know there is no form of divorce.  The Familiar is to be a part of you for life.  You gain their services, and they gain a chance to be mortal, even if it is a small mortalhood, in addition to whatever other terms you negotiate.  Do not allow your familiar to take the form of a rat or dog.

:3.  Study and enact the ritual noted in Implementum.  Your choice of tool will shape how you interact with this world, your craft, and will be your badge in the eyes of many.  The book is dreary, page on page of examples, but study it thoroughly, for there are many meanings, and a poor choice of tool may well cripple you.

:4.  Study and enact the ritual found in Demesnes. Baba Yaga had her hut, I have my room.  Unfortunately, the rest of the house has been claimed by our predecessors, and while it is a haven, you will need to find your own place to make your own, where the rules bend as you need them to, and where your power is greatest.  The three rituals noted here are fundamental in determining how you access, hoard and focus power.  Note, however, that your real power will be in how you act with others and Others. - Excerpt from Bonds 1.3</ref><ref name=":4">Interlude 2.x</ref><ref name=":12" /> Quoted at length in Interlude 2.x. Blake and Rose read some of this book in Bonds 1.6.

Devils and Details

A book on Diabolism written by Rose Thorburn Senior.<ref name=":1" /> Also serves as a little nod to the reader; *Devils and Details* is the tagline of Pact.

Diabolatry

A book on Diabolism written by Rose Thorburn Senior. Has a flexible black cover with gold lettering. Behind this book was a note placed there by Rose Sr for when her heirs became desperate enough to reach for diabolism, detailing Barbatorem and with the key to his room attached.<ref>Bonds 1.6</ref>

Divine Hands

Subtitled Servants and Messengers. A book found in the Blue Heron Institute library covering, as the title suggests, divine servants and messengers.<ref name=":11" />

Dramatis Personae

Dramatis Personae is the combination address book, dossier and journal that families use to keep track of people they know of in writing.<ref>“Include Essentials, your Dramatis Personae, other introductory stuff.  Let’s get Avery the basics while we’re at it.”

“We’d want to redact,” the Aunt said.  “Nothing major, but a good contact is valuable.”

“Mostly I want Dramatis Personae for the notes it’d have on groups like Wonderkand and the other Finders she might run into.”

“Okay.  Limited redactions where appropriate for business… emailing.”
[...]
“Dramatis Personae is different for every family, more like a notebook or contact list where you keep track of friends and enemies,” Zed told Avery.  “Just about every practitioner’s got one.” - Excerpt from Summer Break 13.9</ref>

The one used by the Thorburn Family is a small black book<ref name=":7">“What about the North End Sorcerer?”

“What about him?”

“I take it you didn’t read the little black book from cover to cover?  Look him up.”
[...]
I opened the tiny book.

Johannes Lillegard, believed to be an adopted name... - Excerpt from Bonds 1.6</ref> handwritten by Rose D. Thorburn, Sr listing and summarizes notable individuals within Jacob's Bell and the surrounding area,<ref name="b13dp">Mr. Beasley, as well as individuals you’ll find in Jacob’s Bell and the surrounding area, is described in a little black book I playfully dubbed Dramatis Personae, when I was younger. - Excerpt from Bonds 1.3</ref> it has tabs separating "Allies" (Containing only her lawyers' number) and "Enemies" (Everyone else in town.)<ref>I found Dramatis Personae.  I flipped through it.  There were tabs.  One for ‘allies’, which was virtually empty, with only the lawyer’s number.

Enemies…  they took up almost all of the remainder. - Excerpt from Bonds 1.3</ref> We see Johannes' entry in Bonds 1.6.<ref name=":7" />

Rose D. Thorburn, Sr. dubbed her book playful when she was younger,<ref name="b13dp" /> her childhood having been in the 1930s, it seems to have caught on since as other families use the name as well, at least in Canada.

Many practitioner family have their own version of Dramatis Personae including the shopkeeper in Mile End, Charles Abrams<ref>While sorting things out and selling some of his practice things in exchange for favors, final things we needed for the perimeter, and for cash so we could pay for his food and accommodations, I found his address book. Dramatis Personae, many practitioners have one such book.- Excerpt from Dash to Pieces 11.4</ref> and the Garrick Family.<ref>“Include Essentials, your Dramatis Personae, other introductory stuff. Let’s get Avery the basics while we’re at it.”- Excerpt from Summer Break 13.9</ref>

Draoidh

A book in the Hillsglade House library. It has a small, bearded ivory mask inset into the spine.<ref name=":0" /> Presumably concerns Druids.

