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The first three fairy tale retellings from the Return to the Four Kingdoms series: The Secret Princess: A Retelling of The Goose Girl, The Mystery Princess: A Retelling of Cinderella, and The Desert Princess: A Retelling of Aladdin. These interconnected fairy tale retellings each feature a different heroine who finds herself friendless in a strange land and who must fight to save her new home and win her happily ever after.

Rosie was betrayed and rejected by her mate and sent back to Orca Cove against her wishes, but nothing will stop her from returning to her true home. Rosie and her father team up, trying to get back to the Enchanted Vale so that Rosie can see her Princes again and they can find her mother who has been missing for 25 years. When Rosie manages to tap into the magic of Castletree and make contact with Prince Ezryn of the Spring Realm, she begs him to bring her home.

Manchuria, 1908: A young woman is found frozen in the snow. Her death is clouded by rumours of foxes, believed to lure people into peril by transforming into beautiful women and men. Bao, a detective with a reputation for sniffing out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman's identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they've remained tantalizingly out of reach. Until, perhaps, now.

Taranis, the powerful King of Storms, bears the weight of restoring the fragile balance of magic between the worlds. It's a shame his inner dragon has other priorities. With his dragon knights at his side, Taranis is determined to defeat the Fomorian mage and shatter his remaining spells. The last thing he expects i

To take her place as rightful queen, Malin Strom stands by the side of the Nightrender and his guild of thieves in the fight to take a throne she never wanted. Now, as warriors from distant kingdoms answer their call, a new battle begins. But when dark fae side with the Black Palace, Malin and Kase are forced to take drastic measures. If they are to have a hope for victory, they must forge an unwilling alliance with a cruel sea fae, draw out a cursed beast they thought long dead, and even risk the lives of everyone they love by twisting the memories of fate itself.

Silla Nordvig is running for her life. The Queen of Íseldur has sent warriors to bring Silla to Sunnavík, where death awaits her. When her father is killed, his last words set Silla on a perilous quest: travel the treacherous Road of Bones—a thousand-mile stretch haunted by warbands, creatures of darkness, and a mysterious murderer—and go to Kopa, where a shield house awaits her. After barely surviving the first stretch of road, a desperate Silla sneaks into a supply wagon belonging to the notorious Bloodaxe Crew. To make it to Kopa, she must win over Axe Eyes, the brooding leader of the Crew.

Selene is the youngest daughter in a gifted line of healers, born to serve as the king's royal physician. Yet when Selene's mother Persaphe embroils her in a plot to kill the king, Selene finds herself poisoning the very man she is sworn to protect. Things seem bleak, but there is another problem—the poison doesn't work, and the king doesn't die. Rather, he awakes from his coma paralyzed, aware of the attempt on his life, and furious.

Cordelia knows her mother is . . . unusual. Their house doesn't have any doors between rooms—there are no secrets in this house—and her mother doesn't allow Cordelia to have a single friend. Unless you count Falada, her mother's beautiful white horse. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is on her daily rides with him. But more than simple eccentricity sets her mother apart. Other mothers don't force their daughters to be silent and motionless for hours, sometimes days, on end. Other mothers aren't sorcerers.

Liyen, the heir to the mortal kingdom of Tianxia, has been taught that her most important duty is to serve the immortal Queen of the Golden Desert, who rescued them from the shadowy Wuxin. Since then, Tianxia was bound in service to the immortals. But when her grandfather steals a magical flower from the queen to cure Liyen from a vicious poison, the powerful God of War is sent to attack Tianxia, plunging it into chaos.

Des dieux aux héros, les épopées de la Grèce antique s'ouvrent à vous ! Dans ce voyage épique à travers le cosmos, découvrez un monde où la réalité flirte avec le mythique. Rencontrez Zeus et son Panthéon Olympien, et marchez sur les traces des héros, des titans et des nymphes qui peuplent la mythologie grecque. Ce livre audio comporte des dialogues enrichis de musiques, et est joué par une trentaine de comédien.ne.s. Retrouvez la quasi-totalité des récits les plus connus de la mythologie grecque, écrits d'après les textes fondateur.

