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Jetzt wird der Kommissar von dieser Konstellation eingeholt: Ludwig Winther tritt mit ihm in Kontakt; er ist der Vater des jungen Mädchens und Ehemann jener Frau, der Franck so viel Aufmerksamkeit widmete.
Zwanzig Jahre sind vergangen, und der Vater glaubt noch immer nicht an den �� laut polizeilichem Untersuchungsergebnis eindeutig feststehenden �� Selbstmord der Tochter durch Erhängen: Seiner Meinung nach kann es sich nur um Mord handeln.

Ex-Kommissar Jakob Franck macht sich also daran, die näheren Umstände ihres Todes aufzuklären, »einen toten Fall zum Leben zu erwecken«. Jakob Franck folgt dabei seiner ureigenen Methode, der »Gedankenfühligkeit«:.Diese ist unnachahmlich und unübertroffen bei der Lösung der kompliziertesten und überraschendsten Fälle.


Mit diesem Roman startet eine Reihe um Ex-Kommissar Jakob Franck. Friedrich Ani und seine Kunst der Konstruktion gewöhnlich-außergewöhnlicher Kriminalistikrätsel; Friedrich Ani und seine Sprache, die vom Tod auf das Leben melancholisch gelöste Perspektiven wirft - Friedrich Ani und seine Kunst erreichen in seinem neuen Roman unvorhersehbare Dimensionen.]]> 361 Friedrich Ani 9600121133 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 3.74 2015
author: Friedrich Ani
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> 107291622 360 Panos Tserolas 9600446008 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 4 dystopian 4.06 2015
author: Panos Tserolas
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2017/01/07
date added: 2025/04/08
shelves: dystopian
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]]> 195479595 Ο Καλ Μούνεϊ και η Σουζάνα Πάρις αφήνονται στη μυστηριακή έλξη του χαλιού και του κόσμου που αναδύεται μέσα από την ύφανσή του, χωρίς να ξέρουν ακόμη τι πρόκειται να αντιμετωπίσουν. Γιατί η τρομερή Ιμακολάτα με τις αποτρόπαιες δίδυμες αδερφές της έχει ήδη εντοπίσει τον Υφαντόκοσμο. Και η τελική αναμέτρηση ανάμεσα στις δυνάμεις του καλού και του κακού πλησιάζει...
Ο "Υφαντόκοσμος" είναι ένα έπος της φαντασίας, των πλασμάτων και των τόπων του ονείρου. Μια ιστορία αναζήτησης, τιτάνιου αγώνα, αγάπης και ελπίδας. Ένα βιβλίο ενορατικής σύλληψης και τρόμου που σαγήνευσε εκατομμύρια αναγνώστες σε όλο τον κόσμο και σήμερα θεωρείται ομόφωνα ένα από τα κορυφαία έργα του είδους.]]> 763 Clive Barker 9604502794 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.30 1987
author: Clive Barker
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1987
rating: 0
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]]> 35201466
Έρχεται ο Φοίβος... κι ο Λέανδρος, η Φοίβη, ο Άρης, η Μέλπω και τα δίδυμα, ο Φρίξος και η'Ελλη, προετοιμάζονται για τον ερχομό του και ανυπομονούν.

Φεύγει Έρχεται
Μια απλή ματιά σε μια, συνηθισμένη πια, ιστορία μετανάστευσης.

Ο Μάνος και η Άννα Κοντολέων, μας χαρίζουν τη δική τους ματιά στη σύγχρονη μετανάστευση.]]> 48 Anna Kontoleon 9604711334 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 5 Τέλος, υπέροχη εικονογράφηση.]]> 4.43
author: Anna Kontoleon
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 4.43
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date added: 2025/03/13
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Ένα επίκαιρο θέμα, αυτό της μετανάστευσης. Απλό, τρυφερό και συγκινητικό. Μιλάει για τα συναισθήματα χωρίς να γίνεται μελό. Μιλάει για τις ανθρώπινες σχέσεις και την προσπάθεια που πρέπει να καταβάλουν οι άνθρωποι για να τους δώσουν βάθος και συνέχεια παρά την απόσταση. Μιλάει για τις πληγές που ανοίγει η μετανάστευση και που τις κουβαλάμε για την υπόλοιπη ζωή μας χωρίς όμως να γίνεται απαισιόδοξο.
Τέλος, υπέροχη εικονογράφηση.
]]> 225741676 Τι γύρευε ο Θανάσης Μαντρουλάκης, μέσα στη νύχτα, στo σπίτι του Νάσου; Τι δουλειά έκανε προτού γίνει ταχυδρόμος; Ποιος ήταν ο Μαύρος Λύκος που απειλούσε τον ταχυδρόμο και τι ήθελε απ�� αυτόν;
Πώς θα λυθεί αυτό το μυστήριο, που γίνεται όλο και πιο περίπλοκο;]]> 160 Εύα Κασιάρου 9600445931 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 3 middle-grade, mystery 3.71 2015
author: Εύα Κασιάρου
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2015
rating: 3
read at: 2015/09/23
date added: 2025/02/04
shelves: middle-grade, mystery
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]]> 56252560
Τι θα συμβεί όμως όταν στο μαγοπρωτάθλημα ο αντίπαλός του, ο Κοραξόν, τον τραυματίσει πολύ άσχημα; Πώς θα του φερθούν εκείνοι που προηγουμένως έδειχναν ότι τον λατρεύουν; Θα βρει τρόπο ο Τέρης Ξεφτέρης ώστε να αναγνωριστεί η αξία του και να γίνει αγαπητός σε όλη την πολιτεία; Θα πραγματοποιήσει το όνειρό του;]]> 32 Λένα Τερκεσίδου 6180205922 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.00
author: Λένα Τερκεσίδου
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]]> 205977739
Mal and Christopher embark on a wild adventure, racing from island to island, searching for someone who can explain why the magic is fading and why magical creatures are suddenly dying. They consult sphinxes, battle kraken, and negotiate with dragons. But the closer they get to the dark truth of what's happening, the clearer it becomes: no one else can fix this. If the Archipelago is to be saved, Mal and Christopher will have to do it themselves.]]> 368 Katherine Rundell 0593809866 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.13 2023
author: Katherine Rundell
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 4.13
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]]> 200285643 Hank is struggling to hold his family together when his mom doesn't come home.

When eleven-year-old Hank’s mom doesn’t come home, he takes care of his toddler sister, Boo, like he always does. But it’s been a week now. They are out of food and mom has never stayed away this long�� Hank knows he needs help, so he and Boo seek out the stranger listed as their emergency contact.

But asking for help has consequences. It means social workers, and a new school, and having to answer questions about his mom that he's been trying to keep secret. And if they can't find his mom soon, Hank and Boo may end up in different foster homes--he could lose everything.]]> 320 Gennifer Choldenko 1524718920 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.50 2024
author: Gennifer Choldenko
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average rating: 4.50
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]]> 199846676
Aspiring inventor Isaac Turner lives with his dad, the Chief Horologist in charge of Big Ben. But when his father vanishes from the belfry on the night the clocks go back, leaving behind only a smashed pocket watch and a cryptic message, Isaac determines to find him.

Hunting a trail of clues through London's landmarks, Isaac uncovers a sinister plot in the gears of government and embarks on a race against time to save his father - and time itself.]]> 364 Sam Sedgman 1526665409 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.23
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]]> 204642516 A prizewinning middle grade fantasy adventure about memories, loss and time travelOn the day Cato came into the world, her mother left it. Cato's dad has been a mere shadow of a person ever since, and Cato has given up reaching out to him. When she finds a mysterious card from an abandoned movie theatre and discovers it has reopened, Cato decides to go take a look. There appears to be something strange about the cinema. The movies showing there are no ordinary movies and somehow the cinema seems to be in connection with the past...Looking for adventure and the truth about her mother, Cato is swept into a dangerous journey through time and memories, straight to a place deep within her heart. A place she had always managed to keep locked away. And then she faces a choice that will change her life, and that of her father, forever.]]> 256 Yorick Goldewijk 1782694102 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.18 2021
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name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 4.18
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]]> 208713591 World-renowned artist and picture book creator Oliver Jeffers brings to life an endearing story about the magic of friendship—and sharing what brings us joy.Celebrate twenty years of The Boy in this highly anticipated new adventure from the internationally bestselling picture book creator of Lost and Found Oliver Jeffers!Once there was a boy who would often play hide-and-seek with his friends the star and the penguin. The star was always easy to find, but one day it went missing. So, the boy radioed the Martian for help, and soon found himself on an exciting spaceship rescue mission to the North Pole! But there, he discovered that he wasn’t the only one who had always dreamed of having a star as a friend . . .The out-of-this-world, long-awaited sequel to the much-loved Boy stories, loved all around the world—now introducing a brand-new character!]]> 48 Oliver Jeffers 0593622243 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 3.95
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]]> 179031714
Adventurous and memorable, Craig Kofi Farmer's middle grade fantasy is an immersive and powerful debut that tackles themes of identity, intergenerational connectedness, and how to say goodbye with heart, humor, and an epic dose of magic.]]> 336 Craig Kofi Farmer 1250900255 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.10 2024
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]]> 197108968 From the acclaimed author of The One and The Marriage Act, The Family Experiment is a dark and brilliant speculative thriller about families: real and virtual.

