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Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel
Helen Oyeyemi - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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As seen on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, where it was described as "gloriously unsettling ... evoking Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Angela Carter, Edgar Allan Poe, Gabriel García Márquez, Chris Abani and even Emily Dickinson," and already one of the years most... |
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After Alice: A Novel
Gregory Maguire - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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From the multi-million-copy bestselling author of Wicked comes a magical new twist on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Lewis's Carroll's beloved classic.When Alice toppled down the rabbit-hole 150 years ago, she found a Wonderland as rife... |
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Bitter Greens: A Novel
Kate Forsyth - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Charlie Glass's Slippers: A Very Modern Fairy Tale
Holly McQueen - Atria Books; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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In this delightful, clever spin on Cinderella, Charlie Glassa heroine as loveable as Cannie Shapiro and Bridget Jonesinherits her fathers shoe empire and snatches up a drop-dead-gorgeous, multi-millionaire Prince Charming. But is he truly the key to her happily ever after When Charlies... |
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Circe
Madeline Miller - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Paperback
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"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller "manages to be both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The... |
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Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy Tales
O'Regan, Marie - TITAN BOOKS
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Fairy tales take a weird twist in this anthology compiling stories from an all-star cast of fantasy writers, including stories from Neil Gaiman, Charlie Jane Anders and Alison Littlewood. Here in this book you'll find unique twists on the fairy tale conceit of the curse, from the more... |
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Dreamer's Pool: A Blackthorn & Grim Novel
Juliet Marillier - Roc
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning author Juliet Marillier "weaves magic, mythology, and folklore into every sentence on the page" (The Book Smugglers) . Now she begins an all-new and enchanting series that will transport readers to a magical vision of ancient Ireland.... In exchange for help escaping... |
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Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition
Gretchen Schultz - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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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,... |
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Ferryman institute
Colin Gigl - Gallery Books
Format: Print book
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In this stunning, fantastical debut novel from a bold new voice in the bestselling traditions of Christopher Moore and Jasper Fforde, a ferryman for the dead finds his existence unraveling after making either the best decision or the biggest mistake of his immortal life.Ferryman Charlie... |
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Full Throttle: Stories
Joe Hill - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including "In The Tall Grass," one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix.A... |
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The Girl in Red
Christina Henry - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a postapocalyptic take on the perennial classic "Little Red Riding Hood"...about a woman who isn't as defenseless as she seems.It's not safe for anyone alone in the woods. There are predators that come out at night: critters... |
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Helen of Troy
Margaret George - Viking
Format: Book
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A lush, seductive novel of the legendary beauty whose face "launched a thousand ships" Daughter of a god, wife of a king, prize of antiquity's bloodiest war, Helen of Troy has inspired artists for millennia. Now Margaret George, the highly acclaimed bestselling historical novelist,... |
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Hiddensee: A Novel
Gregory Maguire - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller Wicked, the magical story of a toymaker, a nutcracker, and a legend remade . . .Gregory Maguire returns with an inventive novel inspired by a timeless holiday legend, intertwining the story of the famous Nutcracker with the life... |
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House of Names: A Novel
Colm Toibin - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tibn comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra - spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling - and her children."I have been acquainted with the smell of death." So begins... |
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How to Fracture a Fairy Tale
Jane Yolen - Tachyon Publications
Format: Paperback
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"[Yolen is] the Aesop of the twentieth century" -- The New York TimesFantasy legend Jane Yolen (The Emerald Circus The Devil's Arithmetic) , adored by generations of readers of all ages, delights with these effortlessly wide-ranging fairy tales, myths,... |
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Ithaca: A Novel of Homer's Odyssey
