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In The Midnight Mansion, a desperate father will stop at nothing to save his missing son, even if it means traveling through time and facing off against a powerful and malevolent magician. As a divorcing couple's worst nightmare becomes a reality, they must put their differences aside and journey into the unknown to defeat the dark forces controlling The Midnight Mansion and bring their son home.
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A bawdy and boisterous poem of Ireland, translated by one of its most distinguished literary sons. As a teacher and translator of Irish verse, Frank O'Connor brought to the world's attention many fine poems from his native land, few as enduring - and none as controversial - as Brian Merriman's The Midnight Court. An eighteenth-century masterpiece widely recognized as the greatest comic poem in Irish literature, The Midnight Court is a hilarious and...
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Ana's longtime partner Amber has gone missing, and Ana has set out to find her, armed with little more than a cryptic clue about her last known location: the Midnight Beach.
Guided by Doro, a giant skeleton fashioned of driftwood and burlap, she sets out on a desperate journey across an otherworldly landscape, at once familiar and improbable. Ana's search leads her to Istabar, a colorful, bustling metropolis of infinite possibility. She soon discovers,...
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In this fantastical bedtime adventure, babies from far and wide join forces to defy their ultimate nighttime nemesis: sleep!
The babies have come from far and wide, crawling and walking and toddling and tumbling.
These are the can't-sleep babies, the won't-sleep babies, the itchy-feet babies, the just-one-more-story-please babies.
"Sleep! Sleep! Anywhere but Sleep!!!" sing the babies.
And the quest of the Midnight Babies begins!
Babies arise!...
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"The Midnight Harvest" unfolds in the mysterious town of Ravensbrook, where an ominous glow bathes the landscape on the eve of a blood moon. In the heart of this enigmatic setting, high school student Emma embarks on a chilling adventure into the forbidden forest, drawn by unsettling whispers about the rumored Midnight Harvest. Little does she know, this forest is no ordinary realm but a gateway to a dimension where fears manifest as monstrous entities....
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Elgart has a secret... and it belongs to the sea. A short story based on the Exquisite Corpse game result: "The perfumed elf swapped boots with the midnight ship". This unique creative writing prompt was created from the scrambled words of listeners to Anna Tizard's podcast, Brainstoryum.
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The Midnight Mail, first published in 1931, is a classic, fast-paced British murder mystery by leading author Henry Holt. The book, published as part of the Crime Club series, opens with an attempted murder on a train ... more murders follow as the police attempt to identify and catch the killer.
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The Midnight Choir teems with moral dilemmas, and Dublin emerges as a city of ambiguity: a newly-scrubbed face hiding a criminal culture of terrible variety. Small-time criminals have become millionaire businessmen, the poor are still struggling to survive, and the police face a world where the old rules no longer apply.
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Ages 8 - 12. Interactive Adventures. 10 possible endings. 17 potential trails.
Can you solve the mystery and escape The Midnight Manor?
When you and your mum are forced to stop driving and face the mysterious fog that has devoured the road ahead, you are faced with your first twist in your path! Will you hop out of the car and seek sanctuary at the eerie Midnight Manor? Or will you bunker down in the car and let your mum investigate on her...
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In a nineteenth-century Britain where magecraft has directed the course of history, a ruthless conspiracy plots intrigue, treason, and murder. Only a pair of brilliant misfits suspect anything is wrong. And to avert disaster, they'll have to solve a royal mystery more than a decade cold.
As the term at Oxford's Merlin College ends, shy, bookish Gray Marshall accompanies his tutor to the country with nowhere else to go. A misadventure has left him...
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The Whiting Award-winning author of the story collection Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing delivers her enchanting debut novel, set in 1916 Tennessee: a rich and rewarding tale of two flawed yet endearing grifters who pursue women, wealth, and a surprisingly valuable commodity for the troops in Europe-mules.
A middle-aged Irish immigrant, Billy has a gift for illusion-making damaged objects look new. His companion, Charles, the smooth-tongued...
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One PI. Ten crimes.
A literary detective story ingeniously told in ten cases. John Dorn is a classic gumshoe. His woman has left him, he lives in his office, and he drinks too much. His one friend, a lawyer named Demetri, hands Dorn an infinite supply of hopeless cases and lost causes, to which Dorn, ever the champion of the underdog and the oppressed, is drawn to "as a sledgehammer is to a kneecap." A superlative work of hardboiled literary detective...
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Often mocked as a "water cop," EPA special agent Sophie Grant has faced countless dangerous situations while chasing criminal polluters, from boarding tankers at sea to Somali refugee camps. But when she is assigned to Italy's tourist-filled Amalfi Coast in pursuit of a toxic-waste-dumping cartel, she finds herself in the crosshairs of legendary Camorra assassin Il Mezzanotte Ramingo-the Midnight Rambler-and is forced to do the most harrowing thing...
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A lonely teenage boy whose father has moved them too often for him to make lasting friendships.
A mysterious neighbor his own age who hums as he gardens... at night... surrounded by fireflies.
Superstition is the town Thaddeus Cane and his father, Nathan, have settled in this time, and every evening Thaddeus becomes more intrigued with his new neighbor. When Thaddeus finally works up the nerve to visit his neighbor, the crush blooming underneath...
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The MIDNIGHT SIDE is Natasha Mostert's critically acclaimed debut novel, which tells the story of an incredibly seductive woman, who even from the grave is able to direct events to her satisfaction. Isa is not surprised by a late night telephone call from her cousin Alette, until she discovers the next morning that Alette has been dead for two days... Then Isa receives three sealed envelopes and a final request from Alette. The envelopes contain instructions...
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Miss Honoria Cutworth is down to the last name on her father's list of eligible bachelors. Somehow, despite doing everything right, she hasn't managed to wrangle a husband. Sir Lawrence Fishbane isn't wealthy. He also isn't looking for a wife, but his mother keeps harping and Colonel Cutworth keeps appearing at his side, so it's inevitable he meets Miss Cutworth. Unwilling to gauge her charms merely on her public comportment, he sends forth The Midnight...
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I thought I'd reached pinnacle bad with the gas lighting spaceship. I was wrong.
Multiverse-level wrong.
The Fate Progenitor stole my Midnight Blade. Then he stole Nax and Leif. And now that horrid ship, all the equally horrid human factions vying for control, and the terrifying dragons who invaded our planet-they all want mouthfuls of my mind. My body.
My soul.
Thing is, someone has to save the world. How much can I take before my psyche bleeds...
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I thought I had the end of the world under control.
Closing the reality blister at Paradise Homes should have granted me a moment to breathe. No more hellhounds came through. We were somewhat safe. Finding our ghost's ring should have been a breeze.
I didn't count on the super-soldiers. Or Nax's illness. Or that my sword's guiding "voices" might be something utterly malicious.
I was supposed to stop the apocalypse. I was supposed to be a hero....
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You know what brings people's secrets to the surface? The end of the world.
A blister opened in the sky, and now death rains down onto the Earth. No one expected the oldsters living at Paradise Homes to respond in any way-not me, and certainly not any of the other staff. But it turned out we're a home for retired super-beings, and now the only thing standing between me and a demon-like creature is a not-so-little old man and an old lady who speaks...
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