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Blanca & Roja
\"The del Cisne girls have never just been sisters; they're also rivals, Blanca as obedient and graceful as Roja is vicious and manipulative. They know that, because of a generations-old spell, their family is bound to a bevy of swans deep in the woods. They know that, one day, the swans will pull them into a dangerous game that will leave one of them a girl, and trap the other in the body of a swan. But when two local boys become drawn into the game, the swans' spell intertwines with the strange and unpredictable magic lacing the woods, and all four of their fates depend on facing truths that could either save or destroy them.\"--Publisher's description.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
A bloodcurdling howl is heard across a cold, moonlit moor; the spectral hound has claimed another victim. Sherlock Holmes, the world famous detective of Baker Street, and the ever-reliable Watson are called upon to investigate the legendary plague of Baskerville Manor. This modern adaptation of the hound on the moor was commissioned by Nottingham and Salisbury Playhouses and Clive worked alongside Tim Bird (who created an ingenious projection design) and the director Richard Baron. Subsequent to this initial production, this adaptation has just completed its third UK tour in seven years.
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Stone blind
'So to mortal men, we are monsters. Because of our flight, our strength. They fear us, so they call us monsters.' Medusa is the only mortal in a family of gods. Growing up with her sisters, she quickly realizes that she is the only one who gets older, experiences change, feels weakness. Her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know. When the sea god, Poseidon, commits an unforgivable act in her sacred temple the goddess, Athene, takes her revenge on an innocent - and Medusa's life is changed forever. Appalled by her own reflection: snakes have replaced her hair and she realises that her gaze can now turn any living creature to stone. Medusa can no longer look upon anyone she loves without destroying them,, and so condemns herself to a life lived in shadow and solitude to limit her murderous rage. That is, until Perseus embarks upon a fateful quest to fetch the head of a Gorgon . . . -- Source other than Library of Congress.
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Igereka and other African narratives. That business about the lambs
\"The last story, Akomunyana -- or The Business About The Lambs -- is perhaps the most intricate of the three stories. It begins with a curse spanning two generations, goes through the details of how the original chief Rutegaya lived and brought the curse upon his family and how his son Bahemuka had to carry the curse through to what should have been the third generation. It is a story about the other extreme of how being good and obliging can also prove to be costly unless you can discriminate between people, events and everything, and know when and why not to oblige.\"--Afterword, page 152.
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Rose & thorn
\"In this fairy tale retelling, a girl tries to fight the story of Sleeping Beauty before she falls under its spell\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Bound by blood and sand
\"A slave living in a dying desert world must decide if she wants to help the kingdom's prince save their world\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Sleeping Beauty
Enraged at not being invited to the princess's christening, a wicked woman casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for one hundred years.
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Max Helsing and the thirteenth curse
Max is just your average kid growing up in Gallows Hill, a small town outside of Boston--well, except that he lives in a gothic mansion with an old former prizefighter, and his after-school job is carrying on the monster-hunting tradition of his family, the van Helsings. Max always tries to be kind and fair to the ghouls, demons, and other creatures he encounters, so he's confused when monsters start attacking him, even those he thought of as friends. Max discovers he's been cursed by an evil Warlock who intends to reclaim the earth for the monsters.
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Norroway
Sibylla always wanted adventure, but she didn't know it would come in the form of a giant, magical bull. Is he a man or a monster? And who knew a prophecy could be so literal? The first title in a new series co-created by sibling writer/artist team Cat Seaton and Kit Seaton, begins the adventure of a lifetime.
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