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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 73 ratingsMoscow, 1929: a city that has lost its way amid corruption and fear, inhabited by people who have abandoned their morals and forsaken spirituality. But when a mysterious stranger arrives in town with a bizarre entourage that includes a giant talking cat and a fanged assassin, all hell breaks loose...Categorized as:
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Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children Boxed Set (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #1-3) by Ransom Riggs
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe New York Times #1 best selling series Includes 3 hardcover novels by Ransom Riggs and 12 collectible peculiar photographs. The movie adaptation of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is in theaters December 2016...Categorized as:
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Haunting the Deep by Adriana Mather
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Titanic meets the delicious horror of Ransom Riggs and the sass of Mean Girls in this follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller How to Hang a Witch, in which a contemporary teen finds herself a passenger on the famous “ship of dreams”—a story made all the more fascinating because the author’s own relatives survived the doomed voyage... -
Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsIn an unforgettable novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hoffman unveils the story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic...Categorized as:
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The World of All Souls: A Complete Guide to A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night and The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness, Colleen Madden
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA fully illustrated guide to Deborah Harkness's #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls trilogy--"an irresistible . . . wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy" (People)A Discovery of Witches introduced Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and reluctant witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. Shadow of Night and The Book of Life carried Deborah Harkness's series to its spellbinding conclusion... -
The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsIn Berlin in 1941 during humanity's darkest hour, three unforgettable young women must act with courage and love to survive, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Marriage of Opposites Alice Hoffman. In Berlin, at the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime...Categorized as:
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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFlamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever written for the English stage...Categorized as:
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The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsMaster storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters.The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred years but all of that is about to change...Categorized as:
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The Forgotten Witch by Jessica Dodge
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHelen Kent never dares to step outside her comfort zone. She lives a lonely mundane life in the city, grinding through her uninspiring marketing job. That is, until a spontaneous online purchase brings her to the little bay town of Oban, Scotland, where a 500-year-old cottage full of secrets and stories awaits her...Categorized as:
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The Resurrection by Julie Plec
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFamily is power. The Original Vampire family swore it to each other a thousand years ago. They pledged to remain together always and forever. But even when you're immortal, promises are hard to keep. Klaus, Elijah and Rebekah Mikaelson had won it all, only to lose it again by 1788. Control of New Orleans is split between the vampires and the werewolves, much to Klaus's displeasure... -
Jacob T. Marley by R. William Bennett
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Marley was dead to begin with . . ."These chillingly familiar words begin the classic Christmas tale of remorse and redemption in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Now R. William Bennett rewinds the story and focuses the spotlight on Scrooge's miserly business partner, Jacob T. Marley, who was allowed to return as a ghost to warn Scrooge away from his ill-fated path...Categorized as:
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The First Witch of Boston by Andrea Catalano
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA gripping and intimate novel based on the true story of Margaret Jones, the first woman to be found guilty of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Massachusetts.Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1646. Thomas and Margaret Jones arrive from England to build a life in the New World. Though of differing temperaments, cautious Thomas and fiery Margaret, a healer, are bound by a love that has lasted decades...Categorized as:
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The Secrets Of Dr Taverner (Ash Tree Press Occult Detectives Library) by Dion Fortune
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOf the many authors who have turned their hands to the creation of 'supernatural sleuths', few have been so colourful, and as contradictory, as Dion Fortune...Categorized as:
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Daughters of Jubilation by Kara Lee Corthron
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFollow a black teen as she finds her place among a family of women gifted with magical abilities.In the Jim Crow South, white supremacy reigns and tensions are high. But Evalene Deschamps has other things to worry about. She has two little sisters to look after, an overworked single mother, and a longtime crush who is finally making a move...Categorized as:
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The Fear Street Saga Collection by R.L. Stine
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis special Fear Street Saga Collector's Edition features a see-through vellum and foil dual stepback cover, and comes with an exclusive, fold out four-color poster of the Fear Family Tree that explains character relationships throughout Fear Street's dark history. All three titles included in this Fear Street Saga omnibus edition were USA Today bestsellers and have combined for nearly two of R... -
The Moon, the Stars, and Madame Burova by Ruth Hogan
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the wildly popular bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things--an uplifting, slightly magical story about how it's never too late to find out who you really are.Madame Burova--beloved Tarot reader, palmist, and clairvoyant--is retiring and leaving her booth on the Brighton seafront... -
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 61 ratingsIn 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box...Categorized as:
