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Atria Books
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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"Enter the time space, a soaring library filled with books containing the memories of those who have passed, and accessed only by specially made watches once handed down from father to son—but now mostly in government hands. This is where eleven-year-old Lisavet Levy finds herself trapped in 1938, waiting for her watchmaker father to return. When he doesn’t, she grows up among the books and specters, able to see the world only by sifting through...
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English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II--an experience Eva remembers well--and the search to reunite people...
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English
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a new novel inspired by little-known historical events: a dramatic story of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the destruction of the post-Civil War South,and of a modern-day teacher who rediscovers their story and its vital connection to her own students' lives. In her distinctive voice, Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual "Lost...
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Alaska Wild Mysteries volume 5
Language:
English
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"A year after arriving in Benedict, Beth Rivers is feeling very at home in Alaska, even as outsiders are starting to return to enjoy the brief summer perfection. Beth feels like she's finally let go of most of her demons. She's even found her father, EddyRivers--or, rather, he found her--and she's trying to find the middle ground between anger and forgiveness. One sunny July day, Beth boards a tourist ship to see the glaciers, the main reason visitors...
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Jac L'Etoile has always been haunted by the past, her memories infused with the exotic scents that she grew up surrounded by as the heir to a storied French perfume company. Now, fourteen years later she and her brother have inherited the company along with its financial problems. But when her Robbie hints at an earth-shattering discovery in the family archives and then suddenly goes missing, Jac is plunged into a world she thought she'd left behind....
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Publisher:
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
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Max's parents are missing. They are actors, and thus unpredictable, but sailing away, leaving Max with only a cryptic note, is unusual even for them. Did theyintend to leave him behind? Have they been kidnapped?
Until he can figure it out, Max feels it's safer to keep a low profile. Hiding out is no problem for a child of the theater. Max has played many roles, he can be whoever he needs to be to blend in. But finding a job is...
Until he can figure it out, Max feels it's safer to keep a low profile. Hiding out is no problem for a child of the theater. Max has played many roles, he can be whoever he needs to be to blend in. But finding a job is...
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Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"Kate Darling's enigmatic mother-- a once famous ballerina-- has passed away, leaving Kate bereft. When her grandmother falls ill and bequeaths to Kate a small portrait of a woman who bears a striking resemblance to Kate's mother, Kate uncovers a mystery that may upend everything she thought she knew"--From publisher description.
Series:
(John Ronald Reuel),History of Middle-earth volume 1-2
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date:
[1984]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Publisher:
Thomas Nelson
Language:
English
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Castle Priory is a crumbling Oxfordshire mansion, one Brian Blackstone's wife considered a place of extraordinary enchantment. But for Brian there is no enchantment, only the burden of trying to honor Sarah's dying wish that he hold onto the property.With the local doctor, Cecilia Keeble, Brian begins to explore the mysteries of the old estate. In the process he discovers a medieval secret which offers a key to renew his spirit and heal his broken...
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English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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"The spirit of Marisol, who vanished during the Cuban Revolution, visits her nephew, Ramon, in modern-day New Jersey, and her presence prompts him to investigate the story of his ancestor, unaware of the forces driving him on his search"--
15. The lost hours
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English
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When Piper Mills was twelve, she helped her grandfather bury a box that belonged to her grandmother in the backyard. For twelve years, it remained untouched. Now a near fatal riding accident has shattered Piper's dreams of Olympic glory. After her grandfather's death, she inherits the house and all its secrets, including a key to a room that doesn't exist-or does it? And after her grandmother is sent away to a nursing home, she remembers the box buried...
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Publisher:
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Description:
Endearingly strange, unsentimental, and uniquely structured, in true Rilkean fashion The Book of Hours questions the meaning and significance of everything from the flaws of human interaction to perfect posture. Unrelenting honesty and exacting description are coupled with the trials of a dying mother, saint shadows, birds, and "shit drying to chalk."
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Publisher:
The Wild Rose Press, Inc
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
"Beautiful, textured, and novel makes for a stunner. Un-put-downable." -Prairies Book Review A hauntingly beautiful tale that starts with the kind of friendship that alters lives, and ends in a heart-racing finale-amidst an atmospheric manor, clever riddles, ghost folklore, an exploration of grief, and an unforgettable romance. Grieving for her sister, introverted and witty Rose expects a lonely summer vacation at allegedly haunted Peacock Manor when...
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Publisher:
Birlinn Limited
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Description:
In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it's sobering to realize that some of the world's great prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty and unique new book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story, part history, part exposé, The Book of Lost Books is the first guide to literature's what-ifs and never-weres. In compulsively readable fashion, this book reveals details about tantalizing vanished works by the famous,...
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Publisher:
Kez Publishing
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Tapestry: The Book of Lost Worlds is the second captivating installment in the Story Tellers series by multi-award-winning #1 best-selling author Kez Wickham St George. In this evocative continuation, the stories of courageous women are brought to life, woven together in a rich tapestry of resilience, defiance, and ancestral legacy. The journey begins with a mystical exorcism, where soft candlelight dances with shadows, illuminating the ghosts of...