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Fairy Gold: A Book of Old English Fairy Tales
By Herbert Cole, Ernest Rhys. 2009
From the founding editor of Everyman's Library comes this enthralling illustrated collection of thirty-three fairy tales to please children of…
all ages--and the parents who read to them. Favorite English characters such as Dick Whittington, Jack the Giant Killer, and King Arthur appear alongside Tom Thumb, Chicken-Licken, and other figures from the wider world of folklore. Young readers will be spellbound by tales of an orphan who rises from scullery boy to Mayor of London with the aid of his cat, how a worm becomes the scourge of Britain, and of the beanstalk that helps a young man avenge his father's death and find his fortune. Children will also be thrilled to meet "The Green Knight," "The Princess of Colchester," and "The Giant of Saint Michael's." Plus, this treasury includes a beautiful array of full-color plates.The School for Good and Evil #2: A World without Princes (School for Good and Evil #2)
By Iacopo Bruno, Soman Chainani. 2014
Magic and romance battle each other in this much anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The School…
for Good and Evil. Best friends Sophie and Agatha return to the spectacular world where the only way out of a fairy tale is to live through one. Together, they have the strength to face unseen enemies and new threats. But what will happen when they are torn apart?Spirit's End (An Eli Monpress Novel #5)
By Rachel Aaron. 2012
Eli Monpress is clever, he's determined, and he's in way over his head.First rule of thievery: don't be a hero.…
When Eli broke the rules and saved the Council Kingdoms, he thought he knew the price, but resuming his place as the Shepherdess's favorite isn't as simple as bowing his head. Now that she has her darling back, Benehime is setting in motion a plan that could destroy everything she was created to protect, and even Eli's charm might not be enough to stop her. But Eli Monpress always has a plan, and with disaster rapidly approaching, he's pulling in every favor he can think of to make it work, including the grudging help of the Spirit Court's new Rector, Miranda Lyonette.But with the world in panic, the demon stirring, and the Lord of Storms back on the hunt, it's going to take more than luck and charm to pull Eli through this time. He's going to have to break a few more rules and work with some old enemies if he's going to survive.Angela Borgia (Classics To Go)
By Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. 2015
Die historische Novelle “Angela Borgia” ist Conrad Ferdinand Meyers letztes Werk vor seinem Tod 1898. Der Schweizer Dichter nahm sich…
für diese erstmals 1891 veröffentlichte Novelle die historischen Figuren der italienischen Fürstin Lucrezia Borgia, der mit ihr verwandten Angela und deren Verehrer Don Giulio zum Vorbild. Die Geschichte spielt in der Renaissance am italienischen Fürstenhof von Ferrara. Dort entwickelt sich die Liebesgeschichte zwischen der gesitteten, fromm-religiösen Angela Borgia und dem lasterhaften Don Giulio. Ihre Liebe zueinander wird bald auf eine harte Probe gestellt, denn Don Giulio ist nicht der Einzige am Hof, der sich für Angela begeistert. So geraten die beiden Verliebten in ein Netz aus Intrigen und Neid. Conrad Ferdinand Meyer gilt auch heute noch als einer der bedeutendsten Schweizer Lyriker und Erzähler des 19. Jahrhunderts, die in deutscher Sprache geschrieben haben.Amok (Classics To Go)
By Stefan Zweig. 2006
In der Rahmenhandlung reist der namenlose Ich-Erzähler im Jahre 1912 mit dem Überseedampfer Oceania von Indonesien nach Europa. Bei einem…
nächtlichen Spaziergang auf dem Deck begegnet er einem Mann, der sichtlich verwirrt und ängstlich wirkt und jede Gesellschaft auf dem Schiff meidet. Eine Nacht darauf trifft der Ich-Erzähler diesen Mann erneut auf dem Deck an. Anfangs verlegen, vertraut dieser sich ihm an und erzählt seine Geschichte – die eigentliche Handlung der Novelle. (Auszug aus Wikipedia)Agincourt: A Romance (Classics To Go)
By G.P.R. James. 2018
Excerpt: "The night was as black as ink; not a solitary twinkling star looked out through that wide expanse of…
shadow, which our great Poet has called the "blanket of the dark;" clouds covered the heaven; the moon had not risen to tinge them even with grey, and the sun had too long set to leave one faint streak of purple upon the edge of the western sky. Trees, houses, villages, fields, and gardens, all lay in one profound obscurity, and even the course of the high-road itself required eyes well-accustomed to night-travelling to be able to distinguish it, as it wandered on through a rich part of Hampshire, amidst alternate woods and meadows."Aladdin Princess Stories
By Hinkler Books. 2012
Children will love this classic fairytale. Faithfully adapted from the original story, this beautiful princess story also features beautiful colour…
illustrations. Aladdin is perfect for story time and bedtime. Reading encourages imagination, builds understanding, opens new worlds and helps children reach their full potential.Agnes Sorel: A Novel (Classics To Go)
By G.P.R. James. 2018