Dryads, Varieties

A book in the Hillsglade House library,<ref name=":0" /> persumably covering Dryads.

Dying Giants

A book found in the Blue Heron Institute library covering Giants.<ref name=":11" />

Elusive Lake

A book on entering other Realms via lakes and ponds. Contains information on how Hazel entered the Paths. Written by B. Gadsen.<ref>Many attempts have been made to decipher how Hazel was able to enter the Paths, and none have been exactly replicated.  Debates on whether an innocent might be able to enter the Paths and become Aware or Awakened by her mechanism are ongoing.  For further reading on this, I suggest B. Gadsen’s Elusive Lake, PSBN 9106359107202- excerpt from 100 Years Lost</ref>

Essentials

Main article: Essentials

A book containing the very basics of the Practice, serving as a "beginner's guide" of sorts. Every Practitioner worth their salt has a copy.

Fae Courts Across History

A book found in the Blue Heron Institute library.<ref name=":11" /> Presumably covers the history of the Faerie Courts.

Famulus

Main article: Famulus

A book covering the details of Familiars and the relevant ritual.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" />The book was first conceived among magic tutors in the late 18th century, and has been refined over subsequent editions for over two centuries.<ref name=":14">Famulus is a result of many years’ teaching in private circles.  As it became vogue to hire tutors around the year 1785, powerful members of the community gained a certain prominence, not-insignificant profits, and found themselves wrestling with a great deal of frustration.  This frustration stemmed from the fact that one tutor would teach one thing, which the next tutor would have to correct or account for.  They exchanged correspondence, to find out what had been taught and why, and opened discussions on how things might be done better.
[...]
Even after two hundred years of discussion and refining of this material, several ideologies and approaches stand out.
[...]
Casual practitioner-familiar relationships are dangerous to the point of irresponsibility, but have seen some growing popularity among young practitioners as of the writing of this (2018) edition. - excerpt from Famulus, quoted in Bonus Material: Famulus Text</ref>

Quoted at length in Interlude 2.x and Bonus Material: Famulus Text.

Forged Hearts

Has a small sculpture-like image of a woman pulling a key from her chest set into the spine.<ref>Forged Hearts, A book on the creation of enchanted objects, with a woman pulling a key out of her chest set into the spine like a shallow sculpture. - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.5</ref> A book by Tess Hager about Item Crafting in specific and Craft in general, discussing her family history and expertise before expanding into the various Magic Item related subjects. Lent to the Blue Heron Institute library by a member of the Graubard Family. Quoted at length in Bonus Material: Bedtime Reading.

Fundamentals

Contains warnings on the dangers of overusing Second Sight<ref>Fundamentals had warned about using the sight too much, going too deep.  I was starting to understand how that worked.  When we crossed over, our sight had adjusted.  If I peered hard enough or long enough, I suspected, I might not be able to readjust my vision to view the normal world at all.  Go too deep, exploring permutations and distant perspectives of things, and perhaps you couldn’t resurface. I could see the problem with that.  Being in the real world, but only able to view the spirit world version of it?  It would be like going mad, except the monsters and things in the shadows could very well be real, and there could be no hope of maintaining normal relationships, when you saw normal people through the eyes of an Other. - Excerpt from Subordination 6.10</ref> and some basic elemental Runes.<ref>I recognized one of the symbols in the dead center, writ large, as an elemental ward, one of the more elementary ones we’d learned from Fundamentals. - Excerpt from Duress 12.5</ref>

It's possible that this is same book as Essentials, given the similar name & some overlap in the contents. If so, this could be either the author or the characters misremembering the name of the book.

Garbage-Man

A comic book Snowdrop enjoyed when lent to her by Nina in the Blue Heron Institute library.<ref>“Don’t disturb Mr. Belanger’s class, and be silent if and when students come in to browse and study,” Nina told them. She placed a Garbage-Man comic in front of Snowdrop, then looked over the books. [...]

“Boo, instincts,” Snowdrop said, not looking up from her comic book. - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.2</ref>

Glamour

A book in the Hillsglade House library,<ref name=":0" /> presumably concerns Glamour.

