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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Virginia

A Novel

Is this new land a place where magics really happen? From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of Wicked, comes his much-anticipated second novel, a brilliant and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella tale. In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings.... When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats.... We all have heard the story of Cinderella, the beautiful child cast out to slave among the ashes. But what of her stepsisters, the homely pair exiled into ignominy by the fame of their lovely sibling? What fate befell those untouched by beauty . . . and what curses accompanied Cinderella's exquisite looks? Extreme beauty is an affliction Set against the rich backdrop of seventeenth-century Holland, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister tells the story of Iris, an unlikely heroine who finds herself swept from the lowly streets of Haarlem to a strange world of wealth, artifice, and ambition. Iris's path quickly becomes intertwined with that of Clara, the mysterious and unnaturally beautiful girl destined to become her sister. Clara was the prettiest child, but was her life the prettiest tale? While Clara retreats to the cinders of the family hearth, burning all memories of her past, Iris seeks out the shadowy secrets of her new household--and the treacherous truth of her former life. God and Satan snarling at each other like dogs.... Imps and fairy godmotbers trying to undo each other's work. How we try to pin the world between opposite extremes! Far more than a mere fairy-tale, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister is a novel of beauty and betrayal, illusion and understanding, reminding us that deception can be unearthed--and love unveiled--in the most unexpected of places.

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

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A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

From Newbery Medal-winning author Robin McKinley, this beloved story illuminates an unlikely love story--Beauty and the Beast.

Beauty has never liked her nickname. She is thin and awkward; it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. But what she lacks in appearance, she can perhaps make up for in courage.

When her father comes home with a tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and the terrible promise he had to make to the Beast who lives there, Beauty knows she must travel to the castle, a prisoner of her own free will. Her father insists that he will not let her go, but she responds, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?"

Newbery Medalist Robin McKinley's beloved and acclaimed novel has been delighting readers for more than forty years. ALA Booklist called Beauty "A captivating novel."

"A reader feels as though it's all unfolding for the very first time."--The Guardian

An ALA Notable Book for Children

A Best Book for Young Adults

Beauty

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Destiny and darkness collide in this romantic, sweeping new fantasy series from New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan. Seventeen years ago, an eclipse cloaked the kingdom of Relhok in perpetual darkness. In the chaos, an evil chancellor murdered the king and queen and seized their throne. Luna, Relhok's lost princess, has been hiding in a tower ever since. Luna's survival depends on the world believing she is dead. But that doesn't stop Luna from wanting more. When she meets Fowler, a mysterious archer braving the woods outside her tower, Luna is drawn to him despite the risk. When the tower is attacked, Luna and Fowler escape together. But this world of darkness is more treacherous than Luna ever realized. With every threat stacked against them, Luna and Fowler find solace in each other. But with secrets still unspoken between them, falling in love might be their most dangerous journey yet.

Reign of Shadows

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Planes - Disney Classics

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

"Genre-bending and darkly comic, Grushin's fourth novel is a weird and wonderful triumph." –O, the Oprah Magazine Cinderella wants her Prince Charming dead in this sophisticated fairy-tale for the twenty-first century. Cinderella married the man of her dreams--the perfect ending she deserved after diligently following all the fairy-tale rules. Yet now, thirteen and a half years later, things have gone badly wrong and her life is far from perfect. One night, fed up and exhausted, she sneaks out of the palace to get help from the Witch who, for a price, offers love potions to disgruntled housewives. But as the old hag flings the last ingredients into the cauldron, Cinderella doesn't ask for a love spell to win back her Prince Charming. Instead, she wants him dead. Endlessly surprising, wildly inventive, and decidedly modern, The Charmed Wife weaves together time and place, fantasy and reality, to conjure a world unlike any other. Nothing in it is quite what it seems--the twists and turns of its magical, dark, and swiftly shifting paths take us deep into the heart of what makes us unique, of romance and marriage, and of the very nature of storytelling.

