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  • Allan’s Wife and Others by H. Rider Haggard, Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Action & Adventure, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    During his years in Africa, it’s said Haggard came to know and appreciate Zulu culture -- intimately, as it were. It’s said he had an affair with an African woman and not just any sort of an affair, but the sort of affair that makes men mutter in retrospect about profound relationships. That’s the tale they tell on Haggard: that affair changed his portrayal of women. Even the p...
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    13,59 €

  • King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard, Fiction, Fantasy, Classics, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    Curtis, Allan Quatermain, and Captain John Good nearly die of thirst in the desert, nearly freeze to death on the mountains, and nearly get killed in a massive civil war in Kukuanaland -- and finally make it to King Solomon’s mine, where Gagool, the evil witch doctor seals them in. . . . Don’t miss this book, or our heroes may never escape! ...
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    14,40 €

  • Ballads of a Cheechako
    Robert W. Service / Robert WService
    This antiquarian book contains a collection of poems written by Robert William Service. A delightful collection of poetic tales of northern gold rush living that offers incredible insights into the lives and outlooks of the men and women of the region, these poems will appeal to any lovers of poetry, and constitute a veritable must-read for fans of Service’s work. The poems inc...
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    22,58 €

  • The Story of Man
    Herman Spencer
    Where do we come from? Why are we here? Are we the first or werethere others? Is God real and if so, where did he come from? Isthe world about to end? Can love overcome all or is love the greatesthell of them all? All these questions and more are answered in thisscience fiction theological thriller.A Georgetown theology professor and the leader of a secret homeland security ant...
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    15,11 €

  • Where the Blue Begins
    Christopher Morley
    In a society of anthropomorphised canines, Gissing, a debonair young dog about town, adopts some orphaned puppies and begins to yearn for a more meaningful existence than his pleasant life in suburban Canine Estates. Simultaneously a fairy tale, a story about dogs, an allegory, and a satire, this fantastic and thought-provoking story full of beauty and meaning is worthy of a pl...
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    23,36 €

  • The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph M. Bedier (Bdier), Fiction, Classics, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Fantasy, Historical
    M. Joseph Bdier / M. Joseph Bédier / MJoseph Bdier / MJoseph Bedier
    'My lords, if you would hear a high tale of love and of death, here is that of Tristan and Queen Iseult; how to their full joy, but to their sorrow also, they loved each other, and how at last they died of that love together upon one day; she by him and he by her. 'Long ago, when Mark was King over Cornwall, Rivalen, King of Lyonesse, heard that Mark’s enemies waged war on him;...
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    12,91 €

  • The Roots of the Mountains by William Morris, Fiction, Historical, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
    William Morris
    The people of the small towns and villages at the foot of the mountains were losing their past when the Dusky Men and the children of the Sons of the Wolf migrated into the mountains . . . in its way, this story may be the one that inspired Tolkein to write of the Dunedain -- the Rangers descended from the Great Kings of the past. Certainly there is a certain correspondence, ju...
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    20,91 €

  • The Mystics of Reyesville
    Corinne Chacon
    In the captivating novel The Mystics of Reyesville, the first in a series celebrating the healing mysteries of Mexican culture, a displaced executive is called back to her hometown, where she must confront past relationships and haunting memories before moving forward with her life. After her godmother passes away, Marlena Rivera returns to Reyesville, Texas, a town she fled ye...
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    26,21 €

  • The Mystics of Reyesville
    Corinne Chacon
    In the captivating novel The Mystics of Reyesville, the first in a series celebrating the healing mysteries of Mexican culture, a displaced executive is called back to her hometown, where she must confront past relationships and haunting memories before moving forward with her life. After her godmother passes away, Marlena Rivera returns to Reyesville, Texas, a town she fled ye...
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    17,89 €

  • Existential Ramblings
    Perry L Angle
    Existential Ramblings follows the author’s first insightful analysis of our plight as individuals in a world tending toward disorder. Volume two of this trilogy skillfully weaves mythology and religion with science and philosophy. The result is a satirical commentary of our times. Here is a southerner who describes his beloved south with tenderness and respect. He suggests ...
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    14,02 €

