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The Elsewhere Express : A Novel. by Yambao, Samantha Sotto.;
When you lose your way in life, the Elsewhere Express just might find you and take you to your life's purpose. Raya and Q are two of those lost souls. As they explore the wonders of the train, they also discover that there is danger in the form of a mysterious stranger. As Raya investigates this stranger's identity, she also finds herself drawing closer to the ultimate question: what is her life's true purpose - and might Q be connected to it? From the author of 'Water Moon'.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Romance fiction.; FICTION; FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology; FICTION / Romance / Fantasy;
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Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies. by Wong, Lindsay.;
Horror collides with dark comedy when a young woman signs her life away in the ancient Chinese tradition of corpse marriage to pay a lifelong debt in this subversive novel about class disparity, ambition, and the burden of being an impoverished model minority. Lindsay Wong lives in in Burnaby, BC. #diversity.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Asian American; FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology; FICTION / Horror;
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Emily Wilde's map of the Otherlands : a novel / by Fawcett, Heather(Heather M.),author.;
"When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wilde must uncover their secrets before it's too late in this second installment of the Emily Wilde series"--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Historical fiction.; Magic realist fiction.; Novels.; College teachers; Fairies; Fairies; Imaginary places; Magic; Man-woman relationships; Women college teachers;
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More than true : the wisdom of fairy tales / by Bly, Robert,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Few forms of storytelling have greater power to captivate the human mind than fairy tales, but where do these tales originate from, and what do they mean? Celebrated poet and bestselling author Robert Bly has been asking these questions throughout his career. Here Bly looks at six tales that have stood the test of time and have captivated the poet for decades, from "The Six Swans" to "The Frog Prince." Drawing on his own creative genius, and the work of a range of thinkers from Kirkegaard and Yeats to Freud and Jung, Bly turns these stories over in his mind to bring new meaning and illumination to these timeless tales. Along with illustrations of each story, the book features some of Bly's unpublished poetry, which peppers his lyric prose and offers a look inside the mind of an American master of letters in the twilight of his singular career."--
Subjects: Fairy tales.; Conduct of life in literature.; Truth in literature.; Wisdom in literature.; Fairy tales; Tales;
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The Jinn Daughter A Novel [electronic resource] : by Hanna, Rania.aut; cloudLibrary;
A stunning debut novel and an impressive feat of storytelling that pulls together mythology, magic, and ancient legend in the gripping story of a mother’s struggle to save her only daughter Nadine is a jinn tasked with one job: telling the stories of the dead. She rises every morning to gather pomegranate seeds—the souls of the dead—that have fallen during the night. With her daughter Layala at her side, she eats the seeds and tells their stories. Only then can the departed pass through the final gate of death. But when the seeds stop falling, Nadine knows something is terribly wrong. All her worst fears are confirmed when she is visited by Kamuna, Death herself and ruler of the underworld, who reveals her desire for someone to replace her: it is Layala she wants. Nadine will do whatever it takes to keep her daughter safe, but Kamuna has little patience and a ruthless drive to get what she has come for. Layala’s fate, meanwhile, hangs in the balance. Rooted in Middle Eastern mythology, Rania Hanna deftly weaves subtle, yet breathtaking, magic through this vivid and compelling story that has at its heart the universal human desire to, somehow, outmaneuver death.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Epic; Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology;
© 2024., The American University in Cairo Press,
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Elphie A Wicked Childhood [electronic resource] : by Maguire, Gregory.aut; CloudLibrary;
