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The Last Snake in Ireland: A Story About St. Patrick
By Sheila Macgill-Callahan. 1999
LONG AGO, Ireland was plagued by snakes, snakes, and more snakes! They crawled through the crowds, hissed in the homes,…
and slithered through the streets. Something had to be done, so Patrick rang a snake call on his magic bell and sent all the snakes in the land to faraway places. All the snakes, that is, except for one -the biggest, sneakiest snake in all of Ireland. Detailed in Sheila MacGill-Callahan's colorful, lilting language, a battle of wills ensues between the soon-to-be saint and the sly serpent. And although man finally triumphs over beast, this vexed viper may have a surprise of his own that Patrick - and the world - will never forget!Anselmo Tobillolargo
By Cristina Macjus. 2021
Una historia pequeña y enorme a la vez, con la dulzura y el sentido del humor de Cristina Macjus. No…
hay nada peor que un gigante enamorado. Sobre todo si vive cerca. Porque cuando llora de amor sus lágrimas forman lagunas enteras. O se pone a deshojar los molinos de viento, que para él son como margaritas. Me quiere, no me quiere, me quiere... Es lo que le pasa a Anselmo Tobillolargo, que se enamora de Pipita, un hada. Pero ella es muy inquieta, anda de acá para allá dejando rastros de brillantina y poemas enigmáticos a su paso. Los paisanos quieren ayudarlo y junto a los animales del monte hacen una fiesta. Por suerte, Pipita aceptará el reto que le proponen.La Isadora Moon i la fada de les dents (La Isadora Moon #Volumen 10)
By Harriet Muncaster. 2021
Meitat fada, meitat vampir, i totalment única! Sembla que a la Isadora li ha de caure una dent... La Isadora…
Moon és especial perquè és diferent. La seva mare és una fada, el seu pare un vampir i ella té una miqueta de tots dos. La Isadora té un ullal que li belluga! Quan li caigui o bé el pot guardar, com fan els vampirs, o bé donar-lo a l'ajudant de la fada de les dents, la rateta Mignonette. Però i si abans fes un pícnic a mitjanit?Isadora Moon y el hada de los dientes (Isadora Moon #Volumen 10)
By Harriet Muncaster. 2021
Mitad hada, mitad vampiro, ¡y totalmente única! Parece que a Isadora se le va a caer un diente pronto... Isadora…
Moon es especial porque es diferente. Su mamá es un hada, su papá es un vampiro y ella tiene un poquito de los dos. ¡A Isadora se le mueve un colmillo! Cuando se le caiga, podrá guardarlo como los vampiros o dárselo a la pequeña ratoncita Mignonette, la ayudante del hada de los dientes. Pero antes... ¿por qué no aprovechan para hacer un pícnic de medianoche?Serpiente emplumada, corazón del cielo
By David Bowles. 2019
Bowles, un maestro contador de historias, condensa en cada frase la riqueza cosmológica de Mesoamérica y trae a la vida…
personajes ancestrales que son al tiempo divertidos, desgarradores, encantadores, grotescos y venerables Académicos y amantes de la mitología y el folclore: añadan este libro a los clásicos World Literature Today David Bowles teje la fragmentada mitología del México precolombino en una narración emocionante y homogénea que sigue la tradición del Ramayana de William Buck, de la Ilíada de Robert Fagles y de los Mitos nórdicos de Neil Gaiman. Las leyendas mitológicas reunidas en Serpiente emplumada, corazón del cielo trazan la historia del mundo desde sus inicios en los sueños del dios dual, Ometeotl, hasta la llegada de los conquistadores españoles a México y la caída de la gran ciudad Tenochtitlán. En el transcurso de esta historia sabremos de los Héroes Gemelos, la Serpiente Emplumada y el Corazón del Cielo, y de cómo construyeron el mundo sobrela espalda de un leviatán; del nahualli que cambia de forma; y de los aluxes, aquellos seres con forma de elfos conocidos por ayudar a los vagabundos. Y finalmente, hallaremos cuentos aztecas sobre la llegada de los extranjeros barbudos provenientes del otro lado del mar, que buscan aniquilar el gobierno de Montezuma y destruir las historias que estamos leyendo.Layli and Majnun
By Nezami Ganjavi. 2020
The Persian epic that inspired Eric Clapton's unforgettable love song "Layla" and that Lord Byron called "the Romeo and Juliet…
of the East," in a masterly new translationA Penguin ClassicThe iconic love story of the Middle East, by a twelfth-century Persian poet who has been compared to Shakespeare for his subtlety, inventiveness, and dramatic force, Layli and Majnun tells of star-crossed lovers whose union is tragically thwarted by their families and whose passion continues to ripple out across the centuries. Theirs is a love that lasts a lifetime, and in Nezami's immortal telling, erotic longing blends with spiritual self-denial in an allegory of Sufi aspiration, as the amenities of civilization give way to the elemental wilderness, desire is sublimated into a mystical renunciation of the physical world, and the soul confronts its essence. This is a tour de force of Persian literature, in a translation that captures the extraordinary power and virtuosity of the original.The Witch's Heart
By Genevieve Gornichec. 2021
When a banished witch falls in love with the legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the gods in…
