"Shane works with her mother and their ghost dogs, tracking down missing persons even when their families can’t afford to pay. Their own family was displaced from their traditional home years ago following a devastating flood--and the loss of Shane’s father and her grandparents. They don’t think they’ll ever get their home back. Then Shane’s mother and a local boy go missing, after a strange interaction with a fairy ring. Shane, her brother,...

Xiaofan, the unparalleled Sword God, was betrayed and reborn 500 years in the past. In this life, he vows to make up for all regrets, to stand above all geniuses, to eliminate all his enemies, and to become the Ancestor of Swords for all realms!With the control of the Immortal Slaying Formation and devouring all beings in the heavens, with one man and one sword, he slaughters all foes in the world!This is a story of a youth, holding a three-foot green...

La pauvre tortue Gazelle a été sauvée d'une épicerie puis donnée au peintre Deschamps. Alors que celui-là présente les autres animaux qu'il a recueillis (l'ours Tom, le singe Jacques Ier, et la grenouille Melle Camargo), Deschamps raconte lors d'une soirée entre artistes l'histoire de Jacques Ier ramené d'Afrique par un certain Pamphile. Capitaine d'un navire de commerce, Pamphile est un d'Artagnan sans foi ni loi. Piraterie, trafic d'ivoire...

This edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative essays, Zipes discusses the importance of investigating oral folk tales in their socio-political context and traces their evolution into literary fairy tales, a metamorphosis that often diminished the ideology of the original narrative. Zipes also looks at how folk tales influence...

A finalist for both the Strega Europeo and Gregor von Rezzori awards (and winner of every Bulgarian honor possible), The Physics of Sorrow reaffirms Georgi Gospodinov's place as one of Europe's most inventive and daring writers. Using the myth of the Minotaur as its organizing image, the narrator of Gospodinov's long-awaited novel constructs a labyrinth of stories about his family, jumping from era to era and viewpoint to viewpoint, exploring the...

A través de un mosaico de recuerdos y vivencias, el autor reconstruye en este magnífico libro la infancia de un supuesto niño de la guerra en España, desde su infancia desgarrada por la Guerra Civil hasta su adolescencia de posguerra. Un retrato de la inocencia perdida, la madurez alcanzada a empujones y la resistencia ante los golpes de la vida.-

Un village enchanteur et bucolique. Un éternel soleil. Mais sous la surface, une noire vérité... Mina vient d'emménager aux Trois Epis. Enfant surdouée, elle a du mal à se faire des amis. Sa rencontre avec Lucien, un gamin du pays, va changer la donne. Hélas Mina décou-vrira qu'aux Trois Epis, certaines choses se payent cher.

A true story of six young girls who wanted to make a difference. But how? This story is told by a bold and brave horse named Nez Perz. Read this charming book and see how the girls make a difference. Written for lindasfreelibrary.org a non profit.

« – Dois-je en déduire que tu préférerais ne rien voir ? demanda l'inconnu. Toujours muet, Charlie hocha la tête dans une étrange parodie d'assentiment. – Ainsi soit-il... Alors Charlie poussa un hurlement strident. Ses yeux se vidèrent de toute couleur et se solidifièrent. Cellule après cellule, la chair, l'humeur, les nerfs séchèrent et fusionnèrent avec les os des orbites. Les paupières de l'étudiant clignaient, inutiles,...