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What do readers say about The House in the Cerulean Sea?
a witty, charming fablea truly heartwarming fantasya delightloneliness, identity, familyA magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret.
Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his da... Read more about The House in the Cerulean Sea
That was an understatement. He watched in rapt wonder as an eleven-year-old girl named Daisy levitated blocks of wood high above her head. The blocks spun in slow, concentric circles. Daisy frowned in...
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What do readers say about The Colour of Magic?
fast-paced and funnyvery, very funnylight fantastical fantasyinventive and funny'His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday
NAMED AS ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 MOST INSPIRING NOVELS
The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat ... Read more about The Colour of Magic
FIRE ROARED through the bifurcated city of Ankh-Morpork. Where it licked the Wizards’ Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth color, octarine; where its o...
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What do readers say about Anne of Green Gables?
sentimental, sacchariny booka children's storyliterature at its finestyoung adult classicThe classic Anne of Green Gables; inspiration for the Netflix original series Anne With an E
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make... Read more about Anne of Green Gables
Mrs Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops, and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods ...
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What do readers say about All Creatures Great and Small?
hysterical and touchingsimple and unadornedfunny and heartwarminglight and breezyThe classic multimillion copy bestseller
Delve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herriot, the world's most beloved veterinarian, and his menagerie of heartwarming, funny, and tragic animal patients.
For over forty years, generations of r... Read more about All Creatures Great and Small
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What do readers say about The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet?
fun and well-writtena found family space operaa crew of a spaceshipit is totally character drivenNational Bestseller!
The acclaimed modern science fiction masterpiece, Hugo Award winner for Best Series!
Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space-and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far re... Read more about The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Living in space was anything but quiet. Grounders never expected that. For anyone who had grown up planetside, it took some time to get used to the clicks and hums of a ship, the ever-present ambiance...
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What do readers say about Howl’s Moving Castle?
fun and lightfar from traditionaltrippy little bookendlessly inventive and entertainingALA Best Fiction for Young Adults
ALA Best of the Best Books for Young Adults
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book
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In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three. Everyone knows you are the one who will...
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What do readers say about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
captivating, witty and compellinglaugh out loud funnypure craziness and randomnessoutlandish, semi-ridiculous humorIt's an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent . . . until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly after to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and Arthur's best friend has just announced that he's an alien.
After that, thing... Read more about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
At eight o’clock on Thursday morning Arthur didn’t feel very good. He woke up blearily, got up, wandered blearily round his room, opened a window, saw a bulldozer, found his slippers, and stomped off ...
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What do readers say about The Rosie Project?
empathy and humourwitty and entertaininglight, humorous toneit was purely entertainingThe international bestselling romantic comedy "bursting with warmth, emotional depth, and…humor," (Entertainment Weekly) featuring the oddly charming, socially challenged genetics professor, Don, as he seeks true love.
The art of love is never a scie... Read more about The Rosie Project
I may have found a solution to the Wife Problem. As with so many scientific breakthroughs, the answer was obvious in retrospect. But had it not been for a series of unscheduled events, it is unlikely ...
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What do readers say about A Gentleman in Moscow?
third person narrativeflowery language and writinga novel of nuancewarmth and humor** Available for pre-order, THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY, the dazzling new novel from Amor Towles **
Chosen for the Duchess of Cornwall's online book club The Reading Room
OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD: a BBC Radio 4 Book Club choice, soon to be a major TV serie... Read more about A Gentleman in Moscow
Within the hour, he would be in the warm spring air striding along Tverskaya Street, his moustaches at full sail. En route, he would purchase the Herald from the stand on Gazetny Lane, he would pass F...
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What do readers say about A Man Called Ove?
rule based thinkingsadness and humorquirky, heartfelt, and humourousgrief and lossMORE THAN TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD
"You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll feel new sympathy for the curmudgeons in your life." -People
Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon-the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his... Read more about A Man Called Ove
He drives a Saab. He’s the kind of man who points at people he doesn’t like the look of, as if they were burglars and his forefinger a policeman’s flashlight. He stands at the counter of a shop where ...
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