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How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsIt's the Salem Witch Trials meets Mean Girls in a debut novel from one of the descendants of Cotton Mather, where the trials of high school start to feel like a modern day witch hunt for a teen with all the wrong connections to Salem’s past.Salem, Massachusetts is the site of the infamous witch trials and the new home of Samantha Mather...Categorized as:
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I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé, Angela Y. Davis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Stunning... Maryse Condé's imaginative subversion of historical records forms a critique of contemporary American society and its ingrained racism and sexism." —THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBEAt the age of seven, Tituba watched as her mother was hanged for daring to wound a plantation owner who tried to rape her... -
On the Edge of Darkness by Barbara Erskine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe eagerly awaited new novel by the author of LADY OF HAY and HOUSE OF ECHOES is the story of a woman trapped in the wrong time. Abandoned by her twentieth century lover, she plots a terrible revenge on him and his family. Adam Craig is fourteen when, near an isolated Celtic stone in the wild Scottish Highlands, he meets Brid, whose exotic, gypsy-like dress and strange attitudes fascinate him...Categorized as:
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The Ghosts of Rose Hill by R.M. Romero
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"A must-read for lost souls everywhere." — Kirkus Reviews, Starred ReviewWith spellbinding verse prose, R.M. Romero channels the spirit of myth into a brilliantly original tale, inspired by her experiences restoring Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe.Magic will burn you up...Categorized as:
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The Erstwhile by Brian Catling
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn London and Germany, strange beings are reanimating themselves. They are the Erstwhile, the angels that failed to protect the Tree of Knowledge, and their reawakening will have major consequences. In Africa, the colonial town of Essenwald has fallen into disarray because the timber workforce has disappeared into the Vorrh. Now a team of specialists are dispatched to find them... -
The Templar Treasure by Katherine Kurtz, Deborah Turner Harris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAdam Sinclair, the Adept, must locate the stolen Seal of Solomon-an artifact under the care of the Knights Templar-before dangerous forces unleash the demons the seal has kept bound for centuries... -
New England Witch Chronicles by Chelsea Luna
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNEW ENGLAND WITCH CHRONICLES is the first book in the four-book bestselling young adult series. The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 were an embarrassing stain on America’s revered past... -
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Oppressed by Kira Saito
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDown in New Orleans, Arelia LaRue ventures further into the world of les mysteries and comes face to face with secrets that threaten to turn her entire world upside down.A tragically painful past is revisited... Secrets are revealed… And enemies are exposed…In the intoxicating world of New Orleans Voodoo/Hoodoo expect the unexpected... -
My Wicked Highlander by Jen Holling
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWith Scotland in the grip of a nationwide witch hunt, Isobel MacDonell is hiding in England. But when Sir Philip Kilpatrick arrives to escort her to her betrothed in the Highlands, Isobel must face a harrowing journey through a land of fear and suspicion. Soon, however, Philip grows reluctant to deliver Isobel to the noble intended she has never met. Isobel has charmed her way into his heart.. -
The Hollow Girl by Hillary Monahan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor fans of Asylum, Anna Dressed in Blood, and The Haunting of Sunshine Girl comes a new feminist horror novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Mary: The Summoning. Five boys attacked her. Now they must repay her with their blood and flesh. Bethan is the apprentice to a green healer named Drina in a clan of Welsh Romanies...Categorized as:
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Rootwork by Tracy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSet in a small parish in Louisiana in 1889, Rootwork follows sisters, Betty, Ann and Pee Wee. When school lets out for the summer, the girls head off to stay with their hoodoo-practicing aunt, Theodora, an empowered woman equally feared and revered by the local townspeople. They learn how to make “hot foot powder” and the secrets of a good “black cat bone”...Categorized as:
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A Witch in Time by Constance Sayers
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA young woman in Belle Epoque France is cursed to relive a doomed love affair through many lifetimes, as both troubled muse and frustrated artist.In 1895, sixteen-year-old Juliet LaCompte has a passionate, doomed romance with the married Parisian painter Auguste Marchant...Categorized as:
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The Heavenward Path by Kara Dalkey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMitsuko is being haunted by ghosts and bad luck. An angry spirit commands her to keep a forgotten promise and assigns her a series of impossible tasks. She turns to the mischievous shape-shifter Goranu for help. Together they journey through a landscape of Japanese myths and legends made real...Categorized as:
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Never Trust a Troll! by Kate McMullan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter spending the summer at spooky Camp Dragononka, Wiglaf and his pals are back at DSA. They're no longer the youngest lads and lasses—now they're in Class II, and they are expected to show new students the ropes...Categorized as:
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My Devilish Scotsman by Jen Holling
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"From acclaimed author Jen Holling comes the second novel in a sensual new trilogy full of passion and intrigue about a trio of sisters with the remarkable gift of witchcraft." Gillian MacDonell has always felt lacking because, unlike her sisters, she did not inherit any mystical powers... -
The Goat Foot God by Dion Fortune
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe mediaeval mind of the man returned from the dead knew no half-lights or compromise in the doctrines of sin and hell. According to all the standards ofhis world, he had sold his soul to the Devil and an eternity of hell-fire awaited him.'She gazed back at him. The minutes were slipping away one after the other. A town clock chimed the hour... -
Circle of Fire by R.L. Stine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMia Saxton has no friends at Miss Pemberthy's School for Young Ladies--until she gets invited to join a group of girls who perform spells. But their practices become dangerous and someone ends up dead...Categorized as:
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Hotel Magnifique by Emily J. Taylor
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor fans of Caraval and The Night Circus, this decadent and darkly enchanting YA fantasy, set against the backdrop of a Belle Époque-inspired hotel, follows seventeen-year-old Jani as she uncovers the deeply disturbing secrets of the legendary Hotel Magnifique. All her life, Jani has dreamed of Elsewhere...Categorized as:
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Witch of the Wild Beasts by Catherine Stine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Evalina is imprisoned for witchcraft, will her supernatural bond with animals be her curse or salvation?In 1854, Evalina Stowe witnesses the murder of her brother by Dr. Dowdrick, an enraged client at the tailor’s where they work. Desperate to stop him, she rouses a swarm of wasps that sting the doctor while she stabs him with scissors, and then flees... -
Prince, Prelude-Legend by Claudy Conn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is a stand-alone tale, and the backstory for the Legend series. In Prince, Prelude—Legend, we find ourselves in 1814, and we will see a good part of it through Prince Breslyn’s eyes.Gais and the Prince come head to head over a woman. We will see Lamia DuLaine when she first sees Julian Talbot and we will meet the first Maxie Reigate... -
Where They Burn Books, They Also Burn People by Marcos Antonio Hernandez
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo standalone books with alternating chapters—the way the combination is meant to be read.They’re devoted to God. But will doing the Lord’s work lead them into darkness?1549. Convinced he’s destined to fulfill a whispered prophecy, Friar Diego de Landa labors to convert the Maya of the Yucatán Peninsula...Categorized as:
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Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends. Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay have lived all their lives in the small Essex town of Aldleigh...Categorized as:
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Origins by Cate Tiernan
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 21 ratings17-year-old blood witch Morgan is finding out about her wiccan ancestry. When she discovers a Book of Shadows that once belonged to her ancestor, Rose MacEwan, she makes some shocking discoveries about Rose and her life...Categorized as:
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Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNot Wanted on the Voyage is the story of the great flood and the first time the world ended, filed with an extraordinary cast of remarkable characters. With pathos and pageantry, desperation and hope, magic and mythology, this acclaimed novel weaves its unforgettable spell...Categorized as:
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A Christmas Carol and Other Stories by Charles Dickens, John Irving
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn immediate bestseller when it was first published in December 1843, A Christmas Carol has endured ever since as a perennial Yuletide favorite. Charles Dickens's beloved tale about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who comes to know the meaning of kindness, charity, and goodwill through a haunting Christmas Eve encounter with four ghosts, is a heartwarming celebration of the spirit of Christmas...Categorized as:
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Wildwood Magic by Willa Reece
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"An enchanting tale full of magical moments." — Library JournalA woman escapes her abusive husband and finds shelter in an enchanted orchard in this spellbinding novel of magic, resilience, and self-discovery from the author of Wildwood Whispers.Here be witches and wayward girls…In a town nestled in the Appalachian Mountains, Rachel Smith has found a new life tending a lush apple orchard...Categorized as:
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The Master of all Desires by Judith Merkle Riley
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNostradamus, a ruthless queen, and a young poet find themselves in the fight of their lives...Lady Sibille never goes looking for trouble, but trouble always seems to find her. When she inadvertently becomes the master of an ancient cursed head of Menander the Magus-the Master of All Desires-she suddenly has the power to grant any wish, at a steep price...Categorized as:
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Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsA Library Journal Best Book of 2014: Historical Fiction The amazing power and truth of the Rapunzel fairy tale comes alive for the first time in this breathtaking tale of desire, black magic and the redemptive power of loveFrench novelist Charlotte-Rose de la Force has been banished from the court of Versailles by the Sun King, Louis XIV, after a series of scandalous love affairs... -
After the Forest by Kell Woods
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGinger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour. A drop of blood to bind its power. 1650: The Black Forest, Wurttemberg. Fifteen years after the witch in the gingerbread house, Greta and Hans are struggling to get by. Their mother and stepmother are long dead, Hans is deeply in debt from gambling, and the countryside lies in ruin, its people recovering in the aftermath of a brutal war...Categorized as:
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The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by E.T.A. Hoffmann
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIt was E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) who first explored many of the themes and techniques which were later used by writers from Dickens to Dostoyevsky, Poe to Kafka, Baudelaire to Marquez. His career reached a glorious climax in The Tomcat Murr, perhaps the strangest novel of the nineteenth century. -
Among the Thorns by Veronica Schanoes
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAmong the Thorns, by Veronica Schanoes, is a dark fantasy taking place in seventeenth century Germany, about a young woman who is intent on avenging the brutal murder of her peddler father many years earlier, by a vagabond with a magic fiddle... -
A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPagans tackle the Knights of St John with terrible consequences in the new medieval thriller by Queen of the Dark Ages, Karen Maitland. Set on the wilds of Dartmoor, this is a ghostly tale for fans of The Essex Serpent, C. J. Sansom's Shardlake series and The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse. 'A dark read..Categorized as:
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The Blackheath Séance Parlour by Alan Williams
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo sisters dabble in the dark arts in Victorian London in this tale featuring murder, vampires, malevolent spirits, and a life-size chocolate gorilla. For fans of the classics—Holmes, Dickens, and Abfab.In 1842, two drunken sisters debate their future. Business at the family chocolate shop has ground to a halt, and change is needed...
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