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1) Armadale
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Allan Armadale makes a startling deathbed confession to be shared with his young son once he reaches adulthood-he murdered another man named Allan Armadale. It's a dark secret that inevitably looms over the child of the perpetrator and his victim.
Before dying, Allan Armadale reveals that he previously killed a man also named Allan Armadale. It's a revelation meant for his young son who discovers the information as an adult.
At this point, he's...
2) Cloud atlas
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies... A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer bagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified 'dinery server' on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation - the narrators of Cloud...
Author
Series
Jackson Brodie mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st American Ed.
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Private detective Jackson Brodie finds his own need for resolution sparked by three investigations, including that of two sisters who discover a shocking clue to the disappearance of their third sister thirty years earlier.
Author
Series
Forest of Hands and Teeth trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the Unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead.
Author
Language
English
Description
It seems like any other day: You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live. From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean?...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
281 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
A paleontologist and a magazine journalist are forced to land in the imaginary country of Callimbia, while the British passengers of Capricorn Flight 500 are at the mercy of a capricious new ruler in this violence-torn country.
Author
Series
Publisher
Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
389 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the time she was born, Sigrid has only ever been ordinary. Being paired at birth with a plain horse instead of the powerful winged mare of a valkyrie meant there would be no warrior path for her. No riding the skies, no glory among the nine worlds. Just the simple, unremarkable life of a stable hand.
Author
Series
Emblem Island volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
After changing the fate he has known since birth, twelve-year-old Tor Luna, accompanied by his friends Engle and Melda, must visit the notorious Night Witch to break the curse he now faces.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Natasha: I'm a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I'm definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won't be my story. Daniel: I've always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents' high expectations....
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Ace one-vol. ed.
Physical Desc
578 p. : map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Contains all three volumes of the "Riddle-Master" trilogy, which tells the story of Morgon, Prince of Hed, a man whose destiny, dictated by the stars imprinted on his forehead since birth, leads him to wander strange, sometimes dangerous, lands full of untamed magic in search for a new life for himself and his people.
Author
Series
Castle Knoll files volume 1
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Description
It's 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances's night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn't happened yet, compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise. For decades, no one takes Frances seriously, until nearly...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised--the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now, Agnès is free to tell her story. As children in a war-ravaged, backwater town, they'd built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves--until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnès on an epic...
15) The immortalists
Author
Language
English
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Description
It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children--four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness--sneak out to hear their fortunes. Their prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas...
16) Medusa
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
207 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Exiled to a far-flung island, Medusa has little company except for the snakes adorning her head instead of hair until a beautiful boy named Perseus arrives, distrupting her lonely existence and unleashing desire, love, and betrayal.
17) Ed King: a novel
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When a mild-mannered actuary sleeps with the sexy British au pair who's taking care of his children in Seattle in 1962, he sets in motion a tragedy of epic proportions. Their orphaned child, adopted and adored, grows up to be Edward Aaron King, a billionaire Internet tycoon and international celebrity-- who unknowingly hurtles through life toward a fate he may have no power to shape.
Author
Series
Children of the Red King volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic Audio
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Charlie and the Children of the Red King must call upon all of their strength to defeat the darkness and finally learn the fate of Charlie's family, the evil intentions of the Bloors, what has become of Septimus Bloor's will, and the destiny of the Red King's heirs.
19) Echo
Author
Language
English
Description
Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.
20) Spear
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
184 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake come to her on the spring breeze, and when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, she knows that her future lies at his court. And so, brimming with magic and eager to test her strength, she breaks her covenant with her mother and, with a broken hunting spear and mended armour, rides...
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