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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Journey into the Hinterland, a brutal and beautiful world. Among those you'll meet are a young woman who spends a night with Death; brides wed to a mysterious house in the trees; and an enchantress who is killed twice and still lives. -- adapted from back cover
Author
Series
Hazel Wood series volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get.
Author
Language
English
Description
On seeing her portrait, a servant girl modelling for an artist in 17th century Holland realizes she is ugly. But the portrait opens her eyes to the world of art, she becomes a painter and is transformed by her work so that when a prince charming appears she is no longer ugly.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the internationally bestselling A Man Called Ove, a charming, warmhearted novel about a young girl whose grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters, sending her on a journey that brings to life the world of her grandmother's fairy tales"--
6) Dark shimmer
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A retelling of Snow White from the evil step mother's point of view as fifteen-year-old Dolce grows up on islands in a Venetian lagoon where she learns how to make mirrors, but when her mother dies she is taken in by a widower and his daughter while she secretly continues making mirrors and slowly goes mad from mercury poisoning.
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume Related works
Language
English
Description
This collection of stories, written for peculiar eyes only, presents unusual folklore that are a formative part of the upbringing of peculiar children everywhere. Encoded within their pages are the locations of hidden loops, the secret identities of certain important peculiars, and other information that could aid a peculiar's survival in this hostile world. The stories are annotated with historical and contextual insights that Nullings himself found...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep.
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart — he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build...
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart — he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build...
11) Rose daughter
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay, and through her love he is released from the curse that had turned him from man to beast.
12) The great hunt
Author
Series
Eurona duology volume 1
Language
English
Description
When a savage beast attacks in Eurona, the king proclaims that whoever kills the creature will win the hand of his daughter, Princess Aerity, but things get complicated when Aerity grows fond of a specific, royals-eschewing hunter, Paxton Seabolt.
Author
Series
Cursebreaker series volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Emberfall is crumbling fast, torn between those who believe Rhen is the rightful prince and those who are eager to begin a new era under Grey, the true heir. Grey has agreed to wait two months before attacking Emberfall, and in that time, Rhen has turned away from everyone--even Harper, as she desperately tries to help him find a path to peace. Meanwhile, Lia Mara struggles to rule Syhl Shallow with a gentler hand than her mother. But after enjoying...
14) White as snow
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
16) Goose chase
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl endures imprisonment, capture by several ogresses, and other dangers, before learning exactly who she is.
18) Ash
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 356 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this collection, award-winning and bestselling authors reimagine their favorite classic stories, the ones that have inspired, awed, and enraged them, the ones that have become ingrained in modern culture, and the ones that have been too long overlooked"--Dust jacket flap.
20) Wicked saints
Author
Series
Something dark and holy volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
An instant New York Times bestseller!
A girl who can speak to gods must save her people without destroying herself.
A prince in danger must decide who to trust.
A boy with a monstrous secret waits in the wings.
Together, they must assassinate the king and stop the war.
In a centuries-long war where beauty and brutality meet, their three paths entwine in a shadowy world of spilled blood and mysterious saints, where
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