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An extremely fortunate and wealthy king lives with his beautiful wife and daughter. The source of the king's riches is his prized, marvelous donkey whose droppings are gold. The king's wife is struck by an illness and dies, but not before making her husband promise not to remarry except to a woman whose beauty and attributes equal hers. The king grieves for a lengthy period, but is finally persuaded to seek another wife. It becomes clear that the only woman who fits the promise is his daughter.

Once upon a time there was a miller who left no more riches to the three sons he had than his mill, his ass, and his cat. The division was soon made. Neither the lawyer nor the attorney was sent for. They would soon have eaten up all the poor property. The eldest had the mill, the second the ass, and the youngest nothing but the cat.

A widower marries a haughty woman with two daughters of her own. The woman and the two daughters hate the man's gentle and beautiful daughter, who they call Cinderella, and treat her cruelly. Cinderella is always assigned to do the chores around the house and forced to sleep in the attic.

Parents murdered and brother stolen: meet Zora Vyner, a spitfire woman turned vengeful spymaster on the hunt for the secrets of her past. Taking down the men who abused her and infiltrating a magical underground of vicious crime bosses, she finds herself on a mission to kill a rising threat to her Boss's business. She's promised information on the brother she so desperately wants to find, but instead, she gets an exclusive invite.

In Aṣíṣẹhìndé, the protagonist, Ajomale, a wounded war warrior beset by physical and emotional scars, returns to Terioko, craving the solace of family. His world shatters upon discovering the infidelity of his wife, Sebiotimo, with the village chief, Kasali. Sebiotimo’s fraudulent death and subsequent elopement with Kasali to Mammoth Village, a land of fearsome, hirsute giants, sews a seed of deceit destined to bloom into chaos. The primary conflict: Ajomale’s pursuit of truth and redemption, overshadowing his quest for vengeance.

Deep in the woods of western Finland, a bear hunter has raised his seven daughters to live off the land and steer clear of the trappings of life in town, like cell phones and a social life outside their family. When on his youngest Elga’s twelfth birthday the hunter is killed by his prey, and their mother dies soon thereafter, the sisters are left with unpaid bills and a leaky house.

Cassandra Fortin has been taken by her enemies, locked away at the edge of the world, and separated from everyone she loves. But when a chance encounter offers her the opportunity to fight for her life, she seizes it despite insurmountable odds. She'll need every ounce of her new strength, not to mention her new friends and evolving power, to win the day—and her freedom.

"Am liebsten aber waren mir die alten Märchen. Seltsamerweise fühlte ich mich in ihnen am meisten zu Hause. Als würde ich in alten Erinnerungen blättern.“Die 15-jährige Emilia verliert sich in Büchern wie in vertrauten Welten. Ihr neuer Mitschüler Crispin sucht seinen Bruder, der spurlos in einem Märchenpark verschwunden ist. Zusammen entdecken sie nicht nur zarte Gefühle füreinander, sondern auch Ragnamar, ein fantastisches Märchenreich, in dem schon die Brüder Grimm Inspiration für ihre Geschichten gefunden haben.

Nachdem er mit seiner alten Tastatur achtzehn erfolglose Jahre in Räume vorgedrungen ist, in denen noch nie ein Gedanke gewesen ist, versucht, der gealterte Schriftsteller sich das Leben zu nehmen. Am abgründigsten Punkt seines Lebens, macht er die größte Entdeckung seines Lebens und stiehlt die heilige Lampe von Mekka. Der Legende nach, Aladins verschollene Wunderlampe. Aber warum wurde die Geschichte aus Tausendundeiner Nacht niemals korrekt zu Ende erzählt?

Dorothea und Gretchen Wild, die Geschwister Hassenpflug und Haxthausen, Jenny Droste Hülshoff und Dorothea Viehmann usw.: Es waren überwiegend Frauen, die den Grimms die Märchen zutrugen - jedoch nicht nur.

