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  • The Tale of a Fierce Bad Rabbit
    Beatrix Potter
    This is a story about a fierce bad Rabbit, his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail, and his encounter with a nice gentle Rabbit.Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, and natural scientist. Her imaginative children's books feature many natural animals that can be found in the British countryside. She is credited with preserving much of the land...
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    17,82 €

  • The Gorgon Bride
    Galen Surlak-Ramsey
    THE GODS ARE FUNNY.Except when you piss them off.Then they suck.They really, really suck.(Really). Alexander Weiss discovers this tidbit when he inadvertently insults Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, and she casts him away on a forgotten isle filled with statues.Being marooned is bad enough, but the fact that the island is also the home of Euryale, elder sister to Medusa, makes the s...
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    31,03 €

  • An Anthology of Legends and Poems of Armenia
    Aram Raffi / Zabelle C. Boyajian / Zabelle CBoyajian
    The title is a translation of selected Armenian poems and legends.  Included in those are a number of episodes from the chronicles of Moses of Khorene, a fifth century Armenian historian, which recount legendary incidents of ancient Armenian history.  The book concludes with a long essay by Aram Raffi, which contextualizes the long history of Armenian literature. The essay also...
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    34,57 €

  • The Story of the Glittering Plain - A Book That Inspired Tolkien
    William Morris
    THE STORY OF THE GLITTERING PLAIN - A BOOK THAT INSPIRED TOLKIEN.. With original illustrations.The famous 19th century English designer, artist and writer William Morris had an enormous influence on Professor J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.Tolkien  was two years old when the illustrated edition of The Glittering Plain was published in 1894, compl...
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    18,89 €

  • Princess and the Goblin - A Book That Inspired Tolkien
    George MacDonald
    THE PRINCESS AND THE GOBLIN – A BOOK THAT INSPIRED TOLKIEN. With original illustrations.THE PROFESSOR’S BOOKSHELF #5:Professor J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit,  was a great admirer of George MacDonald’s fairy-stories. When his children were young, he used to read The Princess and the Goblin to them in the evenings, before they went to bed.‘Tolkien...
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    15,84 €

  • The Red Fairy Book - A Book That Inspired Tolkien
    THE RED FAIRY BOOK– A BOOK THAT INSPIRED TOLKIEN. With original illustrations.'I have been a lover of fairy stories since I learned to read,' Professor J.R.R. Tolkien once stated. 'The Red Fairy Book' was one of Tolkien's favorites. Fantasy and medieval literature specialist Douglas A. Anderson asserted, 'As a child Tolkien found delight in the variously...
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    23,19 €

  • Grimms’ Fairytales - A Book That Inspired Tolkien
    Grimm Jacob and Wilhelm / Lucy Crane
    GRIMMS’ FAIRY TALES – A BOOK THAT INSPIRED TOLKIEN. With original illustrations. THE PROFESSOR’S BOOKSHELF #10Professor J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, made specific mention of the brothers Grimm In his essay ‘On Fairy Stories’. In his essay he mentioned his love of a tale by the name of ‘The Juniper Tree’ in the Red Fairy Book, renamed ‘The Almo...
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    23,82 €

  • The Song of the Nibelungs - A Book That Inspired Tolkien
    Margaret Armour
    THE SONG OF THE NIBELUNGS - With Original Illustrations. A BOOK THAT INSPIRED TOLKIEN.  The Song of the Nibelungs (Nibelunglied), a thirteenth century Germanic epic, was a rich source of inspiration for Professor J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings. Scholars have noted the influence of its pre-Christian heroic motifs - drawn from historic events and people of the 5t...
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    21,53 €

  • Stolen Trinkets
    Alex Steele
    Vampires don’t rob banks. Werewolves don’t bust into jewelry stores. And Detective Logan Blackwell doesn’t work with a partner. Too bad all three of those things happened in one day. Supernaturals are getting possessed, wreaking havoc, then turning up dead. Blackwell has been tasked with finding out who is responsible and stopping them before they kill again. After a series o...
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    20,48 €

  • Strata
    Doug Pineau
    Strata - collective term for different species with higher intelligence, living in parallel like layers of rock; also used to denote fenstrata, a mythological race When Bryn Nightstar, the village outcast, meets a mysterious noblewoman on the road, he and his sister, Katrinara, embark on a journey to the capital city of Sterling with the lady Elle. Little do they know their d...
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    12,72 €