Some families are virtually perfect��

The world's population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities and an economic crisis. And in the UK, the breaking point has arrived. A growing number of people can no longer afford to start families, let alone raise them.

But for those desperate to experience parenthood, there is an alternative. For a monthly subscription fee, clients can create a virtual child from scratch who they can access via the metaverse and a VR headset. To launch this new initiative, the company behind Virtual Children has created a reality TV show called The Substitute. It will follow ten couples as they raise a Virtual Child from birth to the age of eighteen but in a condensed nine-month time period. The prize: the right to keep their virtual child, or risk it all for the chance of a real baby��

Set in the same universe as John Marrs's bestselling novel The One and The Marriage Act, The Family Experiment is a dark and twisted thriller about the ultimate Tamagotchi—a virtual baby.]]> 384 John Marrs 1335000364 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.00 2024
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]]> 57987958 416 Hervé Le Tellier 6185400286 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.02 2020
author: Hervé Le Tellier
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average rating: 4.02
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]]> 194803881
Tracking the natural beauty that surrounds us, The Backyard Bird Chronicles maps the passage of time through daily entries, thoughtful questions, and beautiful original sketches. With boundless charm and wit, author Amy Tan charts her foray into birding and the natural wonders of the world.

In 2016, Amy Tan grew overwhelmed by the state of the Hatred and misinformation became a daily presence on social media, and the country felt more divisive than ever. In search of peace, Tan turned toward the natural world just beyond her window and, specifically, the birds visiting her yard. But what began as an attempt to find solace turned into something far greater—an opportunity to savor quiet moments during a volatile time, connect to nature in a meaningful way, and imagine the intricate lives of the birds she admired.]]> 291 Amy Tan 0593536134 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.05 2024
author: Amy Tan
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average rating: 4.05
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]]> 171681821
A must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.

“With tenacity and candor, Haidt lays out the consequences that have come with allowing kids to drift further into the virtual world . . . While also offering suggestions and solutions that could help protect a new generation of kids.�� —Shannon Carlin, ,i>TIME, 100 Must-Read Books of 2024

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why?

In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood�� began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood�� in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood�� has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.

Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems�� that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.

Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children—and ourselves—from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.]]> 400 Jonathan Haidt 0593655036 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.36 2024
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]]> 209655885
Marina’s talent for powerful, evocative song lyrics finds a new outlet in her poetry. Each poem resonates with the same creative melodies and emotional depth that have made her an artistic sensation. Hailed by The New York Times for “redefining songs about coming of age, and the aftermath, with bluntness and crafty intelligence,�� Marina delves even further into trauma, youth, and the highs and lows of relationships in these profound, autobiographical poems to form a collection that transcends the boundaries of music and literature.]]> 128 Marina Diamandis 0143138596 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 3.75 2024
author: Marina Diamandis
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average rating: 3.75
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]]> 208896650 Named as One of Financial Times's Best Summer Poetry Books of 2024

Featured as Best Recent Poetry by The Guardian

The poems in Oksana Maksymchuk’s debut English-language collection meditate on the changing sense of reality, temporality, mortality, and intimacy in the face of a catastrophic event. While some of the poems were composed in the months preceding the full-scale invasion of the poet’s homeland, others emerged in its wake. Navigating between a chronicle, a chorus, and a collage, Still City reflects the lived experiences of liminality, offering different perspectives on the war and its aftermath. The collection engages a wide range of sources, including social media posts, the news reports, witness accounts, recorded oral histories, photographs, drone video footage, intercepted communication, and official documents, making sense of the transformations that war effects in individuals, families, and communities. Now ecstatic, now cathartic, these poems shine a light on survival, mourning, and hope through moments of terror and awe.

Poems from the collection appeared in AGNI, The Arkansas International, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Common, Conduit, The Continental Literary Magazine, Copper Nickel, Grain Magazine, The Guardian, The Indianapolis Review, The Manhattan Review, Ninth Letter, The Paris Review, Pleiades, Plume, PN Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry London, Poetry Northwest, The Poetry Review, PRISM International, Salamander, Smartish Pace, Southern Indiana Review, and The Irish Times.

]]> 136 Oksana Maksymchuk 0822967359 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.48
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]]> 215080177
Ο πατέρας, επικηρυγμένος κλεφταρματολός, ύστερα από σύγκρουση με τουρκικό σώμα, αναγκάζεται να τον πάρει μαζί του και να φύγουν μακριά από τον τόπο τους, σε μια περιπλάνηση στα βουνά. Εκεί πέφτουν σε παγίδα και συλλαμβάνονται. Το παιδί γίνεται μάρτυρας της θανάτωσης του πατέρα του, ενώ το ίδιο σέρνεται στο σκλαβοπάζαρο. Η τύχη το ρίχνει στα χέρια ενός γραικού άρχοντα και η ζωή του αλλάζει για πάντα.

Από το Ξηρόμερο, το Λιτόχωρο, τη Ραψάνη και τα Βρανιανά, έως την Αθωνιάδα Ακαδημία, τη Βενετία, τη Βιέννη και τη Λειψία, ο Χριστόδουλος θα εξελιχθεί σε κορυφαίο δάσκαλο του Νεοελληνικού Διαφωτισμού. Θα συγκρουστεί με το καθεστώς της θεοκρατίας, θα διωχθεί και θα αφοριστεί.

Ένα μυθιστόρημα για την αναζήτηση της ατομικής ελευθερίας και συνάμα μια ανθρώπινη τραγωδία, την εποχή που ο Ρωμιός αγκομαχούσε υπό το βάρος του οθωμανικού ζυγού, ενώ στην Ευρώπη ο κόσμος είχε αρχίσει να μεταμορφώνεται.]]> 416 Eleni Priovolou 9600372608 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.21
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]]> 101094
In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri's Famished Road has become a classic. Like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children or Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, it combines brilliant narrative technique with a fresh vision to create an essential work of world literature.

The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death. The life he foresees for himself and the tale he tells is full of sadness and tragedy, but inexplicably he is born with a smile on his face. Nearly called back to the land of the dead, he is resurrected. But in their efforts to save their child, Azaro's loving parents are made destitute.]]> 512 Ben Okri 0385425139 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 3.76 1991
author: Ben Okri
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 3.76
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]]> 13337625 98 John Green 1101573139 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.45
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]]> 16044791 32 Peter B. Gillis ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.56 2010
author: Peter B. Gillis
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average rating: 4.56
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]]> 16044785 32 Peter B. Gillis ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.56 2010
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]]> 16044770 32 Peter B. Gillis ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.46 2010
author: Peter B. Gillis
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]]> 16044763 32 Peter B. Gillis ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.38 2010
author: Peter B. Gillis
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]]> 16044752 32 Peter B. Gillis ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.26 2010
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]]> 16044747 The unicorn, alone in her enchanted wood, discovers that she may be the last of her kind. Reluctant at first, she sets out on a journey to find her fellow unicorns, even if it means facing the terrifying anger of the Red Bull and malignant evil of the king who wields his power. Adapted by Peter B. Gillis and lushly illustrated by Renae De Liz and Ray Dillon.

]]> 32 Peter B. Gillis ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.46
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]]> 29127 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451450524

She was magical, beautiful beyond belief—and completely alone...