What happened to young Elphaba before her witchy powers took hold in Wicked? Almost 30 years after the publication of the original novel, for the first time Gregory Maguire reveals the story of prickly young Elphie, the future Wicked Witch of the West—setting the stage for the blockbuster international phenomenon that is Wicked: The Musical. Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, will grow to have a feisty and somewhat uncompromising character in adult life. But she is always a one-off, from her infancy; Elphie is the riveting coming-of-age story of a very peculiar and relatable young girl. Young Elphie is shaped and molded by the behaviors of her promiscuous mother, Melena, and her pious father, Frex. She suffers ordinary childhood jealousies when her sister, saintly Nessarose, and brother, junior felon Shell, arrive. She first encounters the mistreatment of the Animal populations of Oz, which live adjacent to but not intertwined with human settlements, haunted by a Monkey and receiving aid from Dwarf Bears. She thrashes through her first bruising attempts at friendship, a possible lifeline from her tricky family life. And she gleans the benefits of an education, haphazard though it must be—until she arrives at the doors of Shiz University, about to meet the radiant creature that is Galinda. Elphie is destined to be a witch; she bears the markings from childhood—most evidently in her green skin but more obscurely and profoundly in her cunning and perhaps amoral behaviors, as she seeks to make do, to slip by, to sneak out, to endure, and to aspire.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Contemporary; Epic; Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology;
© 2025., HarperCollins,
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The golden goose / by Grimm, Jacob,1785-1863.; Grimm, Wilhelm,1786-1859.; Reid, Barbara,1957-;
In this modern retelling of the classic fairy tale, Rupert is rewarded with a golden goose when he does a good deed for a mysterious old man."Grade level 1-3, guided reading level N, Lexile level 490L, word count 931"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Geese; Avarice; Fairy tales;
© c2014., Scholastic Canada,
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Sprite's secret / by West, Tracey,1965-; Bonet, Xavier,1979-;
Fourteen fairies have escaped into our world, all different, and all capable of causing great harm--and it is up to an eight-year-old girl named Violet and a Pixie Tricker, a fairy called Sprite-of-the-Green-Petals-from-the-Whispering-Woods, to trick them and send them back to their own world.Appeals to 1st-3rd graders.Reading level grade 2.LSC
Subjects: Fairies; Games;
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The Lady, the Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death [electronic resource] : by Marshall, Helen.aut; CloudLibrary;
A young woman is seduced by the glamour of the circus and drawn into a dangerous world of violence, cruelty and revenge. For readers of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus and Helen Oyeyemi's Mr Fox. A dark fantasy tale infused with mystery and threat from the award-winning author whose work has been described by Paul Tremblay as “intelligent, dark, wildly inventive". As Sara Sidorova hovers between life and death, she is visited by Amba, the tiger god who will devour creation if he is released from the chains that bind him. Amba gives Sara an extraordinary gift: a glimpse into the future. Years later, her granddaughter Irenda will grow up in a war-torn country where survival means obedience. When a devastating attack robs her of her parents, she travels to Hrana City. There, her grandmother agrees to teach her the ultimate secret: how to tame death. In the circus, amongst the magicians, the strongmen and the contortionists, she will start down a dangerous road, to carry out a revenge decades in the making... and bring justice into the world for herself and for her family. Rich with glamour and strangeness, brutality and deceit and the dark magic of the circus, this haunting fable from a multi award-winning author will chill your bones and make your heart ache.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology; Dystopian; Dark Fantasy;
© 2025., Titan,
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Once upon a time. [videorecording] / by Carlyle, Robert,1961-; Dallas, Joshua,1981-; Gilmore, Jared S.; Goodwin, Ginnifer.; Morrison, Jennifer,1979-; Parilla, Lana.; ABC Studios.; American Broadcasting Company.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm);
Disc 1. Broken -- We are both -- Lady of the lake -- The crocodile -- The doctor.Disc 2. Tallahassee -- Child of the moon -- Into the deep -- Queen of hearts -- The cricket game.Disc 3. The outsider -- In the name of the brother -- Tiny -- Manhattan.Disc 4. The queen is dead -- The miller's daughter -- Welcome to Storybooke -- Selfless, brave and true.Disc 5.Lacey -- The evil queen -- Second star to the right -- And straight on 'til morning.Robert Carlyle, Jennifer Morrison, Ginnifer Goodwin, Josh Dallas, Lana Parrilla, Jared S.Gilmore.In the second season of Once Upon a Time, the curse is broken, magic has arrived, and there's no telling what - or who - will be unleashed! Now the exiled fairytale characters must grapple with a flood of awakened memories as they come to grips with their new ' reality.' Old loyalties will be tested, new heroes will emerge and vengeful villains will wreak havoc.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD; NTSC; Region 1; widescreen (1.78:1); Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.
Subjects: Fairy tales; Fantasy television programs.; Good and evil; Television programs.;
© c2013., ABC Studios : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment,
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