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Some, it is said in the legends of Aesgard, shall die, and then come to the feasting board of Valhalla- to sit by the side of Wotan, chief of the gods!
There, they shall fight again each day amongst old enemies- and then feast again that night. These are the everyday, yet valiant fighters…
But there are… others-
Who are so extreme in prowess that when they should die and go to Hel- each shall be reborn.
Always it will be, saith Wotan, king...
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Cathy has been set another quest, before she can take up the role as the Head of the Circle of the Dove Stone Coven.
This time she has to solve the mystery of the whereabouts of Desdemona's granddaughter Donna Maria.
Last seen before her mother sadly died, ten years previously.
Add a bit of the wicked stepmother and more ghosts,Cathy sets out to find this long lost person.
Cathy, along with the new members of the coven at the mill,...
43) The Assignment
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THE ASSIGNMENT
When Brina Louise Grant, recent graduate of Cyclops (their equivalent of West Point), accepted a one way mission from her 25th century world into the wild west of their mid 1800's, she had no idea it would take her on a journey far and beyond what her wildest imagination could concoct.
With a mystical entity by her side, Brina's assignment is to follow the assassin Jesse Loame to the past, tracking him down with orders to...
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Nineteen-year-old Alice Tanmar is summoned to that realm of dreams and wonders known by her grandmother as Wonderland, her mother as Everland, and herself as Otherland. She is the third Alice to assist that dream realm out of difficulty. Why was she is brought to Otherland? Initially, there doesn't seem to be a clear answer to why or to what she is expected to do. Alice must make decisions, choose a side to support, justify that support, find her...
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A chance meeting in the local pharmacy transforms the life of lonely, illiterate Octavio. He begins reading lessons and finds love and happiness for the very first time. But Octavio's destiny lies elsewhere, as he will discover on a journey into the Venezuelan rainforest. Shortlisted for the Goncourt first novel award, this short but epic fable is both a hymn to Venezuela and the magical story of an extraordinary hero.
46) Betty
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Un coming-of-age lírico, espiritual y feminista ambientado en el Ohio rural de los años sesenta e inspirado en la historia familiar de la autora. Soy Betty Carpenter, nací en una bañera en 1954 y crecí en el pueblo de Breathed, Ohio. De mis ocho hermanos fui la única que heredé la piel oscura de mi papá Landon, que era cheroqui. De niña creía que ser cheroqui significaba estar atado a la luna. También quería ser una princesa con un vestido...
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Faith decides to visit her friend, Angel, after another relationship goes wrong as yet again because they don't understand her Asperger's Syndrome. She meets Stan, the local mechanic. He stands up for her when the local residents start criticising her work. Then magical and ghostly things happen: her pictures are seen as misty to 3D to beautiful, and the people who criticise her are scared by mysterious weather in the park. Stan getting to understand...
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Are we ever really walking alone? Facing a health crisis, Marielle sets out on her 55th birthday to walk the wooded Maine trails she grew to love. She did not imagine her walk would take her to the streets, hillsides and porches of generations of her family. Alone, finding herself journeying on an isolated stretch of abandoned trail etched out of twigs and time, Marielle encounters an eerily familiar person who ushers her forward on the journey of...
49) The Balkan Air
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Alexander starts his life in a pre-birth Heaven where souls wait to be assigned an identity and sent to Earth. As a lousy student, he struggles to follow the heavenly authorities' formal instructions. By a strange turn of luck, he is sent to a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina called Herontown (Capljina). He falls in love with the beauty of Herzegovina and meets Ronnie, who offers him a way to stay even though he is supposed to return to Heaven soon....
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Jan Jacob Slauerhoff's1934 novel Adrift in the Middle Kingdom (Het leven op aarde), is an epic sweep of narrative that takes the reader from 1920s Shanghai to a forgotten city beyond the Great Wall of China.
