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The Magician's Nephew (adult) (Narnia)

by C. S. Lewis

Published: 2005-05-24

Paperback: 272 pages

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Narnia . . . where Talking Beasts walk . . . where a witch awaits . . . where a new world is about to be born. On a daring quest to save a beloved life, two friends are hurled into another world, where an evil sorceress seeks to enslave them. But then the lion Aslan’s song weaves itself into the...

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The Magician's Nephew

by C. S. Lewis

Published: 2000-09-30

Paperback: 208 pages

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The secret passage to the house next door leads to a fascinating adventure.This large, deluxe hardcover edition of the first title in the classic Chronicles of Narnia series, The Magician's Nephew, is a gorgeous introduction to the magical land of Narnia. The many readers who discovere...

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Magick

by Heather McCollum

Published: 2010-09-08

Paperback: 346 pages

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Fury and guilt assail Hauk, a fierce Viking warrior, after he allows false healers to cure his family to death. When he's ordered to capture the Great Witch of the Woods in Northumbria, he doesn't anticipate that his hatred for all things magick would be challenged by a long-legged beauty with sparking...

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* * * * Informative,
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The Magnificent Ambersons

by Booth Tarkington

Published: 2013-03-06

Paperback: 188 pages

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The novel traces the growth of the United States through the declining fortunes of three generations of the aristocratic Amberson family in an upper-scale Indianapolis neighborhood, between the end of the Civil War and the early part of the 20th century, a period of rapid industrialization and socio-economic...

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The Magnificent Medills: America's Royal Family of Journalism During a Century of Turbulent Splendor

by Megan McKinney

Published: 2011-10-11

Hardcover: 464 pages

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The riveting story of the country's first media dynasty, the Medills of Chicago, whose power and influence shaped the story of America and American journalism for four generations When thirty-two-year-old former lawyer Joseph Medill bought a controlling stake in the bankrupt Chicago Dai...

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A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the British Monarchy

by Helen Rappaport

Published: 2012-03-13

Hardcover: 352 pages

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As she did in her critically acclaimed The Last Days of the Romanovs, Helen Rappaport brings a compelling documentary feel to the story of this royal marriage and of the queen's obsessive love for her husband ? a story that began as fairy tale and ended in tragedy.After the untimely death ...

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* * * Fun,
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Magnolia Wednesdays

by Wendy Wax

Published: 2011-04-26

Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages

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Vivien Armstrong Gray has spent most of her life fighting to make it in investigative journalism, only to have her dream crumble after a bullet lodges in her backside during an expose. Then she learns that she's pregnant, jobless, and very, very hormonal. Maybe that's why she said yes to c...

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Maguire Fiction Collection Four-Book Set (Wicked; Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister; Lost; Mirror, Mirror)

by Gregory Maguire

Published: 2003-10-14

Paperback: 1568 pages

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Maguire Fiction Collection Four-Book Set (Wicked; Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister; Lost; Mirror, Mirror) For a limited time get four of Gregory Maguire's creative retellings of classic fairy tales in one easy-to-order package, including the hardcover version of Maguire's latest book, M...

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* * * Slow,
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The Magus

by John Fowles

Published: 2001-01-04

Paperback: 656 pages

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The Magus is the story of Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching assignment on a remote Greek island. There his friendship with a local millionaire evolves into a deadly game, one in which reality and fantasy are deliberately manipulated, and Nicholas must fight f...

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The Maid Narratives: Black Domestics and White Families in the Jim Crow South

by Katherine Van Wormer, David W. Jackson III, Charletta Sudduth

Published: 2012-09-17

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The Maid Narratives shares the memories of black domestic workers and the white families they served, uncovering the often intimate relationships between maid and mistress. Based on interviews with over fifty people--both white and black--these stories deliver a personal and powerful messa...