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Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
x, 290 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Janine Brown of Cedar Falls, Iowa, is this year's lucky winner of a brand-new, fully loaded dream home! Problem is, which Janine Brown? Janine "Janey" Brown is at first reluctant to give up the safety and sanctity she finds in her tiny kitchen. Across town, Janine "Nean" Brown knows that this house promises an escape from the latest in her revolving door of crappy jobs and drunk boyfriends. Both Janine Browns head for Christmas Cove, Maine, to claim...
Author
Series
Witches of Benevento volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
119 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm.
Description
During mischief season, the children of the ancient town of Benevento have to deal with the nasty tricks of the Janara, so Emilio and Rosa approach the fortune teller Zia Pia for help.
Author
Series
Lost in-- volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When superstitious Meghan receives a chain letter from Ireland, she takes a shortcut in its directions, and soon finds herself in a streak of bad luck that she must travel to Ireland to break.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Murray talks his friend Fioravante into becoming a gigolo as a way of making some much needed cash after an out-of-the-blue request from his dermatologist. With Murray acting as Fioravante's 'manager,' the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.
Author
Publisher
Red Feather
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Description
"Discover forgotten divinatory skills, and learn to read the Tarot with confidence. Not just another Tarot book, Untold Tarot presents historic styles of reading little known in the modern era. It teaches traditional ways of reading used for pre-twentieth-century decks, drawing upon older cartomantic arts such as blending and pairing cards, reading lines, and following 'line of sight' to piece together untold stories according to the direction in...
Author
Publisher
Erewhon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
464 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
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 trickery to falsify prophecies for coin, scrounging together a living for her deteriorating father and cruel grandmother. But Kalyna’s reputation for prophecy precedes...
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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
Critter club volume 10
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
114 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Description
When the Critter Club takes in a pig named Plum, Ellie starts having good luck, but worries what will happen when the club finds Plum a home.
10) Gold digger
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (341 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On her 60th birthday, Julia hits it off with handsome young Benjamin. But their whirlwind romance is marred by the disapproval of Julia's adult children. Does Benjamin truly love her, or is he the gold digger her family believes him to be?
11) The bad luck day
Author
Series
Daisy Dreamer volume 11
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
119 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
"Every kid in the world has had a Bad Luck Day, but Daisy Dreamer's might be the unluckiest Bad Luck Day ever"--
12) Touch blue
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Description
When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child to increase the school's population.
13) Fortune Falls
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Formats
Description
In Fortune Falls, where superstitions are real, and all children must pass regular "luck tests" to see if they are worthy, ill-fortuned Sadie has always been deemed as unlucky, and shunted aside for her luckier younger brother--but when she finds an unusually intelligent black cat named Jinx, her fortunes begin to change for the better.
14) Nightmare alley
Author
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xiii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low. There's no way in hell, he vows, that anything like that will ever happen to him. And since Stan is clever and ambitious and not without a useful streak of ruthlessness, soon enough he's going places. Onstage he plays the mentalist with a cute assistant (before long his harried wife), then he graduates to full-blown spiritualist, catering to the needs of the rich...
Author
Series
Gifts (O'Donoghue) volume 1
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
When her friend mysteriously vanishes after drawing an unsettling tarot card called The Housekeeper, Maeve uses her deep connection with the cards to search for clues the police cannot find.
Author
Series
Hand-me-down magic volume 1
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Description
"Del loves LOTS of things! The Curious Cousins Secondhand Shoppe. Ginormous family dinners. And of course, her best-friend-cousin, Alma. Alma loves her abuelita's tasty empanadas. Her old home by the lake. And soon, she'll love living in the same place as her best-friend-cousin, Del. Yet despite having Del by her side, Alma isn't quite sure she fits in with their family at 86 1/2 Twenty-Third Avenue. It's a new life and it's all so different. When...
17) Lucky Penny
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"If Penny Brighton didn't have bad luck, she'd have no luck at all. She lost her job. And her apartment. In the same day. But it's okay, her friend has a cozy storage unit she can crash in. And there's bound to be career opportunities at the neighborhood laundromat- just look how fast that 12-year-old who runs the place made it to management! Plus, there's this sweet guy at the community center, and maybe Penny can even have a conversation with him...
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 26
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
In the midst of a terrible week, Mia receives a lucky charm from her cousins from Puerto Rico, and when her luck turns around, she attributes it to the charm, but when her bad luck returns, she must come to grips with the truth.--
Author
Series
Cookie chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Eight-year-old Ben takes a fortune cookie literally, and believing he has only one day left to live, tries to do everything he has always wanted to before nightfall.
Author
Series
Cookie chronicles volume 5
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
335 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
While attempting to return a lost wallet to its owner, Ben tries out different life philosophies inspired by his friends, family, and fortune cookies.
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