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Visit the rooms of the Haunted Bookshop

Leiden's

Claire's

A room for the fine arts and humanities.

Stephen's

Iowa

Have a seat and look through a travel book.

Dining

Will's

Josh's

Meara has always admired Harvey the Pooka.

Meara's

Nierme introduces the folk of the bookshop.

Meet Us

Welcome to Josh's Room.

A good place to sit while considering Hume's history of England.

Religion is grouped by religions occidental and oriental, philosophy by time and school of thought.

The majority of our nonfiction section stretches from counter to stage and hosts nearly eight thousand titles in history, philosophy, and religion, as well as related topics from political and social sciences to current events.

Between the religion and philosophy sections is our meeting room. You're welcome to use this space to study. You're also free to use this place to meet with your writing group, book club, non-profit organization - just let us know when you're coming so that we don't promise the area to anyone else for that time.

(Specifically Iowan history and biography are kept in Weldon's Room.)

The History Department:

There is a section of General History books at the beginning, including books about international or -continental issues, books about historians and historiography, and books that otherwise don't quite fit into one of the subsequent subsections:

Ancient History
Medieval Studies
Renaissance Studies

Military History
General
U. S. Revolutionary War
U. S. Civil War
World War I
World War II
Korean War
Viet Nam Wars
Ongoing Middle East Conflict

Middle Eastern Studies

African History

Oceanian / Pacific Rim History

Asian Studies - General, Japan, China, and India

European History
Holocaust Studies followed by subsections for:
Russian - Italian - German - French - Spanish - English - Welsh - Scottish - Irish history

Central and South American History

Canada and Polar Regions

U. S. History
Reference & Documents
General U. S. History
Genealogy
Separate sections for: Northeast - Midwest - Southeast - West - Southwest - Pacific
American Political Biography

Religion and Philosophy:

Sacred Writ
Spirituality
Religious Studies
Judaica
Christianity - subsections for classic and contemporary theology, current issues, pastoral studies, Catholicism, Protestantism, Anabaptists, Fundamentalism and Evangelism
Islam
Eastern Religions
Eastern Philosophies
Western Philosophies
Introductory Texts, Topical Anthologies,
History of Philosophy, Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Rationalism, Empiricism, Utilitarianism, Enlightenment, 19th century, Marxism, Pragmatism, Existentialism, Current Continental philosophy, Current Analytic philosophy, and Miscellaneous / General
Law
Political Science

Crenellated nooks divided roughly by topic.
The notes and quotes at the ends of the shelves
were provided by the owner's stepmom, who
finds and mails cartoons and clippings about
dozens of subjects (she's an amazingly, broadly
literate person). We put our favorite snippets
where we can share them.

Cultural Studies:

Economics
Business & Finance
Current Events
Journalism
Labor
General Cultural Studies

LGBT
African American Studies
Native American Studies
Asian American Studies
Latin American Studies
Women's Studies
Men's Studies

Why is it called Josh's Room?

One regular patron became, over the years, a close friend to both shop and staff; he's been a help to us during natural disasters (tornado in 2006, floods in 2008), big moves (conjoining the Haunted and Northside in 2009, adding the Bookery in 2010), personal crises (deaths in the owner's family) and happy events (the Killer Bunny circle, readings, the arrival of the cats), times when we needed a little help (mowing the lawn) and times when we had a crucial question about Latin or Greek (both of which he teaches). Josh is part of the Haunted family now, and since this room contains religion and ancient history (favorite subjects of his), we thought it would be nice to name it after him.