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5281) Lightning Scarred
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Twice a year, a portal to the magical land of Thule opens to Arctic adventurers. The shifting snow and deadly waters hold hungry death and frozen fear. Can anyone survive the monsters and mages of the uncharted frozen wastes?The stakes? Life and death. The reward? The favor of the gods.These vividly-realized historical fantasies teem with colorful characters: Viking leaders, fractious gods, a Jewish maiden out of her depth, sentient polar bears looking...
5282) Magic Always Has a Price
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A young woman with ancient magic. A destiny she can't escape. She'll learn the hard way that magic always has a price.Vasalisa Fenenko Danilovna is a normal 21 year old college studnet. So far life is better than she planned. Vasalisa has parents who love her, staight A's and she's dating the school's star soccer player.There's just one little problem. Vasalisa's a witch who foretold the death of someone she loves.This does not have a HEAMagic Always...
5283) Kindred Spirits
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The Portland Gambit survived the Black King's takeover, but not all of the enemies have been identified, and fewer yet have been captured. Wit No Han, a war criminal who assisted the Black King, was deprived of his ability to do magic, and is consumed with revenge. And he's found an unlikely ally in Baldur and the Kindred, a gang of militant magical racist anarchists, making them a far deadlier opponent than before. With a serial killer draining Portland's...
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The show must go on! The Princess and the Frog is a fractured fairy tale based on the story of the princess and the frpg. When the princess loses her ball in the well, a helpful frog is willing to get it for her-for a price! But the kiss doesn't cause the traditional transformation. This book provides information on putting on a production-including tips on sets, props, and costumes. An easy-to-follow script with color coding for character cues is...
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Will a secret fling with this charming single dad ignite a spark that lasts forever? Escape to Lake Como in the latest enchanting One Summer in Italy story by Michelle Douglas for Harlequin Romance.
Cinderella…
and her forbidden Italian!
Aspiring artist Audrey is staying with newly discovered relatives in Lake Como when she meets renowned sculptor and brooding single dad Gabriel. Their attraction is instant and unexpected…as is his hostility!...
5286) Forged Lives
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Garrett had made a request of his Champions: compete for him in a multi-event Tourney, to save his Kingdom. Right from the start, Faith has questions--about the Tourney; about the challenger, Quinn of Tarsi; and about her relationship with Garrett. Questions no one seems to want to answer.Quinn, the King's mysterious brother, and near mirror image of Garrett, isn't quite the villain the Champions are originally led to believe. Something more dangerous...
5287) Drawing Down The Moon
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England, 1644. Young Ellie Harewood falls victim of renowned Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins, and is left to die in the depths of a winter's forest. As Ellie begins to pass to the other side she is rescued by an old hag, one fully immersed within the world of witchcraft. Sensing great power within the young woman, the hag barters with Samael, the spirit who arrives to ferry Ellie cross the plains of existence, and promises a greater amount of...
5288) The Boy and the Fox
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Deep within a large forest untouched by civilization lives a teenage boy. With no memory of a life outside his forest, he's content to spend his days in solitude. Whittling his time away, he lives a simple life. A happy life. A free life. But when agonizing cries for help lead the boy to a small, injured fox, his peaceful life is over.The boy takes pity on the creature and brings her home to help her heal. But she becomes controlling of the boy, and...
5289) Wicked as a Pixie
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Blood, lust, and pixie dust. . .The Crocodile continues to drain Neverland of its life, and the world is running out of time. The very soil is dying, and no one can stop it. The clock is ticking.Tick. Tick. Tick.Tink knows Neverland will never be the same, and though the Daughters face the dangers from the Crocodile and the Lost constantly attacking, that isn't the only threat on the horizon. A choice must be made, to live or die, to fight or perish,...
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Hace mucho, muchísimo, mucho multiplicado por cien más la longitud de un hipopótamo, muchisísimo tiempo, un chico se sentó a solas a las afueras de la leñera de su familia, y se puso a dibujar gatos. El chico esperaba que le castigaran por dibujar gatos y sabía, en su interior, que no debería dibujar más. Pero, en realidad, no se le ocurría otra forma de pasar el rato.
