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Clarabele was alone, alone in the dark, damp, abandoned cellar with carefully strung cobwebs made of sliver moonlight as company, and she adored it. The cellar was her freedom, her release from the cold, strong grasp of an oppressive society. She loved it here, where the only noises in the abandoned 朗姆酒 cellar were her and the feet of the mice. However Clarabele had to leave her sanctuary for a demonic reason.

Spirits were high on this All Hallows eve, the town was replenished from The Great 火, 消防 and the ‘occurrences’ had lessened, utter peace. As Clarabele walked along the dark, dusty … somewhat distant street, she sensed this peace and it empowered her.

The ‘occurrences’ had started a 年 ago, when the moon was high and bright, three children were murdered; they were all 老友记 and part of the Christian church, like many peasants of this age, they had all angered Clarabele. These incidents were followed 由 many of its type, some drowned without water, some attacked 由 the forest the whole hamlet of Chadwell was living in fear until a fortnight ago, when the ‘occurrences’ had abruptly stopped.

“Oi!” Bellowed one of the many drunken youths roaming 伦敦 “Bootiful” he staggered slightly towards her but with a fearsome glare he realized Clarabele wasn’t a force to be reckoned with.

Clarabele didn’t view herself as beautiful. She was told 由 The Guardians many times that she was ‘impure in the eyes of God’. She had short, blonde hair that was close to white. Her hair was the shortest in the village because she had sliced her own hair with a blade (which was also ‘impure’). She had gleaming blue eyes. She wore, well she liked to wear, long, sleek, silk dresses, normally and pale shade of 紫丁香, 丁香 或者 blue, with elegant floral patterns stretching up the side of the delicate dress. Clarabele was only thirteen but she was feared 由 many grown warriors.

The Guardians disapproved of Clarabele’s appearance; in fact they disapproved of Clarabele in general. The Guardians consisted of the five village elders who were assigned to Clarabele, because she was different.

According to The Guardians, Clarabele was ‘cursed’, but in her mind she was deeply gifted. She could point to a barren wasteland and turn it into a luscious lagoon, she could ignite a flame in the darkest depth of the ocean and still hold air in her lungs, she could remove the roof of a house with a whisper, and she could even soar like a bird high in the sky. Her ‘gift’ talked to her occasionally. It would lead her to temptations; it told her she was a goddess amongst mortals that she could crush the pathetic race that has deprived her of freedom for far too long.

However Clarabele was kind, caring and empathetic person and exploited her gift for the good of the hamlet, she provided water during droughts, crops during famines but sometimes she got angry. Sometimes the temptation was far to alluring and she had to relinquish to its ever growing might. The occurrences were a result of one of those incidents and today would be another.

Even during this illusion of peace her mind was seething with rage. A female Guardian named Rosalina had burned her 最喜爱的 blue dress and her personal journal at the local book burning, so Clarabele would burn her.

As she walked down the 街, 街道 her short her flew and ignited with her rage and fire, sharp brambles grew from her footsteps. The air swarmed ferociously around her and the tree’s shook with fury. As she walked past the well the rocks crumbled in her presence and the water trailed behind her leaving no mark as she entered the local public house.

‘I am a Goddess, a fallen Goddess but a Goddess nonetheless.’ She thought

As she walked into the, as it is known to the mortals as ‘pub’ no one noticed her, none of the four other Guardians and certainly not Rosalina. She dampened her flames and approached the smallest 表 in the ‘pub’

The public house was full of mortals and was dressed in a typical English design, wooden panels in certain places and deep crimson and green in others. The Landlord and his bar wench looked proudly as the customers enjoyed their evening in the only ‘pub’ in town.

Clarabele approached the party of people surrounding Rosalina and tapped her gently on the shoulder.
“Rosalina?” She 说 in a sweet church girl impression.
“Yes my child?” She asked with respect, she obviously had not realized that it was Clarabele behind her because she treated Clarabele like the filth that she 实习医生风云 from the floors. “Oh, it’s 你 Clarabele. What do 你 want?” She spat the word 你 at Clarabele in such a spiteful way if Clarabele was normal she might have been offended, fortunately she was nothing of the sort.
“Oh nothing worth much Rosalina, just your life” Then Clarabele laughed in a 胜利之歌 shriek and tapped Shoulder for a 秒 time and before she had time to query Rosalina evaporated into ash.

The people closest were the first to scream and run for the main door alerting the others of the danger but Clarabele engulfed the door in a furious flame. Then others ran for the back door which Clarabele covered with the water from the well. The water flowed like a sea caught in a storm. One man dared to face its currents but was caught in an ever closing cage and drowned proving the treat to the other victim. The gift adored the chaos and misery, it drank it all in like a fresh flagon of water on a summer’s 日 until…

Horror, confusion, anxiety, grief 《冰雪奇缘》 on the mortals faces. Clarabele could 移动 around freely but the mortals were immobile. This intrigued her, like a curious cat with a new plaything. The flames had stopped raging, the old clock had halted its gentle rhythm. Had she done this? If she had it would prove her Goddess like existence. She laughed in delight at this realization until Clarabele saw movement out of the corner of her highly trained eye.

