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In his first collection of short stories The Familiar Stranger and Other Stories, Frederick Mordi tells the compelling stories of ordinary folks trying to make ends meet and the not so ordinary people engaged in power play. The stories are spiced with a generous dose of humour that will hold the reader's attention all through to the end. A versatile writer, he won the Commonwealth Award for Short Stories in 2004. His award-winning entry is published...
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Familiars volume 1
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When a scrappy alley cat named Aldwyn passes himself off as a magical animal companion to Jack, a young wizard in training, Aldwyn and his fellow "familiars," a know-it-all blue jay and bumbling tree frog, must save the kingdom after the evil queen of Vastia kidnaps Jack and two other wizards.
5) The familiar
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"In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when...
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For over a century, Edward Youngblood has been the logical one in a family of temperamental magical beings. But reason has not made him immune to passion, and Edward's passion for Mullins, the family's demon instructor, has only grown.
Mullins was lured into hell through desperation-and a fatal mistake. He's done his best to hang onto his soul in the twisted realm of the underworld, and serving the Youngblood family when summoned has been his only...
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Lugh's mother packed up and moved them from sunny Florida to tiny Steamboat Springs, Colorado after his father's accidental drowning. Resigned to his mom having to work a lot, and only just beginning to deal with his dad's death, Lugh is disappointed, when she is, called in to work on his fifteenth-birthday.
After an unnerving dream, he decides to head to the nearby river where he ends up following a strange, urgent, internal pull. When another boy...
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When Eleanor Duncan rescues the unusual black cat from a university parking lot, she suspects he has run through at least eight of his lives. But it's his ninth, and potentially last, that concerns her most. Alarming events appear to have followed him into her life. Eleanor is assaulted by a stranger and interrogated by the CIA. More terrifying is her husband's seeming return from the dead.A trip to veterinarian Peter Curry reveals an even deeper...
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Patience and calmness under fire always got police detective Mel Haskin what he wanted. But he was fast losing both because of Lily Markey. The fiery-haired, jade-eyed reporter refused to tell him what she knew about the baby boy who'd appeared on a high-society doorstep. And what she knew could get her killed. So Mel vowed to stick to Lily as closely as the black cat who followed her everywhere. Because his badge demanded it or was it his heart?
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A perfect story for fans of Sarah J. Maas' THRONE OF GLASS.
An orphan bent on revenge. A monster searching for freedom. A forbidden pact that binds their fates.
Lyss had heard her father's screams, smelled the iron-tang of his blood. She witnessed his execution.
And plotted her revenge.
Then, a violent encounter traps Lyss in a blood-pact with a rarkyn from the otherworld, imbuing her with the monster's forbidden magic-a magic...
11) Familiar Words
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2014
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Two single parents find love in small-town Idaho
Jack Reardan is not easily seduced. But the beautiful, outspoken new high school English teacher is raising the temperature of every red-blooded male within striking distance. And tongues start wagging when Jack makes up his mind to get to know the skittish single mother a little bit better.
The most eligible man in town is exactly the type that Beth Simms vowed to stay far away from....
Jack Reardan is not easily seduced. But the beautiful, outspoken new high school English teacher is raising the temperature of every red-blooded male within striking distance. And tongues start wagging when Jack makes up his mind to get to know the skittish single mother a little bit better.
The most eligible man in town is exactly the type that Beth Simms vowed to stay far away from....
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He came looking for revenge, will he walk away from love?
Twenty years after fleeing Madison Gully as a scared sixteen-year-old who witnessed the murder of his sister, Kirk Gracewell returns as a powerful energy vampire. He wants to find the cougar shifter who killed her and make them pay.
Every ten years, the Madison cougars get together. It's a time of celebration and meeting new partners but also listening to the seer announce who'll get the...
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He can hold lightning in his hand, but will love slip through his fingers? Jude Sullivan has one more chance to prove he isn't a danger to the paranormal community. If he fails, he'll be stripped of his magic, a painful process to make a witch human. As a test, the Coven sends him to Mercy South, Colorado, to stop a creature that's been mutilating cows and scaring the locals. Jude hates cows and small towns. The Coven should've sent a nature witch....
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A powerful witch, Piotr Russell has resigned himself to loneliness, because ordinary humans can't know what he is, and other witches are intimidated by his abilities. Generations of Russells have lived and died with only their familiars at their side. The presence of a friendly familiar is enough to keep even the loneliest witch sane, and yet Piotr deliberately hasn't chosen one. He forces himself to keep busy instead, but the emptiness of his house...
15) The Familiar
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Animorphs. Main series volume 41
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Jake is just a normal kid. Well, as normal as possible considering he can morph animals, and he's in a war against parasitic aliens. But as unbelievable as it sounds, something even stranger has happened. One morning Jake wakes up, and he's twenty-five years old.
Okay. Maybe it's a nightmare. Or maybe Jake's just lost it for a while and misplaced a few years. And there's another problem. The world Jake-the-kid went to sleep in has changed. It's ruled...
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Wounded and left for dead, shifter Kit Linfield is stuck in his eagle form.
A Christmas Eve flight with his family turned to slaughter when some hunters took aim. Kit played dead, but he needs help, or he'll die. He wants to live to have vengeance.
Errol Hart is spending Christmas alone for the first time since his divorce. When a badly wounded eagle is delivered to his care, it's the first animal that Errol can't communicate with. The eagle is...
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A Familiar Mates short story. Hundreds of years ago Prys was tasked with guarding his unhatched sister. He needs the help of a rare fire witch. Aaron has found a way to use his magic in public, the last thing he expects after a show is for a dragon to approach him asking for a favor.
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Practice two-digit addition and subtraction while planning a family reunion! This charming, Spanish-translated title encourages young readers to use subtraction skills and STEM concepts to help plan the reunion by determining how many people are attending and how much the family will need to accommodate everyone. Add up the tallies to determine where the reunion should be! Calculate how many children are attending by subtracting the number of adults...
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2015
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From the author of the international best seller House of Leaves and National Book Award–nominated Only Revolutions comes a monumental new novel as dazzling as it is riveting. The Familiar (Volume 1) ranges from Mexico to Southeast Asia, from Venice, Italy, to Venice, California, with nine lives hanging in the balance, each called upon to make a terrifying choice. They include a therapist-in-training grappling
...20) Familiars
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A young man fresh from England has been posted to the Nairobi headquarters of the British East Africa Police around the turn of the 20th Century. His first case under the tutelage of his chief, Inspector Thomas Donnegan, involves the deaths of several WaSwahili tribesmen in a remote village under mysterious circumstances. HIs journey towards the solution to the mystery involves a great deal of culture shock and an unusual solution.
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