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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled The Necromancer's House about Baba, Yaga, Andrew&amp;'s with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction?
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conversations.value: Starred Review. A Russian man&amp;'s drowning launches this rambunctious magical melee. the author (Those Across the River) pits Andrew Blankenship and Anneke Zautke, companions in witchcraft and Alcoholics Anonymous, against Russian ogress Baba Yaga, whose son, Misha, falls prey to mischievous water sprite Nadia, a friend (of sorts) of Andrew&amp;'s. Contrasting with exotic magical escapades, real-world losses haunt both Anneke and Andrew. As the threat from Baba Yaga mounts and bad things happen to Andrew&amp;'s sidekicks, the eponymous house no longer provides a certain refuge. Within this magical universe, rivalries, revenge, and self-seeking contend with the willingness to sacrifice. The final confrontation, evolving in part from Andrew&amp;'s prior service to Baba Yaga and her daughter Marina&amp;'s defiance, wreaks an ambiguous ending in an explosion of enthralling fantasy. The vibrant, bracing atmosphere easily overpowers any niggling concerns about a few incongruous incidents. (Oct.)
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about Dickensian, eclipsed.
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conversations.value: Starred Review. A Russian man&amp;'s drowning launches this rambunctious magical melee. the author (Those Across the River) pits Andrew Blankenship and Anneke Zautke, companions in witchcraft and Alcoholics Anonymous, against Russian ogress Baba Yaga, whose son, Misha, falls prey to mischievous water sprite Nadia, a friend (of sorts) of Andrew&amp;'s. Contrasting with exotic magical escapades, real-world losses haunt both Anneke and Andrew. As the threat from Baba Yaga mounts and bad things happen to Andrew&amp;'s sidekicks, the eponymous house no longer provides a certain refuge. The logic of the plot is eclipsed by the eruption of characters who evoke Dickensian whimsy and range from the merely unusual to the bizarrely imaginative. Within this magical universe, rivalries, revenge, and self-seeking contend with the willingness to sacrifice. The final confrontation, evolving in part from Andrew&amp;'s prior service to Baba Yaga and her daughter Marina&amp;'s defiance, wreaks an ambiguous ending in an explosion of enthralling fantasy. The vibrant, bracing atmosphere easily overpowers any niggling concerns about a few incongruous incidents. (Oct. )
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conversations.value: What is the first four paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: The Necromancer's House
  They return to the topic of whether homosexuality is a sin or a natural state of being. Marcus always lets Arthur (his great-uncle, as it turns out) field the questions, but Andrew drags him in from time to time.
  Marcus almost laughs at that and Arthur steers the conversation back around to God's capacity for forgiveness, clearly meaning Andrew.
  When Salvador brings Andrew French-press coffee, the young man goes gray, looks at Arthur, watches Arthur nod at the servant, and doesn't understand why Arthur isn't shitting himself, too.
  Arthur raises an eyebrow at the boy, suggesting that a conversation about manners will take place on the drive back, but then he checks his watch, a big seventies-style Timex on a silver watchband.
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conversations.value: What is three more paragraphs?
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conversations.value: The waitress points at the musician's near-empty glass by way of asking him if he'd like another drink.
  The waitress comes back with a glass of liquid that glows green like antifreeze. The piano man takes it.
  Now everyone in the bar drops to both knees, bowing their heads, their hands extended palms up in supplication.
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conversations.value: What is the last four paragraphs?
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conversations.value: She looks at Anneke now, stirring her hot chocolate with chili. The chocolate is so thick it barely runs off the spoon.
  She is not luminous, but Anneke is teaching her magic anyway, hoping she's got the brains and persistence to plod her way into magic.
  Although she occupies the same shell, she is unrecognizable as the monster that drowned Mikhail Dragomirov and so many others.
  Finally, thanks to the Burly Minstrel, Jim Hancock, whose ready guitar and mellow voice provided the soundtrack to a great many heartbreakingly beautiful sunsets on the very same McIntyre Bluffs that figure in this story.
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conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
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conversations.value: Finally, thanks to the Burly Minstrel, Jim Hancock, whose ready guitar and mellow voice provided the soundtrack to a great many heartbreakingly beautiful sunsets on the very same McIntyre Bluffs that figure in this story. The chocolate is so thick it barely runs off the spoon.
  She is not luminous, but Anneke is teaching her magic anyway, hoping she's got the brains and persistence to plod her way into magic.
  Although she occupies the same shell, she is unrecognizable as the monster that drowned Mikhail Dragomirov and so many others.She looks at Anneke now, stirring her hot chocolate with chili.