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1) Uprooted
Author
Language
English
Description
Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life. Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood. The...
Publisher
SeaStar Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
87 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of nearly sixty fables from Aesop, including such familiar ones as "The Grasshopper and the Ants," "The North Wind and the Sun," "Androcles and the Lion," "The Troublesome Dog," and "The Fox and the Stork."
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A simplified and illustrated retelling of the exploits of the Anglo-Saxon warrior, Beowulf, and how he came to defeat the monster Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a dragon that threatened the kingdom.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Years ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marriage and left her daughters behind. She has since become a famous radio talk-show host and newspaper columnist beloved for her moral advice. Her youngest daughter, Ruby, is a struggling comedienne who uses her famous mother as fuel for her bitter, cynical humor. When the tabloids unearth a scandalous secret from Nora's past, their estrangement suddenly becomes dramatic: Nora is injured in an accident and...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father is not a very good one. Free to lend and reluctant to collect, he has left his family on the edge of poverty--until Miryem intercedes. Hardening her heart, she sets out to retrieve what is owed, and soon gains a reputation for being able to turn silver into gold. But when an ill-advised boast brings her to the attention of the cold creatures who haunt the wood, nothing will...
7) Grendel
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1971
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
174 p. illus. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic BEOWULF, tells his side of the story.
Series
Game of Thrones volume Season 1
Publisher
Home Box Office, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 558 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After the shocking developments at the end of season 5 -- including Jon Snow's bloody fate at the hands of Castle Black mutineers, Daenerys' near-demise at the fighting pits of Meereen, and Cersei's public humiliation in the streets of King's Landing -- survivors from all parts of Westeros and Essos regroup to press forward, inexorably, towards their uncertain individual fates. Familiar faces will forge new alliances to bolster their strategic chances...
Author
Series
Fractured fables volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"It's Zinnia Gray's twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it's the last birthday she'll ever have. When she was young, an industrial accident left Zinnia with a rare condition. Not much is known about her illness, just that no-one has lived past twenty-one. Her best friend Charm is intent on making Zinnia's last birthday special with a full sleeping beauty experience, complete with a tower and a spinning wheel. But when Zinnia pricks...
Author
Series
Avalon series volume 7
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1984, 1982
Edition
1st Ballantine Books trade ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 876 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
A tragic tale of the rise and fall of Camelot seen through the eyes of Camelot's women: the devout Gwenhwyfar, Arthur's Queen; Vivane, High priestess of Avalon and the Lady of the Lake; above all, Morgaine, possessor of the sight, the wise, the wise-woman fated to bring ruin on them all.
Series
Game of Thrones volume Season 5
Publisher
Home Box Office, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (ca. 559 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"This season begins with a power vacuum that protagonists across Westeros and Essos look to fill. At Castle Black, Jon Snow struggles to balance the demands of the Night's Watch with those of the newly-arrived Stannis Baratheon, who styles himself as the rightful king of Westeros. Meanwhile, Cersei scrambles to hold on to power in King's Landing amidst the Tyrells and the rise of a religious group led by the enigmatic High Sparrow, while Jamie embarks...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First American edition
Physical Desc
70 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A collage of water-stories from the Odyssey, reconstructed as a mesmeric and hallucinatory book- length poem by acclaimed poet Alice Oswald. In Memorial, her unforgettable transformation of the Iliad, Alice Oswald breathed new life into myth. In Nobody, she returns to Homer, this time fixing her gaze on a minor character in the Odyssey-a poet abandoned on a stony island-and the sea that surrounds him. Several voices drift in and out of the poem;...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Desperate to start a family, schoolteacher April Epner is thrown into confusion when she is unexpectedly abandoned by her husband. She gets another shock when she meets her unusual birth mother, a self-centered talk show host.
"A smart, subtle and seriously funny dramedy bound to find favor with sophisticated auds."--Variety.
"...a fine, tense, unpredictable comedy of mixed-up emotions and sudden illuminations."--New Yorker.
"...a serious comedy,...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
The Handmaid's Tale is not only a radical and brilliant departure for Margaret Atwood, it is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States, now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
"Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees"--Provided by publisher....
Author
Series
A court of thorns and roses volume 5
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she's struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she inhabits. Worse, she can't seem to move past the horrors of the war with Hybern and all she lost in it. The one person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred warrior...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"In a big abandoned house, on a barren hill, lives a skull. A brave girl named Otilla has escaped from terrible danger and run away, and when she finds herself lost in the dark forest, the lonely house beckons. Her host, the skull, is afraid of something too, something that comes every night. Can brave Otilla save them both?"--
19) Briar Rose
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rebecca searches for Briar Rose's castle in the sleeping woods and finds the secret of her grandmother's past rooted in Poland and the Holocaust.
20) Vera: [Set 1]
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 355 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows a solitary, obsessed, cantankerous investigator-- who happens to be pure genius at her job.
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