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Format: 201 S. , Ill., Kt.

Series Statement: Unesco collection of representative works : Japanese series

Uniform Title: Kagerō nikki

Content: "This frank autobiographical diary reveals two tempestuous decades of the author's unhappy marriage and her growing indignation at rival wives and mistresses. Too impetuous to be satisfied as a subsidiary wife, this beautiful noblewoman of the Heian dynasty protests the marriage system of her time in one of Japanese literature's earliest attempts to portray difficult elements of the predominant social hierarchy. A classic work of early Japanese prose."--Cover.

Language: English

Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

Keywords: Japan ; Weiblicher Adel ; Geschichte 980 ; Fujiwara-no Michitsuna no haha ca. 10. Jh. ; Autobiografie ; Fujiwara no Michitsuna no Haha Kagerō-nikki ; Tagebuch

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Format: 201 S. , Ill.

Edition: 4. print.

Series Statement: Unesco collection of representative works : Japanese series

Uniform Title: Kagerō-nikki

Language: English

Keywords: Japan ; Weiblicher Adel ; Geschichte 980 ; Fujiwara-no Michitsuna no haha ca. 10. Jh. ; Autobiografie ; Fujiwara no Michitsuna no Haha Kagerō-nikki ; Tagebuch

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Format: 201 S. 8"

Series Statement: (Unesco Collection of representative works: Japanese series)

Uniform Title: (Kagerō no nikki, engl.)

Note: [Zitiert:] Kagerō nikki

Language: Undetermined

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Format: 201 S. , Ill., Kt.

Edition: 1. Tut book ed., 2. print.

ISBN: 0804811237

Series Statement: Unesco collection of representative works : Japanese series

Language: English

Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

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Format: 2 CDs , Beih.

Note: Texte abgedr. , Only the wine. Foundling. Forgetting. Gossamer thread. The old chair. In god's name. We could fall in love again tonight. Holding on. When I was in your heart. A new day at midnight. Davey Jones' Locker , Bonus CD: Fixative. Morning theme. The dotted line. A million years. Who's singing now. Old father time. Indeed I will. A moment changes everything , P 2010

Language: English

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Format: 217 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten, genealogische Tafeln , 21 cm

ISBN: 9784805316863 , 4805316861

Language: English

Keywords: Kagerō-nikki ; Übersetzung ; Englisch

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ISBN: 9780711256767

Content: " 'Really, really well written' 8211 Chris Packham Dynamic naturalist Michael Blencowe has travelled the globe to uncover the fascinating backstories of eleven extinct animals, which he shares with charm and insight in Gone . Inspired by his childhood obsession with extinct species, Blencowe takes us around the globe 8211 from the forests of New Zealand to the ferries of Finland, from the urban sprawl of San Francisco to an inflatable crocodile on Brighton's Widewater Lagoon. Spanning five centuries , from the last sighting of New Zealand's Upland Moa to the 2012 death of the Pinta Island Giant Tortoise, Lonesome George, his memoir is peppered with the accounts of the hunters and naturalists of the past as well as revealing conversations with the custodians of these totemic animals today . Featuring striking artworks that resurrect these forgotten creatures, each chapter focuses on a different animal, revealing insights into their unique characteristics and habitats , the history of their discovery and just how and when they came to be lost to us . Blencowe inspects the only known remains of a Huia egg at Te Papa, New Zealand,views hundreds of specimens of deceased Galapagos tortoises and Xerces Blue butterflies in the California Academy of Sciences,and pays his respects to the only soft tissue remains of the Dodo in the world. Warm, wry and thought-provoking, Gone shows that while each extinction story is different, all can inform how we live in the future . Discover and learn from the stories of the: Great Auk . A majestic flightless seabird of the North Atlantic and the 'original penguin'. Spectacled Cormorant . The 'ludicrous bird' from the remote islands of the Bering Sea.Steller's Sea Cow . An incredible ten tonne dugong with skin as furrowed as oak bark.Upland Moa . The improbable birds and the one-time rulers of New Zealand.Huia . The unique bird with two beaks and twelve precious tail feathers.South Island K333 kako . The 'orange-wattled crow', New Zealand's elusive Grey Ghost.Xerces Blue . The gossamer-winged butterfly of the San Francisco sand dunes.Pinta Island Tortoise . The slow-moving, long-lived giant of the Galá,agos Islands.Dodo . The superstar of extinction.Schomburgk's Deer . A mysterious deer from the wide floodplains of central Thailand. Ivell's Sea Anemone . A see-through sea creature known only from southern England. A modern must-read for anyone interested in protecting our earth and its incredible wildlife, Gone is an evocative call to conserve what we have before it is lost forever . "

