Fiction : Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology

In 17th-century Persia, a 14-year-old woman believes she will be married within the year. But when her beloved father dies, she and her mother find themselves alone and without a dowry. With nowhere else to go, they are forced to sell the brilliant turquoise rug the young woman has woven to pay for their journey to Isfahan, where they will work as servants for her uncle, a rich rug designer in the court of the legendary Shah Abbas the Great. Despite her lowly station, the young woman blossoms as a brilliant designer of carpets, a rarity in a craft dominated by men. But while her talent flourishes, her prospects for a happy marriage grow dim. Forced into a secret marriage to. a wealthy man, the young woman finds herself faced with a daunting decision: forsake her own dignity, or risk everything she has in an effort to create a new life. "Anita Amirrezvani has written a sensuous and transporting first novel filled with the colors, tastes and fragrances of life in seventeenth-century Isfahan...Amirrezvani clearly knows and loves the ways of old Iran, and brings them to life with the cadences of a skilled story-spinner." -- Geraldine Brooks, author of March. "An engrossing, enthralling tale of a girl's quest for self-determination in the fascinating other world that was seventeenth-century Iran." -- Emma Donoghue, author of Touchy Subjects and Life Mask more...

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Set against the rich backdrop of seventeenth-century Holland, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister tells the story of Iris, an unlikely heroine who finds herself swept from the lowly streets of Haarlem to a strange world of wealth, artifice, and ambition. Iris's path quickly becomes intertwined with that of Clara, the mysterious and unnaturally beautiful girl destined to become her sister. more...

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This very entraining fable is a mix of The X-Files, Spiderman and Sponge Bob, with a hidden riddle thrown into the mix for good measure. The riddle is solved by finding all of the rock groups that are scattered throughout the text of the story. more...

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Peter Meineck is Clinical Assistant Professor of Classics, New York University , and Artistic Director of the Aquila Theatre Company.Cecelia Eaton Luschnig is Professor Emerita of Classics, University of Idaho .Paul Woodruff is Professor of Philosophy and Classics, University of Texas at Austin.Justina Gregory is Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, Smith College. more...

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At long last, a good king sits on England's throne as the war between Merlin and Mab, Queen of Magic, hurtles toward the final conflict. As Arthur leaves Camelot on a quest of shadows, his nemesis and bastard son, Mordred, continues to grow into a monster cruel enough to laugh at his own mother's murder. Even Mab's own growing evil drives away her most loyal servant, the gnome Frick, leaving her to face Merlin alone. In this final chapter of a timeless epic, all hope will turn to ashes, all dreams will pass into legend, and not even magic will survive. Based on the extremely popular, Emmy Award-winning miniseries, here is the final installment in the trilogy of novels telling the epic story of Merlin, King Arthur's magician. more...

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