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  • Not Too Far From My Back Back Door
    Artist:Archv's / Artist:Archv’s / Tania Smith
    Not Too Far From My Back Door has children acknowledging and releasing their BIG emotions that many children struggle with. Through encounters with characters of mother nature, children are empowered with a toolkit for resilience. They learn along the journey that this has and always has been within them. A book of self appreciation, self discovery and self nurturing whilst ref...
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    14,23 €

  • The Lark in the Morning
    Susanna M Newstead
    Death on the Downs. A strangled spinster. And a flitch of bacon...The Date is 1207A harmless contest turns deadly when one of the participants is murdered. Sir Aumary Belvoir, Lord of Durley and warden of Savernake Forest investigates the killing of one of his own serfs, a harmless spinner of wool, wife to one of his shepherds. Has her husband suffered a fit of the brain, and k...
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    10,50 €

  • Down Among the Gods
    Kate Thompson
    Down Among the Gods is an urban romance with a difference. A tale of immortals acted by mortals, it is an extraordinary, disquieting tale of human powerlessness in the face of the games played by the gods of classic mythology. 3 ...
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    12,71 €

  • Truth Seeker
    Cecilia Dominic
    An immortal on a mission. A man trapped in a labyrinth. Can she control the maze before their world crumbles? Maggie has grown weary of outliving everything she knows and loves. Numb to her job as a supernatural detective, she vows her next mission will be her last. But when the case alerts her to an enchanted series of tunnels, saving the mortal trapped in its mystical network...
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    10,54 €

  • Beauty in the Beast
    Martia Benson
    There's nothing left for Daria in her old town but an unwanted suitor and a dreary existence. But when she encounters a man who might be the Beast, she has to decide whether she dares trust him, or if it was a mistake to leave home at all. ...
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    4,77 €

  • Mysteries of Portsmouth
    Matt Wingett / Matthew Wingett
    Available post-free in the UK from the publisher's website: www.lifeisamazing.co.uk. UFOs - King Arthur - Haunted Houses - Sea-serpents - The Holy Grail - Spirit Voices - Fortune Telling - Lost Lands - Ghost Ships - Mermaids - Tutankhamun’s Curse - Witchcraft...GOSPEL TRUTH OR FAKE NEWS?Join author Matt Wingett as he uncovers strange, bizarre and uncanny Portsmouth stories ...
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    23,34 €

  • El objeto
    Álvaro Pérez Capiello
    Magdalena es una chica que acude regularmente a un afamado gimnasio de la capital, donde escucha por casualidad una conversación entre dos clientas relacionadas con la compra-venta de inmuebles. Una vetusta mansión, propiedad de un coronel del ejército, ha salido a la venta con todos los enseres que atestiguan la pasión de su antiguo propietario por coleccionar toda clase de ob...
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    19,90 €

  • El balneario
    Alexandru Ecovoiu
    La novela es una parábola donde el texto se transforma en realidad y viceversa. El Balneario es una minúscula provincia de un reino que, gracias a sus aguas medicinales y a su casino, es una mina de oro para el estado. Dicha provincia está gobernada por un magistrado que actúa como un dictador y donde, junto a él, varios personajes arquetípicos (el Filósofo, el Novelista, el Ac...
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    18,99 €

  • City of Gold
    Carolyn Arnold
    “This is definitely akin to an Indiana Jones story set in modern times. There is very fast-paced action and danger with some good investigative twists at the home front.”–Martha’s Bookshelf Finding the Incas' lost City of Gold would be the discovery of a lifetime. But failing could mean her deathArchaeologist Matthew Connor and his friends Cal and Robyn are finally home aft...
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    29,71 €

  • Man Shark
    Gerald R Knight
    A work of literary historical fiction, Man Shark is based on an unusual story amid the extensive oral literature of the Marshall Islanders that uncharacteristically has no ending. Tarmalu leaves her baby in the care of others while she leads her fleet of proa from the shelter of the Wotho Atoll lagoon out into the open ocean to save their craft from the certain destruction of a...
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    18,27 €

