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81) Blinded
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Water welled up in her eyes as streams of desperate tears started to fall onto her metallic-pink dress. Her face longed for affection that she had never given, A desperation that seemed to eat her slowly inside. Has the world ever pulled out your card? The card that announces a challenge from life that there is reneging from. People center themselves on a singular point, blurring out the big picture because of their individual lives and challenges....
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medeo Modigliani, embittered and unrecognized genius, dies of meningitis on a cold January day in Montparnasse in 1920. Jeanne Hébuterne, his young wife and muse, follows 48 hours later, falling backwards through a window. Now a ghost, Jeanne drifts about the studio she shared with Modigliani-for she was not only his favorite model, but also an artist whose works were later shut away from public view after her demise. Enraged, she watches as her...
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'…she cursed your farm and the church saying to all those who lived or went there they would suffer for ever more and be haunted by the devil.' Jeremiah's family farm has been cursed, and when his family members are struck one by one, he has no one to turn to but his sweetheart Victoria. However, Victoria is not who he thought, and after committing adultery, she falls pregnant. She promises the baby, on his third birthday to the Devil, and he is...
84) 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...
85) 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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A veces, en la búsqueda de un rumbo, se produce una batalla silenciosa y oportuna entre la brújula y el anhelo ...La brújula indica el norte del viaje a realizar ; mientras que el anhelo se esfuerza por poner palos (beneficiosos) en las ruedas. Por supuesto, por el bien mayor del descubrimiento, de lo inesperado y de alguna revelación...Nuestro héroe, aunque bastante común, ha experimentado este viaje de iniciación. Ha tomado el camino de los...
87) 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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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.
90) 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....
91) One, Two, Three
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A journalist takes on a double professional mission: a paper on the closing of a marble factory of funeral monuments in Saint-Maurice-des-Carrières, his native village, and an article on a circus camped out in Brémondville. These reports are gradually invaded by fiction, by the illusions of childhood, dreams, entertainment, drugs, and death.Excerpt« A muffled siren, followed by a flash: Guy used his electronic flash to photograph Antoine standing...
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Once in a dream I was presented with a terrible choice. Neither option was good. Both were harmful to the world. The first choice was to become a thug, a quasi-alcoholic, an abusive husband, father, and employer, an embezzler who made others go down for his crimes and got away scot-free (yet with a lingering canker of guilt ulcerating his gut)-in short a rancid stew of a person, the kind that keeps society and life grunting along on its present low,...
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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.
94) The Silvering
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Paranormal researchers visit Mrs. Thackery, a widow who lives in a house by the river. The researchers soon discover that the phenomena of The Silvering is real – spirits who want to avenge slavery and repression perpetrated by the Thackeries in the 19th century.
95) Forbidden Magic
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A bookworm with a dangerous new job. A mysterious new love interest. And a new reason to fight the Council.I fought for control over my life and won, working at the Warlock's College library was meant to be safe. But I never imagined the threats that would follow.I'm falling in love with the night security guard, a wolf shifter in hiding, and relationships between witches and shifters are forbidden.Especially for one of the High Warlock's heirs.For...
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The night sky is, lit up once again, by the bonfires burning bright and hot. Another witch-hunt has begun. The narrator of our story, a young mother and housewife, learns through a close friend that she has been labeled a practicing witch. Aware that the townsfolk will soon be coming for her, she and her daughter grab up their coats and run into the wilderness. Their years long odyssey has begun.
97) Astral Wars
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In a land where control of the Elements is key, two friends find themselves in the middle of a battle that will either maintain or destroy creation. Will Light keep the balance, or has Darkness found an advantage that will give them the upper hand? Each will follow their own path to discover the answer Travel to a world on the cusp of war, choose your side, and choose your Champion.
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Noche de cuentos... y poesía, es el resultado de las historias contadas en cada pueblo de la serranía peruana, historias que se repiten de boca en boca con los matices propios de quien las cuenta. Estos cuentos escuchados y guardados a lo largo del tiempo, hoy salen a la luz con el agregado que aporta la imaginación y estilo del autor, iniciando así una serie de cuentos cortos en complicidad con el aval del lector. Noche de Cuentos... y poesía...
100) The Stone Collector
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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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