Die Bildersprache der Märchen: fremd, wie zu einer fernen, längst vergangenen Welt gehörend, und doch unendlich nah und vertraut. Eine Sprache, die man nicht erst erlernen muss, um sie zu verstehen, und die man nicht verlernen kann, weil sie als zu den menschlichen "Denk- und Fühlformen", zum menschlichen Sein dazugehörig erscheint. Sie ist, wie Wilhelm Grimm beschreibt, eine Sprache die "längst verloren, aber […] noch empfunden" wird, die vom Damals ins Heute hinüberreicht und - mehr noch - durch das Menschliche hindurchreicht.

Billionaire mermaid Gia Acquaviva is back for the riveting fifth installment of the Mermaid of Venice series. Gia struggles with intense feelings for a man from her past, while her passionate love affair with a Hollywood actress threatens to ruin it all.

Varulvskrönikorna: Uppkomsten av det månbelysta rovdjuret Av James Rondepierre. Under månens kallt lysande sken väcks uråldriga krafter till liv. Amara har alltid känt sig annorlunda, som om hon inte riktigt hörde hemma i den lilla staden Crescent Falls. Hon plågas av drömmar som känns alltför verkliga – drömmar där hon springer genom natten, styrd av instinkter som inte är hennes egna. På sin 21-årsdag förändras allt. En oförklarlig dragning leder henne djupt in i skogen, där hon konfronteras med sitt öde.

Maleficent was entrusted by the Enchanted Forest of Evermor as its guardian. She alone wielded an ancient magic to keep the balance between fae and human. But when she lost her true love, she slipped into a dark depression that caused the forest and the fae folk to grieve alongside her… until the day her true love returns -alive and unharmed and engaged. Now she's pissed! Prince Phillip has always been torn between his royal duty and his heart's desire.

When 17-year-old Imorean Frayneson receives a scholarship to Gracepointe University in Norway, he’s a bit surprised: he doesn't even remember applying. When he arrives, he notices odd things: gates that lock at night, staff that refuse to give straight answers and most disturbing of all, a spectral creature that seems to be haunting him. Before long, Imorean finds himself caught up in a sinister plan – one created seventeen years ago – that threatens to destroy the life he knew and expose the secret truth of who he really is.

We are sitting at the edge of a wood consisting of the very old larch and pine trees which cover this sandstone hill; from the southern slopes we are able to see a wide panorama of beautiful countryside, which stretches away to the South Downs. An atmosphere of spontaneous joyousness and gaiety pervades all the activities of the various members of the deva evolution, who are to be found in this neighborhood.

The raven, crane, and firebird each chose a tribe of man, granting humans heavenly magic. But power in man's hand caused endless wars for land. With mankind's destruction, the birds perished taking with them their magic. Magic is now rare, war common. The discarded daughter of an emperor, Khamilla Zahr-zad is raised with her mother's nomadic tribe until a violent raid ends that peaceful life. Amid the chaos of death, the heavenly magic of nur awakens within her, granting her the power to wield a cosmic light.

Callum, Melusine and Al play in a band with no name, baffling audiences in terrible pubs across the north-east of England with their 'sound.' Their songs tell the stories of the Solkats: fictional northern gods of small things, of mishap and mayhem. Absolutely no one knows what they're on about. But they believe in their music, and in each other. And they're happy. That is, until an act of violence at a pub gig goes viral, they catch the eye of a disillusioned influencer and suddenly go from having a cult following to having a cult, following.

When Malt, the goddess of death, is accidentally turned into a human by a wayward spell, she finds she's ill-equipped to deal with the trials of a mortal life. After all, why would a goddess need to know how to gather food or light a fire? Trapped in a body that's frustratingly feeble, she's forced to team up with Bellis, warrior daughter of Boudicca on a perilous journey across Roman-occupied Britain to the afterlife to try to restore her powers. As animosity turns to attraction, these two very different women must learn to work together if they are to have any hope of surviving their quest.

Queen Coralys rules the Kingdom of the Five Isles, but when disaster strikes, killing her husband and destroying half her nation, she pleads with the gods for salvation. And they do save her, turning back the terrible winds and tide and snatching her islands from the brink of destruction. But the gods have a wicked sense of justice and they demand an exchange for their help: Coralys must marry the first man to set foot on her pier. Coralys expects the fleet of a neighboring country to come to rescue her people, led by its prince, a loyal ally.