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In a small back alley in Tokyo at a century-old coffee shop rumored to offer patrons the chance to travel back in time, four customers reevaluate their formative life choices.
In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers coffee -- and the chance to travel back in time. Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café...
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Three years ago, Lin Mo was the pride of his clan, a martial arts prodigy. However, overnight, he was framed and stripped of his cultivation, turning into a beggar. Yet, amidst adversity and despair, Lin Mo didn't lose everything. A mysteriously supportive girl and an apparently insane old beggar seemed to have an unusual connection with him.As the three-year penalty period was about to end, Lin Mo accidentally discovered an ancient heritage and a...
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For reasons of her own, Hero Tojosoa accepts an invitation she was half expected to decline, and finds herself in Prague on a bachelorette weekend hosted by her estranged friend Sofie. Little does she know she's arrived in a city with a penchant for playing tricks on the unsuspecting. A book Hero has brought with her seems to be warping her mind: the text changes depending on when it's being read and who's doing the reading, revealing startling new...
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In the depths of the vast mountains of Miaojiang, the Zhuge clan ruled with their unparalleled poisonous skills and martial prowess. After losing their parents, Zhuge and his sister established the Zhuge Gang using divine power and wisdom, becoming the sole ruler of Miaojiang. However, Zhuge Pang was reborn in a magical environment into another world.Upon arriving in this new world, Zhuge Pang immediately faced family turmoil, with his mother being...
5) Inez
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A magical short novel that weaves together two stories, two couples, two different times, and two grand passions
In one of the narratives that comprise this superb new novel from Carlos Fuentes, we are introduced to Gabriel Atlan-Ferrara, a fabled orchestral conductor, and his great love Inez Prada, a renowned singer. In the other, Fuentes memorably delineates the very first encounter in human history between a man and a woman. In one, the intense...
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During a long, lingering lunch at the Automobile Club de France, the elderly Comte de Branly tells a story to a friend, unnamed until the closing pages, who is in fact the first-person narrator of the novel. Branly's story is of a family named Heredia: Hugo, a noted Mexican archaeologist, and his young son, Victor, whom Branly met in Cuernavaca and who became his houseguest in Paris. There they are gradually drawn into a mysterious connection with...
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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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The Summer Sisters Witch Cozy Mystery Collection: Books 1-3
Witch Happens
Some people come from a long family line of lawyers, doctors, teachers and even cops. Febe just found out she comes from a long line of…witches!
Febe Summer is not having a good day. Or a good year, for that matter. She lost her fiancé, her job, and her apartment all in one day-on her 25thbirthday! Talk about the worst. Birthday. Ever!
She's jobless, penniless and soon...
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En la década de 1950, las tensiones en la ciudad de La Frontera son palpables. Las camisas de boliche y las chaquetas de cuero compiten con las guayaberas y los huaraches. Los convertibles corren al lado de las motocicletas. Sin embargo, en medio de la discordia, el amor joven florece a primera vista entre Fulgencio Ramírez, hijo de inmigrantes empobrecidos, y Carolina Mendelssohn, la hija del farmacéutico local. Pero como pronto descubrirán,...
10) The witch's kind
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"Barrie Anne Blythe and her aunt Charlotte have always known that the other residents of their small coastal community find them peculiar -- two women living alone on the outskirts of town. It is the price of concealing their strange and dangerous family secret. But two events threaten to upend their lives forever. The first is the arrival of a mysterious abandoned baby with a hint of power like their own. The second is the sudden reappearance of...
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This is a collection of magic realism.
In the title story, sometimes letting go just isn't possible. You've loved the same soul down through the ages, but just before you can be together forever, he is ripped away yet again. The eerily weeping heavens combine with the sea and a departed love to ease the burden of the one who has been left behind. "Carmen, Whose Face Was Cracked, the kindest and most beautiful woman in all of Mexico suffers a cracked...
13) The Red Rose
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Florist Daisy Cummins has been disappointed in love so doesn't want romance. Then she meets Harvey, a photographer hired to help put their website together. When she meets him, things start to happen. The village sign flashes with a new name, and a red rose behaves badly; customers either smell a bad whiff, sneeze or can't smell, but Harvey is OK with it. Daisy discovers the ghost of her great-grandmother in the park and finds out she's the one who's...
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Florida Folk Magic Stories is a boxed set of all three of author Malcolm R. Campbell's Florida Folk Magic novels.
Novel 1, Conjure Woman's Cat: Lena, a shamanistic cat, and her conjure woman Eulalie Jenkins live 1950s Florida in a small town near the Apalachicola River in Florida's lightly populated Liberty County. In Eulalie's time, women of color look after white children in the homes of white families and are respected, even loved, but distrusted...
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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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Terminando la década de los años veinte del siglo pasado, la historia, transcurre en Buenos Aires. Porfirio regentea dos prostíbulos, un día decide hacer un cambio en su vida. Un cambio copernicano. ¿Lo logrará? En el telón de fondo del drama de Porfirio está, avasallante, el primer peronismo.
Las sombras cardinales de Porfirio es uno de esos textos que producen un intenso placer estético. Al río narrativo de Hugo Barcia confluyen estimables...
17) Conscious
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Where did we come from? Where are we going? What are we supposed to do in between? Deep into an existential crisis, triggered by his retirement from forty years of teaching, Christopher William Laughton flees to Orcas Island to search for the meaning of life. Instead he finds answers to questions he did not even know to ask.
In The Island Chronicles: Book One-Conscious, Christopher learns his journey will not be as expected when he sees Nadezhda Retovna,...
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Have you ever wondered if, just beyond your reach,there's another you, with a life not quite like yours? Lena Rainey of Moorhens wonders this.Lena, 41, stares into mirrors, thinkingthat nothing feels quite right these days,while another Lena, also of Moorhens,died two years ago, aged 39. And that's not all. That's far from all.Before a week's out, the living Lena will havea grown-up son instead of a grown-up daughter,and no idea that they've been...
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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...
20) Mr Tumnal
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Everyone has an idea of their ideal family. Not everyone's become real.Lewis Tumnal is a man with the life he always dreamed of: a job he loves, a wife who loves him and the smartest, sassiest daughter he could wish for. It's also the imaginary life of Louis Tumnal, an English teacher and lonely bachelor.When he joins a photography class he meets Kathryn Summers and the real and the imaginary become entwined, Louis and Kathryn need each other to free...
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