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What do readers say about This Is How You Lose the Time War?
flowery, poetic language lyrical and compelling strange and lovely epistolary science fictionHUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA
NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS WINNER: BEST NOVELLA
"[An] exquisitely crafted tale...Part epistolary romance, part mind-blowing science fiction adventure, this dazzling story unfolds bit by bit, revealing layers of meaning as... More details on This Is How You Lose the Time War
That was fun, she thinks, but the thought sours in the framing. It was clean, at least. Climb up time’s threads into the past and make sure no one survives this battle to muddle the futures her Agency...
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What do readers say about The Hazel Wood?
dark and atmospheric atmospheric and detailed polished and picture-perfect moist forest horror novelsWelcome to Melissa Albert's The Hazel Wood-the fiercely stunning New York Times bestseller everyone is raving about!
Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biti... More details on The Hazel Wood
Althea Proserpine is raising her daughter on fairy tales. Once upon a time she was a girl named Anna Parks, one of the legion of midcentury dreamers who came to Manhattan with their hopes tucked into ...
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What do readers say about Dictionary of the Strange, Curious, and Lovely?
a casual dictionary dictionary of unusual words large print text list of wordsA dictionary of English's 3500 most interesting and/or beautiful words. Learn unusual but useful and lovely English words such as chiliad, chirm, circumcrescent, davening, firedrake, limerance, moonglade, petrichor, psithurisim, squillion and tourbil... More details on Dictionary of the Strange, Curious, and Lovely
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What do readers say about Katalin Street?
contemporary eastern european literature powerful, moving and insightful memories and tough dilemmas frightening in its simplicityWINNER OF THE 2018 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE
From the author of The Door, selected as one of the New York Times "10 Best Books of 2015," this is a heartwrenching tale about a group of friends and lovers torn apart by the German occupation of Budapest dur... More details on Katalin Street
It was the place that sheltered them from the rain and the heat of the sun, nothing more: a cave, if slightly more comfortable than a cave. An air of neglect hung over everything, defying the best eff...
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What do readers say about The Dream Life of Sukhanov?
rich, weighty and lyrical stunning debut novel the soviet era milan kundera's styleOlga Grushin's astonishing literary debut has won her comparisons with everyone from Gogol to Nabokov. A virtuoso study in betrayal and its consequences, it explores-really, colonizes-the consciousness of Anatoly Sukhanov, who many years before aband... More details on The Dream Life of Sukhanov
The white-and-yellow columns outside his window ceased their tiresome flashing, began to slow down, and in another moment fell obediently into their assigned places. A pale orange tentacle of a nearby...
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What do readers say about The Corner That Held Them?
an historical novel beautiful descriptive prose a group portrait strange and lovelyA unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors.
Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather t... More details on The Corner That Held Them
Alianor de Retteville lay on her bed and looked at Giles who was her lover. She did not speak. She had nothing to say. He did not speak either. They were not alone, for in a corner of the room an old ...
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What do readers say about Never Never?
love, lies and deceit strange and intense loved every freaking second half a book#1 New York Times bestselling author of Hopeless joins forces with the New York Times bestselling author of Mud Vein. Together, they have created a gripping, romantic tale unlike any other. "How odd to be made of flesh, balanced on bone, and filled w... More details on Never Never
A crash. Books fall to the speckled linoleum floor. They skid a few feet, whirling in circles, and stop near feet. My feet. I don’t recognize the black sandals, or the red toenails, but they move when...
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What do readers say about House of Leaves?
complexity and inventiveness pretentious and boring existentialist horror story pretentious & highfalutin"A novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious." -The New York Times
Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled... More details on House of Leaves
§Provide examples of hand shadows ranging from crabs, snails, rabbits,and turtles to dragons, panthers, tigers, and kangaroos. Also includehippos, frogs, elephants, birds of paradise, dogs, cockatoos,...
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What do readers say about Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell?
imaginative, immersive story jealousy, ambition, and loss rich, lengthy, and pleasant ancient mystical historyIn the Hugo-award winning, epic New York Times Bestseller and basis for the BBC miniseries, two men change England's history when they bring magic back into the world.
In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars in 1806, most people believe magic to have lo... More details on Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
They were gentleman-magicians, which is to say they had never harmed any one by magic – nor ever done any one the slightest good. In fact, to own the truth, not one of these magicians had ever cast th...
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What do readers say about Piranesi?
the unreliable narrator tedious, long-winded style fantasy? magical realism eerie and insightfulA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE KITSCHIES RED TENTACLE AWARD
The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL, 'one of our greatest living authors' New York Magazine... More details on Piranesi
I climbed up the Western Wall until I reached the Statue of a Woman carrying a Beehive, fifteen metres above the Pavement. The Woman is two or three times my own height and the Beehive is covered with...
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