Tales of Polynesia: Folktales from Hawai'i, New Zealand, Tahiti, and Samoa
By: Yiling Changues
3.58
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Explore the enchanting world of Polynesian folklore in this beautifully illustrated collection of t…
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1. Bleak House
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury
4.02
Format: 1017 pages, Paperback
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic… read more
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"You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
2. The Book of Dede Korkut
By: Anonymous , Geoffrey Lewis
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dede Korkut, "Vaterchen" Korkut, ist der Erzahler von zwolf kleinen Heldengeschichten. In der Turke… read more
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- mythology
3. Around the World in 80 Days
By: Jules Verne , Pablo Marcos , Malvina G. Vogel , None , Marian Leighton
3.58
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An eccentric Englishman accepts a challenge to circle the globe with unprecedented speed. Exotic lo… read more
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4. Snow Like Ashes (Snow Like Ashes, #1)
By: Sara Raasch
3.88
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
A heartbroken girl. A fierce warrior. A hero in the making. Sixteen years ago the Kingdom of Win… read more
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"You may have me trapped in this."-Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes (Snow Like Ashes, #1)
"Fear is a seed that, once planted, never stops growing."-Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes (Snow Like Ashes, #1)
"Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake."-Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes (Snow Like Ashes, #1)
"I can weave threads of myself into a tapestry already designed by others."-Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes (Snow Like Ashes, #1)
5. The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales
By: Maria Tatar , Franz Xaver von Schönwerth , None
3.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
A rare discovery in the world of fairy tales - now for the first time in English. With this volume… read more
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6. Undercover (Into Shadow, #5)
By: Tamsyn Muir
4.01
Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition
When a stranger comes to town, secrets are sure to come out. New York Times bestselling author Tams… read more
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- short stories
"The dancer moaned and scrabbled at the cage mesh. She made guttural honks of frustration and excitement. The raspberry mouth opened to reveal the long black tongue and pointed pink teeth. It was a lo…"-Tamsyn Muir, Undercover (Into Shadow, #5)
7. The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History
By: Edward Brooke-Hitching
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
This fascinating and bizarre collection compiles the most unusual, obscure books from the far reach… read more
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- nonfiction
8. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)
By: Nghi Vo
4.03
Format: 100 pages, Hardcover
Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more
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- short stories
9. The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
By: Nghi Vo
3.95
Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition
A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of… read more
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- short stories
"Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves."-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
"[,,,] if you want to understand people who have gone, that's what you look at, isn't it? Their offal. Their leavings."-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
"The abbey at Singing Hills would say that if a record cannot be perfect, it should at least be present. Better for it to exist than for it to be perfect and only in your mind."-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
"... He was unimportant, the least of In-yo's spies and couriers, but—" Almost Brilliant fluttered her wings in the dying light. "I understand. I will remember Sukai for you, and so will my children a…"-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
10. Persephone (Into Shadow, #2)
By: Lev Grossman
3.02
Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition
A teenage nobody crosses a line that will change her life forever in this short coming-of-age story… read more
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- short stories
- mythology
11. The Garden (Into Shadow, #1)
By: Tomi Adeyemi
2.80
Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition
In this dreamlike short story told in alternating prose and verse, number one New York Times bestse… read more
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- short stories
12. Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World
By: Philip Matyszak
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The ancient world of the Mediterranean and the Near East saw the birth and collapse of great civili… read more
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- nonfiction
"Phoenicians pioneered a new style of writing that reproduced not images of the things described but the sounds used for them in speech--the first alphabetic script, As trade developed, writing became…"-Philip Matyszak, Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World
13. Star Stories: Constellations and People
By: Anthony Aveni
3.56
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Follow an epic animal race, a quest for a disembodied hand, and an emu egg hunt in constellation st… read more
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- nonfiction
- mythology
14. The Candles Are Burning (Into Shadow, #6)
By: Veronica G. Henry
3.43
Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition
Amid the modern trappings of 1950s Savannah, an ancient evil threatens a young widow and her daught… read more
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- short stories
15. What the Dead Know (Into Shadow, #4)
By: Nghi Vo
3.63
Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition
A woman posing as a medium who can channel the spirit world comes face to face with the truth in th… read more
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- short stories
"She tried to lie back down, but her heart took a while to slow, and when it did, she found herself lying awake. She was exhausted, but her body was restless, humming like the wires that webbed the sk…"-Nghi Vo, What the Dead Know (Into Shadow, #4)
"He looked disheveled, still in his clothes, and there was a packet of papers in his hands. She moved to the side of the hall, giving him ample room to pass to the earth closet, but he was still watch…"-Nghi Vo, What the Dead Know (Into Shadow, #4)
16. Out of the Mirror, Darkness (Into Shadow, #7)
By: Garth Nix
3.31
Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition
A cynical “fixer” for a silent-film studio must confront the shadows behind the bright lights in th… read more
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17. Arch-Conspirator
By: Veronica Roth
3.43
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Outside the last city on Earth, the planet is a wasteland. Without the Archive, where the genes of … read more
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18. Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History
By: Erika Owen
3.67
Format: 189 pages, Hardcover
Discover 50 fascinating tales of female pirates, fraudsters, gamblers, bootleggers, serial killers,… read more
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- short stories
- nonfiction
19. Lost Cities of the Ancient World
By: Philip Matyszak
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating tour of cities that have been lost to history―from the Neolithic period to the late R… read more
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20. Tales of Polynesia: Folktales from Hawai'i, New Zealand, Tahiti, and Samoa
By: Yiling Changues
3.58
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Explore the enchanting world of Polynesian folklore in this beautifully illustrated collection of t… read more
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- folklore
- nonfiction
- mythology
- short stories