  • Ballycroy
    Jennifer Rose McMahon
    Maeve’s haunting visions have finally lead her to this......When your dreams become reality, the legends become truth.Pursued by Ireland’s notorious pirate queen, Maeve O’Malley is on a quest to Ireland’s medieval past to save the future of her clan and break her ancient family curse. Learning to use her haunting visions to travel to medieval Ireland leads Maeve on the adventur...
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    15,08 €

  • Quantum Events
    George Opacic
    Employing rich language and tight narratives, George has provided us with a collection that offers a unique, perhaps even at times other worldly, perspective. Utilising styles ranging from poetry to screen plays, and everything in between, these slice-of-of life tales are punctuated throughout with George's dry sense of humour. As to be expected, he covers ground both philo...
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    13,08 €

  • Just Another Sleeping Beauty
    Susan Kohler
    When a young woman, Cynthia Wright Snowden, is overcome by the struggles and upheavals in her life she is distracted enough to be careless. She steps off a curb in front of a bus. Or was she pushed? As she lays in a coma in her hospital bed, she finds her spirit alone with a handsome stranger, Robbie McDougal, talking to him without actual words.He tells her he is a Highlander ...
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    21,51 €

  • Owl girl
    Jerald Pope
    A long-form, wordless novel in color. In the world of fairy tales, a little girl wanders alone in a dark wood. Suddenly a huge owl swoops down, picks her up and takes her to its nest! There she joins the owl family and grows up as an owl – with magical fairy-tale results. One day she sees a woodsman and follows him back to his village. Will she be accepted for who she is? Will ...
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    11,82 €

  • Violets Are Red
    Mylo Carbia
    From the #1 bestselling author­ that brought millions of readers Ava DeSantis, comes the heart-stopping, psychological thriller about a Manhattan housewife who captures her husband’s young mistress and quietly keeps her prisoner in the basement of their Upper East Side townhouse . . . VIOLETS ARE RED.“She’s the next Stephen King.” – Horror Society“The best horror-thriller novel...
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    19,88 €

  • Nectar and Ambrosia
    E. M. Hamill / EMHamill
    Callie, a Classics major, flees home to protect her family from a monster straight out of mythology.  Visions lead her to Nectar and Ambrosia: the weirdest pub on Earth, where inter-dimensional travelers with attention seeking issues get drunk in between the A-list celebrity lives they create. They can't pretend to be gods anymore—not since a treaty with the current Supreme...
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    9,90 €

  • Bessie Bell and the Goblin King
    Charlotte E. English / Charlotte EEnglish
    The Lincolnshire Wolds, 1812. When housemaid Bessie Bell is thrown out into a cold October night, her prospects could scarcely seem worse. With nowhere to go and no one to help her, how will she survive? But on the road she meets a mysterious gentleman, and her fortunes take an immediate turn for the… strange. For the nightmare horse Tatterfoal stalks the fog-drenched Wolds, an...
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    14,63 €

  • Miss Ellerby and the Ferryman
    Charlotte E. English / Charlotte EEnglish
    Tilby, Lincolnshire, 1812. Born into modest wealth and impeccable respectability, Miss Isabel Ellerby is expected to make an advantageous marriage. But an encounter with a Faerie Rade brings changes thick and fast, and Isabel's safe and conventional life changes forever.When she meets the handsome Ferryman of Aylfenhame, Isabel knows there is no going back. Condemned and fo...
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    14,56 €

  • Miss Landon and Aubranael
    Charlotte E. English / Charlotte EEnglish
    Tilby, Lincolnshire, 1811. Miss Sophia Landon is the unremarkable daughter of an impoverished clergyman. Her father’s health is failing fast, but who wants to marry a woman without birth, beauty or wealth? Her prospects are limited indeed - until her friendship with the town’s fae denizens earns her passage to the otherworldly realm of Aylfenhame. Could her fate truly lie beyon...
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    14,57 €

  • Cucaracha
    Ali Zaak
    When the author published the fictional biography book 'Are you brown name in a black list?', he was portraying the war on Iraq from a non-American perspectives. He presented a personal unique perspective for an Iraqi scientist living under International sanctions, wars and occupation. This time, the author blends facts with lots of fantasies to create an amusing book that suit...
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    15,14 €