The unicorn had lived since before memory in a forest where death could touch nothing. Maidens who caught a glimpse of her glory were blessed by enchantment they would never forget. But outside her wondrous realm, dark whispers and rumours carried a message she could not ignore: "Unicorns are gone from the world."

Aided by a bumbling magician and an indomitable spinster, she set out to learn the truth. but she feared even her immortal wisdom meant nothing in a world where a mad king's curse and terror incarnate lived only to stalk the last unicorn to her doom...]]> 294 Peter S. Beagle ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.16 1968
author: Peter S. Beagle
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average rating: 4.16
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]]> 10611
​Thus begins one of the most unique tales that master storyteller Stephen King has ever written—a sprawling fantasy of dark magic and the struggle for absolute power that utterly transforms the destinies of two brothers born into royalty. Through this enthralling masterpiece of mythical adventure, intrigue, and terror, you will thrill to this unforgettable narrative filled with relentless, wicked enchantment, and the most terrible of secrets…]]> 427 Stephen King ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 3.95 1984
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]]> 27833803 From the author of The Postmortal, a fantasy saga unlike any you’ve read before, weaving elements of folk tale and video game into a riveting, unforgettable adventure of what a man will endure to return to his family
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When Ben, a suburban family man, takes a business trip to rural Pennsylvania, he decides to spend the afternoon before his dinner meeting on a short hike. Once he sets out into the woods behind his hotel, he quickly comes to realize that the path he has chosen cannot be given up easily. With no choice but to move forward, Ben finds himself falling deeper and deeper into a world of man-eating giants, bizarre demons, and colossal insects.
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On a quest of epic, life-or-death proportions, Ben finds help comes in some of the most unexpected forms, including a profane crustacean and a variety of magical objects, tools, and potions. Desperate to return to his family, Ben is determined to track down the “Producer,�� the creator of the world in which he is being held hostage and the only one who can free him from the path.
��
At once bitingly funny and emotionally absorbing, Magary’s novel is a remarkably unique addition to the contemporary fantasy genre, one that draws as easily from the world of classic folk tales as it does from video games. In The Hike, Magary takes readers on a daring odyssey away from our day-to-day grind and transports them into an enthralling world propelled by heart, imagination, and survival.]]> 278 Drew Magary 0399563857 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 3.96 2016
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]]> 60531406 #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson expands his Cosmere universe shared by The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn with a new standalone novel for everyone who loved The Princess Bride.

The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. But when his father takes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes, Tress must stow away on a ship and seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea. Amid the spore oceans where pirates abound, can Tress leave her simple life behind and make her own place sailing a sea where a single drop of water can mean instant death?]]> 443 Brandon Sanderson ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.35 2023
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]]> 43521657
Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.]]> 374 Alix E. Harrow 0316421995 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 3.99 2019
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]]> 27727110 261 Erin Morgenstern ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.15 2014
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]]> 9361589
But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love—a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands.

True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead.

Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart.]]> 506 Erin Morgenstern ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.00 2011
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]]> 50702014 Stephen's god died on the longest day of the year��

Three years later, Stephen is a broken paladin, living only for the chance to be useful before he dies. But all that changes when he encounters a fugitive named Grace in an alley and witnesses an assassination attempt gone wrong. Now the pair must navigate a web of treachery, beset on all sides by spies and poisoners, while a cryptic killer stalks one step behind��

From the Hugo and Nebula Award winning author of Swordheart and The Twisted Ones comes a saga of murder, magic, and love on the far side of despair.]]> 366 T. Kingfisher ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.09 2020
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]]> 54369251
But Mona’s life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. An assassin is stalking the streets of Mona’s city, preying on magic folk, and it appears that Mona is his next target. And in an embattled city suddenly bereft of wizards, the assassin may be the least of Mona’s worries…]]> 306 T. Kingfisher 1614505241 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.02 2020
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]]> 56179377
Seeking help from a powerful gravewitch, Marra is offered the tools to kill a prince—if she can complete three impossible tasks. But, as is the way in tales of princes, witches, and daughters, the impossible is only the beginning.

On her quest, Marra is joined by the gravewitch, a reluctant fairy godmother, a strapping former knight, and a chicken possessed by a demon. Together, the five of them intend to be the hand that closes around the throat of the prince and frees Marra's family and their kingdom from its tyrannous ruler at last.]]> 243 T. Kingfisher 1250244048 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.07 2022
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]]> 36621586 Following their adventures in The Bear and the Nightingale and The Girl in the Tower, Vasya and Morozko return in this stunning conclusion to the bestselling Winternight Trilogy, battling enemies mortal and magical to save both Russias, the seen and the unseen.


Now Moscow has been struck by disaster. Its people are searching for answers—and for someone to blame. Vasya finds herself alone, beset on all sides. The Grand Prince is in a rage, choosing allies that will lead him on a path to war and ruin. A wicked demon returns, stronger than ever and determined to spread chaos. Caught at the center of the conflict is Vasya, who finds the fate of two worlds resting on her shoulders. Her destiny uncertain, Vasya will uncover surprising truths about herself and her history as she desperately tries to save Russia, Morozko, and the magical world she treasures. But she may not be able to save them all.

Advance praise for The Winter of the Witch

“Katherine Arden’s Winternight Trilogy isn’t just good—it’s hug-to-your-chest, straight-to-the-favorites-shelf, reread-immediately good, and each book just gets better. The Winter of the Witch plunges us back to fourteenth-century Moscow, where old gods and new vie for the soul of Russia and fate rests on a witch girl’s slender shoulders. Prepare to have your heart ripped out, loaned back to you full of snow and magic, and ripped out some more.”��Laini Taylor]]> 400 Katherine Arden 1101886005 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.48 2019
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]]> 34050917 The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden’s enchanting first novel, introduced readers to an irresistible heroine. Vasilisa has grown up at the edge of a Russian wilderness, where snowdrifts reach the eaves of her family’s wooden house and there is truth in the fairy tales told around the fire. Vasilisa’s gift for seeing what others do not won her the attention of Morozko—Frost, the winter demon from the stories—and together they saved her people from destruction. But Frost’s aid comes at a cost, and her people have condemned her as a witch.

In The Girl in the Tower, Vasilisa faces an impossible choice. Driven from her home by frightened villagers, she has only two options left: marriage or the convent. She cannot bring herself to accept either fate and instead chooses adventure, dressing herself as a boy and setting off astride her magnificent stallion Solovey.

But after she prevails in a skirmish with bandits, everything changes. The Grand Prince of Moscow anoints her a hero for her exploits, and she is reunited with her beloved sister and brother, who are now part of the Grand Prince’s inner circle. She dares not reveal to the court that she is a girl, for if her deception were discovered it would have terrible consequences for herself and her family. Before she can untangle herself from Moscow’s intrigues—and as Frost provides counsel that may or may not be trustworthy—she will also confront an even graver threat lying in wait for all of Moscow itself.]]> 360 Katherine Arden 1101885963 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.34 2017
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]]> 25489134
After Vasilisa's mother dies, her father goes to Moscow and brings home a new wife. Fiercely devout, city-bred, Vasilisa's new stepmother forbids her family from honoring the household spirits. The family acquiesces, but Vasilisa is frightened, sensing that more hinges upon their rituals than anyone knows.

And indeed, crops begin to fail, evil creatures of the forest creep nearer, and misfortune stalks the village. All the while, Vasilisa's stepmother grows ever harsher in her determination to groom her rebellious stepdaughter for either marriage or confinement in a convent.

As danger circles, Vasilisa must defy even the people she loves and call on dangerous gifts she has long concealed—this, in order to protect her family from a threat that seems to have stepped from her nurse's most frightening tales.

The Bear and the Nightingale is a magical debut novel from a gifted and gorgeous voice. It spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent.]]> 319 Katherine Arden 1101885939 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.07 2017
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]]> 4912857
The whole of Barcelona stretched out at my feet and I wanted to believe that when I opened those windows �� my new windows �� each evening its streets would whisper stories to me, secrets in my ear, that I could catch on paper and narrate to whomever cared to listen��

In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city’s underworld. But perhaps his dark imaginings are not as strange as they seem, for in a locked room deep within the house lie photographs and letters hinting at the mysterious death of the previous owner.