this moving, subversive debut novel that reimagines Norse mythology. Angrboda&’s story begins where most witches' tales end: with a burning. A punishment from Odin for refusing to provide him with knowledge of the future, the fire leaves Angrboda injured and powerless, and she flees into the farthest reaches of a remote forest. There she is found by a man who reveals himself to be Loki, and her initial distrust of him transforms into a deep and abiding love. Their union produces three unusual children, each with a secret destiny, who Angrboda is keen to raise at the edge of the world, safely hidden from Odin&’s all-seeing eye. But as Angrboda slowly recovers her prophetic powers, she learns that her blissful life—and possibly all of existence—is in danger. With help from the fierce huntress Skadi, with whom she shares a growing bond, Angrboda must choose whether she&’ll accept the fate that she&’s foreseen for her beloved family...or rise to remake their future. From the most ancient of tales this novel forges a story of love, loss, and hope for the modern age.Woods of Silver and Light
By Victoria McCombs. 2021
Ronin’s son is dead, and Maid Marion is gone. But a sorceress banished to the Woods can bring his son…
back if he and his Silver Raiders are willing to do something for her first. She finds there's nothing Ronin Hood won't do for his son… Anika finds herself drawn to the mystery of the Woods and the thieves who live within, but the cost of associating with the Silver Raiders becomes higher than she's willing to pay. The darkness of the Woods seeps into the Raider's hearts, blurring the lines between hero and villain. Anika's fight for freedom turns into a fight to survive the dangers of the trees whose magic should have never been awoken. This isn't the tale of Robin Hood you remember. This is a companion novel to The Storyteller's Daughter.The Weak Spot: A Novel
By Lucie Elven. 2021
A woman discovers something toxic at work in the isolated village where she is apprenticing as a pharmacist, in this…
fable-like novel about power, surveillance, prescriptions, and cures by a captivating debut voice.On a remote mountaintop somewhere in Europe, accessible only by an ancient funicular, a small pharmacy sits on a square. As if attending confession, townspeople carry their ailments and worries through its doors, in search of healing, reassurance, and a witness to their bodies and their lives. One day, a young woman arrives in the town to apprentice under its charismatic pharmacist, August Malone. She slowly begins to lose herself in her work, lulled by stories and secrets shared by customers and colleagues. But despite her best efforts to avoid thinking and feeling altogether, as her new boss rises to the position of mayor, she begins to realize that something sinister is going on around her.The Weak Spot is a fable about our longing for cures, answers, and an audience--and the ways it will be exploited by those who silently hold power in our world.The Iron Knight Special Edition (The Iron Fey)
By Julie Kagawa. 2011
A banished prince…an impossible quest… This special edition of The Iron Knight includes the bonus novella Iron’s Prophecy and an…
excerpt from the new Iron Fey book, The Iron Raven.To cold faery prince Ash, love was a weakness for mortals and fools.Until half-human, half-fey Meghan Chase won his icy heart and bound him to her with his oath to be her knight. But Meghan is now the Iron Queen, ruler of a realm where no Winter or Summer fey can survive.With an unlikely band of allies, Ash seeks a way to honor his vow to stand by Meghan’s side. To stay in the Iron Realm, he must have a soul and a mortal body. But the tests he must endure to earn these things are impossible. And along the way, Ash learns that, sometimes, it takes more than courage to make the ultimate sacrifice.The Centaur's Wife
By Amanda Leduc. 2021
Amanda Leduc's brilliant new novel, woven with fairy tales of her own devising and replete with both catastrophe and magic,…
is a vision of what happens when we ignore the natural world and the darker parts of our own natures.Heather is sleeping peacefully after the birth of her twin daughters when the sound of the world ending jolts her awake. Stumbling outside with her babies and her new husband, Brendan, she finds that their city has been destroyed by falling meteors and that her little family are among only a few who survived.But the mountain that looms over the city is still green--somehow it has been spared the destruction that has brought humanity to the brink of extinction. Heather is one of the few who know the mountain, a place city-dwellers have always been forbidden to go. Her dad took her up the mountain when she was a child on a misguided quest to heal her legs, damaged at birth. The tragedy that resulted has shaped her life, bringing her both great sorrow and an undying connection to the deep magic of the mountain, made real by the beings she and her dad encountered that day: Estajfan, a centaur born of sorrow and of an ancient, impossible love, and his two siblings, marooned between the magical and the human world. Even as those in the city around her--led by Tasha, a charismatic doctor who fled to the city from the coast with her wife and other refugees--struggle to keep everyone alive, Heather constantly looks to the mountain, drawn by love, by fear, by the desire for rescue. She is torn in two by her awareness of what unleashed the meteor shower and what is coming for the few survivors, once the green and living earth makes a final reckoning of the usefulness of human life and finds it wanting.At times devastating, but ultimately redemptive, Amanda Leduc's fable for our uncertain times reminds us that the most important things in life aren't things at all, but rather the people we want by our side at the end of the world.Escaping Ordinary (Talespinners #2)
