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81) The honey thief
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"A musician conjures stones to rise in the air and teaches his art to a mute child. Master Poisoner, Ghoroob of Mashad, has so perfected his craft that it is considered an honor to die from his meals. These are stories of magic and wonder in which ordinary people endure astonishing extremes in a world of bloodshed and brotherhood, miracles and catastrophes. With lyrical wit and profound simplicity, this reveals an Afghanistan of greater richness and...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An illustrated collection of traditional Russian folktales"--
This collection of folktales will sweep you away to the birch forests and ornate palaces of Russia. Blending whimsical magic with magnificient drama, these traditional stories come to life alongside intricate contemporary art in special illustrated edition. --Back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From predatory orcas powering through the waves to green anacondas ready to deliver a deadly squeeze, this book captures a variety of dangerous animals through stunning illustrations. You'll meet charging hippos, shocking eels, venomous snails, and poisonous frogs."--
85) The 10th kingdom
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
When Virginia (Kimberly Williams), a young New York waitress, befriends a dog that is actually a bewitched prince from a parallel universe, their two worlds collide. Virginia, her father (John Larroquette) and the dog prince are transported through a magic mirror to The Land of Nine Kingdoms. Along the way, Virginia falls in love with Wolf (Scott Cohen), a complicated half-man, half-wolf, and the foursome meet up with Cinderella, Snow White and a...
87) Yellowstone
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A captivating illustrated introduction to Yellowstone National Park, the world's oldest national park and one of the most intact ecosystems on the planet. For fans of Kate Siber's National Parks of the USA."Illustrations throughout evoke the park's natural beauty as well as the liveliness of its inhabitants and visitors, making it a place any reader will likely want to someday visit...A fact-filled exploration of one of the country's most important...
88) A place to grow
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Matt Walker returns home to face the death of his brother, selling the family farm and dealing with his neighbor who is married to Matt's high school sweetheart. The town sheriff and Matt soon begin to suspect that maybe his brother's death was not an accident.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Penguin Classics deluxe edition.
Language
English
Description
"For the 75th anniversary of her birth, a Deluxe Edition of the master of the literary supernatural's most celebrated book Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber--which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan's 1984 movie The Company of Wolves--she breathed new life...
91) Path of needles
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Alice Hyland is an expert on fairy tales--lecturing on the well-known stories and their lesser-known variants--and the natural choice for Police Constable Cate Corbin to consult when a dead girl is found in the woods dressed up as Snow White. Especially when the girl's grieving mother receives a parcel containing a glass bottle of blood stoppered with the dead girl's toe. Cate's boss, Detective Superintendent Heath, isn't convinced of the connection...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Snows of Kilimanjaro: Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Anna Karenina: A married woman finds true love in a man who isn't her husband.
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court: A young man dreams, after reading Mark Twain's classic novel of the same title, that he himself travels to King Arthur's court.
Tale of two cities: A British barrister falls in...
94) Arctic wolf pack
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
At the very northern edge of North America is Ellesmere Island, where the unforgiving Arctic winds tear through the tundra dipping temperatures to 50 below zero. But running through this shifting sea of snow and ice is one of the most hardened predators on the planet, the White Wolf.
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Here is a colorful year-by-year chronicle of music in the '30s, blended with chapters on broader topics - the jazz clubs on Swing Street, the Big Band boom - and spiced with interviews with major figures (such as Burton Lane and Lionel Hampton), who bring a vibrant first-hand feel to the narrative. From Gershwin's Porgy and Bess to Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, from Woody Guthrie to Ethel Merman, and from the Carioca to the Lindy Hop,...
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