| Bluebeard’s Egg (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | Atwood, Margaret Eleanor | F Atwood |
A far-ranging collection of stories, first published in 1983, encompasses childhood memories, thoughts on the reality of parents growing old, exotic friends, mundane lives, unexpected loves, and the inner world of hidden places we hide from one another.
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| The Robber Bride (Bluebeard) | Atwood, Margaret | F Atwood |
Three middle-aged women—Tony, Charis and Roz who have been friends since college though a seemingly disparate trio are bonded by their mutual hatred and fear of a fourth classmate, Zenia, who has the power to bridge their defenses, steal their lovers, and even to come back from the dead and bewitch their children with her nefarious wiles.
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| Jane Eyre (Bluebeard) | Brontë, Charlotte | F Brontë |
Jane Eyre becomes a governess in Mr. Rochester’s home of Thornfield and falls in love with him before she discovers that he has a tragic secret.
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| The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye: Five Fairy Stories (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | Byatt, A. S. | F Byatt |
The author presents a selection of original fairy tales, including "The Glass Coffin," "Gode's Story," "The Eldest Princess," "Dragons' Breath," and the title-length novella.
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| Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) | Coover, Robert | F Coover |
The story tells of a prince tangled in the briars, a sleeping princess who dreams of a succession of kissing princes, and a grizzled fairy who inhabits the princess’ dreams, inflaming her desires.
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| Legally Correct Fairy Tales (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | Fisher, David | F Fisher |
Bedtime classics translated into legalese.
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| Once Upon a More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | Garner, James Finn | F Garner |
This book retells classic bedtime stories, stripped of any elements that might be offensive to women, gays, short people, minorities, giants, or wolves, as well as any details that might encourage aggression, cruelty, sexism, prejudice, littering, and so on. At the same time he pokes fun at our politically correct sensitivity, the author points out biases in our traditional stories that we may not have been aware of.
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| Politically Correct Bedtime Stories (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | Garner, James Finn | F Garner |
In this book Garner proposes to create "meaningful literature that is totally free from bias and purged from the influence of its flawed cultural past." The results are extremely funny.
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| Blue Diary (Bluebeard) | Hoffman, Alice | F Hoffman |
The revelation of a dark secret about Ethan Ford’s true identity and his past threatens to turn a small Massachusetts town upside down as the truth shatters Monroe’s small-town peace and tests the bonds between family and friends.
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| The Ice Queen (The Snow Queen) | Hoffman, Alice | F Hoffman |
After a small town librarian survives a lightning strike, she seeks out a fellow survivor in a quest for meaning, only to begin an obsessive love affair between two opposites joined by a single common thread.
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| The Analyst (Rumpelstiltskin) | Katzenbach, John | F Katzenbach |
Dr. Frederick Starks, a New York psychoanalyst on the brink of a much-needed vacation, is plunged into a deadly game of revenge where a mysterious tormentor waits in the darkness to destroy him.
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| Confessions of an Ugly Step Sister (Cinderella) | Maguire, Gregory | F Maguire |
This story, told from the point of view of one of the ugly stepsisters, turns the entire Cinderella legend around in a thoughtful look at what it means to be beautiful.
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| Mirror, Mirror (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves) | Maguire, Gregory | F Maguire |
Vicente de Nevada is widower who lives with his daughter, Bianca. Beholden to sinister Cesare Borgia and Lucrezia, Vicente is sent on what appears to be a fool’s errand, to discover and steal the Tree of Knowledge complete with three apples.
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| The Frog Prince (The Frog King) | Mitchell, Stephen | F Mitchell |
The story of a contemplative frog who falls in love with a rebellious princess, who, in turn, gradually comes to love him and helps him become who he truly is.
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| The True Story of Hansel and Gretel (Hansel and Gretel) | Murphy, Louise | F Murphy |
Set in Nazi-occupied Poland, two Jewish children seek refuge in a dense forest and wander the woods until being taken in by an eccentric old woman.
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| The Sleeping Beauty Proposal (Sleeping Beauty) | Strohmeyer, Sarah | F Strohmeyer |
Despairing of finding Mr. Right after years of tiresome dating, thirty-six-year-old Genie Michaels nevertheless falls for a best-selling author who proposes on national television to an anonymous other woman, a humiliating event after which Genie pretends to be the man’s fiancée.
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| Bluebeard (Bluebeard) | Vonnegut, Kurt | F Vonnegut |
Robo Karabekian, a minor member of the Abstract Expressionist school of painting, reveals the secrets of his life, which he has locked away in a potato barn in Long Island.
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| The Robber Bridegroom (Bluebeard) | Welty, Eudora | F Welty |
Rosamond, daughter of a Mississippi planter, falls in love with a bandit chief.
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| Beauty (Beauty and the Beast) | Wilson, Susan | F Wilson |
Traveling to New Hampshire to paint a portrait, Alix Miller finds a man hideously deformed by a rare genetic disease, though she soon discovers the magnificent man inside the recluse.
