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Castle Knoll files volume 1
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"It's 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances's night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn't happened yet, compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise. For decades, no one takes Frances seriously, until nearly...
2) Lucky duck
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Alfred A. Knopf
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[2024]
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English
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Susan the duck keeps feeling unlucky, so when a wolf shows up with gifts she has won it seems like her luck is turning around, but soon she realizes the wolf's intentions may not be as helpful as she imagined.
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"You like it darker? Fine, so do I," writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life--both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2023.
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"The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under--but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife Imelda is selling off her jewelry on eBay, while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way through her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to...
5) Phantom
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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English
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Flicker Alley, in partnership with the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation is proud to present, Phantom, which marked a major turning point in the influential career and the groundbreaking style of cinema poet F.W. Murnau. In this beautifully reconstructed and restored edition from an amazingly detailed, original 1922 negative, Alfred Abel (Metropolis, Dr. Mabuse) plays Lorenz Lubota, a man obsessed with his own desires to achieve fame and wealth,...
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"Jamie MacCallister remembers the Alamo--especially one brave frontiersman who died fighting there. Now the fallen veteran's granddaughter needs Jamie's help. She's found a letter written by her grandfather with a map to the spot where Alamo legend Jim Bowie supposedly hid a fortune in silver and gold. Jamie never believed the story. Countless treasure hunters had scoured the area and come up empty-handed. But his friend's granddaughter is convinced...
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Visiting a fortune teller before her wedding, Carla Carter, when it is revealed that a different man holds the key to her happiness, someone she met 21 years ago, she embarks on a journey to find her perfect match, hoping a face from her past will help break her family's curse.
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"London, 1601--a golden city soon to erupt in flames. Shay is a messenger-girl, falconer, and fortune teller who sees the future in the patterns of birds. Nonesuch is the dark star of the city's fabled Blackfriars Theatre, where a cast of press-ganged boys perform for London's gentry. When the pair meet, Shay falls in love with the performances--and with Nonesuch himself. As their bond deepens, they create the Ghost Theatre, an underground troupe...
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"Felicity Jin grew up literally hanging onto Mom's apron strings in their magical bakery in the quaint town of Pixie, California. Her mother's enchanted baked goods, including puffy pineapple buns and creamy egg tarts, bring instant joy to all who consume them. Felicity has always been hesitant in the kitchen herself after many failed attempts, but a takeout meal gone wrong inspires her to craft some handmade fortune cookies. They become so popular...
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"If Mari Feijoo could, she would turn her family's Peak Cubanity down a notch, just enough so that her snooping neighbor and classmate Mykenzye wouldn't have anything to tease her about. That's why this year, there's no way that Mari's joining in on one of the big-gest Feijoo family traditions--burning the New Year's Eve effigy her abuela makes. Only Mari never suspects that failing to toss her effigy in the fire would bring something much worse than...
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Boarding the RMS Titanic in the spring of 1912-the perfect finale to a Grand Tour of Europe, the three Fortune sisters contemplate the futures that await them, grappling with the choices before them, until, on an infamous night, fate intervenes, forever altering their lives.
12) Fortune tellers
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When the long-ago fortune tellers they created in third grade start popping up in the most unexpected places during the summer before seventh grade, three former best friends - Millie, Nora and Bea - see this as a sign to finally reconnect and reunite.
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Ahnung und Gegenwart Joseph von Eichendorff - Der junge Graf Friedrich unterliegt im Kampf gegen ausländische Okkupanten, geht seines Besitzes verlustig und findet hinter Klostermauern Frieden. - Der junge Graf Friedrich unterliegt im Kampf gegen ausländische Okkupanten, geht seines Besitzes verlustig und findet hinter Klostermauern Frieden.
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Having spent 12 years as a Reader Manager with the UK's biggest telephone psychic company and given many hundreds of telephone psychic readings, Steve Hounsome has put that accumulated knowledge and experience together in this book.Functioning as a practical 'how to' guide, this book is aimed at both potential and existing psychics who wish to or do make money from giving psychic readings by telephone. This book shows you how to use your psychic ability...
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Popular forms of "Fortune Telling"; "Prophetic Revelation" or "Divination", how to perform them and how to read the results.Divination, dates back to the earliest known times of human existence. The oldest of all Chinese texts, the I Ching, is a divination system older than recorded history. James Legge says in his translation of I Ching: Book Of Changes (1996), "The desire to seek answers and to predict the future is as old as civilization itself."...
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This is for those wishing to learn the card divination system attributed to Mlle Lenormand. This system is based on Greek, Roman, and Egyptian mythology, cartomancy, geomancy, Victorian flower language, constellations, and letter divination.
Learn all elements of the cards as well as providing introductory divination information along with spreads to get you started with reading examples. Young-Sutton has linked each card to its I Ching hexagram....
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Get the Summary of Lisa Chamberlain's Tarot for Beginners in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Tarot for Beginners" by Lisa Chamberlain provides an in-depth exploration of the 78-card Tarot deck, comprising the Major and Minor Arcana. The Major Arcana, with 22 trump cards, charts a spiritual journey from The Fool to The World, highlighting significant life themes and spiritual evolution. The Minor Arcana, consisting...
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The ancient practice of tea leaf reading is one of the easiest forms of divination to learn--all it takes is tea leaves, some hot water, and a creative mind! The leaves left at the bottom of the cup of tea can form symbols and images--much like the shapes we often see in cloud formations--that can be interpreted by the tea leaf reader. This easy-to-use guide book will teach you how to prepare a cup of tea for reading and provides an extensive alphabetical...
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Adivinación
Desbloquea el poder de la adivinación con esta completa guía para principiantes. ¿Buscas una visión más profunda de tu vida y del mundo que te rodea? ¡No busques más allá del fascinante mundo de la adivinación! La adivinación es una práctica poderosa y transformadora que puede ayudarte a aprovechar tu intuición y obtener una visión más profunda de tu vida y el mundo que te rodea. En esta completa guía, aprenderás: Los...
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The Sun can help you shift your energy to success.In this edition, you will learn about the sun and its positive energy. Through techniques, you will bring positivity, freedom, success, and clarity to your everyday in the fields in your life that you might want to.This ebook will help you to purify your energy, have practical creativity and increase the strength of protection against inner emotional storms, expanding your higher self and mental faculties...
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