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The Blue Fox

Sjon · 112 pages

The year is 1883 and the stark Icelandic winter landscape is the backdrop. Follow the priest, Skugga-Baldur, on his hunt for the enigmatic blue fox.

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Collected Novellas

Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 256 pages

Contains: - Coronel no tiene quien le escriba - [Crónica de una muerte anunciada](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL274574W/Cr%C3%B3nica_de_una_muerte_anunciada) - Hojarasca

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The Age of Magic

Ben Okri · 307 pages

'The Age of Magic has begun. Unveil your eyes.' Eight weary film-makers, travelling from Paris to Basel, arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the shores of a luminous lake. Above them, strewn with lights that twinkle in the darkness, looms the towering Rigi mountain. Over the course of three days and two nights, the travellers will find themselves drawn in to the mystery of the mountain reflected in t

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Primeval and Other Times

Olga Tokarczuk · 252 pages

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Dandelion Wine

Ray Bradbury · 210 pages

The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding—remembered forever by the incomparable Ray

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Primeval and Other Times

Olga Tokarczuk; Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

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Orbital

Samantha Harvey · 224 pages

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If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

Jon McGregor · 281 pages

On a street in an unnamed town in the north of England, perfectly ordinary people are doing totally ordinary things - but then a terrible event shatters the quiet of the early summer evening and no one who witnesses it will be quite the same again.

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Second Nature

Alice Hoffman · 257 pages

A New York Times bestseller, Second Nature tells the story of a suburban woman, Robin Moore, who discovers her own free spirit through a stranger she brings home to her perfectly ordered neighborhood. As Robin impulsively draws this beautiful, uncivilized man into her world-meanwhile coping with divorce and a troubled teenage son-she begins to question her wisdom and doubt her own heart, and ultim

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Moonlight and Vines

Charles de Lint · 384 pages

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In Calabria

Peter S. Beagle · 175 pages

"Claudio Bianchi has lived alone for many years on a hillside in Southern Italy's scenic Calabria. Set in his ways and suspicious of outsiders, Claudio has always resisted change, preferring farming and writing poetry. But one chilly morning, as though from a dream, an impossible visitor appears at the farm. When Claudio comes to her aid, an act of kindness throws his world into chaos. Suddenly he

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All the Crooked Saints

Maggie Stiefvater · 320 pages

*Here is a thing everyone wants: A miracle.* *Here is a thing everyone fears: What it takes to get one.* Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full of watchful desert stars. At the heart of this place you will find the Soria family, who

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The Legends of Khasak

O.V. Vijayan · 208 pages

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Diving Belles

Lucy Wood · 223 pages

Along Cornwall's ancient coast, the flotsam and jetsam of the past becomes caught in the cross-currents of the present and, from time to time, a certain kind of magic can float to the surface... Straying husbands lured into the sea can be fetched back, for a fee. Magpies whisper to lonely drivers late at night. Trees can make wishes come true - provided you know how to wish properly first. Hous

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The Tiger's Wife

Tea Obreht · 360 pages

Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the ti

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A Year of Marvellous Ways

Sarah Winman · 326 pages

Cornwall, 1947. Marvellous Ways is a ninety-year-old woman who's lived alone in a remote creek for nearly all her life. Recently she's taken to spending her days sitting on a mooring stone by the river with a telescope. She's waiting for something - she's not sure what, but she'll know it when she sees it. Drake is a young soldier left reeling by the war. He's agreed to fulfil a dying man's last w

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Light Boxes

Shane Jones · 158 pages

After a god-like spirit punishes a town for flying by making it perpetually live out its days in the month of February, children go missing and adults fall into deep depression, but a small contingent of townsfolk fight back, waging war on February.

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Etta and Otto and Russell and James

Emma Hooper · 305 pages

Otto, the letter began, I've gone. I've never seen the water, so I've gone there. Don't worry, I've left you the truck. I can walk. I will try to remember to come back. Yours (always), Etta. Otto finds his 83-year-old wife's note in their kitchen in Saskatchewan, 3,200 kilometers from the ocean. But he understands. He was there once. Now Otto struggles with his demons of war while their friend Rus

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Galore

Michael Crummey · 344 pages

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The Saga of Gösta Berling

Selma Lagerlof · 399 pages

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The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow

Rita Leganski · 378 pages

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The Thin Place

Kathryn Davis · 275 pages

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Ocean Sea

Alessandro Baricco, Alastair McEwen · 256 pages

From the author of the international best-seller Silk, come s haunting, suspenseful tale of love and vengeance. A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable seductress - and a beautiful young girl, fatally ill, brought to the sea by a desperate father's last hope. An intricate web of destinies and associations begins to re

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