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Magic tree house collection. [sound recording] / by Osborne, Mary Pope.;
Dinosaurs before dark -- The knight at dawn -- Mummies in the morning -- Pirates past noon -- Night of the Ninjas -- Afternoon on the Amazon --Sunset of the Sabertooth -- Midnight on the Moon.Read by the author.The magic treehouse whisks Jack and Annie off on magical adventures.
Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Magic; Time travel; Tree houses;
© p2001., Listening Library,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Pip Bartlett's guide to magical creatures / by Pearce, Jackson.; Stiefvater, Maggie,1981-;
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Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Animals, Mythical; Animal sanctuaries; Magic; Friendship;
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The Eleventh Hour : A Quintet of Stories. by Rushdie, Salman.;
From internationally renowned, award-winning author Salman Rushdie comes an inventive collection of fiction that explores life, death, and what comes into focus at the proverbial 11th hour of life.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Magical Realism; FICTION / Sagas;
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Strangers at the Red Door : A Novel. by Bock, Dennis.;
In 'Strangers at the Red Door', a foreign ghostwriter visiting Hong Kong partners up with the disembodied spirit of the most dangerous novelist in China to find a local bookseller whos been disappeared by the authorities after attempting to smuggle the novelists subversive masterpiece onto the mainland. Dennis Bock lives in Toronto, ON. From the author of 'The Good German'.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Magical Realism; FICTION / Political;
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The Bittlemores [electronic resource] : by Arden, Jann.aut; CloudLibrary;
A heartfelt, comic, and deeply satisfying debut novel from the #1 bestselling author, singer-songwriter, member of Canada's Music Hall of Fame and star of her own hit TV sitcom. A little bit All Creatures Great and Small, a little bit Fargo and all Jann Arden! On mean Harp Bittlemore’s blighted farm, hidden away in the Backhills, nothing has gone right for a very long time. Crops don’t grow, the pigs and chickens stay skinny and the three aged dairy cows, Berle, Crilla and Dally, are so desperate they are plotting an escape. The one thing holding them back is the thought of abandoning young Willa, the single bright point in their life since her older sister, Margaret, ran away.      But Willa Bittlemore, just turning 14, is planning her own rebellion. Something doesn’t add up in the story she’s been told about her missing sister, and she's beginning to question if her horrible parents are even her parents at all. Just as things are really coming to a head, a bright young police officer starts investigating a cold case involving a baby stolen from a little rural hospital 28 years earlier, and Willa and the cows find out exactly how far the Bittlemores will go to protect a festering secret.      Written with Jann’s trademark outrageous humour and full of her down-to-earth wisdom, The Bittlemores is a rural fairytale, a coming-of-age story and a prairie mystery all-in-one, saturated with her observations of the world she grew up in and her deep connection to the animals we exploit. This marvel of a first novel digs into how people come to be so cruel, but it also glories in the miracle of human kindness.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Magical Realism; Coming of Age;
© 2023., Random House of Canada,
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The Bittlemores [electronic resource] : by Arden, Jann.aut; Arden, Jann.nrt; CloudLibrary;
A heartfelt, comic, and deeply satisfying debut novel from the #1 bestselling author, singer-songwriter, member of Canada's Music Hall of Fame and star of her own hit TV sitcom. A little bit All Creatures Great and Small, a little bit Fargo and all Jann Arden! On mean Harp Bittlemore’s blighted farm, hidden away in the Backhills, nothing has gone right for a very long time. Crops don’t grow, the pigs and chickens stay skinny and the three aged dairy cows, Berle, Crilla and Dally, are so desperate they are plotting an escape. The one thing holding them back is the thought of abandoning young Willa, the single bright point in their life since her older sister, Margaret, ran away.      But Willa Bittlemore, just turning 14, is planning her own rebellion. Something doesn’t add up in the story she’s been told about her missing sister, and she's beginning to question if her horrible parents are even her parents at all. Just as things are really coming to a head, a bright young police officer starts investigating a cold case involving a baby stolen from a little rural hospital 28 years earlier, and Willa and the cows find out exactly how far the Bittlemores will go to protect a festering secret.      Written with Jann’s trademark outrageous humour and full of her down-to-earth wisdom, The Bittlemores is a rural fairytale, a coming-of-age story and a prairie mystery all-in-one, saturated with her observations of the world she grew up in and her deep connection to the animals we exploit. This marvel of a first novel digs into how people come to be so cruel, but it also glories in the miracle of human kindness.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Magical Realism; Coming of Age;
© 2023., Penguin Random House,
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Dogs and Monsters Stories [electronic resource] : by Haddon, Mark.aut; cloudLibrary;
From the "terrifyingly talented" (The Times, [London]) author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and The Porpoise, eight mesmerizingly imaginative, deeply-humane stories that use Greek myths and contemporary dystopian narratives to examine mortality, moral choices and the many variants of love For millenia Greek myths have fascinated people, who have seen in them lessons about fate and hubris and the contingency of existence. Mark Haddon digs into the heart of these ancient fables and imagines them anew. The dawn goddess Eos asks Zeus to give her lover Tithonus eternal life but forgets to ask for eternal youth. In "The Quiet Limit of the World" Haddon imagines Tithonus' life as he slowly ages over thousands of years, turning the cautionary tale of tempting the gods into a spellbinding meditation on witnessing death from the outside, and ultimately, how carnal love evolves into something richer and more poignant with time. In "The Mother’s Story," Haddon takes the myth of the minotaur in his labyrinth, in which the beast is the spawn of the monstrous lust of the king's wife Pasiphaë, and turns it into a wrenching parable of maternal love for a damaged child, and the more real monstrosities of patriarchy. In "D.O.G.Z.," the story of Actaeon, who was turned into a stag after glimpsing the naked goddess Diana and torn to pieces by his hunting dogs, becomes a visceral metaphor about the continuum of human and animal behavior. Other stories play with contemporary mythic tropes—genetic engineering, trying to escape the future, the viciousness of adolescent ostracism—to showcase how modern humans are subject to the same capriciousness that obsessed the Greeks. Haddon's tales cover a vast range, from the mythic to the domestic, from ancient Greece to the present day, from stories about love to stories about cruelty, from battlefields to bed and breakfasts, from dogs in space to doors between worlds, all of them bound together by a profound sympathy and an understanding of how human beings act and think and feel when pushed to the very edge. Throughout, Haddon's supple prose showcases his astonishing powers of observation, of both the physical world and the workings of the psyche. His vision is clear-eyed, but always resolutely empathetic.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Magical Realism; Historical;
© 2024., Doubleday Canada,
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Children's book of mythical beasts & magical monsters.
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Subjects: Mythology; Legends.; Animals, Mythical; Monsters;
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Children's book of mythical beasts & magical monsters / by Lock, Deborah.;
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Subjects: Mythology; Legends.; Animals, Mythical; Monsters;
© 2011., DK Pub.,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Lessons in Magic and Disaster. by Anders, Charlie Jane.;
In 'Lessons in Magic and Disaster', Jamie is a young witch who teaches her mother, Serena, how to do magic. But Jamie doesn't know the whole story of what happened to her mom years ago, and those secrets are leading Serena down a destructive path. Before her mother ruins both of their lives, Jamie must uncover the secrets behind a magical book from 1749, unearth a long-buried scandal hinted therein, and learn the true nature of magic.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Romance / LGBT / General *; FICTION / Romance / LGBTQ+ / General;
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