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  • Faerie Fruit
    Charlotte E. English / Charlotte EEnglish
    From the author of the Tales of Aylfenhame comes a new fairy tale, replete with "large helpings of wit and whimsy" (Publisher's Weekly​)When the centuries-barren orchards of Berrie-on-the-Wyn suddenly bear fruit, it is clear that something strange is afoot — and something fey, for this is no ordinary harvest. To partake of the fruits of Faerie is to be changed for good, but...
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    11,35 €

  • The Nightingale Served Up on China Plates
    R. Andre
    The Emperor of China loves music. The nightingale is fetched from the forest to perform for him. He loves his loyal little bird until the day a mechanical nightingale arrives as a gift from Japan. 'The Nightingale', the classic originally penned by Hans Christian Anderson, is retold by R. Andre in poetic form. Originally published in 1899, this Victorian book contains amazing i...
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    6,48 €

  • Roar
    Demelza Carlton
    Three bears. Two enemies. One winter that will change everything.Once upon a time...Ursula thought her biggest worry was hiding her magic powers long enough to catch a husband, until Lord Vauquelin invades and slaughters her whole family. When she emerges from hiding, she finds she's snowed in with a wounded enemy soldier, in a valley full of bears.Can a girl who can't ...
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    16,04 €

  • Jesus Just Left Chicago
    Fred M. Faour
    When Jesse Christian, a mysterious biker, pulls up for the first time, a group of racetrack regulars are fascinated. Jesse seems to know the outcome of every race, and begins making a collection of career losers very rich.They form a tight knit group that every day drinks together, wins together, spends their lives together. Jesse fits in right away, and his strange, quiet spir...
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    14,59 €

  • Kan Ya Ma Kan
    Muna Imady
    A book of Folktales and Recipes of Syria and Its Ethnic Groups. The first section has folktales and recipes from the various districts of Syria and the second section is folktales from the different ethnic groups in Syria: the Armenians, the Assyrians, the Kurds, the Albanians, the Circassians and other people from the Caucasus, the Turkmens, and the Uzbeks.  3 ...
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    28,45 €

  • No Man Can Tame
    Miranda Honfleur
    A human princess. A dark-elf prince. A kiss of fire and powder.After a failed courtship in an ally kingdom, twenty-one-year-old Princess Alessandra returns home to a land torn apart by mutual hatred between the humans and the dark-elves. The "Beast Princess," as Aless is known by courtiers, confidently sets her mind to ways of making peace, but her father has already decided fo...
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    24,61 €

  • The Curiosities of Bees;With Passages on The Queen Bee, Cell Production and Honey, and Much More
    John Timbs
    'The Curiosities of Bees' is a vintage article on bee keeping, with sections on the queen bee, cell production, honey, and much more. This interesting and informative little volume offers the reader a broad introduction to the topic, exploring bee-society and natural history with handy tips and information that will be of utility to the bee keeper. Contents include: 'The Common...
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    17,98 €

  • Myths of Magical Native American Women Including Salt Woman Stories
    Teresa Pijoan
    Myths allow us to experience and find a meaning for life through different cultures. Myths resonate within us, bringing an experience of existing within a dissimilar reality. The Native American storytellers who shared their myths with the author were taught by their Elders who lived in a place and culture altered from that of today. These myths were told and recorded by the au...
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    14,09 €

  • Emma’s Fury
    Linda Rainier
    After a brutal and unnatural death, Emma is reborn as a Fury, a descendant of the mythological deities who were tasked with the judgment of man.  Now, she along with her fellow Fury must protect the delicate balance of peace between humans and the paranormal world.Following centuries of overbearing and authoritarian control, she is forged into a tool for justice.  In the world ...
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    15,50 €

  • Wanderings
    Aleksandar Bajic
    The famous story of Odysseus’s long journey home after the Trojan War, comprising some history and a whole lot of mythology, becomes the subject of this classical, yet essentially modern, novel. The trials that King Odysseus must endure in strange lands and the lonely vigil of his Queen Penelope during his absence – all this will be familiar territory for many readers. What mak...
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    10,45 €

