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| Author | : Shona Louise Webb |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 303 |
| Release | : 2012-05-14 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1471704459 |
Lisa was a fairly average, typical teenager. She got good grades, pleased her single-parent father, and lived by a lake she'd called home for her whole life. Until she discovered what her mother truly was. Lisa is part of a whole magickal society that few humans know exists. Lisa is a witch. She'll have to become part of this world and learn what it means to have magickal blood, and she'll have to learn to develop and control the powers that come with her roots. And to do that, she'll have to go to the Magick School of England. Join Lisa in her journey to discover all the secrets of this world. Join her as she befriends mythical creatures, learns spells and magickal history, seeks love and companionship and battles deadly creatures. And maybe even the truth will be revealed to her, about why her mother left.
| Author | : Todd Calgi Gallicano |
| Publisher | : Permuted Press |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 2021-04-13 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1682619885 |
In Sam London’s third adventure with the Department of Mythical Wildlife, the boy who saw the gryphon will face his greatest fear. Following the heartbreaking conclusion of his second case, Sam has spent his days searching for the swan maiden. Driven by his belief the maiden is still alive, he sets out with Dr. Vance Vantana and Tashi on a forbidden quest to reunite his family. But the journey is long and treacherous and will lead them through the lair of the Mongolian Death Worm—a terrifying creature that has broken the Gryphon’s Law and is attacking anyone who dares to cross its path. And if this wasn’t enough, an old enemy from Vance’s past returns to exact a revenge that will doom all of humankind. With the future of his family and the fate of the world at stake, Sam must make an impossible choice that will change the course of his life and those he loves forever. Can Sam right a wrong or will Gaia, itself, decide to fight back?
| Author | : Mercedes Lackey |
| Publisher | : Astra Publishing House |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2000-05-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101119063 |
After his wife's untimely death, a powerful sorcerer dedicates his life to seeking revenge against all womankind. He turns his captives into beautiful swans--who briefly regain human form by the fleeting light of the moon. Only Odette, noblest of the enchanted flock, has the courage to confront her captor. But can she gain the allies she needs to free herself and the other swan-maidens from their magical slavery?A monumental tale of loyalty and betrayal, of magic good and evil, of love both carnal and pure, and of the duality of human nature, The Black Swan is a rich tapestry which is sure to become an all-time masterpiece of fantasy.
| Author | : Barbara Fass Leavy |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 387 |
| Release | : 1995-07-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0814752683 |
In her compendious study, [of the folktale of the runaway wife] Leavy argues that the contradictory claims of nature and culture are embodied in the legendary figure of the swan maiden, a woman torn between the human and bestial worlds. --The New York Times Book Review This is a study of the meaning of gender as framed by the swan maiden tale, a story found in the folklore of virtually every culture. The swan maiden is a supernatural woman forced to marry, keep house, and bear children for a mortal man who holds the key to her imprisonment. When she manages to regain this key, she escapes to the otherworld, never to return. These tales have most often been interpreted as depicting exogamous marriages, describing the girl from another tribe trapped in a world where she will always be the outsider. Barbara Fass Leavy believes that, in the societies in which the tale and its variants endured, woman was the other--the outsider trapped in a society that could never be her own. Leavy shows how the tale, though rarely explicitly recognized, is frequently replayed in modern literature. Beautifully written, this book reveals the myriad ways in which the folktales of a society reflect its cultural values, and particularly how folktales are allegories of gender relations. It will interest anyone involved in literary, gender, and cultural studies.
| Author | : Gregory Maguire |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2020-10-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0062980807 |
After brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked turns his unconventional genius to Hans Christian Andersen's "The Wild Swans," transforming this classic tale into an Italian-American girl's poignant coming-of-age story, set amid the magic of Christmas in 1960s New York. Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the new year begins, Laura may find herself at boarding school in Montreal. Nearly unmoored from reality through her panic and submerged grief, Laura is startled when a handsome swan boy with only one wing lands on her roof. Hiding him from her ever-bickering grandparents, Laura tries to build the swan boy a wing so he can fly home. But the task is too difficult to accomplish herself. Little does Laura know that her struggle to find help for her new friend parallels that of her grandparents, who are desperate for a distant relative’s financial aid to save the family store. As he explores themes of class, isolation, family, and the dangerous yearning to be saved by a power greater than ourselves, Gregory Maguire conjures a haunting, beautiful tale of magical realism that illuminates one young woman’s heartbreak and hope as she begins the inevitable journey to adulthood.