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| The Ugly Duckling (Mystery adaptation) | Johansen, Iris | MYSTERY Johansen |
The wife of a high-stakes international financier, Nell Calder finds her life shattered when her husband and child are killed and she is disfigured, events that transform her from a quiet, unassuming wife to a determined woman bent on revenge.
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| Beauty and the Beast (Mystery adaptation) | McBain, Ed | MYSTERY McBain |
When beautiful Michelle Harper is found brutally murdered and her husband is charged with the crime, lawyer Matthew Hope becomes involved in the case, which leads him into the tawdry world of Gulf Coast “social clubs.”
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| Cinderella (Mystery adaptation) | McBain, Ed | MYSTERY McBain |
A Cinderella mystery involves the murder of a middle-aged private investigator who was working for the attorney, Matthew Hope.
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| Jack and the Beanstalk (Mystery adaptation) | McBain, Ed | MYSTERY McBain |
After making a down payment on a derelict snapbean farm and promising the remaining thirty-six thousand dollars in cash, young Jack McKinney is found dead, his plush condo ransacked, and attorney Matthew Hope has to find the money and the killer.
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| Rumpelstiltskin (Mystery adaptation) | McBain, Ed | MYSTERY McBain |
A star in the 1960s, Vicky Miller is making a comeback, but when she is found murdered the morning after her first performance in twelve years, Matthew Hope, who has just spent the night with her, decides to investigate.
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| The Emperor's New Clothes (The Emperor's New Clothes) | Alexander, Victoria | ROMANCE Alexander |
When she is mistaken for the Countess of Bridgewater, grifter Ophelia Kendrake plans on conning the citizens of Dead End, Wyoming out of all their valuables and money, until she encounters the town’s handsome mayor, Tyler Matthews.
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| The Princess and the Pea (Princess and the Pea) | Alexander, Victoria | ROMANCE Alexander |
In the 1890s, intrepid American heiress Cece White imagines herself to be an undercover journalist like Nellie Bly, so when the Earl of Graystone breaks her friend’s heart, Cece decides to beat him at his own game.
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| Cooking Up Trouble (Rumpelstiltskin) | Craig, Emma | ROMANCE Craig |
Heather Mahaffey manages to get a job cooking for Philippe St. Pierre despite her inability to cook, and an odd fellow at the kitchen door makes her a tasty bargain to help her out of her mess.
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| The Wild Swans (Six Swans/Wild Swans) | Holmes, Kate | ROMANCE Holmes |
A frustrated King Richard and Princess Arianne, a mute maiden, find an unlikely and everlasting love despite Arianne’s need to spin nettles into shirts to save her twelve troublesome brothers from an angry ogre’s spell.
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| Cinderfella (Cinderella) | Jones, Linda | ROMANCE Jones |
Unimpressed by her cattle tycoon father’s matchmaking efforts, Charmaine Haley, remembering the man who stole her heart years earlier, is swept off her feet by a masked stranger who leaves behind a black boot after a dance.
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| Jackie and the Giant (Jack and the Beanstalk) | Jones, Linda | ROMANCE Jones |
Scaling the wall of Cloudmont estate is a cinch for master thief Jacqueline Beresford, but climbing back down is another matter when she stumbles upon the owner, who, against his better judgment, decides to force the snared beauty to become governess to his son.
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| Let Down Your Hair (Rapunzel) | Jones, Linda | ROMANCE Jones |
In this stylish recreation of the classic fairy tale Rapunzel, the essential elements are given a refreshing twist as conman Roland Connor sets out to destroy his enemy by using his fiance, Rachel Sommerville.
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| One Day, My Prince (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves) | Jones, Linda | ROMANCE Jones |
Joe is a man whose life is filled with danger and there is no place in it for a woman like Sarah, but all it takes is one kiss for him to open his eyes to the promise and hope of love.
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| The Cinderella Rules (Cinderella) | Kauffman, Donna | ROMANCE Kauffman |
Leaving her ranch to return to Washington, D.C. to escort an important client of her father, Darby Landon turns to Glass Slipper, Inc., an exclusive makeover salon, to get ready for a round of glittering high-society parties.
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| A Kiss to Remember (Sleeping Beauty) | Medeiros, Teresa | ROMANCE Medeiros |
After his mother dies, Sterling Harlow sets out to reclaim her estate and evict his mother’s ward Laura Fairleigh, but on the way there he is rendered unconscious and loses his memory, and Laura sets out to convince Sterling that he is her betrothed.
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| The Bride and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast) | Medeiros, Teresa | ROMANCE Medeiros |
Sent into a ruined castle as a sacrificial victim for a dragon, Gwendolyn Wilder finds herself instead lured into the castle lord’s luxurious bed.
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| The Quantum Rose (Beauty and the Beast) | Asaro, Catherine | SCI-FI Asaro |
To save her people, Kamoj Quanta Argali contracts a marriage to Jax Ironbridge, but then a mysterious stranger from another world arrives and proposes a marriage that neither honor nor law will allow Kamoj to refuse.
