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Author
Series
Kingmaker chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Catalia "Cat" Fisa lives disguised as a soothsayer in a traveling circus. She is perfectly content avoiding the danger and destiny the Gods--and her homicidal mother--have saddled her with. That is, until Griffin, an ambitious warlord from the magic-deprived south, fixes her with his steely gaze and upsets her illusion of safety forever. Griffin knows Cat is the Kingmaker, the woman who divines the truth through lies. He wants her as a powerful weapon...
Author
Series
Kingmaker chronicles volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"I am Catalia Fisa, and I do not break. Deep breath in. Long breath out. The Gods are telling me I'm some sort of new Origin, which apparently means it's my job to give Thalyria a fresh start. Griffin crowned me with the symbols of the three realms. If I'm supposed to be not just a queen but the Queen, I'd better start acting like it." --
Author
Publisher
PFP Publishing
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
285 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rosie Pilch's lifelong job as a bank teller is lost in the recession, and her subsequent depression ends only when a friend elopes, moves and leaves Rosie her palm-reading business at Orchard Mall, once a groundbreaking shopping experience touted as "Main Street Recreated," now a sluggish "dead mall" in its last months of existence before the wrecking ball arrives."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
8 audio discs (10 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A retired accountant becomes the town's fortune-teller in this witty and charming debut
Norbert Zelenka has always lived life on the sidelines. It's why at seventy-three years old he's broke and alone except for the company of a Chihuahua. But when "Carlotta's Club"-three strong-willed seniors with plenty of time on their hands-decide to make Norbert their latest project, he reluctantly agrees to their scheme: establishing himself as the town's fortune-teller....
Author
Language
English
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Description
"It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children -- four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness -- sneak out to hear their fortunes. Their prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco. Dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas...
Author
Series
Harry Erskine volume 7
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Virus expert Anna Grey is disturbed when a dying patient is wheeled past her lab vomiting fountains of blood and screaming like a banshee. To make matters worse, when she examines the man's corpse, she could swear she hears him whisper: 'Get it out of me.' John Patrick Bridges is dead. He's definitely dead. But if he's dead - how is he talking? Anna wonders if she's going mad. But then a second man haemorrhages and dies; yet Anna hears him whisper,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1890: When Desiderya Lopez, The Sleepy Prophet, finds an abandoned infant on the banks of an arroyo, she recognizes something in his spirit and brings him home. Pidre will go on to become a famous showman in the Anglo West whose main act, Simodecea, is Pidre's fearless, sharpshooting wife, who wrangles bears as part of his show. 1935: Luz "Little Light" Lopez and her brother Diego work the carnival circuit in downtown Denver. Luz, is a tea leaf reader,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 304, 15 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meet Jana Bibi, a Scottish woman helping to save the small town in India she has grown to call home and the oddball characters she considers family
Janet Laird's life changed the day she inherited her grandfather's house in a faraway Indian hill station. Ignoring her son's arguments to come grow old in their family castle in Scotland, she moves with her chatty parrot, Mr. Ganguly and her loyal housekeeper, Mary, to Hamara Nagar, where local merchants...
Author
Publisher
Erewhon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
464 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A plucky, sardonic con artist must "prophesize" her way out of peril--discovering along the way that power and politics are nothing more than the stories sold as truth. Kalyna's family has the Gift: the ability to see the future. For generations, they traveled the four kingdoms of the Tetrarchia selling their services as soothsayers. Every child of their family is born with this Gift--everyone except Kalyna. So far, Kalyna has used informants and...
Author
Series
Witches of Benevento volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
119 pages : ilustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Saturnalia carnival marks three years since Nina walked away from Philadelphia's elite Saturn Club--with its genteel debauchery, arcane pecking order, and winking interest in alchemy and the occult. In doing so, she abandoned her closest friends and her chance to climb the social ladder. Since then, she's eked out a living by telling fortunes with her Saturn Club tarot deck, a solemn initiation gift that Nina always considered a gag but has turned...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
343 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Naples, 1931. In a working class apartment in the Sanita' neighborhood an elderly woman by the name of Carmela Calise has been beaten to death. When Ricciardi and Maione arrive at the scene they start asking the neighbors questions. No one wants to talk but slowly a few interesting facts slip out. Carmela Calise was moonlighting as a fortuneteller and moneylender. In her decrepit apartment she would receive clients, among them some of the city's...
Author
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
345 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A gifted fortune-teller from a humble background, Jenny can make even the most sophisticated skeptic believe her predictions simply by batting her smoky eyelashes. Until she meets her match in Gareth Carhart, the Marquess of Blakely, a sworn bachelor and scientist. Broodingly handsome, Gareth is scandalized to discover his cousin has fallen under the spell of 'Madame Esmerelda,' and vows to prove Jenny a fraud. But his unexpected attraction to the...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
354 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From debut novelist Laura Maylene Walter, a bold and dazzling exploration of fate and female agency in a world very similar to our own--except that the markings on women's bodies reveal the future"--
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
288, 6 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After a lifetime of keeping other people's secrets, fortune teller Madam Burova, before she can have a little piece of life for herself, must fulfill a promise made in the 1970s, when she and her girlfriends were carefree, with their whole lives still before them.
Brighton. After inheriting her mother's fortune-telling business as a young woman, Imelda Burova has spent her life on the Brighton pier practicing her trade. After a lifetime of keeping...
19) Iron wolf
Author
Series
Vardari volume part 1
Publisher
Arctis
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First English-language edition.
Physical Desc
478 pages : color maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Born to blood readers who prey on people's fears, Juva vows never to become one of them until her family is threatened by vardari, the eerie lasting ones who never age, drawing her into a desperate hunt for her legacy--one that could change the world"--
Author
Series
Jana Bibi volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
x, 272 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jana Bibi faces her biggest challenges yet in preparing for her son's arrival and planning a wedding in the upside-down town of Harma Nagar.
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