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6961) Water Fae
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Folklore.Magic.Fae. Sixteen of the scariest fae living in the water. Fifteen magical short stories featuring these fae. Fifteen quick, yet thorough, explorations of the folklore of these aquatic fae. Scroll up to buy now and learn more about the fae who dwell in the water. *This is the fourth book in the Origin of the Fae series.
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Un florilège de mythes, de contes et de légendes permet de pénétrer dans l'imaginaire de Flandre
La principale industrie des habitants de la vallée du Geer, c'est le tressage de chapeaux de paille. Selon une vieille légende que l'on se raconte toujours dans cette région, le tressage doit son origine aux lutins qui vivaient dans les sombres grottes de la vallée voici des siècles et des siècles. Ces nains avaient pour coutume d'emprunter,...
6963) The Abyss of Innocence
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"Once, humanness was an embarrassment to me, something only puppets are happy with, but now I see humanness is the sacred longing of the divine; a beautiful story told by the story-less bard." The Abyss of Innocence Continue Ashiata's journey with him in this, the second installment of Benjamin Jones' series A Journey of Eternity. In the first book, The Abyss of Truth, Ashiata left 'the town' for a quest of solitude, uncovering the depths of his true...
6964) You Mage Me
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Eleven months, that's how long Morwen Rowe had to prepare for the arrival of the Elven Princess. It was finally her turn, and she was terrified. Could she keep the princess safe and alive for thirty days? Or would she be the first mage to fail their mission?
Fauxon Solis had watched Morwen for months, too afraid to approach her until the day she showed up with a child. His curiosity was peaked, he'd finally found the excuse to approach her.
Rowen...
6965) Luck of the Irish
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THE THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE . . .
When a contract goes wrong, Brian O'Rourke is the only one who can save his father - the king of the leprechauns. This contract can only be broken if the king's shillelagh is found before midnight on St. Patrick's Day. With the soft music left by the shillelagh to guide him, will Brian's Irish charm and leprechaun magic be enough to find it before his people vanish?
After a stroke leaves Maggie Squires's grandfather...
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Are you an Athena or an Artemis? A Persephone or an Aphrodite?
Discover the goddess archetypes active in you, and how they affect your decision-making, relationships, life pathways and priorities. The goddess myths are rich in wisdom and provide us with a mystical roadmap to guide our own Hero/Heroine Journeys towards personal transformation. The Goddess with Many Faces draws on psychology, mythology and spirituality to provide a deep examination...
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Miss Prudence Drake desires nothing more than to return to America and pick up the pieces of her life. After being held captive on the Black Dawn and witnessing her papa's murder, the last thing she wants is to find herself in the hands of another pirate-even if he is handsome and honorable.
Captain Jasper Blackmore has forsaken his past, walking away from England's shores in search of a new adventure after the war left him physically scarred and...
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In a lush tale of passion and betrayal, Ariadne, duty bound to the goddess Artemis as high priestess of Crete defies her destiny in this modern twist on the mythic tale. Women are not always helpless here, and the men not always misogynous.
Ariadne, high priestess of Crete, grew up duty-bound to the goddess Artemis. If she takes a husband, she must sacrifice him to her goddess after no more than three years of marriage. For this reason, she refuses...
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Hommes et fées vivaient en parfaite harmonie jusqu'à ce qu'une fée et un homme tombent amoureux, allant à l'encontre d'un interdit immémorial...
Le tome premier de la saga d'Aila nous invite dans un monde fantastique en proie au doute et à la trahison. Allez à la rencontre de cette jeune fille, au tempérament ardent, et de ses compagnons d'armes. Vibrez lors leurs aventures !!
Un fabuleux voyage initiatique en cinq tomes, dans un univers...
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Un florilège de mythes, de contes et de légendes permet de pénétrer dans l'imaginaire d'Espagne
Dans cette sélection, on rencontre à plusieurs reprises le très populaire roi Jaume I - le roi Jacques le Conquérant - vénéré encore aujourd'hui comme le vainqueur des Maures. D'autres contes déclinent de manière originale des motifs universellement connus: ainsi, un riche héritier en quête d'une fiancée capable de partager son amour pour...
