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Castle Knoll files volume 1
Language
English
Description
"A dual narrative, feel good mystery in which a woman, Frances, spends a lifetime trying to prevent her murder as predicted by a fortune teller at a country fair when she was just 17. When she is in fact murdered nearly 60 years later, her great niece Annie must solve the crime to avenge her great aunt's death, and in so doing uncovers the dark heart of the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, where she might just find herself in the path of the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Discover basic reading techniques for a wide variety of systems, including Marseilles, Rider-Waite, and Thoth. Identify the meaning of associations, correspondences, reversals, and dignities, and experience the ways that tarot interacts with astrology and personal spirituality. Combine tarot reading with Kabbalah, numerology, Jungian psychology, journaling, and storytelling while exploring card selection, creativity, tarot ethics, and specialized...
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Language
English
Description
"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"--
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Language
English
Description
"Vanessa Yu never wanted to see people's fortunes - or misfortunes - in tea leaves. Ever since she can remember, Vanessa has been able to see people's fortunes at the bottoms of their teacups. To avoid blurting out fortunes, she converts to coffee, but somehow the fortunes escape and find a way to complicate her life and the lives of those around her. To add to this plight, her romantic life is so nonexistent that her parents enlist the services of...
Author
Series
Hungarian tea house mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Thorsons
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This popular, complete one-volume guide contains all you need to know about your personal horoscope for the year 2023. Be prepared for the forthcoming year with monthly predictions for your own sign and discover how to maximise your opportunities and potential to make the most of 2023.
Author
Language
English
Description
Maeve Chambers doesn't have much going for her. Not only does she feel like the sole idiot in a family of geniuses, she managed to drive away her best friend Lily a year ago. But when she finds a pack of dusty old tarot cards at school, and begins to give scarily accurate readings to the girls in her class, she realizes she's found her gift at last. Things are looking up - until she discovers a strange card in the deck that definitely shouldn't be...
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Series
Arnold and Louise volume 1
Language
English
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The unlikely friendship of Arnold and Louise--a big bear and a chatty chipmunk--is tested when Louise claims to be able to predict the future.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Flair Hardwicke knows three things: magic is real, love isn't, and relying on either ends in disaster. So while she's grateful for the chance to take over her grandmother's Kansas bakery after she finally leaves her cheating husband, she won't be embracing Nana's fortune-telling side-hustle. Hers is a strictly no-magic operation--until the innocent batch of Tarot card cookies Flair bakes for the town's Halloween celebration unleashes the power of...
11) Big
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A 12-year-old boy's wish comes true when he asks a mechanical carnival genie to make him 'big'. He manages to land a job at a toy company where he experiences the complications of being an adult.
12) Bahar, the Lucky
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Determined to help her family earn more money than what she makes selling rugs at the local bazaar, Bahar decides to become a fortune teller. After she stumbles into some early fortune telling success, the king summons Bahar to the palace to be his new fortune teller. How will she get herself out of trouble now?
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Sometimes you just need the universe to tell you whether your crush likes you or how to handle that awkward family situation or which life path is the best one for you. Sami Main breaks down how the cards relate to one another, explaining spreads for future readings and questions to ask the cards. And she takes you through all the Major and Minor Arcana, with colorful illustrations of the cards and detailed descriptions of what they mean. As Sami...
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Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Something wicked was brewing in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. It started when two girls, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams, began having hysterical fits. Soon after, other local girls claimed they were being pricked with pins. With no scientific explanation available, the residents of Salem came to one conclusion: it was witchcraft! Over the next year and a half, nineteen people were convicted of witchcraft and hanged while more...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Professor Ian Stewart explores the history and mathematics of uncertainty. Touching on gambling, probability, statistics, financial and weather forecasts, censuses, medical studies, chaos, quantum physics, and climate, he makes one thing clear: a reasonable probability is the only certainty.
Author
Publisher
Paul Dry Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"In her witty account of the origins of many English words and expressions, Deborah Warren educates as she entertains-and entertain she does, leading her readers through the amazing labyrinthian history of related words. "Language," she writes, "is all about mutation.""--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Canonized, overlooked, and forgotten African American poets star in Terrance Hayes's brillian contemplations of personal and allegorical literary development....Illustrated micro-essays, graphic book reviews, biographical prose poems, and nonfiction sketches make reading an imaginative and critical act of watching your language. Hayes has made a kind of poetic guidebook with more questions than answers. "If you don't see suffering's potential as...
20) The Forest Grimm
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Despite the ominous warning of a fortune-telling grandmother, seventeen-year-old Clara ventures into the treacherous Forest Grimm to retrieve Sortes Fortunae, a magical book that can reverse a curse and save her village, facing deadly twists and defying fate alongside her friend Axel.
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