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Roses and Thorns: Beauty and the Beast Retold

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Cinder

Marie Sexton · 132 pages

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Driven Snow

Tara Lain

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Ash

Malinda Lo · 264 pages

In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted. The day that Ash meets Kaisa,

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Peter Darling

Austin Chant · 207 pages

Ten years ago, Peter Pan left Neverland to grow up, leaving behind his adolescent dreams of boyhood and resigning himself to life as Wendy Darling. Growing up, however, has only made him realize how inescapable his identity as a man is.But when he returns to Neverland, everything has changed: the Lost Boys have become men, and the war games they once played are now real and deadly. Even more shock

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The Mermaid's Daughter

Ann Claycomb · 451 pages

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Kissing the Witch

Emma Donoghue · 228 pages

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Girls Made of Snow and Glass

Melissa Bashardoust · 384 pages

"Frozen meets The Bloody Chamber in this feminist fantasy reimagining of the Snow White fairytale At sixteen, Mina's mother is dead, her magician father is vicious, and her silent heart has never beat with love for anyone--has never beat at all, in fact, but she'd always thought that fact normal. She never guessed that her father cut out her heart and replaced it with one of glass. When she moves

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Was

Geoff Ryman · 362 pages

An account of the life and times of Dorothy Gael with, along the way, details about Judy Garland's stunted childhood and unhappy fame and her definitive role as Dorthy in L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz.

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The Darkest Part of the Forest

Holly Black · 352 pages

Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill a monster and feel quite proud of themselves. A girl can look at her brother and believe they’re destined to be a knight and a bard who battle evil. She can believe she’s found the thing she’s been made for. Hazel lives with her brother, Ben, in the strange town of Fairfold where humans and fae exist side by side. The faeri

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The Snow Queen's Shadow

Jim C. Hines · 337 pages

When Snow White's enchanted mirror is shattered by a spell gone wrong, unleashing a demon that shows people only ugliness and hate, Snow White becomes the first person to fall under the demon's power.

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A Spindle Splintered

Alix E. Harrow · 119 pages

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The Grimrose Girls

Laura Pohl · 400 pages

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Princess Princess Ever After

Katie O'Neill · 66 pages

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The Raven and the Reindeer

T. Kingfisher · 224 pages

When Gerta's friend Kay is stolen away by the mysterious Snow Queen, it's up to Gerta to find him. Her journey will take her through a dangerous land of snow and witchcraft, accompanied only by a bandit and a talking raven. Can she win her friend's release, or will following her heart take her to unexpected places?

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The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales

Kirsty Logan · 148 pages

Twenty tales of lust and loss. These stories feature clockwork hearts, lascivious queens, paper men, island circuses, and a flooded world; some are radical retellings of classic stories, some are modern-day fables, but all explore substitutions for love.

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The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold

Francesca Lia Block · 240 pages

With language that is both lyrical and distinctly her own, Francesca Lia Block turns nine fairy tales inside out.Escaping the poisoned apple, Snow frees herself from possession to find the truth of love in an unexpected place.A club girl from L.A., awakening from a long sleep to the memories of her past, finally finds release from its curse.And Beauty learns that Beasts can understand more than me

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Cutie and the Beast

E.J. Russell

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Son of a Witch

Gregory Maguire · 352 pages

Liir hid in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Left for dead in a gully, the teen is shattered in spirit and body. But silent novice Candle tends him at the Cloister of Saint Glinda, and wills him back to life with her music. What dark force left Liir in this condition? Is he really Elphaba's son? He has her broom and her cape - but what of her powers? Can he find his sup

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Laurent and the Beast

K.A. Merikan · 320 pages

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Briar Rose

Jane Yolen · 234 pages

Grandmother Gemma always told the story of Briar Rose, and after she dies, her grandaughter discoveres that Gemma was a real-life Sleeping Beauty - a Holocaust survivor.

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Sleeping Beauty

Jenni James · 136 pages

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Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories

Amal El-Mohtar · 196 pages

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Neverland

Anna Katmore

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