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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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English
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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.
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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....
6) The Familiar
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Animorphs. Main series volume 41
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English
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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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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...
10) Familiar Lullaby
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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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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...
12) 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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Hellhounds and squirrels and vultures, oh my!The hellhound on her lawn is just another stray animal in need of some love-at least that's what animal-whisperer witch Adrienne Perkins believes. She's got a soft heart for lost souls like her vulture familiar, the four squirrels living in her house, that stray hellhound…and the sexy demon who's been invading her nightly dreams.But that sexy demon wants more than a romp in the sheets. He's hunting an...
14) Familiar motives
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2017.
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After learning that she comes from a family of witches--and adopting a familiar named Alistair--artist Anabelle Britton has made beautiful Portsmouth, New Hampshire her home. Together with her coven, this good witch is trying to put a stop to magic and murder most foul. When Anna takes Alistair to see local veterinarian Ramona Forsythe, they meet the most famous cat in town: Ruby the Attitude Cat, spokes-feline for a pet food brand. But then Ramona...
15) The familiars
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2019
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English
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Pendle Hill Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth is with child again. As the mistress of Gawthorpe Hall, she is anxious to provide her husband with an heir. But none of her previous pregnancies have come to term. Then she discovers a hidden letter from her physician that warns her husband that she will not survive another pregnancy. Distraught over the frightening revelation, Fleetwood wanders the woods of Pendle Hill, where she meets a young local woman...
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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...
17) Awfully Familiar
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Everyone knows the legend of the Pied Piper, but there is more to the story: What happened to the rats? What happened to the children? When a spell goes awry in a rat-baiting competition, Scrap discovers he's a little of both. In this whimsical coming of age tale, a running battle between Black's gang of pickpockets and Piper's summoned vermin spills out into the streets of Calximus City. Scrap and his companion Switch must navigate the aristocracy...
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Familiar UnspelledA Cockatoo Bay Paranormal Cozy Mystery Book 1 Death doesn't always mean the end. Sometimes it signals the beginning. Pharmacy postgraduate, Christy Fair, is still reeling from the recent sudden death of her mum. Now alone in the world, she struggles with the constant 'are you a witch?', which has plagued her throughout her life. The defensive walls she has built around herself ensure everyone is kept at a distance. But when one of...
19) Familiar Threat
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The Keepers series will keep you on the edge of your seat as Cane and Charlie find romance on the run amidst a cult uprising, a diabolical killer who won't stay dead and a trail of bodies from Vegas to Portland... Victim turned witness, Charlie finds herself the center of a blood bath, back in protective custody and safe in the arms of bodyguard Cane O'Reilly. When the lights go out in Portland, it's Vegas all over again, as the diabolical killers...
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Joseph Scott became enrolled in the school of life in February1990, the younger brother of two. The school of life; the one big pool of knowledge where one starts to learn from the first breath taken. There Joe learned how to live, how to laugh, how to accept, how to forgive, how to understand and eventually how to grieve, but how to love? No. He had no need to learn to love for he was born with love in his heart as we all were and his pathway into...
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