  • The Regents of Muran
    Ronald Edward Krasneck
    Jaret Janes has been scorned and rejected by his peers since childhood, but when a violent storm ravages the village of Bristol, it sets events in motion that thrust him into the middle of a sinister conspiracy. Armed with the knowledge gained from the Chronicle of Ages and growing magical powers that have begun to manifest an unpredictable, potentially dangerous aspect, Jaret ...
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    27,32 €

  • Porgy
    Du Bose Heyward
    This vintage book contains DuBose Heyward’s 1925 novel, ’Porgy’. It is the tale of a crippled street-urchin living in the black tenements of Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1920s. Porgy was based on a real-life resident of Charleston, Samuel Smalls. This novel constitutes a must-read for fans and collectors of Hayward’s seminal work, and it would make for a great addition to...
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    33,98 €

  • Sasquatch Returns
    Frank S LaFountaine
    Luke Ambrose only wanted to enjoy his snowmobile trip to an old abandoned mining community of Park City. He was not prepared to deal with an encounter with two Sasquatches. A friend injures one of the Sasquatches, and they collect blood and hair samples obtained from the injured Sasquatch. The Sasquatches hide in an abandoned mine, and they cannot be found. After returning to t...
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    9,79 €

  • The Wood Beyond the World by William Morris, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
    William Morris
    James Blish noted that Morris’s style was a successful recapturing of the style of Sir Thomas Malory, 'all the way down to the marginal glosses and the nonstop compound sentences hitched together with scores of semicolons. He also recaptured much of the poetry; and if the reader will make the small effort necessary to accommodate himself to the rhythm of the style, he will find...
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    12,91 €

  • The Little House in the Fairy Wood by Ethel Cook Eliot, Fiction, Fantasy, Literary, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
    Ethel Cook Eliot
    This book tells the tale of Eric, an orphan forced to work long hours in a cannery until one morning he decides to explore the woods behind the factory. That morning began no differently from any morning, though it was to be the beginning of all things new for Eric. This first sentence of Ethel Cook’s book The House in the Fairy Wood starts the reader off on a delightful advent...
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    12,05 €

  • The Lancashire Witches by William Harrison Ainsworth, Fiction, Horror, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
    William Harrison Ainsworth
    A hundred years ago, churchmen in Lancashire set upon one another -- one sold his soul to the devil, and used his unfathomable power to send his rival to the gallows. The man he condemned died cursing him and his children . . . and those children became The Lancashire Witches. Mother Demdike -- the crone who was the child of the man who sold his soul to the devil -- has become ...
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    29,86 €

  • A New Wonderland by L. Frank Baum, Fiction, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
    L. Frank Baum / LFRANK BAUM
    It is the nature of children to scorn realities, which crowd into their lives all too quickly with advancing years. Childhood is the time for fables, for dreams, for joy. These stories are not true; they could not be true and be so marvelous. No one is expected to believe them; they were meant to excite laughter and to gladden the heart. Perhaps some of those big, grown-up peop...
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    12,82 €

  • Mopsa The Fairy
    Jean Ingelow
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    16,90 €

  • True Irish Ghost Stories, Compiled by St. John D. Seymour, Fiction, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Ghost, Horror
    Irish fairy and folklore there were in abundance but there was no book of ghosts.Suddenly a brilliant thought struck me. I wrote out a letter, stating exactly what I wanted, and what I did not want, and requesting the readers of it either to forward me ghost stories, or else to put me in the way of getting them: this letter was sent to the principal Irish newspapers on October ...
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    11,93 €

  • Some Chinese Ghosts by Lafcadio Hearn, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
    Lafcadio Hearn
    I think that my best apology for the insignificant size of this volume is the very character of the material composing it. In preparing the legends I sought especially for weird beauty; and I could not forget this striking observation in Sir Walter Scott’s 'Essay on Imitations of the Ancient Ballad': 'The supernatural, though appealing to certain powerful emotions very widely a...
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    12,05 €

