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  Door in the Hedge

  by Robin McKinley

  Master storyteller Robin McKinley here spins two new fairy tales and retells two cherished classics. All feature princesses touched with or by magic. There is Linadel, who lives in a kingdom next to Faerieland, where princesses are stolen away on their seventeenth birthdays-and Linadel's seventeenth birthday is tomorrow. And Korah, whose brother is bewitched by the magical Golden Hind; now it is up to her to break... (more)
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  The Foundling

  by Lloyd Alexander

  The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions! Since The Book of Three was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone... (more)
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  The Stories of Alice Adams

  by Alice Adams

  In her long and illustrious career, Alice Adams turned the short story into an art form by offering telling glimpses into the lives of "ordinary people made extraordinary by <her> perception" (Newsweek). Now, with this posthumous compilation, readers can become reacquainted with Þfty-three of Adams's best-loved stories, culled from her Þve award-winning collections. A Þtting tribute -- and an... (more)
• COLLECTED SHORT STORIES OF CONRAD AIKENConrad Aiken

  

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  COLLECTED SHORT STORIES OF CONRAD AIKEN

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• Fair Augusto and Other Stories (The Graywolf Short Fiction Series)Laura Kalpakian

  

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  Fair Augusto and Other Stories (The Graywolf Short Fiction Series)

  by Laura Kalpakian

  Kalpakian, author of the novel These Latter Days ( LJ 2/1/85), here gives us a collection of short fiction. In it she deals unerringly with several worlds: immigrant, intellectual, blue-collar, American, foreign. Many of the stories concern the death of love, sometimes from the viewpoint of the one who leaves, sometimes of the one who is left. In "Fair Augusto," Jessie McCarren, married, presently living in... (more)