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For a time, it seemed that a great storehouse of women's treasure had been forever lost; the stories of heroines who had awoken to the call to adventure, and faced down challenges, in order to bring the gifts born through their trials into the world. The Heroines Anthology its stories before time began. It travels alongside some of the forgotten women of history, and imagines itself all the way into the unknown territory of our future world. With...
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Mike is the biggest child of family Rabbit and Alex the smallest from family Swine. As friends they discover the forest and fields and so they come accide ntally in the stable of mama Sophie with her piglets. Sophie wants to remain a Lady and gtherefore Mike&Alex are allowed to eat her leftovers. That good food makes them grow big, very big and strong. So they becomne the leaders of the animals in the Animal Forest. Together with General Owl the friends...
124) Homer's Daughter
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In this innovative re-imagining of the Odyssey's history, Sicilian princess Nausicaa recounts her story, and how she, not the poet Homer, came to write the Odyssey. Set in the eighth century BC, it recounts the story of a determined young woman who lives an adventurous life: rescuing her father's throne from outside threats, freeing herself from an abusive marriage, and saving her two younger brothers from certain death. Nausicaa is a passionate,...
125) Eventide
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When a traveling bard stumbles into a dragon's den, he is forced to tell stories to the fire-breathing menace or end up being eaten. Eventually running out of tales to share, he makes a deal with the dragon: for his freedom, he will return with new sagas of adventure, romance, and bravery.
Tales of the Dragon's Bard is the story of one man's quest to collect the most exciting stories he possibly can, and Eventide is the first town he encounters....
126) The Road
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For two thousand years, the roads the Romans built have determined the flow of ideas and folktales, where battles were fought and where pilgrims trod. Almost everyone in Britain lives close to a Roman road, if only we knew where to look. In the beginning was Watling Street, the first road scored on the land when the invading Romans arrived on a cold and alien Kentish shore in 43 CE. Campaign roads rolled out to all points of the compass, forcing their...
127) Folktales of England
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If wonder tales are not abundant in England, other kinds of folktales thrive: local traditions, historical legends, humorous anecdotes. Many of the favorite tales which English-speaking peoples carry with them from childhood come from a long tradition stories as familiar to Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Spenser, and their many contemporaries as they are to us.
128) Until Midnight
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This fairy tale has no happy endings only dark beginnings. They call them the Crimson Fold. High up in their castle they look down on my little world and wield a silent control. That is, until the invitations are sent out.I never dreamed I'd be selected. They tell me it's a privilege. I should be honored. But the fear in their eyes doesn't lie.If I refuse to go, my family will be shunned. If I go, my life and my body will no longer be mine. It'll...
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Discover the exploits of all-powerful Zeus, leader of the Olympians, the mightiest of all the gods. Relive the excitement of the Titanomachy, the colossal War of the Titans. See what motivated the gods and goddesses, and encounter the ultimate winners and losers in Greek mythology's incredible battles.
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Excerpt: "Scheherazadè, the heroine of the Thousand and one Nights, ranks among the great story-tellers of the world much as does Penelope among the weavers. Procrastination was the basis of her art; for though the task she accomplished was splendid and memorable, it is rather in the quantity than the quality of her invention-in the long spun-out performance of what could have been done far more shortly-that she becomes a figure of dramatic interest....
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Dorothy Dale to The Rescue is the 13th and last in the series: Both Dorothy and Tavia are engaged, but no dates have been set for the marriages. Garry Knapp, Dorothy's finacé, is running a ranch in the west he inherited. But some good-guys-wanna-be-bad guys kidnap Dorothy's youngest brother in hopes of getting him to plead to Garry to swap his rance for his release. Sadly for them, they didn't reckon on having to deal with Dorothy and Tavia!
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Greek mythology has the strangest creatures, plucked from the most fertile imaginations in the history of storytelling. Discover figures half-human and half-goat, horrendous giants with 50 heads and 100 arms, and massive one-eyed brutes known as Cyclopes. See how fearless Greek mortals pitted their wits against the ugliest and most monstrous forms known to humans.
133) The Sharpest Thorn
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In an alternate-universe gothic-flavoured Greece, one war consumes the mortal world while another brews in the realm of the gods. Civil war rages on the island of Syros, and Psyche impersonates the goddess Aphrodite in order to win support for her father's cause. When the goddess curses her in revenge, she sends her son, Eros, to finish the job. Newly questioning his place and power, he refuses, and whisks Psyche away to an enchanted palace out of...
134) Beastiful
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From witch bottles to witch balls and love potions, Belvina is willing to try it all. All Seventeen year old Belvina wants is to go to prom. But since she goes from being one of the most beautfiul girls in school to looking like a creature that you would only see in a Sci-Fi movie once it's dark out, there's no way she could ever go. She is cursed and the only way to break her curse is if someone were to love her the way she is at night. To help Belvina...
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While merely mortal, these legendary Greek heroes were clearly a different breed -- one perfectly equipped for adventure. Find out why the strongman Heracles had to perform impossible tasks known as the 12 Labors. Discover the great tales of courageous Theseus, who faced the lethal Minotaur, and see Jason's determination to find the Golden Fleece, along with his sudden fall from grace.
136) Funeral Games
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By the end of his reign, Alexander the Great had seized control of an empire that extended from the Adriatic Sea to the Indus River. When he died in 323 BC, a fervent scramble for power ensued. Funeral Games is Mary Renault's remarkable novel of this turmoil and the gradual erosion of the Greek empire. The power players include Ptolemy, two father-son teams, and a cadre of influential women-not least of whom is Eurydike, whose plan is to marry Alexander's...
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Travelling to Mars in the Cosmic Odyssey 2050' invites you to peer into the future of space exploration. Discover the bold aspirations and cutting-edge technology that will propel us to Mars by 2050. Join this cosmic odyssey as we go into the challenges, triumphs, and awe-inspiring possibilities of interplanetary travel. This book paints a vivid picture of humanity's quest to step foot on the Red Planet, shaping a new chapter in the story of human...
138) Legacy: Blood Tie
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What if the myths about vampires had a real origin?
Legacy (blood Bond, #1)
Ivan could not have known that one day the strange family inheritance would knock at his door and that, what he believed to be his grandfather's ravings, contained a bond beyond blood, beyond family, beyond time. What to do with a legacy in the form of an ancestor more than 3,000 years old?
Velkan woke up in a new century, in a new society, with a new family, but with the...
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The author of The Singing Guru shares the journey of Bhai Lehna to becoming Guru Angad in a tale that's part history, legend, and fiction.
Into the Great Heart carries forward and concludes the stories of Guru Nanak and Bhai Mardana, his favorite minstrel, from the first volume of the Sikh Founder Series, The Singing Guru.
History, legend, and fiction merge to populate this book with fascinating personalities from Sikh history. Pivotal to this narrative...
140) The Surgeon
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Written over the course of two manic episodes, their following depressive states, and a journey towards mental stability, this novella is a manic love letter to the concept of love. Written during the throes of mania, this manic stream of consciousness tale tells of a surgeon who cuts out his heart and gives it to an unknown woman. What follows is a journey in order to attempt ot find what it really means to love.
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