Jennifer Grace

Makes a great gift!  Think St, Patrick’s Day!!

What’s the traditional Irish cure for a hangover? What do Irish men and women hope to ward off by wearing an iron ring on the fourth finger? Which daughter of the Emerald Isle was hanged in Boston on accusations of being a witch? Think you know the answers to these tough questions? It’s time to test your IQ (Irish Quotient, that is) and find out.
More fun than a U2 concert on St. Patrick’s Day, Irish Trivia on Tap is packed with over 600 questions that are guaranteed to help you get your Éire on and test your Celtic qualifications. This delightful book covers all aspects of Irish culture including arts and entertainment, food and drink, history and language, and superstitions and folklore. With special sections devoted to the natives of Dublin as well as the Irish in America, its quizzes leave no stone—Blarney or otherwise—unturned. In addition, this volume offers fascinating anecdotes about famous Irish authors, the custom of the Claddagh Ring, the history of Guinness, the origins of Halloween, and even a few recipes for delicious Irish fare.

Whether you’re Irish by blood or only in spirit, you’ll find plenty here to enjoy. So grab your lucky shamrock, draw yourself a dram of Irish Trivia on Tap, and get ready for a craic-ing good time.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Maryland

600 Questions to Measure Your IQ (Irish Quotient)

Irish Trivia on Tap

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Ann Grifalconi

Cover is in somewhat rough shape, but inside is very nice! 

Oregon

A young girl from the West African village of Tos movingly tells how the men came to live in square houses and the women in round ones.

The Village of Round and Square Houses

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Nancy Van Laan

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Treasury of Native Lore from North America

A collection of Native American legends from North America about animals and nature.

In a Circle Long Ago

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K. Shivkumar

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Alabama

A Folktale from India

The lion's courtiers persuade him to try camel's meat but the results are unexpected.

The King's Choice

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Significant wear on cover. Book is concave due to in proper storage. Light damage on inner cover. No marks. All pages clean and in tact.

Texas

Walt Disney's The Brave Little Tailor

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R.W. Dunning

New Jersey

The King in the West

Arthur

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New York

Bahar, The Lucky

#fearsomecreatures #scarystories #folklore 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

20 Chilling Tales from the Wilderness

Meet the snoligoster, who feeds on the shadows of its victims. The whirling whimpus, who once laid low an entire Boy Scout troop. And the hoop snake, who can chase prey at speeds of up to 60 miles per hour and then, with one sting of its venomous tail, cause it to turn purple, swell up, and—alas—die. These and 17 other fearsome creatures are among the most fantastical beasts in American folklore. Their stories, as narrated by one of the last surviving cryptozoologists, are best enjoyed while sitting around a campfire. If you dare.

Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods

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Illinois

The Gilded Ones

Vaishnavi Patel

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DM me after you make a purchase (min $5 before S&H), and I’ll add it as a freebie! (limit one freebie per order)

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

A powerful reimagining of the story of Ganga, goddess of the river, and her doomed mortal son, from Vaishnavi Patel, author of the instant New York Times bestseller Kaikeyi. A mother and a son. A goddess and a prince. A curse and an oath. A river whose course will change the fate of the world. Ganga, joyful goddess of the river, serves as caretaker to the mischievous godlings who roam her banks. But when their antics incur the wrath of a powerful sage, Ganga is cursed to become mortal, bound to her human form until she fulfills the obligations of the curse. Though she knows nothing of mortal life, Ganga weds King Shantanu and becomes a queen, determined to regain her freedom no matter the cost. But in a cruel turn of fate, just as she is freed of her binding, she is forced to leave her infant son behind. Her son, prince Devavrata, unwittingly carries the legacy of Ganga's curse. And when he makes an oath that he will never claim his father's throne, he sets in motion a chain of events that will end in a terrible and tragic war. As the years unfold, Ganga and Devavrata are drawn together again and again, each confluence another step on a path that has been written in the stars, in this deeply moving and masterful tale of duty, destiny, and the unwavering bond between mother and son.

