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Fairy Tales for Grown Ups |
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Your favorite fairy tales all grown up. Perfect for the kid at heart.
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The Princess Bride
William Goldman - Phoenix Books
Format: Hardcover
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This adventure story has everything you could want: the good guy, some bad guys, the girl, sword fighting, revenge, romance, of course a happy ending, and rodents of unusual size. Join Westley the plucky farm boy, Buttercup the beautiful young maiden, Inigo Montoya the driven, embittered... |
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Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel
Helen Oyeyemi - Riverhead Books
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In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts looking, she believes, for beauty - the opposite of the life she's left behind in New York. She marries Arturo Whitman, a local widower, and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow.
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Briar Rose
Jane Yolen - Tor Teen
Format: Print book
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Briar Rose is a historically sensitive retelling of Sleeping Beauty set amid forests patrolled by the German army during World War II.In the heat of midsummer 1942, deep in a forest in the heart of Poland, Briar Rose arrives at a castle that has fallen into the hands of an evil army. Corrupted... |
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The Bear and the Nightingale: A Novel
Katherine Arden - Del Rey
Format: Book
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At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn't mind - she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse's fairy tales. Above all,... |
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The Snow Child: A Novel
Eowyn Ivey - Reagan Arthur Books
Format: eBook
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Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall,... |
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The Forgotten Garden: A Novel
Kate Morton - Atria Books
Format: Book
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From the internationally bestselling author of The House at Riverton, an unforgettable new novel that transports the reader from the back alleys of poverty of pre-World War I London to the shores of colonial Australia where so many made a fresh start, and back to the windswept coast of Cornwall,... |
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The Hazel Wood
MELISSA ALBERT - Flatiron Books
Format: Book
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Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate,... |
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The Mermaid
Christina Henry - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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Once there was a mermaid called Amelia who could never be content in the sea, a mermaid who longed to know all the world and all its wonders, and so she came to live on land.
Once there was a man called P. T. Barnum, a man who longed to make his fortune by selling the wondrous... |
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel
Neil Gaiman - William Morrow; 1st edition
Format: Book
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ussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother.... |
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Gregory Maguire - Harper Collins; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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This is the book that started it all! The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguire's breathtaking New York Times bestseller Wicked views the land of Oz, its inhabitants, its Wizard, and the Emerald City, through a darker and greener (not rosier) lens.... |
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Hook's Tale: Being the Account of an Unjustly Villainized Pirate Written by Himself
JOHN PIELMEIER - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A rollicking debut novel from award-winning playwright and screenwriter John Pielmeier reimagines the childhood of the much maligned Captain Hook: his quest for buried treasure, his friendship with Peter Pan, and the story behind the swashbuckling world of Neverland.Long defamed as a vicious... |
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