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On her seventeenth birthday, Hannah Williams begins exhibiting impossible, temporary mutations--gills one day and horns the next--that are the consequences of a desperate bargain her mother made with a sheyd decades ago, and to break the family curse, Hannah and her brother track down their mother's estranged family and discover a legacy that traces back to the Golem of Prague.
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Golem and the jinni volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Chava, a golem brought to life by a disgraced rabbi, and Ahmad, a jinni made of fire, form an unlikely friendship on the streets of New York until a fateful choice changes everything.
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Underland Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First hardback Underland Press edition.
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English
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While a wizard prepares to operate on her to extend his life, Pomp, an immortal fairy, joined by Heraclix, a stitched-together monster, escapes and travels through a turbulent eighteenth century on a quest to find out who and what she is.
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Jacob Lev novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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A burned-out L.A. detective... a woman of mystery who is far more than she seems... a grotesque, ancient monster bent on a mission of retribution. When these three collide, a new standard of suspense is born. The legend of the Golem of Prague has endured through the ages, a creature fashioned by a sixteenth-century rabbi to protect his congregation, now lying dormant in the garret of a synagogue. But the Golem is dormant no longer. Detective Jacob...
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Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
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Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel visits the Emperor, leaving a new housemaid to prepare for his Hanukkah party, but returns to find that she has misused the clay man he created. Includes historical and cultural notes.
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Golem and the jinni volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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In this enthralling historical epic, set in New York City and the Middle East in the years leading to World War I-- the long-awaited follow-up to the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Golem and the Jinni--Helene Wecker revisits her beloved characters Chava and Ahmad as they confront unexpected new challenges in a rapidly changing human world. Chava is a golem, a woman made of clay, who can hear the thoughts and longings of those around her and...
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Monstrous devices volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Alex, nearly thirteen, flees with his grandfather across snowy Europe to escape the human and mechanical assassins that pursue them, trying to retrieve a powerful object.
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