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Dark Mother Earth by Kristian Novak
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn amnesiac writer’s life of lies and false memories reaches a breaking point in this stunning English-language debut from an award-winning Croatian author.As a novelist, Matija makes things up for a living. Not yet thirty, he’s written two well-received books. It’s his third that is as big a failure as his private life...Categorized as:
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![Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire]()
Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWelcome to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go.If you ever lost a sock, you’ll find it here.If you ever wondered about favorite toy from childhood... it’s probably sitting on a shelf in the back.And the headphones that you swore that this time you’d keep safe? You guessed it….Antoinette has lost her father. Metaphorically. He’s not in the shop, and she’ll never see him again... -
![A Case of Madness [or The Curious Appearance of Holmes in the Nighttime] by Yvonne Knop]()
A Case of Madness [or The Curious Appearance of Holmes in the Nighttime] by Yvonne Knop
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAndrew Thomas just got sacked. He's permanently drunk. He's got cancer. Is inescapably gay. Was hit by a bus. And he's fallen in love with a stranger whose life he saved. As a newly-unemployed Sherlock Holmes scholar, Andrew knows only Holmes can help him untangle the madness his life has become, but Holmes isn't real... -
![Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges]()
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsHere is a handsome edition of one of Borges' "ficciones," in a translation first published in "Labyrinths" in 1962. It's an important story in the Borges' canon, incorporating most of the author's philosophical and esthetic preoccupations in a typically brief compass...Categorized as:
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![The Courtneys: When the Lion Feeds, The Sound of Thunder & A Sparrow Falls by Wilbur Smith]()
The Courtneys: When the Lion Feeds, The Sound of Thunder & A Sparrow Falls by Wilbur Smith
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis trilogy of novels traces the fortunes of twin brothers Sean and Garrick Courtney from the end of the 19th century to the early decades of the 20th and their different struggles to find their place in the land of South Africa at a time of war and of violent struggles within their own family...Categorized as:
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Resistance by Jena Leigh
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAlexandra Parker might be the most powerful Variant the world has ever seen—but even that won’t get her out of finishing her junior year of high school. The challenge of keeping her abilities under wraps during class is daunting enough, but throw one surly, sandy-haired Jumper into the mix, and things can get downright complicated... -
![A Very Declan Christmas by Maggie Stiefvater]()
A Very Declan Christmas by Maggie Stiefvater
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"I’ve done a holiday short for the last few years. Here’s another one from the Raven Cycle universe...Categorized as:
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![No More by P.S. Power]()
No More by P.S. Power
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf you like new things, different things, good things... You'll love this book and it's main character! Hannah de Peyser has it all.At least on paper.She's rich. Good looking. Fun. Even a minor celebrity.Also a victim of crime. After being kidnapped for ransom four times in ten years, she decides she's simply had enough... -
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Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting to reshape the narrative of her life—from PEN/Faulkner Award nominee Claire OshetskyMargaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Her first memory is of the day her friend Agnes died.No one blames Margaret...Categorized as:
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![Imagine a Place by Sarah L. Thomson]()
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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![Has Anyone Seen Jessica Jenkins? by Liz Kessler]()
Has Anyone Seen Jessica Jenkins? by Liz Kessler
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJessica Jenkins has always been a perfectly ordinary girl—until one day part of her arm vanishes in the middle of geography class! Jessica’s friends Izzy and Tom are determined to help her develop her newfound invisibility, though Jessica is more concerned with discovering where the ability came from...Categorized as:
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![Summer Morning, Summer Night by Ray Bradbury]()
Summer Morning, Summer Night by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGreen Town, Illinois stands at the very heart of Ray Bradbury Country. A lovingly re-imagined version of the author's native Waukegan, it has served as the setting for such modern classics as Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Farewell Summer...Categorized as:
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![The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey]()
The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEverywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pipits – but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree and we’re staying and it is ours and you need to leave and now.Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Marnie, and this is where his story might have ended... -
