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- The secret language of luck / by Goldschneider, Gary;
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- Subjects: Astrology; Fortune-telling;
- © 2004., Riverhead Books,
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- The art of tea-leaf reading / by Struthers, Jane;
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- Subjects: Fortune-telling by tea leaves;
- © 2006., Godsfield Press,
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- Death in a Budapest butterfly / by Buckley, Julia,1964-;
"Hanna Keller and her family run Maggie's Tea House, an establishment heavily influenced by the family's Hungarian descent and specializing in a European-style traditional tea service. But truthfully, one of the shop's largest draws is Hanna's eccentric grandmother, who's known for her remarkable ability to read the future in the leaves at the bottom of their customers' cups. Lately, however, her readings have become alarmingly ominous... Hanna is also an avid teacup collector and especially takes pride in the Anna Weatherley butterfly cup she recently procured. But the exquisite piece of porcelain soon becomes the center of a murder investigation, when it's suspected of delivering poison to one of the guests at their most recent event. Hanna's determined to find the true killer, exonerate her family, their business, and in the process, reclaim her beautiful Budapest Butterfly."--- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Tearooms; Murder; Family-owned business enterprises; Fortune-telling;
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- The big door prize : a novel / by Walsh, M. O.(Milton O'Neal),author.;
"The New York Times bestselling author of My Sunshine Away returns with another instant Southern classic: a gripping and heartfelt novel about a mysterious machine that upends a small Louisiana town, asking us all to wonder if who we truly are is who we truly could be"--- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Fortune-telling; DNA; Life change events; City and town life; Interpersonal relations;
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- The witches of New York / by McKay, Ami,1968-author.;
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- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Witches; Witchcraft; Magic; Fortune-telling; Tearooms; Social classes; Missing persons;
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- Oracle of Doom / by MacHale, D. J.;
As Theo's fourteenth birthday approaches, he and Marcus go back in time to meet a fortune teller in hopes of stopping what has been predicted to happen.LSC- Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Adventure fiction.; Missing persons; Fortune-tellers; Libraries; Time travel; Fortune-telling; Amusement parks;
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- Woman of light : a novel / by Fajardo-Anstine, Kali,author.;
"1890: When Desiderya Lopez, The Sleepy Prophet, finds an abandoned infant on the banks of an arroyo, she recognizes something in his spirit and brings him home. Pidre will go on to become a famous showman in the Anglo West whose main act, Simodecea, is Pidre's fearless, sharpshooting wife, who wrangles bears as part of his show. 1935: Luz "Little Light" Lopez and her brother Diego work the carnival circuit in downtown Denver. Luz, is a tea leaf reader, and Diego is a snake charmer. One day, a pale-faced woman in white fur asks Luz for a reading, calling her by a name that only her brother knows. Later that night at a party downtown, Luz sees Diego dancing with this pale-faced woman, which results in a brawl with the local white supremacist group. Diego leaves town for cover and Luz is left trying to get justice for her brother and family. Merging two multi-generational storylines in Colorado, this is a novel of family love, secrets, and survival. With Fajardo-Anstine's immense capacity to render characters and paint vivid life, set against the Sange de Cristo mountians, Woman of Light is full of the weight, richness, and complexities of mixed blood and mica clay. It delights like an Old Western, and inspires the hope embedded in histories yet-told"--- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Carnivals; Fortune-telling by tea leaves; Hispanic American families; Hispanic American women; Racism; Women prophets;
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- The fortune men / by Mohamed, Nadifa,1981-author.;
"Based on a true event, The Fortune Men tells the intimate, harrowing story of the last man in Britain to be sentenced to death"--- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Legal fiction (Literature); Life change events; Murder;
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- The good wife of Bath : a (mostly) true story / by Brooks, Karen(Australian author),author.;
In 1364 England, one of literature's most unforgettable characters--Chaucer's Wife of Bath--tells her story in her own words as she rises through society from a cast-off farm girl to a woman of fortune fighting to control her own life.- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400; Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.; Characters and characteristics in literature; Friendship; Man-woman relationships; Middle Ages; Power (Social sciences); Sex role; Wife of Bath (Fictitious character);
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- The opportunist : a novel / by Friedman, Elyse,1963-author.;
When Alana Shropshire's seventy-six-year-old father, Ed, starts dating Kelly, a saucy twenty-eight-year-old, a flurry of messages arrive from Alana's brothers, urging her to help "protect Dad" from the young interloper. Alana knows that what Teddy and Martin really want to protect is their father's fortune, and she tells them she couldn't care less about the May--December romance. Long estranged from her privileged family, Alana has no stake in the game, and as a hardworking single mom, she has more important things to worry about. But when Ed and Kelly's wedding is announced, Teddy and Martin kick into hyperdrive, and eventually persuade Alana to fly to their father's 900-acre West Coast island retreat to perform one small task in their plan to lure the "gold digger" away from their father. Kelly, however, proves a lot wilier than expected, and Alana becomes entangled in an increasingly dangerous scheme full of secrets and surprises. Will she be able to escape her brothers' elaborate web of deceit? Just how far will her siblings go to retain control?- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Family secrets; Inheritance and succession; Siblings;
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