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Orphaned and cast out as a witch by her village, Vasya’s options are few. Both doom her to life in a tower, cut off from the vast magical world she longs ...Show more
Orphaned and cast out as a witch by her village, Vasya’s options are few. Both doom her to life in a tower, cut off from the vast magical world she longs to explore.
Instead she chooses adventure, disguising herself as a boy and riding her trusted horse, Solovey, into the woods. Vasya must now balance the growing challenges of the life she has chosen — even as she realizes his kingdom is under threat from mysterious forces only she will be able to stop.
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Orphaned and cast out as a witch by her village, Vasya’s options are few. Both doom her to life in a tower, cut off from the vast magical world she longs ...Show more
Orphaned and cast out as a witch by her village, Vasya’s options are few. Both doom her to life in a tower, cut off from the vast magical world she longs to explore.
Instead she chooses adventure, disguising herself as a boy and riding her trusted horse, Solovey, into the woods. Vasya must now balance the growing challenges of the life she has chosen — even as she realizes his kingdom is under threat from mysterious forces only she will be able to stop.
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The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. Estranged from Ada’s father, Ada’s mathematician mother is deter...Show more
The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. Estranged from Ada’s father, Ada’s mathematician mother is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage.
When Ada is introduced into London society as a highly eligible young heiress, she at last discovers the intellectual and social circles she has craved all her life. Little does she realize that her delightful new friendship with inventor Charles Babbage will shape her destiny.
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The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. Estranged from Ada’s father, Ada’s mathematician mother is deter...Show more
The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. Estranged from Ada’s father, Ada’s mathematician mother is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage.
When Ada is introduced into London society as a highly eligible young heiress, she at last discovers the intellectual and social circles she has craved all her life. Little does she realize that her delightful new friendship with inventor Charles Babbage will shape her destiny.
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Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. No one there knows she was once victim number seventeen in...Show more
Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. No one there knows she was once victim number seventeen in the grisly story of serial killer Francis Michael Coben. The only one who lived.
When three people disappear from her town in three years — all around her birthday — Ellery fears someone knows her secret. Someone very dangerous. Her superiors dismiss her concerns, but Ellery knows the vanishing season is coming and anyone could be next. She contacts the one man she knows will believe her: the FBI agent who saved her from a killer all those years ago.
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Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. No one there knows she was once victim number seventeen in...Show more
Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. No one there knows she was once victim number seventeen in the grisly story of serial killer Francis Michael Coben. The only one who lived.
When three people disappear from her town in three years — all around her birthday — Ellery fears someone knows her secret. Someone very dangerous. Her superiors dismiss her concerns, but Ellery knows the vanishing season is coming and anyone could be next. She contacts the one man she knows will believe her: the FBI agent who saved her from a killer all those years ago.
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Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As...Show more
Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground – an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor. A relic from a past Peri had tried desperately to forget.
Over the course of the dinner, terrorist attacks occur across the city. Competing in Peri's mind are the memories of the time years earlier when she was sent abroad for the first time. As the terrorist attacks come ever closer, Peri is moved to recall the scandal that tore them all apart.
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Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As...Show more
Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground – an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor. A relic from a past Peri had tried desperately to forget.
Over the course of the dinner, terrorist attacks occur across the city. Competing in Peri's mind are the memories of the time years earlier when she was sent abroad for the first time. As the terrorist attacks come ever closer, Peri is moved to recall the scandal that tore them all apart.
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Rome, present day: an extravagant, opulent world of excess and intrigue. Oscar Martello, president of a film production company, is a self-made man. Andre...Show more
Rome, present day: an extravagant, opulent world of excess and intrigue. Oscar Martello, president of a film production company, is a self-made man. Andrea Serrano, his best friend, is a scriptwriter who explores the themes of love and murder. The beautiful actress Jacaranda Rizzi, Oscar’s muse, has a secret that has been tormenting her for many years.
When a fire devastates Oscar’s villa and he goes missing, all of Rome is left to wonder about his fate. The evidence points to Jacaranda, but could she have orchestrated something so sinister?
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Rome, present day: an extravagant, opulent world of excess and intrigue. Oscar Martello, president of a film production company, is a self-made man. Andre...Show more
Rome, present day: an extravagant, opulent world of excess and intrigue. Oscar Martello, president of a film production company, is a self-made man. Andrea Serrano, his best friend, is a scriptwriter who explores the themes of love and murder. The beautiful actress Jacaranda Rizzi, Oscar’s muse, has a secret that has been tormenting her for many years.
When a fire devastates Oscar’s villa and he goes missing, all of Rome is left to wonder about his fate. The evidence points to Jacaranda, but could she have orchestrated something so sinister?
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"This hugely ambitious work of contemporary realism offers a dramatic warning about the influence of digital culture."
-- Booklist
Joe Chayefsk...Show more
"This hugely ambitious work of contemporary realism offers a dramatic warning about the influence of digital culture."