  • Treasure Island - Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth
    N. C. Wyeth / Robert Louis Stevenson
    This swashbuckling adventure novel is a tale of pirates, maps, and treasure. Featuring glorious illustrations by N. C. Wyeth.This coming-of-age story follows Jim Hawkins as he sets off on a dangerous quest to retrieve buried treasure. Read of perilous journeys on high seas, murder plots, and mutiny in this action-packed tale by Robert Louis Stevenson. First published in 1911, t...
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    60,75 €

  • Of Boa Constrictors, Elephants and Imaginary Whales
    Norman Beaupre
    It’s a surprising combination of the illustrations of three animals that represent a collection of cautionary tales. The author counts on the creative imagination of the reader to grasp the full meaning of the three animals represented here: a boa constrictor, an elephant and a whale. The boa constrictor and the elephant are taken from the imaginative tale of St-Exupéry’s “The ...
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    11,12 €

  • The Nights of Straparola - Vol I
    E. R. Hughes / Giovanni Francesco Straparola / W. G. Waters / WGWaters
    Volume I of the first English translation of ‘The Nights of Straparola’, originally published in 1894. A collection of stories in two volumes written by the Italian Renaissance author, Giovanni Francesco Straparola during the fifteenth century.The two volumes are divided into nights, where Lords, Ladies, damsels and gentlemen are gathered at a party in Venice and tell each othe...
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    36,26 €

  • Robinson Crusoe - Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth
    Daniel Defoe
    Celebrating 300 years since its first publication, Pook Press releases a new edition of Daniel Defoe’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’, with stunning illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. This classic novel, originally published in 1719, is considered one of the most famous English literary works of all time.Pook Press presents this facsimile of the 1920 illustrated edition, containing 13 nostalgic ...
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    77,53 €

  • The Nights of Straparola - Vol II
    Giovanni Francesco Straparola / W. G. Waters / WGWaters
    Volume II of the first English translation of ‘The Nights of Straparola’, originally published in 1894. A collection of stories in two volumes written by the Italian Renaissance author, Giovanni Francesco Straparola during the fifteenth century.The two volumes are divided into nights, where Lords, Ladies, damsels and gentlemen are gathered at a party in Venice and tell each oth...
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    32,91 €

  • A Twilight Tale
    D J Etchell
    A mystery lurks in the ancient forests of northern England. Fairies and imps have been seen. People have aged alarmingly or gone mad, and children have been stolen and the life sucked from them. The professor and his eccentric assistants investigate druids, stone circles, ancient runes and spells, and evidence of beings who inhabited Europe before the last Ice Age.The professor...
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    23,69 €

  • The Water Babies - Illustrated by A. E. Jackson
    Charles Kingsley
    This edition of Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies - A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby illustrated by A. E. Jackson was originally published in 1920. The story was extremely popular in England and was a mainstay of British children’s literature for many decades.In this children’s fairy tale, Tom, a chimney sweep, falls into a river and metamorphoses into a ‘water baby’. The story f...
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    53,08 €

  • The Dark Titan Omnibus
    Ty'Ron WCRobinson II / Ty’Ron W. C. Robinson II / Ty’Ron WCRobinson II
    THE FIRST ULTIMATE COLLECTION OF THE DARK TITAN UNIVERSE!FOUR BOOKS IN ONE!From The Swordman to The Astonishing Voltage to Doctor Dark. The first ultimate collection of the Dark Titan Universe. This collection is the first of many Dark Titan collections to come. An omnibus for readers of fantasy, science-fiction, superheroes, and book collectors.This Omnibus collects Dark Titan...
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    76,11 €

  • The Arthuriad Volume Two
    Zane Newitt
    The Saxon conquest of the Blessed Isles has failed. The enemy without is decimated, its fighting-aged men annihilated; twenty years of peace born of the blood-bathed blade Excalibur, wielded in glory and honor by the sandy-haired Silure sovereign.   The Golden Age of King Arthur.  Not since David of the Hebrews and not to be again until the End of Ages is the Summer Kingdom of ...
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    16,48 €

  • Furiously Awesome
    P. J. Hoover
    Perfect next read for fans of the IRON DRUID CHRONICLES and AMERICAN GODS! The Demigod war is coming . . . If Achilles doesn’t find a way to make more money soon, Heroes Gym is going out of business. Achilles figures this is his biggest problem until the Furies show up and try to haul him off to Tartarus for a crime he didn’t commit. What he doesn’t realize is that this is only...
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    14,53 €

