Stolen Songbird


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USA Today bestseller For five centuries, a witch’s curse has bound the trolls to their city beneath the ruins of Forsaken Mountain—time enough for their nefarious magic to fade from human memory and into myth. But a prophecy has spoken of a union that will set the trolls free, and when Cécile de Troyes is taken beneath the mountain, she learns there is far more to the myth than she could have imagined. Cécile has only one thing on her mind after she is brought to Trollus: escape. But if she is to succeed, she must bide her time and find a way to outsmart the clever, fast, and inhumanly strong trolls that hold her captive. But while awaiting the perfect opportunity, Cécile unexpectedly falls for the enigmatic troll prince to whom she has been bonded and married. Their love gradually changes her perspective, opening her heart to new friends and opening her eyes to the hardships of the enslaved half-troll, half-human creatures of Trollus. As rebellion brews and the political games of Trollus escalate, Cécile becomes more than a trapped father’s daughter. She becomes a princess, a witch, and the hope of a people—someone who has the power to change Trollus forever.




Benedictine Maledictions


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"'May they be cursed in town and cursed in the fields. May their barns be cursed and may their bones be cursed. May the fruit of their loins be cursed as well as the fruit of their lands.' French monks of the Middle Ages hurled curses like these at their enemies, seeking supernatural assistance when no secular judge could help them. In a long-awaited book written with elegance and erudition, Lester Little undertakes the first full-length study of these maledictions.... The book's focus is the way that religious communities—especially the monks who followed Benedict's Rule and hence were known by his name—used liturgical cursing to safeguard their integrity and their possessions, against both laymen and other ecclesiastics." —Journal of Social History




Math Curse


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Did you ever wake up to one of those days where everything is a problem? You have 10 things to do, but only 30 minutes until your bus leaves. Is there enough time? You have 3 shirts and 2 pairs of pants. Can you make 1 good outfit? Then you start to wonder: Why does everything have to be such a problem? Why do 2 apples always have to be added to 5 oranges? Why do 4 kids always have to divide 12 marbles? Why can't you just keep 10 cookies without someone taking 3 away? Why? Because you're the victim of a Math Curse. That's why. But don't despair. This is one girl's story of how that curse can be broken.




Progeny


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It is a monotonous cycle to be born as a child, grow as a youth, get married and again give birth to a child to keep the descendant going. After the initial months and years of marriage, the couples look to beget good children and bring them good personalities into the society. The importance attached to begetting progeny is that couples search for the answers for the delay in begetting Children and opt for other means to get their descendants when it is much delayed. This book by respectable Tirupur Sri S. Gopalakrishnan GK (as he is fondly known) has given numerous ways to know where the defect is and the means to correct it. He has penned down so many methodologies in determining the factors for denial and delay in progeny, thereby suggesting that valued couples look for the alternative to have the love and affection of the babies at the earliest. The sole aim of the author is to press the couples to look for the assertion of ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer to their question of having children through normal means and to start the process through other means at an earlier stage to spend happy days with those lovable kids they get by any means like test-tube babies, IVF else thro’ egg donors. The sole aim of the author is to see the couple blessed with the babies of their choice and bring them up as valuable citizens to see a powerful India as imagined by the late Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.




Malediction


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‘Yes, someone is going to die,’ he said. ‘Someone always does when we perform the cursed play.’ The Tragedy of Prince Tyrus is one of the greatest plays of all time, except for one complication. Each time it is performed a member of the cast dies. Sometimes it’s a tragic accident. Sometimes it’s not. Eleven years have passed since the last death and the Queen has commissioned another performance. Against their better judgement the Morgenstern Troupe have accepted. Over the next two days friendships will be tested, rivalries will form, and the bloodstained history of the cursed play will resurface. As tensions rise the actors begin to ask themselves: if the curse really is inescapable, isn’t it better to kill than be killed? Let the show begin.




The Sisterhood - Curse of Abbot Hewitt


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Before being unjustly hanged, Abbot Hewitt places a malediction on the new born baby of a reputed warlock. Eighty-four years later, and with their compacts with 'the master' about to expire, three witches use revenge, spite, toadyism, greed, and even romance to stay alive.