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Author
Series
Dark star trilogy (Marlon James) volume 1
Language
English
Description
"The first installment in the Dark Star trilogy has been touted as 'an African Game of Thrones,' and, indeed, James, author of the Man Booker Prize winner A Brief History of Seven Killings, throws pretty much every fantasy and horror creature known into this brilliantly chaotic mash-up of genres and styles. Readers will discover mermaids, vampires, zombies, and witches, along with edge-of-your-seat chills and cheeky humor. James' tale digs its hooks...
Author
Language
English
Description
We all know the story of Cinderella . . . or do we? Her stepmother, Agnes, has privately recorded the true story. A peasant born into serfdom, forced into servitude as a laundress's apprentice when she is only ten years old, Agnes was seduced by an older man while a teenager and became pregnant. She had no choice but to return to servitude at the manor she thought she had left behind, where her new position was nursemaid to Ella. The story of their...
Author
Series
Fractured fables volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Featuring Arthur Rackham's original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, fractured and reimagined. It's Zinnia Gray's twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it's the last birthday she'll ever have. When she was young, an industrial accident left Zinnia with a rare condition. Not much is known about her illness, just that no-one has lived past twenty-one. Her best friend Charm is intent on making Zinnia's last birthday special with...
4) Cinderella
Publisher
VAI
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
5) Secretary
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lee has a few strikes against her when she applies for a secretarial position at the law office of E. Edward Grey. In between typing, filing and coffee making, Lee and Mr. Grey embark on a personal relationship together, crossing the line.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fall under the glorious spell of Disney's Ultimate Princess Fairy Tale! Pageantry and power spin together as Maleficent, one of imagination's most spectacular villains, sends the kingdom's beloved Princess Aurora into an enchanted sleep. In a grand legend that transcends time, Good Fairies arm brave Prince Phillip to defeat a fearsome fire-breathing dragon and rescue Aurora. But success in battle may not be enough, for the only way to awaken the Princess...
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Series
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English
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Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Haelewise has always lived under the shadow of her mother, Hedda--a woman who will do anything to keep her daughter protected. For with her strange black eyes and even stranger fainting spells, Haelewise is shunned by her village, and her only solace lies in the stories her mother tells of child-stealing witches, of princes in wolf-skins, of an ancient tower cloaked in mist, where women will find shelter if they are brave enough to seek it. Then,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cruel Angelo is left in charge of Vienna when the Duke pretends to leave town. Angelo revives an old law against fornication and sentences Claudio to death for seducing Juliet, Claudio's betrothed. Claudio's sister, Isabella, pleads for his life and Angelo offers to spare him in exchange for her virginity. Angelo's corruption and severity are punished when the Duke reveals that he has witnessed it all.
10) A mirror mended
Author
Series
Fractured fables volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Zinnia Gray, professional fairy-tale fixer and lapsed Sleeping Beauty is over rescuing snoring princesses. Once you've rescued a dozen damsels and burned fifty spindles, once you've gotten drunk with twenty good fairies and made out with one too many members of the royal family, you start to wish some of these girls would just get a grip and try solving their own narrative issues. Just when Zinnia's beginning to think she can't handle one more princess,...
11) Briarheart
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When Miriam's younger sister, Princess Aurora, is born, she must learn to harness her new magical powers to protect her sister and the kingdom"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This is an old story. It is about a girl named Otilla who runs away. It is also about a house in the woods, and a skull who lives there, and a secret the skull has, and the night that Otilla finds out what that secret is."--
13) Snow White
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1996.
Edition
First Scribner paperback fiction edition.
Physical Desc
186 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
An adult retelling of the classic fairy tale provides an absurd reflection of modern life.
14) Misrule
Author
Series
Malice duology volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Does true love break curses, or begin them? Sleeping Beauty's dark sorceress reclaims her story in this sequel to Malice. The Dark Grace is dead. Feared and despised for the sinister power in her veins, Alyce wreaks her revenge on the kingdom that made her an outcast. Once a realm of decadence and beauty, Briar is now wholly Alyce's wicked domain. And no one will escape the consequences of her wrath. Not even the one person who holds her heart. Princess...
16) Cats
Publisher
The Really Useful Group Limited ; b
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Commemorative edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Jellicle Cats gather in their junkyard, preparing for the Jellicle Ball, for this is the night when patriarch Old Deuteronomy will choose a cat to be reborn into a new life on the Heavyside Layer. There are stories, songs, and dances from Victoria the White Cat, Munkustrap, Rum Tum Tugger, Grizabella, Jemima, Gus the Theatre Cat, Jellylorum, Skimbleshanks, Macavity, Demeter and Bombalurina, Demeter, Alonzo, Mr. Mistoffelees, and others. The songs...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this fairy tale mixup, the Three Bears get an unexpected visit from Redlocks (otherwise known as Little Red Riding Hood) who has fled her book to get away from the wolf--and the Bears, with some help from the Three Little Pigs, need to mediate between Redlocks and the misunderstood wolf.
18) Someone like you
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen/full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After being dumped by her boyfriend, talk-show producer, Jane Goodale tries to figure out how men think and becomes a overnight success as a love guru.
20) As you like it
Author
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's play, a pastoral romance set in the Forest of Arden in medieval France.
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