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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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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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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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In the 1950s, tensions remain high in the border town of La Frontera. Penny loafers and sneakers clash with boots and huaraches. Bowling shirts and leather jackets compete with guayaberas. Convertibles fend with motorcycles. Yet amidst the discord, young love blooms at first sight between Fulgencio Ramirez, the son of impoverished immigrants, and Carolina Mendelssohn, the local pharmacist's daughter. But as they'll soon find out, their bonds will...
5) Yok
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Mollisan Town quartet volume 4
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"When you're tired of run-of-the-mill fiction, it's time to read [Tim Davys]."
-Brad Meltzer, author of The Book of Lies
"A world that's violent, tender, hilarious, and downright sickening. Really, what could be better?"
-Eric Garcia, author of Anonymous Rex
Tim Davys is one of the most uniquely imaginative novelists writing today-the architect of Mollisan Town, a dark urban nightmare located in an alternate world populated by stuffed animals...
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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
...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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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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Hidden deep in the Brazilian rainforest a secret has been kept since the beginning of time. An order of women fight to keep this secret of the healing stones from the modern world. Their time is running out.
Camila's connection to her healing stone is enduring and absolute - until it is stolen. Driven by the need to protect the Guardians' miraculous truth and renew the physical bond to her stone, she travels from the deep recesses of the Amazon to...
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Jan Jacob Slauerhoff's1934 novel Adrift in the Middle Kingdom (Het leven op aarde), is an epic sweep of narrative that takes the reader from 1920s Shanghai to a forgotten city beyond the Great Wall of China.
Slauerhoff's narrator is a Belfast ship's radio operator, desperate to escape the sea, who travels inland on a gun-runner's mission. He moves through extraordinary settings of opium salons, the house of a Cantonese watch-mender, the siege of...
13) Isla de Lobos
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Hombres de mar habitan el enclave de Isla de Lobos, al que llega un náufrago sin memoria pero con pasado. Poco más que una lengua de lava y piedras negras, un peñasco entre mares es aquel lugar, donde son personajes principales un geógrafo, un santero, un contador de olas y una señora que gobierna con mano de hierro los destinos de la ínsula, además de la mulata Esmeralda y su hija Albabella, que habla con los lobos de mar y vive en una gruta.
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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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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...
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A chance meeting in the local pharmacy transforms the life of lonely, illiterate Octavio. He begins reading lessons and finds love and happiness for the very first time. But Octavio's destiny lies elsewhere, as he will discover on a journey into the Venezuelan rainforest. Shortlisted for the Goncourt first novel award, this short but epic fable is both a hymn to Venezuela and the magical story of an extraordinary hero.
17) 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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In these five stories, you will meet people significant to the life of Maldito and the fictional village of Agua Rocosa. Eufemia and José, each of whom is the 13th child of a 13th child, she of a line of mothers, he of a line of fathers, are Maldito's unwilling parents. José comes from a long line of fishermen and is witty, intelligent and above all, tough. Eufemia is obsessed with the ancients and can hold her own with anyone. Her sheer power of...
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Ila, the keeper of the stories for her tribe, knows the mysteries of the piñon tree. The old tree has stood watch from a hillside for a century. It has gathered knowledge of events through vibrations that tremble through the ground to its roots. That knowledge is condensed in the seeds it produces.
Always seeking more stories and more knowledge, Ila occasionally places a piñon nut beneath her tongue. What she learns is amazing. Sometimes it's troubling...
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In a world torn apart by the chaos of rebellion and war already, magic and essence began to permeate their way through society as a precursor to a series of a single future conflict with hell. As the conflicts escalated, new methods of travel were discovered to other worlds. Leading to new allies and alliances while complicating everything with old enemies.
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