Was it a mortal? Clarabele wondered, no it was a just a trick of the light. Then she saw him.

She had seen him around the hamlet recently, he was a young preacher, about Clarabele’s age, he was visiting from the hamlet of Chigwell. He had dark, tempting mysterious eyes with a dangerous glint. His smooth, 板栗 hair gently framed the perfect shape of his face. Clarabele was mesmerized 由 his presence.

“You can’t do this” He sounded disappointed with Clarabele; however his voice still flowed in a melodic harmony.
“And you’re to stop me preacher?” Clarabele laughed in a voice which was cold and spiteful, it almost sounded like Rosalina’s…
“You doubt me, Clarabele?”
How did he know her name? Worry sparked through her mind but only to be silenced 由 the gift
Does he doubt you?
She ignited a flame in her palm and held it there “I do not doubt 你 preacher, I doubt your ability to prevent me” she threw the flame towards him covering head to toe in a blazing fire. He did not struggle, Clarabele admired that.
She extinguished the flame to make her escape whilst time held still until she heard the creek of a floorboard.

She turned on her heels 火, 消防 in hand to see the preacher, walking towards her, unscathed and unharmed.
“W-w-what? How?” she was confused and slightly scared.
He clenched his fist and walked slowly over to Clarabele until he was directly in front of her. He unclenched his 鱼 to reveal a small, but slowly growing flame.
“But I thought I was alone… the only one…” she was now become extremely confused.
Does he doubt you?
The same ghostly echo spread through her mind, like 牛奶 in blood it flourished through her mind full of eccentric details, and Clarabele let the gift control.
“I was the only one then I heard of 你 Clarabele and I knew I must dispatch of you”
“Why? We could be together, rule as Gods and Goddesses are meant to” Clarabele regained some form of control for a moment then the gift interrupted with a snarl.
“You ruin my fun and attempt to scare my mistress, how dare 你 Vaurien”
Vaurien? Clarabele wondered sitting like a ghostly shadow amongst her own body which now had deathly white tint and deep black veins.

Suddenly the preacher’s head swung backwards and his voice changed also,
It was now hoarse and cruel. His face was also covered in black veins and his features were twisted and deformed.
“I didn’t think it would be 你 Maeve” The preacher bellowed in a voice that was not his own.
After that Clarabele’s memory had disappeared.

The ‘pub’ had been completely demolished. As Clarabele lay on the rubble she examined the disaster. There was scorch marks everywhere and it was flooded with water, tormented roots lay dead and withered and Clarabele laid in the preachers arms. She feeling very week.
    
The preacher kept on muttering something over and over again, crying over her soaked body.
“What is it… preacher?” She asked with a painful cough.
“I am sorry my lady, I am so sorry.”
“What...?” She asked her head lazing weekly to her left. He gestured to her chest. Agonizingly she attempted to look and saw a dagger, sticking out of her chest covered in blood which had drenched her clothes.
“Who?” she croaked with one of her last breaths.
“I am so sorry Clarabele.”
“You!”
The memories came flooding back to Clarabele. Her gift had fought valiantly but after an energy draining attack she was helpless. Vaurien had plunged a dagger in to her chest but Maeve answered.

“Your sons may live
But not long for I give
My daughters the eternal power
Your blood will lie in the hand of my flower.
Lilly
Lilly” this is when Clarabele felt herself slip slowly into an everlasting sleep, with one thought left on her mind, vengeance. So as her presence left the world in the small hamlet burned and the preacher burned with it.

Then Lilly Harman awoke from her dream with a startling realization.

由 Paige Dolan
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I am an upcoming 日本漫画 lover and these r the three 图书 out of the 5 series i read that were the most interesting:::

1) Pet 商店 Of Horrors ~ A mysterious pet 商店 owner named Count D owns a 商店 in Chinatown that sells "dreams" but if u don't fallow the rules, it might kill u...or worse.

2) The Dreaming ~ Two twin sisters go to a privite school with a past of girls going missing in the bushes around the school. So they decide to solve it.

3) Princess Ai ~ A princess ends up in Tokyo and becomes a star, and meets the 爱情 of her life. But will that stop her enemies from coming back to kill her?

These r three great series of Manga, I hope u read and enjoy.
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Tantalize (Cynthia Leitich Smith) was an awsome book. I really enjoyed it. It had me guessing what was going to happen until the very end!