  • Zaheya’s Diary
    Jessica Youness
    A very old and mysterious diary is found. It tells of an epic love story between Zaheya and her beloved Dragonsire. Through his bloodstone and her wish upon it, a dream comes true, and a legend. 3 ...
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    9,60 €

  • Sowa's Red Gravy Stories
    Diane Richards
    Diane Richards is a member of the Harlem Writers Guild, the oldest African American writers guild in the world, and the guild of legendary members Maya Angelou, Terry McMillan and Ossie Davis. Sowa's Red Gravy Stories is filled with passion, humor, wit and grit. Writer Diane Richards has the same affection, reverence and mystical empathy for African American folklore and st...
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    24,69 €

  • Sowa's Red Gravy Stories
    Diane Richards
    Diane Richards is a member of the Harlem Writers Guild, the oldest African American writers guild in the world, and the guild of legendary members Maya Angelou, Terry McMillan and Ossie Davis. Sowa's Red Gravy Stories is filled with passion, humor, wit and grit. Writer Diane Richards has the same affection, reverence and mystical empathy for African American folklore and st...
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    14,92 €

  • Geocache of the Rainbow Bull
    Ozmioz Mak
    The Rainbow Bull reminds me of the management scoundrels of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company. I love how Eve matures and finally confronts him. --- Mother JonesEve is a new age hero in the tradition of the old west. ---ShaneWhen I started this geocache, I never expected to get a college degree. Listening to faculty argue amongst themselves sure beats getting an online degree wi...
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    15,07 €

  • The Miracles of Antichrist by Selma Lagerlof, Fiction, Christian, Action & Adventure, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
    Selma Lagerlöf / Pauline Bancroft Flach
    Lagerlof was the first woman and the first Swedish author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1909. She was considered one of Sweden’s most beloved authors; the Swedish Academy declared that their recognition of her was 'for reason of the noble idealism, the wealth of imagination, the soulful quality of style, which characterize her works.' ...
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    16,83 €

  • Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlof, Fiction, Historical, Action & Adventure, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
    Selma Lagerlöf / Velma Swanston Howard
    Selma Lagerlof was the first woman and the first Swedish author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1900."Jerusalem begins with the history of a wealthy and powerful farmer family, the Ingmarssons of Ingmar Farm, and develops to include the whole parish life with its varied farmer types, its pastor, schoolmaster, shopkeeper, and innkeeper. The romance portrays the r...
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    16,10 €

  • A Dignified Paradox
    D. J. Garza Chavez
    Put together a bag lady, a bunch of deadly herbs, and a dysfunctional social worker and there is bound to be trouble in the end. Of course, endings are Fringe’s specialty. She comes from a long line of midwives. This lineage is not known for midwifery during birth, however. It is known for midwifery in death.Vivien Feryn has no way of knowing that her career in social work will...
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    16,22 €

  • And the Demon Hunter Rested
    Scott M Juris
    The Demon Hunter Gabrielle has long been silent on her past, barely even speaking of it with her devoted, faithful Hell spawn servants, Blaze and Scarlet, merely going so far as saying that when she went home they would go with her. Now she will have to live up to that vow, when a visitor arrives from home, bringing her word that she is being summoned home by none other than th...
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    19,59 €

  • The Seranane Construct Book One
    Charlton Clayes
    Colin Craig had never believed in 'flying saucers' and had discounted tales of 'alien abductions' as hallucinations. In one horrifying moment, he becomes the latest abductee. Horror turns to despair when he learns he will be transported to a star system thousands of light-years away, never to return home. On the distant planet Culuma, Craig encounters sights and creatures bey...
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    27,33 €

  • Beginnings
    Jon M Weber
    Prior to a little girls magical journey through a world of enchantment, was a land unseen by many, a land of magic and mystery, where any wish came true and any dream was possible to those who truly believed. A land that could only be found, somewhere, over the rainbow. 3 ...
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    11,44 €


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