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| The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars (A Hungarian Fairy Tale) | Brust, Steven | SCI-FI Brust |
In a retelling of a Hungarian folktale, a gypsy boy sets out to win a kingdom and the hand of a beautiful princess by retrieving a hidden box and restoring light to a darkened world.
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| Can't Catch Me: and Other Twice Told Tales (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | Cadnum, Michael | SCI-FI Cadnum |
Concise writing cuts to the heart of the matter in this droll collection, whether it be a certain gingerbread boy's overbearing parents in the title story or a ghostly Ophelia bent on her own secret revenge in "Or Be to Not."
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| Enchantment (A Russian Fairy Tale, "Baba Yaga") | Card, Orson Scott | SCI-FI Card |
Ivan travels from ninth-century Russia to present-day America as he struggles to rescue a princess and her kingdom, find true love, and overcome the blackest of evil.
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| Rusalka (A Russian Fairy Tale) | Cherryh, C.J. | SCI-FI Cherryh |
Pyetr and Sasha’s flight to Kiev is interrupted when they stumble upon a wizard intent on bringing the spirit of his murdered daughter back to life.
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| Dreams Underfoot (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | de Lint, Charles | SCI-FI De Lint |
Newford's citizens--fey folk, magicians, hustlers, painters, fiddlers, and ordinary people--stumble headfirst into enchanting adventures.
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| Jack of Kinrowan (Jack and the Beanstalk) | de Lint, Charles | SCI-FI De Lint |
Hurled into the mythical land of Faerie by a faceless gang of bikers, young Jacky Rowan is stunned when she is immediately hailed as the legendary hero, Jack of Kinrowan, and directed to save the land from a treacherous evil force.
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| Tam Lin (A Scottish Fairy Tale) | Dean, Pamela | SCI-FI Dean |
A modern retelling of an ancient Scottish fairy tale sets the story of a girl whose lover is stolen by the Queen of Faeries against the backdrop of a Midwestern college campus in the early 1970s.
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| The Big Over Easy (Miscellaneous Fairy Tales) | Fforde, Jasper | SCI-FI Fforde |
Detective Jack Spratt is investigating the violent death Humpty Dumpty, disreputable philanthropist and business mastermind, who may have been shot by his ex-wife.
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| Fitcher's Brides (Bluebeard) | Frost, Gregory | SCI-FI Frost |
A sinister preacher reputed to have had many wives manipulates a town with predictions about the end of the world and targets Vernelia, the eldest of three sisters, for his newest bride.
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| Stardust (Miscellaneous fairy tales) | Gaiman, Neil | SCI-FI Gaiman |
Living in a Victorian countryside town overshadowed by an imposing stone barrier, Tristran is compelled to retrieve a fallen star for the woman he loves and crosses to the wondrous other side of the barrier, where he encounters dangerous rivals for the star.
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| Firebird (The Firebird) | Garcia y Robertson, Rodrigo | SCI-FI Garcia y Robertso |
Having come of age in the house of the dreaded Bone Witch, young orphan Aria saves the life of foreign knight Sir Roye de Roye, who carries a precious Firebird egg that Aria becomes determined to restore to its nest.
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| The Fox Woman (A Japanese Fairy Tale) | Johnson, Kij | SCI-FI Johnson |
In a novel set in medieval Japan, a young fox kit becomes enamored with a Japanese nobleman and will stop at nothing, even magic and sorcery, to win his heart.
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| Firebird (The Firebird) | Lackey, Mercedes | SCI-FI Lackey |
A young nobleman glimpses the legendary Firebird as it steals cherries from his father’s orchards, and he journeys through a fantastical version of Old Russia to find the bird.
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| Phoenix and Ashes (Cinderella) | Lackey, Mercedes | SCI-FI Lackey |
Acclaimed novelist Lackey reinvents a classic fairy tale and gives it a new twist. In a dark and atmospheric retelling of Cinderella, she sets her story in London during the first World War.
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| Reserved for the Cat (Puss in Boots) | Lackey, Mercedes | SCI-FI Lackey |
Talented but penniless dancer Ninette Dupond finds her luck changing when she meets a cat who, speaking to her mind-to-mind, orders her to impersonate a missing Russian ballerina, plunging her into the middle of a war against the darkest Elemental Spirit.
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| The Black Swan (Swan Maiden) | Lackey, Mercedes | SCI-FI Lackey |
Embittered by the untimely death of his wife, a powerful sorcerer captures women and transforms them into swans who only regain their human forms briefly each night, until Odette, a noble princess, risks everything to free herself and the other swan-maidens.
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| The Fairy Godmother (Cinderella) | Lackey, Mercedes | SCI-FI Lackey |
In the land of Five Hundred Kingdoms, “Tradition” rules, and everyone is expected to fit into established fairy tales. Enslaved by her wickedly avaricious stepmother and stepsisters, Elena should have had a Cinderella-like life, but when things don’t work out, she flees and seeks work elsewhere.