Content: Biographisches: "Michael Blencowe (author) lives in Sussex where he works and volunteers for several local wildlife conservation charities. For the past ten years he has been inspiring people to take action for nature through his writing and by leading wildlife events, delivering talks and putting hawk-moths on children's noses. He is co-author of The Butterflies of Sussex (Pisces, 2017) and created the mini-book of caterpillars which accompanies Julia Donaldson's The Woolly Bear (Macmillan, 2021). He is saving his pennies so that he can one day go to Bering Island."

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ISBN: 9780062888624

Content: " National Velvet with monsters and a big helping of palace intrigue, Race the Sands is monstrous (literally), heartwarming, and empowering in equal measure. An incredibly fun and inspiring read. – Katherine Arden, New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale In this epic standalone fantasy, the acclaimed author of the Queens of Renthia series introduces an imaginative new world in which a pair of strong and determined women risk their lives battling injustice, corruption, and deadly enemies in their quest to become monster racing champions.Life, death, and rebirth in Becar, who you are in this life will determine your next life. Yet there is hope you can change your destiny with the choices you make. But for the darkest individuals, there is no redemption: you come back as a kehok, a monster, and are doomed to be a kehok for the rest of time. Unless you can win the Races.After a celebrated career as an elite kehok rider, Tamra became a professional trainer. Then a tragic accident shattered her confidence, damaged her reputation, and left her nearly broke. Now, she needs the prize money to prevent the local temple from taking her daughter away from her, and that means she must once again find a winning kehok . and a rider willing to trust her.Raia is desperate to get away from her domineering family and cruel fiancé . As a kehok rider, she could earn enough to buy her freedom. But she needs a first-rate trainer.Impressed by the inexperienced young woman's determination, Tamra hires Raia and pairs her with a strange new kehok with the potential to win if he can be tamed. But in this sport, if you forget you're riding on the back of a monster, you die. Tamra and Raia will work harder than they ever thought possible to win the deadly Becaran Races and in the process, discover what makes this particular kehok so special. "

