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Marietta Stelle longs to be a ballerina but, as Christmas draws nearer, her dancing days are numbered - she must marry and take up her place in society in the New Year. But, when a mysterious toymaker, Dr Drosselmeier, purchases a neighbouring townhouse, it heralds the arrival of magic and wonder in Marietta’s life. After Drosselmeier constructs an elaborate theatrical set for her final ballet performance on Christmas Eve, Marietta discovers it carries a magic all of its own - a magic darker than anyone could imagine.

Stones of Temple David takes twists and turns across various places and cultures. The novel begins in pre-war Poland and then it leads the listener through the dark ages of communism, escape to the free world, love, betrayal, espionage, and the evils of bureaucracy in the US. It also includes hallucinating time-travel.

In reality, in real actual life, that kind of magic doesn’t belong to one group and the object doesn’t have to look like them at all. It doesn't even have to look like a person. As long as you wish, dream, and know hard enough, it can be anything. A stick, a leaf, a piece of fruit, a candle. My grandmother used to do with an egg. She would write the name of the person onto the surface of a hen’s egg and then...picking up a rock, she would smash - Smash! Smash! - the top, so that it fractured and dented, yolk spilling and oozing out everywhere!

Caleb Turner spent his entire life believing that the soulmate call wasn’t real. He couldn’t believe that anyone could find him loveable, much less actually be created for him alone. It only took one look when his eyes met hers for him to know that the soulmate call was truly real. Pasiphae Lockhart dreamed of a fairy tale love that she never conceived existed for her, until an unexpected stranger took her breath away. Her soul immediately claimed his even though she already had a boyfriend.

Alys Stevens is running out of familiar road. Approaching the same age as her mother’s death and muddling through a messy divorce, the 40-something home renovator has lost the control she so deeply craves. So when her siblings show up demanding a girls' night full of fun, the three brew up an ancient family cocktail...and accidentally unleash powerful magic.

Ayant fui Téhéran pour échapper à la Révolution Islamique de 1979, Hashang, Roza et leurs trois enfants tentent de reconstruire leur vie dans le petit village de Razan, au cœur de la région montagneuse de Mazandaran. Mais personne n'échappe longtemps à la violence et au chaos... et la répression finira fatalement par les rattraper.

Nothing lasts forever. Even for a queen. White picket fence? Not for me. I need to be amongst them. The lights. The crowd. My place is here. Where I can feel eight million hearts pounding. The alternative is to be alone with my thoughts. My name is Anne, and everyone I have ever known is dead.

DJSTTDJ was working hard on her fifth and final album when suddenly her life changed unexpectedly. An equally entertaining and harrowing account of one witch pushing the limits of her half-mortal body and soul, the big question is ultimately asked...will she rise again? The dramatic conclusion to the climatic events surrounding the wiccan maestra’s final days on Earth.

Two extraordinary women in 1865 establish a trading post in a southern jungle that grows to be a safe haven for cast-off women and the dispossessed. When a murderous forger sets up shop and the mayor on the right-side-of-the-tracks becomes intent on their destruction, the village fights for survival in its own special way. Told in evocative magical realism, Jaguar Paloma and the Caketown Bar is a tale of wronged women who stand up to be counted.

When Yusuf fled Syria, he lost everything. Now the circus, with its middle-eastern flair, is the only home he knows. When the lights go on, the refugees dazzle their audience, but off-stage tensions flare. Ellie is passionate about the circus and drawn to its broken people. Even so, if she wants to keep her job at the newspaper, she must head up a campaign against it.

It was supposed to be my first summer on my own, but then I meet Seth, Axel, Jasper, and Cody. There's something about them that drew me closer, and they seemed hell-bent on protecting me. I didn't think I needed protecting until people started showing up dead in the woods.

Lucifer, to escape the cold of a Northern New Mexico winter, steps into an old adobe church, intruding on a baptism. By insinuating himself into the boy’s and sponsors’ lives, Dr. Luke Ferrer becomes Adám’s tutor, though it is unclear whose education is being undertaken. The Prince of Darkness, intent on instructing a new race of human beings loyal to him, is confounded to learn that his protégé “does not like girls in that way”. Adam likes boys, especially his mejor amigo. This is but the first of many challenges and obstacles Lucifer must face and overcome.

Who was Tesla? What made Tesla so special? Why don't we study Tesla in schools? Have scientists ever measured the frequencies that the neurons in the brain can detect? Listen to find out more.

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to live out your life in someone else's shoes? To experience what they feel, see and believe as if you were them? Strange events take hold of Sophia and she discovers herself transported to another world in which she finds herself caught up in supernatural events which can be shattering and horrifying, yet often emotional and moving too.

Dr. Tarak Sarna cannot sleep. Recently from the Mumbai Royal Hospital, he’s taken a job as a telemedicine doctor in Garnet, Texas. No one in India has ever heard of the place! And no wonder - it took Tarak two days and five airports to get to Garnet. Tarak is so tired, yet he cannot sleep at night. His mind and his body still think it’s lunch time in Mumbai.

Darque Aalanna Grifynn, known as the Dragon, is now the Battle Commander of the Dragon Clan, home of the Warrior Brotherhood. At just 18 winters, she ranks the most elite fighting force in all Kadoor. Taking her field promotion when her father was forced Past the Veil afore her eyes, she and her LifeBond partner and lifemate, Gunnarr the Mighty Blue, High Prince of the Highland Dragons, lead her Warriors to victory against the Hoard in the Battle for the Dragon Clan, the most horrific since the Last Holocaust.

Pirate life aside, all I have ever wanted was a safe place for the Lost Boys I rescued. Ambition may have led me to overstep my bounds. When my theft was discovered, the dwarves launch a devastating sneak attack against my island nation home.

Briar Pryce has the power to change the emotions of others by handing them a rose. It is a talent that has done surprisingly little for her, besides landing her a dead-end enchantment delivery job and killing any chance she had with her childhood-crush-turned-roommate. Worst of all, her ability might be responsible for getting her best friend transformed into a cat via a cursed muffin basket. Needless to say, Briar is nowhere near happily-ever-after.

Evie Lynn is running from something. She just can’t remember what or why. Terrified, and with only an address to go on, Evie makes her way across the country, assisted by two strangers. Closing in are two men who once claimed to love her. But now, they only want what she took from them, no matter the cost to Evie or to them.

When a young couple, Allison and Nigel, break house arrest to visit a nudist colony, their lives become intertwined with a visionary lawn ornament artist and a pair of women, Annalise and Lakshmi, who compulsively steal Baby Jesuses from church nativities. While on their road trip, Nigel loses their baby daughter in a novelty shop and deserts Allison, who finds herself lost in a strange town and deep in a mushroom trip.