Patrick Dillon - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the tumultuous aftermath of the Trojan War, a young man battles to save his home and his inheritance. Setting out to find his father, he ends up discovering himself. Telemachus's father, Odysseus, went off to war before he was born ... and never came back. Aged sixteen, Telemachus... |
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Kill the Farm Boy: The Tales of Pell
KEVIN HEARNE - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover
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In an irreverent new series in the tradition of Terry Pratchett novels and The Princess Bride, the New York Times bestselling authors of the Iron Druid Chronicles and Star Wars: Phasma reinvent fantasy, fairy tales, and floridly overwritten feast scenes. Once upon... |
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Letters to Zell
Camille Griep - 47north
Format: Paperback
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Everything is going according to story for CeCi (Cinderella) , Bianca (Snow White) , and Rory (Sleeping Beauty) - until the day that Zell (Rapunzel) decides to leave Grimmland and pursue her life. Now, Zell's best friends are left to wonder whether their own passions are worth... |
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A Lion Among Men
Gregory Maguire - William Morrow; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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This is the Limited and Signed First Edition, specially bound and produced by the publisher, 2008, first printing, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1, SIGNED by the author on a special page provided by the publisher for this issue, a new, unread, unworn, unopened, otherwise unmarked hardcover,... |
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The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror
Mallory Ortberg - Holt Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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A collection of darkly playful stories based on classic folk and fairy tales (but with a feminist spin) that find the sinister in the familiar and the familiar in the alien -- from Mallory Ortberg, author of Texts From Jane Eyre.From Mallory Ortberg comes a collection of darkly... |
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Mirror Mirror: A Novel
Gregory Maguire - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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"A brilliant achievement." - Boston Herald "Entertaining ... profound ... .A novel for adults that unearths our buried fascination with the primal fears and truths fairy tales contain." - Christian Science Monitor Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author who re-imagined... |
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Mythic Journeys: Retold Myths and Legends
Paula Guran - Night Shade
Format: Paperback
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Award-winning editor Paula Guran presents a diverse reprint anthology collecting classic myths and legends, retold by today's top fantasy writers. Myths and legends are the oldest of stories, part of our collective consciousness, and the source from which all fiction flows. Full of magic,... |
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No Country for Old Gnomes: The Tales of Pell
Delilah S. Dawson - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover
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Go big or go gnome. The New York Times bestselling authors of Kill the Farm Boy welcome you to the world of Pell, the irreverent fantasy universe that recalls Monty Python and Terry Pratchett. War is coming, and it's gonna be Pell. On one side stand the gnomes: smol, cheerful,... |
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Norse Mythology
Neil Gaiman - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Introducing an instant classic -- master storyteller Neil Gaiman presents a dazzling version of the great Norse myths.Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he turns his attention back to the source, presenting a bravura... |
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Northwood: A Novella
Maryse Meijer - Black Balloon Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"Northwood's mesmerizing alchemy is this: pain desire the deep, dark woods = a book so addictive you will inhale it in one breath. Meijer has made her own form, something new and wide-open, something as blissful and broken as the language of lovesickness itself." -- Samantha... |
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One Good Knight
Mercedes Lackey - Harlequin
Format: Hardcover
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Another story sparkling with wit and humor from New York Times bestselling author Mercedes Lackey. Traditionally, marauding dragons are soothed only by a virgin sacrifice. And so practical-minded Princess Andromeda -- with the encouragement of her mother's court -- reluctantly volunteers... |
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From a High Tower
Mercedes Lackey - DAW
Format: Hardcover
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From a High Tower is newest adventure in Mercedes Lackey's Elemental Masters series, featuring a retelling of Rapunzel's not-so-happily-ever-after ending. |
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Fortune's Fool (Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms, Book 3)
Mercedes Lackey - Luna; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The seventh daughter of the Sea King, Ekaterina is more than a pampered princess-she's also the family spy. Which makes her the perfect emissary to check out interesting happenings in the neighboring kingdom…and nothing interests her more than Sasha, the seventh son of the king... |
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The Snow Queen
Mercedes Lackey - Harlequin Books S.A.
