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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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As an exploration of the longstanding connection between the people of Ireland and the inhabitants of the land of Fairy, this volume remains one of the best-known collections of Yeats's prose. Yeats, who had a profound belief in mysticism and theosophy, wrote with conviction of the realities and existence of the Fairies, both in his own life, and the daily lives of the Irish people. (from Google Books)
2) We Belong
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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An extraordinarily beautiful novel-in-verse, this important debut weaves a dramatic immigrant story together with Pilipino mythology to create something wholly new.
Stella and Luna know that their mama, Elsie, came from the Philippines when she was a child, but they don't know much else. So one night they ask her to tell them her story. As they get ready for bed, their mama spins two tales: that of her youth as a strong-willed middle...
Stella and Luna know that their mama, Elsie, came from the Philippines when she was a child, but they don't know much else. So one night they ask her to tell them her story. As they get ready for bed, their mama spins two tales: that of her youth as a strong-willed middle...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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A Chinese American boy and his snarky fox spirit face down demon kings as they race against time to be reunited with his brother’s spirit in Theo Tan and the Iron Fan, Jesse Q. Sutanto's magical, action-packed sequel to Theo Tan and the Fox Spirit.
Theo Tan and his fox spirit, Kai, are willing to go to hell and back for their family. Literally.
After exposing the corruption at Reapling Corporation and
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English
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“Robin Hobb is one of our very best fantasy writers.”
New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson
With Dragon Keeper, Robin Hobb, critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling “master fantasist” (Baltimore Sun), begins a breathtaking new series about the resurgence of dragons in a world that both needs and fears them—the world Hobb’s readers most recently visited in her immensely
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English
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“A full master of the epic fantasy.”
—Tulsa World
One of the world’s most acclaimed fantasists, New York Times bestselling author Robin Hobb returns to the world of her popular “Tawny Man” trilogy with Dragon Haven—the second book, following Dragon Keeper (“Imaginative, literate, and compassionate from first page to last” —Booklist) in an epic adventure about the resurgence
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author John Flanagan comes the story that brings the Ranger's Apprentice series full-circle and ushers in a brand new arc starring Maddie, the Royal Ranger!
Will Treaty has come a long way from the small boy with dreams of knighthood. Life had other plans for him, and as an apprentice Ranger under Halt, he grew into a legend—the finest Ranger the kingdom has ever known. Yet...
Will Treaty has come a long way from the small boy with dreams of knighthood. Life had other plans for him, and as an apprentice Ranger under Halt, he grew into a legend—the finest Ranger the kingdom has ever known. Yet...
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Publisher
Arbordale Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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While Ming plays outside one summer day, the smell of delicious food fills the air. It is coming from greedy Fu Wang’s house. “What is he up to?” wonders Ming. To his alarm, Fu Wang demands that all the neighbors pay him for the pleasant smells. When the neighbors refuse, the case goes to court. How will the judge rule in this unusual case and will justice be served? Can Fu Wang make money from the neighbors’ sense of smell? A wise judge makes...
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Publisher
Nichols & Hall
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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In a pretty, quiet village in New England lived Mary Chilton. She was a widow. She had two sons; and it was the occupation and the happiness of her life to do all she could to make her boys good and happy. I should say to help and teach them to be good and happy; for boys and girls must make themselves good; and then, of course, they will be happy; and no one can be made good or happy against his will.
I hear some boy or girl who reads this say,...
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Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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There once was a king of Persia, who at the beginning of his reign had distinguished himself by many glorious and successful conquests, and had afterwards enjoyed such profound peace and tranquillity as rendered him the happiest of monarchs. His only occasion for regret was that he had no heir to succeed him in the kingdom after his death. One day, according to the custom of his royal predecessors during their residence in the capital, he held an...
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Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
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Students will act out the tale of three little pigs who each make their own house. One house is made of straw, another is made of sticks, and the last is made of bricks. Their homes are threatened when a wolf tries to blow down their houses and eat the pigs! Find out which house will be safe and sturdy. This Spanish Reader's Theater script features roles written to match multiple reading levels. Teachers can assign specific roles to their readers...
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Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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The Legend of the Lady's Slipper is a suspenseful tale of a young maiden's run through the forest in an attempt to save the people of her village. Dashing through the forest, with starlight at her heels, Running Flower is a testament of courage, loyalty and sacrifice. You will remember her story whenever you see delicate pink and white lady's slippers carpeting the ground of a northern forest. Add The Legend of the Lady's Slipper to your collection...
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Publisher
Trubner & Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Count Angelo De Gubernatis (1840–26 February 1913[1]), Italian man of letters, was born in Turin and educated there and at Berlin, where he studied philology. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature fourteen times.
His Oriental and mythological works include the Piccola enciclopedia indiana (1867), the Fonti vediche (1868), a famous work on zoological mythology (1872), and another on plant mythology (1878). Between 1881 and 1884 he conceived...
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Publisher
Maunsel and Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Ella Young (26 December 1867 – 23 July 1956) was an Irish poet and Celtic mythologist active in the Gaelic and Celtic Revival literary movement of the late 19th and early 20th century. Young's first volume of verse, titled simply Poems, was published in 1906, and her first work of Irish folklore, The Coming of Lugh, was published in 1909. She became friends with Maud Gonne, who illustrated both Lugh and Young's first story collection, Celtic Wonder-Tales...
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Publisher
Floating Press, The
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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American writer Thomas Bulfinch was one of the most important scholars of world mythology. His nineteenth-century collections of folk literature from Europe and ancient Greece remain some of the most influential works in this field. The collection The Age of Chivalry focuses on romantic, action-packed tales from the King Arthur era.
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The Augustan Reprint Society
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Bernard Mandeville's first extant book in English, "Some Fables after the Easie and Familiar Method of Monsieur de la Fontaine," was published in 1703; it reappeared with additional fables in 1704 as "Aesop Dress'd." Neither title reveals that, except for two original fables by Mandeville, the book consists entirely of verse translations from the twelve books of La Fontaine's "Fables" (1668-1694). It is the first book-length translation from these...
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Publisher
W. W. GIBBINGS
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Fairies, brownies, Merlin, Queens, magic and adventure! Scottish folklore and legends have all of these and in these pages include "The Mermaid Wife" about a man who steals the seal skin of a merwoman in order to marry her, "Thomas the Rhymer" about a man who is whisked away to Fairlyland by the Queen, and many other wonderful tales originating in Scotland.
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Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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At the southernmost tip of New Jersey lie the resort town of Cape May and its sparkling sandy beaches, sheltering the Delaware Bay. Formed by melting glaciers thousands of years past, the Delaware River flows from its headwaters to spill into the Delaware Bay. And for thousands of years, fragments of quartz rock have ridden the river, plucked from the mountains lining its banks. Polished and buffed as they tumble along, these rock particles dazzle...
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