![Camp Half-Blood Confidential by Rick Riordan, Jesse Bernstein]()
Camp Half-Blood Confidential by Rick Riordan, Jesse Bernstein
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsIn response to an awful camp orientation video created by the god Apollo, Percy Jackson and other residents of Camp Half-Blood answer such questions as “What is this place?” and “Do I get to keep the T-shirt?” Newbies can check out the section on the Divine Cabins, read up on Magical Landmarks, and consult the chapter of Training Arenas...Categorized as:
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![Portable Childhoods by Ellen Klages, Neil Gaiman]()
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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![Dawn Of The Morningstar by Penelope King]()
Dawn Of The Morningstar by Penelope King
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe thrilling conclusion of the Spellbound Trilogy.Calista McCoy’s idyllic existence has been shattered and her life is in shambles. Her once happy home is gone, her family and friends lost. Now she must pick up the pieces and rebuild her world, and discover the truth about what really happened all those years ago…with shocking new developments that no one saw coming... -
![Kiss the Crystal Sun by Penelope King]()
Kiss the Crystal Sun by Penelope King
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook #2 in the magical Spellbound trilogy.With Nicholas gone and Justin fighting for his soul, Calista attempts to get back to a normal life. But when Ana reveals a shocking secret about the family's past, and Callie discovers the most important truths in her life are lies, she is faced with a devastating choice...One that will change everything...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![O by Eka Kurniawan]()
O by Eka Kurniawan
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTentang seekor monyet yang ingin menikah dengan Kaisar Dangdut... -
![Курильщик by Mariam Petrosyan, Мариам Петросян]()
Курильщик by Mariam Petrosyan, Мариам Петросян
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsНа окраине города, среди стандартных новостроек, стоит Серый Дом, в котором живут Сфинкс, Слепой, Лорд, Табаки, Македонский, Черный и многие другие. Неизвестно, действительно ли Лорд происходит из благородного рода драконов, но вот Слепой действительно слеп, а Сфинкс - мудр. Табаки, конечно, не шакал, хотя и любит поживиться чужим добром... -
![Baby Be-Bop by Francesca Lia Block]()
Baby Be-Bop by Francesca Lia Block
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEveryone has a story to tell ... Dirk McDonald's life was almost perfect. He lived with this grandmother, Fifi, in a beautiful gingerbread cottage in Hollywood. He had the beach, and his surfboard, and Fifi's red-and-white 1955 Pontiac convertible. But Dirk wasn't happy. Inside, he was harboring a deep, dark secret... -
![Green Frog: Stories by Gina Chung]()
Green Frog: Stories by Gina Chung
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformation as a means of survival...Categorized as:
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![The Threads of the Heart by Carole Martinez]()
The Threads of the Heart by Carole Martinez
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThey say Frasquita knows magic, that she is a healer with occult powers, that perhaps she is a sorcerer. She does indeed possess a remarkable gift, one that has been passed down to the women in her family for generations... -
![Daydreams of Angels by Heather O'Neill]()
Daydreams of Angels by Heather O'Neill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsInventive, outlandish, and tender fairy tales from a bestselling authorThe fantastic has always been at the edges of Heather O'Neill's work. In her bestselling novels Lullabies for Little Criminals and The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, she transformed the shabbiest streets of Montreal with her beautiful, freewheeling metaphors...Categorized as:
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![Jinian Star-Eye by Sheri S. Tepper]()
Jinian Star-Eye by Sheri S. Tepper
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"I'll need your help. Come night and the Oracle again, I'm going to try the final couplet." "Jinian," Murzy breathed while Dodie looked white-eyed at me. "Dangerous." "And fatal not to," I said, still smiling at them all... I wove by forest and meadow, branch and leaf. I wove by stream and pool, by river and fall. I wove by cloud and air, by thunder and sunset glow... -
![The Wrong Heaven by Amy Bonnaffons]()
The Wrong Heaven by Amy Bonnaffons
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"In her amazing, wildly inventive collection, Amy Bonnaffons writes about transformation, each story further complicating the world as we know it. With a style that blends humor and sincerity in such strange, perfect ratios, Bonnaffons reveals the mysteries inside of us, just waiting to make themselves known. The Wrong Heaven, so wondrous, will alter you in all the necessary ways... -
![A Tiny Upward Shove by Melissa Chadburn]()
A Tiny Upward Shove by Melissa Chadburn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“Wild and ambitious . . . [with] something ablaze at its core. It burns.” ― The New York Times Book ReviewA Tiny Upward Shove is inspired by Melissa Chadburn's Filipino heritage and its folklore, as it traces the too-short life of a young, cast-off woman transformed by death into an agent of justice―or mercy.Marina Salles’s life does not end the day she wakes up dead...Categorized as:
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![Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories by Alisa Krasnostein, Julia Rios]()
Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories by Alisa Krasnostein, Julia Rios
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWhat do a disabled superhero, a time-traveling Chinese-American figure skater, and a transgendered animal shifter have in common? They're all stars of Kaleidoscope stories! Kaleidoscope collects fun, edgy, meditative, and hopeful YA science fiction and fantasy with diverse leads. These twenty original stories tell of scary futures, magical adventures, and the joys and heartbreaks of teenage life...Categorized as:
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![Nobody's Hero by Katey Hawthorne]()
Nobody's Hero by Katey Hawthorne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJamie Monday lives in two different worlds. With his family, he's the golden child of awakened superpowered society. He's meant to do Great Things and pass on his powers--with the appropriate girl, hand-picked by his mother. He's already failed at the former, so he can't bring himself to tell her that the latter isn't happening, either... -
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Petty by S.A. Sommers
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA knock on the door in the middle of the night means nothing but trouble. Especially when the door belongs to Registered Villain (tm) Rook. But when Rook—alias Oliver Coburn—opens the door, it's so much worse than he thought. Gladiator, Far Moor City's main Registered Heroes (tm) is standing there, bleeding to death. Villains aren't supposed to help Heroes. Oliver isn't a Big Bad, though... -
![Now Is the Hour by Tom Spanbauer]()
Now Is the Hour by Tom Spanbauer
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe year is 1967, and Rigby John Klusener, seventeen years old and finally leaving his home and family in Pocatello, Idaho, is on the highway with his thumb out and a flower behind his ear, headed for San Francisco. Now Is the Hour is the wondrous story of how Rigby John got to this point...Categorized as:
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![The Hand That Bears the Sword by George Bryan Polivka]()
The Hand That Bears the Sword by George Bryan Polivka
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChristian fantasy at its best has finally arrived in The Hand that Bears the Sword, book two in Emmy award-winning author George Bryan Polivka's The Trophy Chase Trilogy.Readers will thrill as newlyweds Packer and Panna Throme are once again thrust into high adventure. Pirate Scat Wilkins returns with evil intentions for Packer as the Trophy Chase sets sail for the deep waters once again...Categorized as:
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![A Minor Raven Boys Holiday Drabble by Maggie Stiefvater]()
A Minor Raven Boys Holiday Drabble by Maggie Stiefvater
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"In previous years, Scholastic asked me to do a short 300 Fox Way holiday piece. This year, I decided I’d do one for Gansey. Like the 300 Fox Way piece, it takes place the December before The Raven Boys begins... -
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Predestined by Rachel Byrne
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIN A PLACE WHERE NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS, WHO CAN BE TRUSTED?Mysteriously invited to attend the elite Haverford Pines Academy, sixteen-year-old Lina Jamison feels out of place. With mediocre grades and no special talents, she questions why she was chosen to be among her generation’s brightest and most promising teens...Categorized as:
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Eleazar by Lynn Hagen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings[Siren The Lynn Hagen ManLove Erotic Romance, Contemporary, Alternative, Paranormal, Werewolves, Vampires, Suspense, MM, HEA] When Andrew is offered an interview with the mysterious Eleazar Bancroft for a job as his personal assistant, he’s overjoyed. But when he gets the position, he soon realizes that there is more going on than meets the eye... -
![How to Flaunt Your Chains and Surrender a Vein by D.N. Bryn]()
How to Flaunt Your Chains and Surrender a Vein by D.N. Bryn
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“What else is this shed for, if not torturing unsuspecting vampires?”Rahil Zaman has good reason to keep his distance from the world—and his fangs are only part of that. He hides in his crumbling home, acquiring blood through the risky one-night stands he finds on hunter-infested hookup apps... -
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The Van Gogh Cafe by Cynthia Rylant
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAt the Van Gogh Cafe, anything can happen. Clara's dad owns the cafe, and she's seen it all--from food that cooks by itself to poems that foretell the future. This award-winning collection of vignettes by Newbery medalist Cynthia Rylant is a treat to be relished... -
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Smoking Poppy by Graham Joyce
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGraham Joyce travels to an enthralling, suspense-charged landscape in this hallucinatory novel of a father's quest to save his daughter -- without destroying himself. Dan Innes has received shattering news from the British Embassy in Bangkok: his daughter, Charlie, whom he hasn't seen or spoken to in two years, has been imprisoned in a Thai jail for drug smuggling...Categorized as:
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![Secrets of the Henna Girl by Sufiya Ahmed]()
Secrets of the Henna Girl by Sufiya Ahmed
