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by Julian Barnes Loosely connected stories and essays that all have some link to Noah's Ark.
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by Libba Bray
All 16-year-old Cameron wants is to get through high school - and life in general - with a minimum of effort. It's not a lot to ask. But that's before he's given some bad news: he's sick and he's going to die. Which totally sucks. Hope arrives in the winged form of Dulcie, a loopy punk angel/possible hallucination with a bad sugar habit. |
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by Mikhail Bulgakov
One spring afternoon, the Devil, trailing fire and chaos in his wake, weaves himself out of the shadows and into Moscow. A fantastical, funny, and devastating satire of Soviet life, set in contemporary Moscow, and ancient Jerusalem. |
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Oh. My. Gods. by Tera Lynn ChildsWhen her mother marries a man from Greece and moves the family onto an island in the Aegean Sea, Phoebe's life takes an unexpected turn. She discovers that her new classmates at her exclusive academy are all descendants of real Greek gods.
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by Marele Day
After years of living quietly on their remote island away from all others, three nuns find themselves in a challenging situation when a priest enters their world, forcing them to fight their temptations and remain true to their roles. |
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by Neil Gaiman
When the armies of Heaven and Hell decide it's time for Armageddon, a demon and an angel decide they like life on earth and team up to stop the coming Apocalypse. |
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by Nick Harkaway
Avoiding the lifestyle of his late gangster father by working as a clock repairman, Joe Spork fixes an unusual device that turns out to be a former secret agent's doomsday machine and incurs the wrath of the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator. |
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by Jane Heller
Recently divorced and frustrated by her life, out-of-shape Florida real-estate agent Barbara Chessner appeals to heaven for help and wakes up the next morning in the perfect body, with hilarious and diabolical results. |
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by Joe Hill
After his childhood sweetheart is brutally killed and suspicion falls on him, Ig Parrish goes on a drinking binge and wakes up with horns on his head, hate in his heart and an incredible new power. He uses the power in the name of vengeance, only to learn that, when it comes to revenge, the devil is in the details. |
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by Cassandra Khaw
It's not unusual to work two jobs in this day and age, but sorcerer and former triad soldier Rupert Wong's life is more complicated than most. By day, he makes human hors d'oeuvres for a dynasty of ghouls; by night, he pushes pencils for the Ten Chinese Hells.
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by C. S. Lewis
Letters from the devil Screwtape to his less experienced nephew and apprentice Wormwood reveal a cunning plan for committing human souls to damnation, in an illuminating look at temptation, repentance, forgiveness, and grace. |
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by Christopher Moore
A bold, hilarious, speculative novel fills in the lost years of Jesus, told from the perspective of Biff, Christ's childhood best buddy. |
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by James Morrow
Raphael, a despondent angel, tells ship captain Anthony Van Horne that God has died and fallen into the sea. This leads Van Horne on a bizarre mission to recover the divine corpse from the Atlantic and tow it to the Arctic. |
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by Chuck Palahniuk
Abandoned at a Swiss boarding school while her billionaire parents pursue the adoptions of new children during the Christmas season, 13-year-old Madison dies from a drug overdose and arrives in Hell, where she forges Breakfast Club-style friendships with other dead youths and seeks a confrontation with Satan. |
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by Marie Phillips
The twelve Greek gods of Olympus are alive and well in the 21st century. But their powers are waning, and they need to support themselves on Earth. They find employment as dog walkers, TV psychics, and sex operators - and squabble amongst themselves.
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by Terry Pratchett
Eric is a would-be Faust, and is very bad . . . at his work, that is. All he wants is to fulfill three little wishes: to live forever, to be master of the universe, and to have a stylin' hot babe. But instead of a powerful demon, he conjures, well, Rincewind, a wizard whose incompetence is matched only by his own. |
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by Simon Rich
God, the CEO of Heaven, Inc. doesn't like to answer emails or return phone calls, but he likes creating different "fusion" restaurants and betting on sports teams. Two underpaid angels, Craig and Eliza, try to stop Him from retiring and destroying Earth.
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by Muriel Spark An elegant fable (and a biting commentary on the Watergate scandal) about intrigue, corruption, and electronic surveillance, Set in an English Benedictine convent, where the steely and silky Abbess Alexandra has bugged the convent, and rigged her election. |
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by Manil Suri
Vishnu lies dying on the staircase he inhabits while his neighbors the Pathaks and the Asranis argue over who will pay for an ambulance. As the action spirals up through the floors of the apartment building we are pulled into the drama of the residents' lives. |
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by Donald E. Westlake
God sends one of his finest Angels to Earth to collect a disparate assortment of human beings and manipulate them into causing the end of the world, but God's plans go awry when a demon is sent by the Archfiend to save humankind. |
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