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81) A Friend in Need
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Faith is visited by her late Aunt Geraldine after more verbal abuse from her boyfriend, Darren. Geraldine says she needs a friend in deed to confide in, so Faith talks to her colleague, Jenny, who suggests she takes self-defence lessons with their other colleague, Ben. As Ben teaches Faith, they fall in love. She begins to come out of her shell and grabs life with enthusiasm again. Being a victim of abuse, Faith decides she wants girls to not become...
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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...
83) Mindbond
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In the second book of Nancy Springer's remarkable Sea King fantasy trilogy, a king's quest for the survival of his world leads him and his bond brother to a terrifying realm of the dead beneath the water Once, great kings reigned in mighty, teeming cities. Now six small tribes inhabit the known world-and their world is nearing its end. When Rad Korridun, king of the Seal Kindred Tribe, first encountered Dannoc, the troubled chieftain saw clearly...
84) A Storm of Magic
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Being brought back from the dead is an impressive trick, even for magician Darien Burron. Now he must try and use his sleight of hand to swindle modern-day witch, Mirah, to sign her power away, or end up a tormented demon in the afterlife.Meanwhile, sixteen-year-old Mirah is starting to lose control of her powers. After an incident at her aunt's Witchery store, Mirah is sent to a secret coven to learn to control her abilities. While away, Mirah meets...
85) 4:39
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Whether it's raising her daughter, adapting to life in Germany, or finding a new mosque, Lujayn never seems to have enough time. That changes when she inherits a minute from her grandfather. The minute, a timeless dimension only accessible during 4:39 AM, provides Lujayn respite from the demands of daily life. But 4:39 contains more than peaceful gardens and a rustic cottage-it also holds clues to her grandfather's mysterious past. Lujayn is soon...
86) Blue Country
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Unexpected twists and turns keep the reader guessing about what will happen next. Throughout this entertaining novel is weaved a one-way dialogue between a dying prisoner who tells repeatedly his sad story to a hungry jailhouse rat, which only lives to eat. The story moves from the death and destruction of one town to the amazing rebuilding of a new town by survivors who lived to tell the tale. The human foibles of many of the book's characters are...
87) Bred by Magic
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What do you get when you mix magic with one of the most prestigious dogs in Germany? You get something special and powerful. In a time when witches were hunted down and burned a famous alchemist devised a plan to help protect them. One particular puppy who is predestined for someone in our time learns all she can before heading on the journey of her life. My mother always told me and my siblings that we were special. But, that's something all mothers...
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This evocative, moving, and gorgeously detailed novel is the story of Alex Soberano, a contemporary man in crisis. A tremendously successful New York businessman, Alex finds it difficult to embrace joy and accept love. When his life threatens to boil over, he escapes for a brief respite on the West Coast. What waits for him there is something he never could have imagined.
Intertwined with Alex's story are the stories of three people from different...
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Six thousand years ago, in the time before the first megaliths and stone circles, Druids appeared in small numbers throughout Europe. They began an inexplicable migration toward the Western Isles of Scotland. Among these was a Druid prophet, Lazwin. Lazwin predicted the coming of the Beltane child. The child would reunite the rune casters, gather the Druid faithful, and set in motion a series of events that would alter the history of Druid healing...
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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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As dawn approaches on the hillside, a solitary rider sits and looks down on the Kingdom of Haddon. He ponders whether his travels and endeavors will ever allow him to return. He must leave and must conquer his fears and find what has escaped him for all the years of his life. He cannot rest until he finds the boy. A boy who he has never met or had any knowledge. Why MUST he find him? How can he find him? Where will this journey take him?
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92) Sam Is Bored
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Sam is bored and looking for something fun to do. Her brothers are playing video games and not paying any attention to Sam. Sam is so bored, she decides to ask her Auntie Sandy for something fun to do. Her aunt has been watching them so their mother can work extra hours.Auntie Sandy is a little different. Sam refuses to give up asking Auntie Sandy for something fun to do and finds out it's not wise to pester an aunt who's different.
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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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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...
95) 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....
96) 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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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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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.
100) 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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