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"Catherynne M. Valente, the bestselling and award-winning creator of Space Opera and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland returns with The Past is Red, the enchanting, dark, funny, angry story of a girl who made two terrible mistakes: she told the truth and she dared to love the world. The future is blue. Endless blue...except for a few small places that float across the hot, drowned world left behind by long-gone fossil fuel-guzzlers. One of those...
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"Exciting fans of such writers as Kelly Link, Karen Russell, and Carmen Maria Machado with prose that shimmers and stings, Amber Sparks holds a singular role in the canon of the weird. Now, she reaches new, uncanny heights with And I Do Not Forgive You. In "Mildly Happy, With Moments of Joy," a friend is ghosted by a simple text message; in "Everyone's a Winner at Meadow Park," a teen precariously coming of age in a trailer park befriends an actual...
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Very few books have resulted in the controversy that "The Diary of a Drug Fiend" has caused since its original publication in 1922. While much of the debate is centered on the novel's author Aleister Crowley, the story itself has both enchanted and enraged audiences for nearly a century. Despite being a fictional work, Crowley drew from his own experiences as a heavy drug user for the context of the plot. Peter Pendragon and Louise Laleham, in a drug-induced...
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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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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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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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Tobias had the life he had always been working toward-a family, a job that kept him fulfilled, and cutting edges of scientific achievement. When tragedy struck and he was betrayed by the father figure he held most dear, his world is transformed and expanded upon in the most unexpected turn of events. From earth to purgatory and even to the heights of heaven, the limits of what he held to be true are shattered as he finds himself before the great Creator...
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Angel bakes cakes for her uncle's cafe in the village park. She is a goth. Then her uncle gives her a family recipe for chocolate cupcakes with a secret ingredient which has magical powers. When Angel bites one of the cupcakes, she goes all flirty and girly with Pet e, the new delivery lad, whom she fancies. He loves the cupcakes. But when other customers eat them, they think it tastes horrible and criticise them. This causes magical storms that terrify...
10) A New Beginning
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"A New Beginning" is a fiction that describes the daily adventures of a group of reincarnates.
Imagine suddenly somebody living inside your body that was not invited. Somebody who has died and that creates a new person who carries personality traces of both the dead and the living being. Some of the characters have been reincarnated by people who had opposite personalities which could triggers conflict within themselves but also situations that you...
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Sometimes while searching a course, there is a silent and timely fight between the compass and the dream.
The compass indicates to the North of the journey to be accomplished while the dream strives to place (healthy) sticks in the wheels, for the greater good, naturally, of discovery, the unexpected and certain revelation.
Our hero, although quite common, experienced this initiation journey. He took the path of scholars, looking for some kind of...
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There were three possible reasons given for the disappearance of the two hikers on Mount Nyangani: the treacherous terrain and climate; the banditos armados; the unforgiving spirit called Chirikuzi. In David' case there was a fourth-that Clare might have killed him.
Unable to remember exacly what happened on the mountain in Zimbabwe and trying to come to terms with the loss of her hand in the accident, Clare is taken home to Scotland where her large,...
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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...
14) White Sucker
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White Sucker explores challenges faced by cultures that have lost interest in children's human rights. Few novels present the issue of sexual abuse of children and adolescents in such a non-explicit manner as White Sucker. It is at once a mystery and adventure story and a tale of spiritual development. Its characters seek light in the darkness of the north Maine woods. Its genre is magical realism.Thomas Halkett is a psychotherapist who works with...
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Lena, a shamanistic cat, and her conjure woman Eulalie live in a small town near the Apalachicola River in Florida's lightly populated Liberty County, where longleaf pines own the world. In Eulalie's time, women of color look after white children in the homes of white families and are respected, even loved, but distrusted and kept separated as a group. A palpable gloss, sweeter than the state's prized tupelo honey, holds their worlds firmly apart....
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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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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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"Emily the Magical Cat" unfolds the extraordinary adventures of Emily, a charming cat endowed with magical powers. The narrative takes young readers on a whimsical journey through captivating realms, blending the magic of feline abilities with heartfelt lessons that resonate with children
20) 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...
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