The Tear Fairy’S Jar

The Tear Fairy’S Jar
Author: Zaneta Heng
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2017-06-27
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1543741800

The Music Box Claire de Lune was our tune our embrace a faded trace your music is missing i twirl alone no companion im on my own Yang went Yin stayed You left and I died

Penelope’s Odyssey

Penelope’s Odyssey
Author: Tina Nicodemo
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2023-11-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1039182798

Penelope’s big-city dreams aren’t turning out exactly as she planned. When she moved away from her family and their small business, she envisioned a life creating fantastical events and taking advantage of all the things New York has to offer. She certainly didn’t see herself making collection calls and being yelled at all day, but she has to do something to pay the rent. She has one good friend at the office, Stella, and they come to the realization that in order for them to make their fantasies a reality, they must take their futures into their own hands. They make a pact that they will get out of this dead-end job and finally strike out to their desired careers. On that same day, Penny has a chance encounter with a kind man and woman on the subway—a couple she has admired on her daily, monotonous commute because they express so much love and affection for one another. She chases after them when they leave an item on the subway car, and in return, they invite her for dinner, which turns into offers of so much more. A career, a chance at love, and an opportunity to show her true self to the world. But is Penny brave enough to step out of the darkness and into the light?

House of Love

House of Love
Author: Dahlia MacEachern
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2023-01-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1039147488

Can the haloxias survive in a brand-new world? When they arrive at their destination, they must start from square one. Everything is new to them: even the basic tenets of survival feel out of reach. Their number one goal is to stay alive. The longer they spend on earth, the more in tune they become with the humans that inhabit it. There is evil all around, but there is also good. While some creatures want only to abuse others, other creatures seek out and consume these evil people to rid the world of their energy. In this ongoing battle between good and evil, will the haloxias be able to find their place? More than that—will they live to see the outcome?

How to Fracture a Fairy Tale

How to Fracture a Fairy Tale
Author: Jane Yolen
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2018-11-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1616963077

“This collection is Jane Yolen at her best. This is magic.”—Patricia C. Wrede, author of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles Fantasy icon Jane Yolen (The Devil’s Arithmetic, Briar Rose, Sister Emily’s Lightship) is adored by generations of readers of all ages. Now she triumphantly returns with this inspired gathering of fractured fairy tales and legends. Yolen breaks open the classics to reveal their crystalline secrets: a philosophical bridge that misses its troll, a spinner of straw as a falsely accused moneylender, the villainous wolf adjusting poorly to retirement. Each of these offerings features a new author note and original poem, illuminating tales that are old, new, and brilliantly refined.

Fairy-Tale Science

Fairy-Tale Science
Author: Suzanne Magnanini
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2008-05-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1442692375

Between 1550 and 1650, Europe was swept by a fascination with wondrous accounts of monsters and other marvels - of valiant men slaying dragons, women giving birth to animals, young girls growing penises, and all manner of fantastic phenomena. Known as 'fairy tales,' these stories had many guises and inhabited a variety of literary texts. The first two collections of such fairy tales published on the continent, Giovan Francesco Straparola's Le piacevoli notti and Giambattista Basile's Lo cunto de li cunti, were greeted with much enthusiasm at home and abroad and essentially established a new literary genre. Contrary to popular thought, Italy, not Germany or France, was the birthplace of the literary fairy tale. This fascination with the marvellous also extended to the worlds of science, medicine, philosophy, and religion, and many treatises from the period focused on discussions of monsters, demons, magic, and witchcraft. In Fairy-Tale Science Suzanne Magnanini looks at these 'science fictions' and explores the birth and evolution of the literary fairy tale in the context of early modern discourses on the monstrous. She demonstrates how both the normative literary theories of the Italian intellectual establishment and the emerging New Science limited the genre's success on its native soil. Natural philosophers, physicians, and clergymen positioned the fairy tale in opposition in opposition to science, fixing it as a negative pole in a binary system, one which came to define both a new type of scientific inquiry and the nascent literary genre. Magnanini also suggests that, by identifying their literary production with the monstrous and the feminine, Straparola and Basile contributed to the marginalization of the new genre. A wide-ranging yet carefully crafted study, Fairy-Tale Science investigates the complex interplay between scientific discourse and an emerging literary genre, and expands our understanding of the early modern European imagination.

Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture

Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture
Author: Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2015-12-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1137342404

Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as well as how popular science books used fairies to explain natural history at a time when 'nature' became a much debated word.

The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales

The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2012-04-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0486145964

Nine charming, sensitive stories: "The Happy Prince," "The Selfish Giant," "The Star-Child," "The Nightingale and the Rose," "The Birthday of the Infanta," "The Remarkable Rocket," "The Devoted Friend," more.