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| The Fire Rose (Beauty and the Beast) | Lackey, Mercedes | SCI-FI Lackey |
Slightly disturbed that the only contact with her new employer is through a speaking tube, Rosalind soon finds joy in her assignment: to read wonderful literature to him.
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| The Gates of Sleep (Sleeping Beauty) | Lackey, Mercedes | SCI-FI Lackey |
Growing up in the backwoods of Cornwall with foster parents, practitioners of Elemental Magic, Marina Rosewood is sent to live with her aunt after the deaths of her birth parents and finds herself the target of an evil that has been stalking her for her entire life.
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| The Serpent's Shadow (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves) | Lackey, Mercedes | SCI-FI Lackey |
After the murder of her parents, Maya seeks refuge in London, struggling to master the magical gifts inherited from her mother, a former priestess, before the dark forces can claim her as their prey.
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| The Snow Queen (The Snow Queen) | Lackey, Mercedes | SCI-FI Lackey |
After being falsely accused of unleashing evil on nearby villages, Aleksia, the Ice Fairy realizes that a heartless imposter is ruining her reputation.
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| The Wizard of London (The Snow Queen) | Lackey, Mercedes | SCI-FI Lackey |
Twelve-year-old Sarah Jane Lyon-White is sent to the Harton School for Boys and Girls, a facility for training children with a powerful potential for magic, but Sarah’s unique talents have made her the target of an elemental master who wants her dead.
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| White as Snow (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves) | Lee, Tanith | SCI-FI Lee |
Arpazia and her unwanted daughter, Coira, are lured into the woods by the elder gods, who are seeking to restore their worship in a land where a new religion threatens to transform life for everyone.
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| Daughter of the Forest (Six Swans/Wilds Swans) | Marillier, Juliet | SCI-FI Marillier |
To save her brothers, Sorcha leaves the only safe place she has known and starts on a journey of pain, loss, and terror.
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| Once Upon a Summer Day (Sleeping Beauty) | McKiernan, Dennis L. | SCI-FI McKiernan |
Borel, Prince of the Winterwood, embarks on a perilous journey through the land of Faery toward a confrontation with the dark forces of evil, drawn by his all-too-real dreams of a beautiful young woman in terrible danger.
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| Once Upon a Winter's Night (East of the Sun and West of the Moon) | McKiernan, Dennis L. | SCI-FI McKiernan |
Camille, the last daughter of a destitute farmer, gets the chance of a lifetime when Alain, prince of Summerwood (in the land of faery), asks her family for her hand in marriage.
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| Harrowing the Dragon (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | McKillip, Patricia | SCI-FI McKillip |
As shown in this excellent story collection, Patricia McKillip (Od Magic) can take the most common fantasy elements—dragons and bards, sorcerers and shape-shifters—and reshape them in surprising and resonant ways.
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| In the Forests of Serre (The Firebird) | McKillip, Patricia | SCI-FI McKillip |
Shattered by the loss of his wife and child, a grieving Prince Ronan of Serre accidentally tramples a white hen in the road and earns himself a witch’s curse, which draws him into the pursuit of a mysterious firebird.
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| The Cygnet and the Firebird (The Firebird) | McKillip, Patricia | SCI-FI McKillip |
At the edge of the world in the Luxour Desert, invisible dragons cast shadows over ruined castles and Meguet’s fate depends upon a secret locked away in a tower for centuries.
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| King Rat (The Pied Piper) | Miéville, China | SCI-FI Miéville |
Saul has been set up to take the blame for his father's murder, until King Rat breaks him out of prison and introduces him to the strange and fantastic world that exists beneath the streets of London.
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| The Godmother (Miscellaneous fairy tales) | Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann | SCI-FI Scarborough |
Rose Simpson, a Seattle social worker frustrated by her job’s red tape, has been idly wishing for a fairy godmother, little expecting that a meeting with a strange woman, Felicity Fortune, might bring a little real magic into her life.
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| Fair Peril (The Frong King) | Springer, Nancy | SCI-FI Springer |
Buffy Murphy’s plan to gain fame as a storyteller with a real talking frog is destroyed when her teenaged daughter’s kiss turns him into a prince.
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| Black Heart, Ivory Bones (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | SCI-FI Stories Black |
Award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have gathered together remarkable stories that illuminate the more sinister, sensual, and sophisticated aspects of the tales we cherished in childhood--the fables of witches and princes and lost children that we once imagined we knew.
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| Black Swan, White Raven (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | SCI-FI Stories Black |
The fourth book in Datlow and Windling's anthology series of well-known and obscure fairy tales retold by contemporary writers, this collection features 19 short stories and two poems about Snow White, the fisherman and his wife, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, and others.