Goddess of the River enamel pin

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Nina Simonds

Boston The Children's Museum, Boston

Leslie Swartz

A Treasury of Chinese Holiday Tales, Activities and Recipes

Spectacular fireworks, silk lions dancing through the streets, sumptuous family banquets - these are the hallmarks of Chinese New Year. Now, discover how to bring this splendid celebration, and others, into your own home. In this glorious collection, bestselling cookbook author Nina Simonds joins with Leslie Swartz and The Children's Museum, Boston, to offer festival lore, traditional stories, delectable recipes, and engaging activities that will inspire you to enjoy a full year of Chinese holidays. Try such treats as golden New Year's dumplings or tasty moon cakes. Build a kite at Qing Ming or a miniature dragon boat for the Dragon Boat Festival. Share the stories of the greedy Kitchen God or the valiant imperial warrior Hou Yi. Whether your family ahs embraced these holidays for generations or is introducing new traditions, Moonbeams, Dumplings & Dragon Boats offers exciting ways for the whole family to celebrate year after year, presenting background information, related tales, and activities for celebrating five Chinese festivals--Chinese New Year, the Lantern Festival, Qing Ming, the Dragon Boat Festival, and the Moon Festival.

Moonbeams, Dumplings and Dragon Boats

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Joyce Cooper Arkhurst

Marks, creases, and wear on cover. Book inside is clean.

West African Folktales

Presents six tales about Spider, including those which explain how he got a thin waist and a bald head and why he lives in ceilings and dark corners.

The Adventures of Spider

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Kathleen Krull

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Though it may only be a small emerald isle, Ireland's heritage is very large indeed. In A Pot O' Gold, noted writer Kathleen Krull and beloved illustrator David McPhail bring this legacy to life. Created for families, this anthology compiles classic and rare examples of Irish culture including stories, poems, songs, recipes, and even a little blarney. From legends of leprechauns and fairies to the classic poetry of Yeats and Joyce, this treasury is a perfect way for anyone to share the wonders of Ireland.

A Pot O'Gold

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#paperback #middlegrade #childrens #fiction #folklore #thejumbies #trinidad
#caribbean
Folklore story from Trinidad. 

The start of an exciting series filled with Caribbean folklore and daring adventure.

Corinne La Mer claims she isn't afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her, and certainly not jumbies. They're just tricksters made up by parents to frighten their children. Then one night Corinne chases an agouti all the way into the forbidden forest, and shining yellow eyes follow her to the edge of the trees. They couldn't belong to a jumbie. Or could they?

When Corinne spots a beautiful stranger at the market the very next day, she knows something extraordinary is about to happen. When this same beauty, called Severine, turns up at Corinne's house, danger is in the air. Severine plans to claim the entire island for the jumbies. Corinne must call on her courage and her friends and learn to use ancient magic she didn't know she possessed to stop Severine and to save her island home.

The Jumbies

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David Adams Leeming

Louisiana

Presents various folk tales, including myths, superstitions, nursery rhymes, and legends.

The Dictionary of Folklore #60

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#paperback #fiction #nativeamericans #policeshooting #Cherokee #folklore 

A Novel





"A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family's reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this family's way home is full--in equal measure--of melancholy and love."

--Tommy Orange, author of There There

A RECOMMENDED BOOK FROM

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Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago--from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson

In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimer's in her husband, Ernest. Their adult daughter, Sonja, leads a life of solitude, punctuated only by spells of dizzying romantic obsession. And their son, Edgar, fled home long ago, turning to drugs to mute his feelings of alienation.

With the family's annual bonfire approaching--an occasion marking both the Cherokee National Holiday and Ray-Ray's death, and a rare moment in which they openly talk about his memory--Maria attempts to call the family together from their physical and emotional distances once more. But as the bonfire draws near, each of them feels a strange blurring of the boundary between normal life and the spirit world. Maria and Ernest take in a foster child who seems to almost miraculously keep Ernest's mental fog at bay. Sonja becomes dangerously fixated on a man named Vin, despite--or perhaps because of--his ties to tragedy in her lifetime and lifetimes before. And in the wake of a suicide attempt, Edgar finds himself in the mysterious Darkening Land: a place between the living and the dead, where old atrocities echo.

Drawing deeply on Cherokee folklore, The Removed seamlessly blends the real and spiritual to excavate the deep reverberations of trauma--a meditation on family, grief, home, and the power of stories on both a personal and ancestral level.

