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What do readers say about The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie?
dry and witty light and clever complex and intriguing fun and funnyWINNER OF THE AGATHA
ARTHUR ELLIS
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IT WAS AS BLACK IN THE CLOSET AS OLD BLOOD. THEY had shoved me in and locked the door. I breathed heavily through my nose, fighting desperately to remain calm. I tried counting to ten on every intake ...
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What do readers say about The Green Man?
beautifully delineated prose light and clever short black comedy a haunted innMaurice Allington has reached middle age and is haunted by death. As he says, "I honestly can't see why everybody who isn't a child, everybody who's theoretically old enough to have understood what death means, doesn't spend all his time thinking abo... More details on The Green Man
No sooner has one gone over one’s surprise at finding a genuine coaching inn less than 40 miles from London—and 8 from the MI—than one is marvelling at the quality of the equally genuine English fare ...
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What do readers say about Howl’s Moving Castle?
fun and light far from traditional trippy little book endlessly 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 Power?
crisp and forcefull dystopian present day classic episodic and disjointed physical superiority over menIn this stunning bestseller praised as "our era's Handmaid's Tale," a fierce new power has emerged-and only women have it (Washington Post).
In The Power, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family p... More details on The Power
Not very many miracles are required. Not for the Vatican, not for a group of highly strung teenage girls cooped up together for months and in fear of their lives. You don’t need so many miracles. Two ...
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What do readers say about Ready Steady Dig?
totally captured my imagination a sweet and funny lovely, funny and clever light-hearted and cleverWhen you have spent the last sixteen hundred years faithfully guarding a precious hoard of gold and silver buried in the foundations of a Roman villa, the arrival of a bunch of TV archaeologists is seriously bad news.But the little household gods of ... More details on Ready Steady Dig
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What do readers say about A Kiss at Midnight?
fantasy love story bittersweet and realistic lighthearted and sexy an impossible love"Eloisa James writes with a captivating blend of charm, style, and grace that never fails to leave the reader sighing and smiling and falling in love."
-New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn
"Romance writing does not get much better than... More details on A Kiss at Midnight
It should be said that the condition wasn’t unfamiliar to her. Before her father died seven years earlier, she found herself sometimes irritated with her new stepmother. But it wasn’t until he was gon...
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What do readers say about The Colour of Magic?
fast-paced and funny very, very funny light fantastical fantasy inventive 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 ... More details on 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 Lamb?
easy and anecdotal witty and extremely clever weirdass point of view christ's early lifeEveryone knows about the immaculate conception and the crucifixion. But what happened to Jesus between the manger and the Sermon on the Mount? In this hilarious and bold novel, the acclaimed Christopher Moore shares the greatest story never told: the... More details on Lamb
The first time I saw the man who would save the world he was sitting near the central well in Nazareth with a lizard hanging out of his mouth. Just the tail end and the hind legs were visible on the o...
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What do readers say about Soulless?
well-paced and executed london's integration of supernaturals witty and vibrant light hearted, humorous toneBuffy meets Jane Austen in the first book of this wickedly funny NYT bestselling series about a young woman whose brush with the supernatural leads to a deadly investigation of London's high society.
Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many so... More details on Soulless
Miss Alexia Tarabotti was not enjoying her evening. Private balls were never more than middling amusements for spinsters, and Miss Tarabotti was not the kind of spinster who could garner even that muc...
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What do readers say about Neverwhere?
very witty and funny the ultimate urban fantasy not as emotionally riveting fantasy hero's questPublished in 1997, Neil Gaiman's darkly hypnotic first novel, Neverwhere, heralded the arrival of a major talent and became a touchstone of urban fantasy.
It is the story of Richard Mayhew, a young London businessman with a good heart and an ordinar... More details on Neverwhere
SHE HAD BEEN RUNNING for four days now, a harum-scarum tumbling flight through passages and tunnels. She was hungry, and exhausted, and more tired than a body could stand, and each successive door was...
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