Troll's-Eye View

Troll's-Eye View
Author: Ellen Datlow
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2009-04-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1101155507

Everyone thinks they know the real story behind the villains in fairy tales—but the villains themselves beg to differ. In Troll's-Eye View, you'll hear from the Giant's wife ("Jack and the Beanstalk"), Rumpelstiltskin, the oldest of the Twelve Dancing Princesses, and many more. A stellar lineup of authors, including Garth Nix, Jane Yolen, and Nancy Farmer, makes sure that these old stories do new tricks!

The Sea of Trolls

The Sea of Trolls
Author: Nancy Farmer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2008-12-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 184739731X

Jack is an apprentice bard and just beginning to learn the secrets of his mysterious master, when he and his little sister are captured by Viking chief, Olaf One-Brow, and taken to the court of Ivar the Boneless. Ivar is married to a half-troll named Frith, an evil and unpredictable queen with a strange power over her husband's court. Jack is sent on to the kingdom of the trolls, where he has to find the magical well and undo the charm he has cast on Frith. He is accompanied by Thorgill, a shield maiden, aged 12, who wants to be a berserker when she grows up. Together, they are set for a magical and exciting adventure.

Troll

Troll
Author: Johanna Sinisalo
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1555847374

This internationally acclaimed winner of the Finlandia Award is “a brilliant and dark parable about the fluid boundaries between human and animal” (The Boston Globe). Angel, a young photographer, comes home from a night of carousing to find a group of drunken teenagers in the courtyard of his apartment building, taunting a wounded, helpless young troll. He takes it in, not suspecting the dramatic consequences of this decision. What does one do with a troll in the city? As the troll’s presence influences Angel’s life in ways he could never have predicted, it becomes clear that the creature is the familiar of man’s most forbidden feelings. A novel of sparkling originality, Troll is a wry, beguiling story of nature and man’s relationship to wild things, and of the dark power of the wildness in ourselves. “[An] imaginative and engaging novel of urban fantasy . . . The stuff of ancient legend shadows with rather unnerving precision the course of unloosed postmodern desire.” —Chris Lehmann, The Washington Post Book World

I Am a Troll

I Am a Troll
Author: Swati Chaturvedi
Publisher: Juggernaut Books
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2016
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9386228092

Indian social media is awash with right-wing trolls who incite online communal tension and abuse anyone who questions them. But who are they? How are they organized? In this explosive investigation, conducted over two years, Swati Chaturvedi finally lifts the veil over this murky subject

The Trolls of Wall Street

The Trolls of Wall Street
Author: Nathaniel Popper
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2024-06-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0063205882

The dramatic story of an improbable gang of self-proclaimed “degenerates” who made WallStreetBets into a cultural movement that moved from the fringes of the internet to the center of Wall Street, upending the global financial markets and changing how an entire generation thinks about money, investing, and themselves. Jaime Rogozinski and Jordan Zazzara were not what anyone would mistake for traditional financial power players. But they turned WallStreetBets, a subreddit focused on risky financial trading, into one of the most disruptive forces to bubble up from the fringes of the internet. This crude and unassuming message board harnessed the power of memes and trolling to create a new kind of online community. The group intertwined with the distrust and turmoil of our times and spoke to a generation of young men who were struggling to find their place in the world. Deeply reported and fast moving, The Trolls of Wall Street is the suspenseful story of the people who made and lost millions, battling with each other—and with Wall Street—for power and status. It is a sobering account of how millions of young Americans became obsessed with money and the markets, casting a long and lasting influence over finance, politics, and popular culture.

Trolls

Trolls
Author: John Lindow
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1780232896

This book is a history of trolls from their first appearances in folk tales - some people reported actual encounters with trolls, and others found such encounters plausible even if they were not sure - and follows a natural transition from folklore to trolls in other domains of popular culture. Indeed, trolls would not be interesting had they not made this jump, first to illustrations in the Nordic book market, then on to Scandinavian literature and drama, and far beyond. Since then they have never gone away, and in their various guises they continue to appeal to the imagination around the world. From the Vikings to the Moomins, the Brothers Grimm and the Three Billy Goats Gruff, this book explores the panoply of trolls and their history and their continuing presence today

Hildafolk

Hildafolk
Author: Luke Pearson
Publisher: Nobrow Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9781907704048

A comic book great for kids or adults, filled with humour, adventure and thrills

The Shapeshifters

The Shapeshifters
Author: Stefan Spjut
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 595
Release: 2015
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 054408408X

Far off the grid in northern Sweden, a small network of people have been tasked with hiding the last remaining trolls from the public eye, and one young woman will do whatever it takes to bring the truth to light, in this literary thriller that is "intensely riveting and constantly surprising" (Karl-Ove Knausgard).

The Troll Book

The Troll Book
Author: Michael Berenstain
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 74
Release: 1980
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780394842950

Examines the distinctive features, habits, and neighbors of the troll.

Horns and Wrinkles

Horns and Wrinkles
Author: Joseph Helgerson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780618616794

How can you tell if a river's under a spell? River trolls, rock trolls, blue-wing fairies--the usual suspects--the stretch of the Mississippi where Claire lives has rumors of them all, not that she's ever spotted any. But then Claire's cousin Duke takes a swim and sprouts a horn--a long, pointy, handsome thing. After that, Claire doesn't have much choice but to believe that something rivery is going on, especially since she's the only one who can help Duke lose his new addition. In the tradition of grand river adventures, Joseph Helgerson's tale is as twisty and unpredictable as the Mississippi River itself, while an unusual cast of characters adds pepper to the pot. Readers of all ages will enjoy getting in--and out of--trouble with Claire and Duke in this nimble, sharp, and funny fantasy.