Here is a piece about the book:

Quincie Morris has never felt 更多 alone. Her hybrid werewolf first 爱情 threatens to embark on a rite of passage that will separate them forever. And just as she and her uncle are about to unveil Austin's red-hot vampire-themed restaurant, a brutal murder leaves them scrambling for a chef. Can Quincie transform the new hire, Henry Johnson, into a culinary Dark Lord before opening night? Will he be able to to wow the crowd in fake fangs, a cheap cape, and red contact lenses? 或者 is there 更多 to his earnest fresh face than meets the eye?

As human and preternatural forces clash a deadly 爱情 三角形, 三角 forms and the line between predator and prey begins to blur. Who's playing whom? And how long can Quincie play along before she loses everything?
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I read this really good book the other 日 and I would like to recommend it to poeple. This is what is written on the inside cover about the book:

Rule 3: DONT STARE AT INVISIBLE FAERIES: Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in the mortal world. Aislinn fears their cruelty- especially if learn of her Sight- and wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teens.

Rule 2: DONT SPEAK TO INVISIBLE FAERIES: Now faeries are stalking her. One of them, Keenan, who is equal parts terrifying and alluring, is trying to talk to her, asking 问题 Aislinn is...
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#5 The Supernaturalist 由 Eoin Colfer

The Supernaturalist takes place in the future. A boy named Cosmo 爬坡道, 小山 is an orphan in this new world. He goes to a school where he's tortured every day. He finally sees his chance to escape when there is a crash on the highway. He and his friend ziplock manage to escape, this only ends in Ziplock's demise and Cosmo's attack 由 these strange blue creatures. He is saved 由 three people(Stefan, Ditto, and Mona) who call themselves the Supernaturalist. The Supernaturalist become the closest thing he's ever had to family and together they have to take on the...
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"I still get nightmares," begins Johnny Truant, editor of House of Leaves ("House," 由 the way, always colored in blue). He goes on to explain how he stumbled upon the fateful document that would consume him. How Zampanò, an old and eccentric shut-in had left his critique of the Navidson Record scribbled on loose-leaf papers, book covers, and the backs of envelopes and even stamps scattered across his room. Johnny diligently collected all of the papers and organized them into the comprehensive thesis it was meant to be. It is an elaborate and detailed explanation of a documentary that, Johnny...
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My Life in France 由 Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme
You must know Julia Child 由 name if not 由 reputation. The cook of all cooks. The woman who revolutionized American household kitchens; she entered the 首页 由 TV and left us groaning, having just gorged on prodigious French food. But that really isn't her, Julia Child declares, in her book. My Life in France is an amazing, humanizing potrait of Julia Child as we peek into her life before fame and (can 你 belive it?) her life before she could cook (she claims that she was horrible in the 厨房 before moving to France and attended cooking...
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This is a common phrase/question that people employ when asking us booksellers for suggestions for their 老友记 and family. "Well, he/she loved so-and-so...what else is like that" In fact, that is very helpful when trying to recommend books, knowing other 图书 & authors that they like.

But sometimes one can get stuck in a rut and cannot come up with a wide selection of suggestions. Let's help each other find new 图书 based on 图书 we already enjoy. Adult, young adult, whatever 你 like!

Here are some Specific Titles that might prompt some suggestions:


-If 你 liked Harry Potter, you'll...
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Since everyone was so positive about my last article, I decided to make it a series of sorts. Different themes, maybe one 文章 a month. I am 23 and I still 爱情 all of the following books. People can enjoy them at any age, but these are especially great ones for kids and teens. There were so many to choose from, so I apologize that I had to leave out so many of my favorites. Let's all recapture youth! As always, these are in no particular order.

1. The Neverending Story 由 Michael Ende
This is one of the few 幻想 novels that isn't an entire series. Not to offend anyone, but I do not like...
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Who Am I?
By: Gabriela Acosta



Chapter 1
“How would 你 describe me Lilly?” I asked.
“Paula, you’re a very smart and unique person. But also mysterious. In a good way.” She replied.
“How am I mysterious? I mean, I never thought of myself that way.”
“Because you’re always so quiet around people. Not around me, of course. It’s like 你 shut yourself down completely, like 你 don’t want them to know who 你 are.”
“But 你 know I’m very shy! Besides, I’m not very good at socializing, 你 know? I always make myself sound like a total freak!
“Hey, 你 asked for my...
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the book are 你 there god its me margret is very inspiring to me i don't know how judy bloom does it i would deffinetly recomend this book for any girl who fells sad 或者 depressed it is a short book so 你 will mort likely finish it in about a week maybe even a 日 i normally don't like 阅读 but after 阅读 this book it made me think that i should read 更多 图书 now i am 阅读 so many cool 图书 i could write my own but i am not feeling up to that so i will just stick to 阅读 i hope 你 found my 文章 usefull and remember if 你 have a good book tell me because i am really loving 阅读 now