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Celestial kingdom duology volume 1
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English
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"An enthralling debut fantasy inspired by the legend of Chang'e, the Chinese moon goddess, in which a young woman's quest to free her mother sets her on a dangerous path and pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm. Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the feared Celesial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing the elixer of immortality. But when Xingyin's magic flares...
64) Puss in boots
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English
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A retelling of the French fairy tale in which a clever cat wins his master a fortune and the hand of a princess.
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English
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An interactive reading experience that allows young ones to read together with an adult, answer questions within the text, and play with activities suggested at the end of the story. A freshly baked gingerbread man escapes when he is taken out of the oven and eludes a number of pursuers until he meets a clever fox.
66) The girl in red
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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English
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"The illustrations of award-winning artist Roberto Innocenti offer a modern take on the centuries-old tale of an innocent girl in a red riding hood who meets a wicked wolf in the dark woods"--Provided by publisher.
67) Sleeping Beauty
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm
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English
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A beautiful princess is put into a deep sleep by a curse until she is awakened by a brave prince.
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1 videodisc (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The latest project of a young preservation architect sends him to the banks of the Chesapeake Bay to look for answers to one of America's oldest, most haunting legends: the legend of the Lost Colony.
69) Mules and men
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Mules and Men is a treasury of black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed an oral history of the South since the time of slavery. Returning to her hometown of Eatonville, Florida, to gather material, Zora Neale Hurston recalls "a hilarious night with a pinch of everything social mixed with the storytelling." Set intimately within...
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36 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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Español
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A retelling of a traditional Spanish folktale, in which a jealous Maya king who can control the forces of nature orders a poverty-stricken prince to perform several impossible tasks or suffer punishment, unaware that the prince has an ally in his beautiful daughter, White Flower, who also holds power over the natural world.
73) Tell me a story
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ix, 100 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
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English
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Presents nineteen folk tales from around the world.
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Writings on Japan volume 1
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English
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Upon his arrival in Japan in 1890, Lafcadio Hearn found himself enamored with the culture, people, and stories of the country, and would make Japan his home until his death in 1904. His collections of stories published during this time became the most popular of Hearn's writings, and earned him veneration worldwide as not only a great translator of Japanese mythology, but as a sensational teller of strange and wonderfully macabre tales. "Kwaidan"...
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127 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Retells fifty animal-themed tales from around the world. This collection of fifty lively retellings by Angela McAllister of favorite animal-themed fables, myths, legends, and stories about creatures big and small from different cultures.
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