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1) Family lore
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Pub. Date
2023
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'Family Lore is full of beautiful prose, even-handed magic and all the pains and triumphs of intergenerational bonds' KILEY REID, author of Such A Fun Age The Marte women are preparing for a gathering that will change their lives forever Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides to host her own living wake - bringing together her family and community to celebrate her long life - her sisters Matilde, Pastora...
3) Cuddy
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Pub. Date
2023
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Travelling through the wilderness, a young woman has visions of a cathedral on a hill. The downtrodden wife of an archer seeks the truth in stone walls, in meadows full of garlic flowers. A group of soldiers sit out their last hours before their death under a vaulted ceiling. The professor receives unwelcome night-time visitors. A young man bids his dying mother goodbye, and sets off on his first day of work as a labourer. From these seeds of historical...
5) The binding
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Publisher
The Borough Press
Pub. Date
2019
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Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a Bookbinder, a vocation that arouses fear, superstition, and prejudice - but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse. He will learn to hand-craft beautiful volumes, and within each he will capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. If there's something you want to forget, he can help. If there's something...
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Puffin
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Who could tell the original stories of the gods of Olympus better than a modern-day demigod? In this whirlwind tour of Greek mythology, Percy Jackson gives his personal take on the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and reveals the truth about how they came to rule the world.
8) Adults
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Pub. Date
2020.
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Jenny McLaine is an adult. Supposedly. At thirty-five she owns her own house, writes for a cool magazine and has hilarious friends just a message away. But the thing is: she can't actually afford her house since her criminally sexy ex-boyfriend Art left, her best friend Kelly is clearly trying to break up with her, she's so frazzled trying to keep up with everything you can practically hear her nerves jangling, she spends all day online-stalking women...
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Ned?s Circus of Marvels volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2015
Description
From exciting debut author, Justin Fisher, comes this rip-roaring, page-turning new magical adventure. Perfect for fans of House of Secrets.Ned Waddlesworth has always considered his world to be exceptionally ordinary. Until the day he discovers it ISN?T. AT ALL. Because on Ned?s thirteenth birthday he discovers that everything magical he?s ever read about or imagined is REAL.And without him, the world will soon be engulfed in monstrous beasts and...
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Publisher
Zephyr
Pub. Date
2019
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From I, Coriander to Invisible in a Bright Light, Sally Gardner's first middle grade novel in 14 years soars with the imagination of a master story-teller. A pitch-perfect story about a crystal chandelier that splinters into a thousand pieces, a girl abandoned as a baby on the steps of an opera house and a dangerous game called the Reckoning. It is 1870: opening night at the Royal Opera House in a freezing city by the sea, where a huge, crystal chandelier...
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Canongate Books
Pub. Date
2019
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New school. New friends. Same old pixie. 'Don't try to be something You really are not. Your one true self Is the best thing you've got.' In this heartwarming adventure. the Truth Pixie and her human friend go to school, face a bully and learn the importance of friendship and being yourself. With words by the bestselling mastermind Matt Haig and pictures by the inky genius Chris Mould.
15) On deception
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Publisher
Hesperus
Pub. Date
2009
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'On Deception' presents the highlights of Houdini's writings on illusions, revealing him to have been a remarkably prescient champion of rationalism and an ardent opponent of the duping of susceptible individuals.
19) A miscellany of mischief and magic: discover history's best hoaxes, hijinks, tricks, and illusions
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Publisher
WideEyed Editions
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Presents the secrets of famous magic illusions and tricks.