Dibujó gatos felices. Dibujó gatos tristes. Dibujó gatos que no se...
5291) The Fate of Wolves
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Deegan Volkov is a werewolf-a direct descendant of the first dark soul who'd committed the vile crime for which his ancestor and the other four had been cursed. It was his fate to suffer.The monster that dwelt inside Deegan had always taken far more than it ever gave. So, when he was faced with yet another impossible choice, Deegan had known no other way. No other path had been open to him. But this last agonizing loss had been too much for his heart...
5292) The Last of the Vikings
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The Last of the Vikings tells the life and adventures of Harald Hardrada, last great Viking and King of Norway, who met his death in 1066, when fighting at Stamford Bridge against King Harold Godwinson of England.
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Magic. Nightmares. Naughty children. A witch's work is never done. Baba Yaga had taken the last century off to focus on herself. And then a couple of immortal idiots went and created the Warp – which only a few mortals blame on climate change; the rest blame those who are not like them. A bargain is struck and she sends her fellows out to investigate: the way children are behaving is even worse than advertised. As the one who had always struck fear...
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These stories cover a broad range of nations and tribes from North Americas eastern and south-eastern regions. Many of the stories have been told as part of the Iroquois and Cherokee traditions.
The Iroquois are a historically powerful northeast Native American confederacy in North America. They were known during the colonial years to the French as the Iroquois League, and later as the Iroquois Confederacy, and to the English as the Five Nations,...
5295) Odd Inventions
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Take a look at the world's weirdest inventions--from the Goofybike to fart filters. These stories are too strange to be made up! Written with a high interest level to appeal to a more mature audience and a lower level of complexity with clear visuals to help struggling readers along. Considerate text includes tons of fascinating information and wild facts that will hold the readers' interest, allowing for successful mastery and comprehension. A table...
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Heroes, Gods and Monsters in Ancient Greek Mythology' is a collection of classic archetypal Ancient Greek myths, including the stories of Jason, Perseus, Odysseus, Heracles, Oedipus and Theseus, and many more dark and delirious, famous Ancient Greek myths. These stories, which have had a great influence on thinkers throughout the centuries, inform popular culture even today. Here they are told as if by a fireside storyteller, detailing the horrific...
5297) The Dark Fox
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The Dark Fox is based on an ancient tale of the Japanese Kitsune taking on the form of a human, usually for sexual gain or to seek revenge.For generations, people have been interested in the human mind and the way it works. If you truly believed in something, would that make it possible? Would it bend reality? Would it hide you in the form of another?Tom finds a Kitsune mask at a garage sale. The instant he puts it on, he enters a nightmare world....
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What can you do with a folklore degree? Over six dozen folklorists, writing from their own experiences, show us.
What Folklorists Do examines a wide range of professionals-both within and outside the academy, at the beginning of their careers or holding senior management positions-to demonstrate the many ways that folklore studies can shape and support the activities of those trained in it. As one of the oldest academic professions in the United States...
5299) Chandra's Champion
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Harley, a New Jersey pack alpha, visits Boomer's pack to get away from all the bad memories of his marriage and how it brought Chief into his life. When he meets Chandra, he's immediately drawn to her but how can he trust his feelings after the mess he made with his ex-wife?Chandra is the last of Opal's kids to come and see her. But she's not just visiting, she has a vampire hunting her and a price on her head. Her marriage dissolved too but in the...
5300) Unicorns
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Listen! Do you hear the clomping of hooves upon the forest floor? A flash of white bursts from behind a tree. A long horn shines like a crown upon the creature's head. It's a unicorn! Ever wondered about the magical powers of the unicorn's horn? Where does a unicorn live? What does it eat? Wonder no more! Striking illustrations and matter-of-fact text take you on a magical journey to learn all about unicorns.
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