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Ned?s Circus of Marvels volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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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Hogwarts Library book volume 3
Language
English
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'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.
83) The dovekeepers
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Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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The lives of four sensuous, bold and remarkable women intersect in the year 70AD, in the desperate days of the siege of Masada, when supplies are dwindling and the Romans are drawing near. All are dovekeepers, and all are keepers of secrets - about who they are, where they come from, who fathered them, and whom they love. There is Yael, the assassin's daughter whose heartbreak leads to her true path in the ruins of the desert; Revka, the baker's wife...
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Join Winnie and Wilbur on their wild and wacky adventures from going back to the time of the dinosaurs and saving school children from slavery in ancient Egypt; to organising a treasure hunt for a pirate and rustling up some batburgers in the kitchen, - this collection will keeping young listeners entertained for hours! This collection features the following stories: Winnie and Wilbur: Winnie's After School Club Winnie and Wilbur: Winnie the Naughty...
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The Last Templar Mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Canelo Adventure
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
No clues, and everyone?s a suspect... Agatha Kyteler, regarded as a witch by her superstitious neighbours, has no shortage of enemies. But when her body is found frozen and mutilated in a hedge one wintry morning, there seem to be no clues as to who could be responsible. Until a local youth runs away and a cry is raised? Sir Baldwin Furnshill, Keeper of the King?s Peace, is not convinced of the youth?s guilt, and he manages to persuade his close friend...
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Series
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
She may be 35th in line for the throne, but Lady Georgiana Rannoch cannot wait to ring in the new year-before a Christmas killer wrings another neck? On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me-well, actually, my true love, Darcy O?Mara, is spending a feliz navidad tramping around South America. Meanwhile, Mummy is holed up in a tiny village called Tiddleton-under-Lovey with that droll Noel Coward! And I?m snowed in at Castle Rannoch with...
87) Carpe jugulum
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Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. He thought he'd come to the mountain kingdom of Lancre for a simple little religious ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches, and he's not sure there is a right side.
88) Hare House
Author
Publisher
Mantle
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
Sally Hinchcliffe?s Hare House is a modern-day witch story, perfect for fans of Pine and The Loney. Hare House is not its real name, of course. I have, if you will forgive me, kept names to a minimum here, for reasons that will become understandable . . . In the first brisk days of autumn, a woman arrives in Scotland having left her job at an all-girls school in London in mysterious circumstances. Moving into a cottage on the remote estate of Hare...
89) Lords and ladies
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English
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It's a hot midsummer night. The crop circles are turning up everywhere, and Magrat the witch is going to be married in the morning - everything ought to be going like a dream. Unfortunately, things aren't about to run smoothly.
90) How to stop time
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
'The first rule is that you don't fall in love. There are other rules too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your mind . . .' Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. Owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. From Shakespeare's England to jazz age Paris and voyaging the Pacific,...
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Series
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time there was a fantastical children?s book series about a brave, little knight with a heart of gold ... Sir Charlie Stinky Socks and the Really Big Adventure: Sir Charlie Stinkysocks, his good grey mare and his pet cat Envelope decide the time has come for a really big adventure. Sir Charlie packs his best sword and his sandwiches and off he goes, over the hills and far away, until he gets to the deep, dark forest. Sir Charlie doesn?t...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
R.L. Stine-the godfather of Goosebumps-and some of the most popular authors today bring an unrivaled mastery of all things fearsome, frightening, and fantabulous to this terrifying anthology of all-new scary short stories. Scream and Scream Again! is full of twists and turns, dark corners, and devilish revenge. Collected in conjunction with the Mystery Writers of America, this set includes works from New York Times bestselling authors telling tales...
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Publisher
Cornerstone Digital
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Three of James Ellroy's most gripping crime novels featuring Lieutenant Dudley Smith in one volume. The Big Nowhere: In 1950s LA three men are drawn into the shadow of communist witch hunts and violent killings that force each one to confront his own personal darkness. But none is prepared for the maelstrom that awaits them. LA Confidential: LA Christmas 1951. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three...
94) The mercies
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Publisher
Bolinda/Macmillan audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
On Christmas Eve, 1617, the sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardø is thrown into a reckless storm. As Maren Magnusdatter watches, 40 fishermen, including her father and brother, are lost to the waves, the menfolk of Vardø wiped out in an instant. Now the women must fend for themselves. Eighteen months later, a sinister figure arrives. Summoned from Scotland to take control of a place at the edge of the civilized world, Absalom Cornet knows...
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English
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Solomon is full of anger: with his teachers, with his parents, with himself. He cannot bear to be at school or at home, so he hides in a corner of the kirkyard. When the spirit of a witch is released, Solomon is the only person who can fight it. Originally published: London: Methuen Children's, 1994
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
She closed her eyes. Think with your head. Your heart can't be trusted. Life is not a fairy tale ... Single mum Rory doesn't believe in love. She's got far too many real problems to deal with. She's just bought a tumbledown house. Her mother is generally behaving like a wicked witch, insisting on calling her Aurora and generally interfering in her (admittedly pitiful lack of) love life. And her 16-year-old daughter has finally grown out of Disney...
97) Gingerbread
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Perdita Lee may appear your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are. For one thing, they share a gold-painted, seventh-floor flat with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. And then there?s the gingerbread they make. Londoners may find themselves able to take or leave it, but it?s very popular in...
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Publisher
BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Witchfinder Shadwell and his assistant Newton Pulsifier are also en route to Tadfield to investigate unusual phenomena in the area, while Anathema Device, descendent of prophetess Agnes Nutter, tries to decipher her ancestor?s cryptic predictions. Atlantis is rising; fish are falling from the sky; everything seems to be going to the Divine Plan. Everything, that is, but for an unlikely angel and demon duo, who have been living on Earth for several...
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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I am Not Your Slave is the shocking true story of a young African girl, Tupa, who was abducted from southwestern Africa and funneled through an extensive yet almost completely unknown human trafficking network spanning the entire African continent. As she is transported from the point of her abduction on a remote farm near the Namibian-Angolan border and channeled to her ultimate destination in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, her three-year odyssey...
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Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Mohsin grew up in a poor pocket of east London, in a devout shia Muslim community. His family were close-knit and religiously conservative. From a young age, Mohsin felt different but in a home where being gay was inconceivable he also felt very alone. Outside of home Mohsin went to a failing inner city school where gang violence was a fact of life. As he grew up life didn't seem to offer teenage Mohsin any choices: he was disenfranchised from opportunity...
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