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2018.
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English
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"It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts--or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. As such superstition has it, Melmoth travels through the ages, dooming those she...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Three women in 19th-century Ireland bond over a shared effort to rescue a child from a superstitious community that believes that his trauma-related inability to speak indicates that he is a changeling responsible for a series of misfortunes. By the award-winning author of Burial Rites.
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Series
Baztan trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Homicide investigator Amaia Salazar returns to her hometown in Basque Country in Spain after a murdered teenage girl is found along the riverbank, and must determine if the crime is a result of a ritual killer or a mythological creature known as the Basajuan.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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"From the Mouth of the Whale is an Icelandic saga for the modern age. The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty, and cruelty. Men of science marvel over a unicorn's horn, poor folk worship the Virgin in secret, and both books and men are burned. Sjon introduces us to Jonas Palmason, a poet and self-taught healer, banished to a barren island for heretical conduct, as he recalls his gift for curing "female maladies," his...
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