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Beauty… Is the illusion the Queen cannot live without. It drives her to dark deeds beyond the imagination of those beneath the spell of her charms. Leaving ruined kingdoms in her wake, a dire prophecy before her–and one chance to conquer her fate. Youth… Is the only chance...

The first in a spin-off series from The Dark Woods visits a hidden side of the greatest fairytale of all time... There are three kinds of fairies–or so the stories claim–the last of which are the faerie godfolk. The wish-granters and half-human of the fairy world, they are meant to atone...

Part One in a two-part special series from The Dark Woods. Part Two, Cindermaid, is also available.Homely, awkward farmboy Jode Lintwich has always longed for adventure and greatness: two things which can't be had in his humble village and which don't happen often to anyone like himself....

The sequel to Charming and the final part in the author's Cinderella re-telling.Picking up where its prequel left off, the story finds Elle's household sinking rapidly into madness, and Jack learning of a possible means of breaking Molly's curse and freeing himself of its consequences...

Arthur Hawthorne sees it in his dreams: The corpse queen on her throne; black briars and blood-red roses entwined with human bones in a tower of ruins. Visions of death and suffering that only madness could contrive.And surely Arthur is mad. What else could explain the dark imaginings of an...

The world of fairies and men crosses paths daily…although mankind doesn’t know it. As a future fairy godmother to a human being, Faenwick has been waiting for years for her destiny to arrive; but when it does, it brings with it a dangerous dilemma, risking everything she’s supposed to protect...

In the remote village of Emnyte, all was peaceful and safe … until a monster began snatching the innocent from every home… In this sequel to Spell, the witch hunter Neel and his young apprentice track a shadowy predator which has left a dying village in misery and terror. Joining the quest...

Who exactly is Lilith? What inspired the story of the Wicked Queen? Why isn’t Snow White the main character of…well…Snow White Retold? First Bite: Special Annotated Edition answers these questions and more as the authors take fans behind the scenes and into the process that created the first—and...

Once upon a time, a mirror shattered...and sprinkled its evil obsession throughout the world.... In a northern kingdom, a princess fated to a marriage for power will be consumed by a wish for power. In a southerly village, a boy fated to become a soldier will be consumed by the desire for a...

No one has tracked more witches, nor eliminated more dark powers from this realm than Neel, a hunter whose reputation has no equal. But someone is killing former witches. Those who have renounced their powers are now the victims of heinous deeds...and one of them, afraid for his life has summoned...

Figure essentielle de la littérature francophone, Maryse Condé allie modernité et originalité d’une pensée ouverte sur le monde. Mettant à nu la vérité des imaginaires, son œuvre contribue à une compréhension approfondie des régions géographiques et humaines qu’elle explore. Fortes...

In September, 1714, seven weeks after Queen Anne died, the first king of a new royal House landed in England. Sophia of Hanover, daughter of the Elizabeth Stuart who was once for a few months Queen of Bohemia, had been named by the Act of Settlement (1701) as successor to her cousin Anne. And ever...

My object in writing this little book has been to collect together in a popular and readable form the main facts connected with the question of destitute immigration. I have endeavoured to set forth as concisely as possible the evils consequent upon our present system, and to place before the public...

The Medicolegal Library is the first and only series of its kind. Its importance is self-evident. During the last decade, science, especial­ ly medical practice, has become an increasingly complex undertak­ ing. Recent dramatic developments in medicine have given rise to both theoretical controversies...