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1. Aru Shah and the end of time

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Author:
Chokshi, Roshani
Series:
Pandava volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Formats:
Book, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has the tendency to stretch the truth to fit in at school. One day, three schoolmates show up at Aru's doorstep to catch her in a lie. They don't believe her claim that the museum's Lamp of Bharata is cursed, and they dare Aru to prove it. But lighting the lamp has dire consequences. Her classmates and beloved mother are frozen in time, and it's up to Aru to save them.

2. The rules of magic

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Author:
Hoffman, Alice
Series:
Practical magic novels volume Prequel.
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Formats:
Book, Large Print, OverDrive eBook
Description:
An instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick from beloved author Alice Hoffman—the spellbinding prequel to Practical Magic.
Find your magic.

For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man.

Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the sixties, when the whole world is about to...