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English
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5 stars
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In the sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea, Arthur Parnassus, headmaster of a strange orphanage, and the other inhabitants of Marsyas Island must fight to save the dangerous and magical children of the orphanage or risk the entire island falling apart.
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Choc Lit
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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Secrets threaten to tear a marriage apart in this compelling British mystery from the author of The Cornish Retribution. When the opportunity arises, Doctor Tristan Ainsworth jumps at the chance to move back to the idyllic Cornish village where he grew up. He hopes the change of scenery will lift his agoraphobic wife Karen out of the dark moods that have kept her withdrawn. Karen Ainsworth's past has always hung over her like a dark cloud. A chance...
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Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
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Can you fall in love with someone before you've even met? Seren MacArthur is living a life she never intended. Trying to save the Cornish seaside business her late father built-while grieving for his loss-she has put her own dreams on hold and is struggling. Until she discovers a half-finished seaglass star on her favourite beach during an early morning walk. When she completes the star, she sets into motion a chain of events that will steal her heart...
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Publisher:
Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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A gripping adventure and poignant love story about two idealistic people who dedicate their lives to sea mammals to forget about themselves. Join Liz, an emotionally wounded American animal rights journalist, as she ventures to Japan on a mission to expose the capturing of dolphins for human entertainment. She clashes with the rigid culture and with Kaito, a repressed Japanese dolphin trainer fixated on communicating with dolphins to help humankind....
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Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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EXTENDED SUMMARY SOMEWHERE BEYOND THE SEA BASED ON THE BOOK BY T.J. KLUNE SUMMARY WRITTEN BY: QUICK READING LIBRARY CONTENT The Proposal and the House on Marsyas Island The First Child Arrives Life with the Magical Children Zoe and the Secrets of Marsyas Island The Conflict with D.I.C.O.M.Y. The Unlikely Allies The Testimony The Struggle for Freedom Confrontation and Resolution General Analysis of Somewhere Beyond the Sea ABOUT...
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Third in the series of Aubrey–Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent and in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Aubrey is on the defensive, pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy enjoying overwhelming local superiority. But somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies the prize that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams: the ships sent by Napoleon
...7. Nostromo
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English
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"Conrad's pessimistic worldview colors this novel depicting the brutality of Latin American politics and the tragedies that inevitably ensue."
Publisher:
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Against the backdrop of post-World War II Australia, Sarah Adams is a nurse who becomes involved in the affairs of the wealthy Bligh family. The drama is dealing with themes such as anti-Semitism, sexuality, and social class.
10. The one kingdom
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Swans' war volume 1
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English
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The cataclysm began more than a century earlier, when the King of Ayr died before naming an heir to the throne, and damned his realm to chaos. The cold-blooded conspiracies of the Renne and the Wills-each family desirous of the prize of rule-would sunder the one kingdom, and spawn generations of hatred and discord. Now Toren Renne, leader of his great and troubled house, dreams of peace-a valiant desire that has spawned hostility among his kinsmen,...
12. Red side story
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Publisher:
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date:
©2024
Language:
English
Description:
"Civilization has been rebuilt after an unspoken "Something that Happened" five hundred years ago. Society is now color vision-segregated, professions, marriages, and leisure activities all dictated by an individual's visual ability, and everything run by the shadowy National Color in far-off Emerald City. Out on the fringes of Red Sector West, twenty-year-old Eddie Russett is being bullied into an arranged marriage with the powerful DeMauve family,...
13. The Fisherling
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Xlibris UK
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
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The simple life of a Fisherling was never enough for Grohg, a young Sch'nibbit from the eastern lands, for he had always believed his true calling lay somewhere beyond the deeper waters, in the lands beyond the sea. This story chronicles his first journey into a larger world, and of his voyage to the dark and perilous land of El'ehc'orh, where he attempts to unravel the secrets surrounding an ancient prophecy. And it is there, beneath the mountains,...
14. Referent
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Series:
Lost Sci-Fi volume 244
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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In Referent, Ray Bradbury crafts a thought-provoking and imaginative short story that delves into the complexities of human memory, identity, and the connections we form with the world around us. Set in a future where technology and human consciousness intertwine in new and unsettling ways, the story explores the idea of "referents"-objects or experiences that serve as anchors for personal memory and identity. Through Bradbury's poetic and vivid...
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Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
Somewhere beyond the sea... When Alexa Fisher finds herself trapped on a twelve-day cruise to celebrate her younger sister's hen-do - just the two of them - she wishes she'd jumped overboard. Despite the age difference, India has always been the judgemental sibling, and there's been even more friction than usual since 'the big engagement'. With India constantly obsessing over wedding plans, Alexa has never felt more single, or more of a failure. She...
16. Stout Men
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Publisher:
Author's Republic
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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Somewhere beyond the Salish Sea lived the Stout Men who did the Megin River, and Tibet, and the Amazon. There was Tictac and Poldy, Cliffy and Madame, Captain and Gung, and Papa Smurf, who would die someday, but not yet. These are the stories of where they rushed headlong, towards adventure and suffering, and how it all took place.
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Publisher:
Andrew Hunter
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
The armies of the dead stand, prepared to march into the land of the Red God, and Garrett, Deathlord and Reaver of Songs, must lead them. Somewhere beyond Chadir's bleak cliffs lies Brenhaven, the city that he once called home. What sort of welcome have the red priests prepared there for the young necromancer and his friends? It will probably involve a lot of fire.Across the sea, Marla and her vampire companions struggle to accept the revelation of...
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Tarzan volume 12
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English
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Erich von Harben, a young German specialized in archaeology and dead languages, with a passion for mountain climbing starts investigating the legend of The Lost Tribe of the Wiramwazi Mountains and disappears. His father meets and asks Tarzan for help. Tarzan in his search for Erich von Harben finds a lost remnant of the Roman Empire hidden in the mountains of Africa. They are inhabitants of two rival cities Castra Sanguinarius, ruled by Sublatus...
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Publisher:
Christopher Buecheler
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
The metal thing has kept a grim vigil within its blasted circle of bone for more than ten thousand years, and those who cross the boundaries of that ring can expect only death. Standing as God to a cracked and broken people, it waits for the one who holds within him the key that can unlock the miracles of the land beyond.Pehr lives with his family in their village by the sea, far removed from the metal thing and its worshipers. He is sixteen, fit...