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3721) Skull Water
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"Set in South Korea in the 1950s and 1970s, a haunting inter-generational coming-of-age novel about identity and displacement.
Skull Water is a coming-of-age story set in South Korea about Insu, the son of a Korean mother and a GI father in the U.S. Army, and the intertwined tale of his Korean Big Uncle, who has been exiled to a mountain cave near the family village to die from a gangrenous foot. Growing up near the army base in the aftermath of the...
3722) Frightful Friendships
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Love and understanding can't be in your heart, if fear controls your mind.
Adam, a monster fanatic, hears a passing tale about a legend, called Perchta the white witch...the belly peeler.
It's the witching hour, inside the Devil's forest. Deep within the black timber a haunted abandoned school resides.
Corroded by the abyss, covered in never ending dark skies. She creeps out of the darkness,
her white presence coating the walls. She finds Adam, she...
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In this provocative & immensely irritating comic play, the Sphinx from ancient Greece is interviewed in modern times as though she were a celebrity pop star. The problem is she never answers any questions - never directly anyway. Instead she prefers just dishing the dirt on everybody. ON HOMER: "I never was exactly sure which one Homer was. I'm positive he wasn't the blind one, though; that was just a silly story they started telling a few centuries...
3724) Rogue
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Talon saga volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
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Dragons hide and loyalties break in book 2 of the groundbreaking modern fantasy series from Julie Kagawa, New York Times bestselling author of The Iron Fey novels.
Deserter. Traitor. ROGUE.
Ember Hill left the dragon organization Talon to take her chances with rebel dragon Riley and his crew of rogues. But she can't forget Garret, the soldier of the dragonslaying Order of St. George who saved her from a Talon assassin—and...
Deserter. Traitor. ROGUE.
Ember Hill left the dragon organization Talon to take her chances with rebel dragon Riley and his crew of rogues. But she can't forget Garret, the soldier of the dragonslaying Order of St. George who saved her from a Talon assassin—and...
3725) Dragon Pearl
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2019
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IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
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Rick Riordan Presents Yoon Ha Lee's space opera about thirteen-year-old Min, who comes from a long line of fox spirits.
But you'd never know it by looking at her. To keep the family safe, Min's mother insists that none of them use any fox-magic, such as Charm or shape-shifting. They must appear human at all times.
Min feels hemmed in by the household rules and resents the endless chores, the cousins who crowd her, and
...3726) Sealing the Deal
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Evil sea witch or slave to her namesake?Deals go wrong all the time, it's an occupational hazard. But one lovesick princess later and you're left living in an uninhabitable sea with nothing but the dead to fill the void.Uschi wasn't what one could call the luckiest witch in the sea, but settling into a life of banishment and starting over from scratch is what she did best. It was the tentacle that she'd been dealt and she made it work.But, when her...
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The theme of romance continues in this volume and begins with iconic 'The Lady with the Dog' by Anton Chekhov. Set in Yalta, Crimea, appears at first as a holiday romance. Gurov is a married man but he holidays on his own and has a history of holiday affairs. He meets the lady of the story's title with her Pomeranian dog. But Chekhov's love stories are not romantic accounts of unrequited love or of love at first sight. Or, even of tortured love that...
3728) Balanced Scales
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A shipwreck leads to the thing mermaids most fear...Mari has joined the ranks of the soulless mer, cursed to disappear when they die and not live on in the spirit world. There's only one way to stop it but that involves something no one has ever managed before. With the aid of her shape-shifting pet seal, a rescued sailor, and the spirit of a man she can't even see, Mari ventures onto land for the first time in her life, determined to save the souls...
3729) Lost
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You've heard of Peter Pan and his lost boys, and of their adventures with the Darling children, but there is so much more to Neverland than you've heard! Here is the story of one boy, from his early days on Neverland's northern shores to his great adventures in the Never wood, fighting Never beasts in the clouds, and ultimately becoming the hero he was destined to be. Written expressly to raise funds for typhoon relief in the Philippines, join C.S.R....