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| Black Thorn, White Rose (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | | SCI-FI Stories Black |
A collection of 18 stories of darkness and dread from Roger Zelazny's tale of Death's disobedient godson to Peter Straub's blood-chilling examination of a gargantuan Cinderella and her terrible twisted art.
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| Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | SCI-FI Stories Ruby |
Datlow and Windling, score again with this entry in their provocative volumes of original, updated fairy tales for adults.
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| Snow White, Blood Red (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | SCI-FI Stories Snow |
The dark and shadowed aspects of well-known folk stories and fairy tales are explored in updated retellings.
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| Beauty (Sleeping Beauty) | Tepper, Sheri S. | SCI-FI Tepper |
Transported to the future on her sixteenth birthday, Beauty, a fantastical version of the classic Sleeping Beauty, becomes a 1990s student and enjoys adventures throughout time.
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| Snow Queen (The Snow Queen) | Vinge, Joan D. | SCI-FI Vinge |
As the end of her third lifetime draws near, Arienrhod, the ancient ruler of far Tiamat, clones several heirs and seeds them on different islands throughout her sea-dark world.
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| Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming (Sleeping Beauty) | Zelazny, Roger | SCI-FI Zelazny |
Demon Azzie Elbub is representing Evil in the Millennial contest in the year 1000s. Azzie’s entry is a recreation of the Sleeping Beauty story in which Evil triumphs when the princess kills the prince whose kiss awakens her.
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| The Poison Apples (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves) | Archer, Lily | YA F Archer |
At an elite Massachusetts boarding school, three fifteen-year-old girls of very different backgrounds discover a common bond and form a club to plot revenge against their evil stepmothers.
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| The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | Block, Francesca Lia | YA F Block |
Nine fairy tales are given shimmering and scary shape in very modern dress, with Block's luminescent, darkling prose.
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| Untold Tales (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | Brooke, William J. | YA F Brooke |
Retells and continues the stories, from a contemporary perspective, of such classic tales as "The Frog Prince," "Snow White," "Beauty and the Beast," and "Sleeping Beauty."
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| A Curse Dark as Gold (Rumpelstiltskin) | Bunce, Elizabeth C. | YA F Bunce |
Upon the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family’s woolen mill running, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the price.
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| Wolf (Little Red Riding Hood) | Cross, Gillian | YA F Cross |
A thirteen-year-old Londoner, Cassy is forced to stay with her mother in a squatter’s settlement of artists, where she joins the group in producing an educational program about wolves.
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| Beauty Sleep (Sleeping Beauty) | Dokey, Cameron | YA F Dokey |
Sixteen-year-old Aurore, whose original curse has been transmuted to a one hundred year sleep starting on her seventeenth birthday, encounters Oswald, whom she has replaced as the king’s heir, and the questing knight Ironheart.
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| Before Midnight (Cinderella) | Dokey, Cameron | YA F Dokey |
A nameless baby is left in the care of servants, and the child’s tendency to sleep in the fireplace earns her the name “La Cendrillon.”
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| Belle (Beauty and the Beast) | Dokey, Cameron | YA F Dokey |
When her father finds the fabled Heartwood Tree believed to reveal the face of true love and ends up being held hostage by a lonely beast, Belle does the Beast’s bidding to free her father and eventually sees a different side to the sad creature.
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| Golden (Rapunzel) | Dokey, Cameron | YA F Dokey |
Born bald and raised by an adoptive mother, Rapunzel is finally told the truth about Rue, another daughter trapped in a tower due to a witch's curse, and so she heads off to help the imprisoned girl but becomes jealous of Rue's beautiful hair.
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| Storyteller's Daughter (An "Arabian Nights" Tale) | Dokey, Cameron | YA F Dokey |
When Shaharazad becomes enslaved, she must remain calm to devise a clever plan that will make the coldhearted king see her in a different light in order to change her future.
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| Into the Wild (Rapunzel) | Durst, Sarah Beth | YA F Durst |
Having escaped from the Wild and the preordained fairy tale plots it imposes, Rapunzel, along with her daughter Julie Marchen, tries to live a fairly normal life, but when the Wild breaks free and takes over their town, it is Julie who has to prevent everyone from being trapped in the events of a story.
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| Murkmere (Swan Maiden) | Elliott, Patricia | YA F Elliott |
A village girl, newly companion to the Master’s ward in the days following the Ministration, challenges the motives of the religious leaders of the Divine Beings, the birds.
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| Once Upon a Marigold (Miscellaneous Fairy Tales) | Ferris, Jean | YA F Ferris |
A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar and discovers a plot against her and her father.
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| Shadow Spinner (An "Arabian Nights" Tale) | Fletcher, Susan | YA F Fletcher |
When Marjan, a thirteen-year-old crippled girl, joins the Sultan’s harem in ancient Persia, she gathers stories for Shahrazad to save the queen’s life.
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| Beastly (Beauty and the Beast) | Flinn, Alex | YA F Flinn |
A modern retelling of “Beauty and the Beast” from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.
