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74381) The Magic Corncob
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Lucas discovers a magical corncob that sends him on a journey to Mexico where he meets a new friend and learns more about his own family. Children will love this entertaining story with its message of the importance of family and cultural traditions. Colorful illustrations and simple text help emerging readers follow along with the story. With pre-reading questions, this book is ideal for guided reading and builds early literacy skills.
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Including tales such as: Enchanted Stag Twelve Brothers Puss in Boots Jack and the Beanstalk Princess on the Pea Ugly Duckling Light Princess Beauty and the Beast Hansel and Gretel Jack the Giant Killer Second Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor Story of Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp And many more.
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The first installment of a series of tales from a family deep in the forest on a quest to restore balance. Full of excitement and nail-biting action, this story follows the Tinkerberry family on their adventures through good and evil encounters with fairies, pixies, witches, and many more magical creatures.
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This complete series ebook bind-up contains all three novels in author Robert Treskillard's Merlin Spiral series, which follows the Merlin of Arthurian legend, who as a maimed, teenaged bladesmith must fight against druids working to end Arthur's reign before it has a chance to begin. In Merlin's Blade, a strange meteorite strikes Merlin's village, and only the blinded Merlin has the ability to resist its strange enchantments. And unless he can find...
74386) Tales From Gallia
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In Tales from Gallia we have a collection of tales from the French & Gallic folk tradition. These tales were originally collected by Andrew Lang, Charles Perrault, Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, Comtesse de Sophie Ségur, Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy, Katharine Pyle and Edmund Dulac, representing some of the finest collectors working from the seventeenth century onwards.
As ever it's been a delight working with these...
74387) Ice and Fire
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A Tale of Rubies, Shadows, and Romance.
When the King's miners discover a strange ruby filled with fire, deep under the mountains, the King is overjoyed. There's one problem, of course. The gem belongs to the shadows who live in the mine. The King, however, will do anything to get his greedy hands on the ruby, even if that means disaster for the kingdom. The chief miner's son, Peter Snow, is forced to save the day.
74388) The Ten of Swords
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Gertrude has been working tirelessly to finish The Tower as part of the bargain she made with Loki. The god has made no attempt to fulfill his end of the agreement, and Gertrude is out of patience as she waits to be reunited with her son.
When Ella uses Gypsy to travel back to Gertrude's timeline and make trouble, Gertrude is able to steal the ship to return to the future. What she finds is a world in chaos with recurring shifts in time that thwart...
74389) Perilous Chance
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If only Mama were well. If only Papa were . . . not like this. Clary needs a miracle, but wonders rarely step forth to solve life's problems.While her mama lies wearily abed and her papa spends the day . . . elsewhere, Clary struggles to look after her younger sister and their baby brother. And longs for more than making do. If only.Then, one spring morning, Clary and Elspeth visit the old bramble-grown quarry to pick wild cabbage leaves. Hidden within...
74390) Sticks & Stones
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My name is Ophelia Turner, I'm what you might call a native New Yorker, but that's because I've been here way longer than everyone else. I might look young, but as far as witches of my bloodline are concerned, I've got my entire lives ahead of me. Nine lifetimes to be exact. I've been on the run from witchfinders since I was nine years old, and I've adapted to the changing world and stayed hidden ever since.But after all this time, I'm starting to...
74391) Nectar and Ambrosia
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Callie, a Classics major, flees home to protect her family from a monster straight out of mythology. Visions lead her to Nectar and Ambrosia: the weirdest pub on Earth, where inter-dimensional travelers with attention seeking issues get drunk in between the A-list celebrity lives they create. They can't pretend to be gods anymore-not since a treaty with the current Supreme Deity promising they won't intervene in human affairs.
The Doorkeeper of this...
74392) The Ballad of Captain Thatch
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Glenna's life is anything but ordinary. The daughter of Renaissance festival vendors, Glenna's days are filled with magic and medieval reenactments as she travels the faire circuit with her family.The one day, Glenna's life changes forever. With the help of a pendant, she discovers Otherworld. An enchanged realm, Otherworld is the land in which all of the myths and magic woven by the Renaissance players comes to life!To make things even more complicated,...
74393) Natalia Magical Bubble Wish
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Natalia and her family moved from Colorado Springs, Colorado, to a military base overseas. While playing at the park, Natalia meets a girl named Nyla, who gives her magical bubblegum flavors away for Natalia to keep. Later on, Natalia blows a bubble, creating a loud pop. She discovers that the bubblegum is truely magical. She is then greeted by a magical fairy named Raspberry, who grants her four magical bubble wishes.
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The Sahara runs from east to west across the widest part of Africa, a vast desert dividing the continent into two main regions. North Africa consists of the Mediterranean coast from Morocco to Egypt and includes the valley of the Nile River as far south as Ethiopia. With strong ties to the Mediterranean and Arab worlds, North Africans felt the influence of Christianity by the A.D. 300S, and in the 700s, much of the area came under the influence of...
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Stranger Things and Philosophy is an important book, the first of its kind to examine the fantastical world of this award-winning, widely beloved, phenomenal show with a philosophical lens. This is important precisely because the show rests so heavily on a complex and thought-provoking mythos based around secretive government experiments and a parallel dimension that darkly reflects readers' own. The series as a whole has asked more questions than...
74396) The Clumsy Tooth Fairy
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Anna is a clumsy fairy!
She was born in a family of tooth fairies and expected to follow in the family business.
Clumsiness and children's rooms do not mix! She makes mistakes and almost gets caught...
Will she find a way to be a tooth fairy or will she have to give up her dream?
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For ages 9 to 99...
From the instant, he spies that green-growing alien 'thingy' in his back garden from his third story bedroom window, Ned Clery is caught up in a curiosity and daring that begins a series of excursions to mystical realms. With the flawed reasoning of a ten year old, and an initial series of missteps, Ned is, transported to worlds populated by mythical creatures. With each amazing journey, this alien Rhyll challenges him to solve...
74398) A Little Taste of Poison
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The city of Tarreton is powered by magic, from simple tablets that light lamps to advanced Sagery that can murder a man from afar. Isaveth has a talent for spell making, but as a girl from a poor neighborhood she never dreamed she could study at the most exclusive magical school in the city. So when she's offered a chance to attend, she eagerly accepts.
The school is wonderful, but old and new enemies confront Isaveth at every turn, and she begins...
74399) Reparations
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The scars of war can never be, erased...
Amaya is an enchantress in a world where magic is heavily restricted. After a brutal civil war tears her country apart, she must come to terms with everything that has, happened and find a way to face her past.
74400) GaIA
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En 2490, une terrible guerre ravage la planète. Alors, sous la violence des bombes et des armes bactériologiques, l'humanité entière est anéantie. Seul a survécu l'héritage de l'homme, ceux créés pour le servir: les androïdes. Forts et intelligents, ils organisent leur survie, prolongeant indéfiniment leur existence au moyen de rares et précieux techno-cœurs. Deux mille ans après la Dernière Guerre, les ressources de cœurs s'épuisent...
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