Fairy Tales

As an assassin for the rebellion group Fíur du Ath, Raeve’s job is to complete orders and never get caught. When a rival bounty hunter turns her world upside down, blood spills, hearts break, and Raeve finds herself imprisoned by the Guild of Nobles....

Masterful storytelling from #1 bestselling global phenomenon Sarah J. Maas brings her sexy, action-packed series to new heights.

Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin’s actions and learn what she can about the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit.

The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion tells the earlier history of Middle-earth, recounting the events of the First and Second Ages, and introducing some of the key characters, such as Galadriel, Elrond, Elendil and the Dark Lord, Sauron....

On a mountainside at the edge of the Kaigenese Empire live the most powerful warriors in the world, superhumans capable of raising the sea and wielding blades of ice....

Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's actions and learn what she can about the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit.

Circe meets Cersei Lannister in Clytemnestra, the powerful retelling about the most notorious heroine and favorite villain of the Ancient World who reined as an unforgettable and ruthless queen, faced the men who wronged her, and forged a treacherous path to ensure everyone would know her name....

Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's actions and learn what she can about the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit.

Ten years after the publication of Wicked, beloved novelist Gregory Maguire returns at last to the land of Oz....

Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the feared Celestial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing his elixir of immortality....

My life has been made up of gilded lies. But death has been shaped from rot. Like a phoenix caught fire, I need to rise from the ashes and learn to wield my power. My wings may have been clipped, but I am not in a cage, and I'm finally free to fly from the frozen kingdoms I've been kept in.

In the much-anticipated third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion....

King Midas rescued me. Dug me out of the slums and placed me on a pedestal. I'm called his precious. His favored. I'm the woman he Gold-Touched to show everyone that I belong to him. To show how powerful he is....

Once peaceful and prosperous, the spectacular Land of Oz is knotted with social unrest....

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring, like her mother....

King Midas made me the woman I am today. Notorious. Unattainable. His. The thing about being confined is that you believe it's to keep the bad out...Until you realize it's about keeping you in.

Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana....

For ten years, I lived in a gilded cage inside King Midas's golden castle. One night changed everything. Now I'm here, a prisoner of Fourth Kingdom's army, and I'm not sure if I'm going to make it out of this in one piece....

The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction - but assassins are getting closer to her door....

A wandering fortune teller finds an unexpected family in this warm and wonderful debut fantasy, perfect for fans of Travis Baldree and Sangu Mandanna.

The stories were all wrong—Hook was never the villain. For two centuries, all of the Darling women have disappeared on their 18th birthday. Sometimes they’re gone for only a day, some a week or a month. But they always return broken....

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes a rollicking, riveting tale set in the Cosmere universe—a standalone adventure perfect for fans of The Princess Bride.

Since she was a little girl, Hellevir has been able to raise the dead. Every creature can be saved for a price, a price demanded by the shrouded figure who rules the afterlife, who takes a little more from Hellevir with each soul she resurrects.

From the author of the breakout novel Thistlefoot comes a collection of dark fairytales and fractured folklore exploring how our passions can save us—or go monstrously wrong....

Persephone's relationship with Hades has gone public, and the resulting media storm disrupts her normal life and threatens to expose her as the Goddess of Spring. Hades, God of the Dead, is burdened by a hellish past that everyone's eager to expose in an effort to warn Persephone away....

Tao is an immigrant fortune teller, traveling between villages with just her trusty mule for company. She only tells "small" fortunes: whether it will hail next week; which boy the barmaid will kiss; when the cow will calve. She knows from bitter experience that big fortunes come with big consequences… Even if it’s a lonely life, it’s better than the one she left behind. But a small fortune unexpectedly becomes something more when a (semi) reformed thief and an ex-mercenary recruit her into their desperate search for a lost child.

After losing both their parents, Bristol Keats and her sisters struggle to stay afloat in their small, quiet town of Bowskeep. When Bristol begins to receive letters from an “aunt” she’s never heard of who promises she can help, she reluctantly agrees to meet—and discovers that everything she thought she knew about her family is a lie. Even her father might still be alive, not killed but kidnapped by terrifying creatures to a whole other realm—the one he is from.