  • Furious
    Aaron Shaver
    Reese and Emma are a young couple struggling to make ends meet while raising their four-year-old son. They've got a lot of love, but love doesn't pay the bills. Things only get worse when their house is burned to the ground during what appears to be an attempted robbery. When Reese asks his dad for help and a place for his family to stay, his dad offers only one, urgent...
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    31,75 €

  • Thus Speaks Mother Simorq
    Azadeh Azad
    In this collection of short stories, we follow a Persian mythological bird woman, Mother Simorq, who appears in many stories as a wise woman or a nanny. We read about teenage girls experiencing their coming of age within authoritarian or male-dominated environments and one little girl facing questions of life and death. We enter the world of a woman who transgresses oppressive ...
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    26,69 €

  • Thus Speaks Mother Simorq
    Azadeh Azad
    In this collection of short stories, we follow a Persian mythological bird woman, Mother Simorq, who appears in many stories as a wise woman or a nanny. We read about teenage girls experiencing their coming of age within authoritarian or male-dominated environments and one little girl facing questions of life and death. We enter the world of a woman who transgresses oppressive ...
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    17,77 €

  • Holding the Ashes, Season One
    Reese Hogan
    In a time of blood and myth, humanity used its nuclear weapons to crack the world. In the year of blinding white light which followed, gods of death and cruelty poured in through the gaps and staked their claims. Now, two hundred years later, the city of Black Angel struggles to survive. The souls of the dead are burned into ash, smeared in books, then burned as offerings to th...
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    16,56 €

  • Furious
    Aaron Shaver
    The pharmacist, Carolynn, pushes her glasses against her nose and looks over the prescription. “Mr. Little, you have taken these before, correct?”“Yes.”She takes a closer look at the prescription.“Wow,” she says under her breath. “That’s quite a heavy daily dose.”“Um, yes. Yes, it is.”“And, this is for… anxiety,” she says just as I say…“Anger.'Reese and Emma are a young couple ...
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    20,21 €

  • The Helm of Darkness
    A. P. Mobley / APMobley
    The Greek gods are real, and they’ve come back with a vengeance. Andy and Zoey are two normal teenagers living in the modern day - that is, until they’re knocked unconscious in a freak storm sweeping the United States. When they wake up, the world they know has been tossed away. Their city is in ruins, strange creatures walk the earth, and worst of all, everyone is gone. They s...
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    18,48 €

  • Simply His
    Bárbara A. Insfrán B. / Bárbara AInsfrán B. / Bárbara Insfrán
    Meadow is an average woman having a less than average day. Things are going wrong for her in a profound way. Her old reliable truck is acting up, causing her to be late for a regular visit to her Mother’s grave. Little does she know, the events of this visit will be the turning point of her life. Meadow is about to be confronted with the supernatural on a level she has never ...
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    22,59 €

  • The Boogeyman’s Intern
    Matt Betts
    Not everyone lands their dream job.Take Abe: He’s bottomed out as an Imaginary Friend and has to find a new job before his bosses assign him a truly crappy one. Just as he’s about to resign himself to a life of making toys in a workshop, he’s given a reprieve—of sorts. Now he has the opportunity to be the first policeman on the Hill and solve an impossible murder.For assistance...
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    17,56 €

  • The Queen of Clocks and Other Steampunk Tales
    Bess Goden / Phoebe Darqueling
    "Once upon a time" is a phrase that immediately conjures images of enchantment. Royal balls, magical creatures, love at first sight... We are taken to a fantasy world where anything is possible. The Queen of Clocks and Other Steampunk Tales brings together the magic of fairytale and the allure of cogs and gears. Within these pages, find dancing automatons, industrial age fairie...
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    6,29 €

  • The First Fairy Tale
    Susan Highsmith
    The First Fairy Tale: Book II  is the second book in a trilogy that creatively tells the story of our beginnings in a way that delights children and parents alike.  Everyone has been born, so we have each taken this journey described in classic fairy tales, fables, allegories, legends, and myths across cultures and generations. Now you can share this magnificent journey with th...
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    33,78 €


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