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| Truly Grim Tales (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | Galloway, Priscilla | YA F Galloway |
A guilt-ridden prince with a foot fetish seeking his glass-slippered dance partner and a beauty contest winner as Snow White's murderous stepmother are featured in two of the original "grim" plots in this young adult collection loosely based on eight traditional fairy tales.
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| Princess of the Midnight Ball (The Twelve Dancing Princesses) | George, Jessica Day | YA F George |
As one of the princesses forced to dance every night at the midnight balls for the King Under Stone, Rose and her soldier, Galen, work together to break the evil curse—using a magic invisibility cloak and their true love to fight their foes in the dark halls in which she has been imprisoned.
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| Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow (East of the Sun and West of the Moon) | George, Jessica Day | YA F George |
Born with an ability to understand animals, the Lass is sought out by an isbjorn, a polar bear who promises her family riches if she will accompany him to his castle.
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| The Tower Room (Rapunzel) | Geras, Adèle | YA F Geras |
Living at the secluded girls’ school where her foster mother is headmistress, Megan falls in love with the young man her foster mother has chosen for herself.
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| The Princess Bride (Miscellaneous fairy tales) | Goldman, William | YA F Goldman |
A thoroughly tongue-in-cheek modern fairy tale.
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| Book of a Thousand Days (Maid Maleen) | Hale, Shannon | YA F Hale |
Fifteen-year-old Dashti follows her mistress into exile where she brings her safely to the lands of the man they both love.
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| The Goose Girl (The Goose Girl) | Hale, Shannon | YA F Hale |
On her way to marry a prince she’s never met, Princess Anidori is betrayed by her guards and her lady-in-waiting and must become a goose girl to survive until she can reveal her true identity and reclaim the crown that is rightfully hers.
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| Mira, Mirror (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves) | Harrison, Mette Ivie | YA F Harrison |
Long after the disappearance of Snow White’s stepmother, the witch trapped in her mirror manipulates a desperate peasant and a merchant’s daughter to seek the magic she needs to gain her freedom, but the girls show her a power far greater.
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| The Princess and the Hound (Miscellaneous Fairy Tales) | Harrison, Mette Ivie | YA F Harrison |
George has always felt burdened by his princely duties, and even more by the need to hide the magic through which he speaks with animals, but when he is betrothed to the strange princess of a neighboring kingdom, his secret, and the persecution of people like himself, must come to an end.
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| Spirited (Beauty and the Beast) | Holder, Nancy | YA F Holder |
In 1756, during the war between the British and the French, Isabella and her father are kidnapped by a young medicine man who wishes to take revenge for the death of his wife and child, but after noticing the bravery of his young victim, Wusamequin reconsiders his plans of murder.
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| The Rose Bride (The White Bride and the Black Bride) | Holder, Nancy | YA F Holder |
After Rose’s father dies and her step-mother, Ombrine, moves in with her evil daughter, the two will stop at nothing to destroy her relationship with King Jean-Marc, and after they tear out her late mother’s beautiful garden, Rose’s only inspiration for living lies in the beauty of a single blossom that survived the attack.
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| If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince? (Cinderella) | Kantor, Melissa | YA F Kantor |
After her father remarries, high school sophomore Lucy Norton is forced to move to Long Island, where her evil new stepmother and annoying stepsisters make her life miserable.
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| Goose Chase (Six Swans/Wild Swans) | Kindl, Patrice | YA F Kindl |
Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl endures imprisonment and other dangers, before learning exactly who she is.
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| Keturah and Lord Death (Miscellaneous Fairy Tales) | Leavitt, Martine | YA F Leavitt |
When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King’s Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love.
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| Ella Enchanted (Cinderella) | Levine, Gail Carson | YA F Levine |
At birth Ella was bestowed the gift of obedience by a fairy, and when her mother dies and father remarries leaving her in the care of a loathsome stepmother and two treacherous stepsisters, Ella’s life and well-being seem in grave peril.
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| Ever (Miscellaneous Fairy Tales) | Levine, Gail Carson | YA F Levine |
Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan god of the winds, fall in love and together try to change her fate--to be sacrificed to a Hyte god because of a rash promise her father made--through a series of quests that might make her immortal.
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| Fairest (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves) | Levine, Gail Carson | YA F Levine |
In a land where beauty and singing are valued above all else, Aza eventually comes to reconcile her unconventional appearance and her magical voice, and learns to accept herself for who she truly is.
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| Snow (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves) | Lynn, Tracy | YA F Lynn |
Once upon a time, a child was born to a duke and duchess in a remote corner of Wales, but the wife died giving birth, and the duke, in his grief, refused to have anything to do with the child. So begins this Victorian psychological thriller based on Snow White.
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| Wildwood Dancing (The Twelve Dancing Princesses) | Marillier, Juliet | YA F Marillier |
Five sisters who live with their merchant father in Transylvania use a hidden portal in their home to cross over into a magical world, the Wildwood.
