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The Complete Charles Dickens Collection by Charles Dickens
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratings51 books by Charles Dickens, including all of his classics and short story collections, in one volume with active table of contents:American Notes for General CirculationBardell v...Categorized as:
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Guarding Danger by Wendy Vella
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom USA Today Bestseller Wendy Vella comes an exciting Regency series about legend, love and destiny, with a hint of magic … Two things happen to Harry Sinclair the day his ship docks in London: he saves a woman in distress, and meets his long- lost family. Until now Harry has lived his life without betraying the vow he made to his father - never trust a Sinclair... -
![An Imperfect Gentleman by Wendy Vella]()
An Imperfect Gentleman by Wendy Vella
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRuined in the eyes of society, and removed from the only world they’d ever known, the Nightingale siblings vow never to be victims again. They will build their new life on what they’d once ignored. Being a clairvoyant is an excellent survival skill.A power he vows will not control him…After society turned its back on the Nightingales, Alexander knew it was time to face what he’d always denied...Categorized as:
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![The Fallen Viscount by Wendy Vella]()
The Fallen Viscount by Wendy Vella
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRuined in the eyes of society, and removed from the only world they’d ever known, the Nightingale siblings vow never to be victims again. They will build their new life on what they’d once ignored. Being a clairvoyant is an excellent survival skill.Could she be the one to save him?Leopold Nightingale was a man who could find things no one else could...Categorized as:
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![What Comes of Attending the Commoners Ball by Elisabeth Aimee Brown]()
What Comes of Attending the Commoners Ball by Elisabeth Aimee Brown
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHester Flanders went to the ball for the food. She didn’t expect a prince to follow her home.If there’s one rule Hester learned during her country upbringing, it’s never accept a that’s how the Folk get you. Although she’s left her farm behind, she can’t leave her superstitions, even if no one else in the capital city seems to care... -
![The Sleeping Beauty by Trina Schart Hyman]()
The Sleeping Beauty by Trina Schart Hyman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe story of the beautiful princess who sleeps for a hundred years has captured the imaginations of children for an even longer period of time... -
![Vision of Danger by Wendy Vella]()
Vision of Danger by Wendy Vella
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom USA Today Bestseller Wendy Vella comes an exciting Regency series about legend, love and destiny, with a hint of magic …Wounded war hero Captain Wolf Sinclair has recovered physically from the hell he endured fighting for his country, but in his head, he still exists in the dark...Categorized as:
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![The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde]()
The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsAn allegorical fable of love, sacrifice and selfishness. As with all of Wilde's short stories it embodies strong moral values and is told with an effervescence akin to that of the 1001 nights. It is the tale of a lovestruck student who must provide his lover with a red rose in order to win her heart...Categorized as:
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![Touched by Danger by Wendy Vella]()
Touched by Danger by Wendy Vella
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom USA Today Bestseller Wendy Vella comes an exciting Regency series about legend, love and destiny, with a hint of magic …Healer, Essex Sinclair understands her family’s heightened senses are a result of a long-ago pact between the Sinclairs and the powerful Raven family, but has always struggled to feel worthy of bearing the legendary Sinclair name...Categorized as:
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![Scent of Danger by Wendy Vella]()
Scent of Danger by Wendy Vella
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom USA Today Bestseller Wendy Vella comes an exciting Regency series about legend, love and destiny, with a hint of magic …As the illegitimate sister of the Duke of Raven, Emily knows only too well how society judges a woman like her, and what a debt of gratitude she owes her family... -
![Wrighting Old Wrongs by Maria Grace]()
Wrighting Old Wrongs by Maria Grace
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsControlling Fire, Earth, Water, and Air with a simple touch would have been much more impressive if it paid the bills.For nearly 200 years, the Wrights have controlled the Elements, shaping them to their will. But, the new era of industrialization threatens their extinction...Categorized as:
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![Tempting Danger by Wendy Vella]()
Tempting Danger by Wendy Vella
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom USA Today Bestseller Wendy Vella comes an exciting Regency series about legend, love and destiny, with a hint of magic …With his demons well and truly leashed, reformed gambler, Lord Nicholas Braithwaite is tasked with finding a missing baby. Needing help, it comes in the form of the woman from his visions...Categorized as:
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![The Witch's Knight by Paula Brackston, Trevor Brackston]()
The Witch's Knight by Paula Brackston, Trevor Brackston
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA girl destined to become Queen Witch.A knight sworn to protect her throughout time.A supernatural battle between good and evil.In Book One of the White Shadow Trilogy, the story moves between 11th century Wales and present day London. Gwen is born to a noble family in the Welsh mountains, unaware of her true magical identity...Categorized as:
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![Perdida: Um amor que ultrapassa as barreiras do tempo by Carina Rissi]()
Perdida: Um amor que ultrapassa as barreiras do tempo by Carina Rissi
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsSofia vive em uma metrópole e está habituada com a modernidade e as facilidades que isso lhe proporciona. Ela é independente e tem pavor à menção da palavra casamento. Os únicos romances em sua vida são os que os livros lhe proporcionam. Mas tudo isso muda depois que ela se vê em uma complicada condição...Categorized as:
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![Pixies in the Park by Viola Grace]()
Pixies in the Park by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBack at home, Abby is inundated by gifts and cards from the Magical community at large. When one gift is more of a surprise than anticipated, the occupants of Oak Point are going to have their hands full finding the first kidnapped Nexus in history. Abby fights for freedom in her own small way, while Xander goes out of his mind to find her... -
![Madness in Meryton: A Pride & Prejudice Variation by Jayne Bamber]()
Madness in Meryton: A Pride & Prejudice Variation by Jayne Bamber
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJane and Elizabeth Bennet return home from Netherfield, and two days of heavy rain confine them indoors with their quarrelsome younger sisters, a mother in perpetual need of smelling salts, and their tedious cousin, Mr. Collins... -
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Dangerous Magic: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Monica Fairview
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA sparkling tale of Regency England, a forced marriage, and two mages who must work together to save the Kingdom. Elizabeth Bennet is stunned when the Royal Mages come to her peaceful country home of Longbourn to take her away. She is even more bewildered when she is commanded to marry a powerful mage by the name of Fitzwilliam Darcy...Categorized as:
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![Always Forever by Maureen Driscoll]()
Always Forever by Maureen Driscoll
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the author of the Kellington series of Regency romances, comes the fifth book in the Emerson saga. Lady Rose Emerson has been in love with Nate Gage, the Marquess of Grayson, for most of her life. She is determined to marry the man, but he's doing everything he can to keep her at arm's length for her own protection... -
![Daughter of the Sea by Elisabeth Hobbes]()
Daughter of the Sea by Elisabeth Hobbes
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOn a windswept British coastline, the tide deposits an unexpected gift...It was the cry that she first noticed, the plaintive wail that called to her over the crash of winter waves. Wrapped only in a sealskin, the baby girl looks up at Effie and instantly captures her heart...Categorized as:
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![Ruining Miss Wrotham by Emily Larkin]()
Ruining Miss Wrotham by Emily Larkin
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIf he helps her, he'll ruin her... Eleanor Wrotham has sworn off overbearing men, but she needs a man’s help—and the man who steps forward is as domineering as he is dangerous: the notorious Mordecai Black. The illegitimate son of an earl, Mordecai is infamous for his skill with women... -
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Theory of Magic by Patricia Rice
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA blind marquess who detects lies…A spinster who hides behind deceit…Can even magic bring them together?“Patricia Rice weaves magical love stories” – Mary Jo Putney, NY Times Bestselling AuthorDiscover the third book in NY Times bestseller Patricia Rice’s Unexpected Magic historical romance series!Scorned by suitors for her statuesque size, Harriet Stansbury bolts when her abusive stepfather... -
