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The Reindeer Hunters by Lars Mytting
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Reindeer Hunters is the second in a thrilling historical trilogy that began with The Bell in the Lake.The year is 1903, and twenty-two years have passed since Astrid Hekne died in childbirth. Her son Jehans lives on a modest smallholding up in the hills near Butangen, having withdrawn from his community...Categorized as:
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![The Hermit of Lammas Wood by Nathan Lowell]()
The Hermit of Lammas Wood by Nathan Lowell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSome journeys take you where you need to be. Tanyth Fairport makes her way through the Lammas Wood to discover the last of the Old Witch Women isn't exactly what she expected. When greedy businessmen from the mainland threaten those she loves, Tanyth must put aside her fear and give herself over to her gifts... -
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The Confusion, Part I by Neal Stephenson
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this compelling adventure, Stephenson brings to life a cast of unforgettable characters in the late 1600s on the high seas. It is a time of breathtaking genius and discovery for men and women whose exploits define an age known as Baroque...Categorized as:
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![The Rebel Beneath the Stairs by E.E. Holmes]()
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... -
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The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges, George Guidall
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"The Garden of Forking Paths" (original Spanish title: "El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan") is the title story in the collection El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (1941), which was republished in its entirety in Ficciones (Fictions) in 1944...Categorized as:
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![Gullah Secrets by Susan Gabriel]()
Gullah Secrets by Susan Gabriel
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA family legacy in danger. A stranger in their midst. Do they have the strength to survive the gathering storm of secrets? For the Temple women, the winds of change are blowing. And if they’re not careful, it could sweep them all away…After rising from Temple servant to tea shop owner, Violet finally feels in charge of her destiny...Categorized as:
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![Beginnings: five heroic fantasy adventure novels by Lindsay Buroker]()
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... -
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Magic Elizabeth by Norma Kassirer
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEight-year-old Sally faces an entire summer trapped in a creepy old house with no one for company but her spooky Aunt Sarah and a black cat named Shadow. But soon Sally uncovers a mystery about a beautiful old doll in a portrait -- and a little girl who looks just like Sally herself! In search of clues, Sally is drawn toward the attic and the old mirror that sits there...Categorized as:
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Three Times Removed by M.K. Jones
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMaggie Gilbert and her children, Jack and Alice, live a pretty normal life. That is, until Maggie starts looking into her family tree. In doing so, she uncovers a dark mystery that endangers her children. She has to solve a mystery in the past, if she is to save her family in the present...Categorized as:
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As Brumas de Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsColeção Completa: As Brumas de Avalon [4 volumes]A Senhora da Magia, A Grande Rainha, O Gamo-Rei e O Prisioneiro da Árvore são os quatro volumes que compõem As Brumas de Avalon - a grande obra de Marion Zimmer Bradley -, que reconta a lenda do rei Artur através da perspectiva de suas heroínas.Guinevere se casou com Artur por determinação do pai, mas era apaixonada por Lancelote... -
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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... -
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Zypheria's call by Nathan Lowell
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSometimes the longest journeys are within.Tanyth must make her way across the ocean to continue her voyage to find the hermit of Lammas Wood. Storms and ice block her path, but her most serious enemy may be people she has never met.As her power grows, she must come to grips with the changes within her even as she must answer the Zypheria's Call... -
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The Puppets of Spelhorst by Kate DiCamillo, Julie Morstad
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA New York Times bestseller!“Kate DiCamillo's dazzling first title in the Norendy Tales trilogy is brimming with wit, whimsy, and heart as it follows five puppets fulfilling their thrilling shared destiny.” – Shelf AwarenessShut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret, five friends—a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an owl—bicker, boast, and comfort one another in the dark...Categorized as:
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![The Truth About Awiti by C.P. Patrick]()
The Truth About Awiti by C.P. Patrick
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere is a commonly held belief the tropical storms and hurricanes that form off the coast of West Africa are not natural disasters, but rather they are retaliation by restless spirits impacted by one of the darkest chapters of world history—the trans–Atlantic slave trade. Awiti’s destiny was forever changed the day the slave raiders arrived at her village...Categorized as:
