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Series
Book of Lost Things volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""Twice upon a time -- for that is how some stories should continue..." Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident, a body without a spirit. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud the fairy stories Phoebe loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world. But an old house on the hospital grounds, a property connected to a book written by a vanished author, is calling to Ceres. Something wants...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
1940 - Stasia always found comfort in the idyllic French countryside where she spent her childhood summers, roaming the gardens of an old chateau and finding inspiration for fairy tales full of bravery and courage. But these days are much darker, and with Nazis storming across Europe, she soon finds herself one of the most hunted agents of the Resistance. The only safe haven she can think of is Chateau de Montissaire. But she's about to discover that...
Author
Series
Meant to be volume 3
Language
English
Description
In this contemporary reimagining of The Little Mermaid, Ariel del Mar and her six sisters have given their last performance together as Siren Seven. After 15 years in the spotlight, the band will be retiring and taking a year off. Ariel has always been the obedient daughter, and when she learns of her father's plan for her to launch as a solo star, she agrees only if her sisters still get their rest. Before the news is announced, she sneaks out to...
Author
Series
Norendy tales volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Shut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret, five friends--a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an owl--bicker, boast, and comfort one another in the dark. Individually, they dream of song and light, freedom and flight, purpose and glory, but they all agree they are part of a larger story, bound each to each by chance, bonded by the heart's mysteries. When at last their shared fate arrives, landing them on a mantel in a blue room...
Author
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after the witch in the gingerbread house, Greta and Hans are struggling to get by. Their mother and stepmother are long dead, Hans is deeply in debt from gambling, and the countryside lies in ruin, its people starving in the aftermath of a brutal war. Greta has a secret, though: the witch's grimoire, secreted away and whispering in Greta's ear for the past two decades, and the recipe inside that makes the best gingerbread you've ever...
Author
Series
Never after volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The League of Seven follows the yellow brick road to retrieve the sword of Excalibur and save Fil's mother from Olga's evil clutches.
Author
Series
Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 12
Publisher
Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
162 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The great war between Fabletown and the mighty empire of the Adversary is over, but the victorious free Fables cannot escape the law of unintended consequences--in the post-war chaos of the Adversary's former realm, a terrible force is about to be unleashed, an evil that threatens not only Fabletown, but the entire mundane world.
Author
Series
Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 1
Publisher
Vertigo/DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
228 pages : chiefly illustrations (all color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Prince Ambrose is released from trauma-induced amnesia and must pass a test after traveling through the lands of the dead in order to help Fabletown and the Homelands.
10) The last rose
Author
Series
Sisters ever after volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
To rescue her beautiful older sister from the vicious Beast, Mera enters the Beast’s eerie, magic-haunted castle, where nothing is quite what it seems, and must face dark secrets that have bound her village to the Beast for so long to set them all free.
11) The runaway dosa
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
It's time for breakfast, and Akka is hungry! When she reaches for another dosa before the rest of the family has been served, she triggers a magical spell that brings the dosa to life, and it sprints out the door. Akka will need the help of some powerful, mythological creatures to get her breakfast back! Inspired by Dosai! Amma, Dosai, a beloved Tamil rhyme, and a fantastical reimagination of the familiar Gingerbread Man story, this book offers a...
Author
Series
Once upon another time volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forced to live in a false happily ever after, Lena and the other giants must live as humans with no memory of their former lives until Lena hatches a plan to thwart the fairy queens' magic and save the genie Jin.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Cinderellla fairytale reimagining"--
My transformation from a poor, orphaned scullery maid into the enchantingly mysterious lady who snagged the heart of the prince did not happen--as the rumors insisted--in a magical metamorphosis of pumpkins and glass slippers. On the first evening of the ball, I didn't meekly help my "evil" stepmother and stepsisters primp and preen or watch forlornly out the window as their carriage rolled off toward the palace....
14) Red Riding Hood
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
One morning, young Ruby sets out to visit her grandma's house. She wears a Red Riding Hood to protect her from the forest's evil creatures. But will it? A hungry, old wolf has some evil plans of his own.
17) Cinderella
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Cinderella's wicked stepmother won't let her go to the ball. But with a little help from a Fairy Godmother, she'll be getting there in style. There's just one catch. At midnight, her magical gown will turn back into dirty old rags.
18) Rumpelstiltskin
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
To repay her father's debts, Mirabelle promises the King that she'll spin his straw into gold. An evil troll agrees to help her for a price. Now, Mirabelle must repay an even greater debt, unless she can guess the terrible creature's name.
Author
Series
Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 13
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
224 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this crossover of all the Fables characters from various spinoff books, Kevin Thorn, the creator of the world and its stories, is angry such liberties were taken with his characters and is determined to destroy the Fablesverse and start over. The regular Fables cast, Snow White, Bigby Wolf, and Jack (the one with the beanstalk)--with a few additions such as gun-toting embodiments of the library sciences and Thorn's son, Mister Revise--try to stop...
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