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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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When Eva's husband is arrested for the murder of a friend, she must confront her murky past and embrace her magick to find out what really happened that night on the river.
Eva Santos Moon is a burgeoning Chicana artist who practices the ancient, spiritual ways of brujería and curanderisma, but she's at one of her lowest points-suffering from disorienting blackouts, creative stagnation, and a feeling of disconnect from her magickal roots. When her...
162) Alexandru's Kiss
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Far from home...
Alexandru Carson has a major problem and it isn't with the woman who captured him - it is the fact that he can't remember anything but his name. He doesn't know where he is or how he ended up in the middle of a forest that feels bizarrely.
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In the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere illusion . . . and anything is possible. In Smoke and Mirrors, Gaiman's imagination and supreme artistry transform a mundane world into a place of terrible wonders-where an old woman can purchase the Holy Grail at a thrift store, where assassins advertise their services in the Yellow Pages under "Pest Control," and where a frightened young boy must barter for his life with a mean-spirited troll living...
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Before the coffee gets cold volume 4
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English
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The fourth novel in the internationally bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series, following a new group of customers in a magical time-traveling Tokyo café
The regulars at Café Funiculi Funicula are well acquainted with the whimsical ability it grants them to take a trip into the past-as well as the strict rules involved, including that each traveler must return to the present in the time it takes for their coffee to get cold. In Toshikazu...
165) Stonechild
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Where do we go to when we die? Imagine human consciousness embedded in the molecules of a statue. So, when the famous statues of London come to life, it is a spectacle like non other. They come with a specific message, and an offer we cannot refuse.
As the world reels in this wonder of science and religion, Molly Hargreaves has other plans, and she sets out to prove that things are not as they seem. Chased, captured and confined, Molly confronts...
166) Blessed Child
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One orphaned boy. A desperate race to keep him alive. And powers that are beyond comprehension.
"Whoever said a straightened hand was more dramatic than a healed heart anyway?"
A young orphaned boy was abandoned and raised in an Ethiopian monastery. He has never seen outside its walls-at least, not the way most people see. Now he must flee or die.
But the world beyond is hardly ready for a boy like Caleb.
When relief expert Jason Marker agrees...
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She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
In 1923, seventeen-year-old Esther Grünspan arrives in Köln "with a hardened heart as her sole luggage." Thus begins a twenty-two-year journey, woven against the backdrops of the European Holocaust and the Hindu Kali Yuga (the "Age of Darkness" when human civilization degenerates spiritually), in search of a place of sanctuary. Throughout her travails, using cunning and shrewdness, Esther relies on her masterful tailoring skills to help mask her...
168) Queen of Zazzau
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Indie Author Project
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Amina is heir apparent to the throne of Zazzau and must prove herself worthy of the crown. As foreign invaders close in on them, she is the only thing standing between her people and their destruction. Caught in a web of prophecies and intrigue, she must defend Zazzau, but cannot do so if she wants to prevent the future that was foretold. She did not seek war; it found her. Unwilling to be the plaything of gods or men and determined to take control...
169) Pedro Páramo
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Español
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Obra maestra del universo literario en español, esta portentosa novela mexicana narra la historia de Pedro Páramo, un caudillo local de quien dependen la vida y la muerte de un pueblo, Comala, y del hijo que va a buscarlo porque así se lo prometió a su madre moribunda. El narrador, Juan Preciado, llega a un pueblo deshabitado pero lleno de susurros, y a través de estos conoce la destrucción que trajo la convulsa pasión de Pedro Páramo hacia...
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Blackstone Publishing
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Español
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"Solitario Cisneros cre�a que su vida hac�a tiempo que hab�a terminado. Perdi� a su esposa, su familia, e inclusive a su pa�s hacia finales de la d�cada de 1870 cuando el Rio Grande cambi� su curso dejando al pueblo mexicano de Olvido del lado tejano de la frontera. Hab�a hecho las paces, si bien a rega�adientes, con el hecho de tener que abandonar su pistola y su insignia, y retirarse a su rancho a convivir...