Memory Witch, Cecilia, is used to sacrificing for power. She’s exchanged her blood for memories, her pride for respect at court, and her forbidden and unrequited love for her guardian, Rainer, for the sake of her duty. It will all be worth it if she can complete the Gauntlet and release the power of the Lost God. But when the god of war attacks, sending the two kingdoms from simmering tension to open war, Cecilia and Rainer set out on one final perilous journey.

The ferocious Styx Syndicate enforcer and trainer known as the Wolf has always been the hunter, never the hunted. So when Lyssa sees the gorgeous Scarlett getting harassed by thugs in a dive bar she's visiting for intel, she jumps straight into protective mode. But Lyssa soon discovers that not every damsel needs saving. And sometimes, wolves wear sheep's clothing… Lyssa thought she'd buried her past, but now it's rushing back with a vengeance—literally. Scarlett has a score to settle, and she's not going to back off.

The new religion left no place in Havenston for a human witch like Etain. It not only jeopardizes her safety and livelihood, but threatens a fiery death as well. That didn’t mean she was prepared to be stolen away to the Fae Realm. Ciaran must find a way to break his curse in order to become the true king of the Night Court. The prophecy the Many Faced Goddess gave him is a riddle that holds the key.

Es hora de que las mujeres de Ítaca cuenten su historia…Hace diecisiete años, el rey Ulises navegó a la guerra con Troya, llevando consigo a todos los hombres en edad de luchar de la isla de Ítaca. Ninguno de ellos ha regresado, y las mujeres de Ítaca son quienes deben dirigir el reino. Penélope era apenas una mujer adulta cuando se casó con Ulises. Mientras él estuviera vivo, estaría a salvo. Pero ahora, años después, aumentan las especulaciones de que su esposo está muerto y los pretendientes comienzan a llamar a su puerta.

Gemma Cassata lives with her mother in an isolated antiques shop in Michigan, near a seductive patch of woods concealing an enchanted gateway to fairyland. Gemma knows she’s not supposed to go into the woods—her mother, Virginia, has warned her multiple times about the monsters that lurk there—and yet she can’t resist.

Helia has served as the Sage of Hope for the Great Library of Tomorrow for centuries. She is one of the chosen few who embody and protect the values of humanity across the numerous realms of Paperworld, which are connected within the Library itself via magical portals controlled by the Book of Wisdom. But even her hope is tested when she and her partner, Xavier, the Sage of Truth, are attacked while visiting the famous Rose Garden in the realm of Silvyra. Wounded and in shock amid a storm of fire, they are confronted by a deadly figure known to them as the Ash Man.

Rei Deimos, half succubus-half satyr, is a magic-sensing, chaos-wielding mess. When her brother decides she needs to get her life together, he kicks her out of their house. With nowhere else to go, Rei finds herself at the tavern of an inn, with nothing but a bottle of red wine to keep her company. It's there that the grumpy demon runs into a mysterious cloaked figure who she soon discovers is Amora Lianna of Cerys, the runaway princess with one goal in mind: to find her missing magic.

Marlinchen e le sue sorelle sono le ultime vere streghe di Oblya, una città in cui la magia sta lasciando posto all’industria. Di notte, però, riescono a sfuggire alla casa e al padre per godersi i palpiti della città, in particolare il teatro del balletto di nuova apertura, dove Marlinchen incontra un ballerino che le catturerà il cuore. A mano a mano che i loro incontri notturni si fanno più intesi e frequenti, però, la minaccia dell’ira del padre si fa più incombente.

One morning in a field in Connemara, a farmer unearths the body of a young woman, two thousand years old, preserved under layers of peat. Later that evening, she awakens in unfamiliar modern Ireland, ripping a hole through space and time and setting awhirl old animosities and long-held grudges. Shadowy figures follow her from the pagan past, and each emerges with a claim on the girl from the bog. With help from a trio of wannabe teenage witches, she goes on the run.

Step into the enchanting world of the Brothers Grimm with the timeless fairy tale of "Rapunzel," narrated by the captivating Emily Christine. This classic story tells the tale of a beautiful young girl with long, golden hair, who is confined to a tall tower by a wicked sorceress.