Like a slow poison, the history of the place seeps into his bones as he struggles with an impossible love. Close to despair, David receives a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas Corelli, who makes him the offer of a lifetime. He is to write a book unlike anything that has ever existed �� a book with the power to change hearts and minds. In return, he will receive a fortune, and perhaps more. But as David begins the work, he realizes that there is a connection between his haunting book and the shadows that surround his home.

Once again, Zafon takes us into a dark, gothic universe first seen in The Shadow of the Wind and creates a breathtaking adventure of intrigue, romance, and tragedy. Through a dizzyingly constructed labyrinth of secrets, the magic of books, passion, and friendship blend into a masterful story.
(jacket)]]> 531 Carlos Ruiz Zafón 0385528701 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 3.94 2008
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]]> 4516
En la Barcelona de 1980 Oscar Drai suena despierto, deslumbrado por los placeres mocernistas cercanos al internado en el que estudia. En una de sus escapadas conoce a Marina, una chica audaz que comparte con oscar la aventura de adentrarse en un enigma doloroso del pasado de la ciudad. Un misterioso personaje de la posguerra se propuso el mayor desafio imaginable, pero su ambicion lo arrastro por sendas siniestras cucyas consecuencias debe pagar alguien todavia hoy.

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From the bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind comes the intriguing mystery that started it all...

"We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine."

Fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai meets the strange Marina while he's exploring an old quarter of Barcelona. She leads Oscar to a cemetery, where they watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the last Sunday of each month. At exactly ten o'clock in the morning, a woman shrouded in a black velvet cloak descends from her carriage to place a single rose on an unmarked grave.

When Oscar and Marina decide to follow her, they begin a journey that transports them to a forgotten postwar Barcelona--a world of aristocrats and actresses, inventors and tycoons--an reveals a dark secret that lies waiting in the mysterious labyrinth beneath the city streets.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon's haunting Marina has long been a cult classic in Spain and is now an international bestseller.]]> 238 Carlos Ruiz Zafón 8423648990 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.15 1999
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]]> 13623012
Full of intrigue and emotion, The Prisoner of Heaven is a majestic novel in which the threads of The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game converge under the spell of literature and bring us toward the enigma of the mystery hidden at the heart of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a collection of lost treasures known only to its few initiates and the very core of Carlos Ruiz Zafón's enchanting fictional world.]]> 278 Carlos Ruiz Zafón 0062206281 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.08 2011
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]]> 1232 487 Carlos Ruiz Zafón ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.26 2001
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]]> 40634915 Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a bewitching and inventive novel.

Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories--equal parts wholesome and uncanny, from the tantalizing witch's house in "Hansel and Gretel" to the man-shaped confection who one day decides to run as fast as he can--beloved novelist Helen Oyeyemi invites readers into a delightful tale of a surprising family legacy, in which the inheritance is a recipe.

Perdita Lee may appear to be your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are. For one thing, they share a gold-painted, seventh-floor walk-up apartment with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. And then there's the gingerbread they make. Londoners may find themselves able to take or leave it, but it's very popular in Druhástrana, the far-away (and, according to Wikipedia, non-existent) land of Harriet Lee's early youth. In fact, the world's truest lover of the Lee family gingerbread is Harriet's charismatic childhood friend, Gretel Kercheval--a figure who seems to have had a hand in everything (good or bad) that has happened to Harriet since they met.

Decades later, when teenaged Perdita sets out to find her mother's long-lost friend, it prompts a new telling of Harriet's story. As the book follows the Lees through encounters with jealousy, ambition, family grudges, work, wealth, and real estate, gingerbread seems to be the one thing that reliably holds a constant value. Endlessly surprising and satisfying, written with Helen Oyeyemi's inimitable style and imagination, it is a true feast for the reader.]]> 372 Helen Oyeyemi 1984882899 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 3.04 2019
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]]> 1158967 In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small, quiet house in an even smaller town, is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a very special sort of fruit. In this luminous debut novel, Sarah Addison Allen tells the story of that enchanted tree, and the extraordinary people who tend it.��

The Waverleys have always been a curious family, endowed with peculiar gifts that make them outsiders even in their hometown of Bascom, North Carolina. Even their garden has a reputation, famous for its feisty apple tree that bears prophetic fruit, and its edible flowers, imbued with special powers. Generations of Waverleys tended this garden. Their history was in the soil. But so were their futures.

A successful caterer, Claire Waverley prepares dishes made with her mystical plants—from the nasturtiums that aid in keeping secrets and the pansies that make children thoughtful, to the snapdragons intended to discourage the attentions of her amorous neighbor. Meanwhile, her elderly cousin, Evanelle, is known for distributing unexpected gifts whose uses become uncannily clear. They are the last of the Waverleys—except for Claire’s rebellious sister, Sydney, who fled Bascom the moment she could, abandoning Claire, as their own mother had years before.

When Sydney suddenly returns home with a young daughter of her own, Claire’s quiet life is turned upside down—along with the protective boundary she has so carefully constructed around her heart. Together again in the house they grew up in, Sydney takes stock of all she left behind, as Claire struggles to heal the wounds of the past. And soon the sisters realize they must deal with their common legacy—if they are ever to feel at home in Bascom—or with each other.

Enchanting and heartfelt, this captivating novel is sure to cast a spell with a style all its own��.]]> 304 Sarah Addison Allen 0553805487 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.07 2007
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]]> 52380340 Some people are extraordinary. Some are just extra. TJ Klune's YA debut, The Extraordinaries, is a queer coming-of-age story about a fanboy with ADHD and the heroes he loves.

Nick Bell? Not extraordinary. But being the most popular fanfiction writer in the Extraordinaries fandom is a superpower, right?

After a chance encounter with Shadow Star, Nova City’s mightiest hero (and Nick’s biggest crush), Nick sets out to make himself extraordinary. And he’ll do it with or without the reluctant help of Seth Gray, Nick's best friend (and maybe the love of his life).

Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl meets Marissa Meyer's Renegades in TJ Klune's YA debut.]]> 405 T.J. Klune 1250203651 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.04 2020
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]]> 176408159 Heartsong is the third book in the Green Creek series, the beloved fantasy romance sensation by New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune, about love, loyalty, betrayal, and family.

“Complex and startling... Green Creek is the perfect setting.�� �� Charlaine Harris

The Bennett family has a They're not just a family, they're a pack. Heartsong is Robbie Fontaine's story.

All Robbie Fontaine ever wanted was a place to belong. After the death of his mother, he bounces around from pack to pack, forming temporary bonds to keep from turning feral. It’s enough―until he receives a summons from the wolf stronghold in Caswell, Maine. Life as the trusted second to Michelle Hughes―the Alpha of all―and the cherished friend of a gentle old witch teaches Robbie what it means to be pack, to have a home. But when a mission from Michelle sends Robbie into the field, he finds himself questioning where he belongs and everything he’s been told.

Whispers of traitorous wolves and wild magic abound―but who are the traitors and who the betrayed? More than anything, Robbie hungers for answers, because one of those alleged traitors is Kelly Bennett―the wolf who may be his mate.

The truth has a way of coming out. And when it does, everything will shatter.

The Green Creek Series is for adult readers.
Now available from Tor Books.]]> 480 T.J. Klune 1250890403 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.46 2019
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]]> 62039416
“Complex and startling... Green Creek is the perfect setting.�� —Charlaine Harris

The Bennett family has a secret: They're not just a family, they're a pack. Ravensong is Gordo Livingstone's story.

Gordo Livingstone never forgot the lessons carved into his skin. Hardened by the betrayal of a pack that left him behind, he sought solace in the garage in his tiny mountain town, vowing never again to involve himself in the affairs of wolves.

It should have been enough.

It was, until the wolves came back, and with them, Mark Bennett. And when his town is caught in the jaws of a beast, Gordo is summoned back into the life that left him.

“Gordo, you must rise. For your pack. For us. I must ask you to become the witch to the wolves.��

Now, a year later, Gordo has once again found himself the witch of the Bennett pack. Green Creek has settled after the death of Richard Collins, and Gordo constantly struggles to ignore Mark and the song that howls between them.

But time is running out. Something is coming. And this time, it’s coming from within.

