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#1
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light and enchanting romancefinding where you belongfaint magical pieceslove and romanceIn a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small, quiet house in an even smaller town, is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a ve...See Full Details
Liked Garden Spells?
#2
"One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. ....See Full Details
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#3
Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world's great storytellers at the peak of his powers.
Here we meet a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who is on the r...See Full Details
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#4
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omniscient point of viewthe magic of lifelovely and richbeautiful and movingAlice Hoffman's enchanting witch's brew of suspense, romance and magic -- now a major motion picture from Warner Bros.
When the beautiful and precoc...See Full Details
Liked Practical Magic?
#5
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magical circus exhibitionsalmost dreamlike qualitystyle over substancenon-linear plot lineThe circus arrives without warning. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Against the grey sky the towering tents are striped black and white...See Full Details
Liked The Night Circus?
#6
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mental and physical oppressionintricate and compellingrich and imaginativevery descriptive and vividChilean writer Isabel Allende's classic novel is both a richly symbolic family saga and the riveting story of an unnamed Latin American country's turb...See Full Details
Liked The House of the Spirits?
#7
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strangeness and uniquenessromantic and mysteriousmexican folk talemagical realism fairytale styleThe bestselling phenomenon and inspiration for the award-winning film.
Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-...See Full Details
Liked Like Water for Chocolate?
#8
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lush and beautifullovely and descriptivedense, poetic, and romanticthird person flashbacksA poignant meditation on the nature of desire, and the enduring power of love, Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera is translated from...See Full Details
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#9
*A People Top Ten Book of the Year* The beloved, mega bestselling first novel from Audrey Niffenegger, "a soaring celebration of the victory of love o...See Full Details
Liked The Time Traveler's Wife?
#10
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easy and enjoyablepure southern magica southern romancewhimsical and charmingNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In this irresistible novel, Sarah Addison Allen, author of the bestselling debut, Garden Spells, tells the tale of a young...See Full Details
Liked The Sugar Queen?
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