| Author | : Hans Christian Andersen |
| Publisher | : Golden Books |
| Total Pages | : 26 |
| Release | : 2014-07-22 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0553509489 |
From the Golden Book archives comes a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, gloriously illustrated by Gordon Laite in the late 1960s but never published until now! Gordon Laite’s breathtaking artwork for a Little Golden Book edition of the Andersen fairy tale was found recently in the Golden Books archive. Planned for a 1970 release but never published, this Little Golden Book is finally making its debut for today’s fairy tale fans! And it couldn’t be a lovelier retelling of the story of a determined princess whose loyalty saves her brothers from being turned into swans by an evil queen.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Boyds Mills Press |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Fairy tales |
| ISBN | : 9781590780565 |
A king's daughter undertakes a difficult task to rescue her six brothers from the enchantment imposed on them by their wicked stepmother.
| Author | : Ellen Datlow |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 140 |
| Release | : 2012-03-20 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1442460407 |
Just as fairy-tale magic can transform a loved one into a swan, the contributors to this book have transformed traditional fairy tales and legends into stories that are completely original, yet still tantalizingly familiar In the follow-up to A Wolf at the Door, thirteen renowned authors come together with a selection of new and surprising adaptations of the fairy tales we think we know so well. These fresh takes on classic tales will show you sides of each story you never dreamed of.
| Author | : Michael Cunningham |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 145 |
| Release | : 2015-11-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0374712603 |
Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hours A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away—the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder—are transformed by Michael Cunningham into stories of sublime revelation. Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed: the years after a spell is broken, the rapturous instant of a miracle unexpectedly realized, or the fate of a prince only half cured of a curse. The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, buying smokes and a Slim Jim, his devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A malformed little man with a knack for minor acts of wizardry goes to disastrous lengths to procure a child. A loutish and lazy Jack prefers living in his mother's basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans. Reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu, rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true.
| Author | : Veronica Scott |
| Publisher | : Veronica Scott |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
~Two fantasy romance tales by USA Today bestselling author Veronica Scott and Eli Donovan~ ***The Swan and Her Wolf by Veronica Scott An exciting new novella from USA Today Bestselling author Veronica Scott! Princess Mairi has been cursed by an unknown enemy, forced to turn into a swan at random times of the day and night. Desperate to be free of her affliction, she goes to the Witch Queen’s court to beg for help. An all important marriage of state is pending for Mairi, and her family is counting on the rich suitor’s bride price to fill their coffers. But the would-be groom would never marry her if he knew of the curse. Wolf Shifter Cade senses something uncanny about Mairi when they meet at Court, and he’s fascinated by the charming princess. His attempts to learn her secret and then to help Mairi with her troubles bring the two of them dangerously close together. His wolf insists she’s his fated mate, and Mairi finds him irresistible…but her duties as princess stand in the way of any true happiness. Will the curse be lifted? And will the couple be able to achieve their Happy Ever After? ***The Swan's Prince by Eli Donovan An irresistible new short novel in the beloved fairy tale world of Eli Donovan… On a remote island, the swan-shifter Odette grapples with her father's dark schemes as he forces her to use her magic for his own ends. When he steals her power to sink a ship and kill almost all hands onboard, she resolves to thwart his future plans by any means necessary. Meanwhile, Tristan, a nobleman from a neighboring country, survives the uncanny shipwreck and soon finds himself entangled in Odette's world of mystery and danger. Odette is irresistibly drawn to Tristan, but she's cursed to be a swan by day and a human only by night. How can they possibly be together if she's living only a half-life as a human? As their bond deepens, they must confront their pasts, trust each other with their secrets and, hopefully, find their way toward a future together.