The story is really about one Jean Charost, who enters into the service of the Duke of Orleans in the…
early 1400's, and proves himself worthy. It has lots of sword fights and sieges and dungeons and fleeing by night, in the good tradition of a swashbuckler. (Goodreads)Fire and Hemlock
By Diana Wynne Jones. 1985
In the mind of a lonely, imaginative girl, who can tell where fiction ends and reality begins? An epic fantasy,…
spanning nine years. . . The fire and hemlock photograph above Polly's bed sparks memories in her that don't seem to exist any more. Halloween; nine years ago; she gatecrashed a funeral party at the big house and met Thomas Lynn for the first time. Despite the fact that he's an adult, they struck up an immediate friendship, and began making up stories together -- stories in which Tom is a great hero, and Polly is his assistant. The trouble is, these scary adventures have a nasty habit of coming true. . . But what has happened in the years between? Why has Tom been erased from Polly's mind, and from the rest of the world as well? Gradually Polly uncovers the awful truth and, at Halloween nine years on, realises that Tom's soul is forfeit to demonic powers unless she can save him.Loki's Wolves (The Blackwell Pages #1)
By M. A. Marr, K. L. Armstrong. 2013
"The runes have spoken. We have our champion...Matthew Thorsen." Matt hears the words, but he can't believe them. He's Thor's…
representative? Destined to fight trolls, monstrous wolves and giant serpents...or the world ends? He's only thirteen. While Matt knew he was a modern-day descendent of Thor, he's always lived a normal kid's life. In fact, most people in the small town of Blackwell, South Dakota, are direct descendants of either Thor or Loki, including Matt's classmates Fen and Laurie Brekke. No big deal. But now Ragnarok is coming, and it's up to the champions to fight in the place of the long-dead gods. Matt, Laurie, and Fen's lives will never be the same as they race to put together an unstoppable team, find Thor's hammer and shield, and prevent the end of the world. In their middle grade debut, K.L. Armstrong and M.A. Marr begin the epic Blackwell Pages series with this action-packed adventure, filled with larger-than-life legends, gripping battles, and an engaging cast of characters who bring the myths to life.J.S. Cook's Greatest Hits
By J. S. Cook. 2016
Enjoy J.S. Cook's best mysteries, with a side of lust and romance, in this collection. In But Not for Me,…
gangster boss Nino Moretti rescues beautiful mob accountant Stanley Zadwadzki from a rival, but the consequences may cost them any chance at a relationship. In A Little Night Murder, insurance investigator Frank Boyle may have escaped from danger once with help from detective Sam Lipinski, but a new investigation is turning up trouble once again. In Come to Dust, Inspector Philemon Raft is set adrift among the deceitful ton of turn-of-the-century London, trying to locate the kidnapped Miriam Dewberry. In The Lovely Beast, Jacob van Willingen is on a mission to exterminate the evil Caleb Donnithorn, but things aren't quite what they seem to be at this Romanian castle. In Skid Row Serenade, novelist and war hero Tony Leonard visits his estranged wife only to find her beaten to death. On the run, he decides to fake his own death, with a little help from private investigator Edwin Malloy.See excerpt for individual blurbs.But Not for Me previously published by Dreamspinner Press, March 2013Cover Art by Aaron Anderson aaronbydesign55@gmail.comA Little Night Murder previously published by Dreamspinner Press, September 2013Cover Art by Catt FordCome to Dust previously published by Dreamspinner Press, November 2013Cover Art by Maria FanningThe Lovely Beast previously published by Dreamspinner Press, July 2014Cover Art by L.C. Chase http://www.lcchase.comSkid Row Serenade previously published by Dreamspinner Press, August 2015Cover Art by Aaron Anderson aaronbydesign55@gmail.comThe Lovely Beast
By J. S. Cook. 2014
Jacob van Willingen arrives in a remote Romanian village aiming for a short visit. A member of the highly secretive…
Society for Psychical Research, Jacob has been charged with exterminating Caleb Donnithorn--but the society's intelligence about the reclusive nobleman is less than complete. As he studies his target, Van Willingen is drawn to Donnithorn, enthralled with the nobleman's alluring brides, three of society's most luminous geniuses gathered from the corners of Europe to create a fantastical machine: a resurrection engine that can capture a human soul at the moment of death. Caleb Donnithorn represents everything that is evil in the world, but there is more to him than is initially apparent. What he knows about van Willingen is a truth so shocking it will shake the young scholar's world to its very foundations. Cast out from his friends and his beloved Society of Psychical Research, Jacob van Willingen will jettison everything he holds dear to remain with one whose love commands the highest price of all.Monsters Under the Bed
By Susan Laine. 2013
A Lifting the Veil StoryWhen PI Sam Garrett is hired by eccentric billionaire toy maker and child genius Mozart "Mo"…
