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2023 Reading Challenge: A Reese, Jenna, Oprah, or Good Morning America Book Club Pick
2024 DMPL Reading Challenge October Bonus Category: Dark Academia
2024 DMPL Reading Challenge October Bonus Category: Dark Academia
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"The Secret History meets Ninth House in this sinister, atmospheric novel following a circle of researchers as they uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York's famed Met Cloisters. When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for...
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Ediciones Urano, S.A.U
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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Ann Stilwell llega a Nueva York con la esperanza de pasar el verano trabajando en el Museo Metropolitano de Arte. Pero la asignan a Los Claustros, un museo y jardines góticos conocidos por su colección de arte medieval y del Renacimiento. Allí se ve atraída por un pequeño grupo de investigadores carismáticos pero llenos de misterios, cada uno con sus propios secretos y anhelos; entre ellos, el voluble curador del museo, Patrick Roland, quien...
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Woven in moonlight volume 2
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Page Street Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Banished from Inkasisa to the Yanu Jungle, Catalina knows her life is in danger but is absolutely certain her destiny is to rule. Rescued by the son of her former general, she is incorporated into a years-in-progress plan to ally with the fierce Illari people and raise an army to retake her throne -- and Catalina's abilities as a seer may be the only thing that will convince them to help. If only she was actually able to predict the future....
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Fantagraphics Books
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[2022]
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English
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"The sleeping figure on the cover hints at the dream logic that drives this visual feast of a graphic novel. It can't all be explained, and it isn't meant to be explained. Ron Regé, Jr. is one of the singular cartoonists of his generation, an unusual but skilled stylist and storyteller with an acutely passionate moral and idealistic core that stands out amongst his peers. Halcyon is a spiritual cousin to Regé's 2012 graphic novel The Cartoon Utopia,...
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2024.
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"A riveting multigenerational tale of magic, sisterhood, and borders spanning centuries--from modern-day El Paso, to the 1940s, to 18th century colonial Mexico. It's 1943 in El Paso, Texas, and 18-year-old Nena spends her days caring for the infant children of her older sisters, while longing for a life of adventure and purpose. She also has a secret: her vivid premonitions are what's causing her to faint, and she fears she'll end up like the scary...
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Hyperion
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2024.
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English
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Soothsayer Mona Arnett's life changes when the young leader of the royal magicians calls upon her skill in naming soulmates to help in providing the dying king with an heir, except, according to Mona's reading, she is the king's soulmate and queen-to-be.
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