Grail Stemma

Covers an intersection of Heroic and Magic Item practices, specifically grails that are also important family relics.<ref>Grail Stemma - A codex about tracking down grails and the more powerful relics belonging to family lines. Provides a niche background to help with clues specifically for family relics that are also grails, and leads up to an investigation practice, to help narrow things down. - Wildbow on Discord</ref> A Stemma is word for a family lineage record going back to romen times where it took the form of a scroll.

Hardest Bargains: Envoys

A book found in the Blue Heron Institute library covering, as the name suggests, Envoys.<ref name=":11" />

Horrific Coitus

A book about romantic and sexual issues involving Horrors, contains pictures.<ref>“Horrific Coitus. Care and consideration of a Horror in the bedroom. I don’t know where to put this. It’s practice stuff which you like but it’s also…” Luna trailed off.

“Does it have pictures?” Mal asked.- Excerpt from Crossed with Silver 19.1</ref>

Hellfire: Bindings

A book on Diabolism written by Rose Thorburn Senior.<ref name=":1" />

Implementum

Main article: Implementum

Subtitled The Practitioner's Tool.<ref name=":12" />A book with a purple cloth cover covering the details of Implements and the relevant ritual. Of a set with Famulus and Demesne.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /> Quoted at length in Interlude 2.x.

Infernal Wrath

A book on Diabolism written by Rose Thorburn Senior.<ref name=":1" /> Chapter 2 contains notes on attacking and defending against Others.<ref name=":5" />

Inner Void Beneath

A book written by Ann Wint's father. Ann herself doesn't think highly of it.<ref>“Inner Void Beneath?  It was intense.”

“It was trash,” Ann said.  “My father is not a good writer.  He wrote it because he thought he should, not because he could.”

“There was interesting stuff in there,” Verona said.- Excerpt from Playing a Part 15.4</ref>

Jokes from the Faerie Folk

A book in the Hillsglade House library.<ref name=":0" /> Presumably concerns Fae.

Kobold Koba’los

Essential introduction to all Goblin practices<ref>Bonus Material: Demesnes Text</ref>

Lilith’s Children

A book in the Hillsglade House library.<ref name=":0" />

Lost and Bound: Bogeymen

A book in the Hillsglade House library. A catalogue of Bogeymen for sending after your enemies, by the same author as Plumbing Darkest Depths. Contains some basics of binding them in case you screw up, but not a full guide; the assumption is that you will buy the author's other work if you care about anything more than a quick source of minions.<ref>The second book was a catalogue of bogeymen.  Rose’s research for summoning the ‘help’.  A quick perusal suggested there was very little in the way of vital information.  A practitioner who focused on things that had fallen between the cracks was known to the practitioner community as a ‘scourge’, and it seemed like Rose was leaning that way. Just by the language of the text, the assumption seemed to be that the people who were reading the book were very angry types with revenge or hostility in mind.

I could only assume that those did like Green Eyes had suggested and went down to the places between the cracks to collect fallen things for use were to scourges what grandmother Rose was to the diabolist community.  The scary ones you didn’t want to tick off, who knew their stuff and were very good at doing what they did without getting killed.

The book had no explanations about what types of bogeymen there were or how they could sustain themselves.  It was a text for people looking for quick answers, types who wanted to hurt a rival or answer an insult, often in the bloodiest, most horrible ways.

The last chapter, however, did have some information I could use.

Binding a bogeyman typically involved using some form of the natural elements, and things with permanence.  In the former case, it depended based on the type of bogeyman and the place beyond the cracks in reality that they had come from.  Some were particularly vulnerable to running water, others struggled to move solid objects and could easily be trapped or stopped by a simple closed door.  Yet others didn’t like fire.

Moat, box, or burning circle could serve, depending on the type.

The other option was old items that had a history and durability to them, antiques. - Excerpt from Malfeasance 11.2</ref><ref name=":10">The final chapter was, as far as I could tell, the ‘I fucked up, how do I run damage control?’ for novice scourges.  Troubleshooting and understanding where things could go wrong.  It said a lot that it was the last chapter, as if the assumption on the part of the guy who put the catalogue together was that the scourges would prioritize summoning first and fixing problems later.

