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A Pocketful of Crows balances youth and age, wisdom and passion, and draws on nature and folklore to weave a stunning modern mythology around a nameless wild girl. Only love could draw her into the world of named, tamed things. And it seems only revenge will be powerful enough to let her escape. This is a stunning and original modern fairy tale.

"Genre-bending and darkly comic, Grushin's fourth novel is a weird and wonderful triumph." –O, the Oprah Magazine Cinderella wants her Prince Charming dead in this sophisticated fairy-tale for the twenty-first century. Cinderella married the man of her dreams--the perfect ending she deserved...

In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored and utterly out of place. But her quiet existence is shattered when she stumbles across a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page reveals more impossible truths about the world, and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby, a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival.

The exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy, R. F. Kuang’s acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating, enthralling effect. After saving her nation of Nikan from foreign invaders and...

In the Grimm Brothers’ version, Cinderella is a kind and pious girl who is cruelly mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters after her father remarries. She is forced to do all the housework and is given the demeaning nickname “Aschenputtel” (Ashgirl). Despite the hardship, she remains good and kind, praying at her mother’s grave. Aided by a magical white bird that resides in a tree planted on her mother’s grave, she attends a royal festival, where she captivates the prince.

Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales is an extraordinary audiobook featuring Gillian Anderson, Benjamin Bratt, LeVar Burton, Ricardo Chavira, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Whoopi Goldberg, Sean Hayes, Hugh Jackman, Samuel L. Jackson, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Debra...

The Iliad is one of the two great epics of Homer, and is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time, but to say the Iliad is a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its action and characters: Achilles, Helen, Hector, and other heroes of Greek myth and history in the tenth and final year of the Greek siege of Troy.

Two hundred of Aesop's fables from 600 BC in Greece which have engaged and taught people ever since that time.

As princesses of Crete and daughters of the fearsome King Minos, Ariadne and her sister, Phaedra, grow up hearing the hoofbeats and bellows of the Minotaur echo from the labyrinth beneath the palace. The Minotaur—Minos' greatest shame and Ariadne's brother—demands blood every year. When Theseus, prince of Athens, arrives in Crete as a sacrifice to the beast, Ariadne falls in love with him. But helping Theseus kill the monster means betraying her family and country.

Brought to you by Penguin. Vampire Diaries meets Norse mythology in this sequel to Soul of Shadow from TikTok sensation Emma Noyes. Charlie Hudson now knows the truth: her twin sister is a Valkyrie, and they're both daughters of Loki, the trickster god. After saving her best friend from Elias...

Werwolf Lou lässt nichts anbrennen. Als der charmante aber unzuverlässige Womanizer nach einem Verkehrsunfall allerdings der reizenden Tierärztin Emily begegnet, ist es um ihn geschehen. Er ist mehr als glücklich, dass sie ihn bei sich aufnimmt. Zu dumm, dass er in seiner Hundegestalt feststeckt und Emily in ihm nur Lupo sieht. Vor allem, als Emily beschließt, unbedingt bis Weihnachten ihren Mr. Right zu finden, um nicht alleine feiern zu müssen. Und während Emily, nicht ahnend, dass ihr Traumprinz längst bei ihr zu Hause ist, von Date zu Date jagt, leidet Lou wie ein Hund.

In Sydney sind die Abkömmlinge berühmter Märchenfiguren in zwei Klassen gespalten. Auf der Seite der Unterdrückten stehen Regina, die Tochter der Dunklen Fee, und Malcom, der Sohn der Bösen Königin. Als Agenten des Geheimdienstes Fablehaven kämpfen sie um ihren Platz in der Gesellschaft, während sie gleichzeitig als Wickeds geächtet werden. Zu allem Überfluss steht das größte Fest des Jahrhunderts an: die Hochzeit ihres beliebten, strahlenden Mitagenten und Malcoms erklärtem Erzfeind Prinz Charming. Doch dann erschüttert eine grausame Mordserie Sydney.

Princess Nahlani of the Brine would rather master her siren magic than endure the responsibilities of court. So, when she's threatened with an arranged marriage to a land-bound prince, Nahla flees—only to swim into the icy domain of the cruel Frost King. King Aethan rules a Rime in ruins, his cold exterior concealing an unspoken shame: a curse that turns him into a bloodthirsty, unpredictable threat to his own people. The siren spy in his waters doesn't know it yet, but she'll be safer behind bars...

As the rebel forces rise and the King of Tavras readies weapons that could shatter the fairylands, the battle for Askarea begins to burn. Crows and fairies alone won’t be enough to hold back the storm. And with ancient bargains unraveling and magic twisting loyalty into chains, not every ally will be free to stand beside their queen. To save both her kingdoms, Ayna must do the impossible: unite fractured realms, survive betrayal, and outwit a tyrant with nothing left to lose. But as war threatens to consume the world she’s sworn to protect, one truth becomes clear—power always demands a price.

Endlich scheint der lang ersehnte Frieden bei Emilijana und Merkur einzukehren. Die Prüfungen liegen hinter ihnen und die Priesterinnen Xayklorions stellen keine Gefahr mehr für die junge Familie dar. Auch die Vereinigung der magischen Völker rückt in greifbare Nähe.

En la ciudad más hermosa del orbe conocido, una historia intemporal que ilumina los secretos del corazón enamorado. Medina Azahara fue la ciudad más hermosa en la Europa del siglo X. El poderoso califa cordobés Abderramán III ordenó su construcción en 936, y para ello hizo venir a los mejores arquitectos y artistas desde los más apartados rincones del planeta. Entre ellos, arribó a Córdoba el sabio jardinero Shams el Bagdadí que, junto al príncipe Al Hakam, diseñó los bellísimos y extensos jardines de la ciudad califal.

“A surprise from the author of Chocolat,” New York Times bestselling author Joanne M. Harris, “this pacy adult fantasy is narrated by Loki, the Norse god of fire and mischief” (Vogue). This novel is a brilliant first-person narrative of the rise and fall of the Norse gods—retold from...

With this first book in Russell Brand’s Trickster Tales series, the famed comedian, actor, and bestselling author delivers a hilarious retelling of an old fairytale favorite that will appeal to adults and children alike. Once upon a time, long ago, in a time that seemed, to those present...

They were trapped by evil, horrible Jaeggi mages for 10 long years until they were rescued by the brave dragon named Gunter. The grumpy red knight swept in, carrying them off to a fair castle, where they lived happily ever after. That’s how the story’s supposed to go, anyway. Nikki would really like to have that fairytale ending, please and thank you.