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  • Fall of the Reaper
    Miranda Honfleur / Nicolette Andrews
    Should it wake, its nightmares will consume the world...After her life nearly fell apart, Brygida finally knows her place: away from the village, with her mothers, healing the slumbering wood to keep the nightmares at bay. Her family grimoire warns that the wood may never be allowed to wake, and she claims that duty for her own. Her mind does turn to the new lord of Rubin, but ...
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    14,60 €

  • Fall of the Reaper
    Miranda Honfleur / Nicolette Andrews
    Should it wake, its nightmares will consume the world...After her life nearly fell apart, Brygida finally knows her place: away from the village, with her mothers, healing the slumbering wood to keep the nightmares at bay. Her family grimoire warns that the wood may never be allowed to wake, and she claims that duty for her own. Her mind does turn to the new lord of Rubin, but ...
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    32,08 €

  • Lord of Horses
    H. L. Macfarlane / HLMacfarlane
    Sometimes a villain is not a villain, and first impressions have to change…When the disgraced kelpie of Loch Lomond, Murdoch, discovers a new threat to his homeland, he finds a loophole in his banishment to show up at Sorcha Darrow’s door. Despite initial misgivings about Murdoch’s plea for help, Sorcha quickly agrees to help the creature out of guilt for what she did to him tw...
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    14,02 €

  • The Sun and The Boy
    Steven Flint
    The Sun and The Boy, is a gentle yet powerful allegory that takes the reader on an unforgettable journey from the mundane imperfections of life to a beautifully mystical experience of the soul. In this short and simple story, many important topics of the human experience are explored in an imaginative and clear way. Complex issues like love, jealousy, loneliness and betrayal...
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    15,64 €

  • Indebted
    Charmayne Hafen
    The king favors conquests that require his person and authority far away from his daughter, leaving her to her own devices.Little does he know, things are about to change; the princess has matured. There is a dragon to slay.On the appointed day, when the princess finds some muscle and companions...she must face the dragon.No longer a lost bird, Wren discovers a new kingdom, whe...
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    12,31 €

  • Favorite Fairy Tales
    Various Authors
    An anthology of twelve fairy tales for all ages. Stories include The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen, Hansel and Gretel by The Brothers Grimm, The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde, The Little Old Woman Who Lived In a Shoe by Joseph Martin Kronheim, Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault, East of The Sun And West of The Moon by Peter Christen Asbjornsen, The Tiger, The Brahmin a...
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    12,65 €

  • The Age of an Endless Kite
    Jordon E Thill
    Failure has been a part of the world since the beginning of time. From tales such as Icarus, which portrays one who flies too high to be devoured by the endless ocean. From tales such as Oedipus, which show the folly in denying one's destiny and the struggle to uphold one's beliefs. From tales such as the greedy God Saturn, devouring his own children to stay in power to...
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    7,83 €

  • The Cracked Slipper
    Stephanie Alexander
    “...a sophisticated and fantastical twist to the beloved Cinderella fairy tale.” — A. G. Howard, author of the Splintered Series When Eleanor Brice loses a glass slipper, she unexpectedly gains a royal fiancé and a way out of her abusive stepmother’s house. Unfortunately, eight years of mistreatment, isolation, and clandestine book learning hardly prepared Eleanor for life at E...
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    17,41 €

  • El Decamerón
    Giovanni Boccaccio
    El Decamerón, escrito entre 1249 y 1353, es considerado el primer libro de cuentos de la literatura occidental. Los cuentos son relatados por un grupo de diez jóvenes que se retiran a las afueras de Florencia para protegerse del contagio de la peste que asolaba la ciudad. Durante diez días, cada uno de ellos tiene que gestionar una jornada y todas sus actividades; entre estas d...
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    24,95 €

