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Pilgrim Jones' husband has just left her for another woman, stranding her in a small Swiss town where she is one day involved in a tragic accident. Overcome with guilt, she alights for Africa, befriending a series of locals, each with their own tragic past and each isolated in their own way. Mysteriously, one day a witch doctor's curse is carried into town, setting everyone in the remote Tanzanian outpost on edge. Pilgrim can't shake the feeling she's...
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"Gloaming Reveries" is a collection of poems by a British Chinese scientist-turned-poetry lover, Jenny Hu. In this debut anthology, she writes as a mother, a daughter, a wanderer, a well-wisher, a voice for the weak, a visionary. This blend of love, vicissitudes and reflections is for the days when you feel ennui and for the days in which things aren't working as you wish; for you want to try something new but are not sure where to start; for the...
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Once upon a chime...
Every day at four o' clock, an enchanted twilight sweeps over Vale Argantel. Strange things happen under its eldritch influence: mists boil up out of the ground, rain pours out of a cloudless sky, and the roses grow wild and fey. Such is the way of things.
But when her friend falls through a magic mirror and disappears, Margot realises something's changed. An ancient enchantment has gone awry, and chaos quickly spreads. Magic-drunk,...
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The Gloaming Meadows, What Roams in the Gloam? is about the adventures of the night critters that come out and about in the late afternoon near sunset, just before the evening fades into night, and the sun is almost no longer bright.
While the daytime critter's day is just about to come to an end, the nighttime critters' lingering into the dim afternoon starts to begin. From dark mountains, blossoming fields, and high grassy hills, to the plants,...
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From the author of Think of England and Fellowship Point, a captivating collection of stories—the title piece successfully made into an HBO film—about the complex relationships between lovers, spouses, neighbors, and family members. By turns funny, sad, and disturbing, these are stories of remarkable power.
When the austere and moving title story of this collection appeared in The New Yorker in 1993, it...
When the austere and moving title story of this collection appeared in The New Yorker in 1993, it...
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With his marriage to Maggie Connor, William McLaren, the Laird of Gloaming Castle, erases a war debt between their families. But he never expected his new wife to be such a spirited curious lass. A woman as unconstrained as her red curls, who forces his quiet secretive existence out of the shadows and makes him wonder if he has neglected his life, and his castle, for too long.No one asked Maggie if she wanted to be the Lady of the place everyone calls...
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On the island nation of Aur, where social status is valued above all things, Ione of the House of Sapphe is a liability to her family. As a child, she showed promise of being one of the exalted Scholars, those gifted with the ability to wield magic. At the age of ten, she began her studies at the Scholar College. Only, she failed miserably and was kicked out, an embarrassment her family has yet to recover from.
When her younger sister, Vivne, runs...
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Oxford philosopher Dr. Thomas Stewart is found dead high upon a cliff overlooking Borgarnes, Iceland. Behind him lies a cave, an empty chest, and, for Borgarnes police chief Bjorn Karlsson, a lot of unanswered questions. Why was Dr. Stewart up there? How did he die? Did he find something up among the hills, and, if so, where is it now? And, most important, who was with him? The answers that slowly unravel are both surprising and fascinating, involving...
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Treachery. Betrayal. Death. Peace takes a brutal toll on the world. A generation after a savage civil war, Mata rules as Prince Regent. But the festering wounds of the past remain. The Realm's ancient religion wanes. A new creed rises. Treacherous lords lurk in the shadows, waiting for an opportunity to strike. The Realm's uneasy peace shatters when a foolish young noble rides against Mata in open rebellion. The wearied ruler must once more rouse...
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This panoramic fictional oral history begins with one small mystery: the body of a young woman found in an Arizona border town, presumed to be an illegal immigrant, disappears from the town morgue. To the young CDC investigator called in to consult with the local police, it's an impossibility that threatens her understanding of medicine. Then, more bodies, dead from an inexplicable disease that solidified their blood, are brought to the morgue, only...