The Charmed Wife

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The Wizard of Oz

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Nebraska

An Original Maleficent: Mistress of Evil Novel

From New York Times bestselling author Holly Black comes a captivating original novel set between Disney's Maleficent and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, in which newly-queened Aurora struggles to be the best leader to both the humans and Fair Folk under her reign; her beau, Prince Phillip, longs to get to know Aurora and her kingdom better; and Maleficent has trouble letting go of the past.

Heart of the Moors

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Rhode Island

Harry Driscoll is living in New York City (if you call trying to survive on an editorial assistant's salary "living"). His family is wealthy (but Harry Driscoll is not). His education is Ivy League (but what good is it doing him?). His publishing job is entry level (with no exit in sight). BUT... Harry Driscoll has a dream (if you call an unfinished manuscript hidden in the closet a "dream"). Harry Driscoll has a girl (although intercourse is out of the question). Harry Driscoll even has feelings. (He asked this girl, one day in the park, to be in his life forever--and meant it!) And the other girls? They're not the problem. (The problem is, Harry Driscoll cannot allow himself to say the word "love.")

The Frog King

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New York

Hogwarts Classics

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California

Cinder

Iowa

Faery Tales & Nightmares is an anthology of short stories by Melissa Marr, many set in the world of her Wicked Lovely series. Marr revisits favorite fan characters such as faeries Niall and Irial, and introduces fascinating new beings, including a vampire, a pair of selchie brothers, and a goblin. The strange creatures can appear anywhere, coming from the sea, from the woods, from inside storms; they may come seeking to bring destruction or to find a passionate encounter… Lush, seductive, and chilling, the stories in Melissa Marr’s Faery Tales & Nightmares blend fairy tales and folklore, horror and fantasy, and allow us to revel in the unseen magic that infuses the world as we know it.

Faery Tales and Nightmares

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Three's a Crowd

As seen on TV! A new fast-paced fairy tale starring a feisty knight-in-training and the dragon friend she joins on daring adventures.

What’s so funny about playing dung wars? What’s so side-splitting about armpit farts? Jane just doesn’t get it. But Dragon and Gunther, Jane’s fellow knight-in training, think it’s all hilarious and are fast becoming the best of friends. Maybe it’s time for Jane to ask Jester to give her a crash course on crass humor!

Jane and the Dragon 

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Colorado

In the vein of Amélie and The Little Paris Bookshop, a modern fairytale about a French woman whose life is turned upside down when she meets a reclusive bookseller and his young daughter. Juliette leads a perfectly ordinary life in Paris, working a slow office job, dating a string of not-quite-right men, and fighting off melancholy. The only bright spots in her day are her métro rides across the city and the stories she dreams up about the strangers reading books across from her: the old lady, the math student, the amateur ornithologist, the woman in love, the girl who always tears up at page 247. One morning, avoiding the office for as long as she can, Juliette finds herself on a new block, in front of a rusty gate wedged open with a book. Unable to resist, Juliette walks through, into the bizarre and enchanting lives of Soliman and his young daughter, Zaide. Before she realizes entirely what is happening, Juliette agrees to become a passeur, Soliman’s name for the booksellers he hires to take stacks of used books out of his store and into the world, using their imagination and intuition to match books with readers. Suddenly, Juliette’s daydreaming becomes her reality, and when Soliman asks her to move in to their store to take care of Zaide while he goes away, she has to decide if she is ready to throw herself headfirst into this new life. Big-hearted, funny, and gloriously zany, The Girl Who Reads on the Métro is a delayed coming-of-age story about a young woman who dares to change her life, and a celebration of the power of books to unite us all.

The Girl Who Reads on the Métro

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Montana

Classical Mythology Myths and Legends of the Ancient World Illustrated Classic Hardcover with Slipcase 

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Illinois

Holly Bishop is the proverbial, small-town good girl. She always follows the rules, thinks of others first, and she never, ever makes mistakes. Until she marries the man she thought was her Prince Charming, who confesses on their honeymoon that he's not sexually attracted to her. Now, 14 months after, Holly's marriage is in the toilet, along with her self-esteem. Determined to start over, she moves to San Francisco, where she must navigate the landmines of dating in the big city. In the shadow of the Golden Gate and amid a population of wacky Bay Area eccentrics, Holly will discover that nice girls don't always finish last. In fact, they sometimes end up with everything they'd ever wanted.

