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Wild Irish Dreamer by Tricia O'Malley
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhat would happen if dreams came true?It's said that the world is made of dreamers. Which is a lovely thought and all, except for when those dreams come with a foretelling of the future. In order to find out what she really wants, Fiona MacAuliffe has spent her life running from who she truly is... -
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Sphere Song by Tricia O'Malley
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe dramatic and heartwarming conclusion to the Isle of Destiny Series. Neala O’Riordan is no stranger to the sweet and spicy things in life although that’s more to do with running a highly acclaimed bakery in Kilkenny than because of having any semblance of a dating life... -
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Wild Irish Grace by Tricia O'Malley
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIs her enemy the love she’s been waiting for? Grace O’Brien lives an unapologetic life – one where she uses magick and attitude alike to live exactly as she pleases. With talents far beyond what most can comprehend, Grace dances through life with verve and enthusiasm. But it isn’t all magick and mirth. A secret haunts Grace through the darkest hours of the night... -
![La misión de Rox by Laura Gallego García]()
La misión de Rox by Laura Gallego García
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRox ha partido a la región del oeste, devastada por los monstruos, en busca de una aldea perdida habitada por Guardianes. Mientras una riada de supervivientes acude a la Ciudadela en busca de un refugio seguro, tras sus muros florece un nuevo movimiento filosófico, la Senda del Manantial, cuyo líder predica el fin del mundo conocido… para bien o para mal...Categorized as:
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![Wild Irish Roots: Margaret & Sean by Tricia O'Malley]()
Wild Irish Roots: Margaret & Sean by Tricia O'Malley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“The longest road out is the shortest road home.” - Irish Proverb Admitting mistakes isn’t easy. And for hardheaded Margret O’Brien, it’s virtually unheard of. When Margaret comes back to Ireland for her daughter’s wedding, she is forced to face her past. She just didn’t expect to be doing it thrown upside down over a devastatingly handsome and exceptionally angry Irishman’s shoulder... -
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Spear Song by Tricia O'Malley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPerpetually cheerful Gwenith Donovan is pleased with life. She owns a hobby store she loves, carries on daily arguments with her chubby cat Macgregor, and maintains a meticulous comic-book collection that makes her geeky heart sing... -
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El secreto de Xein by Laura Gallego García
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLos caminos de Axlin y Xein vuelven a cruzarse, pero ambos parecen estar más alejados que nunca. Ella trabaja en la biblioteca y sigue recopilando información para completar su bestiario, mientras investiga lo que parece una presencia anormal de monstruos dentro de los muros de la Ciudadela...Categorized as:
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![La Ménagerie de papier by Ken Liu]()
La Ménagerie de papier by Ken Liu
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsElle plaque la feuille sur la table, face vierge exposée, et la plie. Intrigué, j'arrête de pleurer pour l'observer. Ma mère retourne le papier et le plie de nouveau, avant de le border, de le plisser, de le rouler et de le tordre jusqu à ce qu'il disparaisse entre ses mains en coupe. Puis elle porte ce petit paquet à sa bouche et y souffle comme dans un ballon. «Kan», dit-elle. «Laohu»...Categorized as:
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![The Very Best of Charles de Lint by Charles de Lint]()
The Very Best of Charles de Lint by Charles de Lint
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAt turns whimsical, dark, and mystical, this extraordinary collection of retold fairy tales and new, modern myths redefine the boundaries of magic. Compiling favored stories suggested by the author and his fans, this delightful treasury contains the most esteemed and beloved selections that de Lint has to offer...Categorized as:
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Stone Song by Tricia O'Malley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom New York Times Bestselling author, Tricia O’Malley, comes a riveting new magickal romance set in modern day Dublin. Clare MacBride has her life in exactly the order she wants it. In a year, she’ll have finished her geology dissertation, though she’s no closer to figuring out the answer to one question that plagues her... -
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The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsYears ago, a reclusive mega-bestselling children’s author quit writing under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly he resurfaces with a brand-new book and a one-of-a-kind competition, offering a prize that will change the winner’s life in this absorbing and whimsical novel.“Clever, dark, and hopeful . . -
![Four Roads Cross by Mark Hayden]()
Four Roads Cross by Mark Hayden
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe last time Conrad was unemployed, he got a visit from the Allfather. Look where that got him...And now the Gnomes of Lakeland want him to be the new Commissioner.A simple job: sort out the Assessors and put the Grand Union on a stable footing. They’re even willing to pay for an assistant to help him with the difficult magick stuff... -
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Demon Child by Kylie Chan
