Traditional or cultural fiction and true stories, tales and retellings
Living Books Press ReadingLiterature The Primer
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Epigraph Publishing How to Spin Gold
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Regina Doman Alex ODonnell and the 40 Cyberthieves
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SDP Publishing Solutions, LLC The Storymaker
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Texset Press The Story of Sir Launcelot and his Companions
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Will Dreamly Arts Leaves of Fire Part Two of the Newirth Mythology
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Tridium Press The Heracliad The Epic Saga of Hercules
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Goblin House The Jet Necklace
£10.79
Bocfodder Press A Day of Darkness
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Bacchanalia House Poison Malice Twisted A dark fae romance
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Fantasy Rebel Limited Only Perfect Omegas 1 Rebel Werewolves
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Petita Demas The Greek Gods
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Dorothy a Publishing Project The Taiga Syndrome
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Dorothy a Publishing Project Wild Milk
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Will Dreamly Arts The Invasion of Heaven 01 Newirth Mythology
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Will Dreamly Arts Leaves of Fire Part Two of the Newirth Mythology
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R.R. Virdi Dangerous Ways 1 Books of Winter
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Honey Girl Books and Gifts Le Frankenstein du cageot à pommes
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MindStir Media YinYang Code
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Radiant Publishing House Inc. Radiant Heroes Episode 1 A Fantastic Youth 1
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Radiant Publishing House Inc. Radiant Heroes Episode II Beyond Horizons 2
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Can't Put It Down Books Oracles Curse
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Jos Boys And How They Turned Out
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Headline Publishing Group Anansi Boys
Book SynopsisA special hardback edition of Neil Gaiman''s internationally bestselling novel with stunning new contemporary artwork by Monet Alyssa. **Highly anticipated television adaptation of Anansi Boys coming soon to Amazon Prime Video**''Neil could never have known that he was writing for a confused Jamaican kid who, without even knowing it, was still staggering from centuries of erasure of his own gods and monsters'' MARLON JAMES---Fat Charlie Nancy never knew his dead dad was a god - Anansi the trickster. He never knew he had a brother either.Now brother Spider is on his doorstep, about to make life more interesting . . . and a lot more dangerous.It''s a meeting that will take Fat Charlie from his London home to Florida, the Caribbean, and the very beginning of the world itself. Or the end of the world, depending on which way you''re looking.**Includes black and white chapter artworTrade ReviewTo give him his full title: Neil Gaiman, Architect of Worlds, Svengali of Plot, Shaman of Character, Exploder of Cliche, Master Craftsman of Style, Dreamer, Laureate of the Republic of Letters -- David MitchellBeyond all the borders that divide us, there is a place of infinite possibilities and pure magic. I think of Neil Gaiman as a writer who wears the key to that land around his neck - the key to Storyland -- Elif ShafakGaiman is, simply put, a treasure-house of story -- Stephen KingA god in the universe of story -- Stephen FryA tonic for these turbulent times * Irish Times *Much too clever to be caught in the net of a single interpretation -- Philip PullmanIntimate, erudite and illuminating -- Guillermo del ToroWhile we might come to his writing for gods and monsters, actually all human life is here * Independent *
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FriesenPress The Alchemy of Avalon
Book SynopsisIN TURBULENT TIMES, AN AVALON INITIATE FALLS IN LOVE WITH A ROMAN SOLDIER...Enter an enchanted world of Song, Ceremony, and reverence for the Earth''s seasonal cycles. The Tribes of Albion honor their wise Druid advisors, their prophetic Healers and Seers, and their divinely inspired Bards. In this culture, women stand as respected equals with men. Cerridwen is born into this world in 43 CE, on the small Island of Ynys Môn, home of a famed Druid College. When she reaches womanhood, her Druid parents send her to study at the Mystery School on the sacred Isle of Avalon. Here, a student must undergo years of challenging initiations in order to move beyond academic knowledge and become an enlightened Knower. Cerridwen thrives in Avalon under the tutelage of the Merlin and the Lady of Avalon. Then she meets Marcus, a Roman soldier her own age, and her world turns upside down. The young lovers personally experience the painful clash between Empire e
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IngramSpark Gathering Frost 1 Once Upon a Curse
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Indy Pub Last of the Exalted
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Shakespeare Villains Bound By Treason
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IngramSpark Feast of the Sin Eater
Book SynopsisA choice will be made.A destiny will be fulfilled.A soul will be devoured.In folklore the Sin-Eater comes to the dead and dying ritually consuming a meal that symbolizes their sins granting them absolution and a peaceful transition to the hereafter.In Boone Creek Kentucky the Sin-Eater is devouring something else-the souls of the living-and it''s up to the cursed seventh son of a seventh son Ezekiel Crane to stop him.But as the investigation deepens Crane will discover that the rampage of the Sin-Eater in his own hometown is no coincidence and the search for the truth will take him down a dark path...a path set by his lifelong enemy the malevolent Willow Hag.A path to the Ghostfeast where everything will end.
