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82) Unbirthday
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Series
Language
English
Description
Returning to the place of nonsense from her childhood, Alice, now eighteen, tries to stop the Queen of Hearts' tyrannical rule before the End of Time, and save her own world as well as Wonderland.
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Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. Elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out when the birth of Boy's daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white.
Author
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Description
A collection of tales includes "Thumbelina," The Brave Tin Soldier," The Princess and the Pea," "The Butterfly," "The Flea and the Professor," "The Flying Trunk," "The Metal Pig," "The Storks," "The Silver Shilling," and "The Nightingale."
86) Gilded
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Series
Language
English
Description
When one of Serilda's outlandish tales draws the attention of the sinister Erlking and his undead hunters, she finds herself swept away into a grim world where ghouls and phantoms prowl the earth and hollow-eyed ravens track her every move. The king orders Serilda to complete the impossible task of spinning straw into gold, or be killed for telling falsehoods. In her desperation, Serilda unwittingly summons a mysterious boy to her aid. He agrees to...
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Series
Moongobble and me volume 4
Language
English
Description
When the daughter of the Queen of the Mischief Monsters runs away from home, it is up to Edward, Moongobble, Urk, and Fireball to return her to Monster Mountain--then start a new quest.
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Brought to life by Academy Award winning actor F. Murray Abraham and an ensemble cast of narrators, and featuring original music by Michael Bacon, this collection contains Hans Christian Andersen's most beloved fairy tales, as well as a selection of lesser-known favorites."--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Experience two of Roald Dahl's greatest collections of poems combined into one audiobook. Dahl gives an amusing interpretation of the world's most famous fairy tales in Revolting Rhymes, while Dirty Beasts tells laughable tales about pigs, anteaters, toads, and porcupines.
92) Worlds collide
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Series
Language
English
Description
With all of the fairy tale characters occupying the same world, Conner and Alex face their biggest challenge to date of restoring order to the human and fairy tale realms.
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Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
It's Gracie Gillypot's birthday, and Prince Marcus plans to show her a flight of dragons as a special gift. But when greedy, chocolate-hungry twins awaken the banished Old Malignant One, evil magic and total oblivion threaten the Five Kingdoms. Gracie must find a powerful, long-forgotten dragon's egg before the Old Malignant One does in order to save the day. With the help of a wayward troll, two chatty bats, and the ancient crones, can Gracie foil...
94) Dragon kiss
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Series
Tales of the frog princess volume 7
Language
English
Description
Despite obstacles, an ice dragon named Audun pursues the love of his life--a human girl who can transform into a dragon using magic.
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Language
English
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Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres and the New York Times best-selling Last Hundred Years Trilogy, a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals--and a young boy--whose lives intersect in Paris Paras is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. At dusk, one afternoon she pushes open the door of her stall--she's a curious filly--and, after traveling through the night, arrives by chance...
97) Fairest of all
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Series
Whatever after volume 1
Language
English
Description
After moving to a new house, ten-year-old Abby and her younger brother Jonah discover an antique mirror that transports them into the Snow White fairy tale.
99) Heroes
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Series
Royal Academy rebels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Princess Devin didn't come to Royal Academy for fame, glory, or a crown. All she's ever wanted is to be a Magical Creature Caretaker. Just when Devin gets up the courage to ask about following her passion, disaster strikes. The evil Rumplestiltskin and Alva cast a curse that nearly destroys Enchantasia, a new villain is on the rise, and the students of Royal Academy find they now have to share their castle with the delinquents from the notorious...