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Salish Myths and Legends
By: Thompson, M. Terry (ed.); Egesdal, Steven M. (ed.)
Published by: Bison Books

Salish Myths and Legends features an array of Trickster stories centered on Coyote, Mink, and other memorable characters, as well as stories of the frightening Basket Ogress, accounts of otherworldly journeys, classic epic cycles such as South Wind’s Journeys and the Bluejay Cycle, tales of such legendary animals as Beaver and Lady Louse from the beginning of time, and stories that explain why things are the way they are. The anthology also includes humorous traditional tales, speeches, and fascinating stories of encounters with whites, including “Circling Raven and the Jesuits.” more...

Price: $28.95

Skin Folk
By: Hopkinson, Nalo
Published by: Time Warner

'Throughout the Caribbean [there are] stories about people who aren't what they seem. Skin gives these folk their human shape. When the skin comes off, their true selves emerge. And whatever the burden their skin bears, once they remove it, skin folk can fly...' more...

Price: $9.99

The Song of Hiawatha
By: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Published by: The Floating Press

Longfellow wrote his epic poem The Song of Hiawatha in 1855. He based it on the Ojibway legends, which had been compiled by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and his Ojibway wife Jane Schoolcraft. It tells the legend of Hiawatha and Minnehaha, his lover. more...

Price: $3.99

The Stolen Child
By: Donohue, Keith
Published by: Anchor

Inspired by the W.B. Yeats poem that tempts a child from home to the waters and the wild, The Stolen Child is a modern fairy tale narrated by the child Henry Day and his double. On a summer night, Henry Day runs away from home and hides in a hollow tree. more...

Price: $13.95

The Tale of Cupid and Psyche
By: Apuleius; Relihan, Joel C. (trans.)
Published by: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

Is Cupid and Psyche a romance, a folktale, a Platonic allegory of the nature of the soul, a Jungian tale of individuation, or an archetypal dream? This volume provides Joel Relihan's lively translation of this best known section of Apuleius' Golden Ass, some useful and illustrative parallels, and an engaging discussion of what to make of this classic story. more...

Price: $8.95

The Brownie of Bodsbeck
By: Hogg, James
Published by: Soft Editions

The Brownie of Bodsbeck is the first novel by James Hogg, one of Scotland's greatest writers. It is set in the late seventeenth century, at the end of the "Killing Times", when the religous reformers, the Covenanters, were mercilessly persecuted by the King's forces. The Brownie of Bodsbeck is the story of the farmer of Chapelhope farm in the Scottish borders who is beset by problems - his farm is haunted by the mysterious Brownie, his daughter appears to be in league with the spirit world and a party of fugitive Covenanters are hiding out on his land. In spite of the risk of confiscation of his stock or a possible death sentence if he is caught, he secretly helps the fugitives. He is arrested by the King's forces, and eventually tried for his 'crimes' in Edinburgh, but in his absence the haunting of his farm grows more serious ... more...

Price: $6.99

The Curious Moon
By: Paul Sohar (trans.); Kanyadi Sandor
Published by: SynergEbooks

Follow the earthly adventures of the Curious Moon as she visits the earth … and gets in many interesting adventures. more...

Price: $6.50

There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby
By: Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla
Published by: The Penguin Group (USA)

The literary event of Halloween: a book of otherworldly power from Russia’s preeminent contemporary fiction writer. Vanishings and aparitions, nightmares and twists of fate, mysterious ailments and supernatural interventions haunt these stories by the Russian master Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, heir to the spellbinding tradition of Gogol and Poe. Blending the miraculous with the macabre, and leavened by a mischievous gallows humor, these bewitching tales are like nothing being written in Russia—or anywhere else in the world—today. more...

Price: $15.00

Three Celtic Tales
By: Caldecott, Moyra
Published by: Mushroom Publishing

The Twins of the Tylwyth Teg is based on a well known story in Welsh folklore about a herd boy who marries a faery from under the lake. Before her father will allow her to marry him however, he has to choose between her and her identical twin sister. Taliesin and Avagddu is based on the tale from the Welsh Mabinogion. Ceridwen brews up a cauldron of magic to give her misshapen son Avagddu extraordinary wisdom, but the village boy who is employed to stir the cauldron sips it instead and becomes the greatest prophet and bard Wales has ever known -- Taliesin. Bran, Branwen and Evnissyen is based on a story from the Welsh Mabinogion about the war between mainland Britain and Ireland in mythic times. Evnissyen, the bitter and disgruntled half-brother of Bran, the Blessed, stirs up trouble in which both nations are almost destroyed. more...

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The Trip
By: Papaellinas, George
Published by: re.press

The story of Odysseus, an Olympian god. Homeric hero and Greek migrant who is mystically as old as Australia where he migrated and in whose history he participated. more...

Price: $20.00

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