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Emi's cousin, Veda, didn't expect Salinger to fall for her so completely that he was willing to dive into an adventure with needles, crystal balls, spell books, magic circles, and the delicate curtain that separates this world from the next. In Behind His Mask: The First Spell Book, there was only one spell book. Join Emi's cousin on a whole new adventure, with a whole library of spell books to choose from.
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The Book of Obadiah, the shortest book in the Old Testament, is a single-chapter prophetic text in the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament. Its authorship is attributed to the prophet Obadiah, whose name means "servant of the Lord." This book is primarily focused on delivering a message of divine judgment against the nation of Edom, which was traditionally hostile to the Israelites. The prophecy also extends to address the wider nations, emphasizing...
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"Librarian Chloe Sampson has been struggling: to take care of her three younger siblings, to find herself, to make ends meet. She's just about at the end of her rope when she stumbles across a rare edition of a book from the 1960s at the local flea market. Deciding it's a sign of her luck turning, she takes it home with her-only to be shocked when her cranky hermit of a neighbor swoops in and offers to buy it for an exorbitant price. Intrigued, Chloe...
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"Junia is a mule. But she's not just any mule. She's a mule with an important job. Every morning she carries her Book Woman up and down the rugged hills and surrounding woodlands near the Kentucky town of Troublesome Creek. Book Woman is a Pack Horse librarian. She and Junia deliver free books and reading material to the people living in the hills and woods. It's not easy work. Every month they ride hundreds of miles to make their deliveries. They've...
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"A strikingly original and absorbing mystery about a white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England and the secrets lurking on the estate where we she works, for fans of Fingersmith and The Confessions of Frannie Langton The library is under lock and key. But its secrets can't be contained. 1896. After he brought her home from Jamaica as a baby, Florence's father had her hair hot-combed to make her look like the other girls. But as a young woman, Florence...
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A body in a hospital isn't so unusual. Unless they've been murdered!
1916, London: Keen to support the war effort, bookshop manager and sometime amateur sleuth Hannah Merrill has taken a volunteer role in the library of the nearby military hospital.
But arriving at the hospital one cold winter's morning, she is horrified to find the body of a dead soldier in the library.
What's more, a beautiful young nurse confides in Hannah that she thinks she's...
8) Ghosts from the Library: Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (A Bodies from the Library spe
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It is said that books are written to bring sunshine into our dull, grey lives – to show us places we want to escape to, lives we want to live, people we want to love. But there are also stories that can only be found in the deepest, darkest corners of the library. Stories about the unexplained, of lost souls, of things that go bump before the silence. Before the screaming. And some stories just disappear. Stories printed in old newspapers, broadcast...
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Dear Australian authors,Lending Rights are coming (at last) for ebook and audio.That means you need to get ready with your titles, so that you can earn some more royalties. The second edition of this essential author's guide is updated with the latest information.Step by step, McKenna takes you through the process to - register Official ISBNs (rather than free ones supplied by some distributors) to your titles so that you are officially the publisher...
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Cuando Lianne, una chica de quince años, despierta de la nada en un bosque que
parece haberse incendiado, todo su mundo cambia. No sabe quién es ni cómo se
llama; no recuerda nada de su vida o de su pasado, y se ve envuelta en un misterio
que la mantendrá en vilo incluso cuando sus memorias vuelven.
Entonces tendrá un propósito… y será encontrar a la persona que aquel día asesinó
a sus padres. No tiene idea de quién fue o por...
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Inspector Gary Wagner hated getting called out at night. The only thing he hated more was the senseless, sudden death of an innocent human being. He didn't know the woman lying in the filthy, blood-soaked alley – but it was his job to learn everything about her, her family, and her killer.
A crime novelist, David Corey was used to plot twists, police investigations, and the wheels of justice. He wasn't used to real-life police work or the massive...
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LET GO. TRUST. RECEIVE.
That is precisely what Max had to do. He felt stuck in his life and was yearning for something more meaningful. After years of working in investment banking in Frankfurt, London, and New York, he finally pulled the trigger to quit his job–or rather, ego-identity? What followed was two years of world travel, significant personal transformation, and rediscovery of our true essence.
His travel memoir spiked with insights on...
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Creating, collecting curating, and narrating The Yoga Library is the work of lifelong bhakti yogi, Sripad Jagannatha Das. The acclaimed internationally best-selling author and Emmy-nominated actor began the project ten years ago in Vrndavana, India researching and recording rare articles on the most important, timely, inspirational, and detailed aspects of the over 5,000-year-old Vedic yogic philosophy and culture.
Here, in an inspirational, exciting,...
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Instead of mentors, they got monsters . . .
That's what Xerak, Vereez, and Grunwold think when three strange creatures shimmer into being within the circle of Hettua Shrine. Their conclusion is reasonable enough. After all, they've never seen humans before.
As for Margaret Blake, Peg Gallegos, and Tessa Brown-more usually known as Meg, Peg, and Teg-they're equally astonished but, oddly enough, better prepared. Age and experience have accustomed...
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An invitation from a prestigious liberal arts college to buy their mystery-novel collection comes as a welcome surprise for Raymond Ambler, crime-fiction curator at New York City's prestigious 42nd Street Library. But his pleasure quickly turns sour when the collection's curator-Ambler's friend Sam Abernathy-tells him he plans to fight the acquisition tooth and nail. The collection would make a fine addition to his holdings, but Ambler's not looking...
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On the peaceful Japanese island of Teshima there is Shinzo¯-on no A¯kaibu, a library of heartbeats, a place where the heartbeats of visitors from all around the world are collected. In this small, isolated building, the heartbeats of people who are still alive or have already passed away continue to echo.
Several miles away, in the ancient city of Kamakura, two lonely souls meet: Shuichi, a forty-year-old illustrator, who returns to his home-town...
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Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at learners of English.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Matt Haig's The Midnight Library
What if you had the chance to live out every version of your life that was ever possible? Would you still be wishing that you could have done things differently? Or would you be grateful for the turns you've taken in your root life?
In the fictional story The Midnight Library (2020), Nora Seed, a woman in her mid-thirties, experiences all the alternate paths which she had left...
20) Quokka
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IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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"Quokkas live on a couple of small islands off of Australia. When they aren't sleeping in a nice shady spot in the grass, they hop from spot to spot, looking for some good plants to eat. But everyone knows quokkas for their famous smiles. What else do you know about these awesome animals? Learn all about quokkas!"--