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Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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This wild, magic-realist ride of a novel, originally published in 1994, is funny, sexy, satirical, linguistically exuberant, and utterly unique. Written as a fictional biography, it tells the life story of a woman with magical sexual powers that she uses to heal people. The story follows our heroine from her miraculous birth through her childhood in a magical orphanage to adulthood, when she uncovers sinister conspiracies among political and well-hidden...
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From the author of the international bestseller Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this book follows four new customers who hope to travel back in time in a little Japanese café.
In a back alley in 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 something else besides coffee—the...
In a back alley in 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 something else besides coffee—the...
3) Bellewether
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
I've loved every one of Susanna's books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly's delicate touch with characters -- sure recipe for historical fiction that sucks you in and won't let go! -- DIANA GABALDON , #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlander "The house, when I first saw it, seemed intent on guarding what it knew; but we all learned, by the end of it, that secrets aren't such easy things to keep." It's late summer, war is raging, and...
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Publisher
Santa Fe Writer's Project
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The fourteen fantastical stories in Magic For Unlucky Girls take the familiar tropes of fairytales and twist them into new and surprising shapes. These unlucky girls, struggling against a society that all too often oppresses them, are forced to navigate strange worlds as they try to survive. From carnivorous husbands to a bath of lemons to whirling basements that drive people mad, these stories are about the demons that lurk in the corners and the...
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*NOW AN LA TIMES BESTSELLER*
*OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD*
*AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*
If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet?
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 something else besides coffee—the...
*OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD*
*AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*
If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet?
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 something else besides coffee—the...
6) As You Wish
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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If you could make one wish that was guaranteed to come true--what would you wish for? Rules for Wishing: Never let an outsider find out about wishing. (Zip your lips and throw away the key.) Wishes that would impact the world are off limits (i.e. no bringing back the dinosaurs). Do no harm. (Murder = no bueno.) No time travel. (What's done is done, pal.) No bringing back the dead. (Come on. You've seen what happens in THE WALKING DEAD.) NEVER BREAK...
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English
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Full of character, wit, and wisdom, The Keeper of Lost Things is heartwarming tale that will enchant fans of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Garden Spells, Mrs Queen Takes the Train, and The Silver Linings Playbook.
Lime green plastic flower-shaped hair bobbles—Found, on the playing field, Derrywood Park, 2nd September.
Bone
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Daniel, Kelly, and Milly appear to be the perfect family. But an old camera will expose secrets no one wants developed. Daniel Whitely is a successful marriage counselor and bestselling author, yet his own marriage is in crisis and his daughter is drifting further away each day. To make matters worse, the deadline for his second book has come and gone, and he still hasn't written a single word. When Daniel inherits an old camera from his grandfather,...
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English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
How did I get here? He ripped back the zip, his heart pounding as red dust trickled in and landed on his face. He stood, brushing the dust from his eyes, a sense of vertigo launching itself up his spine. One step from the swag and his eyes snapped open. He started to lean into a void. Over a cliff. Fifteen years after college graduation, four friends reconnect to keep a long-ago promise and go on a trip of a lifetime in the Australian Outback. Eliza...
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English
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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,...
12) 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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English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Set in an African village, this follow-up to the Man Booker Prize-winning novel is "sometimes whimsical, sometimes bawdy . Fraught with wild visions" ( The Times ). "All is not well in the African village where Azaro lives. The child narrator of poet and novelist Okri's The Famished Road who had outwitted death in the previous book, again relates the oppressive events that continue to plague his village and his family. While political factionalization...
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English
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They nearly killed his wife. They abducted his daughter. Now they came for him.
His tribe believed him responsible for the abduction of his wife and held him accountable for losing their daughter to the enemy. He knew he needed to return the child to her people. The question was — how?
First he needed to learn to survive in this alien-invaded world. They had colonized the whole planet, leaving no place to hide.
Yes, he possessed metaphysical...
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Español
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Una novela que reproduce, con pluma de vanguardia, el tiempo en el que las mujeres se abrieron un espacio en un mundo convulso, construyeron un sitio propio para ser, para vivir, para sentir. 1930, década del qué dirán por los zapatos rojos de tacón, por tener un amante, por salir de noche con un hombre, por usar o no usar, las miradas atentas para poner en tela de juicio la reputación de una mujer que no tiene más alternativa que crecer y se...
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English
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"Whispers of Enchantment" is a contemporary exploration of magic seamlessly interwoven into the fabric of everyday life. The novel introduces Everwood and its diverse cast of characters, each leading seemingly ordinary lives before the introduction of magical elements reshapes their destinies.As the story unfolds, the town becomes a canvas for magical occurrences, inviting readers to question the limits of what is possible. Characters, once bound...
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Shome Dasgupta, a young American author of Bengali descent, uses magical realism to explore his South Asian roots in this series of fourteen stories mostly set in modern day Kolkata, the city his parents came from and the one where their extended families continue to live. The stories reflect the surrealistic dimensions of an American boy/man's visits "home." They engage with memorable individuals, from barristas to beggars, boatment to bus drivers....
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In the old scrolls written by Light, it is said that Griz the Unholy would be free of his demon and save the Tainted. Sin, a dragon that once bore a kinder name, read these scrolls and yet fell into the lure of a demon. With Sin's possession came the destruction of Griz's recent home. He vowed to set out on a quest to find this dragon and make it bow before Light and tremble before him. Griz made several allies and intended to hunt the beast down...
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Español
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The first book in Hendrickson's new Preacher's Toolbox series brings together a "who's who" group of today's most influential pastors, who share their understanding of prophetic preaching as well as their skills. The book is divided into two sections, "The Calling of Prophetic Preaching" and "The Craft of Prophetic Preaching," which deliver clear themes and practical takeaways on the art of preaching prophetically.
Speaking with grace and authority,...
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