Varya lives in the shadows. As a tomb raider, it's easier that way. Known for obtaining the unobtainable, she risks life and limb to provide for her small desert town: a magical chalice with never-ending water, an amulet that heals, a map that shows where all the other magical objects are. However, the last stolen treasure came with a problem—the Demon King, Greed. When she finds herself saddled with an injured demon, tracked by a horde of warriors, and effectively lost in the desert, well, what's a girl to do?

The fallen angel of fruit Rosier lives among cold caves and fiery demons with a soft heart succumbing to comfortable misery. He shares a bed with the monster who'd been his most beloved friend in Heaven, captive now to a beastly body of eternal rot. If there is any love left between them, it's surely a ghost fading with each daybreak. But when the devil commands Rosier to have the Earth bloom with its first fruits—Rosier must confront whether there is really any life after falling from paradise and whether there is really any solace in abandoning all hope.

Die Grimm'sche Literarisierung, die Niederschrift und Ausformung der Volksmärchen ist in Bedeutung und Gehalt der Bildsprache Höhepunkt, aber zugleich auch Endpunkt und Ausklang einer jahrtausendealten Kultur der mündlichen Überlieferung, der "oral tradition". Nach einer längeren Periode der Fixierung der einst lebendigen Form, besonders auch durch die Suspension der Bildsprache der Märchen in der Bildfläche der Illustrationen bis hin zu den Disney'schen Filmen, bedürfen die Märchen wieder der Verlebendigung durch eine Art Einübung in ein bildreiches Sprechen und Denken.

Willkommen im Reich der Hexen, Riesen, Könige und Prinzessinnen! Ob am Lagerfeuer erzählt, am Bett vorgelesen oder in Selbstlektüre - seit Jahrtausenden faszinieren Märchen Jung und Alt auf der ganzen Welt. Sie können romantisch, verzaubernd, lustig, aber auch schaurig, blutig, ja bitterböse sein. Bei den dreizehn deutschen Märchen, die hier erstmalig erzählt werden, handelt es sich vornehmlich um solche der letzteren Art. In Inhalt, Erzählweise und Schauplätzen erinnern sie am ehesten an die düstereren Märchen der Gebrüder Grimm.

Ein König lässt einen Hirtenjungen zu sich kommen, der für seine weisen Antworten bekannt ist. Er bietet an, ihn zu adoptieren, wenn er ihm drei Fragen gut beantwortet…

Aasim Daniels had a perfect life. Money, a family that he loved, a reputation that opened doors for him wherever he went, and a long-time girlfriend that he was intent on marrying. That all changed when an unforeseen betrayal and dark turn of events left him heartbroken and fighting for his life. Hell-bent on revenge, Aasim finds himself on a quest that leads him to new surroundings and right into the unexpected path of a curly-haired beauty he can’t seem to shake. After her ex-boyfriend Gabriel betrays her in the most unimaginable way, Reygan Haynes is done with love.

Qianze has not seen her father in eleven years, since he walked out of her life the night of her fourteenth birthday and disappeared without a trace. But then she gets a call—there is a man on the porch of her childhood home, and he’s asking for her. This man isn’t the Ba Qianze remembers: he is much older, more fragile, and worst of all, haunted by a half-forgotten prophecy.

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry Mitchell, published by Calamus Press in 1977. Part-fable, part-manifesto, the book takes place in Ramrod, an empire in decline, and introduces us to the communities of the faggots, the women, the queens, the queer men, and the women who love women who are surviving the ways and world of men.

Was würdest Du tun, wenn Dir Deine Tochter anvertraut, dass sie magische Kräfte hat? Für Alice, eine talentierte Malerin und liebevolle Mutter, ist die Antwort klar: Sie wird ihre Tochter mit allen Mitteln beschützen. Als ihre Tochter ein Stipendium für ein mysteriöses Elite-Internat erhält, ahnt Alice noch nicht, dass sie beide Teil einer uralten Prophezeiung sind. In einer Welt, in der Engel unerkannt unter uns leben und vergessene Märchen mehr Wahrheit enthalten als gedacht, muss sich Alice ihrer Bestimmung stellen.

Once there was a poor prince. He had a kingdom; it was very tiny. Still, it was large enough to marry upon, and on marriage his heart was set. Now it was certainly rather bold of him to say, "Will you have me?" to the emperor's own daughter. But he did, for his name was famous, and far and near there were hundreds of princesses who would have said, "Yes!" and "Thank you!" too. But what did the emperor's daughter say? Well, we'll soon find out.