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Rejecting an unwanted suitor and opening the family's Devonshire estate
to her fashionable cousins after the death of her father, Valentine is
seduced by the intrigues and scandals of Regency London.
After a layoff during the Great Recession sidelines his tech career,
Clay Jannon takes a job at the titular bookstore in San Francisco, and
soon realizes that the establishment is a facade for a strange secret.
When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview
Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive,
enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she
tries to put Grey out of her mind -- until he happens to turn up at the
out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time.
Lisabeth Lewis has a black steed, a set of
scales, and a new job: she’s been appointed Famine. How will an anorexic
seventeen-year-old girl from the suburbs fare as one of the Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse?
While working on a farm during the summer, Megan falls in love with her
unstable best friend's crush, with frightening consequences.
A collection of sixteen stories introduces a host of strange, wondrous
beings that have never existed anywhere but in the imagination, with
stories from Neil Gaiman, Diana Wynne Jones, and E. Nesbit.
In a post-apocalyptic world, Pressia, a sixteen-year-old survivor with a
doll's head fused onto her left hand meets Partridge, a "Pure"
dome-dweller who is searching for his mother, sure that she has survived
the cataclysm.
Author Erik Larson
imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book's
categorization to be sure that 'The Devil in the White City' is not, in
fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men:
Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's
construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a
charming doctor.
Qhuinn, son of no one, is used to being on his own. Disavowed from his
bloodline, shunned by the aristocracy, he has finally found an identity
as one of the most brutal fighters in the war against the Lessening
Society. But his life is not complete.
Set in the near future world where all bees are extinct when 5
unconnected people from varying parts of world are each stung. Their
experience unites them in ways they could not have imagined.
Once there was a Postman who fell in love with a Raven.
So begins
the tale of a postman who encounters a fledgling raven while on the edge
of his route and decides to bring her home. The unlikely couple falls
in love and conceives a child—an extraordinary raven girl trapped in a
human body. One of the world’s
most beloved storytellers has crafted a dark fairy tale full of
wonderment and longing. Complete with Audrey Niffenegger’s bewitching
etchings and paintings,
Raven Girl explores the bounds of transformation and possibility.
