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1) Wild orchids
Author
Language
English
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Description
Have you ever lost someone who meant more to you than your own soul? Ford Newcombe has. For years, he loved his wife, Pat, more than anyone -- and anything -- in the world. She came into his life when he was an inexperienced college student with big dreams of becoming a published author. Pat guided him down the path that eventually led to more success than he dreamed possible. Since Pat's death, Ford has lived a life of solitude, barely able to put...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 66
Language
English
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Description
Presents a satirical drama about Satan's visit to Moscow, where he learns that the citizens no longer believe in God. He decides to teach them a lesson by perpetrating a series of horrific tricks. Combines two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem.
3) Horns
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After his childhood sweetheart is brutally killed and suspicion falls on him, Ig Parrish goes on a drinking binge and wakes up with horns on his head, hate in his heart, and an incredible new power which he uses in the name of vengeance.
Author
Language
English
Description
Prolific author Stephen King presents a collection of four new novellas. In the story 1922, a man plunges into the depths of madness when his wife attempts to sell off the family home. A mystery writer, who was beaten and raped while driving home from her book club, plots her revenge in Big Driver. Diagnosed with a deadly cancer, a man makes a deal with the devil in Fair Extension. And in A Good Marriage, a woman discovers her husband's darker side...
5) Papillon
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is the epic story of Henri “Papillon” Charrière (Charlie Hunnam), a safecracker from the Parisian underworld who is framed for murder and condemned to life in the notorious penal colony on Devil’s Island. Determined to regain his freedom, Papillon forms an unlikely alliance with quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega (Oscar-winner Rami Malek), who in exchange for protection, agrees to finance Papillon’s escape. Official Selection...
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Series
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English
Description
In a small New England town in the late 1960s, there lived three witches Alexandra Spoffard, sculptress, could create thunderstorms. Jane Smart, a cellist, could fly. The local gossip columnist, Sukie Rougemont, could turn milk into cream. Divorced but hardly celibate, content but always ripe for adventure, our three wonderful witches one day found themselves quite under the spell of the new man in town, Darryl Van Horne, whose hot tub was the scene...
Author
Series
Unicorn Rescue Society volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Elliot Eisner isn't exactly excited about starting at a brand-new school in a brand-new town; he'd much rather stay at home and read a book. But things take an unexpected turn when he finds out his weird new teacher, Professor Fauna, has planned a field trip for Elliot's very first day. Along with a new friend - brave, outspoken Uchenna Devereaux - Elliot gets caught up in a secret group of adventurers, The Unicorn Rescue Society, whose goal is to...
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 4
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
532 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When witches steal Tom's inheritance and kidnap his relatives, Tom, the Spook, and Alice set out for Pendle Hill, a particularly dangerous district, in hopes of preventing the three witch clans from uniting to raise the Fiend, the Devil himself, thus bringing about an age of darkness.
9) Devil's day
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"A gripping and unsettling new novel by the award-winning author of The Loney that asks how much we owe to tradition, and how far we will go to preserve it"--
11) Faust
Author
Language
English
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Description
Legend about a man who sells his soul to the devil.
Author
Language
English
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Description
In this novel the author chooses as his locale the newly built food markets of Paris. Into this extravagance of food - which Zola describes in set pieces that wet the tongue, excite the ear, and stir up the belly - he places his young hero, the half-starved Florent, who has just escaped imprisonment in Cayenne. Florent finds himself at odds with a world he now knows is unjust. Gradually he takes up with the local Socialists, who are more at home in...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The next new novel from critically acclaimed author, Shirley Rousseau Murphy. While in prison Morgan makes fast friends with an old con named Lee Fontana and together they plan an elaborate escape in an attempt to clear Morgan's name for good, if they can outsmart the Devil one more time.."--
14) Gorgeous
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
282 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ninth-grader Allison has always been the least attractive among her sisters, but when she allows the devil to possess her cell phone in exchange for appearing to be gorgeous, she must confront the power and deceptiveness of appearances.
16) Repossessed
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
218 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fallen angel, tired of being unappreciated while doing his pointless, demeaning job, leaves Hell, enters the body of a seventeen-year-old boy, and tries to experience the full range of human feelings before being caught and punished, while the boy's family and friends puzzle over his changed behavior.
17) The book of Joby
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
638 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When Lucifer proposes yet another wager to test the worth of humankind, God chooses Joby Peterson, a stellar nine-year-old enthralled with the stories of King Arthur, as his champion. The stakes: nothing less than all creation. The duration: until Joby turns 40. The devil may do as he will, but God agrees not to aid Joby and commands those who serve Him chiefly the archangels Michael and Gabriel and the half-divine sorcerer Merlin not to interfere....
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
401 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The eternal war between Heaven and Hell reaches a critical point that forces covert agent Bernadette Callahan and religious historian Batty LaLourie to race throughout the globe in search of ancient biblical codes to stop Satan's apocalyptic plot.
19) The innocent Eve
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1951
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
184p. 21cm.
Language
English
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