The Green Creek Series is for adult readers.
Now available from Tor Books.]]> 512 T.J. Klune 1250890349 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.30 2018
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]]> 62039417
Oxnard Matheson was twelve when his father taught him that Ox wasn’t worth anything and people would never understand him. Then his father left.

Ox was sixteen when the energetic Bennett family moved in next door, harboring a secret that would change him forever. The Bennetts are shapeshifters. They can transform into wolves at will. Drawn to their magic, loyalty, and enduring friendships, Ox feels a gulf between this extraordinary new world and the quiet life he’s known, but he finds an ally in Joe, the youngest Bennett boy.

Ox was twenty-three when murder came to town and tore a hole in his heart. Violence flared, tragedy split the pack, and Joe left town, leaving Ox behind. Three years later, the boy is back. Except now he’s a man �� charming, handsome, but haunted �� and Ox can no longer ignore the song that howls between them.

The beloved fantasy romance sensation by New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune, about love, loyalty, betrayal, and family.

The Green Creek Series is for adult readers.

Now available from Tor Books.]]> 528 T.J. Klune 1250890314 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.04 2016
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]]> 53205888 Welcome to Charon's Crossing.
The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through.

When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead.

And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he’s definitely dead.

But even in death he’s not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days.

Hilarious, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is an uplifting story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home.]]> 376 T.J. Klune 1250217342 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.11 2021
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]]> 45047384
Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages.

When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel to Marsyas Island Orphanage, where six dangerous children reside: a gnome, a sprite, a wyvern, an unidentifiable green blob, a were-Pomeranian, and the Antichrist. Linus must set aside his fears and determine whether or not they’re likely to bring about the end of days.

But the children aren’t the only secret the island keeps. Their caretaker is the charming and enigmatic Arthur Parnassus, who will do anything to keep his wards safe. As Arthur and Linus grow closer, long-held secrets are exposed, and Linus must make a choice: destroy a home or watch the world burn.

An enchanting story, masterfully told, The House in the Cerulean Sea is about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place—and realizing that family is yours.]]> 394 T.J. Klune ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.37 2020
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]]> 33597976 423 Eowyn Ivey ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.10 2012
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average rating: 4.10
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]]> 2412852
Little Red Riding Hood. Cinderella. Sleeping Beauty. Bluebeard. The Fairies.��Many classic fairy tale characters might not have survived into the present were it not for Charles Perrault, a seventeenth-century French civil servant who rescued them from the oral tradition and committed them to paper. Three centuries later, Angela Carter, widely regarded as one of England’s most imaginative writers, adapted them for contemporary readers. The result is a cornucopia of fantastic characters and timeless adventures, stylishly retold by a modern literary visionary.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700��titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the��series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date��translations by award-winning translators.]]> 112 Angela Carter 0143105361 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 3.99 1977
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]]> 763471 462 Angela Carter 0140255281 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.32 1995
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average rating: 4.32
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]]> 49011 126 Angela Carter 014017821X ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 3.96 1979
author: Angela Carter
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 3.96
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]]> 81021 Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the world - from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones; crafty women and bad girls; enchantresses and midwives; rascal aunts and odd sisters.]]> 486 Angela Carter 1844081737 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.14 1992
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average rating: 4.14
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]]> 199793511
Now, Tara is part of a future she doesn’t feel at all ready for. She's not ready to watch the racy shows the high school kids like, or to listen to the angsty music, or to stop playing make-believe with her younger brother. She’s not ready to change for PE in front of everyone, or for the chaos of the hallways, or for the anarchy of an English class that’s overrun with fourteen-year-old boys.

But then there’s Libby.

Tara doesn’t know whether she’s ready for Libby. She can’t even explain who Libby is to her because she doesn’t know yet. She just knows that everything’s more fun when she and her new classmate are together. But what will happen next? How will it all end?

This debut graphic novel is a clever and candid portrait of a young girl grappling with the pressures of fitting in, finding your people, and sorting through confusing feelings. Emma Hunsinger has a pitch-perfect ear for the awkward yet endearing moments that accompany growing up, and her illustrations are downright hilarious. She brilliantly captures the humor and the horror of self-discovery and the first blushes of having a crush. How It All Ends deftly explores how unbearable—but exciting!—it is to grow up.]]> 304 Emma Hunsinger 0063158159 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.19 2024
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average rating: 4.19
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]]> 34051011
Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters—strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis—survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.]]> 496 Min Jin Lee ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.35 2017
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average rating: 4.35
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]]> 41057294
A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.

Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.]]> 273 Sally Rooney 1984822179 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 3.81 2018
author: Sally Rooney
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 3.81
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]]> 32920226 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781501126062

In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi’s past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. Ward is a major American writer, multiply awarded and universally lauded, and in Sing, Unburied, Sing she is at the height of her powers.

Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she’s high; Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. When the white father of Leonie’s children is released from prison, she packs her kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for Parchman farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, on a journey rife with danger and promise.

Sing, Unburied, Sing grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power, and limitations, of the bonds of family. Rich with Ward’s distinctive, musical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic new work and an essential contribution to American literature.]]> 285 Jesmyn Ward ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.00 2017
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]]> 30555488
In Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor--engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.

Like the protagonist of Gulliver's Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey--hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.]]> 320 Colson Whitehead 0385542364 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.04 2016
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]]> 25242224 The Guardian about the Neapolitan novels in 2014. Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change, Elena Ferrante tells the story of a lifelong friendship between two women with unmatched honesty and brilliance.

The Story of the Lost Child is the concluding volume in the dazzling saga of two women �� the brilliant, bookish Elena, and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults, with husbands, lovers, aging parents, and children. Their friendship has been the gravitational center of their lives. Both women fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up �� a prison of conformity, violence, and inviolable taboos. Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books. In this final novel she has returned to Naples, drawn back as if responding to the city's obscure magnetism. Lila, on the other hand, could never free herself from the city of her birth. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity with the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect the neighborhood. Proximity to the world she has always rejected only brings her role as its unacknowledged leader into relief. For Lila is unstoppable, unmanageable, unforgettable.

The four volumes in this series constitute a long remarkable story that readers will return to again and again, and each return will bring with it new revelations.]]> 473 Elena Ferrante 1609452860 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.47 2014
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]]> 23156040 418 Elena Ferrante ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.38 2013
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]]> 17465515 My Brilliant Friend introduced readers to the unforgettable Elena and Lila, whose lifelong friendship provides the backbone for the Neapolitan Novels. The Story of a New Name is the second book in this series. With these books, which the New Yorker's James Wood described as "large, captivating, amiably peopled ... a beautiful and delicate tale of confluence and reversal," Ferrante proves herself to be one of Italy's most accomplished storytellers. She writes vividly about a specific neighborhood of Naples from the late-1950s through to the current day and about two remarkable young women who are very much the products of that place and time. Yet in doing so she has created a world in which readers will recognize themselves and has drawn a marvelously nuanced portrait of friendship.

In The Story of a New Name, Lila has recently married and made her entrée into the family business; Elena, meanwhile, continues her studies and her exploration of the world beyond the neighborhood that she so often finds stifling. Love, jealousy, family, freedom, commitment, and above all friendship: these are signs under which both women live out this phase in their stories. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila, and the pressure to excel is at times too much for Elena. Yet the two young women share a complex and evolving bond that is central to their emotional lives and is a source of strength in the face of life's challenges. In these Neapolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante, the acclaimed author of The Days of Abandonment, gives readers a poignant and universal story about friendship and belonging.]]> 471 Elena Ferrante ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.47 2012
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]]> 35036409 My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante’s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship. Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighbourhood, a city and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between her two protagonists.]]> 331 Elena Ferrante ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.08 2011
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]]> 50659468
Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though she's now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is haunted by her time Under the Mountain and the terrible deeds she performed to save the lives of Tamlin and his people.

As her marriage to Tamlin approaches, Feyre's hollowness and nightmares consume her. She finds herself split into two different one who upholds her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court, and one who lives out her life in the Spring Court with Tamlin. While Feyre navigates a dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms. She might just be the key to stopping it, but only if she can harness her harrowing gifts, heal her fractured soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her future-and the future of a world in turmoil.