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAustralian bestseller Kylie Chan returns with a new, fast-paced adventure of magic, martial arts, and romanceThis trilogy follows the story of John Chen and Emma Donohoe. They have just found out that Emma has Demon blood and they have suffered the miscarriage of their first child... -
![Embrace Me at Dawn by Shayla Black]()
Embrace Me at Dawn by Shayla Black
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNo man will ever define her again. Anka MacTavish lost everything when Mathias D'Arc captured her, shattered her bond with her mate, and broke both her body and spirit. Determined to heal her bleeding soul, she joins the Doomsday Brethren's fight to vanquish the evil wizard and seize her revenge... -
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![Your Absence is Darkness by Jón Kalman Stefánsson]()
Your Absence is Darkness by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland's most beloved novelists. A man comes to awareness in a church in rural Iceland, not knowing why he’s there or how he arrived... -
![Beneath the Skin by Lauren Dane]()
Beneath the Skin by Lauren Dane
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA whole world exists…beneath the skin.De La Vega Cats, Book 3Gibson de La Vega is the Bringer, one of the Alpha’s right-hand cats. It is his job to mete out justice and defend the law that holds their jamboree together.After a contentious meeting with another jamboree, he’s shot—Mia stumbles onto the scene and saves his life... -
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Fishing for the Little Pike by Juhani Karila
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWinner of the Jarkko Laine Literature Prize In the utterly original, genre-defying, English-language debut of Finnish author Juhani Karila, a young woman’s annual pilgrimage to her home in Lapland to catch an elusive pike in three days is complicated by a host of mythical creatures, a murder detective hot on her trail, and a deadly curse hanging over her head...Categorized as:
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Stardust Valley by T.L. Haddix
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook Nine in the Firefly Hollow Series. This is Noah's story. He loves Sophie, has since he was a seventeen-year-old kid, but thanks to a manipulative troublemaker and because he's a stubborn Campbell man (or so his female relatives keep telling him), it takes him a while to figure his feelings out and do something about them. Like more than ten years... -
![Signed, Sealed, and Smitten by Melanie Jacobson]()
Signed, Sealed, and Smitten by Melanie Jacobson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe last thing she needs is another off-limits work romance. He’s fine playing the friendly flirt . . . until he falls for real.Embarrassing breakups at work cost you promotions. Phoebe learned that the hard way. So when a patron’s will names her as the director of a new museum in Serendipity Springs, she jumps at the chance to prove her professionalism.Her new plan: focus on work...Categorized as:
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![Oração para Desaparecer by Socorro Acioli]()
Oração para Desaparecer by Socorro Acioli
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPrimeiro romance de Socorro Acioli após A cabeça do santo, Oração para Desaparecer conta a história de uma mulher que, sem lembrança nenhuma de seu passado, precisa reconstruir a vida em um lugar completamente desconhecido, apenas com a língua portuguesa como porto seguro.Cida, uma mulher sem identidade nem memória, reconstrói pouco a pouco uma nova vida em um lugar completamente desconhecido...Categorized as:
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Portable Childhoods by Ellen Klages, Neil Gaiman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEmerging from a unique and powerful voice, this innovative collection offers a tantalizing glimpse of what lies hidden just beyond the ordinary, skirting the border between childhood and adulthood...Categorized as:
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![The Crown Of Kings by Steve Jackson]()
The Crown Of Kings by Steve Jackson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFinal book in the 4 part series. Each sorcery book is a complete adventure - you don't need to have read a previous book to move on to the next. Play as either a warrior or a wizard. If you choose wizardry, your survival will depend on on your knowledge of the sorcery. Age 9+...Categorized as:
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The Fifth Britain by Charlotte E. English
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCast away from the Society (sort of) and out on our own, we've got a big problem on our hands - and an exciting prospect, too. They call it time travel on TV... -
![Creatures of Midnight by Shannon Lynn Cook]()
Creatures of Midnight by Shannon Lynn Cook
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwenty-two-year-old Madeline Bennet is certain of three things: she’s sick and tired of being kidnapped, her love life is a royal mess, and something is wrong with her magic. Madeline is fabled to be the only woman alive who can open the thresholds to Aparia, but there’s a tiny problem—she can’t sense the magic to unlock them, and time is running out... -
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![Sleight of Hand by Peter S. Beagle]()
Sleight of Hand by Peter S. Beagle
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAbundant with tales of quiet heroism, life-changing decisions, and determined searches for deep answers, this extraordinary collection of contemporary fantasy explores the realms between this world and the next. From the top of the Berlin Wall to the depths of the darkest seas, gods and monsters battle their enemies and innermost fears, yet mere mortals make the truly difficult choices... -