  • The Darkest Fairytale
    Donna J.A Olson
    Have you ever wished to become a part of one of the stories that you have read?Kayla MacLeish always used books as a type of escape for herself. A way to get away from her life and the judgements in it. But on her sixteenth birthday her escape became her prison. Coming into powers she never knew that she possessed, Kayla becomes trapped inside one of the books that she always w...
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    38,75 €

  • LA SIGUANABA
    Randy Jurado Ertll
    La Siguanaba represents the struggle, sacrifice, and perseverance of women in the United States and throughout the world. La Siguanaba represents the mothers and daughters who fight for social justice, empowerment, and who advocate to create a more equitable world for all women. Especially, to establish equity in economics, politics, gender balance, religion, and culture.La Sig...
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    16,29 €

  • Graveyard Shift
    Angela Roquet
    It’s a hard-knock afterlife...Lana Harvey is a reaper, and a lousy one at that. She resides in Limbo City, the modern capital of the collective afterlives, where she likes to stick it to the man (the legendary Grim Reaper himself) by harvesting the bare minimum of souls required of her. She’d much rather be hanging out with Gabriel, her favorite archangel, at Purgatory Lounge. ...
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    15,96 €

  • The Mabinogion and A Tale of Taliesin
    Margery Hargest Jones
    The Mabinogion is a collection of medieval folktales. First written down in the thirteenth or fourteenth century, the Red Book of Hergest is now housed in the library of Jesus College, Oxford. It was first translated into English by an English woman named Lady Charlotte Guest (1812-1895) and first published in 1849. Margery Hargest Jones endeavoured to translate it into more ...
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    10,00 €

  • The Mabinogion and A Tale of Taliesin
    Margery Hargest Jones
    The Mabinogion is a collection of medieval folktales. First written down in the thirteenth or fourteenth century, the Red Book of Hergest is now housed in the library of Jesus College, Oxford. It was first translated into English by an English woman named Lady Charlotte Guest (1812-1895) and first published in 1849. Margery Hargest Jones endeavoured to translate it into more ...
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    20,14 €

  • Rites of Winter
    AK Faulkner
    Season Two of the award-winning Inheritance series begins here!Quentin and Laurence are on their way home to San Diego when a blizzard turns their brief stop in New York City into a proper Christmas vacation. And what could be better than being snowed in at a luxury hotel with no responsibilities except to each other?Of course, new troubles find them in Manhattan: Quentin goes ...
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    27,27 €

  • Ambrosia
    Ann Benson
    By night Regina Bugbee runs an outreach center near Bellevue Hospital for lost and vulnerable men who fear the larger shelters. By day she cares for the impaired man who would have been her husband, had he not been tragically hurt running toward—not away—from the collapsing Twin Towers. She struggles through this tangled life, aching to reclaim the impossibly blue sky of that c...
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    11,68 €

  • Grimms’ Fairy Tales (Illustrated by Walter Crane)
    Jacob Grimm / Walter Crane / Wilhelm Grimm
    A magical collection of Grimms’ tales, including Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin and many others all lovingly illustrated by the renowned Walter Crane.  Each story begins with a title illustration and an illustrated capital, and has additional illustrations. These spellbinding stories, deeply embedded in the Western consciousness, begin innocently enough,...
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    26,75 €

  • A Wonder-Book for Boys and Girls
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    First published in 1851 by Nathaniel Hawthorne, “A Wonder-Book for Boys and Girls” is a captivating and classic retelling for children of some of the most famous stories from Greek mythology. Hawthorne followed this first collection of Greek tales with a sequel, “The Tanglewood Tales” in 1853. The book is set as a story-within-a-story with a fictional college student retelling ...
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    12,67 €

  • Celtic Fairy Tales
    During his lifetime Australian Folklorist Joseph Jacobs would become one of the most important English authorities on folklore. Beginning in 1888, Jacobs began publishing his anthologies of popular world myths and legends. Drawing upon numerous literary sources Jacobs would popularize what have become some of the world’s best known folktales. In this 1891 collection of “Celtic ...
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    12,36 €