Bestselling author Sarah J. Maas's masterful storytelling brings this second book in her dazzling, sexy, action-packed series to new heights.]]> 626 Sarah J. Maas 1635575583 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.65 2016
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name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 4.65
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]]> 10844367 112 Frank Cottrell Boyce 1406333859 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 3.84 2011
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name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 3.84
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]]> 295169 The first in a trilogy, The Wind Singer is a mesmerizing and remarkably realized fantasy novel full of adventure, suspense, humor and warmth.

In the city of Aramanth, the mantra is, "Better today than yesterday. Better tomorrow than today." Harder work means the citizens of Aramanth can keep moving forward to improved life stations--from Gray tenements and Orange apartments, upwards to glorious mansions of White. Only some families, like the Haths, believe more in ideas and dreams than in endless toil and ratings. When Kestrel Hath decides she is through with the Aramanth work ethic, she is joined in her small rebellion by her twin brother Bowman and their friend Mumpo. Together, they set the orderly city on its ear by escaping Aramanth's walls for an adventure that takes them from city sewers to desert sandstorms. Guided by an archaic map, they know that if they can find the voice of the Wind Singer, an ancient and mysterious instrument that stands in the center of Aramanth, they can save their people from their dreamless existence. But the voice is guarded by the dreaded Morah and its legion of perfect killing machines, the Zars. Are three ragtag kids any match for an army of darkness?]]> 486 William Nicholson 0786814179 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 3.88 2000
author: William Nicholson
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 3.88
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]]> 37703550
But Kya is not what they say. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life's lessons from the land, learning the real ways of the world from the dishonest signals of fireflies. But while she has the skills to live in solitude forever, the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. Drawn to two young men from town, who are each intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world–until the unthinkable happens.

In Where the Crawdads Sing, Owens juxtaposes an exquisite ode to the natural world against a profound coming of age story and haunting mystery. Thought-provoking, wise, and deeply moving, Owens’s debut novel reminds us that we are forever shaped by the child within us, while also subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.

The story asks how isolation influences the behavior of a young woman, who like all of us, has the genetic propensity to belong to a group. The clues to the mystery are brushed into the lush habitat and natural histories of its wild creatures.]]> 370 Delia Owens 0735219095 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 1 4.42 2018
author: Delia Owens
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 4.42
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rating: 1
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]]> 16072366 239 Συλλογικό ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 3.36 2012
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]]> 216863135
Οι συνομιλητές του Αναγνώστη συζητούν: «Τι γράφουμε και ποιους αφορούν αυτά που γράφουμε;»

Συντάκτες τόμου: Δ. Αγγελής, Δ. Αγραφιώτης, Β. Αποστολίδου, Ε. Γαραντούδης, Τ. Δημητρούλια, Γ. Δούκας, Α. Σ. Ζήρας, Κ. Ηλιοπούλου, Κ. Κορρυβάντη, Δ. Κούρτοβικ, Π. Λύγουρης, Α. Μαραγκόπουλος, Γ. Ν. Μπασκόζος, Χ. Οταμπάσης, Λ. Πανταλέων, Γ. Ν. Περαντωνάκης, Β. Ρούσσου, Δ. Τζιόβας, Τ. Τζιρίτα-Ζαχαράτου, Β. Χατζηβασιλείου.]]> 202 Συλλογικό 9606401790 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.50
author: Συλλογικό
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]]> 63291043
Ένα σύγχρονο bildungsroman, η πορεία ενηλικίωσης ενός νεαρού που θέλει να ξεφύγει από τους περιορισμούς της μικρής πόλης και να δρέψει τους καρπούς της πρωτεύουσας. Όμως, όσο περισσότερο εξερευνά τη νέα του ζωή, τόσο δυσκολότερη μοιάζει να γίνεται.]]> 270 Άρης Αλεξανδρής 6180333297 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 2 3.07 2022
author: Άρης Αλεξανδρής
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 3.07
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rating: 2
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]]> 40137920
Παιδί μιας ανύπαντρης έφηβης που την έδιωξαν από το χωριό της και υιοθετημένος, χάρη στη μεσολάβηση μιας καμπούρας καλόγριας, από ένα ζευγάρι εύπορων αν και κάπως εκκεντρικών Δουβλινέζων, ο Σίριλ είναι φτερό στον άνεμο μέσα στον κόσμο, και μόνη του άγκυρα είναι η φιλία του με τον ασύλληπτα πιο λαμπερό και επικίνδυνο Τζούλιαν Γούντμπιντ. Στο έλεος της τύχης και της συγκυρίας, ο Σίριλ θα περάσει όλη του τη ζωή προσπαθώντας να βρει τον εαυτό του, μια ταυτότητα, ένα σπίτι, μια πατρίδα και πολλά ακόμη.

Σ�� αυτό το έργο του Μπόιν, το πιο δυνατό ως τώρα, παρακολουθούμε ολόκληρη την ιστορία της Ιρλανδίας, από το 1940 μέχρι σήμερα, μέσα από τα μάτια ενός συνηθισμένου άντρα. Ένα μυθιστόρημα που θα σας κάνει να γελάσετε αλλά και να κλάψετε.]]> 696 John Boyne 6180124310 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.41 2017
author: John Boyne
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average rating: 4.41
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]]> 203179406
Στον παρόντα τόμο παρουσιάζεται η οπτική της αλβανικής όχθης, η οποία πλήττεται από πρωτοφανή παγετό. Οι ερευνήτριες τούτης της όχθης –τοξότριε�� και ιέρειες δρακολόγοι�� αγωνίζονται να λύσουν το αίνιγμα της στοιχειωμένης λίμνης, αγνοώντας ότι αποτελούν μέρος του.

Η Μνήμη του Πάγου είναι ταυτόχρονα το τέλος και η έναρξη της τριλογίας, επειδή μας μεταφέρει στην απαρχή του φαινομένου, όπου βρίσκεται και η λύση. Το τρίπτυχο του δράκου ξεδιπλώνεται ολοκληρωμένο και η συνείδηση καλείται να αναμετρηθεί με τις πέντε αισθήσεις.

Η τριλογία του Δράκου της Πρέσπας διαβάζεται με οποιαδήποτε σειρά. Κάθε βιβλίο αποκαλύπτει έναν καινούργιο κόσμο δράσης και μυστηρίου, παθών και διλημμάτων, εγκλημάτων και δολοπλοκιών, φωτίζοντας τα λεπτά νήματα που ενώνουν τα όνειρα και τις αυταπάτες ανθρώπων και λαών.]]> 496 Ioanna Bourazopoulou 9600371857 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 5 4.52
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]]> 37502561 47 Ιωάννα Μπουραζοπούλου 9600349274 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 4 4.00
author: Ιωάννα Μπουραζοπούλου
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
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]]> 37558445
Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crime for a babysitter. It's not as if Eli's life isn't complicated enough already. He's just trying to follow his heart, learning what it takes to be a good man, but life just keeps throwing obstacles in the way - not least of which is Tytus Broz, legendary Brisbane drug dealer.

But if Eli's life is about to get a whole lot more serious. He's about to fall in love. And, oh yeah, he has to break into Boggo Road Gaol on Christmas Day, to save his mum.

A story of brotherhood, true love and the most unlikely of friendships, Boy Swallows Universe will be the most heartbreaking, joyous and exhilarating novel you will read all year.]]> 474 Trent Dalton 1460753895 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.31 2018
author: Trent Dalton
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]]> 61255214
When Spence wakes up to the same day again and sees Clara, the girl who died, alive and well, it’s clear he’s been granted a second chance. And a third. And a fourth��

Caught in a loop, condemned to experience the same 24 hours over and over, Spence tries to prevent the terrible events of the party.

To break the spell he has to re-evaluate everything he previously took for granted and find the courage to call out his own and others complicity in events that marked the life and death of Clara Hart.]]> 260 Louise Finch 191507102X ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 3.87 2022
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average rating: 3.87
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]]> 203795243 Όλα τα κείμενα, η κάθε λέξη
αποκαλύπτει τη σχέση σου με τους άλλους
κυρίως με τα χέρια που σε τάισαν,
σε άγγιξαν ή σε προσπέρασαν.
Η φωνή σου είναι ο απόηχός τους
κι ό,τι θα απομείνει από εσένα.

