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Julia Fine
A gothic, Venetian fairytale about the fierce bond between two teenage girls at an 18th century music school, and the fateful bargains they make with a dark magic in the…
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"[A] beguiling fairy tale." --Vanity Fair (A Best Book of Summer)
"Enchanted...A slow-burn gothic novel that will make you lose track of your surroundings...An atmospheric banger." --LitHub
Venice, 1717. Fifteen-year-old…
"For fans of My Brilliant Friend and Mexican Gothic, Julia Fine's Maddalena and the Dark is a novel set in 18th-century Venice at a prestigious music school, about two girls…
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Maddalena and the Dark is an opulent and sensuous Venetian fairytale, full of music, magic, passion, and betrayal, perfect for fans of The Last Tale of the Flower Bride and…
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In this provocative meditation on new motherhood–Shirley Jackson meets The Awakening–a postpartum woman’s psychological unraveling becomes intertwined with the ghostly appearance of children’s book writer Margaret Wise Brown. –Provided by…
Born with the power to kill or restore life at a touch, a young woman endures a childhood of isolation before she ventures into the woods at the edge of…
Julia Dewolf Addison
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
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Julia Kristeva,Philippe Sollers
An unconventional take on the oldest convention.
Gail Honeyman
Smart, warm, uplifting, [this book] is the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes that the only way…
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…
Julia Wolf Gibbs De Addison
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…
