The Witch's Daughter
By: Nina Bawden
3.68
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
On the Scottish island of Skua, a friendship develops between lonely and mysterious Perdita and a b…
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1. The Eye of Zoltar (The Last Dragonslayer, #3)
By: Jasper Fforde
4.17
Format: 401 pages, Hardcover
The Mighty Shandar, the most powerful wizard the world has ever seen, returns to the Ununited Kingd… read more
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- fiction
- magic
- young adult
- adventure
"How about this,' I said. 'We modify our plans with regard to ongoing facts as they become known to us, then remodify them as the situation unfolds. 'You mean make it all up as we go along?' asked Per…"-Jasper Fforde, The Eye of Zoltar (The Last Dragonslayer, #3)
"What do I do?" Asked the princess. "You keep your head down." She looked at me petulantly. "Like hell I will. If we're going to die, I'm going down fighting, even if I'm terrible with a weapon." "Fai…"-Jasper Fforde, The Eye of Zoltar (The Last Dragonslayer, #3)
"Said by Colin the dragon: "It's somewhat bizarre to learn that many of you (humans)think that other humans are somehow different enough to be hated and killed, when in reality you're all all tiresome…"-Jasper Fforde, The Eye of Zoltar (The Last Dragonslayer, #3)
"Tale a rain check on that date?' I said, turning to Perkins. 'In the Magic Industry,it's kind of "Spell First, Fun Second".' 'I kind of figured that,' he replied, 'so why don't we make this assignmen…"-Jasper Fforde, The Eye of Zoltar (The Last Dragonslayer, #3)
2. Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
By: Jasper Fforde
4.13
Format: 399 pages, Paperback
If Thursday thought she could avoid the spotlight after her heroic escapades in the pages of Jane E… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"Don't you own a dodo?"-Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
"We're in a psuedoscientific technobabble."-Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
"The course of true love rarely runs smooth."-Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
"You'll like it here; everyone is quite mad."-Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
3. Bleak House
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury
4.02
Format: 1017 pages, Paperback
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
4. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
By: Robert A. Heinlein
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its maste… read more
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- fiction
"Drop dead-but first get permit"-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
"Women talk when they want to. Or don't."-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
"I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't."-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
"Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument."-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
5. The Great Troll War (The Last Dragonslayer, #4)
By: Jasper Fforde
4.17
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange and her sidekick and fellow Orphan Tiger Prawns have been driven … read more
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- fiction
- magic
- young adult
"Tell us a weird idea you've come up with that's totally out there.' 'Well,' said the author, 'I made George Formby president-for-life of Great Britain.' 'Who's George Formby?' asked Tiger. 'What's Gr…"-Jasper Fforde, The Great Troll War (The Last Dragonslayer, #4)
6. Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are restless for adventure, so when they are asked to take over Blunt'… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"And you do dance so nicely, Tommy dear." "Gently with the butter, Tuppence."-Agatha Christie, Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)
"You do think you know about everything," said her husband. I do," said Tuppence."-Agatha Christie, Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)
"Tommy, why did they put Maldon Surrey on the telegram?" "Because Maldon is in Surrey, idiot."-Agatha Christie, Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)
"As the visitor left the office, Tuppence grabbed the violin and putting it in the cupboard turned the key in the lock. "If you must be Sherlock Holmes," she observed, "I'll get you a nice little syri…"-Agatha Christie, Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)
7. Shades of Grey
By: Jasper Fforde
4.11
Format: 559 pages,
From the bestselling author of Thursday Next-- a brilliant new novel about a world where social ord… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
8. Murder Most Unladylike (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #1)
By: Robin Stevens
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Deepdean School for Girls, 1934. When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up their very own deadly secre… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
- young adult
9. Nemesis (Miss Marple, #11)
By: Agatha Christie
3.86
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
In utter disbelief, Jane Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr Rafi… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"Well, if you do sense evil, tell me. I shall be glad to know."-Agatha Christie, Nemesis (Miss Marple, #11)
"The only thing I shall want for a rainy day will be my umbrella."-Agatha Christie, Nemesis (Miss Marple, #11)
"Ah, I see you are an actress, Miss Marple, as well as an avenger."-Agatha Christie, Nemesis (Miss Marple, #11)
"One does not like to make definite assertions unless one has a little more definite knowledge."-Agatha Christie, Nemesis (Miss Marple, #11)
10. Early Riser
By: Jasper Fforde
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Imagine a world where all humans must hibernate through a brutally cold winter, their bodies danger… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