Format: Audiobook
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Aleksia, Queen of the Northern Lights, is mysterious, beautiful, and widely known to have a heart of ice. No one would seek her wisdom except as a last resort. But when shes falsely accused of unleashing evil on nearby villages, she realizes theres an impostor out there far more heartless... |
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Out of Oz: The Final Volume in the Wicked Years
Gregory Maguire - William Morrow; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The stunning conclusion to the smash New York Times bestselling series the Wicked Years. Hailed as bewitching, remarkable, extraordinary, engrossing, amazing, and delicious, Gregory Maguires Wicked Years seriesa sophisticated fantasy cycle inspired by the classic childrens novel The Wizard... |
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The Overneath
PETER S BEAGLE - Tachyon Publications
Format: Paperback
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An odd couple patrols a county full of mythological beasts and ornery locals. A familiar youngster from the world of The Last Unicorn is gifted in magic but terrible at spell-casting. A seemingly incorruptible judge meets his match in a mysterious thief who steals his heart. Two old friends... |
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Path of Needles
Alison Littlewood - Jo Fletcher Books
Format: Hardcover
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When an expert on fairy tales is called in to consult on the investigation of bizarre murders, her premonition and insight causes suspicion she must solve the case--and fast--to prove her innocence.Alice Hyland is an expert on fairy tales--lecturing on the well-known stories and their lesser-known... |
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Path of Needles
Alison Littlewood - Jo Fletcher Books
Format: Hardcover
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When an expert on fairy tales is called in to consult on the investigation of bizarre murders, her premonition and insight causes suspicion she must solve the case--and fast--to prove her innocence.Alice Hyland is an expert on fairy tales--lecturing on the well-known stories and their lesser-known... |
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A Plague of Giants
KEVIN HEARNE - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover
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In the start of an enchanting new series, the New York Times bestselling author of The Iron Druid Chronicles creates an unforgettable fantasy world . . . one that is forever changed when an army of giants invades. The kingdom's only hope? The discovery of a form of magic that will... |
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The Song of Achilles: A Novel
Madeline Miller - Ecco
Format: Paperback
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“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….A book I could not put down.”—Ann Patchett“Mary Renault lives again!” declares Emma Donoghue, author of Room, referring to The Song... |
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The Taiga Syndrome
Cristina Rivera Garza - Dorothy, a publishing project
Format: Paperback
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Fiction. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana. A fairy tale run amok, THE TAIGA SYNDROME follows an unnamed female Ex-Detective as she searches for a couple who has fled to the far reaches of the earth. A betrayed husband... |
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That Hideous Strength
Lewis, C. S.
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Written during the dark hours immediately before and during World War II, C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which That Hideous Strength is the third and final volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's The Plague and George Orwell's 1984 as a timely p |
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Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
Neil Gaiman - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Multiple award winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things - which includes a never-before published American Gods story, "Black... |
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Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights: A Novel
Salman Rushdie - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding work of fiction that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, Two Years Eight Months... |
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Uprooted
Naomi Novik - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover
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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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Spinning Silver
NAOMI NOVIK - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover
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A fresh and imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairytale from the bestselling author of Uprooted, called "a very enjoyable fantasy with the air of a modern classic" by The New York Times Book Review.Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders,... |
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The Wild Girl: A Novel
Kate Forsyth - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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One of six sisters, Dortchen Wild lives in the small German kingdom of Hesse-Cassel in the early 19th century. She finds herself irresistibly drawn to the boy next door, the handsome but very poor fairy tale scholar Wilhelm Grimm. It is a time of tyranny and terror. Napoleon Bonaparte wants... |
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A Wild Swan: And Other Tales
Michael Cunningham - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The HoursA poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest,... |
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Winter Garden
Kristin Hannah - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback
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Mesmerizing from the first page to the last, Winter Garden is one woman's sweeping, heartbreaking story of love, loss, and redemption. At once an epic love story set in World War II Russia and an intimate portrait of contemporary mothers and daughters poised at the crossroads of their... |
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Wonder Tales: Six French Stories of Enchantment
Marina Warner
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Designed for gift giving, an illustrated collection of classic fairy tales, rendered in modern prose by such celebrated authors as A. S. Byatt and John Ashbery, explores the battle of good and evil and the endless quest for love. |
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