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1. The dissonance

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Author:
Hamill, Shaun
Formats:
Book, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
"In high school, the three were students of the eccentric Professor Marsh, trained in a secret system of magic known as the Dissonance, which is built around harnessing negative emotions: alienation, anger, pain. Then, twenty years ago, something happened that shattered their coven, scattering them across the country, stuck in mundane lives, alone. But now, terrifying signs and portents (not to mention a pointed Facebook invite) have summoned them...

2. The picture of Dorian Gray and other stories

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Author:
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Formats:
Book, Adult Literacy Book, Audio CD, Hoopla eAudiobook, Hoopla eBook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
A remarkably handsome youth, Dorian Gray, meets Lord Henry Wotton and is corrupted into a life of terrible evil. Granted eternal youth, Dorian Gray lives a wild, dissipated life while his portrait grows old and haggard. Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations,...