The ​Book of Magic (Practical Magic 2.) 2 csillagozás

Alice Hoffman: The Book of Magic Alice Hoffman: The Book of Magic

The ​Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred years but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger—the curse is already at work.

A frantic attempt to save a young man’s life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and one long-lost brother, to use their unusual gifts to break the curse as they travel from Paris to London to the English countryside where their ancestor Maria Owens first practiced the Unnamed Art. The younger generation discovers secrets that have been hidden from them in matters of both magic and love by Sally, their fiercely protective mother. As Kylie Owens uncovers the truth about who she is and what her own dark powers are, her aunt Franny comes to understand that she is ready to sacrifice everything for her family, and Sally… (tovább)

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Simon & Schuster, New York, 2021
400 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9781398509955
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Simon & Schuster, New York, 2021
400 oldal · keménytáblás · ISBN: 9781982151485

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Népszerű idézetek

Avilda IP>!

If you can't eat chocolate cake for breakfast, what is the point of being alive?

32. oldal

Avilda IP>!

Life was a book, Jet thought, but one you would never finish.

45. oldal

Avilda IP>!

„There are no witches,” Antonia said. „Only people who want to burn them.”

153. oldal

Larawyn>!

Some stories begin at the beginning and others begin at the end, but all the best stories begin in a library.

(első mondat)

Avilda IP>!

Now Franny understood that you must be yourself no matter what; anything else was a lie, and a denial of who you were would always cause grief.

81. oldal

Avilda IP>!

To end a curse, be prepared to give up everything.

49. oldal

Larawyn>!

Words were everything, stories were more powerful than any weapon, books changed lives.

117. oldal

Larawyn>!

Life was like a book, Jet thought, but one you would never finish.

53. oldal


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