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Since her parents' mysterious deaths many years ago, scientist Cora Sparks has spent her days in the safety of her university lab or at her grandmother Etta's dress shop. Tucked away on a winding Cambridge street, Etta's charming tiny store appears quite ordinary to passersby, but the colorfully vibrant racks of beaded silks, delicate laces, and jewel-toned velvets hold bewitching secrets: With just a few stitches from Etta's needle, these gorgeous...
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"On Fragile Waves is a tremendous and almost unbearable work of witness. It is devastating and perfect." — New York Times Book Review
The haunting story of a family of dreamers...
"On Fragile Waves is a tremendous and almost unbearable work of witness. It is devastating and perfect." — New York Times Book Review
The haunting story of a family of dreamers...
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From the wildly popular bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things comes a surprising and uplifting story about the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters, and the magic of chosen family.
Tilly was a bright, outgoing little girl who loved fizzy drinks, naughty words, and liked playing with ghosts and matches. When her beloved father suddenly disappeared, she and her fragile, difficult mother moved into Queenie Malone's magnificent...
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This poignant novel, beautifully translated by Simon Beattie, was, in Lampe's words, "born into a regime where it could not breathe;" he hoped that one day it might rise again. It has no one main character, but evokes the sensations and impressions of a sultry September evening on the waterfront of Bremen, with its charm and tenderness, squalor and lust. It contains a stream of images with many characters: children, old and young people, men and women,...
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Clairvoyant single mom Tipsy Collins is easing into a post-divorce new normal. She's solved a century-old murder mystery and brought peace to her house. She's rebuilding her artistic career and co-parenting with her ornery ex-husband. She's hopeful that her boyfriend is Mr. Right. Mercurial phantom Henry Mott still haunts her house, but he's become a dear friend. Tipsy plans to return to her lifelong habit of ignoring restless spirits.
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When his mother dies and he discovers that the man he was raised to believe was his father is not, sixteen-year-old Chris is haunted by a mysterious apparition and flees his affluent surroundings to embark upon a quest to find himself.
Hoping she will "make a man of him" he seeks sanctuary in the home of Magda, a middle aged waitress with a penchant for sex, only to discover that she lives with her father, a cigarette smoking, beer swilling immigrant.
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'…she cursed your farm and the church saying to all those who lived or went there they would suffer for ever more and be haunted by the devil.' Jeremiah's family farm has been cursed, and when his family members are struck one by one, he has no one to turn to but his sweetheart Victoria. However, Victoria is not who he thought, and after committing adultery, she falls pregnant. She promises the baby, on his third birthday to the Devil, and he is...
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Who is Antoine of Gommiers? A prophet, seer, matchmaker, trickster, or huckster-- or does he even exist? In this satirical novel tinged with magical realism, Haitian novelist Lyonel Trouillot (Kannjawou) paints a richly textured portrait of life in his native country overseen by supernatural forces where the worlds of dream and reality co-exist. With alternating chapters that reveal the day to day struggles in the capital city of Port-au-Prince of...
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In the old scrolls written by Light, it is said that Griz the Unholy would be free of his demon and save the Tainted. Sin, a dragon that once bore a kinder name, read these scrolls and yet fell into the lure of a demon. With Sin's possession came the destruction of Griz's recent home. He vowed to set out on a quest to find this dragon and make it bow before Light and tremble before him. Griz made several allies and intended to hunt the beast down...
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Der Kunsthistoriker Benedikt Oswald wird von einem Freiburger Kollegen gebeten, in einem Schwarzwalddorf ein Gutachten über den Erhalt einer Kapelle zu erstellen. Doch es kommt anders. Vom Tag der Anreise an findet er sich einer seltsamen Welt gegenüber.
Ereignisse aus ferner Vergangenheit werden lebendig, die Gegenwart verwirrt ihn. Die unscheinbare Kapelle mit der Statue der Heiligen Barbara öffnet ihm einen Weg, auf dem nichts ist, wie es scheint....
