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The Book of Lost Things
by John Connolly
New York Times bestselling author John Connolly's unique imagination takes readers through the end of innocence into adulthood and beyond in this dark and triumphantly creative novel of grief and loss, loyalty and love and the redemptive power of stories. High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those... (more)
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The Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty: Book 1
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
The First of the Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty
by A. N. Roquelaure, Anne Rice
Rice writing as A. N. Roquelaure. In the traditional folk tale "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. Anne Rice's retelling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire.
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The Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty: Book 2
Beauty's Punishment
The Second of the Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty
by A. N. Roquelaure, Anne Rice
An erotic novel of discipline, love, and surrender for the enjoyment of men and women. This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty , the first of Anne Rice's elegantly written volumes of erotica, continues her explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire. Now Beauty, having indulged in a secret and forbidden infatuation with the rebellious slave Prince Tristan, is sent away from the... (more)
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Dust City
by Robert Paul Weston
Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? His son, that's who. Ever since his fathers arrest for the murder of Little Red Riding Hood, teen wolf Henry Whelp has kept a low profile in a Home for Wayward Wolves . . . until a murder at the Home leads Henry to believe his father may have been framed. Now, with the help of his kleptomaniac roommate, Jack, and a daring she-wolf named Fiona, Henry will have to venture deep... (more)
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The Wicked Years: Book 1
Wicked
The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
by Gregory Maguire
When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about a land where... (more)
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Fairytale Retellings: Book 2
Sweetly
by Jackson Pearce
SWEETLY is a modernization of Hansel and Gretel and a companion book to SISTERS RED.Twelve years ago, Gretchen, her twin sister, and her brother went looking for a witch in the forest. They found something. Maybe it was a witch, maybe a monster, they aren’t sure—they were running too fast to tell. Either way, Gretchen’s twin sister was never seen again.Years later, after being thrown out of... (more)
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Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister
by Gregory Maguire
Is this new land a place where magic really happens? From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of Wicked, comes his much-anticipated second novel, a brilliant and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella tale. In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings.... When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats.... We... (more)
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Briar Rose
by Jane Yolen
A powerful retelling of Sleeping Beauty that is “heartbreaking and heartwarming.” An American Library Association “100 Best Books for Teens” An American Library Association “Best Books for Young Adults” Ever since she was a child, Rebecca has been enchanted by her grandmother Gemma’s stories about Briar Rose. But a promise Rebecca makes to her dying grandmother will lead her on a remarkable journey to uncover... (more)
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The Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty: Book 3
Beauty's Release
The Conclusion of the Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty
by A. N. Roquelaure, Anne Rice
In the final volume of Anne Rice's deliciously tantalizing erotic trilogy, Beauty's adventures on the dark side of sexuality make her the bound captive of an Eastern Sultan and a prisoner in the exotic confines of his harem. As this voluptuous adult fairy tale moves toward conclusion, all of Beauty's encounters with the myriad variations of sexual fantasy are presented in a sensuous, rich prose that intensifies... (more)
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Nursery Crimes: Book 1
The Big Over Easy
by Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde does it again with a dazzling new series starring Inspector Jack Spratt, head of the Nursery Crime Division Jasper Fforde’s bestselling Thursday Next series has delighted readers of every genre with its literary derring-do and brilliant flights of fancy. In The Big Over Easy , Fforde takes a break from classic literature and tumbles into the seedy underbelly of nursery crime. Meet... (more)
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The Looking Glass Wars: Book 1
The Looking Glass Wars
by Frank Beddor
Alice in Wonderland, Alice falls down a rabbit hole and ends up in wonderland...not so imaginary a place as we all imagined. Welcome to the real wonderland, where Alice is Alyss and her parents are cruelly murdered by Aunt Redd. Alyss must defeat Redd and navigate her Looking Glass Maze all before it's too late. Though it isn't just as simple as that, when Alyss first flees to our world for safety, her imagination... (more)
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Alice
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too, are Carroll's delightful verses such as The Walrus and the Carpenter and the inspired jargon of that masterly Wordsworthian parody, The Jabberwocky.
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Twilight
by William Gay
From the acclaimed author of Provinces of Night, a Southern gothic novel about an undertaker who won’t let the dead rest. Suspecting that something is amiss with their father’s burial, teenager Kenneth Tyler and his sister Corrie venture to his gravesite and make a horrific discovery: their father, a whiskey bootlegger, was not actually buried in the casket they bought for him. Worse, they learn that the... (more)
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White as Snow
by Tanith Lee
Once upon a time there was a mirror. . . . So begins this dark, unusual retelling of the story of Snow White by the writer reviewers have called “the Angela Carter of the fantasy field”—a whole novel based on a beloved story, turning it into a dark and sensual drama full of myth and magic. Arpazia is the aging queen who paces the halls of a warlord’s palace. Cold as winter, she has only one passion—for the... (more)
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Fairytale Retellings: Book 1
Sisters Red
by Jackson Pearce
The story of Scarlett and Rosie March, two highly-skilled sisters who have been hunting Fenris (werewolves) -- who prey on teen girls -- since Scarlett lost her eye years ago while defending Rosie in an attack that killed their Grandma, their only real guardian. Now Scarlett lives to destroy the Fenris, and she and Rosie lure them in with their long flowing red cloaks (a color the wolves can't resist), though... (more)
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The Third Pig Detective Agency: Book 1
The Third Pig Detective Agency
by Bob Burke
Harry Pigg, the only surviving brother from the Big Bad Wolf attacks, has set up business as a private detective in Grimmtown, only things aren't going too well. Down on his luck, with bills to pay and no clients in sight, the outlook is poor. But then in walks local businessman Aladdin who needs someone to help him track down an old lamp. What follows is far from an open-and-shut case. Funny, thrilling, and... (more)
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The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
by Jon Scieszka
"Parodic humor here runs riot...irrepressibly zany fun!" -- Kirkus * Caldecott Honor Book * An ABBY Honor Book * Publishers Weekly Top Selling Kids Books of All Time List * ALA Notable Children's Book * New York Times Notable Book of the Year * New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year * School Library Journal Best Books of the Year * Booklist Children's Editors' Choice, "Top of the... (more)
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The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
by Jon Scieszka
In this spin off of the original fairy tale, Alexander T. Wolf gives the readers his account on what really happened in the story of The Three Little Pigs. It all started with a sneeze and a cup of sugar.
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Mirror Mirror
by Gregory Maguire
The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives perched high above the rolling hills and valleys of Tuscany and Umbria at Montefiore, the farm of her beloved father, Don Vicente. But one day a noble entourage makes its way up the winding slopes to the farm -- and the world comes to Montefiore. In the presence of Cesare Borgia and his sister, the lovely and vain Lucrezia -- decadent children of a... (more)
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The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
by Eugene Trivizas
When it comes time for the three little wolves to go out into the world and build themselves a house, their mother warns them to beware the big bad pig. But the little wolves' increasingly sturdy dwellings are no match for the persistent porker, who has more up his sleeve than huffing and puffing. It takes a chance encounter with a flamingo pushing a wheelbarrow full of flowers to provide a surprising and... (more)

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