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Basil Hallward's is infatuated and impressed by Englishman Dorian Gray's beauty, and therefore Dorian has been the subject of most of Hallward's oil paintings. While Dorian is posing for a full-length portrait, he meets Lord Henry Wotton, a materialistic man who shares his hedonistic world view, stating that beauty is the only truly important thing in life. Dorian is persuaded to this point and through a course of events sells his soul so that his...
5) Love reborn
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Dead beautiful novel volume 3
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The soul that Renée and Dante share cannot sustain them both but Renée may hold the secret of eternal life which they must keep safe from the Liberum and a team of Monitors as they cross Europe seeking the Netherworld, a legendary chasm where souls go to be cleansed.
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"Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. People are dying, but their souls are not being collected. Someone, or something, is stealing them and no one knows where they are going, or why, but it has something to do with that big orange bridge. Death Merchant Charlie Asher is just as flummoxed as everyone else. He's trapped in the body of a fouteen-inch-tall "meat puppet" waiting for his Buddhist nun girlfriend, Audrey, to find...
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Kingdom of souls volume 1
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"Born into a family of powerful witchdoctors, Arrah yearns for magic of her own. But each year she fails to call forth her ancestral powers, while her ambitious mother watches with growing disapproval. There's only one thing Arrah hasn't tried, a deadly last resort: trading years of her own life for scraps of magic. Until the Kingdom's children begin to disappear, and Arrah is desperate to find the culprit. She uncovers something worse. The long-imprisoned...
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Kingdom of souls volume 2
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"The magic Arrah wanted for so long is finally hers?but her new gifts came at too steep a price. Arrah is the last surving witchdoctor of the tribal lands, and she has been left alone to pick up the pieces of her family's betrayal, a kingdom plunged into chaos, and a love that can never be. But as she struggles to rebuild, Arrah discovers a glimmer of hope: there may be survivors who escaped the demons' attack on the tribes. And with her new magic,...
9) Brujas
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Alfaguara
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2020.
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"Paloma is dead. She's been murdered. But before she was Paloma, her name was Gaspar. Before she was Paloma, Gaspar performed ceremonies to cure people, but since she became Paloma, she dedicated herself to the nightlife with men. She preferred love over purification. It was she who taught Feliciana everything she knows about healing. With this apprenticeship, Feliciana discovers that, besides healing the body she can also heal the soul"--Translation...
10) Wicked fox
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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2019.
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After eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung, a nine-tailed fox surviving in modern-day Seoul by eating the souls of evil men, kills a murderous goblin to save Jihoon, she is forced to choose between her immortal life and his. Includes glossary.
11) Skin of the sea
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Skin of the sea volume 1
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Random House
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[2021]
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Transformed by the goddess Yemoja into a Mami Wati, an African mermaid charged with collecting the souls of those who die at sea, Simi goes against the gods to save a living boy, Kola, from drowning.
12) Vicious spirits
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
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[2020]
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"Somin and Junu are helping Miyoung and Jihoon heal from their recent trauma when a new supernatural threat arises"-- Gu Miyoung is a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox who must devour the energy of men in order to survive. She violated the rules of survival to rescue Jihoon and lost her fox bead, her gumiho soul. Following the deaths of Miyoung's mother, Yena, and Jihoon's grandmother, they might have a shot at normalcy with the support of their friend Lee...
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Berkley Romance
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2023.
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"Mariel Spark knows not to trust a demon, especially one that wants her soul, but what's a witch to do when he won't leave her side-and she kind of doesn't want him to? Mariel Spark is prophesied to be the most powerful witch seen in centuries of the famed Spark family, but to the displeasure of her mother, she prefers baking to brewing potions and gardening to casting hexes. When a spell to summon flour goes very wrong, Mariel finds herself staring...
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