171) Winter's tale
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English
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Peter Lake--orphan, thief, mechanic extraordinare--and Athansor, a flying Brooklyn milkhorse, establish a reign of love and justice in New York City in the year 2000.
172) The Garden of Magic
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A magical Pendleford prequel novella from the bestselling author of The Language of Spells, that introduces the world to Iris Harper - the original Harper witch.
Iris Harper has lived in Pendleford for decades, the local witch is mistrusted by the townsfolk, but that doesn't stop some coming to her begging for potions, spells and quick fixes.
As time has marched on suddenly Iris is aware that her days are beginning to fade. Her sumptuous garden...
173) Driehoek
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Li & Lu are BACK.They've been busy. Moving to Holland, enrolling in new schools, gathering paranormal powers, new basketball teams. Apparently, Lu has been working on his paranormal abilities (who knew!?... that's a paranormal joke) while Li has been studying... math. I know. I know. Both seem preposterous. But which one sounds more feasible? Both defy conventional wisdom and I personally have no idea. Remember: I'm just the messenger. I wish I could...
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Kelsey dreams of a life filled with creativity.
She's about to stumble into far more than she imagined...
Kelsey Willoughby doesn't have time to pursue her dream of writing a novel. Imagination doesn't pay the bills, and she's busy saving her beautiful bookshop from online competition, hotel developers, and the sneaking suspicion that nobody reads anymore.
Not to mention all those voices telling her she doesn't have talent.
But then the vacant...
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Akin to being a DARKER version of The Princess Bride and The King in Yellow.Reading this book is like going into a trippy play where animals talk and there are bizarre characters. It is a mind bending read with interesting characters and story plot. Believe it or not, it does have a lesson to the story, we all wear masks to hide our true selves.Talented storyteller: he paints entire scenes plenty of details. His characters are gorgeously written,...
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What would you do if you could travel back in time? Discover the internationally bestselling novels of Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, now a worldwide phenomenon and BookTok sensation, in this special new box set. Step inside Tokyo's whimsical Café Funiculi Funicula and travel back in time with a cast of unforgettable characters, including:
• Before the Coffee Gets Cold: estranged sisters, a newly pregnant customer,...
177) Apricot Eyes
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In Apricot Eyes by Rohan Quine, a cat-and-mouse pursuit through the New York City night involves a preacher, a psychic and a dominatrix, broadcast live on air-until a horror is unearthed, bringing two of them together and the third to a sticky end.
Having partially regained a power of second sight that he'd once possessed but lost, Jaymi Peek uses this ability in a live weekly television show online, where he channels onto the screen those unexpected...
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At turns haunting and breathtaking, Cicadas Sing of Summer Graves explores legacies of love, family, and the ghostly imprint grief leaves behind as three women face the past to bring light to an old Southern town lost deep beneath the surface.
Years ago, yellow fever gripped the small lakeside town of Prosper, Arkansas. At the height of that summer swelter, in the wake of an unexpected storm, the dam failed and the valley flooded-drowning the town...
179) Library of Souls
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From New York Times and multiple USA Today bestselling author Jamie Thornton, read Book 3 in the dark and mysterious worlds of the Doormakers. For fans of Sarah J Maas, Jeff Wheeler, and Rachel E. Carter.The Tower of Shadows has fallen.In order to survive her death prediction, Maella might have just broken all the portals across the three worlds. Maella's best friend, Claritsa, has been kidnapped to a different world and Maella's father is still missing....
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Bookstore owner Willa Chance has no idea that things in Mystic Notch are about to take a turn for the worse.
When a string of robberies escalates to murder, Willa is baffled by the behavior of her sister, the county sheriff. Normally the gung-ho lawwoman would be all over the case, but she seems more interested in doing her nails and picking out jazz music instead.
Willa has no choice but to take it upon herself to investigate. After all, her...
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