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![Cave of the Wind by Avery Kloss]()
Cave of the Wind by Avery Kloss
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTorn between two men, Peta fears Greggor’s wrath, begging Ronan to flee to a safe place. With Peta pregnant again, they seek shelter with a clan over the mountain, until tragedy strikes. Alone and terrified, Peta encounters a group of people who claim to know her, the women there similar in appearance...Categorized as:
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![Tomorrow's Sphinx by Clare Bell]()
Tomorrow's Sphinx by Clare Bell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo unusual black cheetahs share a mental link, one cat coming from the past to reveal scenes from his life with the young pharaoh Tutankhamen, and one struggling to survive in a future world ravaged by ecological disaster...Categorized as:
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![Chamber of Bears by Avery Kloss]()
Chamber of Bears by Avery Kloss
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUnited with Ronan and Enwan, Peta is surrounded by the beauty that is the green valley, the trio happily preparing for the arrival of a baby. While she forages, three hunters kidnap Peta, intending on handing her over to their leader, a man by the name of Greggor. Upset by this prospect—Greggor being responsible for so much heartache—Peta secures her freedom, intending on returning to Ronan...Categorized as:
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The Healer Series: The Complete Set, Books 1-4, A Fated Mates Fantasy Romance by C.J. Anaya
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne god's love will heal my heart. Another god's love will heal humanity. From USA Today bestselling author, C.J. Anaya, comes an epic saga of love, betrayal, and the ultimate battle between good and evil. So I can heal people. Sounds cool in theory. Feels great when I can actually swing it... -
![The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington by P. Djèlí Clark]()
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... -
![The Sand Sea by Michael McClellan]()
The Sand Sea by Michael McClellan
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"An astounding epic novel of J.R.R. Tolkien proportions!"— Steven Pressfield, Bestselling author of Gates of Fire and The War of ArtRaiders of the Lost Ark playing A Game of ThronesThe Sand Sea takes place on an alternative Earth roiled by war and conquest that mirrors our own Gilded Age... -
![Morgan is my Name by Sophie Keetch]()
Morgan is my Name by Sophie Keetch
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn atmospheric, feminist retelling of the early life of famed villainess Morgan le Fay, set against the colourful chivalric backdrop of Arthurian legend.When King Uther Pendragon murders her father and tricks her mother into marriage, Morgan refuses to be crushed. Trapped amid the machinations of men in a world of isolated castles and gossiping courts, she discovers secret powers...Categorized as:
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![Moonlight on the Magic Flute by Mary Pope Osborne]()
Moonlight on the Magic Flute by Mary Pope Osborne
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJack and Annie head to 18th-century Austria, where they must find and help a musician by the name of Mozart. Decked out in the craziest outfits they've ever worn--including a wig for Jack and a giant hoopskirt for Annie!--the two siblings search an entire palace to no avail. Their hunt is further hampered by the appearance of a mischievous little boy who is determined to follow them everywhere...Categorized as:
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![Eve of the Emperor Penguin by Mary Pope Osborne]()
Eve of the Emperor Penguin by Mary Pope Osborne
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJACK AND ANNIE continue their quest for the secrets of happiness--secrets they need to save Merlin. This time, the Magic Tree House takes them to the one continent they haven't visited before: Antarctica! What can they hope to learn about happiness in such a barren place? Only the penguins know for sure . .Categorized as:
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![Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang]()
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA dazzling debut novel set against the backdrop of the Chinese Exclusion Act, about a Chinese girl fighting to claim her place in the 1880s American WestDaiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak... -
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![Sword of the Ronin by Travis Heermann]()
Sword of the Ronin by Travis Heermann
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 13th-Century Japan, a land of ancient spirits, shapeshifting animals, and demons, Ken'ishi is a warrior without a master. Orphaned in infancy, he has only one link to his past - Silver Crane, his father's sword. When Silver Crane is stolen, Ken'ishi must go on a quest to recover his very identity. The crime lord known as Green Tiger holds the key to Ken'ishi's past... -
![La Maravilla by Alfredo Véa]()
La Maravilla by Alfredo Véa
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Buckeye Road wasn't much of a town, just a place where a pocked and pitted road met an invisible street....It was less that unincorporated, it was unknown..."Yet it is here in the desert outside the Phoenix city limits that Alfredo Vea, Jr., finds a world of marvels spilling out of the adobe homes, tar-paper shacks, rusted Cadillacs, and battered trailers that are otherwise known as "Buckeye...Categorized as:
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![Smoke City by Keith Rosson]()
Smoke City by Keith Rosson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMarvin Deitz has some serious problems. His mob-connected landlord is strong-arming him out of his storefront. His therapist has concerns about his stability. He’s compelled to volunteer at the local Children’s Hospital even though it breaks his heart every week.Oh, and he’s also the guilt-ridden reincarnation of Geoffroy Thérage, the French executioner who lit Joan of Arc’s pyre in 1431... -
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Fireflies by P.S. Bartlett
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDr. Owen Whelan and his wife Sarah have seven bright and expressive children. However, one of them is very unique; he’s been followed since birth by lost souls. However peculiar Ennis Whelan has been for the first six years of his life, not until the day he found the bird did the degree of his strangeness become so tangible. Ennis claimed it flew away. His sister Teagan was about to bury it... -
![The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles by Kij Johnson]()
The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles by Kij Johnson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe heroic quest of a single cat. When a fire destroys her home and scatters her colony, Small Cat sets out to find the home of her ancestor, the Cat From the North, and to make her own name along the way... -
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Love & Sleep by John Crowley
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe long-awaited new novel by one of the most important American authors of magical realism. In Aegypt Crowley opened the gates on a world of magic and mystery lying just beyond our own. In Love & Sleep, the second novel in a projected tetralogy, he renews his claim on the exalted territory of the imagination...Categorized as:
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![The Garden of Time by J.G. Ballard]()
The Garden of Time by J.G. Ballard
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratings...Categorized as:
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![The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz, Mikolaj Dutsch]()
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz, Mikolaj Dutsch
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsThe Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where recollections of Bruno Schulz's uncommon boyhood and of the eerie side of his merchant family's life are evoked in a startling blend of the real and the fantastic... -
![La península de las casas vacías by David Uclés]()
La península de las casas vacías by David Uclés
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsToda la Guerra Civil Española en clave de realismo mágico.He aquí la historia de la descomposición total de una familia, de la deshumanización de un pueblo, de la desintegración de un territorio y de una península de casas vacías... -
![Mirror in the Mirror by Michael Ende]()
Mirror in the Mirror by Michael Ende
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsMirror in the Mirror: A Labyrinth is a collection of surreal short stories by Michael Ende originally published in 1984. All stories in the book have their own protagonists, but are related to each other by the use of literary leitmotivs. None of the stories has its own title... -
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![The Legend of the Wandering King by Laura Gallego García]()
The Legend of the Wandering King by Laura Gallego García
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA prince with more power than heart ... a poet who may be mad ... and a carpet containing all of human history combine in this brilliant new fantasy by one of Spain's brightest young writers.Walid was a model prince: handsome, intelligent, skilled in the arts of warfare and poetry... -
![I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade by Diane Lee Wilson]()
I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade by Diane Lee Wilson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBorn on the Mongolian steppes during the reign of Kublai Khan, Oyuna's future seems decided when, as an infant, her foot is crushed by a horse. Her clan believes she has been cursed by bad luck, and she is confined to her family's tent to cook and sew. But Oyuna dreams of bringing honor and good luck to her family...Categorized as:
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![The Tale of Hawthorn House by Susan Wittig Albert]()
The Tale of Hawthorn House by Susan Wittig Albert
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA brand-new mystery in the endearing Beatrix Potter series from a national bestselling author. During Sawrey's annual summer fête, Miss Beatrix Potter receives an unexpected visitor in the form of Baby Flora, left in a basket on her doorstep with a note, a sprig of hawthorn, and a scarab ring...Categorized as:
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![I Am One of You Forever by Fred Chappell]()
I Am One of You Forever by Fred Chappell
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWonderfully funny and also deeply touching, I Am One of You Forever is the story of a young boy's coming of age...Categorized as:
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![The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings]()
The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThere’s just not enough…not enough money, not enough food, not enough fish for her daddy to sell at the market. Hard times have come to the forest, but Calpurnia wants to turn them back into soft times...Categorized as:
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![Fudoki by Kij Johnson]()
Fudoki by Kij Johnson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEnter the world of Kagaya-hime, a sometime woman warrior, occasional philosopher, and reluctant confidante to noblemen--who may or may not be a figment of the imagination of an aging empress who is embarking on the last journey of her life, setting aside the trappings of court life and reminiscing on the paths that lead her to death...Categorized as:
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![On the Fox Roads by Nghi Vo]()
On the Fox Roads by Nghi Vo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA new novelette from Hugo Award-winning author, Nghi Vo!While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway discovers their authentic self, a hidden gift, and that there are no straight lines when you run the fox roads. .Categorized as:
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![On Fragile Waves by E. Lily Yu]()
On Fragile Waves by E. Lily Yu
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNPR Books We Love 2021, Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2021, Booklist Best of 2021 Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Titles, NYT Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2021, Washington Independent Review of Books 51 Favorite Books of 2021.The haunting story of a family of dreamers and tale-tellers looking for home in an unwelcoming world...Categorized as:
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![The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree by India Hayford]()
The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree by India Hayford
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDisguised by years in exile and a name she found on a gravestone, an unconventional young woman returns to her childhood home in rural 1967 Arkansas in this hauntingly visceral Southern tale of desperate choices, found family, folk magic and noisy ghosts. Genevieve Charbonneau talks to ghosts and has a special relationship with rattlesnakes...Categorized as:
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![Lungdon: Book Three by Edward Carey]()
Lungdon: Book Three by Edward Carey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe delightfully macabre, astonishingly original trilogy reaches its thrilling conclusionThe dirt town of Foulsham has been destroyed, its ashes still smoldering. Darkness lies heavily over the city, the sun has not come up for days, and inside the houses of people throughout the capital, ordinary objects have begun to move. Strange new people run through the darkened streets... -
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![The Chess Garden by Brooks Hansen]()
The Chess Garden by Brooks Hansen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the fall of 1900, Dr. Gustav Uyterhoeven left the chess garden that he and his wife, Sonja, had created together in Dayton, Ohio, and journeyed to South Africa to serve as a doctor in the British concentration camps of the Boer War. Over the next ten months he sent twelve chess pieces and twelve letters back to Sonja...Categorized as:
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![Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa by Kenji Miyazawa]()
Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa by Kenji Miyazawa
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe magic of Miyazawa's tales reaches out to people of all ages and lands. The sophisticated reader can savor them consciously as literature, while the younger reader can delight in them as imaginative stories that comment on and deepen his own experience. The underlying themes are universal, but the forms and treatment can be appreciated at many levels and vary subtly from piece to piece...Categorized as:
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![Heart of the Huntress by Tess Oliver]()
Heart of the Huntress by Tess Oliver
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSeventeen-year-old Camille Kennecott has finally found true happiness. Her twin sister, Emily, has returned home after years of self-inflicted seclusion within the austere confines of Bethlem Hospital. Nathaniel Strider, the boy who has captured Camille’s heart, is with Camille whenever he is not living his dream as a sailor on the open sea. And her guardian, Dr...Categorized as:
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![The Arrival of Missives by Aliya Whiteley]()
The Arrival of Missives by Aliya Whiteley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe Arrival of Missives is a genre-defying story of fate, free-will and the choices we make in life. In the aftermath of the Great War, Shirley Fearn dreams of challenging the conventions of rural England, where life is as predictable as the changing of the seasons. The scarred veteran Mr...Categorized as:
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![Jasmine Nights by S.P. Somtow]()
Jasmine Nights by S.P. Somtow
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in 1963, this kaleidoscopic boy's-eye-view of a turbulent time in history is a story about the American civil rights movement, the Kennedy assassination, growing up in the '60s, the Thai aristocracy--and a 12-year-old boy's search for his place in a modern world. His adventure is a joyous testament to the resiliency and implicit goodness of the human spirit...Categorized as:
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![Mandelbrot the Magnificent by Liz Ziemska]()
Mandelbrot the Magnificent by Liz Ziemska
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLiz Ziemska has fashioned a beautiful story about one famous survivor and the magic and mathematics he's brought to the world...
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