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The Magicians volume 1
Publisher
Cornerstone Digital
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In a secret world of forbidden knowledge, power comes at a terrible price... Quentin Coldwater's life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter: when he turns up for his entrance interview to Princeton he finds his interviewer dead - but a strange envelope bearing Quentin's name leads him down a very different path to any he'd ever imagined. The envelope, and the mysterious manuscript it contains, leads to a secret world of obsession and...
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ABC Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES STARRING NATALIE DORMER (GAME OF THRONES) AND YAEL STONE (ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK). Everyone agreed that the day was just right for the picnic to Hanging Rock - a shimmering summer morning warm and still, with cicadas shrilling ? St Valentine?s Day, in the midst of the hot summer of 1900, a party of schoolgirls went on a picnic to Hanging Rock. Some were never to return ? An Australian classic, the disappearance of three...
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English
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Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years. This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a simple yet profound realisation that unfolds beautifully over the course of the novel. It tells...
4) Joyland
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Publisher
Hard Case Crime
Language
English
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Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, 'Joyland' tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The unruly undergraduates at Cambridge have a nickname for their new lecturer: Wittgenstein Jr. He?s a melancholic, tormented genius who seems determined to make them grasp the very essence of philosophical thought. But Peters-a working-class student surprised to find himself among the elite-soon discovers that there?s no place for logic in a Cambridge overrun by posh boys and picnicking tourists, as England?s greatest university is collapsing under...
6) Songbird
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
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In 1976, Madeleine is a young and vibrant girl, singing in a club and in love. But murder lies ahead - murder that will force her to vanish and live looking over her shoulder. 20 years later, just when she thinks her life is truly over, the kindness of one young girl brings her back from the brink of total devastation.
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