3730) Sleeper's Castle
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Two women, centuries apart. Linked in a place haunted by its history ... Separated by more than six hundred years of history, two women are drawn together by Sleeper's Castle, a house steeped in memory and magic. This is an epic tale of forbidden love, cruel revenge and a war that time can't forget. Grieving and lost, Miranda has moved to Hay to escape, and slowly she feels herself coming to life in the solitude of the mountains. But her vivid dreams...
3731) Witch Is the New Black
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Intrigue, magic spells gone awry and one hot, sexy hunk!
After spending ten months in magic-abuse jail for a crime she doesn't remember committing, accident-prone witch-in-denial Bernice Sutton is zapped to the small paranormal town of Paris, Texas. With Miss Fee Line, her kitty drag-queen familiar by her side, Bernie just wants to fulfill the terms of her parole--shoveling horse and cow dung on a ranch--so she can get back to Boston and dig into...
3733) The Accidental Gargoyle
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As a one-time OOPs employee, Ingrid Lawson has seen plenty of paranormal accidents. But witnessing and experiencing are two different things, and she's perfectly fine being a plain ol' human. So when her ex-boss Nina schleps her around to estate sales, where she purchases two of the butt-ugliest gargoyles in existence to decorate her hedge maze…what happens next is stone-cold cuckoo. Suddenly, Ingrid's beloved career as an animal therapist is on...
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"Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!"-Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale
The national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a fascinating, eye-opening take on the remarkable women at the heart of classical stories Greek mythology from Helen of Troy to Pandora and the Amazons to Medea.
The tellers of Greek myths-historically...
3735) Blue Boy
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Meet Kiran Sharma: lover of music, dance, and all things sensual; son of immigrants, social outcast, spiritual seeker. A boy who doesn't quite understand his lot-until he realizes he's a god. . .
As an only son, Kiran has obligations-to excel in his studies, to honor the deities, to find a nice Indian girl, and, above all, to make his mother and father proud-standard stuff for a boy of his background. If only Kiran had anything in common with the...
3736) Lilith: A Novel
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A triumphantly feminist retelling of ancient creation myths in the tradition of Madeline Miller and Claire North. Lyrically rendered, this epic U.S. debut tells the story of the woman known as Adam's first wife and her fall from Paradise and quest for revenge. Before Eve, there was Lilith. Lilith and Adam are equal and happy in the Garden of Eden. Until Adam decides Lilith should submit to his will and lie beneath him. She refuses-and is banished...
3737) The Arrivals: A Novel
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The Arrivals is the second novel for adults by internationally bestselling author Melissa Marr. Chloe walks into a bar and blows five years of sobriety. When she wakes, she finds herself in an unfamiliar world, The Wasteland. She discovers people from all times and places have also arrived there: Kitty and Jack, a brother and sister from the Wild West; Edgar, a prohibition bootlegger; Francis, a one-time hippie; Melody, a mentally unbalanced 1950s...
3738) White Witchmas
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Bah humbug…Christmas in Paris, Texas ain't all it's cracked up to be!
Cozy Meadows, a middle school music teacher, is a little low on spirit this holiday season. After being abandoned by her fiancé Finn Donovan months earlier, she's just not the same.
When her werewolf friend Calla asks her to head up Hallow Moon Senior Center's Christmas recital for the Council of Elders and the residents of Paris, she dives in head first. What better way to...
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This volume offers a contrasting selection of stories and tales from the master of psychology Fyodor Dostoyevsky and heartwarming story teller Beatrix Potter. The collection includes: An Honest Thief, The Peasant Marey by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies by Beatrix Potter.
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We continue to explore the world of our feral friends and learn about some of their darker secrets, some of the naughty episodes of their hidden lives, and some of the most revealing confessions of what cats think about their human masters. It may come as a surprise but cats often do watch humans and attempt to imitate their behaviour, albeit not always very successfully. And in the second half of this collection we meet humans who don't seem to know...
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