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17541) Twisted Tales
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Twenty-four flash fiction tales filled with folklore and mythology, creeping in on the edges of nightmares, and twisting around the various sub-genres of fantasy.
17542) Dharmaraja
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Dharmaraja was true to his name- a person with fortitude, wisdom, courage, tolerance, kindness and righteousness. He was known to be a stickler to the dictates of dharma, thus, when he was invited to play a game of dice with the Kauravas, he didn't refuse. Infact, he played until he lost everything he had - his kingdom, wealth, brothers and even Draupadi. He could conquer hatred as can be seen when he sent Arjuna and Bhima to battle against the Gandharvas...
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'Man Donaghy crept silently around the back of the farmhouse and over the field to the faerie thorn. The thorn was shimmering as he knelt before it. Whispering directly to the roots of the tree, Man Donaghy said, "I want you to take Wife Donaghy."' Jane Talbot's seven bewitching tales will draw you into a world of fairy tales and magick, a world of devilish debts, trysts and trades, of broken bargains and unjust trials, of quick-wittedness, of...
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Days 16-20 of Christmas Month are fun days. Learn about the elves' favorite Christmas cartoons and movies. See how they make and deliver Christmas cookies to both their animal friends and kind people. Find out the history of gingerbread houses both in the human and fairy worlds. See the games the reindeer play and learn about The Nutcracker . It is performed annually at the North Pole by the Sugar Plum Fairies. Online you can play reindeer games,...
17545) Kunti
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Kunti, also known as Pritha, was Krishna's maternal aunt, Vasudeva's sister, Shuraraja's daughter but adopted and brought up by Kuntibhoja. As she served Durvasa well, she got a boon from him – if she invoked a God upon chanting a mantra, she could receive anything she wanted from the God. Karna was born before she was married as a result of her testing the boon. Unable to face society, she set the baby afloat in a box. She got married to Pandu...
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Mahabharatha is one of the greatest epics containing innumerable guidelines for statesmanship, virtuous living, conflict resolving, and above all, the message of the Bhagwad Gita. In short, it deals with the universal truths of life. This series covers a large part of the epic through ten of the main characters of the epic, including the protagonist Lord Sri Krishna. Each of these books is thought provoking and propels you to know, read and understand...
17547) Star Child
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Star Child, written in a fairy tale genre similar to The Little Prince and The Alchemist is a book for young and mature adults. It explores in a simple and poetic way the challenges facing two "star children," Terra and Marius, on their journey to learn about being human. Set in a faraway time and place, they confront the same problems of modern humans: fear, loneliness, the need to please, and the stigma of showing their true selves when they do...
17548) Every Cat Needs a Toy
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Willow is a free-spirited young mortal living on a commune with others like her. As one of the Magicals who have finally been able to prove their worth as a society to the New World, Willow is looking forward to a happy lifeuntil the summer of her eighteenth birthday when the gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece intervene and change her destiny. Her curse is Eros, also known as Cupid. Her nemesis is none other than his mother, Aphrodite, who despises...
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MICHAEL STRELOW WEAVES THE STORY OF A TOWN and its mysteries in his debut novel, The Greening of Ben Brown, an Oregon Book Award Finalist for fiction 2005. Ben Brown, the protagonist, becomes a citizen of East Leven, Oregon, after he recovers from an electrocution that has not left him dead but has turned him green. He befriends eighteen year-old Andrew James and together they unearth a chemical spill cover-up that forces the town to confront its...
17550) The Blooding
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In "The Blooding," a desperate father unknowingly makes a deal with a devil to save his family from the horrors of the Holocaust of Romania. With a mere slice of a raven's claw, the father's blood becomes the first payment of a debt to a mysterious stranger – a debt now owed and paid with the lives of the first-born daughters of all the father's male heirs for generations to come.
17551) Hawk's Spell
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Robert Brown-Wing Eschte, The Great Thunder-Hawk of Anasazi Legend has lost his beloved wife. Memories of his life and adventures as a fledgling Were-Shifter plague him night and day. He hears his deceased wife talk to him, he smells her right beside him. Is he losing his mind? Is he the only one who notices these things?
In the realm of the Swamp Witch, things are never as they appear. Your friendly college professor is a Shape Shifting Giant Hawk...
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I put my hand in my pocket for my pocket-book, but I could not find it. We had now reached a part of our road familiar enough to both of us. Along that very path Ellen and I had walked years ago. Under those very trees, on that very seat had we sat, and she and I were there again. All the old confidences, confessions, tendernesses, rushed upon me.
17553) Honeymoon With The Prince
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His mousy temptress is pure, innocent, and untouched. But not for long...
Markellan Bran, the brutishly handsome Prince of Kentigen, is used to taking what he wants, and what he wants from first sight is the plain, simple, and American Violet Havisham for his wife. He sees what most don't when he looks at her-a curvy angel hiding an inner vixen. One who's hot as sin and a woman complex and challenging enough to be his bride. He is confident that...
17554) Mirage
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What if every bedtime story ever told to any child by any parent in all the history of all the cultures of the world...was real? What if there was another world, parallel to ours where all these stories thrive? A world where the veil between our world and theirs is thin, and easy to slip through? Exactly one year after his 19 birthday, Kellen T. Samuelsson finds himself on the green trails of Grouse Mountain where he runs into a beautiful and mysterious...
17555) The Quest of the Holy Grail
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Here is the tale of the search for the Holy Grail, the vessel that received the blood of Christ upon the day of his Crucifixion. This anonymous story is thought to be a continuation of the French trouvère Chrétien de Troyes' unfinished "Perceval, The Story of the Grail." Written sometime in the early 13th century, this Arthurian Romance remains unique for its high amount of allegorical mysticism and use of Celtic lore. Our hero Perceval here goes...
17556) The Gryphon's Revenge
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Alone, yet apart, Elek Tavaloris has always kept the peace as creator of the Motorcycle Club, Beasts of Atonement. A group of shifters sworn to uphold their vow of protection of the innocent. But, when they fail to protect his sister, tragedy strikes and he steps into his true role, King of All Beasts, in order to pave a path to revenge. With an old friend by his side, he creates a new chapter of the BOA in the Crescent City, a place known for its...
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Six thousand years ago, in the time before the first megaliths and stone circles, Druids appeared in small numbers throughout Europe. They began an inexplicable migration toward the Western Isles of Scotland. Among these was a Druid prophet, Lazwin. Lazwin predicted the coming of the Beltane child. The child would reunite the rune casters, gather the Druid faithful, and set in motion a series of events that would alter the history of Druid healing...
17558) The Weird Witch
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Oh, that weird Wanda! She isn't evil and isn't even scary, but she is definitely different from all the other witches. She is not part of the group and is quite sad and lonely. It doesn't take her long to realize that the other witches aren't the problem. They are not going to change. She, herself, was the problem and she needed to change to be happy. And change she does! Join Wanda as she realizes her differences are her assets. Its funny story with...
17559) Maniac & Other Stories
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A collection of short stories celebrating all that is weird in our world, including escaped murderers, haunted fairgrounds, genetic engineering and population control. From a twist-in-the-tale shortie to an adaptation of an episode of a UK horror television series, by means of fantasy, mythology and urban sf/horror, there's something here for everyone. This is an adult collection — no explicit sex (that I can remember), but some stories contain...
17560) The Measure of a Princess
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In this short Princess and The Pea retelling, Princess Adelena is summoned with the other princesses on the continent for Prince Anders to find a bride. He wants to test each princess to find the one of the highest worth, but Princess Adelena is going to be testing him to see if he is indeed worthy of her.
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