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[...]Υπάρχουν άνθρωποι
που αλλάζει το πρόσωπό τους όταν κοιτάνε κάτι όμορφο,
τους έχεις παρατηρήσει;
Μαλακώνουν οι ρυτίδες στο μέτωπο,
γίνονται γραμμούλες που κοιτάνε προς τα πάνω
και στα μάγουλά τους σχηματίζονται μικρές φράουλες.[...]


[...]Όπου κι αν πας, πάντα επιστρέφεις στο ίδιο στομάχι·
[...]Το κλαδί της πορτοκαλιάς
λικνίζεται επιδεικτικά μπροστά σου:
έλα, μην αργείς.
Θα πας;[...]

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(αποσπάσματα από τη συλλογή)]]> 86 Άννα Βασιάδη 6185763125 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 5.00
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]]> 158875813
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.

Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and Eilish can only watch helplessly as the world she knew disappears. When first her husband and then her eldest son vanish, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a collapsing society.

How far will she go to save her family? And what �� or who �� is she willing to leave behind?

Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together.]]> 259 Paul Lynch ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.03 2023
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]]> 6342491
One day, Han and his clan friend, Dancer, confront three young wizards setting fire to the sacred mountain of Hanalea. Han takes an amulet from Micah Bayar, son of the High Wizard, to keep him from using it against them. Soon Han learns that the amulet has an evil history—it once belonged to the Demon King, the wizard who nearly destroyed the world a millennium ago. With a magical piece that powerful at stake, Han knows that the Bayars will stop at nothing to get it back.

Meanwhile, Raisa ana'Marianna, princess heir of the Fells, has her own battles to fight. She's just returned to court after three years of freedom in the mountains—riding, hunting, and working the famous clan markets. Raisa wants to be more than an ornament in a glittering cage. She aspires to be like Hanalea—the legendary warrior queen who killed the Demon King and saved the world. But her mother has other plans for her...

The Seven Realms tremble when the lives of Hans and Raisa collide, fanning the flames of the smoldering war between clans and wizards.]]> 506 Cinda Williams Chima 1423118235 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.16 2009
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average rating: 4.16
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]]> 13648 286 Ursula K. Le Guin 0152051244 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 3.72 2004
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average rating: 3.72
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]]> 19549841 Librarian Note: Alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780375866562.

In her New York Times bestselling and Morris Award-winning debut, Rachel Hartman introduces mathematical dragons in an alternative-medieval world to fantasy and science-fiction readers of all ages.

Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers. As the treaty's anniversary draws near, however, tensions are high.

Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides. An unusually gifted musician, she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murdered—in suspiciously draconian fashion. Seraphina is drawn into the investigation, partnering with the captain of the Queen's Guard, the dangerously perceptive Prince Lucian Kiggs. While they begin to uncover hints of a sinister plot to destroy the peace, Seraphina struggles to protect her own secret, the secret behind her musical gift, one so terrible that its discovery could mean her very life.]]> 499 Rachel Hartman ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 3.91 2012
author: Rachel Hartman
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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One day, Corinna is summoned by Lord Merton to come to the vast seaside estate Cliffsend as Folk Keeper and family member �� for she is the once-abandoned child he has been looking for. It is at Cliffsend that Corinna learns where her unusual powers come from, why she is drawn to the sea, and finally, what it means to be comfortable in her own skin. Written in the form of a journal, The Folk Keeper is a powerful story of a proud, ferociously self-reliant girl who breaks out of her dark, cold, narrow world into one of joy, understanding, and even the magic of romance.]]> 162 Franny Billingsley 0689844611 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 3.94 1999
author: Franny Billingsley
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1999
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/11/22
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]]> 4836030 346 Sam Llewellyn 0439934699 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 3.68 2009
author: Sam Llewellyn
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2009
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/11/22
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The Abarat: a vast archipelago where every island is a different hour of the day, from the sunlit wonders of Three in the Afternoon, where dragons roam, to the dark terrors of the island of Midnight, ruled by Christopher Carrion.

Candy has a place in this extraordinary world: she has been brought here to help save the Abarat from the dark forces that are stirring at its heart. Forces older than time itself, and more evil than anything Candy has ever encountered.]]> 393 Clive Barker 0064407330 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 4 coming-of-age, fantasy 4.10 2002
author: Clive Barker
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2002
rating: 4
read at: 2023/11/22
date added: 2023/11/22
shelves: coming-of-age, fantasy
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Richard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas, but now he is retired, his books remain in their packing boxes and he steps into the streets of his city, Berlin. Here, on Alexanderplatz, he discovers a new community -- a tent city, established by African asylum seekers. Hesitantly, getting to know the new arrivals, Richard finds his life changing, as he begins to question his own sense of belonging in a city that once divided its citizens into them and us.

At once a passionate contribution to the debate on race, privilege and nationality and a beautifully written examination of an ageing man's quest to find meaning in his life, Go, Went, Gone showcases one of the great contemporary European writers at the height of her powers.]]> 339 Jenny Erpenbeck 1846276217 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 3.95 2015
author: Jenny Erpenbeck
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> 91274427 For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this charming Japanese novel shows how the perfect book recommendation can change a reader's life.

What are you looking for?

This is the famous question routinely asked by Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. Like most librarians, Komachi has read every book lining her shelves—but she also has the unique ability to read the souls of her library guests. For anyone who walks through her door, Komachi can sense exactly what they’re looking for in life and provide just the book recommendation they never knew they needed to help them find it.

Each visitor comes to her library from a different juncture in their careers and dreams, from the restless sales attendant who feels stuck at her job to the struggling working mother who longs to be a magazine��editor. The conversation that they have with Sayuri Komachi—and the surprise book she lends each of them—will have life-altering consequences.

With heartwarming charm and wisdom, What You Are Looking For Is in the Library is a paean to the magic of libraries, friendship and community, perfect for anyone who has ever found themselves at an impasse in their life and in need of a little inspiration.]]> 304 Michiko Aoyama 1335005625 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.07 2020
author: Michiko Aoyama
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> 67436917 Alone relates the journey of three of them: Afshin, Alain and Patricia. Their story opens a window onto the many heartbreaks, difficult sacrifices and countless hardships that punctuate their obstacle-filled path. But Alone most especially tells of the courage and resilience that these young people demonstrated before being able to finally obtain a life where threats and danger are no longer a part of their everyday existence.]]> 144 Paul Tom ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.49
author: Paul Tom
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 4.49
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date added: 2023/09/09
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When he was a young boy, Kasher's mother took him on a vacation to the West Coast. Well it was more like an abduction. Only not officially. She stole them away from their father and they moved to Oakland , California. That's where the real fun begins, in the war zone of Oakland Public Schools. He was more than just out of control-his mother walked him around on a leash, which he chewed through and ran away.

Those early years read like part Augusten Burroughs, part David Sedaris, with a touch of Jim Carrol...but a lot more Jewish. In fact, Kasher later spends time in a Brooklyn Hasidic community. Then came addiction...

Brutally honest and laugh-out-loud funny, Kasher's first literary endeavor finds humor in even the most horrifying situations.]]> 303 Moshe Kasher 0446584266 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 3.74 2012
author: Moshe Kasher
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/09/09
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Hauntingly personal, almost autobiographical, this is not the story of one man’s life. It’s the secret story of us all. Beyond scepticism and cynicism, belief or imagination, A Book of Life offers a roadmap to reality by showing how it still is possible to experience the sacred truths our ancestors knew and lived—that inside every human being lies the universe and that life itself, in all its splendour, is what lies behind our tiny lives.

This little book is a wide open door into the timeless magic and unfathomable mystery our modern world has managed to forget. Even so, to encourage anyone to read it now would be totally wrong—because it was written to be read not by people today but in a distant future.



“This indescribable book is more than a book. It’s an apocalypse—a fire from another world.��

PIR ZIA INAYAT-KHAN]]> 258 Peter Kingsley 199963845X ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 3.41 2021
author: Peter Kingsley
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 3.41
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/09/09
shelves: to-read
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Instead, a nightmare took over.

It didn’t happen all at once, but her life unraveled quickly—a tiny thread that evil somehow kept pulling until everything precious was taken from her. She was suddenly living miles away from her old life, trapped in an existence she didn’t choose—one determined to destroy her from the inside, leaving only hate and anger behind. It didn’t help that her neighbor, the one whose eyes held danger, was enjoying every second of her fall.