Diabolists, priests, and now scourges, as sorts who were their own worst enemies, setting themselves up for failure.

The book followed a trend I’d noticed, where authors really liked referencing their other texts.  I imagined it was a way of selling more books to what was no doubt a niche market.  Couldn’t fully understand the contents of ‘Lost and Bound: Bogeymen’ without ‘Plumbing Darkest Depths’ first.

Those who’d buy just the catalogue without getting the work that presumably introduced concepts was probably reckless to begin with. The ideas raised in the last chapter seemed to be intent on answering that sort of recklessness.

Bogeyman came with a container, practitioner broke the container?  Approaches to binding rituals.

Sent bogeyman to go murder someone in the most horrible ways possible, but they were blocked, and came back to me, what does the practitioner do?  Do the same thing, and hope they aren’t equipped to bounce it back for the third total time, because it would be far stronger on the third trip. - excerpt from Malfeasance 11.2</ref>

Maddening Things

A book in the Hillsglade House library.<ref name=":0" />

Mathematically deconstructing the shapes of the most common garden gnomes.

A book in Verona's Demsene.<ref name=":18" />

Mai's Dress Up for Darjeeling

A fancy book for Dollmakers aiding in the crafting and clothing of dolls.<ref>Mai's Dress Up for Darjeeling - A book with porcelain covers and gilded edges, detailing fashion styles for dolls and the effects they may produce. Art: When performing a ritual involving two or more dolls or attempting to craft clothing for a doll or Other, be inspired, gain one temporary morale per effort, to be spent as needed. - Wildbow on Discord</ref>

Mince's Handbook on Decorum

Used in Law Practice as a commonly referenced book regarding parties.<ref name="mhd3"/> The text is a refrence point in terms of practice where what the definition of what a practice is is up for debate.<ref name="mhd1">“He was not invited, this can be treated as an act of aggression,” a bogeyman said.

The bogeymen began to rise from their seats. Mal reminded herself where her makeshift tattoo gun was, even as she saw an administrator raise a hand a bit off the table, to gesture ‘stay’.

“According to Mince’s Handbook on decorum,” one of the administrators said, “1887, an invitation includes an implicit welcome for any life partners of your guest.”

“Her minion, and that rule is absent in the ’88 edition.”

“Addressed in Letters to Polite Patty a year later, and whatever the partnership is called, it fits the standards in chapter three…”
[...]
“-sets out standards for tiers of partner, and outlines how improper it is for a mere beau to crash any party-”

“-of a certain measure of class, if you recall Mince’s handbook, ’87 again, chapter four, where Mince outlines what a party is. We are outdoors, in casual dress, some of us messy from what we may classify in the exercise and games class.  This tea party should be classified as an affair, with all the standards therein.”
[...]
“The guest is a boor.  He arrives in a shabby state of undress, sweaty and greasy,” a bogeyman replied.  “Ample excuse to turn him away, Mince’s notes, ’89.”

“Turn him away from the door, you know as well as we do.  We are outdoors, evidently.”

Do they?  Do we?  Is this real? Mal thought.

“The door in this case is metaphorical.  But if you wish to stress the fact we are outdoors, then we can turn to Persimmon’s Rules for Picnics, if you’ll allow.”

“A classic text on rules and decorum.” - Excerpt from Go for the Throat 23.c</ref> Refrencing it can be key in making a good first impression with Others ground in Law<ref name="mhd3">Mince's Handbook on Decorum, First Edition - A text discussing rhetoric and Law, particularly hospitality. Art: There is a good chance that a visiting Other of Law or Rhetoric will, provided they are at least 70 years old, be very pleased to recognize the first edition volume and discuss its contents. At a cost of any discussions taking a good hour longer than it might have, the good first impression and shared understanding affords a reroll of a failed Social roll. - Wildbow on Discord</ref> The text has multiple editions.<ref name="mhd1"/>

Nipponklugheit, a pseudointellectualist, pretentious ramble, hurriedly translated into Japanese by one colleague of the author, then translated into German by another, and translated back into English by the disinterested wife of the creator

A book in Verona's library.<ref name=":18" />

Observations on Bacchae interacting in Modern Society

A book in the Hillsglade House library.<ref name=":0" /> Presumably concerns Bacchae.