![Little Kingdoms by Steven Millhauser]()
Little Kingdoms by Steven Millhauser
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCartoons that draw their creator into another world; demonic paintings that exert a sinister influence on our own. Fairy tales that express the secret losses and anxieties of their tellers... -
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Birthright by Ryan Attard
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFollowing the events of his last adventure, Erik Ashendale is having some serious doubts about . . . well, just about everything. He is doubting his power, his apprentice's progress reached an impassive point and his sister's information is yielding nothing. The Sins can attack at any time, and our hero has no idea what to do... -
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Safe as Houses by Marie-Helene Bertino
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSafe as Houses, the debut story collection of Marie-Helene Bertino, proves that not all homes are shelters. The titular story revolves around an aging English professor who, mourning the loss of his wife, robs other people's homes of their sentimental knick-knacks. In "Free Ham," a young dropout wins a ham after her house burns down and refuses to accept it...Categorized as:
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Burned by J.F. Lewis
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIMMORTAL. INGENIOUS. AND DOWNRIGHT INFURIATING.Void City's resident badass vampire has a secret to keep, everything to lose, and a plan to win it all. Eric has taken control of the city's supernatural hierarchy, putting all the deals and contracts that allow Void City to function up for renegotiation... -
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The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsInspired by C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale for grown-ups who still knock on the back of wardrobes—just in case—from the author of The Wishing Game...Categorized as:
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Drink Down the Moon by Charles de Lint
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn Jack the Giant-Killer, where magical creatures carry on a secret existence in the streets and parks of modern Ottawa, Jacky Rowan once slew giants. In this thrilling sequel, she’s tricked then enslaved by a master of vicious, Unseelie creatures. This cruel thief is bent on to stealing his very sustenance—not only from Jackie—but from all of the Seelie faerie court... -
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Black Jade by Kylie Chan
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the international bestselling author of The Dark Heavens and Journey to Wudang series, Kylie Chan, comes the final installment of her Celestial Battles trilogy.The Heavenly defenses struggle to hold against the combined might of the Eastern and Western demon hordes... -
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Dark Warrior Untamed by Alexis Morgan
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn Alexis Morgan’s electrifying new Talion adventure, a sexy warrior fights to save his headstrong lover from the crossfire of an evil plot to overthrow the Kyth’s leader. He questions everything. No one thought Chief Talion Greyhill Danby would report to work so soon after wrapping up his affairs in London... -
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Cent millions d'années et un jour by Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings‘On the mountain, the only monsters are the ones you take with you.’Summer 1954. Stan has been hunting for fossils since the age of six. Now, having made a career out of studying the remains of tiny lifeforms, he hears a story he cannot forget: the skeleton of a huge creature, a veritable dragon, lies deep in an Alpine glacier. And he is determined to find it...Categorized as:
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![A Lifetime of Impossible Days by Tabitha Bird]()
A Lifetime of Impossible Days by Tabitha Bird
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA thoughtful, uplifting and magical story of childhood, family and finding ways to change the inevitable . . .Meet Willa Waters, aged 8 . . . 33 . . . and 93.On one impossible day in.1965, eight-year-old Willa Waters receives a mysterious box containing a jar of water and the instruction: 'One ocean: plant in the backyard... -
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L'Apprenti by Audrey Alwett
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOn peut avoir un chat doué de capacités hors du commun et tout ignorer de l'existence des magiciers. C'est le cas de Charly Vernier, jusqu'à ce qu'il découvre que sa grand-mère pourrait être un membre éminent de cette société. Mais elle court un grave danger. S'il veut la sauver -et se sauver lui-même- Charly n'a pas le choix, il lui faut devenir apprenti magicier... -
![Kokoschka's Doll by Afonso Cruz]()
Kokoschka's Doll by Afonso Cruz
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAt the age of forty-two, Bonifaz Vogel begins to hear a voice.But it doesn't belong to the mice or the woodworm, as he first imagines. Nor is it the voice of God, as he comes to believe. It belongs to young Isaac Dresner, who takes refuge in the cellar of Vogel's bird shop on the run from the soldier who shot his best friend... -
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The Warbler by Sarah Beth Durst
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the author of The Lies Among Us comes a magical tale about mothers and daughters, choices and consequences, and the real meaning of home when every place feels like a cage.Ten months. That’s the longest Elisa has stayed anyplace, constantly propelled by her fear that if she puts down roots, a family curse will turn her into a tree... -