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLife as Zeba knows it could be over for good . . .Zeba Khan is like any other sixteen-year-old girl: enjoying herself, waiting for exam results . . . and dreaming of the day she'll meet her one true love.Except her parents have other plans.In Pakistan for the summer, Zeba's world is shattered. Her future is threatened by an unthinkable - and forced - duty to protect her father's honour...Categorized as:
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![The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern by Rita Zoey Chin]()
The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern by Rita Zoey Chin
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA luminous coming of age story about a fiercely lonely young woman's quest to uncover the truth behind her mother's disappearance.Born in a carnival trailer, Leah Fern begins her life as the "The Youngest and Very Best Fortuneteller in the World," taking strangers' hands and feeling the depths of their emotions... -
![The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach]()
The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated through secret prayers. Its sole purpose is to defend the Jewish people against the immediate threat of violence. It is always a rabbi who makes a golem, and always in a time of crisis... -
![Roses and Thorns: Beauty and the Beast Retold by Chris Anne Wolfe]()
Roses and Thorns: Beauty and the Beast Retold by Chris Anne Wolfe
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA greedy father. A beautiful daughter. A faceless noble. With a word, Aloysius bargains away Angelique's future for a hefty bride-price, and no one, not even Angelique's beloved mother can save her. Angelique is taken to a strange and marvelous estate where she is befriended by Culdun, her Liege's fey companion... -
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We Could Be Heroes by Philip Ellis
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNot all heroes wear capes. Some wear high heels and a wig.Patrick's acting career is on the rise, and the superhero movie he's currently filming is the key to putting him on the map… if the endless reshoots ever stop. Will is a secondhand bookseller and part-time drag queen extraordinaire who’s just trying to live his best life—and maybe find love along the way... -
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The Boy With a Bird in His Chest by Emme Lund, Nicky Endres
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThough Owen Tanner has never met anyone else who has a chatty bird in their chest, medical forums would call him a Terror. From the moment Gail emerged between Owen’s ribs, his mother knew that she had to hide him away from the world. After a decade spent in hiding, Owen takes a brazen trip outdoors in the middle of a forest fire, and his life is upended forever... -
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![The Kappa Child by Hiromi Goto]()
The Kappa Child by Hiromi Goto
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the award-winning author of Chorus of Mushrooms, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in the Caribbean and Canadian Region and was co-winner of the Canada Japan Book Award, The Kappa Child is the tale of four Japanese Canadian sisters struggling to escape the bonds of a family and landscape as inhospitable as the sweltering prairie heat... -
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Appassionato by Erin M. Leaf
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings[Menage Amour: Erotic Paranormal Menage a Trois Romance, M/M/F] When Emma dreams about super-famous rockstar Duncan and his friend Jake, it never occurs to her they might be dreaming, too. About her... -
![A Rebel Rises by R.J. Castiglione]()
A Rebel Rises by R.J. Castiglione
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMichael was proud of his life and his accomplishments. During the day he was Michael Semione. He worked, spent time with his family, and did everything young professionals were meant to do. At night, he became Creighton Dian-Cecht, a druid healer in Fjorgyn Online. He was head of a company of crafters and adventurers known throughout the game... -
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Riot Boy by Katey Hawthorne
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEtienne never thought getting his pocket picked could lead to a first date. He knows the second he catches punk boy Brady's eye that the guy is pure trouble, but Et can't resist his wicked sense of humor, pretty face, cold hands -- and the "piss off" swagger when Brady's on stage with his band doesn't hurt, either... -
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Amaretto Flame by Sammie Spencer
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Olivia Landry screams, people die. No wonder she's been shunned by humans her whole life. When Olivia makes a huge mistake, she's banished for a summer to a human town; forced to live as one of them. She's out for revenge when she discovers the humans are different than she imagined, especially the rugged, sexy guitarist, Jackson Vance... -
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Mr. Breakfast by Jonathan Carroll
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGraham Patterson is a middling comedian whose career (and love life) has gone up in smoke. After buying a new car, he embarks on a cross country road trip to see his brother Joel, to try and figure what he should do with himself and his career. Midway, after his car breaks down, he enters a tattoo parlor, mesmerized by the unique beauty of the tattoo work on display...
![A Case of Madness [or The Curious Appearance of Holmes in the Nighttime] by Yvonne Knop](https://48f-1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/books/small/652902feb3c20ee8102a827f.jpg)
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