02192nam a22002297a 4500008004100000020001800041040000800059041000800067050002700075100002800102245006800130260004000198300002400238520153400262650002101796650001901817650002101836650003801857650002401895650002301919655002001942250922b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781399709897  ctbs  aeng  aPR6113.A487 bV47 2022  aMandanna, Sangueauthor  aThe very secret society of irregular witchesc/ Sangu Mandanna.  aLondon,bHodder & Stoughton,c2023.  a318 pages ;c20 cm.  aA warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family-and a new love-changes the course of her life. As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don't mingle and draw attention. And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, she's used to being alone and she follows the rules...with one exception: an online account, where she posts videos "pretending" to be a witch. She thinks no one will take it seriously. But someone does. An unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic. It breaks all of the rules, but Mika goes anyway, and is immediately tangled up in the lives and secrets of not only her three charges, but also an absent archaeologist, a retired actor, two long-suffering caretakers, and...Jamie. The handsome and prickly librarian of Nowhere House would do anything to protect the children, and as far as he's concerned, a stranger like Mika is a threat. An irritatingly appealing threat. As Mika begins to find her place at Nowhere House, the thought of belonging somewhere begins to feel like a real possibility. But magic isn't the only danger in the world, and when a threat comes knocking at their door, Mika will need to decide whether to risk everything to protect a found family she didn't know she was looking for... 0aWitchesvFiction 0aMagicvFiction 0aSecrecyvFiction 0aMan-woman relationships vFiction 0aLibrariansvFiction 0aFamilies vFiction 0aFantasy fiction