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Australian author Sara Douglass, author of the beloved Wayfarer Redemption series, presents a stunning standalone prequel to the Darkglass Mountain trilogy.
Like his physician father, Garth Baxtor is gifted with The Touch. By laying his hands upon a person, Garth can sense what dwells within: pain, illness, joy, or sorrow. It is through the application of The Touch that the gifted minister helps the sick of Escator by diagnosing ills and promoting...
12) Awakening
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The tale begins with twelve-year-old twins, Ethan and Eisley Lambent preparing for the Awakening: An observance that will mark the siblings passage into adulthood upon their thirteenth birthday. However, only days before the Awakening ceremony the Lambent twins learn of a family secret that will lead to begin a perilous journey into the unknown. Leaving their home, Glæm a country of light Ethan and Eisley are drawn into Gloam a land of never-ending...
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This dark story is full of mystery and unsolved mysteries. It was the first real day of Spring, and most people lingered out of doors till the bare branches of the trees melted in the gloaming, and it was possible to see and hear no more, save for the promise of the little black herald singing madly from the blackthorn. In certain places, the lights were grouped into masses, because they lit up a trio of Louis Quatorze card tables, where twelve people...
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This vintage book offers the reader a unique and authentic insight into the sporting life of a nineteenth century fox hunter, chronicling his experiences in all manner of pursuits ranging from buying a horse to embarking on a hunt. Interesting and entertaining, "Whip and Spur" will appeal to the modern sportsman and those with an interest in the history of fox hunting in England. Contents include: "Vix", "Ruby", "Wettstein", "Camping with Max", "How...
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Bright lights flicker in the dark evenings of summer. Pinpoints of hope float against the black descent of night. The sweetest of small and innocent creatures finds its way through the shadows. Fireflies seem to dance on sheer air, illuminating the space between heartbeats.
Children give off a similar brave glow, despite the challenges of their young lives. The lessons of childhood are often painful, the shedding of fragile wings in the gloam of an...
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In the endless light of summer days, and the magical gloaming of the wee small hours, nature in Jim's beloved Highlands, Perthshire and Trossachs heartlands is burgeoning freely, as though there is one long midsummer's eve, nothing reserved. For our flora and fauna, for the very land itself, this is the time of extravagant growth, flowering and the promise of fruit and the harvest to come.
But despite the abundance, as Jim Crumley attests, summer...
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What Is The Penumbra? The Penumbra is: The very edge of the border between light and shadow.A series of connected, interrelated fictions spanning the supernatural, horror, and science fiction genres, along with their cousins. An homage to anthologies of speculative fiction in TV, comic book, and prose form. In this volume:A musician and storyteller in 14th century Mali discovers a mysterious song that shows him other times and places and is sent on...
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In this hilarious, charming and occasionally melancholy memoir, Donal Griffin teaches us how to live forever — or die trying. As a succession lawyer, he encourages clients to draft more than a sterile Will, he advises them to pass on their stories, in all their grit, graft and glory. In so doing, they can face their demons head-on, become better people in the process, and bequeath their lessons learned. 'An Irish Book of Living and Dying' is his...
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The ancient rhythm of night becoming day becoming night again has always set the tempo of our everyday lives. The daily spin and tilt of the Earth rules our clocks and calendars as well as our human bodies. Yet our minutes and hours and days all too often slip away completely unnoticed. For generations and cultures around the globe and across the ages, though, the moments surrounding sunrise and sunset have been noticeable exceptions: believers and...
20) The underneath
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Ex-journalist Kay and her family are spending the summer in a rented farmhouse in Vermont. Kay is haunted by her traumatic past in Africa, and is struggling with her troubled marriage and the constraints of motherhood. Then her husband is called away unexpectedly on business and Kay finds herself alone with the children, obsessed by the idea that something terrible has happened to the owners of the house. The locals are reticent when she asks about...