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A veces, en la búsqueda de un rumbo, se produce una batalla silenciosa y oportuna entre la brújula y el anhelo ...La brújula indica el norte del viaje a realizar ; mientras que el anhelo se esfuerza por poner palos (beneficiosos) en las ruedas. Por supuesto, por el bien mayor del descubrimiento, de lo inesperado y de alguna revelación...Nuestro héroe, aunque bastante común, ha experimentado este viaje de iniciación. Ha tomado el camino de los...
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In The Island Chronicles Book 1: Conscious, William is drawn by the Music to the mysterious woman, Eleutheria, who lives in the house overlooking Bourani Cove and the ancient lime kiln which still burns hot for those who know how and where to look. There, she tells him about trapping time in the old tower, inadvertently creating the dragon, and how he must contain the monster while she searches the world for a solution.
In Book 2: Chopping Water-part...
13) Shifting Pools
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Fleeing war and the death of her family, Eve has carefully constructed a new life for herself in London. Yet she is troubled by vivid, disturbing dreams, symptoms of her traumatic past, which intrude increasingly on her daily life. As she is drawn further into her dream world, she finds herself caught up in a fresh battle for survival. A dark, lyrical fantasy about healing and reconnecting with the full richness of the self.
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At only fourteen, Bea is the local superhero of Elgar City known as Baron in costume, and the responsibility is already pressing down on her. Things only get worse, when her archnemesis from afar, The Prosecutor, meets her face to face for the first time. As they interact, the supervillain seems to take a keen, unusual interest in her and begins to act out unexpectedly, seemingly to mess with her head. Meanwhile, as if she wasn't already maneuvering...
15) Dark Rising
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My name is Caitlyn O'Herlihy. I have had many names over the centuries, but this one is close to the original. I rather like it.
This was to have been a time of quiet...a decade or two of peace before returning to the of being the last of my race in a world that knows I exist, and fears that existence. It was supposed to have been quiet, but someone is using black magic to summon demons. Some...THING has murdered innocent tourists...slain simple...
16) Chopping Water
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In The Island Chronicles Book 1, Conscious, Christopher, whose name has been changed to William, is drawn by the music to the mysterious woman, Eleutheria, who lives in the house with the thatched roof overlooking Bourani Cove and the ancient lime kiln which still burns hot for those who know how and where to look. There, she tells him about trapping time in the old tower, inadvertently creating the dragon, and how he must contain the monster while...
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Shome Dasgupta, a young American author of Bengali descent, uses magical realism to explore his South Asian roots in this series of fourteen stories mostly set in modern day Kolkata, the city his parents came from and the one where their extended families continue to live. The stories reflect the surrealistic dimensions of an American boy/man's visits "home." They engage with memorable individuals, from barristas to beggars, boatment to bus drivers....
18) Wilbur
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Wilbur Morgan is a teenage boy who grew up in poverty but has been given the opportunity to go to a well-educated school. Unfortunately, like most schools, Wilbur has to endure both mental and physical bullying from one of his classmates, Sebastian Lucky, the principal's son. Wilbur also has a chance to romance the most popular and wealthiest girl in his class, Trudy Mack. Just as things get harder to deal with, like his nickname, Pig Devil, he tries...
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An encounter with the mysterious little old man leaves an unassuming boy with an unfathomable message about a prior life as well as an ominous warning about an ancient foe. In the process of recounting his angelic past, he embarks on a journey that will cost him everything. Finding the magic books of Belteshazzar, the man tells his story and the secret of a resurrection machine, an ancient technology that will literally open a portal to another dimension.
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Nineteen-year-old Alice Tanmar is summoned to that realm of dreams and wonders known by her grandmother as Wonderland, her mother as Everland, and herself as Otherland. She is the third Alice to assist that dream realm out of difficulty. Why was she is brought to Otherland? Initially, there doesn't seem to be a clear answer to why or to what she is expected to do. Alice must make decisions, choose a side to support, justify that support, find her...
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