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  • 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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    36,63 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    16,01 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    28,42 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    30,67 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    20,13 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 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 €

  • Nettie’s Tea House
    R.D. Petti / R.DPetti
    A quirky, modern-day fable, Nettie’s Tea House takes you on a fanciful journey of the afterlife and delivers a message of healing and hope.After Gabriella Bunting sustains a fatal head injury in a car crash, she finds herself at Nettie’s Tea House, a halfway house for troubled souls who have left their physical bodies but are unable to fully transition due to unfinished busines...
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    15,68 €

  • Más allá del río Níger
    Stela Dupuis
    Allá donde nace el río Níger comienza la historia de Dulcila, cuya vida fluirá como un caudaloso río salpicado de leyendas y mitos. Más allá del río Níger narra en varios tiempos los acontecimientos que se suceden en un hotel situado en Villa de Leyva, en el altiplano colombiano, adonde han llegado varias personas buscando el bienestar. Es cuando aparecen las yoginis, unas hero...
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    20,28 €

  • Los dioses tienen sed
    Anatole France
    La novela sigue los pasos de Évariste Gamelin, un pintor desconocido pero que tiene altos ideales republicanos. La historia empieza en 1793 cuando Luis XVI ya ha pasado por la guillotina y la Convención se ha puesto en marcha, pero aún no ha llegado el Terror ...
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    19,24 €

  • A Grimoire Dark
    D.S. Quinton / D.SQuinton
    An Orphan Girl. A Hellish Spirit. Can she survive the monster who wants her dead?New Orleans, 1963. When Del Larouche leaves the St. Augustine orphanage, she is desperate to build a normal life for herself and Jimmy, the mentally handicapped boy she spent years protecting.But when a hellish spirit is raised from the dark swamps, unimaginable horrors begin to prey on the lost so...
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    16,79 €

  • Heart’s Blood
    Jeffe Kennedy
    Two Novellas of The Twelve Kingdoms, together in print for the first time!Heart's BloodA dark fairytale retelling of a princess robbed of rank, husband and even her name. Nix is nothing. The Princess Natilde—her former waiting woman—attacked her on the journey to wed Prince Cavan, stripping her of everything and taking her place. With no serving skills, Nix becomes a goose ...
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    7,92 €

  • CADET
    Alex Lidell
    One elite fae warrior. Four superior officers. A bond they can’t remember—or resist.  Lera was once human. Now, with dark magic leaking into the mortal world, the petite fae warrior must return to protect it—even if it means going undercover with four powerful fae males to a harsh military academy. But when a terrible accident melds the males with their human disguises, everyth...
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    36,39 €

  • The Sisters Three
    Jae Mazer
    When sisters Charlie and Anne take a trip up the coast of Vancouver Island, it isn’t for pleasure. Though the sights, sounds, and smells of the island are gorgeous and serene, the purpose of their trip is devastating. To make matters worse, the bed-and-breakfast they find nestled deep in the wild has many dark secrets, as does the owner, a callous old woman with a sordid past. ...
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    14,09 €

  • Test of Fae
    S. L. Mason / SLMason
    Nothing comes for free, especially magic. Sarah’s escape from the Hallowed Hills is a bitter one having left Arty behind. It’s only a matter of time until Janice finds Sarah and her new friends. But instead of tricking her, in true Fae style, Janice snatches a child and lures her.Sarah can’t save anyone without a plan and allies, and Nick is the only one she can trust. But Nick...
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    18,14 €

  • Witches of the Wood
    Amy N. Edwards / Bekah Harris / Patrick Brian Cooley
    In the hills of Appalachia, folks tell all kinds of stories to keep the children in line. Sometimes, these devilishly wicked tales are little more than innocent make-believe. Sometimes the absurd and the unexplained come together to teach morals and lessons that are passed down through the years. Sometimes, what you find at the end of a dark path, or within an abandoned cabin, ...
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    17,30 €


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