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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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"A ninth generation Appalachian herself, Archer Sullivan brings the mountains of North Carolina to life in The Witch's Orchard, a wonderfully atmospheric novel that introduces private investigator Annie Gore. Former Air Force Special Investigator Annie Gore joined the military right after high school to escape the fraught homelife of her childhood. Now, she's getting by as a private investigator and her latest case takes her to an Appalachian holler...
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English
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3.7 stars
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"Vivienne Jones handled the biggest break-up of her life the way that any witch would: vodka, bubble baths, and a curse on her ex. That was nine years ago. Now Rhys Penhallow, descendant of the town's founders, breaker of hearts and still irritatingly gorgeous, is back. Rhys has returned to the quaint town of Graves Glen to recharge the ley lines and make an appearance at the annual fall festival. But when his every move results in calamity, Vivi...
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New Hampshire is Robert Frost's poetic tour de force. It won the Pulitzer Prize for excellence in poetry. While Frost had been a respected poet before New Hampshire's release New Hampshire, forever cemented Frost's standing as, the greatest American Poet. If you've never read Frost, this is the book with which to start. It includes some of his most beloved poems such as "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Nothing Gold Can Stay" and "Fire and...
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Publisher:
Globe Pequot Press
Pub. Date:
©2020
Language:
English
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Walt Woodward, a gifted story-teller, brings the history we thought we knew to life in new ways, from the nearly forgotten early presence of the Dutch, to the time when Connecticut was New England's fiercest prosecutor of witches, the decades when Connecticans were rapidly leaving the state, and the years when Irish immigrants were hurrying into it. Creating Connecticut will leave you thinking about our state's past--and its future--in a whole new...
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Lexile measure:
720L
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English
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"In the little town of Blackbird Tree live two orphan girls: one Naomi Deane, brimming with curiosity, and her best friend, Lizzie Scatterding, who could talk the ears off a cornfield. Naomi has a knack for being around when trouble happens. For she knows all the peculiar people in town--like Crazy Cora and Witch Wiggins and Mr. Farley. But then, one day, a boy drops out of a tree. The strangely charming Finn boy. Then the Dingle Dangle man appears,...
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Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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"Charmed meets Ghost Hunters in this magically wicked paranormal romance, perfect for fans of Not the Witch You Wed and The Ex Hex. There have always been rumors that something magical is afoot at Wicked Good Apples. Rain during droughts and other inexplicable happenings have long haunted the Maine orchard, but only Holly Celeste and her family know the truth: the Celestes are just a little wicked. Despite the magical secret ingredient in their cider,...
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Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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"Sara A. Mueller's The Bone Orchard is a fascinating whodunit set in a lush, gothic world of secrets and magic--where a dying emperor charges his favorite concubine with solving his own murder, and preventing the culprit, which undoubtedly is one of his three terrible sons, from taking control of an empire. Charm is a witch, and she is alone. The last of a line of conquered necromantic workers, now confined within the yard of regrown bone trees at...
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Publisher:
Berkley
Pub. Date:
[2022]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
"A sinister novel based on the real Bloody Benders, a family of serial killers in the old West bound by butchery and obscured by the shadows of American history. The winds shift nervously on the Kansas plain whispering of travelers lost and buried, whispering of witches. Something dark and twisted has taken root at the Bender inn. At first the townspeople of Cherryvale welcome the rising medium Kate Bender and her family. Kate's messages from the...
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Publisher:
Voyager
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
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A dead witch. A bitter curse. A battle of magic. Some people knit socks by the fire at night. Gyssha Blackbone made monsters. But, the old witch is dead now, and somehow it's Elodie's job to clean up the mess. When she was hired at Black Oak Cottage, Elodie had no idea she'd find herself working for a witch; and her acid-tongued new mistress, Aleida, was not expecting a housemaid to turn up on her doorstep. Gyssha's final curse left Aleida practically...
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Series:
Otter Lake mystery volume 6
Publisher:
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
"Erica Bloom is loving everything about autumn this year in Otter Lake, New Hampshire: changing leaves, apple cider, cozy sweaters...and the warm and fuzzy relationship that's heating up between her and Sheriff Grady Forrester. But when some local teens out to find some Halloween thrills come across a boot with a dead man's foot bones still inside it, a chilling new reality comes into play. Everyone in Otter Lake knows about the age-old witch who...