Сказки. Кентервильское привидение / Fairy Tales. The Canterville Ghost

Сказки. Кентервильское привидение / Fairy Tales. The Canterville Ghost
Author: Оскар Уайльд
Publisher: Litres
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2017-09-27
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 5040821921

Серия «Читаю иллюстрированную классику в оригинале» – это любимые читателями произведения на языке оригинала, дополненные прекрасными иллюстрациями известных художников. С ними легко погрузиться в атмосферу описываемой эпохи – ведь они оформлены в стиле иллюстрированных изданий XIX века. Книги серии «Читаю иллюстрированную классику в оригинале» предназначены всем, кто любит читать классические произведения на английском языке.Почему несчастен Счастливый принц? Как вырастить небывалую красную розу? Можно ли играть в саду злого Великана? Кто кого выживет из старинного замка: сэр Саймон – новых хозяев или американское семейство – родового призрака? Прекрасные волшебные сказки Оскара Уайльда и его повесть «Кентервильское привидение» оформлены великолепными иллюстрациями, которые очаровывают и завораживают, как и его слог.

Fairy Tale Flirts 2! 5 Romantic Short Stories

Fairy Tale Flirts 2! 5 Romantic Short Stories
Author: Lisa Scott
Publisher: Lisa Scott
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2014-11-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

Fairy Tale Flirts 2! Five Romantic Short Stories Five favorite fairy tales transformed into modern love stories that unfold on Neverland Island, a fictional summertime amusement park. The magic in these tales comes from the heart, not a wand. The sweet, romantic short stories stand alone, but also connect to the others in the collection.. Finish one on your lunch break, enjoy one during your kid’s soccer practice, or stay up late and read them all at once. There are no rules! (For maximum enjoyment, read Fairy Tale Flirts! first.) Stories include: “Sweet Talker” 11,000 words A modern take on Hansel and Gretel. Hans and Greta are neighbors who’ve been secretly crushing on each other for years. Her mother and his father are lovers and business partners, pickling produce together—and they’ve disappeared. With a million dollar deal on the line for their recipes, Hans and Greta have to find them. They think the amusement park on Neverland Island is a good place to start searching. And it might be the perfect place for Greta to move her relationship with Hans to the next level—if she can get him out of the clutches of the sexy peddler whose lured him into working at her X-rated candy store. “Let Down Your Hair” 10,000 words A modern take on Rapunzel. Rachel has spent most of her years on the road with her mother, working in carnival sideshows. She plays the role of Rapunzel—the princess with the world’s longest hair, waiting for her prince to arrive. But Rachel longs for a different life. When a literal knight in shining armor appears in the audience at her show, he might be the key to freeing her from her confining world and her conniving mother. “Wake Me With A Kiss” 11,000 words A modern take on Sleeping Beauty. Frightened by a prediction that their daughter Aurora would die in a car crash, her family moved from the country to the city so she could stay out of cars and use public transportation. At age ten she left behind her best friend, Jordan. Years later, when the move fails to keep her safe, Aurora ends up in a coma. Jordan is now a doctor working in her hospital, and he’ll do whatever he can to save her. Is it too late for these childhood sweethearts to reunite? “Wet and Wild” 11,000 words A modern take on The Little Mermaid. Elle’s a world-champion water-skier starring as a mermaid in her family's show on Neverland Island. When she spots a gorgeous guy in the crowd watching her, she’s determined to meet him. So she sneaks off for a day, letting her rival take her spot as the mermaid. Turns out, the guy’s the new manager of the park, and he’s been dying to meet the mermaid. If Elle reveals it's really her and that she ditched the show for a day, she jeopardizes her family’s job at the park. But keeping quiet means letting him date her rival. “Say My Name” 9,000 words A modern take on Rumplestiltskin. Colleen is determined to find the scam artist who conned his way into her sister’s heart—and her wallet. All she knows is that he’s running a gold scam at Neverland Island and that he’s hot. So she trolls the amusement park and quickly finds him. Only she didn’t plan on falling in love. Can she take down the bad guy without breaking her heart? This is the 8th volume in the Flirts! collection. Check out Flirts!, Beach Flirts!, Holiday Flirts!, Fairy Tale Flirts!, Wedding Flirts!, More Flirts!, and Reunion Flirts! Look for Office Flirts! in fall 2013. You might also enjoy Lisa’s novella, Spouse Hunting, and her Willowdale Romance novels featuring No Foolin’, a Holt Medallion award of merit winner and Man of the Month.