Content: Biographisches: " Sarah Beth Durst is the award-winning author of sixteen fantasy books for adults, teens, and kids, including The Queens of Renthia series, Drink Slay Love , and The Stone Girl's Story . She won an ALA Alex Award and a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, and has been a finalist for SFWA's Andre Norton Award three times. She is a graduate of Princeton University, where she spent four years studying English, writing about dragons, and wondering what the campus gargoyles would say if they could talk. Sarah lives in Stony Brook, New York, with her husband, her children, and her ill-mannered cat. For more information, visit her at sarahbethdurst.com. " Rezension(2): "Fantasy Book Critic:Race The Sands is a rousing standalone fantasy adventureIf you're in the mood for monsters or racing or a primarily female cast surviving against all odds, Race The Sands delivers on all counts, in one delightful package that doesn't require a series commitment!" Rezension(3): "Katherine Arden, New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and The Nightingale:National Velvet with monsters and a big helping of palace intrigue, Race the Sands is monstrous (literally), heartwarming, and empowering in equal measure. An incredibly fun and inspiring read." Rezension(4): "Julie E. Czerneda, author of THE GOSSAMER MAGE:RACE THE SANDS is not only a blistering rush through a brilliantly credible and original fantasy landscape, it's the story of resolve, family, and personal destiny we all need. Highly recommended." Rezension(5): "Library Journal:Durst's latest delivers the same sweeping prose and lush worldbuilding as her Renthia series, with strong female protagonists and lively supporting characters. This compelling fantasy will please fans and engage new readers. " Rezension(6): "Peter V. Brett, New York Times bestselling author of The Demon Cycle?:Sarah Beth Durst is one of the most prolific authors I know, yet each of her beautiful stories is infused with exciting action and fully rounded characters whose struggles are both relatable and fantastical. Race the Sands is a fast-paced adventure that will have you falling in love with its heroines and the monsters they ride." Rezension(7): "Publishers Weekly (starred review):Durst imbues a thrill-filled story about monster racing with impressive thematic depth and a refreshing spectrum of female characters [...] Durst consistently defies expectations in both plot and characterization while exploring sophisticated themes of found family, integrity, and morality. This excellent epic fantasy will appeal to adult fans of Tamora Pierce and Megan Whalen Turner." Rezension(8): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from December 16, 2019 Durst (the Queens of Renthia series) imbues a thrill-filled story about monster racing with impressive thematic depth and a refreshing spectrum of female characters. Whenever human evildoers die in the land of Becar, they reincarnate as vicious kehoks, hulking beasts that combine traits of different animals. Their only chance of being freed from this monstrous form is winning the popular desert races, ridden by risk-taking humans. Tamra Verlas, once an elite kehok rider, has fallen on financial ruin that puts her at risk of losing her daughter. When her wealthy patron, Lady Evara, challenges Tamra to train a new winner in exchange for a cut of the prize, Tamra takes on desperate rookie Raia, pairing her with an untested leonine kehok, unaware that this kehok may house a powerful soul that could play a vital role in Becar’s future. Durst consistently defies expectations in both plot and characterization while exploring sophisticated themes of found family, integrity, and morality. This excellent epic fantasy will appeal to adult fans of YA authors Tamora Pierce and Megan Whalen Turner. Agent: Andrea Somberg, Harvey Klinger Literary. " Rezension(9): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: January 1, 2020 In Becar, the way one chooses to live their life determines what form they take in the next life. To ride kehoks means to impose your will over the monster beneath you--at one time a terrible person, now reborn as twisted in appearance as they once were in deeds. To win the Races means glory for the rider, and a chance for the kehok to be redeemed. Tamra used to be a famous rider, but a tragic accident took her livelihood and confidence. Unless she gains the Race winnings, Tamra will lose her daughter. Raia has the raw talent to ride, but needs a skilled trainer to join the Races and break free from her imposing family. Both women place their hopes on a strange new kehok, as wild as it is powerful. As they head to the Races, Tamra and Raia discover how far they will go to win--and the truly unique nature of their kehok. VERDICT Durst's latest delivers the same sweeping prose and lush worldbuilding as her Renthia series, with strong female protagonists and lively supporting characters. This compelling fantasy will please fans and engage new readers. --Kristi Chadwick, Massachusetts Lib. Syst., NorthamptonCopyright 2020 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. " Rezension(10): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: March 1, 2020 This stand-alone fantasy blends classic horse-racing tropes with political fantasy and even a dash of Pok�mon. Those who live in the Becar Empire know that reincarnation exists. Those who are purest become augurs, able to read the past, present, and future of a person's soul,good people are reincarnated as humans,those with more flaws spend their next incarnation as animals,and the irredeemable sinners spend eternity incarnating as kehoks, vicious, mindless, chimerical monsters. Kehoks cannot be tamed, but daring riders can control them mentally through force of will and race them while risking dismemberment and death both from their competitors and their own mounts. Former grand champion-turned-disgraced trainer Tamra Verlas needs a winning kehok-rider pair who will garner her the gold necessary to retain custody of her daughter. Raia hopes that a new life as a rider will allow her to hide from her parents, who have affianced her to a rich but cruelly dominating man. And the metallic lion kehok she learns to race seems to have his own ambitions and intelligence beyond his apparently brutish nature. Meanwhile, Becar roils with uncertainty, because Prince Dar cannot succeed his late older brother, Zarin, as emperor until he locates his predecessor's current incarnation, even as the neighboring realm of Ranir threatens invasion. Of course, these plot elements dovetail in exactly the way you'd expect, but that doesn't mean that the race to victory isn't charmingly crafted and extremely enjoyable. Durst (The Deepest Blue, 2019, etc.) offers her patented mix of solid worldbuilding, characters with determination and heart, and a jab of violence to ensure that the result never cloys. Fans of Tamora Pierce's strong female protagonists will also appreciate the tribute that Durst pays her in the acknowledgments, the character name Tamra, and the storytelling. If mostly lacking surprises, still guaranteed to check the boxes for fans of fantasy and horse-riding novels. COPYRIGHT(2020) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(11): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: March 1, 2020 Durst moves beyond her Queens of Renthia series, last explored in The Deepest Blue (2019), to a fresh standalone novel. The empire of Becar follows two central tenets. Foremost is the people's staunch belief in the aura-reading priests who act as their moral compass, guiding souls towards their next life. Second is the epic Grand Becaran Race, an annual gladiator-style event with high-stakes betting and life-changing rewards for the winning rider and racer. To ride and control the monsters used for the race requires tremendous self-commitment and focused mental concentration, skills that take time and training to master. What do you get when a down-on-her-luck former champion risks everything to train a seventeen-year-old runaway as a novice rider for a lethal, man-killing monster in his first reincarnation? Add in an eccentric sponsor, the search for a lost soul, civil unrest, palace intrigue, and an impending invasion and you get a fast-paced, exciting new fantasy. A distinctive belief system melded with a complex political structure and internal turmoil will appeal to readers who enjoy well-developed worlds.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2020, American Library Association.) "