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Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt is a literary event when a genuinely new fictional voice comes along. When that voice achieves its newness not through a certain formal facility but through the freshness of its vision, there is truly something to celebrate. Matt Ruff was only twenty-two when Fool on the Hill was first published, but with his novel he gave us a story that won over readers of every persuasion... -
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The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman by Louis de Bernières
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe epic finale of the Latin American trilogy following The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts and Senor Vivo and the Coca LordWhile the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerrillas, unfrocked priests and reformed - though by no means inactive - whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfilment... -
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Off the Wall by Julie Christianson
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe’s in search of her soulmate. He avoids love at all costs. These neighbors are a total mismatch … until serendipity steps in.Nori Sinclair has two goals in find the husband of her dreams, and purchase the beloved tea shop in her hometown, Serendipity Springs...Categorized as:
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Stone Junction by Jim Dodge
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsCharging like a runaway semitrailer on a downhill grade and spanning the era from Haight-Ashbury's Summer of Love into the darkness of 1980s Manhattan, Stone Junction is a wise and wildly imaginative novel about Daniel Pearse, an orphaned child who is taken under the wings of the AMO -- the Alliance of Magicians and Outlaws... -
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Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Contemporary fairy tales, cushioned by goofy humor and a deep tenderness for her characters, that aren't always as dark or as sinister as they initially appear." --The New York Times Book Review Aimee Bender s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love blooms... -
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The Deal of a Lifetime and Other Stories by Fredrik Backman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Beartown comes a collection of three deeply moving stories about facing life’s greatest struggles.Beloved author Fredrik Backman is back with a mesmerizing array of stories about discovering and treasuring what is truly important in life. The Deal of a Lifetime is a profound and moving novella set on Christmas Eve...Categorized as:
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![The View from the Seventh Layer by Kevin Brockmeier]()
The View from the Seventh Layer by Kevin Brockmeier
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsKevin Brockmeier--award -winning author of The Brief History of the Dead--has been widely praised for the richness of his imagination, the lyrical grace and playfulness of his language, and the empathic emotional complexity of his storytelling. And this dazzling collection once again affirms his place as one of the most creative and compassionate writers of his generation...Categorized as:
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![The Knife Thrower and Other Stories by Steven Millhauser]()
The Knife Thrower and Other Stories by Steven Millhauser
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Knife Thrower introduces a series of distinctively Millhauserian worlds: tiny, fabulous, self-enclosed, like Fabergé eggs or like the short-story genre itself... -
![The Fire King by Marjorie M. Liu]()
The Fire King by Marjorie M. Liu
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLong ago, shape-shifters were plentiful, soaring through the sky as crows, racing across African veldts as cheetahs, raging furious as dragons atop the Himalayas. Like gods, they reigned supreme. But even gods have laws, and those laws, when broken, destroy.Zoufalství. Epätoivo. Asa. Three words in three very different languages, and yet Soria understands... -
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Truth by Kiki Burrelli
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne touch is all it takes ... Riley is in hiding. He always knew his curse would get him in trouble, and now it has driven him to a gloomy island, hours away from Seattle. At least he gets to keep his job in social work and sure, Walker County is a little isolated, and the wealthy recluses who live on the other side of the bay are odd, but he’s lucky just to still be alive. ...to know the truth... -
![Moon Cursed by Lori Handeland]()
Moon Cursed by Lori Handeland
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKristin Daniels is passionate in her pursuit of the truth. As the host of the television show Hoax Hunters, she's traveled to the ends of the earth to explore—and expose—life's most enduring myths. Her latest undertaking is no exception: Kris is bound for Scotland, where she intends to get to the bottom of the Loch Ness Monster legend once and for all... -
![Shapers of Darkness by David B. Coe]()
Shapers of Darkness by David B. Coe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Forelands are at war. The magic-wielding Qirsi and their Eandi masters have mobilized their forces. The Eandi have had to look beyond past differences to make alliances for the sake of the future, praying it isn't too late for them to change the outcome of the war...
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