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1) Wishes
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An arresting, poetic journey and a moving reflection on immigration, family, and home, from an acclaimed creative team.
Wishes tells the powerful, honest story about one Vietnamese family's search for a new home on the other side of the world, and the long-lasting and powerful impact that makes on the littlest member of the family. Inspired by actual events in the author's life, this is a narrative that is both timely and timeless. Told through the...
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Someone wants to take her magic
Sophie is in danger... but she refuses to believe it. She thinks her magic makes her invincible, but her magic is what the insurrectionists want. They want to take it. Use it. Kill with it.
Reed, her new bodyguard, is determined to make sure that doesn't happen. He vows to protect her, even if it costs his life or, worse yet, his heart.
Contains: a sexy bodyguard; a determined witch with a deadly magic; an overprotective...
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Wishes, Wonder & Witchcraft is the last of the House of Loki Presents quarterly anthologies from House of Loki. For this book, we wanted a mixture of stories from the magical to the monstrous. We have spooky stories, terrific tales, and magical moments. Everything you could possibly wish for by some of the best writers from around the world. Please enjoy House Of LoKi Presents: Wishes, Wonder & Witchcraft
With stories from Callum Pearce, Nick Wilkinson,...
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Enchanting stories, taking the reader on magical pony adventures... Can they rescue ALL the ponies... The ponies of Pemberley Stables have been bound by magic and each of them are trapped in time. Can two brave girls help get them back? Sparkle the white pony has been magicked to be messy and can't stop rolling in mud. But can Olivia and Eliza help break the spell that is binding her and give her a magical makeover in time for the royal wedding?
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Faith Donahue's destiny is fulfilled in the arms of a dashing stranger one hundred years in the past. Dr. Ian Forrester has a young son and socialite fiance in San Francisco in 1906. He doesn't anticipate the earthquake that occurs, the upheaval in his life, as well as in his city. Faith Donahue enters his life and becomes the goveness to his beloved son. A scientific man, he questions her claim to be from the future, yet her gift of prophesy prevents...
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One child feels a hope and a wish growing in their heart--and wonders: How do you make your wishes come true? Wishes of the World learns the answer to that question from children from the United States to Japan, from Thailand to Guatemala, showing readers that hope and wishes are universal even as we make our wishes in unique ways. One child feels a hope and a wish growing in their heart--and wonders: How do you make your wishes come true? Wishes...
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Starting over, one wish at a time...;
Gabriella Chance has devoted her life to helping others overcome traumatic events. Now it's her turn. Gabby's come home to Heartache, Tennessee, to finally face her past. She finds solace in an unlikely ally, her high school crush, Clayton Travers. But while Clay wants to be Gabby's refuge, he's returned to Heartache to confront his own demons. With so many painful secrets in their past, can they hope to wish...
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Nicole Aldridge, the only child of England's most acclaimed jockey, is driven by one goal: to protect her father from merciless blackmailers. With Nick forced to give up his career and go into hiding, his daughter Nicole, an expert rider who grew up at her father's knee, disguises herself as a boy to compete in the celebrated Derby. But when her new employer, Dustin Kingsley, the Marquis of Tyreham, suspects something is amiss, she is torn between...
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WishesOnce, no one loved her. She lived solitary and neglected behind castle walls, her parents only half-there, the servants having long fled.Fantasizing away her days, the abandoned princess put herself together into a young woman by carelessly stuffing all the empty nooks in her life full of books and wishes and imprudent dreams.Stuff here, stuff there-stuff all the strangest things into her days.She skipped around all unsuspecting that, far away,...
11) City of wishes
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Legends of Lotus Island volume 3
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"Doing the New Year's break, Plum and her friends travel to fancy, fashionable Nakhon Island to stay with Sam and his mother, the powerful Lady Ubon. The New Year always brings food, parties, and the grand old tradition of making a wish. At first, Plum is dazzled by the big city. But under the glittering surface, many secrets lurk. Mysterious tremors that shake the ground are growing worse by the day. Nakhon's troubles give Plum a chance to fulfill...
12) Wish
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[2024]
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Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force, a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.
13) Wishing season
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"A moving middle grade story...about the enduring bond between twins: Anders, who has recently died, and Lily, who has to balance her grief and confusion with a brother who isn't quite gone--and how to navigate a world that is moving forward without him"--
14) Christmas Wishes
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A sparkling Christmas read from the Sunday Times bestseller—perfect to snuggle up with this winter!
Hannah and Nico are meant to be together.
But fate is keeping them apart...
As soon as Hannah bumps into her brother Rob's best friend Nico in Stockholm, the two rekindle a fast friendship. But Hannah has a boyfriend—and Nico has two children to look after.
When Hannah loses her beloved shop in Stockholm, though, she is forced to move back to...
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In this modern-day retelling of the Japanese folktale The Melon Princess and the Amanjaku, twelve-year-old Melony befriends a wish-granting demon who encourages her to rebel against her overprotective parents, all while using her for his own evil scheme.
Melony Yoshimura's parents have always been overprotective. They say it's because a demonic spirit called the Amanjaku once preyed upon kids back in Japan, but Melony suspects it's just a cautionary...
16) Broken Wishes
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In the riveting sequel to Cursed Wishes, award-winning author Marcy Kennedy returns to the isles of medieval Scotland in a fast-paced fantasy where evil creatures roam the earth and danger is hidden in every lie you tell yourself. NOTHING WITH THE FAE IS EVER FREE, ESPECIALLY NOT VICTORY… Ceana Campbell wakes up in Duntulm Castle after surviving the battle with the nuckalevee, believing that it's only a matter of days until her curse is lifted....
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Singh sisters volume 2
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"The four teen Singh sisters navigate romance, coming of age, and chasing their dreams over the course of one windy November day" --
"The Songbird Inn has always been the perfect home. No one knows that better than the Singh sisters. Nidhi, Avani, Sirisha, and Rani have been lovestruck and heartbroken and everything in between, all at their dad's cozy bed-and-breakfast. And today the whole Singh family will support aspiring filmmaker Rani in her...
18) Paper wishes
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A child uses origami to stay connected with family members who are far away.
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Kelly Castleton is the most detail-oriented, by-the-book contract lawyer you could ever wish to have on your side - unless of course you happen to be an immortal fairy with three malicious wishes to grant!
Of course the day Kelly decides to be spontaneous on ONE LITTLE THING, she stumbles upon an ancient magic with the power to change everything! What to do - world peace? Win back her oh-so-perfect ex? Well, if underthinking got her into this mess,...
20) Western Wishes
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Abigail Miller helps run her mother's diner in the town of Hopeful, Colorado.How could any man possibly be interested in her when she considers herself too tall, too plain and not curvy enough?A head of curls which refuse to be tamed also doesn't help.Working from sun up to sun down, with the exception of Sunday mornings off to attend church, doesn't leave much time for courting, so she is resigned to her fate of being left a spinster.Will a wish...
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