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ISBN: 9781448103706

Content: " 'A masterly novel' New York Times 'Such is the exquisite, gossamer construction of Murakami's writing that everything he chooses to describe trembles with symbolic possibility'Guardian Read the haunting love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar. When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past. 'Evocative, entertaining, sexy and funny,but then Murakami is one of the best writers around' Time Out 'Poignant, romantic and hopeless, it beautifully encapsulates the heartbreak and loss of faith'Sunday Times 'This book is undeniably hip, full of student uprisings, free love, booze and 1960s pop, it's also genuinely emotionally engaging, and describes the highs of adolescence as well as the lows' Independent on Sunday "

Content: Biographisches: " In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, which turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. His books became bestsellers, were translated into many languages, including English, and the door was thrown wide open to Murakami's unique and addictive fictional universe. Murakami writes with admirable discipline, producing ten pages a day, after which he runs ten kilometres (he began long-distance running in 1982 and has participated in numerous marathons and races), works on translations, and then reads, listens to records and cooks. His passions colour his non-fiction output, from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running to Absolutely On Music, and they also seep into his novels and short stories, providing quotidian moments in his otherwise freewheeling flights of imaginative inquiry. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84 and Men Without Women, his distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring Murakami's place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers. " Rezension(2): "Daily Telegraph: Norwegian Wood is Japan's The Catcher in the Rye " Rezension(3): "The New York Times Book Review:A masterly novel. . Norwegian Wood bears the unmistakable marks of Murakami's hand." Rezension(4): "Independent on Sunday:This book is undeniably hip, full of student uprisings, free love, booze and 1960s pop, it's also genuinely emotionally engaging, and describes the highs of adolescence as well as the lows" Rezension(5): "Times Literary Supplement:Catches the absorption and giddy rush of adolescent love... It is also, for all the tragic momentum and the apparently kamikaze consciousness of many of its characters, often funny and quirkily observed. Quietly compulsive and finally moving" Rezension(6): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: September 11, 2000 In a complete stylistic departure from his mysterious and surreal novels (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,A Wild Sheep Chase) that show the influences of Salinger, Fitzgerald and Tom Robbins, Murakami tells a bittersweet coming-of-age story, reminiscent of J.R. Salamanca39"

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ISBN: 9781984831941

Content: " Step inside a fairy tale. Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Caraval Get swept away in the novel that Melissa Albert, bestselling author of The Hazel Wood , calls eerie and lovely. As one by one her beautiful sisters mysteriously die on their isolated island estate, Annaleigh must unravel the curse that haunts her family. Be careful who you dance with. .In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed. Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor with her sisters and their father and stepmother. Once there were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods. Disturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that her sister's deaths were no accidents. The girls have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn't sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts. Because who or what are they really dancing with? When Annaleigh's involvement with a mysterious stranger who has secrets of his own intensifies, it's a race to unravel the darkness that has fallen over her family before it claims her next. House of Salt and Sorrows is a spellbinding novel filled with magic and the rustle of gossamer skirts down long, dark hallways. Get ready to be swept away. An eerie, lovely Twelve Dancing Princesses retelling full of ghosts and gods and a fascinating waterfront world and I'm reading it from behind my fingers. Melissa Albert,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Hazel Wood "