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| Swan Kingdom (Six Swans/Wild Swans) | Marriott, Zoë | YA F Marriott |
When Alexa’s mother is killed, her father marries a cunning and powerful woman and her brothers disappear, sending Alexa on a long, dangerous journey where she attempts to harness the mystical power she inherited from her mother and restore the kingdom to its proper balance.
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| Beauty (Beauty and the Beast) | McKinley, Robin | YA F McKinley |
Sixteen-year-old Beauty is not the prettiest girl in her family, but she is the cleverest, bravest, and most honorable.
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| Deerskin (Donkeyskin) | McKinley, Robin | YA F McKinley |
When her growing beauty begins to resemble her mother’s too closely, Princess Lissar must flee her father’s wrath, and, in doing so, unlocks a door into a world of magic.
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| Rose Daughter (Beauty and the Beast) | McKinley, Robin | YA F McKinley |
Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay, and through her love he is released from the curse that had turned him from man to beast.
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| Spindle's End (Sleeping Beauty) | McKinley, Robin | YA F McKinley |
The infant princess Briar Rose is cursed on her name day by Pernicia, an evil fairy, and then whisked away by a young fairy to be raised in a remote part of a magical country, unaware of her real identity and hidden from Pernicia’s vengeful powers.
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| The Door in the Hedge (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | McKinley, Robin | YA F McKinley |
A collection of stories--both imaginative retellings of classic tales as well as McKinley's own original works--includes "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" and "The Frog Prince."
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| An Earthly Knight (A Scottish Fairy Tale, “Tam Lin”) | McNaughton, Janet | YA F McNaughton |
When her older sister, Isabel, disgraces the family, it is up to 16-year-old Jenny to save her father’s reputation and prosperity. Then, she meets Tam Lin in the forest and befriends him. Stories of his insanity and odd behavior fuel the locals’ fear of him, so Jenny keeps their relationship a secret.
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| The Blue Castle (Bluebeard) | Montgomery, L.M. | YA F Montgomery |
At 29 Valancy has never been in love and it seems romance has passed her by, but then a letter arrives from Dr. Trent, and Valancy discovers a new world full of love and adventures.
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| Beast (Beauty and the Beast) | Napoli, Donna Jo | YA F Napoli |
Orasmyn looks like a beast and acts like a beast, yet he is actually a Persian prince who, because of his pride in regard to an ancient ritual, angers a fairy and is transformed.
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| Bound (Cinderella) | Napoli, Donna Jo | YA F Napoli |
In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly binds her own child’s feet so that she alone might marry well.
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| Breath (The Pied Piper) | Napoli, Donna Jo | YA F Napoli |
Elaborates on the tale of "The Pied Piper," told from the point of view of a boy who is too ill to keep up when a piper spirits away the healthy children of a plague-ridden town after being cheated out of full payment for ridding Hamelin of rats.
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| Crazy Jack (Jack and the Beanstalk) | Napoli, Donna Jo | YA F Napoli |
The tale of a young boy who climbs a beanstalk, searches for his father, falls in love with Flora, and learns the value of real treasure.
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| Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale (Miscellaneous Fairy Tales) | Napoli, Donna Jo | YA F Napoli |
Fifteen-year-old Melkorka, an Irish princess, is kidnapped by Russian slave traders and not only learns how to survive but to challenge some of the brutality of her captors, who are fascinated by her apparent muteness and the possibility that she is enchanted.
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| Sirena (The Little Mermaid) | Napoli, Donna Jo | YA F Napoli |
The gods grant immortality to the mermaid Sirena when she rescues a human man from the sea and they fall in love, but his mortality creates great conflict between love and honor when he is called to defend Greece in the Trojan War.
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| Spinners (Rumpelstiltskin) | Napoli, Donna Jo | YA F Napoli |
A strange little man helps a miller’s daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.
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| The Magic Circle (Hansel and Gretel) | Napoli, Donna Jo | YA F Napoli |
After learning sorcery to become a healer, a good-hearted woman is turned into a witch by evil spirits and fights their power until her encounter with Hansel and Gretel years later.
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| Zel (Rapunzel) | Napoli, Donna Jo | YA F Napoli |
The story is told in alternating chapters from the point of view of Zel, her mother, and the prince, and delves into the psychological motivations of the characters.
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| Haunted Waters (A German Fairy Tale, "Undine”) | Osborne, Mary Pope | YA F Osborne |
After meeting the mysterious sea maid Undine on a bleak promontory and making her his wife, Lord Huldbrand tries to defend her from the faceless demon that haunts her, while he probes her strange ties to the aquatic world.
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| Cindy Ella (Cinderella) | Palmer, Robin | YA F Palmer |
Sophomore, Cindy Gold publishes an anti-prom letter in her high school newspaper, but when she develops a crush on her SAT tutor, on top of the one she already has on popular senior Adam Silver as well as a boy she has been exchanging instant messages with, she begins to doubt her own anti-prom convictions.