![The Time Traveler's Daughter by Emma Strike]()
The Time Traveler's Daughter by Emma Strike
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsan alternate cover edition can be found hereHer father was a time traveler, and he’s left her with a mission...The year is 1929, and Catherine Christie’s world turns upside down when, on her 25th birthday, she receives a box from her long-dead father containing an explosive secret: he was a time traveler...Categorized as:
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![Tempests & Tea Leaves by Rachel Morgan]()
Tempests & Tea Leaves by Rachel Morgan
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBridgerton meets cozy fae fantasy with a dash of Pride & Prejudice in this sparkling, no-spice tale of magical debuts, an enchanted tea house, and banter-filled romance. In a world where both race and magic determine one's place in society, half-fae Iris Starspun has always known she doesn't belong. Having a human mother is bad enough, but being magicless as well? That’s simply unforgivable... -
![Ten Thousand Stitches by Olivia Atwater]()
Ten Thousand Stitches by Olivia Atwater
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsRegency housemaid Euphemia Reeves has acquired a faerie godfather. Unfortunately, he has no idea what he's doing.Euphemia Reeves has most inconveniently fallen in love with Mr Benedict Ashbrooke. Housemaids do not marry gentlemen, of course... but a faerie named Lord Blackthorn is only too eager to help Effie win Mr Benedict's heart regardless... -
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![Blood Ties by Lindsay Buroker]()
Blood Ties by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsRecently appointed Crown Agents Jev and Zenia must prove that they're worthy of their new jobs and young King Targyon’s trust. Their mission? To research the strange “disease of the blood” that killed Targyon’s three cousins and left him unexpectedly ruling an entire kingdom at barely twenty years of age. There are just a few problems... -
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Twixt Firelight and Water by Juliet Marillier
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLong ago, the sorceress Lady Oonagh cast a curse over her own child. Now a druid, an ill-tempered raven and an adventurous young woman are drawn together as the time approaches for the evil magic to be undone. Fans of the Sevenwaters series will love this new episode, which fleshes out the history of druid Ciaran and his constant companion Fiacha... -
![Whisper of Magic by Patricia Rice]()
Whisper of Magic by Patricia Rice
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Patricia Rice weaves magical love stories” - Mary Jo Putney, NY Times Bestselling Author Discover the second book in NY Times bestseller Patricia Rice's Unexpected Magic historical romance series! The death of Celeste Rochester’s father on the voyage from Jamaica to London leaves her and her young siblings nearly penniless in a foreign country...Categorized as:
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![Magicians of Quality by Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer]()
Magicians of Quality by Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor country-bred cousins Cecelia Rushton and Katherine Talgarth, something extraordinary is afoot besides the constant whirl of Regency balls - something Young Ladies of Quality rarely come in contact with: magic. Oh, not the mere love spells used by country folk, but real sorcery capable of thwarting ambitions and destroying life... -
![Alexander: A Seventh Son Novel by Kirsten Osbourne]()
Alexander: A Seventh Son Novel by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMadelina is the youngest daughter of a Norman conqueror and a woman of power. Her own power is insignificant enough in her eyes that she trains to be a healer under the expert tutelage of her mother. When a child is brought to the castle where she lives, she knows she doesn’t have the skills to heal him, and her mother’s powers—and her own—will need to be revealed to a handsome knight... -
![Garden of Shadows by Meara Platt]()
Garden of Shadows by Meara Platt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDanger lurks for Julia Marsden, the daughter of the late vicar of St. Lodore’s Church in the quiet village of Borrowdale.Julia doesn’t believe in faeries or magic or dreams coming true, but odd things have been happening at the vicarage lately that cannot be explained. Her orphaned cousin, Charlie, believes in mythical creatures and claims that faeries now inhabit the vicarage’s bluebell garden... -
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Lydia Dare Wolf Bundle by Lydia Dare