  • The Organisation
    Trevor Croft
    The Organisation is a fantasy set in a make-believe world of wooden sailing ships, horse-drawn carriages and soldiers in red tunics and tall hats. Although it is a fairy tale it contains no magic or talking animals and is not meant for young children. It is intended for grown-ups, particularly ones with inquiring interests in a wide range of contentious issues..More details and...
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    18,76 €

  • Reliquiae
    Reliquiae is a literary journal of poetry, prose and translations. It interleaves ecologically aware writing from the past and present, ranging from the ethnological to the philosophical, the lyrical to the visionary. As of 2019 it is published biannually.Vol 7 No 2 features new work from the following:Peter Mark Adams, Alice Attlee, Jeffery Beam, Nancy Campbell, Hannah Cooper-...
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    17,71 €

  • Little Book of Fairy Tales
    A selection of short stories influenced heavily by Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends. Packed into this little book is a curation of beautifully written original and re-imaginations of beloved Fairy Tales. Suitable for YA readers upwards, this book explores the highs and lows of life. There are tragedies, love stories and triumphs in this humble book. Written by and about minoritie...
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    15,07 €

  • Little Book of Fairy Tales
    A selection of short stories influenced heavily by Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends. Packed into this little book is a curation of beautifully written original and re-imaginations of beloved Fairy Tales. Suitable for YA readers upwards, this book explores the highs and lows of life. There are tragedies, love stories and triumphs in this humble book. Written by and about minoritie...
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    29,12 €

  • Poet, Prophet, Fox
    M.Z. McDonnell
    A queer mytho-history of Iron Age Ireland.Finalist for the 2020 LAMBDA Literary Award in Transgender Fiction. Long before history began, when Ireland was ruled by poets and tribal chieftains, the prophet Sinnach was the most powerful druid in the ancient province of Mumu. But before he was a prophet, before he was a poet, he was a just boy... a boy believed to be a girl.Unable ...
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    17,19 €

  • Re-visioning Medusa
    Glenys Livingstone / Trista Hendren
    A remarkable collection of essays, poems, and art by scholars who have researched Her, artists who have envisioned Her, women who have known Her in their personal story—and combinations of all those capacities. All have spoken with Her and share something of their communion in this anthology."The Gorgon Medusa presents herself to us here and now, requiring us to be fully presen...
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    15,85 €

  • The Princess and Curdie
    George MacDonald
    In the years since The Princess and the Goblin Curdie has grown and started to hunt. He's begun to doubt the story of Irene's great-great grandmother, but when he meets her himself he is given a quest and a gift. When he touches anything, man or beast, he can detect what they are like on the inside. Sent on a quest with a friendly beast, Lina, for company, Curdie once a...
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    10,74 €

  • Rocabillie Balor
    Cathal Ó Searcaigh
    Aitinsint dhrámatúil ar cheann de sheanscéalta Chloich Cheann Fhaola atá anseo. An choimhlint idir Lugh Lámhfhada agus a sheanathair Balor na Súile Nimhe is ábhar don dráma véarsaíochta seo. Ní bheifeá ag súil lelagaithris ar an ghnáthinsint ó scríbhneoir chomh ceisteach le Ó Searcaigh agus tá a shliocht sin ar an leagan dúshlánach seo. Anseo éiríonn leis dearcadh úr agus fuinn...
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    16,43 €

  • Cenerentola
    John Campbell Rees
    Cenerentola, is a novel inspired by the folk tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, in this case, Cinderella. For years this story has been told in many media, but for years the most important question has been left unanswered. How and why did Cinderella's father die? Cenerentola answers that question and many more.Just before his death, a source of untold wealth is discove...
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    9,67 €

  • The Arthuriad Volume Three
    Zane Newitt
    Cometary catastrophe, adultery, hubris, unrequited love, blood-lust, revenge, corruption, religion, conspiracy… For all of these, Cymru is fallen into civil war – into the Civil War. The sun is setting on the Summer Kingdom, the most golden of realms, and the world will never recover.Evil has organized the North, the traitorous Whelp, Mark the Cruel, Cedric and his revitalized ...
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    13,55 €