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1) Tidelands
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Series
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different ... Midsummer's Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands - the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor, a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free...
2) Maskerade
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Series
Language
English
Description
The Opera House is a huge, rambling building full of masked figures and hooded shadows, and in the wings are the Discworld's greatest witches, Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, who fancy a night at the opera. But there's trouble ahead.
3) The witches
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Publisher
Puffin
Language
English
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Description
But they are not ordinary. They are always plotting and scheming with murderous, bloodthirsty thoughts - and they hate children. The Grand High Witch hates children most of all and plans to make every single one of YOU disappear. Only one boy and his grandmother can stop her, but if their plan fails the Grand High Witch will frizzle them like fritters, and then what . . . ?.
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English
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Tiffany Aching is a witch. And she thinks she's doing a good job for the people of the Chalk. Even if the job does seem to involve a lot of bandaging legs and cutting old ladies' toenails and not much magic, or sleep. But somewhere, there's a tangled ball of evil and spite that has woken up.
5) Macbeth
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Language
English
Description
Shakespeare?s famous tragedy, describing how a lust for power and the prophecy of three witches transform a brave nobleman into a traitor and murderous tyrant, has mesmerised audiences since its first performance over four centuries ago. Macbeth?s temptation and descent into evil, his wife?s ruthlessness and subsequent madness and the overarching presence of the supernatural are brilliantly evoked in this BBC Radio archive production from 2000, directed...
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Mirabelle volume 2
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Mirabelle is special because she is different. Mirabelle's mum is a witch, her dad is a fairy and she is a bit of both. When Mirabelle goes off to witch school she promises not to cause any mischief ... but then potions class goes a bit wrong and flying practice is a disaster. Soon enough, Mirabelle finds herself getting up to some seriously mischievous behaviour. Hopefully, with the help of her best friend, Carlotta, she can put everything right...
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Series
The Wizards of Once volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
The story of a young boy Wizard and a young girl Warrior who have been taught since birth to hate each other like poison; and the thrilling tale of what happens when their two worlds collide. Perfect for boys and girls who love fantasy adventure.
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Language
English
Description
Cosmo has always wanted to be a witch-cat so he's delighted when he passes the special test. Now he'll be able to help Sybil the witch with her spells. But Cosmo is suspicious when he discovers that Sybil has a magic recipe for producing gold statues in the shape of kittens especially as the kittens look frighteningly alive!
Author
Series
Mirabelle volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Mirabelle is special because she is different. Mirabelle's mum is a witch and her dad is a fairy and she loves getting up to magical mischief! The time has come for a fairy celebration and Mirabelle's dad has told her she mus be on her best behaviour. But Mirabelle knows things will be so much more fun is she can do just a little bit of witchy magic. Will Mirabelle be able to stay out of mischief? Not likely!.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Description
Winnie the Witch is busy getting herself into trouble. She's a naughty niece when Auntie Aggie comes to stay, she has difficulty getting rid of her double after waving her wand in front of the mirror, she causes havoc at the after school club, and, on a trip to the museum, she sends the little ordinaries back in time where they find themselves as slave labour building the pyramids!
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Series
His dark materials volume 3
Language
English
Description
Will and Lyra, whose fates are bound together by powers beyond their own worlds, have been violently separated. But they must find each other, for ahead of them lies the greatest war that has ever been - and a journey to a dark place from which no one has ever returned...
12) Twice magic
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Series
The Wizards of Once volume 2
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Witches are creating havoc in the Wildwoods and danger lurks behind every tree trunk. Wish is in possession of a powerful, Magic Spelling Book. Xar has a dangerous Witchstain on his hand. Wish and Xar are separated by the highest wall imaginable. But time is running out ... It was unlikely that these heroes should meet in the first place. Is it possible they are destined to meet TWICE?.
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Publisher
Puffin
Language
English
Description
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of First Prize for the Worst Witch by Jill Murphy, read by Gemma Arterton. Accident-prone Mildred Hubble is the Worst Witch at Miss Cackle's Academy. She's always getting her spells wrong and landing herself in trouble. But Mildred is in the last term of Fourth Year and determined to prove that she's not as useless as everyone thinks - could it be First Prize for the worst witch after all? The Worst Witch is...
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Hogwarts Library book volume 3
Language
English
Description
'The Tales of Beedle the Bard' played a crucial role in assisting Harry Potter, aided by his friends Ron and Hermione, to finally defeat Lord Voldemort. This collection contains five tales, as well as an introduction and illustrations by J.K. Rowling, with notes from Professor Albus Dumbledore.
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Simon Snow volume 3
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
The eagerly anticipated finale to the Simon Snow series by the number one New York Times bestselling author of Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell. In Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong. And in Wayward Son, they wondered whether everything they understood about themselves might be wrong. In Any Way the Wind Blows, Simon and Baz and Penelope and Agatha have to decide how to...
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