Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Meredith Tate Just stick out your wand

Just stick out your wand hand

Martens' classic collection of 73 Chinese fairy tales has been re-edited by a leading Chinese historian to heighten its appeal to the modern Western reader

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an ode to books and to the libraries that house them

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Meredith Tate Just stick out your wandHe is trying to poison me. You must come for me, Noem. You have to save me. After receiving a frantic letter from her newlywed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, socialite Noem Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She's not sure what she will find her cousin's husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noem knows little about the region. Noem is more suited for cocktail parties