  • Nettie’s Tea House
    R.D. Petti / R.DPetti
    A mystical journey of self-discovery ... and finding the true meaning of home.Morgan Rees, a student at Living Masters University in the Cascades, is considered gifted among the gifted. With her advanced psychic skills and vast knowledge of botanical medicine, she is being groomed to assume the helm of the university when its current president retires. Yet something is missing....
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    17,84 €

  • Tales From The Land of Hope & Glory
    Clive Gilson
    The wonder of storytelling is in the ritual. We have been sharing our stories, adult and child, for millennia. Before the advent of pen and parchment people relied on stories being passed through the generations as both history and as caution or adventure or excitement. Stories were and remain an essential element in the cultural and spiritual life of communities the world over...
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    23,31 €

  • Tales Told By Bulls & Wolves
    Clive Gilson
    Italian literature arguably began after the founding of Rome in 753 BC. Latin literature was, and still is, highly influential in the world, with numerous writers, poets, philosophers, and historians, such as Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Virgil, Horace, Propertius, Ovid and Livy.Much later, following in the footsteps of Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, It...
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    23,67 €

  • Tales Of Fire & Bronze
    Clive Gilson
    Mythology was at the heart of everyday life in Ancient Greece. Greeks regarded mythology as a part of their history, using myth to explain natural phenomena, cultural variations, traditional enmities and friendships. It was a source of pride to be able to trace the descent of one's leaders from a mythological hero or a god. Few ever doubted that there was truth behind the a...
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    19,79 €

  • Tales From The Samodivi
    Clive Gilson
    The worlds of folklore and traditional storytelling are fascinating places to visit wherever the land or the people may be Tales from different regions are often shaped by geography and by cultural and historical factors that have accumulated over the course of centuries. At their heart, though, is an ever present desire to explain and understand the world and the experience of...
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    20,29 €

  • Tales From The Land Of The Strigoi
    Clive Gilson
    It is said that a particular feature of Romanian culture is the relationship between folklore and classical education and the arts. This is, in part, attributed to the rural character of Romanian life that has produced an exceptionally vital and creative traditional culture. Romanian folklore tales were the main literary genre until the 18th century, being both a source of insp...
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    19,49 €

  • Tales From The Land Of The Brave
    Clive Gilson
    Folklore, fairy tales, myths and legends from Scotland.This volume, Tales from the Land of The Brave, is the Scottish collection, part of a series covering the whole of the British Isles. These tales are drawn from some of the great collectors of Celtic and Scottish storytelling, and as ever, these stories illustrate the beauty and the darkness inherent in our ancestral memorie...
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    23,32 €

  • Tales From The Land of Saints & Scholars
    Clive Gilson
    This is the first of two volumes, so rich are the story-mining seams taken from just the few Irish collections I have in my possession at the moment. These first stories have been taken from around one hundred and forty Irish tales, themselves taken from pretty well every tradition, including classic tales of Irish legend, fairy and folk beliefs, and tales in the vernacular, or...
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    26,54 €

  • Tales From The Lands Of Snow & Ice
    Clive Gilson
    This is the first in a two volume collection of tales from Scandinavia. There is a clear and rich tradition of storytelling in the north, perhaps dictated by long winter nights and roaring fires. Whenever you read the sagas or pick up on the wandering collections of Hans Christien Andersen and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, amongst many others, you tap into a centuries old heritage...
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    19,83 €

  • Tales Told By The Wind Mother
    Clive Gilson
    Folklore & Fairy Tales from the Magyars (Hungary) - Here we have a rich mine of folk and fairy tales from the Magyar tradition. I’ve taken the following extract from Wikipedia as a starting point for this introduction…“According to András Róna-Tas the locality in which the Hungarians, the Manicha-Er group, emerged was between the Volga river and the Ural Mountains. Between the ...
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    19,79 €

  • Tales From Gallia
    Clive Gilson
    In Tales from Gallia we have a collection of tales from the French & Gallic folk tradition. These tales were originally collected by Andrew Lang, Charles Perrault, Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, Comtesse de Sophie Ségur, Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy, Katharine Pyle and Edmund Dulac, representing some of the finest collectors working from th...
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    19,71 €

