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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...
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Who is Antoine of Gommiers? A prophet, seer, matchmaker, trickster, or huckster-- or does he even exist? In this satirical novel tinged with magical realism, Haitian novelist Lyonel Trouillot (Kannjawou) paints a richly textured portrait of life in his native country overseen by supernatural forces where the worlds of dream and reality co-exist. With alternating chapters that reveal the day to day struggles in the capital city of Port-au-Prince of...
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Vivienne realizes she is dying. All she wants to do is see her daughter Giselle one last time and apologize. But Giselle no longer exists and it is Crow, a gender-queer anarchist, who returns to a family home that is plagued by ghosts and violent memories. With the help of a shaman Ze met in a dream, Crow unravels terrifying family secrets, hoping to find closure at last. But can anyone survive the shadows that lurk behind these fairy tales?
64) Mr Tumnal
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Everyone has an idea of their ideal family. Not everyone's become real.Lewis Tumnal is a man with the life he always dreamed of: a job he loves, a wife who loves him and the smartest, sassiest daughter he could wish for. It's also the imaginary life of Louis Tumnal, an English teacher and lonely bachelor.When he joins a photography class he meets Kathryn Summers and the real and the imaginary become entwined, Louis and Kathryn need each other to free...
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The fate of three. The choices of one. Stretching the four corners of the realm.
Our journey follows mercenaries, debauchery, folklore, the rise and fall of tyrants--all in a twist to unravel the mysteries of truth. Heart-wrenching plots and ploys. Dastardly antics of heroism and--well, not so. Bouts of grandeur and political intrigue as well as violence galore. Embrace that desire to unleash the devilish ferocity that lurks below. See the...
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Cathy has been set another quest, before she can take up the role as the Head of the Circle of the Dove Stone Coven.
This time she has to solve the mystery of the whereabouts of Desdemona's granddaughter Donna Maria.
Last seen before her mother sadly died, ten years previously.
Add a bit of the wicked stepmother and more ghosts,Cathy sets out to find this long lost person.
Cathy, along with the new members of the coven at the mill,...
68) 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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This is a collection of magic realism.
In the title story, sometimes letting go just isn't possible. You've loved the same soul down through the ages, but just before you can be together forever, he is ripped away yet again. The eerily weeping heavens combine with the sea and a departed love to ease the burden of the one who has been left behind. "Carmen, Whose Face Was Cracked, the kindest and most beautiful woman in all of Mexico suffers a cracked...
70) 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...
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Florida Folk Magic Stories is a boxed set of all three of author Malcolm R. Campbell's Florida Folk Magic novels.
Novel 1, Conjure Woman's Cat: Lena, a shamanistic cat, and her conjure woman Eulalie Jenkins live 1950s Florida in a small town near the Apalachicola River in Florida's lightly populated Liberty County. In Eulalie's time, women of color look after white children in the homes of white families and are respected, even loved, but distrusted...
72) 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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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.
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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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