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While staying with her cousin in England, a young girl helps him find a way of helping the troubled ghosts inhabiting the cellar of the house.
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The Green Knight, a mysteriously powerful creature, tests the honor and courage of King Arthur's youngest knight.
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Above Suspicion (Anna Travis, #1)
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In the footsteps of Jane Tennison, immortalized by Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect, comes Anna Travis, a rookie female detective about to embark on her first murder case. The murders couldn't be more gr…
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The Borrowers Afield (The Borrowers #2)
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Driven out of their cozy house by the rat catcher, the Borrowers find themselves homeless. Worse, they are lost and alone in a frightening new world: the outdoors. Nearly everything outside -- cows, m…
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Light from Uncommon Stars
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A defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts.

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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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Newbery Medal Winner (1959)

Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the cold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home will never be like the shimmering Caribbean isla…
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Beowulf
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Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel an…
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Night Watch (Watch, #1)
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Others. They walk among us. Observing.

Set in contemporary Moscow, where shape shifters, vampires, and street-sorcerers linger in the shadows, Night Watch is the first book of the hyper-imaginative fa…
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The Ivy Tree
3.88 avg. rating
· 4919 Ratings
An English June in the Roman Wall countryside; the ruin of a beautiful old house standing cheek-by-jowl with the solid, sunlit prosperity of the manor farm - a lovely place, and a rich inheritance for…
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War in Heaven
3.83 avg. rating
· 1549 Ratings
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A battle over the most sacred object in Christendom...

In the tiny English village of Fardles, a practitioner of black magic has located the Holy Grai…
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The Man Who Killed His Brother
3.63 avg. rating
· 375 Ratings
A wounded hero must confront his own worst enemy: himself

Mick "Brew" Axbrewder was once a great P.I. That was before he accidentally shot and killed a cop-worse, a cop who happened to be his own broth…
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Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
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· 7137 Ratings
Mr. Hilton's classic story of an English schoolmaster.

Mr. Chipping, the classics master at Brookfield School since 1870, takes readers on a beguiling journey through the late 19th and early 20th centu…
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Tigana
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· 45781 Ratings
A masterful epic of magic, politics, war, and the power of love and hate — from the renowned author of The Fionavar Tapestry and Children of Earth and Sky.

Tigana is the magical story of a beleaguered …
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Two Are Better Than One
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· 253 Ratings
A Christmas package with two miniature dolls reminds Chrystal of the year she and her best friend Cordelia were thirteen and writing a "romantical" novel...
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Madam, Will You Talk?
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Widowed Charity Selborne had been greatly looking forward to her driving holiday through France with her old friend Louise - long, leisurely days under the hot sun, enjoying the beauty of the parched …
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Little Town on the Prairie  (Little House, #7)
Laura is almost fifteen. The long winter is over. With spring comes socials, dances, and "Literaries." There is also work to be done. Laura spends many hours each day sewing shirts to help send Mary t…
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Someone to Hold (Westcott, #2)
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A reversal of fortune befalls a young woman in this charming Westcott novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Someone to Wed .
 
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The Desert of Souls (The Chronicles of Sword and Sand #1)
The glittering tradition of sword-and-sorcery sweeps into the sands of ancient Arabia with the heart-stopping speed of a whirling dervish in this thrilling debut novel from new talent Howard Andrew…
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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1
“I’ve arrived in London without incident. There are few triumphs in my recent life, but I count this as one. My existence of the last three years has been nothing but incident.”

The Year is 1883 and Em…
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A Christmas Bride / Christmas Beau (Stapleton-Downes #7 included)
In a pair of classic Regency-era Christmas romance novels from New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh, the holidays herald the greatest gift of all: unexpected, all-consuming love.

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Homer Price
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Welcome to Centerburg! Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; where houses are built in a day; and where a boy named Homer Price can foil four slick bandits using no…
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The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
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On the empty winter prairie, gray clouds to the northwest meant only one thing: a blizzard was seconds away. The first blizzard came in October. It snowed almost without stopping until April. The temp…
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Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)
Marguerite Florian is a spy with two problems. A former employer wants her dead, and one of her new bodyguards is a far too good-looking paladin with a martyr complex.

Shane is a paladin with three pro…
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Star Spangled Summer (Penny Parrish, #1)
Carrol Houghton spends the summer with Penny Parrish and her warm and happy family at Fort Arden in Kansas. Never has Carrol enjoyed herself so! Penny shows Carrol the fun and adventures of life on a …
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The Assassins of Thasalon (Penric and Desdemona, #10)
An unholy attack upon his brother-in-law General Arisaydia pitches sorcerer Learned Penric and his Temple demon Desdemona headlong into the snake-pit of Cedonian imperial politics. But they will not t…
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Vespertine
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· 20112 Ratings
From the New York Times bestselling author of Sorcery of Thorns and An Enchantment of Ravens comes a thrilling new YA fantasy about a teen girl with mythic abilities who must defend her world against …
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By the Shores of Silver Lake  (Little House, #5)
The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they move from their little house on the banks of Plum Creek to the wilderness of the unsettled Dakota Territory. Here Pa works on the new ra…
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Children of Earth and Sky
4.10 avg. rating
· 5667 Ratings
The bestselling author of the groundbreaking novels The Last Light of the Sun , Sailing to Sarantium , and Lord of Emperors , Guy Gavriel Kay is back with a new book, set in a world inspired by the co…
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Shards of Honour  (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)
When Cordelia Naismith and her survey crew are attacked by a renegade group from Barrayar, she is taken prisoner by Aral Vorkosigan, commander of the Barrayan ship that has been taken over by an ambit…
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A Darkness in Seven Dials (Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Book 17)
March 1820

When James Denis is arrested for murder and lands himself in Newgate, it falls to me to prove his innocence. I have nowhere to start but in a dark street in Seven Dials and the name of the u…
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The High King (The Chronicles of Prydain, #5)
When the sword Dyrnwyn, the most powerful weapon in the kingdom of Prydain, falls into the hands of Arawn-Death-Lord, Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper, and Prince Gwydion raise an army to march against Ara…
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