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Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World
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Include books by the same authorAngela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
Angela Carter · 486 pages
Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children. This collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales, hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories, from countries all around the world from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones, crafty women and bad girls, enchantresses and midwives, rascal aunts and odd sisters.
Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England
Jack D. Zipes · 273 pages
A Tyranny of Petticoats
J. Anderson Coats, Andrea Cremer, Y.S. Lee, Katherine Longshore, Marie Lu, Kekla Magoon, Marissa Meyer, Saundra Mitchell, Beth Revis, Caroline Tung Richmond, Lindsay Smith, Robin Talley, Leslye Walton, Elizabeth Wein · 354 pages
Criss-cross America on dogsleds and ships, stagecoaches and trains from pirate ships off the coast of the Carolinas to the peace, love, and protests of 1960s Chicago. Join fifteen of today s most talented writers of young adult literature on a thrill ride through history with American girls charting their own course. They are monsters and mediums, bodyguards and barkeeps, screenwriters and sch
Black Swan, White Raven
Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling · 368 pages
An anthology of revisionist fairy tales, many with a feminist slant. In the tale of Snow White, the villain is not the stepmother but the stepfather and the dwarfs are wise women. A total of 19 tales.
Reader, I Married Him: Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre
Tracy Chevalier · 304 pages
This collection of original stories by today's finest women writers--including Tracy Chevalier, Francine Prose, Elizabeth McCracken, Tessa Hadley, Audrey Niffenegger, and more--takes inspiration from the opening line in Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, Jane Eyre. A fixture in the literary canon, Charlotte Brontë is revered by readers all over the world. Her novels featuring unforgettable, st
Dangerous Women Part I
George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois · 290 pages
Once Upon a Dream
Nora Roberts, Jill Gregory, Ruth Ryan Langan, Marianne Willman · 382 pages
The four ladies who brought us Once upon a Castle and Once upon a Star are at it again with this latest anthology, Once upon a Dream. These stories revolve around the magic and dreams that draw our heroes and heroines together.
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings
Ellen Oh · 336 pages
Favorite Folktales from Around the World
Jane Yolen · 498 pages
The Arabian Nights
Anonymous · 912 pages
Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever. This volume
A Moment on the Edge: 100 Years of Crime Stories by Women
Elizabeth George · 560 pages
New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George serves up a century's worth of superb crime fiction penned by women. This veritable all-star team delivers tales of dark deeds that will keep you reading long into the night. Included are these works: "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell The Summer of People" by Shirley Jackson "The Irony of Hate" by Ruth Rendell "Country Lovers" by Nadine Gor
Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense
Sarah Weinman · 356 pages
A salute to the real femmes fatales of the domestic suspense genre, and the deceitful children, deranged husbands, vengeful friends, and murderous wives they unleashed. Sarah Weinman, one of today's preeminent authorities of crime fiction, brings together fourteen chilling stories by women who -- from the 1940s through the mid-1970s -- took a scalpel to contemporary society and sliced away to rev
Sisters of The Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology
Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer · 352 pages
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
Neil Gaiman · 352 pages
"En las manos maestras de Neil Gaiman, la magia es mucho más que un mero juego de engaños. La destreza y el poder de invención de este gran fabulador transforman el entorno cotidiano en un mundo hechizado por sucesos sombríos y extraños, en el que una anciana puede comprar el Santo Grial en una tienda de segunda mano, unos asesinos se anuncian en los clasificados de un periódico bajo la rúbrica ±C
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
Jeffrey Ford, Charles de Lint, Tanith Lee, Jane Yolen, Katherine Vaz, Patricia A. McKillip, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Carol Emshwiller, Midori Snyder, Gregory Maguire, Emma Bull, Carolyn Dunn, Kathe Koja, Neil Gaiman, M. Shayne Bell, Delia Sherman, Bill Lewis, Michael Cadnum · 396 pages
A collection of stories and poems by a variety of authors relating to the Green Man and other myths of the forest.
The Crimson Fairy Book
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang · 250 pages
Twenty four fairy tales from the folklore of Hungary, Russia, Rumania, Serbia, Tunis, Finland, Iceland, Japan, and Sicily.
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde · 1,216 pages
Girls from Da Hood 2
Nikki Turner, KaShamba Williams, Joy · 283 pages
Hot for the Holidays
Lora Leigh, Angela Knight, Anya Bast, Allyson James · 344 pages
Something passionate. Something mysterious. Something sexy. And something totally inviting. Its the perfect gift for the holidays. Four bestselling authors invite readers to spend the night with these never-before-published novellas spiced with sexy romance and paranormal passion. So come in out of the cold and experience the thrill of a soul-stirring new tale of the Breeds from Lora Leigh,
Alluring Tales: Awaken the Fantasy
Vivi Anna, Sylvia Day, Delilah Devlin, Cathryn Fox, Myla Jackson, Lisa Renee Jones, Sasha White · 325 pages
The Return of the Light: Twelve Tales from Around the World for the Winter Solstice
Carolyn McVickar Edwards · 178 pages
Into the Dark
Gena Showalter · 384 pages
Three otherworldly tales from the master of paranormal romance...and a Lords of the Underworld bonus guide!THE DARKEST FIRE — A Lords of the Underworld prequelGeryon is the guardian of hell, more monster than man. Kadence is the goddess of Oppression, more angel than woman. Together they will enter the flames to battle a dangerous horde of demon lords—and discover a passion unlike any other.THE AM