  • Return
    Demelza Carlton
    An unlikely duo. A wicked witch. Whatever it takes to find their way home.Once upon a time...Rhona is certain her stepmother wants to kill her and her sisters, and she'll stop at nothing to do it. Leaving them in the woods alone, drugging their food and drink...is nothing safe?Bitter at his brother's betrothal, Grieve is banished to Rum Island as a squire to Rhona's...
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    17,26 €

  • S
    Raymond S Edge
    The man, the myth, the living legend, Santa tells his story. S: Memoir of an Iconic Gentleman is a first-person account of the life and evolution of Nicholas of Patera, born in 270 AD, who evolves over time, becoming the iconic figure we know as Santa Claus. During his long life, Nicholas meets many historical figures. Emperor Constantine, King Arthur, Leonardo da Vinci, Martin...
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    21,18 €

  • The Little Timbles
    BellMary Bernard
    The Little Timbles is about kids having a normal happy life, having fun in their backyard, with a sister and a brother who love each other very much. They love to have imaginations and make up stories that they can create and live in that imagination; but then they discover that there might be little people living in their backyard but are not sure about it. It’s probably their...
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    11,16 €

  • The Dreadful Noises of Landoshar
    Patsy Stanley
     Wizard Reuben Ashtar, and later his son Foxglove, attend the Great Homnom School of Wizardry, where the  headmasters, in self defense from their odiferous cheese grating, grumbling ways, hastily designated them Official Dreadful Noise Controller, and sent them away from the school to conquer any Dreadful Noises they encountered. It was a position that afforded vast relief to t...
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    13,43 €

  • Lucas’ War
    Stormy Meyer
    In Lucas’ War, a young man is forced to become a spy or lose his life to the evil god Katastrofi. At his side are his friends and Issrropia, the goddess who protects the weak to help keep peace. But when Lucas’ secret is exposed, he is jailed as a traitor, shunned by his friends-and it’ll take a miracle to re-set the balance between good and evil. ...
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    10,20 €

  • His Duchess at Eventide
    Wendy LaCapra
    Lovers reunited & a dukedom reclaimed—the Regency meets the OdysseyLord Cheverley, son of the Duke of Ithwick, never wanted to go to war, but when he eloped against his father’s wishes, the furious Duke forced him to choose—either take a naval commission, or have his marriage annulled. Devastated physically and emotionally by seven years of war, a shipwreck, and six years in th...
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    11,48 €

  • Love Bites Harder
    TL Clark
    She made peace with the unbelievable……but then the unimaginable happened.Only his fear stopped the elinefae clan Leader ending her life on the spot. But he might as well have done. Can the soul mates ever be reunited? Or will the Leader carry out the execution? Kiera, formerly Shakira, faces more threats than ever as her quest for peace and home continues.Can she lift the curse...
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    13,60 €

  • Islesboro Taradiddles
    Debra Spencer
    Never before has Islesboro Island had its’ own collection of tales and legends. Now you can read them here, for the very first time, in this unique collection, just as they were discovered in 1999, when a large and rickety wooden trunk bound with iron latches washed up on the shores of the rocky Islesboro town beach. Upon prying it open, it was found to contain a number of anci...
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    30,16 €

  • Above the Surface
    Rachel Archelaus / Scott Keeney
    A fairytale of two characters reflecting off each other to find out who they really are. It is a fresh twist on an ancient story of interconnection via a journey above and below the surface. Through a mix of prose, poetry, and illustration the authors draw us into reaches of their own mythical landscape.  3 ...
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    23,88 €

  • Nothing Magical About Midnight
    Michelle Helliwell
    Kitty Boxford isn’t the sort of girl that gets invited to the ball of the century, but she has other plans to find herself a husband. The very serious but oh-so handsome Marquess of Ellsworth needs an assistant for his observatory, and it’s the perfect opportunity to earn the money she needs to hatch her husband-hunting plan. What isn’t in her plans is to fall in love with a Du...
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    14,40 €


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