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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,...
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En la década de 1950, las tensiones en la ciudad de La Frontera son palpables. Las camisas de boliche y las chaquetas de cuero compiten con las guayaberas y los huaraches. Los convertibles corren al lado de las motocicletas. Sin embargo, en medio de la discordia, el amor joven florece a primera vista entre Fulgencio Ramírez, hijo de inmigrantes empobrecidos, y Carolina Mendelssohn, la hija del farmacéutico local. Pero como pronto descubrirán,...
23) 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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Providence Falls volume 1
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"In 1840s Ireland, heartstruck thief Liam O'Connor lures away, lovely Cora from her intended, so angels send him to small-town in contemporary America to right this wrong. He must convince today's Cora, a police detective, to marry a lawyer she loves, or Liam will be damned for eternity." -- Provided by publisher.
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Sometimes while searching a course, there is a silent and timely fight between the compass and the dream.
The compass indicates to the North of the journey to be accomplished while the dream strives to place (healthy) sticks in the wheels, for the greater good, naturally, of discovery, the unexpected and certain revelation.
Our hero, although quite common, experienced this initiation journey. He took the path of scholars, looking for some kind of...
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Angel bakes cakes for her uncle's cafe in the village park. She is a goth. Then her uncle gives her a family recipe for chocolate cupcakes with a secret ingredient which has magical powers. When Angel bites one of the cupcakes, she goes all flirty and girly with Pet e, the new delivery lad, whom she fancies. He loves the cupcakes. But when other customers eat them, they think it tastes horrible and criticise them. This causes magical storms that terrify...
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There were three possible reasons given for the disappearance of the two hikers on Mount Nyangani: the treacherous terrain and climate; the banditos armados; the unforgiving spirit called Chirikuzi. In David' case there was a fourth-that Clare might have killed him.
Unable to remember exacly what happened on the mountain in Zimbabwe and trying to come to terms with the loss of her hand in the accident, Clare is taken home to Scotland where her large,...
28) Dark Rising
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My name is Caitlyn O'Herlihy. I have had many names over the centuries, but this one is close to the original. I rather like it.
This was to have been a time of quiet...a decade or two of peace before returning to the of being the last of my race in a world that knows I exist, and fears that existence. It was supposed to have been quiet, but someone is using black magic to summon demons. Some...THING has murdered innocent tourists...slain simple...
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At only fourteen, Bea is the local superhero of Elgar City known as Baron in costume, and the responsibility is already pressing down on her. Things only get worse, when her archnemesis from afar, The Prosecutor, meets her face to face for the first time. As they interact, the supervillain seems to take a keen, unusual interest in her and begins to act out unexpectedly, seemingly to mess with her head. Meanwhile, as if she wasn't already maneuvering...
30) Shifting Pools
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Fleeing war and the death of her family, Eve has carefully constructed a new life for herself in London. Yet she is troubled by vivid, disturbing dreams, symptoms of her traumatic past, which intrude increasingly on her daily life. As she is drawn further into her dream world, she finds herself caught up in a fresh battle for survival. A dark, lyrical fantasy about healing and reconnecting with the full richness of the self.
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Lena, a shamanistic cat, and her conjure woman Eulalie live in a small town near the Apalachicola River in Florida's lightly populated Liberty County, where longleaf pines own the world. In Eulalie's time, women of color look after white children in the homes of white families and are respected, even loved, but distrusted and kept separated as a group. A palpable gloss, sweeter than the state's prized tupelo honey, holds their worlds firmly apart....
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In The Island Chronicles Book 1: Conscious, William is drawn by the Music to the mysterious woman, Eleutheria, who lives in the house overlooking Bourani Cove and the ancient lime kiln which still burns hot for those who know how and where to look. There, she tells him about trapping time in the old tower, inadvertently creating the dragon, and how he must contain the monster while she searches the world for a solution.
In Book 2: Chopping Water-part...
33) Chopping Water
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In The Island Chronicles Book 1, Conscious, Christopher, whose name has been changed to William, is drawn by the music to the mysterious woman, Eleutheria, who lives in the house with the thatched roof overlooking Bourani Cove and the ancient lime kiln which still burns hot for those who know how and where to look. There, she tells him about trapping time in the old tower, inadvertently creating the dragon, and how he must contain the monster while...
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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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"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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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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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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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...
39) A New Beginning
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"A New Beginning" is a fiction that describes the daily adventures of a group of reincarnates.
Imagine suddenly somebody living inside your body that was not invited. Somebody who has died and that creates a new person who carries personality traces of both the dead and the living being. Some of the characters have been reincarnated by people who had opposite personalities which could triggers conflict within themselves but also situations that you...
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