On Others

A thick and notable book, the Hillsglade House library held all the editions from 1964 through 2012.<ref name=":0" />

Others

Volume one, chapter one of this book includes details of the Seal of Solomon.<ref>Given Barbatorem’s nature, this author would recommend another means of baiting him in the future, as he will remember, anticipate and adapt with each means used. He agreed to be bound by the seal of Suleiman bin Daoud four months after the initial capture. See the Others volumes, book one, chapter one, if unfamiliar with the seal. The diagram this author used for entrapment, necessitating only one line to open or close, can be found on page five of this entry, followed by the means of summoning and the recommended diagram for imprisonment. - Excerpt from Bonds 1.7</ref>

Other Soldiers

A book in the Blue Heron Institute library<ref name=":11" /> covering Others of War such as Dogs of War, Red Swords, Warborne, and Gore-streaked Practitioners.<ref>She read about Others of War.  There was something about Dogs of War. [...]

She paged through the rest.  Red Swords were Others who were derived from Incarnations of Battle and War, and were complex, nuanced weapons with souls, carried by faceless Others that wielded them.  Warborne were those born into places where war held more sway than life, death, or any of the other pillars of creation [...]

Gore-streaked.  It had come up in the student handbook, that four of their classmates were from the ‘Gore-Streaked’ Hennigar family. Practitioners who emulated the Warborne, or artificially created that Warborne state. - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.2</ref>

Pacts and Prices

A book on Diabolism written by Rose Thorburn Senior.<ref name=":1" />

Page of Suns

A book on The Page of Suns. Written by someone named Gadsen.<ref name=":17" />

Peddling

A book owned by Verona, contains details on peddling, the practice of selling cursed items to people and drawing power from their doom or disaster.<ref>“It’s not done yet! Preliminary stages! Look, check this out. I ordered this online with leftover birthday money. Peddling.”

Verona showed Mal the book.

“Why do you need a book for that? Get a bike,” Mal said. “Pedal all you want.”

“Peddle. As in sell, pawn, distribute? Look, it’s mainly a practice all about selling cursed items to innocents, right? And you reap power by feeding off their dooms, disasters, and whatever, rope in their souls, maybe-”- Excerpt from Crossed with Silver 19.1</ref>

Pitiable

Subtitled Transcriptions from informal dialogues with Vampir,<ref name=":0" /> pPresumably concerns Vampires.

Plumbing Darkest Depths

A guide for becoming a Scourge.<ref name=":10" />

Poppets

A book in the Hillsglade House library.<ref name=":0" /> Presumably deals with Sympathetic magic by way of Poppets and Curse Dollys.

Prime Movers

A book on Angels and possibly related Others.<ref name="FA" />

Procession into Dream

An older Finder book that attempted to discover the structure and nature of Paths, including arguing for Architect Theory.<ref>The text Procession into Dream suggests a system of key individuals every Finder will meet in the course of a sufficiently long career, with the dreaded Wolf being the first.  This structural theory suggests that the Dreaming Realm is itself defined by these figures and that the management and system of honors is ultimately shaped by these ‘architects’.- Excerpt from Left in the Dust 16.2</ref>

Projected earnings

A book about a man who is put in charge of a corporations' computers that can see the end result of every decision.<ref>The book had been Projected Earnings, a book that read like her dad’s taxes had looked.  A man mired in the convoluted bureaucracy of a kind of businesspunk setting who was put in charge of the company’s computers, which could see the end result of every decision.  He took to exploring and looking at his own potential decisions in his career, and the book branched out correspondingly.  Go to page 393, section A, and also read page 200, section F, paragraph two…- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.7</ref>

Prominent Feuds

A book in the Hillsglade House library that Blake read while researching the threat of execution via Witch Hunter.<ref name=":9" />

Pygon, Friend of Drakes.

A generic fantasy book in verona's library.<ref name=":19">“Pygon, friend of drakes. Generic fantasy. C is a good call,” Verona said.

Shoe held up four more.

“Pygon, Friend of Drakes. Pygon, King of Drakes. Pygon, Exile of Drakeland. Pygon, Return to Drakeland. Yyyyep. I’d feel meaner about calling these bad if they’d actually been written by someone.”- Excerpt from Crossed with Silver 19.1</ref>

Pygon, King of Drakes

A generic fantasy book in verona's library.<ref name=":19" />

Pygon, Exile of Drakeland

A generic fantasy book in verona's library.<ref name=":19" />

Pygon, Return to Drakeland

A generic fantasy book in verona's library.<ref name=":19" />

Quasi

A book on Heartless practices and the blurry definition of humanity. Quoted at length in Bonus Material: Bedtime Reading.