In Der Tannenbaum von Hans Christian Andersen träumt ein kleiner Baum davon, das Leben der großen Tannen zu führen: die Nester der Vögel in seinen Zweigen zu tragen, als stolzer Schiffsmast die Welt zu bereisen oder – sein größter Wunsch – als prachtvoll geschmückter Weihnachtsbaum von allen bewundert zu werden. Doch als sein Traum wahr wird, erkennt er schmerzlich, wie vergänglich der Glanz ist und dass er die stillen Freuden seiner Jugend nicht zu schätzen wusste. Ein poetisches Märchen über die Bedeutung des Augenblicks und das verpasste Glück in der Suche nach Größe.

"La Historia de los Duendes que Secuestraron a un Enterrador" de Charles Dickens es un cuento caprichoso que se desarrolla en un pequeño pueblo inglés. La historia gira en torno a un sepulturero que es secuestrado por traviesos duendes conocidos como "duendes" y llevado a un viaje fantástico a través del inframundo. En el camino, el sepulturero se encuentra con un colorido elenco de personajes, incluidos fantasmas, brujas y otros seres sobrenaturales. A través de diálogos ingeniosos y narraciones imaginativas, Dickens explora temas de redención, perdón y el poder de la amistad.

Michael Holland is a grim reaper working the worst beat in the worst town. Michael’s best friend is a pot-smoking tooth fairy, his boss is the angel of death, his psychiatrist can read his mind, and he counts bogeymen, demons, and clones as his acquaintances.

Step into the eerie world of Unsolved Mysteries of Germany: Murders, Mysteries, and the Paranormal, where the unexplained meets the unbelievable. Author Theodore F. Johnboro invites you to delve into the shadows of German history, uncovering chilling tales that have haunted the nation for generations.

Reyna est une esclave précieuse à la Cour d'Or, emprisonnée toute sa vie dans un palais étincelant par des faës sadiques et cupides. Lorsque le palais est attaqué, elle en profite pour s'échapper. Mais celui qui mène l'assaut est son pire cauchemar. Le prince faë le plus redouté, celui de la Cour d'Ombre. Et il veut quelque chose.

This 2-in-1 fantasy audiobook bundle includes bedtime stories for stressed out adults & fantastical bedtime stories for stressed out adults and willhelp you fall into a deep sleep tonight!

Nothing shows a mother’s love, like abandonment. I was found by the side of the road as a baby with nothing but a note asking that I be trained as an assassin. Well, it also said I had to stay away from home for twenty-five years. Whatever that means. Anyways, my twenty-fifth birthday came and left behind loads of realistic nightmares. To add to the mystery, four gorgeous hunks fall right into my lap. How much more weird is going to be tossed at me next? I know, I know. I shouldn’t have jinxed myself.

Mermaids, stormy skies, daring adventures, pirates…it was little wonder I sprinted to the docks the moment I left the orphanage. Eager to begin my new life, I searched for a ship that would have me—and found a thief instead. I chased the bastard. Now I’m trapped. I’m told this place is Neverland, but everything I touch is dead or dying; what’s left is hellbent on killing each other.

Wertungsfrei und liebevoll widmet sich Karsten Dusse dem Thema, das literarische Figuren derzeit beschäftigt wie kein zweites: Kinderbuchhelden, die aus ihren eigenen Büchern verscheucht werden. Eine Meerjungfrau, ein Hase, ein farbiger Lokomotivführer-Junge und ein werdender Indianerhäuptling hadern mit dem sie einenden Schicksal, dass sie nicht mehr die Hauptpersonen ihrer eigenen Geschichte sind. Sie bitten einen Anwalt - der zufälligerweise auch erfolgreicher Schriftsteller ist - um Rat.

В книгу вошли детские стихи, сказки и пьеса известного драматурга и поэта Вадима Николаевича Коростылева (1923-1997). Книга предназначена для детей младшего и среднего школьного возраста.

Tales from the Eastern Cape, gathered in 1886.

Go on adventures, sometimes people die. It's a fact of life in Neverland. But when the magic of the island itself rebels and renders Peter missing in action, the Lost Boys find themselves scrambling for survival and turning to the eldest boy, Jim, for the next step.

Filled with the crisp scent of autumn, the warmth of hazelnut tea, and the quiet wonder of believing in magic, The Forest of Forgotten Names is a whimsical tale about the power of stories, the courage to face the shadows within, and the beauty of finding home in unexpected places.