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Blackstone Publishing TRAILER PARK TRICKSTER
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Blackstone Publishing DEADBEAT DRUID
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HarperCollins The Ancestor
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Blackstone Publishing The Secret History
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Random House USA Inc The Bloody Chamber Wise Children Fireworks
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Flatiron Books The Night Tiger
Book SynopsisThe Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club PickINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA sumptuous garden maze of a novel that immerses readers in a complex, vanished world. Kirkus (starred review)An utterly transporting novel set in 1930s colonial Malaysia, perfect for fans of Isabel Allende and Min Jin LeeQuick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother's Mahjong debts. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin may finally get the adventure she has been longing for.Eleven-year-old houseboy Ren is also on a mission, racing to fulfill his former master's dying wish: that Ren find the man's finger, lost years ago in an accident, and bury it with his body. Ren has 49 days to do so, or his master's soul will wander the earth forever.As the days tick relentlessly by, a series o
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St Martin's Press The Fox Wife
Book SynopsisSome people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, but nothing could be further than the truth. We are living creatures, just like you, only usually better looking . . .Manchuria, 1908.In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and handsome men. Bao, a detective with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman's identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they've remained tantalizingly out of reachuntil, perhaps, now.Meanwhile, a family who owns a famous Chinese medicine shop can cure ailments but can't escape the curse that afflicts themtheir eldest sons die before their twenty-fourth birthdays. When a disruptively winsome servant named Snow enters their household, the family's luc
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St Martin's Press The Sun Walks Down
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St Martin's Press The Fox Wife
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St Martin's Press A Spindle Splintered
Book SynopsisUSA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow''s A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story. Featuring Arthur Rackham''s original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, fractured and reimagined.A vivid, subversive and feminist reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, where implacable destiny is no match for courage, sisterhood, stubbornness and a good working knowledge of fairy tales. Katherine ArdenIt''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 her finger, something strange and unexpected happ
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Flatiron Books Ariadne
Book SynopsisJennifer Saint''s Ariadne is a mesmerizing debut novel for fans of Madeline Miller''s Circe.Ariadne, Princess of Crete, grows up greeting the dawn from her beautiful dancing floor and listening to her nursemaid's stories of gods and heroes. But beneath her golden palace echo the ever-present hoofbeats of her brother, the Minotaur, a monster who demands blood sacrifice. When Theseus, Prince of Athens, arrives to vanquish the beast, Ariadne sees in his green eyes not a threat but an escape. Defying the gods, betraying her family and country, and risking everything for love, Ariadne helps Theseus kill the Minotaur. But will Ariadne's decision ensure her happy ending? And what of Phaedra, the beloved younger sister she leaves behind?Hypnotic, propulsive, and utterly transporting, Jennifer Saint''s Ariadne forges a new epic, one that puts the forgotten women of Greek mythology back at the heart of the story, as they strive for a better
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Picador USA Madeleine Is Sleeping
Book SynopsisA National Book Award Finalist, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum's enchanting and inventive first novel is a groundbreaking, contemporary classicWhen a girl falls into a mysterious, impenetrable sleep, the borders between her provincial French village and the peculiar, beguiling realm of her dreams begin to disappear: A fat woman sprouts delicate wings and takes flight; a failed photographer stumbles into the role of pornographer; a beautiful young wife grows to resemble her husband's viol. Madeleine, the dreamer, travels in their midst, trying to make sense of her own metamorphosis. She leaves home, joins a gypsy circus, and falls into an unexpected triangle of desire and love. Embracing the earthy and the ethereal, the comical and the poignant, Madeleine Is Sleeping is part fairy tale, part coming-of-age story, and above all, an adventure in the discovery of art, sexuality, community, and the self.