6971) Prisoner of Fate
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Lily never knew she had a thing for bad boys. She's a shifter, a virgin, the last of her kind, and she's been hiding out on a desert island for her entire life. Now that she's joined the real world she resents her responsibilities to her species: To choose the right mate and get to work repopulating the world with Light Ones who will protect all of humanity. Which is the very last thing Lily wants to do. And then she meets Matteo, a Rakshasa-those...
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What good is a superstitious scientist? For Krishna Kumar, what starts as a harmless superstition sparks a journey that no scientist could have predicted. Aged 12, Krishna is recognised as a child prodigy and gets a prestigious scholarship to St. Sebastian's, a Himalayan boarding school, uprooting him from his Bombay home. There, he discovers his gift for physics and an all-consuming superstitious streak that he believes helps his academic career....
6973) The Serpent and the Swan
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Cygna is the king's fairy get, born with a swan wing in place of an arm. Something monstrous to hide away. But when a monster from the Underworld appears, they're all too happy to sacrifice her life for theirs.The kingdom is withering into a wasteland and the Lindworm is making its march of destruction toward the castle. And at her coming of age, Cygna is forced from hiding and into the private war between king and queen. Born to unconventional parentage,...
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The legend of King Arthur has been told and retold for centuries. As the king who united a nation, his is the story of England itself. But what if Arthur wasn't English at all? As writer and Arthurian scholar Adam Ardrey discovered, the reason historians have had little success identifying the historical Arthur may be incredibly simple: He wasn't an Englishman. He was from Scotland. Finding Arthur chronicles Ardrey's unlikely quest to uncover the...
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Tiger Paw, Tiger Paw, Knife, Knife is a folk told memoir of fragments and flashes that create a cohesive narrative. Each story is true, in the way folk stories are true. Mostly, they are highly speculative short stories, some flash, and a few poems, woven together with a balance of experimentation and more traditional syntax around themes of grief, violence, complicity and ultimately a yearning for connection in a world cracking with climate disaster....
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Dare to dream with these fairytale inspiered Regency romances as each heroine lands her hero and finds her happily ever after.Enchanted by the EarlRose Woodcourt, a poor seamstress, is too proud to accept help, even when her home and freedom are threatened by the nefarious Mr. Wolfe. Especially not from Hunter Thorne, a titled gentleman far above her station. Earls only court common misses for one reason, and Rose has no interest in being a wealthy...
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In Fables in Ivory, delightful Japanese legends are accompanied With dozens of color photographs and extensive historical background. To introduce netsuke sculptures to a wider audience and, at the same time, to tell some of the legends that inspired their creators, Adrienne Barbanson presents here a collection of superb photographs accompanied by a narrative text designed to enhance the reader's appreciation of this remarkable by relatively unfamiliar...
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In his captivating study of faith and class, John Hayes examines the ways folk religion in the early twentieth century allowed the South's poor--both white and black--to listen, borrow, and learn from each other about what it meant to live as Christians in a world of severe struggle. Beneath the well-documented religious forms of the New South, people caught in the region's poverty crafted a distinct folk Christianity that spoke from the margins of...
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Extrait: "Dagobert Ier était mort depuis plus de mille ans quand Molière donna sa comédie des Fâcheux. Et ce fut bien heureux pour le poète! Car si le roi Dagobert, que la chanson, infiniment trop populaire, hélas! qualifie de bon, bien à tort, attendu qu'il n'y allait pas de main morte quand il s'agissait de faire passer les gens, et par milliers, de vie à trépas, — si le roi Dagobert, dis-je. avait été encore vivant sous Louis XIV,...
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Descend into Madness with the Sons of Wonderland series collection one, books 1 and 2! Dive into this twisted Wonderland and start your newest adventure with the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, and the Cheshire Cat, and the women who bring them to their knees. This collection includes a never before seen short titled, "Alice's Jabberwocky". **This is a Horror Romance retelling of Wonderland filled with all the creatures and characters you thought you...
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