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn Lydia Dare's debut trilogy, Regency England has gone to the wolves! Praised by readers and by reviewers as delivering "tension-packed romance... sizzling hot, sensual" (Star-Crossed Romance), Lydia Dare is one of the most-acclaimed new writers around. Now find out why with the first three Lydia Dare books for one low price...Categorized as:
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![The Lass Who Lost a Shoe by Caroline Lee]()
The Lass Who Lost a Shoe by Caroline Lee
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt all started at the ball... All she wanted was one dreamy night away in a pair of fancy shoes. Meeting him wasn't part of the plan.After years of slaving away for her wicked stepmother, Ember Oliphant is about to make her dreams come true. All she has to do is attend the masquerade ball in a pair of her hand-engraved slippers and convince famed industrialist Mr...Categorized as:
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![A Market of Dreams and Destiny by Trip Galey]()
A Market of Dreams and Destiny by Trip Galey
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEnter the bazaar of the bizarre where fate and fortunes are for sale in this high-stakes magical adventure across a London not quite like our own, perfect for fans of Neverwhere and The Night Circus.Below Covent Garden lies the Untermarkt, where anything and everything has a price: a lover’s first blush, a month of honesty, a wisp of fortune... -
![Courting Magic by Stephanie Burgis]()
Courting Magic by Stephanie Burgis
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn Kat Stephenson's Regency England, magic is even more shocking than a stolen kiss. But now that she's eighteen, it's time for wild and magical Kat to be introduced to high society by her older sisters, whether she likes it or not...and to finally have a romance of her own!Of course, her true love is hopelessly ineligible...Categorized as:
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![The Veil by Megan Chance]()
The Veil by Megan Chance
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGreat stones crack and split. Storms will tell and the world is changed...Seventeen-year-old Grace has found the archdruid who can teach her to use her power as the veleda—the priestess prophesied to save Ireland. But nothing is as it should be. The archdruid is a dangerous fairy, and Grace can’t learn the spells, no matter how hard she tries. Something is wrong.. -
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The Frost Maiden's Kiss by Claire Delacroix
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe enchanted him with a kiss—but winning her love would demand all he possessed.Disheartened by the challenge of a crumbling legacy, Malcolm left Scotland to earn his fortune as a mercenary. Eight years later, scarred by the realities of war, he returns with a fortune won at too high of a price and a companion even more hardened than he... -
![Her Magic Touch by Kimberly Cates]()
Her Magic Touch by Kimberly Cates
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Desperate Magic...On Beltane eve, Mary Fallon Delaney steals to a castle ruin where her mother’s allegedly magical brooch has been hidden all these years, waiting for the right moment to summon “Ciaran of the Mist,” a mythical Celtic warrior promised to appear at the hour of Ireland's greatest need...Categorized as:
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![Lessons in Enchantment by Patricia Rice]()
Lessons in Enchantment by Patricia Rice
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCan a straitlaced engineer, three psychic children, and a lonely witch find love?The daughter of an earl, Lady Phoebe Malcolm Duncan has the ability to talk to animals. She longs to be a veterinarian, but education requires more coin than she possesses. When the walls of her home come tumbling down, she has to take two steps back—to servitude...Categorized as:
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![Ghost Girl by C.J. Archer]()
Ghost Girl by C.J. Archer
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCara Moreau is dying from a supernatural curse. Her only chance of survival lies with the warrior, an enigmatic man who comes from a realm "in between." Quin St. Clair lived hundreds of years ago, but now exists solely to protect the world he once called home. That's all he will tell Cara, the woman he must keep alive by remaining close to her. Very close... -
![Trusting Miss Trentham by Emily Larkin, Rosalyn Landor]()
Trusting Miss Trentham by Emily Larkin, Rosalyn Landor
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe's more than just an heiress... Letitia Trentham is noteworthy for three reasons. One, she’s extremely wealthy. Two, she can distinguish truth from lies. Three, she’s refused every man who’s ever proposed to her.Until Letty receives a proposal she can’t turn down.Icarus Reid barely survived the Battle of Vimeiro. He lives for one thing—to find the man who betrayed him to the French...Categorized as:
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![Bessie Bell and the Goblin King by Charlotte E. English]()
Bessie Bell and the Goblin King by Charlotte E. English
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Lincolnshire Wolds, 1812. When housemaid Bessie Bell is thrown out into a cold October night, her prospects could scarcely seem worse. With nowhere to go and no one to help her, how will she survive? But on the road she meets a mysterious gentleman, and her fortunes take an immediate turn for the… strange. For the nightmare horse Tatterfoal stalks the fog-drenched Wolds, and Mr... -
![Crown of Destiny by Bertrice Small]()
Crown of Destiny by Bertrice Small
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA hundred years have passed since the Faerie woman Lara last saved the world of Hetar from the darkness. Her youth and her beauty remain as always. The passing years, however, have taken many of her friends and kin. Her influence has waned. Those who remember her heroism in times of peril are few. Even her great-grandson, Cadarn, Dominus of Terah, denies her strong magic... -
![Magic in the Stars by Patricia Rice]()
Magic in the Stars by Patricia Rice
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs an astrologer, Lady Azenor Dougall sadly realizes her stars are a danger to her beloved siblings and has banished herself from her Scots home. As the Malcolm family librarian, she dutifully creates zodiac charts for her often eccentric and mysterious relations—until the day she realizes a dire conjunction of planets spells a fatal threat in a distant branch of the family...Categorized as:
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![Never Been Bit by Lydia Dare]()
Never Been Bit by Lydia Dare
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn desperation, a man will do terrible things...The glittering world of high society is the playground for the rich, titled, and reluctantly undead...Alec MacQuarrie's after-life has become an endless search for pleasure in an effort to overcome his heartbreak and despair... -
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![Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore: The Original Screenplay by J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves]()
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore: The Original Screenplay by J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe official complete screenplay of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore by J.K. Rowling & Steve Kloves, accompanied by illuminating behind-the-scenes content and commentary.Professor Albus Dumbledore knows the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is moving to seize control of the wizarding world... -
![Mr. Darcy's Enchantment: A Pride & Prejudice Variation by Abigail Reynolds]()
Mr. Darcy's Enchantment: A Pride & Prejudice Variation by Abigail Reynolds
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn a Regency England where magic and faeries are real… Fitzwilliam Darcy is a powerful magician who controls fire, water, and wind. What he cannot control is his growing feelings for Miss Elizabeth Bennet. Elizabeth’s sentiments towards Darcy are quite different. She detests his arrogance, and she fears he will expose her use of forbidden magic - forbidden to women, that is... -
![Research with Rivals by Jillian Witt]()
Research with Rivals by Jillian Witt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Evelyn accidentally binds herself to her academic rival, she desperately searches for the remedy in centuries-old magic before the sparks between them burn.Half-fae Evelyn Knowles is hiding a big secret: her shifter form. Abandoned by her fae father, she has no one to teach her about the change. She’s a little concerned when she determines the animal she turns into is---well--mythical... -
![Inventor: Elven Alliance Collected Stories Volume Two by Tara Grayce]()
Inventor: Elven Alliance Collected Stories Volume Two by Tara Grayce
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlso available in the full collection of Heart Bond (Elven Alliance Book 8). If you have already read Heart Bond, there is no need to also read this ebook... -
![The Spy Master's Scheme by C.J. Archer]()
The Spy Master's Scheme by C.J. Archer
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWith knowledge of magic becoming more widespread in London, magicians find themselves highly sought after. Consumers want to buy their wares and so seek out magicians among their acquaintance. India’s rare magic is in demand from Matt’s family, the Collector’s Club, and other magicians who want her to extend their magic.But it’s wise to be wary of the attention... -
![The Light Princess by George MacDonald]()
The Light Princess by George MacDonald
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA curse causes a princess to have no gravity, but the help of a prince brings her back down to earth...
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