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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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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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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is Neil Gaiman's first new novel for adults since his #1 New York Times bestseller Anansi Boys.
This bewitching and harrowing tale of mystery and survival, and memory and magic, makes the impossible all too real...
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"Swim Home to the Vanished is a lush and fantastic journey through strange lands and minds from an incandescent new voice full of my kind of melancholic brilliance and unromantic magic."—Tommy Orange, author of There, There
After the death of his brother, a grief-stricken young man seeks refuge and oblivion in a secluded fishing village dominated by a family of brujas in this haunting debut
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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,...
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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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....
9) 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
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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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14) Forsaken Angel
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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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This evocative, moving, and gorgeously detailed novel is the story of Alex Soberano, a contemporary man in crisis. A tremendously successful New York businessman, Alex finds it difficult to embrace joy and accept love. When his life threatens to boil over, he escapes for a brief respite on the West Coast. What waits for him there is something he never could have imagined.
Intertwined with Alex's story are the stories of three people from different...
16) The Balkan Air
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Alexander starts his life in a pre-birth Heaven where souls wait to be assigned an identity and sent to Earth. As a lousy student, he struggles to follow the heavenly authorities' formal instructions. By a strange turn of luck, he is sent to a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina called Herontown (Capljina). He falls in love with the beauty of Herzegovina and meets Ronnie, who offers him a way to stay even though he is supposed to return to Heaven soon....
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Faith decides to visit her friend, Angel, after another relationship goes wrong as yet again because they don't understand her Asperger's Syndrome. She meets Stan, the local mechanic. He stands up for her when the local residents start criticising her work. Then magical and ghostly things happen: her pictures are seen as misty to 3D to beautiful, and the people who criticise her are scared by mysterious weather in the park. Stan getting to understand...
18) Betty
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Un coming-of-age lírico, espiritual y feminista ambientado en el Ohio rural de los años sesenta e inspirado en la historia familiar de la autora. Soy Betty Carpenter, nací en una bañera en 1954 y crecí en el pueblo de Breathed, Ohio. De mis ocho hermanos fui la única que heredé la piel oscura de mi papá Landon, que era cheroqui. De niña creía que ser cheroqui significaba estar atado a la luna. También quería ser una princesa con un vestido...
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Are we ever really walking alone? Facing a health crisis, Marielle sets out on her 55th birthday to walk the wooded Maine trails she grew to love. She did not imagine her walk would take her to the streets, hillsides and porches of generations of her family. Alone, finding herself journeying on an isolated stretch of abandoned trail etched out of twigs and time, Marielle encounters an eerily familiar person who ushers her forward on the journey of...
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How would you feel if you discovered you were the imaginary creation of your best friend?When Dr Amanda Jones finds herself alone in the world with only the vaguest of memories of who she is, she has to piece together everything about her life before she can move forward in the world. A world which she finds filled with various allies and enemies from her past life who still have plans for her…
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