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St Martin's Press The First Binding
Book SynopsisEpic fantasy at its finestan homage to storytelling and legend, richly told and endlessly engaging.Andrea Stewart, author of The Bone Shard DaughterDon't miss the first novel in this stunning Silk Road-inspired epic fantasy series from R.R. Virdia saga of legends, lies, and the secretive storyteller who's spun them all.All legends are born of truths. And just as much lies. These are mine. Judge me for what you will. But you will hear my story first.I buried the village of Ampur under a mountain of ice and snow. Then I killed their god. I''ve stolen old magics and been cursed for it. I started a war with those that walked before mankind and lost the princess I loved, and wanted to save. I''ve called lightning and bound fire. I am legend. And I am a monster. My name is Ari. And this is the story of how I let loose the first evil.Rich world-building, plenty of action, and devious twists abound. Very highly recommen
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Picador USA Likes
Book SynopsisA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Library Journal, Electric Literature, The New York Public Library, PopMattersA Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Story PrizeNational Book Award finalist Sarah Shun-lien Bynum's highly anticipated return weaves together like and unlike, mythic and modernIn nine stories that range from the real to the unreal, strange to familiar, funny to frightening, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum reminds us why her wildly original debut, Madeleine Is Sleeping, and her masterful Ms. Hempel Chronicles have become contemporary classics--celebrated and beloved.In a nimble dance of lightness and gravity, Likes explores the full range and contradictions of our contemporary moment. Through unexpected visitors, Waldorf school fairs, aging indie-film stars, the struggle to gain a foothold in the capitalist shell-game of work, the Instagram posts of a twelve-year-oldthese stori
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Tor Books The Book Eaters
Book SynopsisI devoured this.V. E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie La RueAn International BestsellerAn NPR Best Sci Fi, Fantasy, & Speculative Fiction Book of 2022A Book Riot Best Book of 2022A Vulture Best Fantasy Novel of 2022A Goodreads Best Fantasy Choice Award NomineeA Library Journal Best Book of 2022Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book''s content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries. Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devonlike all other book eater womenis raised on
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St Martin's Press The Book Eaters
Book SynopsisI devoured this.V. E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie La RueAn International BestsellerAn NPR Best Sci Fi, Fantasy, & Speculative Fiction Book of 2022A Book Riot Best Book of 2022A Vulture Best Fantasy Novel of 2022A Goodreads Best Fantasy Choice Award NomineeA Library Journal Best Book of 2022Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book''s content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries. Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devonlike all other book eater womenis raised on
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Picador USA Popisho
Book SynopsisBold, iridescent . . . Dazzling and shocking . . . Ross's lyrical, rhythmic writing is something to be savored . . . [Her] voice sings out loud and pure. Eowyn Ivey, The New York Times Book ReviewAn uproarious, sensual novel, Leone Ross's Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere, food is fate, politics are broken, and love awaits.Everyone in Popisho was born with a little something-something, boy, a little something extra. The local name was cors. Magic, but more than magic. A gift, nah? Yes. From the gods: a thing so inexpressibly your own. Somewhere far awayor maybe right nearbylies an archipelago called Popisho. A place of stunning beauty and incorrigible mischief, destiny and mystery, it is also a place in need of change. Xavier Redchoose is the macaenus of his generation, anointed by the gods to make each resident one perfect meal when the time is right. Anise, his long-lost love, is on a
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Holt McDougal The Council of Animals
Book SynopsisFrom national bestselling author Nick McDonell, The Council of Animals is a captivating fable for humans of all agesdreamers and cynics alikewho believe (if nothing else) in the power of timeless storytelling.Now,' continued the cat, there is nothing more difficult than changing an animal's mind. But I will say, in case I can change yours: humans are more useful to us outside our bellies than in.'Perhaps.After The Calamity, the animals thought the humans had managed to do themselves in. But, it turns out, a few are cowering in makeshift villages. So the animalsamong them a cat, a dog, a crow, a baboon, a horse, and a bearhave convened to debate whether to help the last human stragglers . . . or to eat them.Rest assured, there is a happy ending. Sort of.Featuring illustrations by Steven Tabbutt
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Tor Books ArchConspirator
Book SynopsisIn this gripping and atmospheric reimagining of Antigone, #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth reaches back to the root of legend and delivers a world of tomorrow both timeless and unexpected.I'm cursed, haven't you heard?Outside the last city on Earth, the planet is a wasteland. Without the Archive, where the genes of the dead are stored, humanity will end.Antigone's parentsOedipus and Jocastaare dead. Passing into the Archive should be cause for celebration, but with her militant uncle Kreon rising to claim her father''s vacant throne, all Antigone feels is rage.When he welcomes her and her siblings into his mansion, Antigone sees it for what it really is: a gilded cage, where she is a captive as well as a guest.But her uncle will soon learn that no cage is unbreakable. And neither is he.Roth is a masterful conjurer, summoning both classic myth and visceral dystopia to weave a breat
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