Owen Harper was trouble, his heart wild and his past the kind that’s spoken about in whispers. And somehow, his path was always intertwined with Kensington’s, every interaction crushing her, ruining her hope for any future better than her now. Sometimes, though, what everyone warns is trouble, is exactly what the heart needs. Owen Harper was consumed with darkness, and it held onto his soul for years. When Kensington looked at him, she saw a boy who’d gotten good at taking others down when they threatened his carefully balanced life. But the more she looked, the more she saw other things too—good things…things to admire.

Things…to love. Things that made her want to be reckless.

And those things…they were the scariest of all.]]> 332 Ginger Scott 0692392920 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 3.90 2015
author: Ginger Scott
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/08/13
shelves: to-read
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]]> 22750286 Sidewalk Flowers is an ode to the importance of small things, small people, and small gestures.]]> 32 JonArno Lawson 1554984319 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.25 2015
author: JonArno Lawson
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/08/02
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]]> 11325900 Έκανε όλα αυτά που κάνουν οι καλοί, ευγενικοί και στοργικοί ιππότες.
Πολεμούσε εχθρούς που ήταν κακοί, τρισάθλιοι, μοχθηροί…��
Ένα μυθιστόρημα γραμμένο σαν παραμύθι, που μιλά κατευθείαν στη καρδιά όσων αποζητούν ένα βαθύτερο νόημα στη ζωή τους. μια απάντηση και μια διέξοδος στους φόβους, τις αγωνίες και τη μοναξιά μας.
Μιλώντας για τις "σκουριασμένες πανοπλίες" μας που (νομίζουμε πως) μας προφυλάσσουν από τον πόνο τον οποίο μας προξενούν οι άλλοι, ο Ρ. Φίσερ δημιουργεί μια ταξιδιωτική περιπέτεια που οδηγεί τον αναγνώστη στο "γνώθι σαυτόν".
Γεμάτος χιούμορ, «O ιππότης με τη σκουριασμένη πανοπλία» μάς καλεί να ανακαλύψουμε τον ίδιο μας τον εαυτό, να ανασάνουμε βαθιά και να γελάσουμε.]]> 131 Robert Fisher 9607073703 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 4 children-s-books 3.97 1987
author: Robert Fisher
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1987
rating: 4
read at: 2023/07/03
date added: 2023/07/06
shelves: children-s-books
review:

]]> 122999404
Ο βασικός χαρακτήρας αυτής της ιστορίας, ο Αρίφ, ένα παιδί της έκτης δημοτικού, νομίζει ότι είναι εξωγήινος�� με τρεις κεραίες για μάτια, δορυφορική μύτη, έξι προβοσκιδοαυτιά για τράβηγμα και έναν σβέρκο διάδρομο προσγείωσης για γήινες σφαλιάρες και μολύβια. Οι συμμαθητές του συμπεριφέρονται εχθρικά, αλλά όλα αρχίζουν να αλλάζουν όταν ξεχνάει το μολύβι του στο σχολείο και αυτοί το βάζουν στο κουτί με τα χαμένα της τάξης.
Ο Αρίφ βλέπει τρία διαδοχικά όνειρα, στα οποία βρίσκεται ο ίδιος μέσα στο κουτί, μικροσκοπικός, λίγο πιο κοντός από έναν συνδετήρα, σαν ένα χαμένο αντικείμενο.
Σε κάθε όνειρο συνομιλεί με ένα αντικείμενο (γόμα, μολύβι��) που ανήκει σε έναν συμμαθητή ή συμμαθήτριά του. Έτσι, με αυτό τον περίεργο τρόπο, ο Αρίφ μαθαίνει λεπτομέρειες από τη ζωή των συμμαθητών του και νιώθει ότι τους ξέρει�� έστω και λίγο, παρόλο που μέχρι εκείνο το σημείο δεν είχαν ανταλλάξει ούτε κουβέντα!]]> Konstantinos Patsaros 9601633456 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 3 middle-grade, read-in-2017
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Ενδιαφέρουσα και λογοτεχνική προσέγγιση του θέματος του ρατσισμού στο σχολείο.]]> 3.62 2014
author: Konstantinos Patsaros
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2014
rating: 3
read at: 2017/12/30
date added: 2023/06/26
shelves: middle-grade, read-in-2017
review:
Ενδιαφέρουσα και λογοτεχνική προσέγγιση του θέματος του ρατσισμού στο σχολείο.

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Ενδιαφέρουσα και λογοτεχνική προσέγγιση του θέματος του ρατσισμού στο σχολείο.
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Λάθος, λάθος! Πάµε απ�� την αρχή. Αυτή είναι η ιστορία µιας παρέας σχεδόν συνηθισµένων παιδιών που το καθένα τους έχει κι από µια ασυνήθιστη ιδιότητα. Μια ιδιότητα που ο υπόλοιπος κόσµος φοβάται, αντιπαθεί, θαυµάζει, τη θεωρεί παράξενη, αλλόκοτη, µοναδική! Τα παιδιά αυτά θα συναντηθούν σ�� ένα µυστικό καταφύγιο, που συµβαίνει να είναι ένα αληθινά ασυνήθιστο σχολείο. Κι αν νοµίζετε ότι τα προβλήµατά τους τελειώνουν, κάνετε λάθος, γιατί, αντίθετα, µόλις έχουν αρχίσει!

Ξαφνικά, µια σκιά. Κάτι µεγάλο ήταν δίπλα του. Ένιωσε µέσα του τη σκέψη του.

«Μη φοβάσαι» του έλεγε. Το κοίταξε. Ήταν ένα πλάσµα της θάλασσας. Ρύγχος, γυαλιστερό δέρµα, µικρά µάτια στα πλαϊνά του κεφαλιού. Δελφίνι. Κοιτάχτηκαν για λίγο, σαν να ήθελαν να καταλάβουν ο ένας τις προθέσεις του άλλου.

«Φίλοι» είπε σιωπηλά το δελφίνι.

«Πώς σε λένε;»

«Δεν έχουµε ονόµατα. Είµαι εγώ».]]> 136 Γιώργος Κ. Παναγιωτάκης 9601673563 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 4 middle-grade, read-in-2019 4.25 2017
author: Γιώργος Κ. Παναγιωτάκης
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2019/03/24
date added: 2023/06/07
shelves: middle-grade, read-in-2019
review:

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When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream.]]> 658 Frank Herbert 059309932X ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.33 1965
author: Frank Herbert
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1965
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/06/05
shelves: to-read
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]]> 117833 The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.

An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of the common Russian speech.

One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, a work whose nuances emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin's and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's splendid English version.]]> 372 Mikhail Bulgakov 0679760806 ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.31 1967
author: Mikhail Bulgakov
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 4.31
book published: 1967
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/05/20
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]]> 55780534
Living in a new country is no walk in the park.

When Nao returns to Tokyo to reconnect with her Japanese heritage, she books a yearlong stay at the Himawari sharehouse. There she meets Hyejung and Tina, two other girls who came to Japan to freely forge their own paths. The trio live together, share meals, and even attend the same Japanese-language school, which results in them becoming fast friends. But will they be able to hold one another up as life tests them with new loves, old heartbreaks, and the everyday challenges of being fish out of water?]]> 380 Harmony Becker 125023557X ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 0 to-read 4.37 2021
author: Harmony Becker
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/05/14
shelves: to-read
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]]> 52316211
Συμπυκνώνω τα μη διαχειρίσιμα
νικέλιο για τα ραγίσματα
ψευδάργυρο για τις παραχωρήσεις
ιρίδιο σε ασήμαντες ποσότητες για αυτοκριτική.

Το κράμα με χλευάζει
τινάζει κορόνα-γράμματα το κλείστρο
και ανοίγει τρύπα στο πάτωμα
(την τρύπα).

Δεν προλαβαίνω να σκεφτώ τι θα πουν οι γείτονες
από κάτω
πέφτω μέσα
εξακοντίζομαι στη λιωμένη μου φρίκη
με τη σιγουριά πυρίμαχου.

Το σημείο μου, μία τήξη μακριά.]]> 46 Σπύρος Γούλας 960435695X ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ 5 3.93 2020
author: Σπύρος Γούλας
name: ���ٳ��Բ���Ζ
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2022/10/20
date added: 2023/04/15
shelves:
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