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In the boiling heat of summer, a broken remote control for an air conditioner threatens life as we know it in this reality-bending, time-slipping sequel to The Tatami Galaxy.
During a scorching August in Kyoto, our protagonist and his worst friend, Ozu, are locked in a glaring contest in a four-and-a-half-tatami-mat room. Ozu has spilled Coke on the air conditioner's remote control-the only AC in Shimogamo Yusuisuiso, their famously shabby sweatbox...
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What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react? These unsettling questions are posed in Azem's powerfully imaginative novel. Set in contemporary Tel Aviv forty eight hours after Israelis discover all their Palestinian neighbors have vanished, the story unfolds through alternating narrators, Alaa, a young Palestinian man who converses with his dead grandmother in the journal he left...
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Eden's so called friends locked her in the witch's house. The leader, Angelica, stole a knick knack from the witch's house to prove she was there. How can Eden get herself out of this mess, when Angelica dumps the knick knack on her? Can she get it back to the witch, or is she doomed to have wierd battle dreams forever?
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This inspired novel, Christopher Unborn, is narrated by the as yet unborn first child to be born on October 12, 1992, the five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America; his conception and birth bracket the novel. A playfully savage masterpiece by Carlos Fuentes.
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On New Year's Eve in 1969, a novelist in his forties meets the beautiful movie actress Diana Soren at a party and is fascinated by her oddly elusive charm. But in this novel from Carlos Fuentes, his infatuation turns into doomed pursuit as the fleeting object of his desire spurns him, and he is forced to reconsider the foundations of his life as a writer.
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These stories paint a portrait of a magical realist world that is both chaotic and corrupt. In "Blister" a young widow remains faithful to her wedding vows even after her husband's deception is revealed. The husband in "Others" is haunted by a picture from the sixteenth century that has seemingly come to life and threatens to destroy his marriage. The soldier in "A Soldier's Lament" refuses to order the execution of an enemy combatant with whom he...
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Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's leading novelist, author of The Old Gringo, Terra Nostra and The Death of Artemio Cruz, has produced what is probably the first Third World spy thriller, an action-filled, quick-paced novel of intrigue as contemporary as a headline. The Hydra Head has a constant political reality as backdrop: the permanent tension in the Middle East and the vast new oil resources of Mexico, the setting for a brilliant attempt to portray the...
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In her utterly original novel about mothers, daughters, and love, Judy Budnitz gives the traditional folktale an electrifying twist as she follows four generations of women from an Eastern European village to the tenements of an American city. Elena, born into a family ruled by a formidable mother, embarks on an epic journey to the New World, met along the way by evil, magic, and good fortune. The daughter, grand-daughter, and great-granddaughter...
9) Entitled
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"Cookie Boyle has written a smart, funny, and heartfelt novel that captures the unexpected adventures in the life of a book." - Blue Ink Review
Entitled is a love letter to books, travel and the people we meet along the way.
Life isn't easy when you're a book.
This charming, humorous, warm-hearted novel follows the extraordinary adventures of an extraordinary book. Entitled is told from the perspective of a book as it reluctantly travels from San...
10) Her Demon Charms
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Thirty days to make a man fall in love with you via a dating site? Banned from using her demon charms? The stakes were high for succubus, May Frost. It seems she may have bitten off more than she could chew when she made a deal with the devil. If she wins, she becomes human. If she loses? Well, that isn't something she wants to think about. But falling in love was never part of the deal, was it? Alex Stone has a job to do – find the girl, get the...
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In the title story, "A Betrayal," a doctor travels into the countryside to help a young patient, only to deliver a diagnosis with which the girl's family vehemently disagrees. The peculiar narrator of "Sedgefield's Diary" recoils in horror when he discovers that the hourly diary he keeps has taken on a life of its own and now threatens his very existence. The bereaved wife in "The Lake of Flies" takes matters into her own hands when she learns the...
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Having been pulled across time to aid heroes in the past while protecting a future yet to come, Zaneta finds her way back to the present-and the people responsible for stealing her children. The pursuit leads her north into Skyrim, where she, with help from the empire, is on the heels of the kidnappers, steadily nearing the end of her nightmare. In this spectacular conclusion, Zaneta covers vast territory. And with aid from an ancient dragon and mysterious...
13) Fire Witch
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WARNING: This villain's origin story from the Witches of Etlantium series is dark and gritty.To harness the power of fire, will she have to surrender to the inferno within?Aislin is a fire witch whose magic lies dormant until her mother dies and it becomes her inheritance. But a witch destined to inherit incredible powers isn't exactly worthless. That power can be exploited. It can be traded.When a band of brigands attack her village, she is carried...
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After adventures in sixteenth-century Scotland and 1980s Hollywood, Jennifer Cloud has become something of a seasoned time traveler. Her family's amazing abilities have allowed her to take a job with a time-traveling agency, the World Travel Federation, and stop "brigands," criminals dedicated to destroying history for their own selfish gain.Jennifer may have adjusted to her job at the World Travel Federation, but she can't adjust to the unfortunate...
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From Ireland to India, Hong Kong to London, join a cast of wanderers, ancient heroes, and more for adventures that go to the heart of what matters most in life. For the first time ever you can get 5 Rucksack Universe books in one e-book box set:
Wander
The Martini of Destiny
Home Sweet Road
Forever the Road
The Lotus and the Barley
The Rucksack Universe series combines alternate history, speculative fiction, myth, adventure, globetrotting, and intrigue-all...
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Originally published in Tales from the Canyons of the Damned #9Maybe we have to die to experience this life.Walter Cartright is an obsessed man. His only obsession comes in the form of paper that are converted to ones and zeros on a bank statement. Walter has always been very good at gathering Ones, and Zeros.His son Eric comes to see him one day to ask Walter if he might part from some of his ones and zeros, and they have a long overdue conversation....
17) Lost Nowhere
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Young Lily is misunderstood. She's awkwardly shy and has difficulty making friends. Her behavior to the outside world seems somewhat peculiar and she spends much of her time being examined by professionals with no answers aside from the obvious-no mother figure. As per the doctors instructions, Lily and her father move to a new home to ignite a fresh beginning. Although Lily usually rejects change, the ancient mansion intrigues her, and she collects...
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"Des parcelles d'or" relate les aventures, amours et voyages de l'auteur qui ont eu pour témoins sept chats, des créatures connues pour leurs sept vies. Depuis le premier qui dormait dans son berceau jusqu'au dernier qui observe silencieusement derrière l'écran, ils ont été ses compagnons. C'est avec eux qu'il revoit son passé, sous leur regard constellé de parcelles d'or.
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Christian Wacrenier, auteur de recueils de...
20) In Scientia
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After moving to New York for her senior year of high school, Eva Nelson falls for a mysterious boy who leads her to discover a family she never knew she had.
When she flies to London to meet them, she's unwittingly inducted into an elite society of magic that puts her life in grave danger.
Hopelessly romantic and addictively suspenseful, In Scientia is a contemporary fantasy where magic is just as real as love.
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