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"A fortune teller finds an unexpected family on her journeys in this heartwarming and charming fantasy debut. Tao, an immigrant fortune teller, lives in a wagon and roams the dusty outskirts of the kingdom of Eshtera. Fleeing a troubled past, she travels between villages telling only small fortunes: whether it will hail next Thursday; what boy will kiss which barmaid; when the cow will calve. Big fortunes come with big consequences...which she wants...
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"A dual narrative, feel good mystery in which a woman, Frances, spends a lifetime trying to prevent her murder as predicted by a fortune teller at a country fair when she was just 17. When she is in fact murdered nearly 60 years later, her great niece Annie must solve the crime to avenge her great aunt's death, and in so doing uncovers the dark heart of the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, where she might just find herself in the path of the...
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"Flair Hardwicke knows three things: magic is real, love isn't, and relying on either ends in disaster. So while she's grateful for the chance to take over her grandmother's Kansas bakery after she finally leaves her cheating husband, she won't be embracing Nana's fortune-telling side-hustle. Hers is a strictly no-magic operation--until the innocent batch of Tarot card cookies Flair bakes for the town's Halloween celebration unleashes the power of...
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2019.
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"Hanna Keller and her family run Maggie's Tea House, an establishment heavily influenced by the family's Hungarian descent and specializing in a European-style traditional tea service. But truthfully, one of the shop's largest draws is Hanna's eccentric grandmother, who's known for her remarkable ability to read the future in the leaves at the bottom of their customers' cups. Lately, however, her readings have become alarmingly ominous ... Hanna is...
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"The New York Times bestselling author of My Sunshine Away returns with another instant Southern classic: a gripping and heartfelt novel about a mysterious machine that upends a small Louisiana town, asking us all to wonder if who we truly are is who we truly could be"--
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Orion Books
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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Lucy Streeter, a single mother and fashion designer, has never been much of a risk-taker. But when an enigmatic fortune teller informs Lucy that her life is coming to an end, she races against the clock to squeeze a lifetime of fulfillment into just four days.
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2024.
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"In this fresh take on love and trouble in the American heartland, Brock Hobson, an insurance salesman and Sunday-school teacher, finds his equilibrium disturbed by the results of a blood test. Baxter, a master storyteller, brings us a gradually building rollercoaster narrative, and a protagonist who is impertinent, searching, and hilariously relatable. From his good-as-gold, gentle girlfriend to the excessively macho subcontractor guy his ex-wife...
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AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Alice Pendelbury believes everything in her life is pretty much in order -- from her good friends to her burgeoning career. But even Alice can admit it's been an odd week. Her neighbor Mr. Daldry has suddenly become an agreeable confidant and is encouraging her to take a fortune-teller serious while saying that he'll even finance her trip to Turkey to "meet the most important person in her life." It's on this journey that Alice will find out that...
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The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"When she and her lover's underground theater troupe draws them into the dark web of the Elizabethan court, Shay, a fortune teller who sees the future in the patterns of birds, is sought by the Queen for a reading, which unleashes chaos across the whole of England"--