Shamanism

Found in the Hillsglade House library. A multi-volume work, with volumes 1-6 subtitled "Animus" and 7-10 subtitled "Umbra".<ref name=":0" /> Presumably concerns Shamanism.

Signing Off

A semi-autobiographical text written by Clark Hall. It follows him traveling and talking to various experts in contract law as he investigates why a contract his friend write lead to calamity.<ref>Signing Off, Clark B. Hall

Following the loss of a friend and colleague who wrote and signed a contract, only to meet calamity, Clark Hall undertakes a three year trip, visiting his colleagues and peers across the world, contract in hand. Mixes an autobiographical style with discussions of perspectives, individual approaches to contract practices, and varying degrees of analysis and rewrites of the same contract by beginners, experts, and world leaders in Contract practices. In each, he asks what his friend might have missed and seeks to unravel[…]

PSBN: 6840440237688

Paid access to online text, fees paid to the Atheneum arrangement, profits directed to the Hall Circle; $2300 CAD permanent.

Level: Advanced Schools: Contract, Deals, Law- Excerpt from Crossed with Silver 19.16</ref>

Skinned Knees

A coffee table book filled with pictures of childrens skinned knees.<ref name=":18" />

Standards

Found in the Hillsglade House library. Subtitled A history of practices for dealings between the gifted.<ref name=":8" />

Sympathetic Magics

A book on sympathetic magic found in the Hillsglade House library.<ref>Malfeasance 11.2</ref> Cover features the author's coat of arms. Defaced by Blake to get a message to Rose.<ref>Malfeasance 11.3</ref>

Tarnished Tiara

A book about a line of princesses who'd been cursed by their step mother then go on to repeat the cycle on the next generation.<ref>The book had been Tarnished Tiara: a saga covering a line of princesses who’d been cursed or preyed on by their stepmothers or others.  They’d have their fairy tale, persevere, then at a certain point they’d get old, their husbands drifting away, or they’d become mentally infirm, or past mistakes would catch up to them, they’d get desperate, and they’d find themselves the evil matriarch preying on the next princess.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.7</ref>

The Killing of Angels

A book in the Library of the Abyss. May contain information on how to kill angels, but is also certainly a trap.<ref>My eye was fixed on the spine of a book.  The Killing of Angels. - Excerpt from Possession 15.2</ref>

The Lies Rose Has Told You

A book in the Library of the Abyss. Likely intended to drive a wedge between Blake and Rose if read, and was enough to unsettle and distract even by just the title.<ref>Looking where the Other had attacked from, I saw the spines of books.  Gibberish, running ink, scratched spine, and a book titled The Lies Rose Has Told You.

I took hold of the book, then pushed it past the bookshelf, into the dark void beyond, where monsters seemed to dwell and stew, ready to emerge. - Excerpt from Possession 15.2</ref>

The Maledictions Manifest

A book on Curses found on the Atheneum Arrangement. Only 20 of 100 pages are only available with written permission and a sign a terms of service.<ref name=":15">The Maledictions Manifest.  80 of the 100 pages were available.  Some of the higher-end stuff required she get permission and sign a pracitioner-written set of terms of service first.

Deleterious Practices and Curses.  Various approaches to curses.  Law-based curses, Immaterial curses.  The Visceral Malison. - Excerpt from Dash to Pieces 11.12</ref>

The Visceral Malison

A book on Curses on the Atheneum Arrangement.<ref name=":15" />

The Worst of the Others

A book on Diabolism written by Rose Thorburn Senior.<ref name=":1" />

Trapper’s Fall

A story of a wounded trapper stalking his target.<ref>She saw him, in phantom flickers and echo-like images.  She saw the book, and all of its words.  Trapper’s Fall.  A wounded trapper stalking his quarry through an increasingly fantastical landscape with stoic determination and zero dialogue.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.7</ref>