Slauerhoff's narrator is a Belfast ship's radio operator, desperate to escape the sea, who travels inland on a gun-runner's mission. He moves through extraordinary settings of opium salons, the house of a Cantonese watch-mender, the siege of...
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Hidden deep in the Brazilian rainforest a secret has been kept since the beginning of time. An order of women fight to keep this secret of the healing stones from the modern world. Their time is running out.
Camila's connection to her healing stone is enduring and absolute - until it is stolen. Driven by the need to protect the Guardians' miraculous truth and renew the physical bond to her stone, she travels from the deep recesses of the Amazon to...
52) Isla de Lobos
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Hombres de mar habitan el enclave de Isla de Lobos, al que llega un náufrago sin memoria pero con pasado. Poco más que una lengua de lava y piedras negras, un peñasco entre mares es aquel lugar, donde son personajes principales un geógrafo, un santero, un contador de olas y una señora que gobierna con mano de hierro los destinos de la ínsula, además de la mulata Esmeralda y su hija Albabella, que habla con los lobos de mar y vive en una gruta.
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Noche de cuentos... y poesía, es el resultado de las historias contadas en cada pueblo de la serranía peruana, historias que se repiten de boca en boca con los matices propios de quien las cuenta. Estos cuentos escuchados y guardados a lo largo del tiempo, hoy salen a la luz con el agregado que aporta la imaginación y estilo del autor, iniciando así una serie de cuentos cortos en complicidad con el aval del lector. Noche de Cuentos... y poesía...
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Along the oldest river in North America, New River, Zoe and Tod take a vacation with their teenage child Diana, who is experiening a heartbreak. The beauty of Appalachia presents a new world in many ways, with intimations of past and future mixing together. When Diana is swept down river due to unknown causes, an unexpected world. opens. Laden with dangers and tests, the question arises as to whether love can be found.
56) The Cat's Job
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What is the Cat's Job?
Some say a cat's job is to be decorative. Some say it is to slay vermin. Some say a cat ought to earn his or her keep, and some think cats are mere pets. Some folks are dog people, but we don't need to talk too much about them here.
In this chapbook we look at a cat mayor at work, talk about cats as people, and share several fictional pieces dealing with the place of cats and their people in the universe at large.
The Cat's...
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Carmen, una joven de escasos recursos economicos que trabaja en un consultorio medico, donde se siente atrapada entre cuatro paredes, con un sueldo que apenas alcanza para sobrevivir, recibe una oferta de empleo que le ofrece el doble de su salario y le garantiza que podra viajar por toda Colombia. Su vida cambia de estar entre cuatro paredes, sin luz solar, a conocer muchos lugares y trabajar a plena luz del sol. Su familia, su casa y su vecindario...
58) Fault Lines
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A boy who wants to die. A girl who would do anything to live. A stranger with their fate in her hands.Cathie Ayala has never been to Santa María, the country of her parents' birth. Now her beloved godmother has gone missing in that South American nation's political turmoil. Risking her safety and sense of self, Cathie sets out to find the woman who raised her.Instead she stumbles on two young people facing crises of their own. Injured in a terrible...
59) Huntress Moon
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Mia was bitten by a werewolf as a child and left for dead. But a magician called the Hunter saved her, using magic and healing arts. He smelled of smoke and cloves, and once she was healed, he left to continue hunting the werewolf who bit her. But he left some of his magic in her. Not only is Mia one of the rare female werewolves, but she grows to an enormous size and is able to wield magic. One day, she hears laughter and is drawn to a small group...
60) Demoniacs
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Evie Mickelson is anything but your average hostage negotiator with acute mind control powers- but she is about to discover she's the key to a battle with the demonic forces of evil.And Demoniacs (Book 1 of The Revelationary War) is anything but your average urban fantasy road trip novel with dark angels, ninja nuns and djinns. It is also a speculation on the nature of evil and terrorism. It is a commemoration of the superheroes of popular culture....
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