-- Booklist
Joe Chayefski has got what he always wanted: a reputation as one of America's top neuroscientists, a beautiful wife and two perfect daughters. But his carefully created idyll is threatened when his Baltimore neuroscience lab is targeted by animal rights activists. The attack is followed by a phone call from Joe's ex-wife in Finland. Two decades have passed since he abandoned Alina and their young son, Samuel, returning to America to advance his career. Now Samuel is somewhere in the States, and Alina fears he is looking for revenge.
As Joe struggles to protect his new family from the increasing threat of violence – and to save his eldest daughter from the clutches of an unscrupulous tech company – he is forced to reconsider his priorities and take drastic action to save those he loves.
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"This hugely ambitious work of contemporary realism offers a dramatic warning about the influence of digital culture."
-- Booklist
Joe Chayefsk...Show more
"This hugely ambitious work of contemporary realism offers a dramatic warning about the influence of digital culture."
-- Booklist
Joe Chayefski has got what he always wanted: a reputation as one of America's top neuroscientists, a beautiful wife and two perfect daughters. But his carefully created idyll is threatened when his Baltimore neuroscience lab is targeted by animal rights activists. The attack is followed by a phone call from Joe's ex-wife in Finland. Two decades have passed since he abandoned Alina and their young son, Samuel, returning to America to advance his career. Now Samuel is somewhere in the States, and Alina fears he is looking for revenge.
As Joe struggles to protect his new family from the increasing threat of violence – and to save his eldest daughter from the clutches of an unscrupulous tech company – he is forced to reconsider his priorities and take drastic action to save those he loves.
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No Time to Spare collects the best of Ursula’s online writing, presenting perfectly crystallized dispatches on what matters to her now, her concerns with ...Show more
No Time to Spare collects the best of Ursula’s online writing, presenting perfectly crystallized dispatches on what matters to her now, her concerns with this world, and her unceasing wonder at it: “How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us.”
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No Time to Spare collects the best of Ursula’s online writing, presenting perfectly crystallized dispatches on what matters to her now, her concerns with ...Show more
No Time to Spare collects the best of Ursula’s online writing, presenting perfectly crystallized dispatches on what matters to her now, her concerns with this world, and her unceasing wonder at it: “How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us.”
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There's always been magic in our world
We just needed to know where to look for it
There's always been magic in our world
We just needed to know where to look for it
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There's always been magic in our world
We just needed to know where to look for it
There's always been magic in our world
We just needed to know where to look for it
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Paulette and Danni grew up miles apart — Paulette in Hamilton and Danni in North Toronto — but they might as well have been worlds apart. Paulette's famil...Show more
Paulette and Danni grew up miles apart — Paulette in Hamilton and Danni in North Toronto — but they might as well have been worlds apart. Paulette's family emigrated from Jamaica. Danni grew up Jewish in an affluent neighbourhood of Toronto. Now both women find themselves on the mean streets of downtown Toronto, working in the sex trade.
Paulette is a seasoned prostitute, working to support herself and her addiction. She acts as an unlikely and reluctant mentor and friend to Danni, who is new to the street and whose addiction has set her on a similar path to Paulette. Their paths intersect again and again over the course of a difficult and troubled friendship that sees Paulette begin to pull herself together while Danni manages to survive everything that comes her way, including the blowing up of an abortion clinic. Will her luck run out? Has Paulette learned to make her own luck?
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Paulette and Danni grew up miles apart — Paulette in Hamilton and Danni in North Toronto — but they might as well have been worlds apart. Paulette's famil...Show more
Paulette and Danni grew up miles apart — Paulette in Hamilton and Danni in North Toronto — but they might as well have been worlds apart. Paulette's family emigrated from Jamaica. Danni grew up Jewish in an affluent neighbourhood of Toronto. Now both women find themselves on the mean streets of downtown Toronto, working in the sex trade.
Paulette is a seasoned prostitute, working to support herself and her addiction. She acts as an unlikely and reluctant mentor and friend to Danni, who is new to the street and whose addiction has set her on a similar path to Paulette. Their paths intersect again and again over the course of a difficult and troubled friendship that sees Paulette begin to pull herself together while Danni manages to survive everything that comes her way, including the blowing up of an abortion clinic. Will her luck run out? Has Paulette learned to make her own luck?
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In the luminous, moving title story,The Years, Months, Days—a bestselling, classic fable in China, and winner of the prestigious Lu Xun Literary Prize—an ...Show more
In the luminous, moving title story,The Years, Months, Days—a bestselling, classic fable in China, and winner of the prestigious Lu Xun Literary Prize—an elderly man stays behind in his small village after a terrible drought forces everyone to leave. Unable to make the grueling march through the mountains, he becomes the lone inhabitant, along with a blind dog. As he fends off the natural world from overtaking his hometown, every day is a victory over death.
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In the luminous, moving title story,The Years, Months, Days—a bestselling, classic fable in China, and winner of the prestigious Lu Xun Literary Prize—an ...Show more
In the luminous, moving title story,The Years, Months, Days—a bestselling, classic fable in China, and winner of the prestigious Lu Xun Literary Prize—an elderly man stays behind in his small village after a terrible drought forces everyone to leave. Unable to make the grueling march through the mountains, he becomes the lone inhabitant, along with a blind dog. As he fends off the natural world from overtaking his hometown, every day is a victory over death.
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