Umbrage

A text for Scourges.<ref>Bonus Material: Demesnes Text</ref>

Valkyries

By the same author as a book on Vestiges. The cover is leather, with the image of a helmeted woman in profile. Discusses Valkyries and ghosts, in enough detail to learn basic Valkyrie magic,<ref>“Bookshelf two, third shelf from the bottom.  It’s by the same author that wrote the book on Vestiges.  Valkyries.”
[...]
The book was easy enough to find.  The image on the front was similar to that of the Vestiges book.  A woman’s face in profile, complete with a winged helmet, pressed into the leather cover.
[...]
“I read it because I thought maybe it was related to vestiges like me.  And it is.  But this one focuses on ghosts too, on historical elements, and some more practical applications.  You’ve got practitioners who specialize a hundred percent on ghosts and vestiges.  A kind of necromancy.”

“Death magic.”

“Right.  In this case, you’ve got practitioners convincing warriors, usually dying soldiers, that there’s an amazing afterlife of parties and respect for their deeds waiting for them, so the warriors agree to give up their spirits after death.  Use that agreement to help make a vestige or create a ghost, a representation of their skills or their knowledge, their strength, whatever else, and imbue all of that into a vessel.”
[...]
“But I like the concept.  I like the author.  The book talks about working with ghosts being an option for a practitioner without many resources, in an area where practitioners have already taken hold of everything worth holding, or where the Lord forbids certain practices. You take a ghost, you imbue an object, and you’ve got…”

“A magical item?” - Excerpt from Damages 2.3</ref><ref>“We chant the spirit’s name.  This should establish a tenuous connection.  You put power into that connection.”
“How?” I asked.

“Blood.  Draw a symbol, like you see in the book, the median line running parallel to any line of connection you see between yourself and the ghost.  Blood is power, basically the most distilled and direct form you can offer."
[...]
I reached past the border of salt and drew out the symbol, copying what was on the open page in the book. - Excerpt from Damages 2.3</ref> along with some collatoral information.<ref>In some cultures, wearing parts of the beast meant taking on their strengths.  The book Valkyrie had touched on that.  Binding spirits into objects, then carrying those objects. - Excerpt from Null 9.5</ref>

Vessels

A book found in the Blue Heron Institute library, implied to cover Vessels such as Edith James.<ref name=":11" />

Vestige: Glimmers and Gasps

A book in the Hillsglade House library.<ref name=":0" /> Presumably concerns Vestiges.

Veterinarian’s guide to cats

Comes in multiple volumes.<ref>Veterinarian’s guide to cats. Bit old, but-”
“I have it,” Mrs. Schaff told her. “I have the full set of those volumes.”- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.3</ref> Verona showed a copy to Jeremy, she also gave Mrs. Schaff a secret volume about "unusual cats" that was created along with Kennet Found.<ref>A secret volume for the same set she’d shown Jeremy, except this volume didn’t exist in reality. A book on unusual cats. The Miscellaneous stuff. The appendix that went beyond where other appendixes for the set went. It wouldn’t cover all the bases for the sorts of cats that ended up at the Aware cat lady’s house, and it was vague in places, but it would cover some, while equipping her for others.- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.3</ref>

Walls of Chalk

A book on Warding found in the Blue Heron Institute library.<ref name=":12" />

What the Fuck, Body

A book about puberty, there are separate versions for boys and girls. The girls version is pink.<ref>terminology taken from the ‘what the fuck, body?’ puberty book, pink edition for girls- Excerpt from Let Slip 20.2</ref>

Whim and Vigor

A book on the nature of the Paths, quoted at length in Left in the Dust 16.2.

Written in 1953, it was highly speculative, outdated, inaccurate, and purely theoretical (with no actual useful Practices.) Also, according to Avery Kelly, deathly dull.<ref>How could a book called ‘Whim and Vigor’ be so dullll?

She pulled a Verona and flipped through to the end, making sure there were no practices tucked away in the back.

Darn.

It wasn’t even like it made much sense.

She’d told herself she’d get the maximum value out of the texts, and that she’d read even the bad or incorrect ones.  But the people back in the-

She checked the publishing information.  Rutabaga Research Enclave, 1953.

-fifties, they didn’t even know jack all.  Which, like, fair, but they wasted so much time freaking guessing. - excerpt from Left in the Dust 16.2</ref>

Wū zhěn: Eastern Vodun Practices

A book in the Hillsglade House library.<ref name=":0" />

Unnamed Books

• An alchemical glossary found in the Hillsglade House library.<ref>Twenty large, fat coins.  I couldn’t make head or tails of the

language on the coin’s faces.  I was careful as I moved them aside, wary of the guard I couldn’t see or hear.