The Frog Prince

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#paperback #fairytales #middlegrade #sistersgrimm #fiction #fairytale 

Washington

The Sisters Grimm: the Fairy-Tale Detective - #1

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From the multi-million-copy bestselling author of Wicked comes a magical new twist on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Lewis’s Carroll’s beloved classic. When Alice toppled down the rabbit-hole 150 years ago, she found a Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rules and abrasive egos as the world she left behind. But what of that world? How did 1860s Oxford react to Alice’s disappearance? In this brilliant work of fiction, Gregory Maguire turns his dazzling imagination to the question of underworlds, undergrounds, underpinnings—and understandings old and new, offering an inventive spin on Carroll’s enduring tale. Ada, a friend of Alice’s mentioned briefly in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, is off to visit her friend, but arrives a moment too late—and tumbles down the rabbit-hole herself. Ada brings to Wonderland her own imperfect apprehension of cause and effect as she embarks on an odyssey to find Alice and see her safely home from this surreal world below the world. If Eurydice can ever be returned to the arms of Orpheus, or Lazarus can be raised from the tomb, perhaps Alice can be returned to life. Either way, everything that happens next is “After Alice.”

After Alice

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In an alternate 1950s, mechanically gifted fifteen-year-old Aoife Grayson, whose family has a history of going mad at sixteen, must leave the totalitarian city of Lovecraft and venture into the world of magic to solve the mystery of her brother's disappearance and the mysteries surrounding her father and the Land of Thorn.

The Iron Thorn

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With songs from the Film.

Walt Disney's Story of Alice in Wonderland

A collection of short stories featuring tales of characters from the Wicked Lovely novels that mix with accounts of new characters.

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Excellent new condition

Jack and The Beanstalk 

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Magical hologram cover. New Condition

Disney Magical Story

This magical childrens story brings the wonderful world of Disney's Pinnochio to life with beautifully illustrated scenes straight from the movie! Featuring a padded cover perfect for little hands and for displaying in a childrens treasured collection, this beautiful tale is great for encouraging young children to read with easy to read text and familiar characters.

Pinocchio

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NEW BOOK With CARRYING HANDLES AND CD STILL IN PLASTIC. READ AND SING A LONG.


Handle book with CD

The emperor loves new clothes, so when two weavers come to town with magic cloth, the emperor puts them to work. But the weavers are really scoundrels. Their magic cloth is not magic at all! Can they really trick the emperor and all of his subjects?



This classic tale will enchant and charm children everywhere. Bright illustrations, lively text, and the read- and sing-along CD will make reading extra fun. Children will keep coming back for more!


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Gregory Maguire

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Robin McKinley

Beauty

Sophie Jordan

Reign of Shadows

Disney Book Group Staff; Disney Storybook Artists Staff (Illustrator)

Planes - Disney Classics

Olga Grushin

The Charmed Wife

L. Frank Baum

The Wizard of Oz

Holly Black

Heart of the Moors

Adam Davies

The Frog King

J. K. Rowling

Hogwarts Classics

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Cinder

Melissa Marr

Faery Tales and Nightmares

Martin Baynton (Illustrator)

Jane and the Dragon

Christine Féret-Fleury

The Girl Who Reads on the Métro

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Classical Mythology Myths and Legends of the Ancient World Illustrated Classic Hardcover with Slipcase

Jane Porter

The Frog Prince

Michael Buckley; Peter Ferguson (Illustrator)

The Sisters Grimm: the Fairy-Tale Detective - #1

Gregory Maguire

After Alice

Sophie Jordan

Reign of Shadows

Caitlin Kittredge

The Iron Thorn

Walt Disney Productions

Walt Disney's Story of Alice in Wonderland

Melissa Marr

Faery Tales and Nightmares

Ashley Crownover(adapted)

Jack and The Beanstalk

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Pinocchio

Vincent Douglas; School Specialty Publishing Staff; Carson-Dellosa Publishing Staff (Retold by)

The Emperors New Clothes