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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...
2) 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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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,...
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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...
7) Road Seven
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Mark Sandoval-resolutely arrogant, covered head to foot in precise geometric scarring, and still marginally famous after Hollywood made an Oscar-winner based off his memoir years before-has been strongly advised by his lawyer to leave the country following a drunken and potentially fatal hit and run. When a woman sends Sandoval grainy footage of what appears to be a unicorn, he quickly hires an assistant and the two head off to the woman's farm in...
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"Bloody hell! Someone save me from piskies and meddling best friends."
Beth is always running from love, life, and relationships. She doesn't want to be tied down and she always follows the motto "Find 'em, fuck 'em, and forget 'em." So when Beth finds herself running away again from another man, she chooses the darkest part of Cornwall to start a new life.
But then she meets her neighbor.
Liam is young, handsome, and a bona fide bachelor. He used...
9) Faith Healer
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Victoria G. Smith, named an outstanding writer by the Chicago Filipino Asian American Hall of Fame, explores the Filipino diaspora with magic, lyricism, and humor.
Ousted years ago from the Malacañang Palace in Manila, where he healed the people's ailments with the power God sent through his hands, Victor Mariano has made a peaceful, if lonely and uncertain, life for himself as the caregiver "Tita Vee" in a California long-term care facility.
Victor...
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Sixteen-year-old Cody Forester has a secret identity. He's a werewolf. Kind of like a superhero with fangs. But when he wolfs out while protecting the girl he loves, he does more than make the front-page news. He comes to the attention of Storey Evans, a popular blogger who views herself as an investigative reporter.
When she was young, Storey witnessed her father being torn to shreds by a pack of werewolves. The horror of that night turned into...
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Centré sur la vie d'une famille de colons dont la plantation est frappée par une malédiction naturelle, Balai de sorcière est un roman foisonnant o la réalité tragique est travaillée par la magie du carnaval.
Traduit de l'anglais par Christine Pagnoulle
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Balai de sorcière Balai de sorcière retrace l'histoire de la malédiction coloniale d'une île des Caraïbes. Le roman raconte les traversées, dévoile mémoires et archives, chemine...
12) A Friend in Need
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Faith is visited by her late Aunt Geraldine after more verbal abuse from her boyfriend, Darren. Geraldine says she needs a friend in deed to confide in, so Faith talks to her colleague, Jenny, who suggests she takes self-defence lessons with their other colleague, Ben. As Ben teaches Faith, they fall in love. She begins to come out of her shell and grabs life with enthusiasm again. Being a victim of abuse, Faith decides she wants girls to not become...
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Some, it is said in the legends of Aesgard, shall die, and then come to the feasting board of Valhalla- to sit by the side of Wotan, chief of the gods!
There, they shall fight again each day amongst old enemies- and then feast again that night. These are the everyday, yet valiant fighters…
But there are… others-
Who are so extreme in prowess that when they should die and go to Hel- each shall be reborn.
Always it will be, saith Wotan, king...
14) The Assignment
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THE ASSIGNMENT
When Brina Louise Grant, recent graduate of Cyclops (their equivalent of West Point), accepted a one way mission from her 25th century world into the wild west of their mid 1800's, she had no idea it would take her on a journey far and beyond what her wildest imagination could concoct.
With a mystical entity by her side, Brina's assignment is to follow the assassin Jesse Loame to the past, tracking him down with orders to...
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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...
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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...
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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The fate of three. The choices of one. Stretching the four corners of the realm.
Our journey follows mercenaries, debauchery, folklore, the rise and fall of tyrants--all in a twist to unravel the mysteries of truth. Heart-wrenching plots and ploys. Dastardly antics of heroism and--well, not so. Bouts of grandeur and political intrigue as well as violence galore. Embrace that desire to unleash the devilish ferocity that lurks below. See the...
20) 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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