Two books.  One on alchemy, more like a dictionary than any kind of spellbook, filled with tables and measurements and Latin words.  Aqua Regia, Aurum Regia, Aqua Justatium, Lapis Philosophorum, and so on.  Each chapter was prefaced with the sort of stuff that started with ‘Evidenced herein’ and spent more time referring to other parts of the text than it did actually saying anything. - Excerpt from Malfeasance 11.2</ref><ref>Ty reached around, grabbing a book, and placed it so it sat open, standing up, blocking his view of Evan’s cards.  He did the same for me, dealing the two cards face up, behind the books.  It looked like he’d done it before.

Nothing interesting in the book.  A glossary of alchemical symbols, it looked like.

He doled out what looked like copper coins from another nationality. - Excerpt from Malfeasance 11.1</ref>

• An alchemy textbook found in the Blue Heron Institute library.<ref name=":13">Avery found some stuff on Alchemy, picked out one book, then handed it

to Verona, pointing and giving her a light push to put her on course for the rest of the books in that department. [...] Verona had found the Alchemy, Realms, and Rhetoric texts, organizing them into three stacks. [...] “Cool, cool,” Verona said, already hunched over the Alchemy text. - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.2</ref>

• A book on Realms found in the Blue Heron Institute library.<ref name=":13" />
• A book on the use of rhetoric in magic found in the Blue Heron Institute library.<ref name=":13" />
• A French-language comic read by Snowdrop and Cherrypop where a guy gets a spine shoved down his throat.<ref>She placed the papers on the nightstand, tucked her fork into her waistband, and then sat down on the bed, stabbing herself in the belly with the fork.  She adjusted, lay back, and paged through her graphic novel.  It was in French, and had been left out in the woods for at least one bout of rainy weather, and the blue in the cover had faded away.  But it was a gift from Cherry.  Cherrypop liked the part where the one guy got someone else’s spine jammed down his throat, even though she couldn’t really read that well.  Snowdrop could recite it all by heart now. - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.x</ref>
• A children's book about Kathryn Thorburn's life found in the Library of the Abyss. The book preyed on her fears of being hated by everyone in her life, including her son, husband, and self, and reading it resulted in her despairing and becoming a bogeyman with crayon scribbles for eyes, trapped in the Abyss.<ref>Kathryn wept, lying on the ground, propped up with her one good arm.
  
  “Move!” Rose said.
  
  But Kathryn didn’t budge an inch.
  [...]
  “Leave me behind,” Kathryn said.  Her voice was a croak.  “Please.  Just leave me.”
  [...]
  Kathryn lay across a sprawl of books.
  
  Children’s books.  More square than rectangular.  The scrawled figure on the covers and the open pages bore a striking resemblance to her.  My eldest cousin.
  
  I picked one up.  Saw Kathryn flinch.
  
  It was open to the last two pages.
  
  But, Big Bad Kathy told herself, even if my son doesn’t love me, and even if my husband hates me so, I love myself.  I do, I do!
  
  I glanced at Kathy.  I looked down at the last page.
  
  I do, Big Bad Kathy lied to herself.  I do, I do, I do.
  
  Kathy had met my eyes.  They weren’t eyes anymore, but scrawls.  Crayon scribbles.  A tear leaked from the corner of one.
  [...]
  “She’s gone,” I said, wincing at the noise in my head.  “Do like she wants.  Leave her.”
  [...]
  Kathy only hung her head.
  [...]
  Kathy didn’t respond, but moving slowly, she did pick up her books, and she hurried off in another direction. - Excerpt from Possession 15.1</ref>
• A book covered with the skin of a goblin, magical and potentially cursed, currently in Verona's library.<ref>The book was bound in goblin skin, the goblin’s face stretched across the cover, and its mouth opened and closed, yellow eyes rolling around, looking at nothing in particular. A chain bound it closed.
  
  “Probably magic, might need identification. S. Been getting a few of those. A lot of cursed books, but hey, curses are usually the flip side of decent practice. - Excerpt from Crossed with Silver 19.1</ref>

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