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The Silence of the Girls: A Novel

PAT BARKER - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

One of The Washington Post's 50 Most Notable Books of 2018One of NPR's Best Books of 2018One of Vanity Fair's Best Fall Books of 2018 "An important, powerful, memorable book that invites us to look differently not only at The Iliad but at our own ways of telling...
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The Witch's Heart

Genevieve Gornichec
Format: Hardcover

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...
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Bitter Greens: A Novel

Kate Forsyth - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

A Library Journal Best Book of 2014: Historical FictionThe amazing power and truth of the Rapunzel fairy tale comes alive for the first time in this breathtaking tale of desire, black magic and the redemptive power of loveFrench novelist Charlotte-Rose de la Force has been banished from...
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The Mere Wife: A Novel

MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY - MCD
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Maria Dahvana Headley presents a modern retelling of the literary classic Beowulf, set in American suburbia as two mothers -- a housewife and a battle-hardened veteran -- fight to protect those they love in The Mere Wife. From the perspective...
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Burning Roses

S. L. Huang - Tordotcom
Format: Paperback

From Hugo Award Winner S. L. Huang. "S. L. Huang is amazing." -- Patrick Rothfuss. Burning Roses is a gorgeous fairy tale of love and family, of demons and lost gods, for fans of Zen Cho and Neon Yang.. Rosa, also known as Red Riding Hood, is done with wolves and woods.. Hou Yi the Archer...
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The Snow Child: A Novel

Eowyn Ivey - Reagan Arthur Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

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...
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Unbury Carol: A Novel

JOSH MALERMAN - Del Rey Books
Format: Hardcover

The Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Bird Box returns with a haunting tale of love, redemption, and murder. Carol Evers is a woman with a dark secret. She has died many times . . . but her many deaths are not final: They are comas, a waking slumber indistinguishable from death, each...
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The Song of Achilles: A Novel

Madeline Miller - Ecco; 37696th edition
Format: Paperback

A New York Times Bestseller"At once a scholars homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art ... .A book I could not put down." - Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch HouseA thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan...
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Gods of Jade and Shadow

Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark, one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore.. "A spellbinding fairy tale rooted in Mexican mythology . . . Gods of Jade and Shadow is a magical fairy tale about identity, freedom,...
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The Crane Wife

Patrick Ness - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A magical novel, based on a Japanese folk tale, that imagines how the life of a broken-hearted man is transformed when he rescues an injured white crane that has landed in his backyard.George Duncan is an American living and working in London. At forty-eight, he owns a small print shop,...
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Uprooted

Naomi Novik - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL * Naomi Novik, author of the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed Temeraire novels, introduces a bold new world rooted in folk stories and legends, as elemental as a Grimm fairy tale.HUGO AWARD FINALIST * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS...
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The Tiger's Wife: A Novel

Téa Obreht - Random House Trade Paperbacks; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Economist • Vogue • Slate • Chicago Tribune • The Seattle Times • Dayton Daily News •...
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The Crystal Cave

Mary Stewart - Eos
Format: Paperback

Born the bastard son of a Welsh princess, Myridden Emrys -- or as he would later be known, Merlin -- leads a perilous childhood, haunted by portents and visions. But destiny has great plans for this no-man's-son, taking him from prophesying before the High King Vortigern to the crowning...
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All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella's Stepmother

Danielle Teller - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

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...
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The girls at the Kingfisher club : a novel

Genevieve Valentine - Washington Square Press
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning author Genevieve Valentine, a "gorgeous and bewitching" (Scott Westerfeld) reimagining of the fairytale of the Twelve Dancing Princesses as flappers during the Roaring Twenties in Manhattan.Jo, the firstborn, "The General" to her eleven sisters,...
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Malice: A Novel

Heather Walter - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

A princess isnt supposed to fall for an evil sorceress. But in this "bewitching and fascinating" (Tamora Pierce) retelling of "Sleeping Beauty," true love is more than a simple fairy tale. "Walters spellbinding debut is for all the queer girls and women whove...
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