By Scott Reintgen. 2020
In this action-packed sequel to Saving Fable perfect for readers of The Land of Stories and The Phantom Tollbooth, Indira…
finds herself thrown into a quest full of dragons, unlikely allies, and high stakes.It's been a year since Indira rescued the city of Fable and landed a starring role in a story of her own. Now Indira's ready for a well-earned vacation.Too bad her advisors have other plans. In preparation for her story's sequel, Indira has been enrolled in the Hero's Journey tutorial, a quest designed to teach her how to be a team player. Indira's assigned crew is a mix of familiar faces and new friends, each hoping to follow in her footsteps into a story.Indira is ready for this new challenge--until someone crashes their quest. The intruder is more powerful than anyone she's faced before and begins transforming Ordinary into a giant video game. Indira's team will have to level up and outplay their opponent, or else the world's most beloved stories might be lost forever.The Wide Starlight
By Nicole Lesperance. 2021
The Hazel Wood meets The Astonishing Color of After in this dreamy, atmospheric novel that follows sixteen-year-old Eli as she…
tries to remember what truly happened the night her mother disappeared off a frozen fjord in Norway under the Northern Lights.Never whistle at the Northern Lights, the legend goes, or they'll sweep down from the sky and carry you away.Sixteen-year-old Eline Davis knows it's true. She was there ten years ago, on a frozen fjord in Svalbard, Norway, the night her mother whistled at the lights and then vanished. Now, Eli lives an ordinary life with her dad on Cape Cod. But when the Northern Lights are visible over the Cape for just one night, she can't resist the possibility of seeing her mother again. So she whistles--and it works. Her mother appears, with snowy hair, frosty fingertips and a hazy story of where she's been all these years. And she doesn't return alone.Along with Eli's mother's reappearance come strange, impossible things. Narwhals swimming in Cape Cod Bay, meteorites landing in Eli's yard, and three shadowy princesses with ominous messages. It's all too much, too fast, and Eli pushes her mother away. She disappears again--but this time, she leaves behind a note that will send Eli on a journey across continents, to the northern tip of the world: Find me where I left you.The Memory Theater: A Novel
By Karin Tidbeck. 2021
***One of Buzzfeed's 21 Fantasy Books to Get Excited About This Winter*** ***One of Tor's 30 Most Anticipated SFF Books…
of 2021***From the award-winning author of Amatka and Jagannath—a fantastical tour de force about friendship, interdimensional theater, and a magical place where no one ages, except the young In a world just parallel to ours exists a mystical realm known only as the Gardens. It&’s a place where feasts never end, games of croquet have devastating consequences, and teenagers are punished for growing up. For a select group of masters, it&’s a decadent paradise where time stands still. But for those who serve them, it&’s a slow torture where their lives can be ended in a blink. In a bid to escape before their youth betrays them, Dora and Thistle—best friends and confidants—set out on a remarkable journey through time and space. Traveling between their world and ours, they hunt for the one person who can grant them freedom. Along the way, they encounter a mysterious traveler who trades in favors and never forgets debts, a crossroads at the center of the universe, our own world on the brink of war, and a traveling troupe of actors with the ability to unlock the fabric of reality. Endlessly inventive, The Memory Theater takes us to a wondrous place where destiny has yet to be written, life is a performance, and magic can erupt at any moment. It is Karin Tidbeck&’s most engrossing and irresistible tale yet.In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children #4)
By Seanan McGuire. 2019
A stand-alone fantasy tale from Seanan McGuire's Alex award-winning Wayward Children series, which began in the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and…
Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist, Tiptree Honor List Every Heart a DoorwayThis fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. As well she should.When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she's found her paradise. Alas, everything costs at the goblin market, and when her time there is drawing to a close, she makes the kind of bargain that never plays out well.The Wayward Children SeriesBook 1: Every Heart a DoorwayBook 2: Down Among the Sticks and BonesBook 3: Beneath the Sugar SkyBook 4: In an Absent DreamAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.Ivanhoe
By Sir Walter Scott.
