| Title | : | Eva Luna |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0553280589 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 307 |
An exotic dance that beguiles and entices The enchanted and enchanting account of a contemporary Scheherazade, a wide eyed American teller of tales who triumphs over harsh reality through the creative power of her own imagination More...
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| Title | : | The Passion |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0802135226 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 |
Jeanette Winterson s novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in world literature The Passion is perhaps her most highly acclaimed work, a modern classic that confirms her special claim on the novel Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people Henri, a simple French s Jeanette Winterson s novels have established her as one of the most impor More...
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| Title | : | The Salt God's Daughter |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1619020025 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 |
Set in Long Beach, California, beginning in the 1970s, The Salt God s Daughter follows Ruthie and her sister, Dolly, as they carve out a life in a place filled with meteorological myths and exotic folklore, where female rites of passage are met with startling discoveries Raised by a mother drawn to the ocean and guided by the moons, their heritage is a mystery and with th Set in Long Beach, California, beginning in the 1970s, The Salt God s Daugh More...
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| Title | : | Devil and the Bluebird |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1419720007 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 |
Blue Riley has wrestled with her own demons ever since the loss of her mother to cancer But when she encounters a beautiful devil at her town crossroads, it s her runaway sister s soul she fights to save The devil steals Blue s voice inherited from her musically gifted mother in exchange for a single shot at finding Cass.Armed with her mother s guitar, a knapsack of cher Blue Riley has wrestled with her own demons ever since the loss of her mother to cance More...
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| Title | : | Glory O'Brien's History of the Future |
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| ISBN | : | |
| Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 308 |
In this masterpiece about freedom, feminism, and destiny, Printz Honor author A.S King tells the epic story of a girl coping with devastating loss at long last a girl who has no idea that the future needs her, and that the present needs her even .Graduating from high school is a time of limitless possibilities but not for Glory, who has no plan for what s next Her In this masterpiece about freedom, feminism, and destiny, Printz Honor author A.S King tells More...
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| Title | : | Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1) |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0553805487 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 |
The women of the Waverley family whether they like it or not are heirs to an unusual legacy, one that grows in a fenced plot behind their Queen Anne home on Pendland Street in Bascom, North Carolina There, an apple tree bearing fruit of magical properties looms over a garden filled with herbs and edible flowers that possess the power to affect in curious ways anyone The women of the Waverley family whether they like it or not are heirs to an unusual legacy, one that grows in a fenced plot behind More...
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| Title | : | The House of the Spirits |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0553383809 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 |
In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies Here is patriarch Esteban, whose wild desires and political machinations are tempered only by his love for his ethereal wife, Clara, a woman touched by an otherwor In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth centur More...
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| Title | : | After the Quake |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0375713271 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 147 |
The six stories in Haruki Murakami s mesmerizing collection are set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, when Japan became brutally aware of the fragility of its daily existence But the upheavals that afflict Murakami s characters are even deeper and mysterious, emanating from a place where the human meets the inhuman An electronics salesman who has The six stories in Haruki Murakami s mesmerizing c More...
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| Title | : | Bone Gap |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | |
| Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 373 |
Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps gaps to trip you up, gaps to slide through so you can disappear forever So when young, beautiful Roza went missing, the people of Bone Gap weren t surprised After all, it wasn t the first time that someone had slipped away and left Finn and Sean O Sullivan on their own Just a few years before, their mother had high tailed it to Or Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps gaps to More...
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| Title | : | If on a Winter's Night a Traveler |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 260 |
If on a Winter s Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded Italo Calvino s novel is in one sense a comedy in which the two protagonists, the Reader and the Other Reader, ultimately end up married, having almost finished If on a Winter s Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimenta More...
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| Title | : | Outside the Dog Museum (Answered Prayers, #4) |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0765311852 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 267 |
Harry Radcliffe is a brilliant prize winning architect witty and remarkable He s also a self serving opportunist, ready to take advantage of whatever situations, and women, come his way But now, newly divorced and having had an inexplicable nervous breakdown, Harry is being wooed by the extremely wealthy Sultan of Saru to design a billion dollar dog museum In Saru, he Harry Radcliffe is a brilliant prize winning architect witty and remarkable He s also a self serving opportunist, ready to take a More...
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| Title | : | The Tiger's Wife |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0385343833 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 338 |
Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, T a Obreht, the youngest of The New Yorker s twenty best American fiction writers under forty, has spun a timeless novel that will establish her as one of the most vibrant, original authors of her generation.In a Balkan country mending from years of conflict, Natalia, a young doctor, arrives on a mission of Weaving a brilliant latticework of family leg More...
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| Title | : | Kafka on the Shore |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1843431106 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 505 |
Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long missing mother and sister and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reas Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered More...
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| Title | : | The Tiny Wife |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0982525451 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 99 |
A thief charges into a bank with a loaded gun, but he does not ask for money what he asks for, instead, is the object of greatest significance currently in the possession of each patron The thief then leaves, and the patrons all survive, but strange things soon begin to happen to them One survivor s tattoo jumps off her ankle and chases her around another wakes up to f A thief charges into a bank with a loaded gun, but he does not ask for money what he ask More...
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| Title | : | The Icarus Girl |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 140007875X |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 |
Jessamy Jess Harrison, age eight, is the child of an English father and a Nigerian mother Possessed of an extraordinary imagination, she has a hard time fitting in at school It is only when she visits Nigeria for the first time that she makes a friend who understands her a ragged little girl named TillyTilly But soon TillyTilly s visits become disturbing, until Jessamy Jess Harrison, age eight, is the child of an En More...
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| Title | : | Wise Children |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 014017530X |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 |
Dora and Nora Chance are a famous song and dance team of the British music halls Billed as The Lucky Chances, the sisters are the illegitimate and unacknowledged daughters of Sir Melchoir Hazard, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day At once ribald and sentimental, glittery and tender, this rambunctious family saga is Angela Carter at her bewitching best. More...
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| Title | : | Death with Interruptions |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0151012741 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 238 |
Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago s brilliant new novel poses the question what happens when the grim reaper decides there will be no death On the first day of the new year, no one dies This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration flags Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago s brilliant new novel poses the question what happens when th More...
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