12. Grinza's Orchard
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Publisher:
Dreamcast Books
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
Grinza's Orchard is an award-winning fairy-tale novelette for tweens about a Gypsy girl growing up in the early 1900's in Cojasca, a small village in Romania. At five-years-old, Grinza is gifted her own cherry tree. This fruit tree becomes the centerpiece of the story as she dreams of one day having her own full-blown cherry orchard. Grinza faces many problems such as an unwanted boy who is attracted to her, a terribly hard decision she has to make...
13. Magic Remembered
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Publisher:
Pink Moon Books
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
A battle over the Apples of Immortality is at hand.On an island in the Salish Sea, caretakers of the ancient orchards are vanishing. The earth witch in charge of protecting the groves is on the cusp of losing her magic. And the druid who investigates crimes of the magical kind is carrying deadly secrets. All Calliope Jones needs to do is survive her Blood Ceremony, keep her teenaged sons' magic from blowing up, and help save Tanner Marechal from the...
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Publisher:
Elizabeth Rain
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
What does Murder, an Annoying Ghost, and a 100-year-old secret all have in Common?Verity Blume moved to Spells Bay with her nephew Joel to start she bought the Tree is a rundown vineyard and orchard in Veil Falls. It just needs a little TLC.It needs Verity; 40 something, divorced, broke, and a vine witch? Or so her handsome next-door neighbor keeps telling her.But there's more to Verity's skills then the untapped magic in her a witch in waiting isn't...
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Publisher:
Mountolive Publishing
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
An ancient ritual awakens dormant powers - and a tangled mystery. Birdie, Morgana, and Odette are the three resident witches of Moonfell, the magical Gothic mansion that lies at the edge of Richmond Park in London. They are responsible for maintaining the centuries old magic that is woven deep in the roots of the estate. When Morgana's son and his cousin join them to celebrate Ostara, the three witches decide to honour the lore of the house by introducing...
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Publisher:
Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Prince Harvey had a great life. He was very handsome (some would say, too handsome for his own good). He was heavily doted on by his parents, and the ladies were crazy about him. Still, he had a good heart. He spent his days swimming, fishing, practising his target shooting, and getting up to general high jinks with his cousin and best friend, Ralphie. He also enjoyed tearing about the kingdom on Black Terror (ironically, a rather timid horse). Until,...
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Publisher:
The History Press
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
These Somerset tales, newly collected or retold with a strong sense of the land and the waters that shaped them, reflect our enduring interest in the natural landscape. Let these stories from the Summer Lands take you on a journey: across wind-wild moors that plummet to treacherous tides traversed by sea morgans; on a scramble from gorges shaped by the Devil's spite to caves dwelled in by bitter witches. Discover ancient mines and dragons' haunts,...
18. Saving Mama
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Publisher:
PER Publisher/Claire Hebert-Dow
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
The story of a unique family taking matters into their own paws. Saving Mama is the tale of a single mother's travels in uncharted territory. With the help of some unlikely warriors-five kitties and one pup-she discovers that life isn't always what you expect, but it can be more than what you dreamed possible. "A window into the private life of a woman as she tackles motherhood, working in a man's world, and discovering who she is, all through the...
19. Cider mill coven
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Publisher:
Coven of One Publishing
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
"When three young cousins experience an explosion of nature-infused magic at their Grandma Lydia's orchard, their parents whisk them off to opposite corners of New England. But distance cannot contain their witchy destiny forever and in 1995 -- one fateful October night -- tenacious dreamer, Raven, now 18 years old, has a near death experience that ignites mystical forces from within. Soon after, her hilarious bestie of a cousin, the vivacious and...
Author:
Publisher:
The History Press
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
County Armagh, the Orchard County, abounds in folk tales, myths and legends and a selection of the best, drawn from historical sources and newly recorded local reminiscence, have been brought to life here by local storyteller Frances Quinn. Armagh is the place where, legend has it, the warrior king Conor Mac Nessa once ruled and where Deirdre of the Sorrows met her lover Naoise. It is where St Mochua's Well was said to curse, not cure and where evidence...