  • Tales From Germania
    Clive Gilson
    Tales From Germania, as with the collection of stories from France, Tales From Gallia, concentrates on those lesser known stories from the Brothers Grimm alongside other collectors such as Andrew Lang, Margaret Arndt and Logan Marshall. I also found some interesting but unattributed tales to add to the mix.Although the stories told by the brothers and Andrew Lang have become ol...
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    19,71 €

  • More Tales Of Saints & Scholars
    Clive Gilson
    This is a second volume of Irish tales, so rich are the story-mining seams taken from just the few Irish collections I have in my possession at the moment. Across the two volumes we have around one hundred and forty tales taken from pretty well every tradition, including classic tales of Irish legend, fairy and folk beliefs, and tales in the vernacular, oral tradition.For the m...
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    22,91 €

  • Tales From The Viking Isles
    Clive Gilson
    Continuing the theme of stories from northern lands, this volume concentrates on the Sagas from Viking isles, such as Iceland and The Faroe Isles. These forms are also known as family sagas, and were often told by the “skald” bards. For the most part these sagas take the form of prose narratives and are mostly based on historical events that took place in the 9th, 10th, and ear...
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    24,22 €

  • Tales From The Forest Lands
    Clive Gilson
    his volume of tales from the north concentrates on Finland. Many of these stories have their roots in the folklore of Finnish paganism, and they have many features shared with fellow Finnic Estonian mythology and other Uralic fables. Finnish folklore also shares some similarities with neighbouring Baltic, Slavic and to a lesser extent, Norse mythologies.Much of Finnish mytholog...
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    19,97 €

  • Tales From The Old Norse
    Clive Gilson
    And so we reach the final volume in this small collection of tales from the north. Originally I intended to complete the series with the Finnish volume, but as ever, there were just too many fabulous stories in my archive to call such an immediate halt.In this volume we have work collected by Jørgen Engebretsen Moe and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen taken from East o' the Sun an...
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    19,70 €

  • Tales From The Land Of Rabbits
    Clive Gilson
    John A. Crow explains it perfectly in Spain, The Root and the Flower, University of California Press, 1985:Spain was first called Iberia, a name given to it by its Iberian inhabitants (from North Africa). The name was supposedly based on the Iberian word for river, Iber. They reached Spain around 6000 BCE. When the Greeks arrived on Spanish soil around 600 BCE. they referred to...
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    19,79 €

  • More Tales Of Hope & Glory
    Clive Gilson
    This is the second book in the Fireside series covering the English story-telling tradition. Listening to a story is like going on a journey. Only you can see the pictures in your mind. Only you can conjure the demons and the dragons and the heroes with such vivacity. As we travel through our story landscapes we are marked with wisdom and imagination. These are just some of the...
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    23,47 €

  • More Tales Of Snow & Ice
    Clive Gilson
    This is the second in a two volume collection of tales from Scandinavia. There is a clear and rich tradition of storytelling in the north, perhaps dictated by long winter nights and roaring fires. Whenever you read the sagas or pick up on the wandering collections of Hans Christien Andersen and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, amongst many others, you tap into a centuries old heritag...
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    19,66 €

  • Okaraxta - Tales From The Great Plains
    Clive Gilson
    There are many sources and traditions within Native American storytelling and mythologies. These tales are a selection of those told by the tribes and peoples of the Great Plains, but by no means does this book cover all aspects even within just this sub-group. It's been one of the absolute delights of the summer discovering just how deep and rich are the veins of folk and ...
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    19,62 €

  • Tibik-kìzis - Tales From The Great Lakes & Canada
    Clive Gilson
    Among many Native cultures, "storytelling" was normally restricted to the long winter evenings. The Cree were one culture with a strict belief in this regard: "During the summer, no stories founded on fiction were ever told, the Indigenous peoples believing that if any 'fairy' tales were told during that season when they were supposed to use their time to best advantage...
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    19,90 €


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