“It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.”
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This is the story about a secret. but it also contains a secret story.<br><br><br> When adventurous detectives, Cass, an ever-vigilant survivalist, and Max-Ernest, a boy driven by logic, discover the Symphony of Smells, a box filled with smelly vials of colorful ingredients, they accidentally stumble upon a mystery surrounding a dead magician's diary and the hunt for immortality.<br><br><br> Filled with word games, anagrams, and featuring a mysterious narrator, this is a book that won't stay secret for long.
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“It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.”
“Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book a...”
“Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.”
“Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.”