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What if you could re-live the enchantment of childhood bedtime--but with magic that is real? What if you felt the wonder you once sensed when you believed that anything is possible? Or were inspired to see the world through fresh eyes? In this compendium of delightful short stories, David Michie draws us into the extraordinary experiences of everyday people as they encounter those tell-tale cracks exposing reality as not quite what it seems. Four...
2) Hippie
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"Inspirado en la experiencia de su propia vida, Paulo Coelho nos lleva al pasado para revivir los sueños de una generación que anhelaba la paz y que se atrevió a desafiar el orden social establecido. Hippie cuenta la historia de Paulo, un brasileño flaco y joven, con barba de chivo y cabello largo, que sueña con convertirse en escritor. Así emprende su viaje en busca de libertad y de un significado más profundo para su vida que le lleva desde...
3) Hippie
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A Brazilian man and a Dutch woman embark on an extraordinary journey of self-discovery as they travel by bus from Amsterdam to Kathmandu against a backdrop of the protests and sexual-liberation experiments of the 1960s.
Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, best-selling author Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to relive the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order. In Hippie, he tells...
4) Wild animus
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Too Far
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"After graduating from college, Sam Altman finds himself disillusioned with the world of the '60s and rejects normal life to follow an inner calling. Altman's unleashed--and increasingly unhinged--imagination takes him first to Seattle and then farther north, to the remote Alaskan wilderness. Sam has fallen deeply in love with the mysterious and powerful Lindy, a young woman who will do anything to help him realize his quest, no matter how dangerous....
5) Too far
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Outside Reading
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2010
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"On the outskirts of Fairbanks, six-year old Robbie meets a mesmerizing girl his own age, and together they explore the mysterious woodland surrounding their homes ... Told as a parable, and vividly observed, Too far is a ... story of an end to innocence that captures the triumphs and follies of the child's imagination as it struggles to remain boundless and free." -- Dust jacket.
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Hachette Book Group
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[2020]
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Della Markson is searching for her son, a brilliant, nihilistic computer hacker. She teams up with her former professor, Alex MacBride, an academic turned drunk, who is looking for the papers of an obscure, long-dead neurobiologist. They live in a world of accelerating decay, and in the biological research institute where Della and Alex work, a lethal new disease is outwitting the researchers. The search for Della's son and Alex's missing papers turns...
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