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| East (East of the Sun and West of the Moon) | Pattou, Edith | YA F Pattou |
Edith, a young woman journeys to a distant castle on the back of a great white bear who is the victim of a cruel enchantment.
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| I was a Rat (Cinderella) | Pullman, Philip | YA F Pullman |
A little boy turns life in London upside down when he appears at the house of a lonely old couple and insists he was a rat.
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| Straw into Gold (Rumpelstiltskin) | Schmidt, Gary D. | YA F Schmidt |
Pursued by greedy villains, two boys on a quest to save innocent lives meet the banished queen whose son was stolen by Rumpelstiltskin eleven years earlier, and she provides much more than the answer they seek.
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| What Happened in Hamelin (The Pied Piper) | Skurzynski, Gloria | YA F Skurzynski |
A novel of the Pied Piper legend told from the standpoint of a 14-year-old baker's assistant who dreams of freedom from his harsh medieval life and of a new life with the piper.
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| Bella at Midnight (Cinderella) | Stanley, Diane | YA F Stanley |
A subtle twist of the Cinderella story, a baby girl, Bella, is born to a mother who dies in childbirth. Bella's furious father sends her away to be raised among peasants, where she is befriended by Julian, a prince, a fourth son who has no place in his family.
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| Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | YA F Stories Swan |
Thirteen authors model new stories after traditional fairy tales to provide original yet familiar tales.
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| When the Nightingale Sings (Miscellaneous fairy tales) | Thomas, Joyce Carol | YA F Thomas |
Despite her mean-spirited foster mother’s attempts to demean her, fourteen-year-old orphan Marigold finds the song within her heart during the search for a new lead gospel singer for the Rose of Sharon Baptist Church.
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| Swan Maiden (The Swan Maiden) | Tomlinson, Heather | YA F Tomlinson |
Doucette discovers when she is sixteen years old that she too has magic in her blood, and she must brave her mother’s wrath--and the loss of the man she loves--in order to follow her birthright.
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| The Rumpelstiltskin Problem (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | Vande Velde, Vivian | YA F Vande Velde |
A collection of variations on the familiar story of a boastful miller and the daughter he claims can spin straw into gold.
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| Midnight Pearls (The Little Mermaid) | Viguié, Debbie | YA F Viguié |
A woven tapestry of magic, adventure, and romance tells the tale of a stunning mermaid, a horrible curse, and the power of love in the Kingdom of Aster, a place where legends are born.
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| Scarlet Moon (Little Red Riding Hood) | Viguié, Debbie | YA F Viguié |
Fearful of William, a young noble with ancient wolf blood running through his veins, Ruth decides to keep her distance, but a trip to her grandmother's house brings the two of them together once again.
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| Crimson Thread (Rumpelstiltskin) | Weyn, Susan | YA F Weyn |
Bertie O’Malley, a seamstress, helps save the J. P. Wellington family fortune thanks to Ray Stalls, a man from Bertie’s tenement who creates stunning evening gowns in the night, but when Ray asks for Bertie’s first born as payment, she never imagines that he is serious.
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| The Night Dance (The Twelve Dancing Princesses) | Weyn, Suzanne | YA F Weyn |
Discovering that his youngest daughter is sneaking out of the house every night, Sir Ethan challenges the single men of the kingdom to find out the truth about her escapades, thus Bedivere takes on the task which forces Rowena to be extra-cautious with the secrets she has been keeping from all.
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| Water Song (The Frog King) | Weyn, Suzanne | YA F Weyn |
Emma Pennington is accustomed to a very comfortable life, but when she and her mother travel from Britain to Belgium, she finds herself stranded in a war-torn country.
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| A Wolf at the Door: and Other Retold Fairy Tales (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | YA F Wolf |
This well-written collection revisits both familiar and lesser-known stories with creative revisions by a variety of familiar writers. The tales range from Jane Yolen's comic "Cinder Elephant" to Garth Nix's downright creepy "Hansel's Eyes," in which the witch no longer eats children, but instead harvests their organs for sale.
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| Dealing with Dragons (Miscellaneous fairy tales) | Wrede, Patricia C. | YA F Wrede |
Bored with traditional palace life, a princess goes off to live with a group of dragons and soon becomes involved with fighting against some disreputable wizards who want to steal away the dragons’ kingdom.
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| Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) | Yolen, Jane | YA F Yolen |
A young woman’s promise to her dying grandmother leads her on a quest to discover the truth of her own family’s mysterious beginnings.
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| Pay the Piper (The Pied Piper) | Yolen, Jane | YA F Yolen |
When all the children of Northampton begin to disappear on Halloween, Callie knows to begin the dangerous search by investigating a local band, Brass Rat.
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| Troll Bridge: a Rock 'N' Roll Fairy Tale (Three Billy Goats Gruff) | Yolen, Jane | YA F Yolen |
Sixteen-year-old harpist prodigy Moira is transported to a strange and mystical wilderness, where she finds herself in the middle of a deadly struggle between a magical fox and a monstrous troll.
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