Content: Biographisches: "Erin A. Craig has always loved telling stories. After getting her BFA in Theatre Design and Production from the University of Michigan, she stage managed tragic operas filled with hunchbacks, sé,nces, and murderous clowns, then decided she wanted to write books that were just as spooky. An avid reader, decent quilter, rabid basketball fan, and collector of typewriters, Erin makes her home in Memphis with her husband and daughter. erinacraig.com @Penchant4Words on Twitter and Instagram" Rezension(2): " Bustle : Haunting , atmospheric, and immersive." Rezension(3): " Hypable :Nothing short of both haunting and mesmerizing . a perfect step into escapism and away from real life." Rezension(4): " The Wall Street Journal :A gothic maritime romance . after two centuries of dominance by the realistic novel, we need more than the sketch of a fairy tale . We need personalities, we need individuals, we need to understand the heroine's interior life, all engagingly presented in this charming remake." Rezension(5): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: June 1, 2019 Mysterious deaths plague an island dukedom in a loose retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses. Annaleigh Thaumas has spent the last few years mourning her mother and several sisters, who died in succession under increasingly eerie circumstances. Her remaining sisters chafe under the lifestyle restrictions of formal mourning on their small, isolated island home, especially their inability to wear pretty clothes and flirt with boys. When their young stepmother persuades their duke father to let them wear bright colors and start dancing again, Annaleigh and her sisters are relieved, especially when a mystical door in the family crypt conveniently transports them to glamorous ballrooms that provide venues to show off their new wardrobes. Annaleigh and her sisters read like interchangeable paper dolls, their painstakingly described gowns, jewels, and shoes the most distinguishing features about them,they spend their time screaming, swooning, and alternately competing for and cowering behind the men in their lives. The island setting is extremely one-note, as if an ocean-themed children's party became an entire culture, and there is no consistent interior logic to the rules of magic and gods that seem to shift, like the tides and the weather, according to narrative convenience. The writing is self-consciously stiff, and the story reads like a mood board, full of repetitively atmospheric images and scenes but never creating a substantive whole. All characters are white. More about costume than character or story. (Fairy tale retelling. 14-18) COPYRIGHT(2019) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(6): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: June 24, 2019 Evocative details and lyrical, moody prose distinguish this tale—with strong allusions to “The Twelve Dancing Princesses”—of 12 sisters who seemingly fall under a curse, resulting in their deaths under tragic and violent circumstances over the course of several years. Debut author Craig stages the narrative in an enigmatic island realm set apart from the outside world and governed by a mythology that is connected to the ocean. The sisters (only seven remain when the story begins) live with their father and his significantly younger new wife at seaside manor Highmoor. Fearful of meeting fates similar to their siblings’, all but one sister, Annaleigh, seek refuge through pageantry and nights spent dancing until dawn (fairy tale–like details abound: velvet-draped ballrooms, extravagant “fairy shoes”). Craig offers a well-placed element of grotesquerie as the sisters become puppetlike pawns controlled by a malevolent force. Certain elements—including a duplicitous central character’s arc and the story’s budding romance—carry a degree of predictability, but these are minor distractions in an otherwise richly conceived story that blends mythic and Gothic storytelling. Ages 12–up. Agent: Sarah Landis, Sterling Lord Literistic. " Rezension(7): "〈a href=http://www.slj.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/schoollibraryjournal_logo.png alt=School Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: July 1, 2019 Gr 8 Up- An accomplished first novel, equal parts gothic fairy tale and romance. Teenage Annaleigh and her seven sisters live in their ancestral house of Highmoor with their father and stepmother, the Duke and Duchess of the People of the Salt. Their family has been in near-continuous mourning for years after the deaths, one by one, of the girls' mother and four older sisters. Desperate for some happiness and an escape from their island community, the girls find a hidden passageway and begin a series of secret nights dancing their shoes into tatters at darkly splendid balls. The foreboding atmosphere intensifies, and eventually Annaleigh decides to forgo the parties and unravel the mysteries surrounding her family's ongoing tragedies. Loosely based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses, the novel takes place in a 17th-century European-sounding world where an invented pantheon of gods guide, and sometimes afflict, their human devotees. The author's background in theater design surely contributed to Annaleigh's first-person narration as she tells the sisters' story in lavish visual detail. Well-described settings with rocky shores, obsidian fireplaces, and satin gowns bring this magical realm to life. Nuanced heroes and villains with complex backstories reveal their motives throughout the narrative, and the cause-and resolution-of the family's sorrows is both unexpected and thoroughly satisfying. VERDICT Compulsively readable, with sweet young love and truly creepy horror. First purchase for school and public libraries.- Beth Wright Redford, formerly at Richmond Elementary School Library, VTCopyright 2019 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. "

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