"The Removed is a marvel. With a few sly gestures, a humble array of piercingly real characters and an apparently effortless swing into the dire dreamlife, Brandon Hobson delivers an act of regeneration and solace. You won't forget it." --Jonathan Lethem, author of The Feral Detective

The Removed

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Jan Harold Brunvand

From the master folklorist and sly wit, Jan Brunvand, comes a collection of all-new urban legends.

Did your cousin's wife's dentist's daughter go to the tanning parlor once too often and had her insides cooked? Has your husband's brother's nephew teacher try to make a dead rabbit look alive? If so, you've heard―or you yourself may have told―two of the seventy-plus legends in this collection.

Urban legends are "those bizarre but believable stories about batter-fried rats, spiders in hairdos, Cabbage Patch dolls that get funerals, and the like that pass by word of mouth as being the gospel truth." But of course, though often told as having happened to a FOAF (friend of a friend), they aren't true. Included in this collection are legends about sex, horror, cars, business, and academia. Among them are "The Bible Student's Exam," "The Pregnant Shoplifter," "The Ice Cream Cone Caper," "Don't Mess with Texas," and "Mrs. Fields' Cookie Recipe."

The Hottest Urban Legends Going

Did your cousin's wife's dentist's daughter go to the tanning parlor once too often and had her insides cooked? Has your husband's brother's nephew teacher try to make a dead rabbit look alive? If so, you've heard--or you yourself may have told--two of the seventy-plus legends in this collection.



Urban legends are "those bizarre but believable stories about batter-fried rats, spiders in hairdos, Cabbage Patch dolls that get funerals, and the like that pass by word of mouth as being the gospel truth." But of course, though often told as having happened to a FOAF (friend of a friend), they aren't true. Included in this collection are legends about sex, horror, cars, business, and academia. Among them are "The Bible Student's Exam," "The Pregnant Shoplifter," "The Ice Cream Cone Caper," "Don't Mess with Texas," and "Mrs. Fields' Cookie Recipe."

Curses! Broiled Again!

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Allan Zola Kronzek

Elizabeth Kronzek

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Guide to the Magical World of Harry Potter

An intriguing look at the centuries old folklore, legends, mythology, and history that inspired J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series details the magical practices and rituals, creatures, personalities, and events that appear in the books, offering stories about the Basilisk, magic wands, love potions, and other objects from around the world. Original.

The Sorcerer's Companion

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The First Strawberries

Oklahoma

A Folklore Miscellany

Previous ed. published in 1985 by Southern Methodist University Press.

Sonovagun Stew

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Pierre Maranda

Arizona

Mythology

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Elayne Audrey Becker

Book never read. Marker dot on top of pages little wear on edges

A young, orphaned shapeshifter in a world that fears magic must risk everything if she hopes to save her only friend in Elayne Audrey Becker's Forestborn, first in a new fantasy series with a timeless feel. TO BE BORN OF THE FOREST IS A GIFT AND A CURSE. Rora is a shifter, as magical as all those born in the wilderness—and as feared. She uses her abilities to spy for the king, traveling under different guises and listening for signs of trouble. When a magical illness surfaces across the kingdom, Rora uncovers a devastating truth: Finley, the young prince and her best friend, has caught it, too. His only hope is stardust, the rarest of magical elements, found deep in the wilderness where Rora grew up—and to which she swore never to return. But for her only friend, Rora will face her past and brave the dark, magical wood, journeying with her brother and the obstinate, older prince who insists on coming. Together, they must survive sentient forests and creatures unknown, battling an ever-changing landscape while escaping human pursuers who want them dead. With illness gripping the kingdom and war on the horizon, Finley’s is not the only life that hangs in the balance.

Forestborn (First Edition) HC

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Collection of 24 folktales encompassing animal tales (including tricksters), fairy tales, supernatural tales, and tales of the enslaved Africans (including slave narratives).  While this book is classified as Children’s Literature, the folktales within are perfect for people of all ages.

A multi-award winning book that is beautifully illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon.

American Black Folktales

The People Could Fly

Gina Ochsner

Eleven soulful stories span the globe, using folklore and myth to explore the territory separating life from death. Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.

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