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  Runaway

  by Wendelin Van Draanen

  "It's a cold, hard, cruel fact that my mother loved heroin more than she loved me." Holly is in her fifth foster home in two years and she's had enough. She's run away before and always been caught quickly. But she's older and wiser now--she's twelve--and this time she gets away clean. Through tough and tender and angry and funny journal entries, Holly spills out her story of what she goes through witnessing... (more)
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  The Hunchback of Notre Dame

  by Victor Hugo

  This extraordinary historical novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre-Dame, is the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the hunchback; Esmeralda, the gypsy dancer; and Claude Frollo, the priest tortured by the specter of his own damnation. Shaped by a profound sense of tragic irony, it is a work that gives full play to Victor Hugo's brilliant... (more)
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  Bury Me Standing

  The Gypsies & Their Journey

  by Isabel Fonseca

  Isabel Fonseca describes the four years she spent with Gypsies from Albania to Poland, listening to their stories, deciphering their taboos, and befriending their matriarchs, activists, and child prostitutes. A masterful work of personal reportage, this volume is also a vibrant portrait of a mysterious people and an essential document of a disappearing culture. 50 photos.
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  The Hathaways: Book 1

  Mine Till Midnight

  by Lisa Kleypas

  When an unexpected inheritance elevates her family to the ranks of the aristocracy, Amelia Hathaway discovers that tending to her younger sisters and wayward brother was easy compared to navigating the intricacies of the ton . Even more challenging: the attraction she feels for the tall, dark, and dangerously handsome Cam Rohan.   Wealthy beyond most men's dreams, Cam has tired of society's petty restrictions... (more)
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  Secrets Of Gypsy Fortunetelling (Llewellyn's New Age Series)

  by Raymond Buckland

  Raymond Buckland has been interested in occult and metaphysical subjects for fifty years; has been actively involved in various aspects of the subject for forty years; and has writing about it for nearly thirty. He is the author of more than twenty-five books, including such best-selling titles as Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft, Gypsy Dream Dictionary, Practical Candleburning Rituals, and Witchcraft... (more)
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  The Diddakoi

  by Rumer Godden

  Everyone in Kizzy's town hates her because she's half-gypsy - a diddakoi. But Kizzy doesn't care. All she needs is Gran and her horse, Joe. But when Gran dies and their wagon burns down, Kizzy is all alone. No one wants to look after her and her beloved Joe might get sent to the knacker's yard. Can Kizzy survive in a hostile world - and save Joe?
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  Darkness Chosen: Book 4

  Into the Flame

  by Christina Dodd

  Meet Doug Black—the Wilder brother who’s been missing for centuries. With no idea of where he’s from, he’s become an angry young cop with the ability to transform into a cougar. In search of others like him, he comes across a beautiful woman who may hold the secret to his destiny...
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  Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries: Book 17

  The Girl of His Dreams

  by Donna Leon

  Donna Leon’s Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries have won legions of fans for their evocative portraits of Venetian life. In her novels, food, family, art, history, and local politics play as central a role as an unsolved crime. In The Girl of His Dreams when a friend of Brunetti’s brother, a priest recently returned from years of missionary work, calls with a request, Brunetti suspects the man’s motives. A... (more)
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  Bardic Voices: Book 4

  Four and Twenty Blackbirds

  by Mercedes Lackey

  A magical murderer is loose in Alanda. The victims are always women and the weapon is always a three-sided stiletto, most often found in Church regalia. But the killers are never churchmen, and they always commit suicide immediately after the bloody deed. Tal Rufen is just a simple constable, but his every instinct cries out that he has seen only one small piece of a bigger and even nastier puzzle.
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  Bardic Voices: Book 1

  The Lark and The Wren

  by Mercedes Lackey

  Possessing the potential to be the greatest bard her world has ever seen, young Rune rashly brags about her abilities and must prove herself by meeting the Ghost of Skull Hill, who forces her to fiddle an entire night. Reissue.
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  Bardic Voices: Book 3

  The Eagle & the Nightingales

  by Mercedes Lackey

  Nightingale, a gypsy Free Bard, and T'fyrr, a birdman, must discover why the High King is shirking his responsibilities as the Church grows hostile to the bards and all else outside its control.
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  Too Loud a Solitude

  by Bohumil Hrabal

  Hantá rescues books from the jaws of his compacting press and carries them home. Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera calls “our very best writer today,” celebrates the power and the indestructibility of the written word.Originally published in Czech as "Příliš hlučná samota."
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  Secrets Of Gypsy Love Magick (Llewellyn's New Age Series)

  by Raymond Buckland

  Raymond Buckland has been interested in occult and metaphysical subjects for fifty years; has been actively involved in various aspects of the subject for forty years; and has writing about it for nearly thirty. He is the author of more than twenty-five books, including such best-selling titles as Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft, Gypsy Dream Dictionary, Practical Candleburning Rituals, and Witchcraft... (more)
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  The Fall of Light

  by Niall Williams

  An epic tale of Irelands people in the nineteenth century.The story begins in the famine-stricken Ireland of the mid-nineteenth century. The Foley family have always been proud and fearless, shaped by their fight for survival. But now they have lost their home. And they have also lost Emer, wife of Francis and mother to the four boys, Tomas, Finbar, Finan, and the youngest, Teige, a solemn twelve-year old who... (more)
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  Harry Hole: Book 4

  Nemesis

  by Jo Nesbø

  Gripping and surprising, Nemesis is a nail-biting thriller from one of the biggest stars in crime fiction.
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  ¡Olé flamenco

  by George Ancona

  FLAMENCO-it's dancing, it's singing, it's guitar playing! It's a way of expressing oneself that has evolved from many influences over hundreds of years. Today flamenco is practiced throughout the world and all across the United States. In Santa Fe, New Mexico, we meet Janira Cordova, the youngest member of a company studying to perform flamenco. Here the students learn the tools of their art-how to move their... (more)
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  Burn

  by Ted Dekker, Erin Healy

  The past Janeal thought had burned away is rising from the ashes. Years ago, the Gypsy Kumpania where Janeal Mikkado lived was attacked by outsiders. With her best friend about to be consumed by a fire, Janeal had two options: try to save her friend--at serious risk to her own life--or disappear with the million dollars that she had just discovered . . . But the past is quickly coming back to haunt her.... (more)
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  Make Me a Match

  by Diana Holquist

  In this charming debut romance, cardiologist Cecelia Burns's psychic sister Amy has the ability to see the name of a person's true love. Even though Amy swore never to tell Cecelia the name destined for her, she breaks her vow when she realizes the man is dying and only Cecelia can save him. Original.
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  Mythos Academy: Book 2

  Kiss of Frost

  by Jennifer Estep

  Logan Quinn was try­ing to kill me. My Spar­tan class­mate relent­lessly pur­sued me, swing­ing his sword at me over and over again, the shin­ing sil­ver blade inch­ing closer to my throat every time. A smile tugged up his lips, and his ice-blue eyes prac­ti­cally glowed with the thrill of battle …I’m Gwen Frost, a second-year warrior-in-training at Mythos Acad­emy, and I have no idea how I’m going to... (more)
• I Met a Gypsy and Other StoriesNoah Lofts

  

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  I Met a Gypsy and Other Stories

  by Norah Lofts