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141) Lost paradise
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Alma, a young Brazilian women recovering from a traumatic and brutal attack, sets out from Sao Paulo and winds up in Australia, where Dutch novelist Erik Zontag, in Perth for a literary conference, stumbles upon a winged woman curled up in a closet in an empty house.
143) Almost an Angel
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Can Katie lead Charles to God in time before the mobsters "take him out"?
Katie is killed in a car wreck with her family. Shallow and self-centered, she is sent back to earth on a spiritual mission.
Charles is about to take a flying leap off his apartment building roof because two mobsters are trailing him. Katie crashes into him and knocks him down. Charles meets Katie and forgets he ever wanted to die. Together, they embark on a series of...
144) Las valkirias
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"Un hombre y una mujer, motivados por una búsqueda espiritual, viajan hacia la aridez y el supuesto vacío del desierto de Mojave. A lo largo de cuarenta días, rodeados de dudas y tentaciones, entrarán en contacto con sus más íntimos conflictos y cuestionamientos. Paulo Coelho advierte que éste ha sido un libro díficil de escribir porque revela episodios y sentimientos de su propio vida; porque dudaba poder narrar esta historia y porque marca...
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Aspiring comic book artist Morning Glory Conroy is delighted to be in a relationship with new student Gabriel, but her best friend Julia needs her, Gabriel's cousin Luci keeps causing trouble, and other crises keep arising, making her wonder if the heavens are against them.
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In the sixteenth century, Antinous Bellori, a boy of eleven, is lost in a dark forest and stumbles upon two glowing beings, one carrying a spear, the other a flaming torch. This event is decisive in Bellori's life, and he thereafter devotes himself to the pursuit and study of angels, the intermediaries of the divine.
147) Haze
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Gaby Winters' nightmares have stopped but she still can't remember her old life. Still can't quite believe she is one of the Rephaim - the wingless half-angels who can shift from place to place, country to country, in the blink of an eye. That she was once the Rephaim's best fighter. That demons exist. That Rafa has stayed. But most of all, she can't quite believe that her twin brother, Jude, might be alive. And Gaby can't explain the hesitancy that...
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"Multi-award winning author Aliette de Bodard, brings her story of the War in Heaven to Paris, igniting the City of Light in a fantasy of divine power and deep conspiracy... In the late Twentieth Century, the streets of Paris are lined with haunted ruins. The Great Magicians' War left a trail of devastation in its wake. The Grand Magasins have been reduced to piles of debris, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell, and the Seine has turned black with ashes...
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"The world is darker than it seems. Demons, vicious half-humans and evil creatures of myth and legend prowl the earth, unseen to human eyes but not to the eyes of 14-year-old Sage Alexander. Descended from humans and angels, Sage has the power to see and fight all these creatures, and in fact he must. The human race is in danger, controlled unknowingly by the Seven Princes of Hell, the seven deadly sins. Greed, Sloth, Envy, Gluttony, Lust, Wrath and...
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of the Angel Island series comes the sixteenth Christmas novel set in Thomas Kinkade's beloved town of Cape Light. The holiday season finds one treasured relationship about to be torn apart...while another is just coming together. As Christmas approaches, Molly Harding and her partner--and best friend--Betty Bowman are swept up in the annual holiday rush at Willoughby's Fine Food and Catering. With the...
151) Nightwise
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"R.S. Belcher, the acclaimed author of The Six-Gun Tarot and The Shotgun Arcana launches a gritty new urban fantasy series set in today's seedy occult underworld in Nightwise. In the more shadowy corners of the world, frequented by angels and demons and everything in-between, Laytham Ballard is a legend. It's said he raised the dead at the age of ten, stole the Philosopher's Stone in Vegas back in 1999, and survived the bloodsucking kiss of the Mosquito...
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""One of the most beautiful novels that I've written." - Willem Frederik Hermans Alberegt, a public prosecutor and self-proclaimed "man of minor failings," speeds through Hook of Holland in his black Renault on May 9, 1940. His every move is guided by the cool and patient hand of a guardian angel. Flitting about from the hood of Alberegt's car to the rim of his windswept hat, the angel attempts to quell their unhappy ward's fears and secrets. (On...