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Three years ago, Lin Mo was the pride of his clan, a martial arts prodigy. However, overnight, he was framed and stripped of his cultivation, turning into a beggar. Yet, amidst adversity and despair, Lin Mo didn't lose everything. A mysteriously supportive girl and an apparently insane old beggar seemed to have an unusual connection with him.As the three-year penalty period was about to end, Lin Mo accidentally discovered an ancient heritage and a...
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In the depths of the vast mountains of Miaojiang, the Zhuge clan ruled with their unparalleled poisonous skills and martial prowess. After losing their parents, Zhuge and his sister established the Zhuge Gang using divine power and wisdom, becoming the sole ruler of Miaojiang. However, Zhuge Pang was reborn in a magical environment into another world.Upon arriving in this new world, Zhuge Pang immediately faced family turmoil, with his mother being...
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Lonely castle in the mirror volume 1
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A Studio Ghibli-esque work of Japanese translation "that lays bare the anxieties and desperation-and the small triumphs-of adolescence" (Locus), for fans of Mieko Kawakami's Heaven.
Seven students find unusual common ground in this warm, puzzle-like Japanese bestseller laced with gentle fantasy and compassionate insight.
Bullied to the point of dropping out of school, Kokoro's days blur together as she hides in her bedroom, unable to face her family...
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Destiny is a fabric woven from our choices. Choose wisely.
Book 2 of 6 in the bestselling Soulkeepers Series.
Malini Gupta thought Jacob Lau was her destiny. But after months of failing to decipher how she fits into the Soulkeepers, frustration threatens to tear their relationship apart. And it doesn't help that a new Soulkeeper named Mara is ready to stop time itself to earn Jacob's love. When Malini faces her worst fears, and even death, she learns...
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This poignant novel, beautifully translated by Simon Beattie, was, in Lampe's words, "born into a regime where it could not breathe;" he hoped that one day it might rise again. It has no one main character, but evokes the sensations and impressions of a sultry September evening on the waterfront of Bremen, with its charm and tenderness, squalor and lust. It contains a stream of images with many characters: children, old and young people, men and women,...
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En la década de 1950, las tensiones en la ciudad de La Frontera son palpables. Las camisas de boliche y las chaquetas de cuero compiten con las guayaberas y los huaraches. Los convertibles corren al lado de las motocicletas. Sin embargo, en medio de la discordia, el amor joven florece a primera vista entre Fulgencio Ramírez, hijo de inmigrantes empobrecidos, y Carolina Mendelssohn, la hija del farmacéutico local. Pero como pronto descubrirán,...
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This is Geraldine's last mission on Earth, and her most difficult one. Sister, Helena, is trying to organize her 50th celebrations but without success as she upset her family by stealing her daughter's boyfriend. Geraldine comes along and tells her not to give up and say to the family 'Birds of a feather flock together'. Curious, they visit Helena, and finding out that she has also been visited by Geraldine, they help her with the party and getting...
9) Godbond
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In the magnificent conclusion to Nancy Springer's Sea King Trilogy, a mad prince confronts peril and dark magic on a desperate quest to find a lost god in a dying world They were three, united to hold together a world that was coming apart: Rad Korridun, the sea king, who died three times but lived still; Dannoc, the mad prince of the Red Hart tribe, bonded mind and heart to Kor; and Tassida, the beautiful mystery, a rebellious daughter of the death...
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Zoo keeper Mr. Shirl, who looks like Little Dawnie's daddy, takes the friends on a tour of the Zoo, showing them how to play the games and the fun rides and introducing them to the Tigers, Lions, and Bears. Oh My! Dog explains to Ning and Boss that they are really at home, sound asleep! They are Sleep Walkers! They cannot be hurt on their adventures, and if they are afraid of anything or are in danger, they will wake up in their own beds! Because,...
11) The Cat's Job
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What is the Cat's Job?
Some say a cat's job is to be decorative. Some say it is to slay vermin. Some say a cat ought to earn his or her keep, and some think cats are mere pets. Some folks are dog people, but we don't need to talk too much about them here.
In this chapbook we look at a cat mayor at work, talk about cats as people, and share several fictional pieces dealing with the place of cats and their people in the universe at large.
The Cat's...
12) Fault Lines
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A boy who wants to die. A girl who would do anything to live. A stranger with their fate in her hands.Cathie Ayala has never been to Santa María, the country of her parents' birth. Now her beloved godmother has gone missing in that South American nation's political turmoil. Risking her safety and sense of self, Cathie sets out to find the woman who raised her.Instead she stumbles on two young people facing crises of their own. Injured in a terrible...
13) Demoniacs
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Evie Mickelson is anything but your average hostage negotiator with acute mind control powers- but she is about to discover she's the key to a battle with the demonic forces of evil.And Demoniacs (Book 1 of The Revelationary War) is anything but your average urban fantasy road trip novel with dark angels, ninja nuns and djinns. It is also a speculation on the nature of evil and terrorism. It is a commemoration of the superheroes of popular culture....
14) Huntress Moon
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Mia was bitten by a werewolf as a child and left for dead. But a magician called the Hunter saved her, using magic and healing arts. He smelled of smoke and cloves, and once she was healed, he left to continue hunting the werewolf who bit her. But he left some of his magic in her. Not only is Mia one of the rare female werewolves, but she grows to an enormous size and is able to wield magic. One day, she hears laughter and is drawn to a small group...
16) My Afterlife
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My Afterlife will appeal to mature readers fascinated in the beauty of subtle changes like dandelions appearing or the glee when drinking a milkshake while acutely aware of life's unpleasantries. Skeeter McGee shares this intrigue and trepidation with the reader as a small-town genius whose life is truncated minutes before he's to graduate as valedictorian.
During his brief life, curiosity leads Skeeter to identify events and decisions guiding...
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'…she cursed your farm and the church saying to all those who lived or went there they would suffer for ever more and be haunted by the devil.' Jeremiah's family farm has been cursed, and when his family members are struck one by one, he has no one to turn to but his sweetheart Victoria. However, Victoria is not who he thought, and after committing adultery, she falls pregnant. She promises the baby, on his third birthday to the Devil, and he is...
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Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas ... Population 2,456, give or take ... Business at the Luna Café & Coffee is looking up for fugitive former celebrity chef Richard Astor-Hall. The owners — elderly schoolteacher Miss Letty, and the irascible Doc Wyler have approved hiring another cook and expanding hours at the Café. Joe Vaughn, chief of the tiny Luna City Police Department, is coping with the demands of parenthood ... and both he and...
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When his mother dies and he discovers that the man he was raised to believe was his father is not, sixteen-year-old Chris is haunted by a mysterious apparition and flees his affluent surroundings to embark upon a quest to find himself.
Hoping she will "make a man of him" he seeks sanctuary in the home of Magda, a middle aged waitress with a penchant for sex, only to discover that she lives with her father, a cigarette smoking, beer swilling immigrant.
Chris...
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medeo Modigliani, embittered and unrecognized genius, dies of meningitis on a cold January day in Montparnasse in 1920. Jeanne Hébuterne, his young wife and muse, follows 48 hours later, falling backwards through a window. Now a ghost, Jeanne drifts about the studio she shared with Modigliani-for she was not only his favorite model, but also an artist whose works were later shut away from public view after her demise. Enraged, she watches as her...
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