Chance--after his apparent suicide in the hills of San Francisco--Sam takes the case out of sheer curiosity. In a world where the Veil lifted a decade ago and exposed mythical beings living among humans, Sam faces a big challenge as the mystery surrounding the case deepens. The inheritors of Mo's fortune--the uncle, the butler, the nanny, and the bodyguard--all possess secrets, and some are willing to protect them at any cost. The trouble is that Sam's partner and lover, Rex Ford, is suddenly under suspicion as well. Clouded by doubt, Sam continues to search for answers as tapestries of crimes begin to unravel and powers beyond his imagination are unleashed. If Mo endured horrific nightmares about monsters under his bed, there's no telling what dangers await a nosy PI. What dangers lurk in this darkness? Sam is about to find out.2014 Rainbow Awards winner for Best Paranormal RomanceTiger Lily
By Jodi Lynn Anderson. 2012
Before Peter Pan belonged to Wendy, he belonged to the girl with the crow feather in her hair. . .…
. Fifteen-year-old Tiger Lily doesn't believe in love stories or happy endings. Then she meets the alluring teenage Peter Pan in the forbidden woods of Neverland and immediately falls under his spell. Peter is unlike anyone she's ever known. Impetuous and brave, he both scares and enthralls her. As the leader of the Lost Boys, the most fearsome of Neverland's inhabitants, Peter is an unthinkable match for Tiger Lily. Soon, she is risking everything-her family, her future-to be with him. When she is faced with marriage to a terrible man in her own tribe, she must choose between the life she's always known and running away to an uncertain future with Peter. With enemies threatening to tear them apart, the lovers seem doomed. But it's the arrival of Wendy Darling, an English girl who's everything Tiger Lily is not, that leads Tiger Lily to discover that the most dangerous enemies can live inside even the most loyal and loving heart. From the New York Times bestselling author of Peaches comes a magical and bewitching story of the romance between a fearless heroine and the boy who wouldn't grow up.Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned
By Gretchen Schultz, Lewis Seifert. 2017
The wolf is tricked by Red Riding Hood into strangling her grandmother and is subsequently arrested. Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella…
do not live happily ever after. And the fairies are saucy, angry, and capricious. Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned collects thirty-six tales, many newly translated, by writers associated with the decadent literary movement, which flourished in France in the late nineteenth century. Written by such creative luminaries as Charles Baudelaire, Anatole France, and Guillaume Apollinaire, these enchanting yet troubling stories reflect the concerns and fascinations of a time of great political, social, and cultural change. Recasting well-known favorites from classic French fairy tales, as well as Arthurian legends and English and German tales, the updated interpretations in this collection allow for more perverse settings and disillusioned perspectives--a trademark style and ethos of the decadent tradition.In these stories, characters puncture the optimism of the naive, talismans don't work, and the most deserving don't always get the best rewards. The fairies are commonly victims of modern cynicism and technological advancement, but just as often are dangerous creatures corrupted by contemporary society. The collection underlines such decadent themes as the decline of civilization, the degeneration of magic and the unreal, gender confusion, and the incursion of the industrial. The volume editors provide an informative introduction, biographical notes for each author, and explanatory notes throughout.Subverting the conventions of the traditional fairy tale, these old tales made new will entertain and startle even the most disenchanted readers.The Plague Diaries: Keeper of Tales Trilogy: Book Three (The Keeper of Tales Trilogy #3)
By Ronlyn Domingue. 2017
The astounding, epic conclusion to the Keeper of Tales Trilogy brings together the cryptic prophecy in The Mapmaker’s War and…
the troubling mysteries in The Chronicle of Secret Riven—leading to an unforgettable reckoning between lies and truth.We are all born made of gold. Secret Riven—the mystically gifted heroine who now represses her uncanny telepathic power—works for the mysterious magnate Fewmany as an archivist in his private library. There, she stumbles upon the arcane manuscript that had vanished following her mother’s untimely death. She suspects the manuscript contains a profound secret, and she is yet unaware of its link to a thousand-year-old war and her own family’s legacy. The tasks before her are clear: Secret must finally learn what Fewmany wants from her as well as the meaning of a strange symbol she’s dreamed of since childhood. At last, she must confront the questions haunting her and depart on a quest to find the truth about herself, her dead mother, and her fate—to unleash a Plague of Silences meant to destroy, and transform, the world as all have known it. A dazzling, genre-bending masterwork, The Plague Diaries illuminates the power of our choices, the scars they leave, and the wounds they heal.Impostor Syndrome
