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Stravaganza: Book 1
City of Masks
by Mary Hoffman
In modern-day London, Lucien Mulholland undergoes chemotherapy treatments, but when he falls asleep clutching a mysterious book his father has given him, he is transported, or "stravagated," to an enchanting 16th-century Venice-like city called Bellezza, in the country Talia. Lucien can return only if he can get hold of the book again. In this colorful other world, rich with court intrigues and magic, he feels... (more)
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Inventing Elliot
by Graham Gardner
When fourteen-year-old Elliot Sutton arrives at Holminster High, he’s determined not to stand out. He simply can’t let himself become a target again—not like he was at his last school. This time, he’s a new Elliot. Tough. Impenetrable. But then he meets the Guardians, a group of upperclassmen that secretly rule Holminster with a quiet and anonymous terror. Obsessed with George Orwell’s book 1984, they... (more)
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TrueFaced: Experience Guide, for use with TrueFaced ExperienceDVD and the Revised Editon
by Bill Thrall
Completely revised edition of best-selling book True Faced (1576834468). Designed to facilitate group interaction and implementation of the principles. To be used with the TrueFaced Experience DVD & TrueFaced Experience Guide.
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The Music of the Night (Signet Eclipse)
by Lydia Joyce
Sarah Connolly leaves a past of desperation in London to help an old friend in Venice. There, she discovers dark secrets and a mysterious figure lurking in the shadows. He is Sebastian Grimsthorpe-once carefree, now bent on exacting pitiless revenge on the man who nearly destroyed him. But his plot is obscured when he discovers Sarah, whose tragic eyes seduce him into a world of secrecy and deception.
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The Wrestler's Cruel Study: A Novel
by Stephen Dobyns
Wrestling, kidnapping, subplots from the Brothers Grimm, and a young man's search for his missing fiancee are only some of the elements of Stephen Dobyns's dazzling new novel. Fun and puns mingle with daring make-believe. Larger-than-life characters play out the crucial human questions: How do we live? How do we handle our demons?
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The Braided Path
The Braided Path
An Omnibus Collection of the Acclaimed Fantasy
by Chris Wooding
The three books making up the richly textured, darkly evocative Braided Path trilogy are collected here: The Weavers of Saramyr, The Skein of Lament , and The Ascendancy Veil . The empire of Saramyr has relied on Weavers, a secretive sect of magicians, for far too long. Now the Weavers, manipulating space and time through the Weave of existence, are plotting the overthrow of the royal families. As the empire... (more)
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The Wrong Path
by Vivian Marie Aubin du Paris
They were the ones everyone wanted to be. Except on the inside. Annabelle's life was finally going according to plan. She had the right group of friends. Her childhood crush had finally started to notice her. She was pretty, popular, and in love. And then one terrible night at a party Will enters her life and everything changes. Will is the polar opposite of his older brother Trevor—Annabelle’s new... (more)
HALLOWEEN, ARE YOU FOR REAL?HAROLD MYRA
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HALLOWEEN, ARE YOU FOR REAL?
by HAROLD MYRA
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Other People's Heroes
by Blake M. Petit
Imagine, for a moment, that you live in a world full of superheroes. Imagine a world where people bend steel in their bare hands, where champions dart across the sky, where avengers step out of the shadows to protect the innocent. Imagine a man larger than life protecting the innocent, imagine a family of heroes, imagine warriors dedicated to the safety of mankind. Imagine you've worshiped them your entire life.... (more)
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Behind the Mask
by Yangsook Choi
Halloween is coming. “What are you going to be?” the children ask one another. Kimin says he will be his grandfather. “Going as an old man is not very scary,” they tease. What the children don’t know is that Kimin’s grandfather was a Korean mask dancer. And Kimin doesn’t know that the mask holds a secret for him. With vibrant illustrations, Yangsook Choi joins Korean and American folk traditions in her story about... (more)
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Graven Images: Fifteen Tales of Dark Magic and Ancient Myth
by Nancy Kilpatrick, Thomas S. Roche
In this thrilling new anthology from the editors of In the Shadow of the Gargoyle (cited by Locus as one of the year's best anthologies), today's top fantasy and horror talents take a close look at our distant idols. Ancient gods who faded into history, all that remains are the mortal-made likenesses of their images-sacred relics, holy statues, and hallowed trinkets bearing the images of those fabled... (more)
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Masks
by Fumiko Enchi
Text: English, Japanese (translation)
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Paul Starr on Beauty: Conversations with Thirty Celebrated Women
by Paul Starr
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The Masque of The Red Death
by Edgar Allan Poe
A thousand of the favored joined their decadent prince behind high walls and welded gates. They engaged in bizarre celebrations while the Red Death raged outside--until one cryptic figure showed them the true horror in "The Masque of the Red Death". This audiobook also features "Silence: A Fable", in which a demon speaks of stealth, anger and a desolate land where silence is the most frightening sound of all.
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Prince of Thieves
by Chuck Hogan
Reprinted in 2010 as "The Town".The men wear masks. Their guns are drawn on the bank manager. She nervously recites the alarm code, and the tumblers within the huge vault fall. The timing and execution are brilliant. It could be the perfect heist. But as the huge sum of cash is stolen, so too is one man's heart -- and that man is the Prince of Thieves... Charlestown, a blue-collar Boston neighborhood,... (more)
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Masks
by Metropolitan Museum of Art
This is a collection of paper masks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art that are possible to pop up, pull out and wear. There is a fierce samurai mask, a toothy Nigerian, an eerie skull mask from Papua New Guinea, a puffy-cheeked pre-Columbian mask and a German helmet from the early 16th century. Accompanying each mask is text which places them in their larger historical and cultural contexts.
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The Customized Body
by Ted Polhemus, Housk Randall
Weirdest book of the month must be The Customized Body crammed with photographs of people whose bodies have been variously tattooed, pierced and otherwise decoratively mutilated. Keep it on your coffee table for when there's an awkward lull in the conversation.- Cosmopolitan "This comprehensive book is a grand tour of the world of body adornment, from the ephemera of hairstyles and clothing to the more... (more)
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The Mask
by Donna Lee Poff
He traveled only at night, shrouded by darkness, his visage shielded by a leather mask. After 11 years, Galen Tarrant, Lord of Rosenthorn, rode back from the Crusades to reclaim his lands, only to stumble upon the most beautiful golden-haired creature he has ever seen. In her arms he felt complete, but cannot allow himself to take her innocence when the demons of his past threatened to destroy everything he... (more)
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Prisoner of the Flames
by Dawn Mactavish
A horribly scarred Scottish laird goes to Paris to seek healing from the great Nostradamus, and instead finds love with a blind flower girl-and a French civil war!
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The Phantom of the Opera
by Gaston Leroux
The novel that inspired the Lon Chaney film and the hit musical. Sightings of a ghostly figure in the Paris opera house lead to a discovery of a disfigured genius who secretly lives among its passageways and by the lake under the opera house.

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