Nothing else but miracles

When 12-year-old Dory Byrne’s pop left New York City’s Lower East Side to fight Hitler, he promised her and her brothers that they’d be safe. Like he always said, “the neighborhood will give you what you need.” There’s the lady from the bakery, who saves them leftover crullers. The kind landlord who checks in on them. And every Thursday night, the Byrnes enjoy a free bowl of seaf…

A tangle of spells

It should have been a fresh start for the Widdershins sisters, Betty, Fliss and Charlie, who have left the misty gloom of Crowstone for a new life in the pretty village of Pendlewick. But all is not as it seems and as one of their own begins to slip away from them, the sisters find themselves in a race against time to break a dark magic that has cast a spell over the village.

Sky song

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9781471146077

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288 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm

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823 ELP s

The lottery and other stories 75th anniversary edition

One of the darkest, most nightmarish stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" created a sensation when it was first published in 1948. This lucid tale of a sleepy town's annual lottery--and the monstrous desires it awakens--endures as an essential classic of American fiction. The Lottery and Other Stories unites "The Lottery" with twenty-four wonderfully strange and eq…

The house with chicken legs runs way

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9781803704364

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320 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm

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823 AND h

Boy in the tower

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ISBN/ISSN

9780552569163

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336 p. ; ill. ;19,5 cm

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823 HOY b

The extremely inconvenient adventures of bronte mettlestone

This does not bother her much: her parents ran away to have adventures when she was a baby. She has been raised by her Aunt Isabelle, with assistance from the Butler, and has spent a pleasant childhood of afternoon teas and riding lessons. Now, however, her parents have left detailed instructions for Bronte in their will. (Instructions that, annoyingly, have been reinforced with faery cross-sti…

The troublemakers

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ISBN/ISSN

9780241610398

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434 p. ; ill. ; 22,5 cm

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823 MER t

The mapmakers

Return to the spellbinding world of Cordelia Hatmaker in this soaring magical sequel to The Hatmakers . Perfect for fans of Nevermoor , A Pinch of Magic and Harry Potter.Ever since Cordelia discovered the hidden map in her father's precious telescope, she's been searching the streets of London by starlight and trying to uncover its secrets. She's sure that her missing father is out there somewh…

The hatmakers

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ISBN/ISSN

9780241426319

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384 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm

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823 MER h