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花樣年華 HYYH The Notes 1 by Big Hit Entertainment
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe memory pieces of the feelings being lost, absence, suffering and insecurity, of the boys facing their fate. Would I be able to straighten out the errors and mistakes and save all of us? I didn't grasp the depth and weight of this question. It was true that I desperately wanted to save all of us. No one deserves to die, to despair, to be suppressed, and be despised...Categorized as:
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Unstoppable Liv Beaufont Complete Series Boxed Set by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThis giant boxed set included all 12 books in the original series!Olivia Beaufont likes fixing things and keeping to herself. She’s simple like that—but her life is about to drastically change.Liv is a rebel with royal blood who abdicated her birthright... -
The Last Present by Wendy Mass
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDon't miss the latest entry in the incredible Willow Falls series by Wendy Mass!Amanda and Leo have a history with birthdays. Now their friend's little sister, Grace, has fallen into a strange frozen state on her birthday, and Amanda and Leo must travel in time in order to fix whatever's wrong. As they journey back to each of Grace's birthdays, they start seeing all sorts of patterns . .Categorized as:
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Lois Lowry Giver Series: The Giver, Messenger, Gathering Blue by Books LLC
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsChapters: The Giver, Messenger, Gathering Blue. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Giver is a 1993 soft science fiction novel by Lois Lowry... -
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Dory Dory Black Sheep by Abby Hanlon
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDory turns learning to read into a hilarious adventure through the power of imagination--perfect for fans of Junie B. Jones and Ivy and Bean! Ever since Dory met Rosabelle, a real true friend whose imagination and high spirits match her own, school has been pretty good. But now the class is learning to read, and it's proving to be a challenge for Dory...Categorized as:
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The Rebel Beneath the Stairs by E.E. Holmes
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAshes, ashes, they'll all fall down...The death of a Resistance leader has thrown Post-Rift London into upheaval, and Eliza Braxton, a Riftborn lady’s maid with exceptional magic, has promised her help to the rebel cause. But she quickly realizes that her role as a spy in the powerful Hallewell household will place her— and perhaps even those she loves— in near-constant peril... -
Dory Fantasmagory: the Real True Friend by Abby Hanlon
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe star of Dory Fantasmagory is heading to school. Her older siblings, Luke and Violet, warn her to leave her imaginary friend, Mary, at home—or better yet, leave her whole imagination at home! Dory is determined to behave like a “regular old girl who never gets in trouble,” but on her very first day she meets a new friend, a girl whose imagination and style are just about as wild as her own...Categorized as:
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A Witch's Legacy by Isabel Campbell, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen you piss off the high and mighty some get righteously angry.By day, Anastasia "Stacy" Drakethorn wields her Juris Doctorate as a blade of justice, carving through the corruption festering in the heart of the city... -
Strong is Her Hope by Judith Berens, Martha Carr
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlison is a Drow with growing powers and a teenager with dark forces after her. It’s a lot when you’re just a sophomore trying to navigate being fifteen. Doesn’t help when you’re attracted to a young wizard who tried to take out a classmate and your new dad is a bounty hunter named, Brownstone. Most teenagers have to deal with grades, school dances, and curfews...Categorized as:
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Imagine a Day by Sarah L. Thomson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsImagine a day when your swing swings you higher than the highest treetops. Imagine a day when you can ride your bike up a path of falling leaves into the very tree they are falling from. Imagine a day when you release a handful of blue balloons into a cloudy, gray sky to create a postcard-perfect day. Imagine a day when the ordinary becomes the extraordinary...a day when anything is possible...Categorized as:
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The Magic of the Lost Temple by Sudha Murty
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCity girl Nooni is surprised at the pace of life in her grandparents' village in Karnataka. But she quickly gets used to the gentle routine there and involves herself in a flurry of activities, including papad making, organizing picnics and learning to ride a cycle, with her new-found friends. Things get exciting when Nooni stumbles upon an ancient fabled stepwell right in the middle of a forest...Categorized as:
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Dream Animals: A Bedtime Journey by Emily Winfield Martin
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIdeal for bed time reading, this book will appeal to parents and children who love Grandfather Twilight and On the Night That You Were Born. Author, illustrator, and creator of The Black Apple Etsy shop, Emily Martin convinces children to close their eyes and discover who their dream animal might be—and what dream it might take them to...Categorized as:
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Our Lady of the Harbour by Charles de Lint
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsReprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: 5th , 1992 and in Dreams Underfoot , 1993, which was collected in The Newford Stories ,... -
Familiar Trials - Fledgling by Taki Drake
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSlave or partner? Bond or shackles? Dascha swore that she would never become a slave to a Witch, used for energy and reduced to the role of an animated battery. Zhanna never thought that she would have a Familiar since none of the Russian Witches seemed to have them. Now Dascha has found her Witch and Zhanna has found her Familiar... -
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Coven Codex by Taki Drake
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsZhanna has a vision, one that will return honor to the Witches and Mercenaries of Russia. Making that hope a reality is more difficult as time goes on, as the young woman battles prejudice from her neighbors and attacks from other Magic users... -
The Elemental’s Magic by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings***INCLUDES A BONUS CHAPTER*** Elemental Earth Magic. Intergalactic Consequences. Maggie Parker holds the compass and her magic can change everything - but time is running out. Maggie’s still searching for answers...Categorized as:
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Unbinding Love by Carolyn Ridder Aspenson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Atlanta-based psychic medium-turned amateur sleuth Angela Panther teams up with her best friend Mel and celestial super sleuth—and Angela's dead mother—Fran to help Detective Aaron Banner find a lost boy, the trio heads into ghostly territory they’ve never experienced. The mob and magic aren't part of the psychic medium handbook, and the trio's not sure they'll make it out of it alive... -
How To Be A Badass Witch: Book Three by Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIs it possible to be too successful?Kera is getting better at the witch stuff, and much too good at curtailing gang activities.She knows that’s the case because every gang in her area is after her now, egged on by the Startup.Plus, the reporters are about to break the big story, and the publishers of How to be a Badass Witch are on her trail... -
How To Be A Badass Witch: Book Two by Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsVirtutis gloria merces.Translation: Glory is the reward of valorBelieving is just the beginning.Kera has run into a bit more trouble since purchasing ‘How to be a Badass Witch’ on a famous online bookstore. Now, there are plenty of people looking to make her life significantly more problematic and perhaps deadly... -
How to be a Badass Witch by Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsVirtutis gloria mercesTranslation: Glory is the reward of valorFed up with playing the normal game, recent university graduate, ex-cum laude, ex-soccer star, ex-popular and mostly broke Kera MacDonagh changes her life when she decides to research how to be a witch... And believes it.Kera didn’t want to go back east and deal with her overbearing Mom... -
Beginnings: five heroic fantasy adventure novels by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen her island home is invaded by enemy soldiers, her family captured, and the town enslaved, Taylina must find a way to fight back and free her people. But their enemies have powerful warships, sorcerers, and dragons. Her simple people are no match...Categorized as:
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Magic Tree House: #1-28 [Magic Tree House Library] by Mary Pope Osborne
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOffers Jack and Annie's first twenty-eight time-traveling adventures...Categorized as:
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The Adventures of Finnegan Dragonbender and The Lone Valkyrie 7 Book Boxed Set: A Terranavis Universe Urban Fantasy Action Adventure by Charley Case, Martha Carr
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA broken ship. A missing friend. A whole new world of magical artifacts for the taking. A cosmic vacation for our intrepid treasure hunter Finnegan Dragonbender and his Faerie Dragon Penny. They team up with Mila Winters and meld as a team to save Earth...Categorized as:
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The Unexplainable Fairy Godmother by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHappily Ever After College has been churning out fairy godmothers for centuries.But their outdated curriculum can’t keep up with the modern world.They need something edgy. Something new, to keep true love alive.They need Paris Beaufont.However, this fairy loses her lunch if she watches a romantic comedy. Love songs give her hives. She punched the last guy who tried to flirt with her...Categorized as:
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Tasha Tudor Book of Fairy Tales by Tasha Tudor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRepresentative fairy tales by master...Categorized as:
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Return Of The Witch by Judith Berens, Martha Carr
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHas anyone seen Greta Antony? Time to get a witch, a werewolf and a Winnie across the water to follow the next dangerous clue. Lily and Romeo are offered a deal to get them across the sea to Libya and retrieve a needed sacred relic. Heed this warning - Magic often comes with a price and an artifact from the God of Dreams is going to be no exception...Categorized as:
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The Adventures of Maggie Parker Complete Box Set: The Magic Compass, The Gnome's Magic, The Elemental's Magic, The Magic Quest by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGrab the entire boxed set of The Adventures of Maggie Parker today!If smart phones and GPS rule the world - why am I hunting a magic compass to save the planet?Austin Detective Maggie Parker has seen some weird things in her day, but finding a surly gnome rooting through her garage beats all.Her world is about to be turned upside down in a frantic search for 4 Elementals.Not 3, not 5…but 4... -
Familiar Shadows by Taki Drake
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSome days are just BAD. A couple of thousand feet in the air, hanging from eagle talons and bleeding out. Just a typical bad day for a rebellious cat. Meet Dascha, a perfect example of contrariness and smarts. This young Russian Blue is not interested in following the family business, at all! But a moment of inattention leads to danger and pain, and she is left with some hard decisions to make... -
Thru the Badger Hole by Taki Drake
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDesolation and grief can leave you floating, unable to find a new shape to your existence. Who knew that it was possible to be shocked out of the morass of sorrow by a well-timed push?! Madrik was reeling from the loss of his family and unable to find his way into the new reality. Then something happened that sent him further than he ever thought to travel... -
The High Rise Glorious Skittle Skat Roarious Sky Pie Angel Food Cake by Nancy Willard, Richard Jesse Watson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree astounding angels appear in the kitchen hoping for a taste of the magical secret-ingredient angel food cake a young girl makes for her mother’s birthday. “A fresh, amusing piece... -
Poppy Mayberry, The Monday by Jennie K. Brown
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat if your teacher could read your mind just because she was born on a Thursday? Or the kid next to you in class could turn back the clock just because he was a Wednesday? In the quirky town of Nova, all of this is normal. Poppy Mayberry, an almost-11-year-old Monday, should be able to pass notes in class or brush her dog, Pickle, without lifting a finger...Categorized as:
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Guardians Inc.: The Four Legged Prophet: Guardians Incorporated #3 by Julian Rosado-Machain
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGUARDIANS INC. BOOK 3 THE FOUR LEGGED PROPHET "The Four-Legged Prophet, Defender of the People, will lead us, will bind us . . ." Thus begins the ancient prophesy the Guardians discover deep within the Halls of Remembrance...Categorized as:
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Miss Peregrine's Journal for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRecord your thoughts or create your own peculiar stories in this beautifully designed journal, filled with vintage black-and-white photos and quotes from all three novels in the Peculiar Children series. Life is full of surprises. Things are rarely what they seem. We all have secret hidden talents. These are some of the lessons that Miss Peregrine’s students learn, sometimes the hard way... -
The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington by P. Djèlí Clark
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFireside MagazineFebruary 2018Nebula Winner, Best Short Story in...Categorized as:
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Imagine a Place by Sarah L. Thomson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIf you can imagine a place, you can go there. Imagine a place that makes you feel as free as a bird. Imagine a place where getting there is worth whatever it takes. Imagine a place that makes you feel like it's always been your destination. Imagine a place made out of pure imagination...Categorized as:
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Steel Dragon 5 by Kevin McLaughlin, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe mage uprising has been put down, but it wasn’t enough. Dragons have become aware that humans can arm themselves with weapons deadly to even dragonkind.Dragons are living in fear of humans for the first time in living memory, and they hate it.The war has arrived. Lord Boneclaw will lead the armies of dragonkind to decimate humanity... -
Promises to Keep by Charles de Lint
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAfter Widdershins, I thought I wouldn't write at length about Jilly again. I'd promised one more short story about her for Bill at Subterranean Press, but that would be it. Having left her in a good place at the end of Widdershins, I didn't want to complicate her life yet again, so I planned to set the story earlier in her life, during her first year as a student at Butler University...Categorized as:
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Imagine a Night by Sarah L. Thomson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsImagine a night when you can ride your bike right up the stairs to your bed. Imagine a night when your toy train rumbles on its tracks out of your room and roars back in, full sized, ready for you to hop on for a nighttime adventure. Imagine a night when a farmer plays a lullaby on his fiddle, and his field of sunflowers begins to dip and sway to the rhythm...Categorized as:
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Philippa Fisher and the Dream-Maker's Daughter by Liz Kessler
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsPhilippa Fisher is feeling lonely. She misses her fairy godsister, Daisy. But while on vacation with her parents, she befriends a local girl named Robyn. Though she's excited to have a friend again, Philippa can?t help but feel that there's something strange about Robyn and her father...Categorized as:
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The Hidden Secrets Saga: Complete Series by W.J. May
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Complete Hidden Secrets Saga in one collection! Seventh Mark - Part 1 & Part 2 Beautiful, quiet Rouge is trying to figure out who she is and what she wants to be. With little knowledge about her past, she has questions but has never tried to find the answers. Everything changes when she befriends a strangely intoxicating family... -
School of Potential by W.J. May
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUSA Today Bestselling author, W.J. May brings you a continuation of the international bestselling series, The Chronicles of Kerrigan! Come back and enjoy the famous characters, or step into the series right here...Categorized as:
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You Had Me At Boo by Marian Tee, Alice Bloome
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI was once a 38-year-old ghost...until the Fates hurled me back to the land of the living, minus my bounty hunter boyfriend from Hell.My name is Saoirse Sullivan. I used to be a successful make-up artist, and I used to date a handsome and successful banker named Jason. But then he cheated on me, a nerve in my brain ruptured, and I went into a coma... -
Paranormal University: First Semester by Jace Mitchell, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAt the University of Paranormal Studies, class is about to start. Claire just received her letter of acceptance despite the fact that she didn’t apply. Why does the university want her? Because ghosts, vampires, werewolves, leprechauns, elves, dragons… They all exist – and more. They’re crossing over into our world on a daily basis – but not all of them are ‘friendly’... -
A Quiet Place by Douglas Wood
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Sometimes a person needs a quiet place." A place that's far away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life -- a place that isn't ringing or talking or roaring or playing. But sometimes that place isn't easy to find. Explore what it's like to find a special someplace where we all can think our own thoughts and feel our own feelings... -
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Eva Ibbotson 3-in-1: Which Witch?, The Secret of Platform 13 & Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhich Witch?Arriman the Awful, the Wizard of the North, needs a wife, and, naturally, the only woman a wizard can marry is a witch. But which witch will Arriman choose? Warty, wicked, or just plain rude-witches galore enter his spell-casting competition. Poor Belladonna doesn't have a chance. Her spells conjure up pink begonias or ice-cream sundaes, not a single viper or toad...Categorized as:
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The Stars of Whistling Ridge by Cindy Baldwin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIvy Mae Bloom, whose name is one letter away from a complete sentence, has lived her entire life on the road. Her mama is a fallen star who travels near and far to tend to the magic that underpins our world...Categorized as:
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The Circle by Cindy Cipriano
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCalum Ranson is sure of three things: his cousin Finley is alive, Calum will find him, and no one knows Calum and his family are Sidhe. No one until Laurel shows up at his mother’s bookstore wearing a dark clan’s mark.When Calum learns the details surrounding the disappearance of Laurel’s brother, he suspects the evil Hobayeth clan...Categorized as:
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Web of Lies by Thomas K. Carpenter
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhoever controls the Hundred Halls, controls the world. Aurelia "Aurie" Silverthorne has high hopes for her second year in the Hundred Halls, the world's only magical university, but her expectations are destroyed when she accidentally unleashes a plague of faez-eating thralls and spends week after week getting killed in the Grand Contest... -
The Infinity Year of Avalon James by Dana Middleton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAvalon James and Atticus Brightwell have a secret--one that they aren't allowed to discuss with anyone. This secret is shared between two best friends. When you and your best friend turn ten years old magical things are said to happen. You both will receive some kind of magical power. It can be a power you can call on time and time again. Or it can be a power that comes once when you need it most...Categorized as:
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The Book in the Attic by Melissa Gunther
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA mysterious book, unusual abilities, and a school that isn't quite what it seems - Celia Fincastle is about to step into a whole different world, and she has no idea what awaits her. She's got new friends and some big expectations for her future, but someone doesn't want her around. Celia must figure out who's behind the plot and stop it - fast - because there's more at stake than she realizes..
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