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Quentin y Julia son dos de los cuatro reyes de Fillory, un reino de fantasía perfecto. Pero, de repente, se hallan de vuelta en el deprimente mundo de Massachussetts de donde proceden. Su queste ha fracasado. ¿Lograrán regresar al país de sus sueños?

Abandoned by an eccentric father on the eve of her 12th birthday, Justine Cook has lived with her fair share of unanswered questions. Now, 10 years later, she leaves her life in southern Michigan and heads north to the mysterious town of Lantern Creek after seeing his picture in a local newspaper. Once there, she discovers her father had been leading a double life, and meets the autistic brother she never knew—a young man who is mute, but able to read her mind.

Кипр. 1974 год. Пара юных влюбленных, грек Костас и турчанка Дефне, тайно встречаются в романтической таверне под сенью старого фигового дерева, растущего прямо в зале. Дерево это становится свидетелем трагических событий, расколовших пополам некогда мирный прекрасный остров, исковеркавших судьбы его обитателей и, казалось, навсегда разлучивших Костаса и Дефне.

A young girl that has been held in a secret facility since her birth and trained to be a killer has escaped into the realm of humans. With those in charge seeking to eliminate her, she must find refuge in the only place safe from both sides: Bathory Asylum, a safe haven for supernatural beings.

Sussex, Inglaterra. Um homem de meia-idade volta à casa onde passou a infância para um funeral. A construção não é mais a mesma, e ele é atraído para a fazenda no fim da estrada, onde, aos sete anos, conheceu uma garota extraordinária, Lettie Hempstock, que morava com a mãe e a avó. Ele não pensava em Lettie há décadas, mas mesmo assim, ao se sentar à beira do lago (o mesmo a que ela se referia como um oceano) nos fundos da velha casa de fazenda, o passado esquecido volta de repente.

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Elsa Park is a particle physicist at the top of her game, stationed at a neutrino observatory in the Antarctic, confident she's put enough distance between her ambitions and the family ghosts she's run from all her life. But it isn't long before her childhood imaginary friend—an achingly familiar, spectral woman in the snow—comes to claim her at last. Years ago, Elsa's now-catatonic mother had warned her that the women of their line were doomed to repeat the narrative lives of their ancestors from Korean myth and legend. But beyond these ghosts, Elsa also faces a more earthly fate.

Firuzeh and her brother Nour are children of fire, born in an Afghanistan fractured by war. When their parents, their Atay and Abay, decide to leave, they spin tales of their destination, the mythical land and opportunities of Australia. As the family journeys from Pakistan to Indonesia to Nauru, heading toward a hope of home, they must rely on fragile and temporary shelters, strangers both mercenary and kind, and friends who vanish as quickly as they’re found.

These seven short stories are a mix of everything from fairytales and romance, to science fiction and magical realism.

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Es gibt Orte, an denen der Geist der Literatur in der Atemluft liegt. So ein Ort ist Timpamara, und hier lebt Astolfo Malinverno. Bücher und Geschichten bestimmen sein ganzes Leben, und als er seiner großen Liebe begegnet, scheinen die Grenzen zwischen Literatur und Realität auf wundersame Weise zu verschwimmen. In Timpamara, einem fiktiven Dorf in Italien, leben die Menschen schon lange von und mit der Literatur, denn hier entstand im 19. Jahrhundert die erste Papierfabrik Kalabriens.

Ben Harrison was well on his way to having the life he always wanted. He had a high-paying job, a great apartment and, most importantly, he had Carrie. She was fun, exciting, creative, beautiful, and a bit eccentric. Carrie had a fascination with the occult, which Ben found irrational but not particularly troubling.

Years ago, yellow fever gripped the small lakeside town of Prosper, Arkansas. At the height of that summer swelter, in the wake of an unexpected storm, the dam failed and the valley flooded—drowning the town and everyone trapped inside. The secrets of old Prosper drowned with them. Now, decades later, when a mysterious locked box is pulled from the depths of the lake, three descendants of that long-ago tragedy are hurled into another feverish summer.

Lumoava tarina salaperäisestä kartanosta ja sen vieraista. Kun Madeline Hartin elämä särkyy tuhansiksi palasiksi, hän päättää lähteä isovanhempiensa kartanolle Louisianaan. Vanha talo vaikuttaa uupuneelta ja yksinäiseltä aivan kuten hänkin: narisevat portaat, vanhanaikaisen kylpyammeen vuotava messinkihana, ullakon pilarit, jotka näyttävät vääntyilevän öisin... Talolla on jotakin kerrottavaa Madelinelle.

Stranded far from home, and unable to return, I am in bigger trouble than ever. I know I say that a lot, but this time it's really true. Not that there aren’t advantages to my particular predicament. If one must put up with a dangerous degree of magickal potency, one is duty-bound to…put it to use, no? Who knows what could happen?

Diana Merriman, a physical therapist, is probably the only person in the small town of Snow Haven, North Carolina, who isn’t looking forward to Christmas. It’s been three weeks since her fiancé Linus was critically injured when a car hit him as he biked home. Watching him open his eyes is the only gift she wants, but she can’t help losing a little more hope every day. But an unexpected visit from a friendly neighbor and finding a snow globe of Snow Haven—a gift Linus had hidden in the closet—the night before Christmas Eve changes things in ways Diana never would have imagined.

I wasn’t supposed to be possible. Dead means dead, and the dead don’t reproduce. But when Lucifer ceased to exist, things went a little haywire for a while, opening a strange supernatural phenomena that made a lot of things possible, including me.

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