By Mishell Baker. 2018
In the third book of the Nebula Award–nominated Arcadia Project series, which New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire called…
“exciting, inventive, and brilliantly plotted,” Millie Roper has to pull off two impossible heists—with the fate of the worlds in the balance.Three months ago, a rift between agents in London and Los Angeles tore the Arcadia Project apart. With both fey Courts split down the middle—half supporting London, half LA—London is putting the pieces in place to quash the resistance. But due to an alarming backslide in her mental health, new LA agent Mille Roper is in no condition to fight. When London’s opening shot is to frame Millie’s partner, Tjuan, for attempted homicide, Millie has no choice but to hide him and try to clear his name. Her investigation will take her across the pond to the heart of Arcadia at the mysterious and impenetrable White Rose palace. The key to Tjuan’s freedom—and to the success of the revolution—is locked in a vault under the fey Queen’s watchful eye. It’s up to Millie to plan and lead a heist that will shape the future of two worlds—all while pretending that she knows exactly what she’s doing…The grave of Hestia
By Patrice Martinez, Edib Beširević. 2018
During the 1513th olympiad, the monarch Acrisios, king of New Argos, reigned over the Hellenic coalition with an iron fist…
... But the python of Delphi prophesied his death by the hands of his grandson. Then Acrisios took the lead and locked Danae, his daughter, into a penitentiary fortress, placed in a geostationary orbit, above the powerful Argos ... Danae and her son Perseus seemed lost forever, but Zeus Olumpios - the master of the Olympus - decided to put an end to the throne of the potentate... Free adaptation of the myth of Perseus, "The grave of Hestia" reflects the family condition of the dynasty of Atrides, tossed by couloir intrigues, feelings of hatred towards his relatives, where the game of power exposes the home to all deleterious temptations led by the autocracy...All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella’s Stepmother
By Danielle Teller. 2018
In the vein of Wicked, The Woodcutter, and Boy, Snow, Bird, a luminous reimagining of a classic tale, told from…
the perspective of Agnes, Cinderella’s "evil" stepmother.We all know the story of Cinderella. Or do we?As rumors about the cruel upbringing of beautiful newlywed Princess Cinderella roil the kingdom, her stepmother, Agnes, who knows all too well about hardship, privately records the true story. . . .A peasant born into serfdom, Agnes is separated from her family and forced into servitude as a laundress’s apprentice when she is only ten years old. Using her wits and ingenuity, she escapes her tyrannical matron and makes her way toward a hopeful future. When teenaged Agnes is seduced by an older man and becomes pregnant, she is transformed by love for her child. Once again left penniless, Agnes has no choice but to return to servitude at the manor she thought she had left behind. Her new position is nursemaid to Ella, an otherworldly infant. She struggles to love the child who in time becomes her stepdaughter and, eventually, the celebrated princess who embodies everyone’s unattainable fantasies. The story of their relationship reveals that nothing is what it seems, that beauty is not always desirable, and that love can take on many guises.Lyrically told, emotionally evocative, and brilliantly perceptive, All the Ever Afters explores the hidden complexities that lie beneath classic tales of good and evil, all the while showing us that how we confront adversity reveals a more profound, and ultimately more important, truth than the ideal of "happily ever after."The Arabian Nights: Sinbad And Other Popular Stories (Norton Critical Edition Ser.)
By Muhsin Mahdi, Husain Haddawy. 1990
Now as sumptuously packaged as they are critically acclaimed--a new deluxe trade paperback edition of the beloved stories. The stories…
of ?The Arabian Nights ?(and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories) are famously told by the Princess Shahrazad, under the threat of death should the king lose interest in her tale. Collected over the centuries from India, Persia, and Arabia, and ranging from adventure fantasies, vivacious erotica, and animal fables, to pointed Sufi tales, these stories provided the daily entertainment of the medieval Islamic world at the height of its glory. No one knows exactly when a given story originated, and many circulated orally for centuries before being written down; but in the process of telling and retelling, they were modified to reflect the general life and customs of the Arab society that adapted them--a distinctive synthesis that marks the cultural and artistic history of Islam. This translation is of the complete text of the Mahdi edition, the definitive Arabic edition of a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript, which is the oldest surviving version of the tales and considered to be the most authentic.