Occhi di Gufo (Il Gufo Nero #1)
By Pet Torres. 2014
PROLOGO Otto è un ragazzo che è stato cresciuto da suo zio Jefferson. Divenne orfano perdendo i genitori ad appena…
sette anni. Aveva numerose difficoltà in tutte le materie scolastiche e per questo motivo era stato minacciato di ripetere l’anno. Lo zio era un uomo piuttosto solitario e adorava spendere la maggior parte del suo tempo leggendo testi scientifici. Un giorno, fece una ricerca sui gufi. Scoprì che erano il simbolo della saggezza. I gufi, emerse fuori, erano saggi proprio come lo erano tutti i geni sulla terra. Dopo aver fatto questa scoperta, Jefferson decise di tentare un esperimento rischioso che avrebbe coinvolto un gufo e suo nipote, Otto.Mr. Tiger, Betsy, and the Sea Dragon (Mr Tiger Ser. #02)
By Sally Gardner. 2020
Award-winning author Sally Gardner delivers another whimsical tale about the daughter of a mermaid and an ice cream maker, a…
mysterious talking tiger, and a search for a sea dragon's magical underwater orchard in this second book in the Mr. Tiger series.From a magical world of well-dressed animals, talking toads, and bossy princesses comes a fresh tale of Mr. Tiger, Betsy K. Glory, and a wicked pirate in search of golden apples. A rare egg has gone missing and a very unhappy sea dragon wants it back. It's time for Mr. Tiger, Betsy, and the Gongalongs to set sail on their second adventure.The Raconteur's Commonplace Book: A Greenglass House Story (Greenglass House)
By Kate Milford. 2021
Nothing is what it seems and there's always more than one side to the story as a group of strangers…
trapped in an inn slowly reveal their secrets in this new standalone mystery set in the world of the best-selling Greenglass House, from a National Book Award nominee and Edgar Award–winning author.The rain hasn't stopped for a week, and the twelve guests of the Blue Vein Tavern are trapped by flooded roads and the rising Skidwrack River. Among them are a ship&’s captain, tattooed twins, a musician, and a young girl traveling on her own. To pass the time, they begin to tell stories—each a different type of folklore—that eventually reveal more about their own secrets than they intended. As the rain continues to pour down—an uncanny, unnatural amount of rain—the guests begin to realize that the entire city is in danger, and not just from the flood. But they have only their stories, and one another, to save them. Will it be enough?Il dono delle fate
By Barbara Schinko. 2021
Una fantastica storia di sorelle, amore e avventura La quindicenne Mavie, la figlia di un governatore che vive sulla piccola…
isola di Dalin, ha un rapporto teso con la sorella maggiore Stella. Quando Stella incontra un principe del popolo fatato e scompare, tocca a Mavie cercarla. Insieme a Sorley, un ragazzo di quindici anni con i suoi segreti, parte per Elfilandia, aiutata da sua nonna, una ex piratessa con il suo equipaggio. Ma Elfilandia si rivela ingannevole come la sua gente. Riusciranno Mavie, sua sorella e i suoi amici a trovare un modo per tornare?