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Black Thorn, White Rose

by Terri Windling, Ellen Datlow

Once Upon A Time . . . A seduced prince willingly fell prey to a sensuous usurper's erotic treacheries . . . a flesh-eating ogre gamboled in the footlights . . . a gingerbread man fled in terror from the baking pan to the fire . . . The award-winning editors of Snow White, Blood Red return us to distinctly adult realms of myth and the fantastic -- with eighteen wondorous works that cloak the magical... (more)

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears

by Terri Windling, Ellen Datlow

"Once upon a time ..." So begin the classic fairy tales that enthralled and terrified us as children. Now, in their third critically acclaimed collection of original fairy tales for adults, World Fantasy Award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling bring us twenty-one new stories by some of the top names in literature today. Joyce Carol Oates, Gahan Wilson, Gene Wolfe, Tanith Lee, Neil Gaiman -- these... (more)

Silver Birch, Blood Moon

by Terri Windling, Ellen Datlow

The four previous volumes in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's anthology series of fairly tales retold with a distinctively modern edge have been hailded by reviewers as "brilliant," "provocative," and "disturbing." In this triumphant new collection of original fiction, twenty-one of today's leading writers spin the cherished fables of childhood into glittering gold--offering magical tales for adults, as seductive... (more)

The Fairy Tale

Tam Lin

by Pamela Dean

In the ancient Scottish ballad "Tam Lin," headstrong Janet defies Tam Lin to walk in her own land of Carterhaugh . . . and then must battle the Queen of Faery for possession of her lover’s body and soul. In this version of "Tam Lin," masterfully crafted by Pamela Dean, Janet is a college student, "Carterhaugh" is Carter Hall at the university where her father teaches, and Tam Lin is a boy named Thomas Lane.... (more)

Tam Lin

by Jane Yolen

A young girl triumphs over the Queen of Faeries to reclaim her ancestral home and free her true love in this haunting retelling of an old Scottish ballad. “Mikolaycak’s illustrations...attract attention yet do not overpower the story, making the book one that could be easily used as a picture story book presentation for middle- and upper-grade or even adult audiences.”-The Horn Book

Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China (Paperstar Book)

Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China (Paperstar Book)

by Ed Young, Ai-Ling Louie

"A misty dreamlike air. A worthwhile addition to picture-book collections."-- Booklist. A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award Winner. An ALA Notable Children's Book. A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. An IRA Children's Choice. An IRA Teachers' Choice. Full color.

The Fairy's Mistake (Princess Tales)

by Gail Carson Levine, Charles Perrault

Gail Carson Levine charmed the world with Ella Enchanted , her spirited retelling of the Cinderella story. Now this award-winning author turns her attention to two more classic fairy tales, and deftly turns them upside down and inside out with her trademark wit and hilarity. In The Fairy's Mistake , two very different sisters have two very different encounters with the fairy Ethelinda. Rosella is kind and... (more)

Sleeping Ugly

by Diane Stanley, Jane Yolen

When beautiful Princess Miserella, Plain Jane, and a fairy fall under a sleeping spell, a prince undoes the spell in a surprising way.

Snow White, Blood Red (Avonova Book)

by Terri Windling, Ellen Datlow

Once upon a time, fairy tales were for children . . . But no longer. You hold in your hands a volume of wonders -- magical tales of trolls and ogres, of bewitched princesses and kingdoms accursed, penned by some of the most acclaimed fantasists of our day. But these are not bedtime stories designed to usher an innocent child gently into a realm of dreams. These are stories that bite -- lush and erotic, often... (more)

Twice upon a Time

by Josepha Sherman

How would Little Red Riding Hood's story play if we heard it from the viewpoint of the wolf, and what's the real scuttlebutt about the seven dwarves? Whether they're told to us as bedtime treats or viewed as Disney movies, fairy tales fuel our imagination. Now fantasy's finest indulge themselves and offer us some wonderful new versions of these treasured tales. Maybe the wolf should get to eat at least one little... (more)

How to Read Darwin (How to Read)

by Mark Ridley

Intent on letting the reader experience the pleasure and intellectual stimulation in reading classic authors, the How to Read series will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon. Charles Darwin’s permanent legacy is his broad, abstract theories of evolution and natural selection, theories that he tested against an astonishing array of natural history evidence in his writing. Mark... (more)

The Seventh Swan

by Nicholas Stuart Gray

Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher: Reflections on His Creativity

Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher: Reflections on His Creativity

by Irving Singer

Shortlisted for the 2008 Kraszna-Krausz Award for the Best Moving Image Book. Known for their repeating motifs and signature tropes, the films of Ingmar Bergman also contain extensive variation and development. In these reflections on Bergman's artistry and thought, Irving Singer discerns distinctive themes in Bergman's filmmaking, from first intimations in the early work to consummate resolutions in the... (more)

Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology)

Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology)

by Robert C. Richardson

Human beings, like other organisms, are the products of evolution. Like other organisms, we exhibit traits that are the product of natural selection. Our psychological capacities are evolved traits as much as are our gait and posture. This much few would dispute. Evolutionary psychology goes further than this, claiming that our psychological traits—including a wide variety of traits, from mate preference and... (more)

Little Red Hood: A classic story, bent out of shapeTony Ross

Little Red Hood: A classic story, bent out of shape

by Tony Ross

Latin American Spanish (Lonely Planet Phrasebooks)

Latin American Spanish (Lonely Planet Phrasebooks)

by Roberto Esposto

Speak the right lingo in country after country, for over 5,000 miles! This book covers the local Spanish of: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay & Venezuela. For additional travel in the region, see Lonely Planet's Mexican Spanish, Costa Rican Spanish and Quechua Phrasebooks. Our... (more)

Beauty : A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

Beauty : A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

by Robin McKinley

A strange imprisonment Beauty has never liked her nickname. She is thin and awkward; it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. But what she lacks in looks, she can perhaps make up for in courage. When her father comes home with the tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and the terrible promise he had to make to the Beast who lives there, Beauty knows she must go to the castle, a prisoner of her own... (more)

Introducing Arguments (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs)

Introducing Arguments (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs)

by Liina Pylkka?nen

This concise work offers a compositional theory of verbal argument structure in natural languages that focuses on how arguments that are not "core" arguments of the verb (arguments that are not introduced by verbal roots themselves) are introduced into argument structures. Liina Pylkkänen shows that the type of argument structure variation that allows additional noncore arguments is a pervasive property of human... (more)

Elemental Masters: Book 3

Phoenix and Ashes (Elemental Masters)

by Mercedes Lackey

In this dark and atmospheric rendition of the Cinderella fairy tale, an intelligent young Englishwoman is made into a virtual slave by her evil stepmother. Her only hope of rescue comes in the shape of a scarred World War I pilot of noble blood, whose own powers over the elements are about to be needed more than ever.

Firebird

by Mercedes Lackey

A young nobleman glimpses the legendary Firebird as it steals cherries from his father's orchards, and he journeys through a fantastical version of Old Russia to find the Firebird and fall in love.

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by Terri Windling, Ellen Datlow

by Terri Windling, Ellen Datlow

by Terri Windling, Ellen Datlow

by Pamela Dean

by Jane Yolen

by Ed Young, Ai-Ling Louie

by Gail Carson Levine, Charles Perrault

by Diane Stanley, Jane Yolen

by Terri Windling, Ellen Datlow

by Josepha Sherman

by Mark Ridley

by Nicholas Stuart Gray

by Irving Singer

by Robert C. Richardson

by Tony Ross

by Roberto Esposto

by Robin McKinley

by Liina Pylkka?nen

by Mercedes Lackey

by Mercedes Lackey