11. Good Night, Mr. Tom
By: Michelle Magorian
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
London is poised on the brink of World War II. Timid, scrawny Willie Beech -- the abused child of a… read more
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12. Arsenic for Tea (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #2)
By: Robin Stevens
3.97
Format: 649 pages, Paperback
Schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy's home, Fallingford, for the holidays… read more
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13. Crooked House
By: Agatha Christie
3.68
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides li… read more
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14. The Road to Lichfield
By: Penelope Lively
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In The Road to Lichfield, Penelope Lively explores the nature of history and memory as it is embodi… read more
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- fiction
15. The Old Curiosity Shop
By: Charles Dickens , Norman Page
3.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
The archetypal Victorian melodrama, as heartfelt and moving today as when it was first published, C… read more
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16. Making It So
By: Patrick Stewart
4.33
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart! From h… read more
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17. Tokyo Express
By: Seichō Matsumoto
3.68
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all’… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
18. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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- fiction
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
19. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)
By: Richard Coles
3.32
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
20. Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)
By: Jasper Fforde
4.50
Format: 459 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Shades of Grey—in an exclusive edition… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"Choice," went the Word of Munsell, "leads only to dithering and unhealthy speculation over alternative outcomes. The choice to have no choice is the best choice of all."-Jasper Fforde, Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)
21. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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- fiction
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
22. The Black God's Drums
By: P. Djèlí Clark
4.01
Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition
Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Instead, she wants to … read more
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- fiction
23. The Hapless Milliner (Miss Austen Investigates, #1)
By: Jessica Bull
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A witty, engaging murder mystery featuring Jane Austen as an intrepid amateur sleuth—the first in a… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
24. The Ogress and the Orphans
By: Kelly Barnhill
4.28
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A fantasy about the power of generosity and love, and how a community suffers when they disappear. … read more
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- fiction
- childrens
- young adult
- juvenile
"The antidote to anger is tenderness, and the antidote to discord is reconciliation."-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans
"Life is long, after all. And over time, the paths we take tend to intertwine and overlap."-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans
"Books are funny things. The ideas and knowledge contained inside their pages have mass and velocity and gravity. They bend both space and time. They have minds of their own. There is a power in a boo…"-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans
"So maybe the Reading Room is magic because books really are magic. I read once that books bend both space and time, and the more books you have in one place, the more space and time will bend and twi…"-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans
25. Freeze
By: Kate Simants
3.37
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
ON THE TOUGHEST REALITY SHOW ON TELEVISION A KILLER IS HIDING OUT OF SHOT Frozen Out is set to … read more
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- fiction
26. The Burial Plot
By: Elizabeth Macneal
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory, The Burial Plot is an unstoppable his… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
27. Conviction
By: Jack Jordan
4.01
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
TO STEAL A MAN'S FREEDOM ALL IT TAKES IS . . . CONVICTION Wade Darling stands accused of killing hi… read more
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- fiction
28. Woodwitch (Hedgewitch, #2)
By: Skye McKenna
4.38
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Step into the magical world of Hedgewitch, where the land of Faerie lies just beyond our own . . . … read more
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- childrens
- adventure
29. The Puzzle Wood
By: Rosie Andrews
3.37
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Deep in the woods, something is stirring. When Miss Catherine Symonds arrives to take up a posit… read more
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- fiction
30. The Witch's Daughter
By: Nina Bawden
3.68
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
On the Scottish island of Skua, a friendship develops between lonely and mysterious Perdita and a b… read more
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- childrens
- adventure
- magic
- young adult
- scotland
- fiction
- witches
- mystery
- juvenile
