Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
Summary: Presents 156 tales accompanied by the author's notes on the background of his stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Press 1983
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Contents: The man who robbed his own post office -- Maestro -- Don't drink the water -- It can't be October already -- The red king -- The wisdom of Solomon -- Know what I mean? -- Charity begins at home -- The alibi -- A Greek tragedy -- The Commissioner -- In the eye of the beholder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARCIrving, Washington
Summary: Collection of four stories of strange and unexplainable circumstances. A headless horseman haunts Sleep Hollow. At least that's the legend in the tiny village of Tarrytown. But scary stories won't stop the town's new schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane, from crossing through the Hollow, especially when the beautiful Katrina lives on the other side. Will Ichabod win over his beloved or discover that the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION IRVFunk, Josh
Summary: Jack is not fond of the bossy narrator of his fairy tale! When Jack is told to trade his beloved cow Bessie for some magic beans, throw the beans out the window, climb the ENORMOUS beanstalk that sprouts overnight, and steal from a GIANT, he decides this fairy tale is getting out of control. In fact, he doesn't want to follow the story line at all. Who says Jack needs to enter a life of daring,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FUNLovegrove, James
Summary: It is the autumn of 1880, and Dr John Watson has just returned from Afghanistan. Badly injured and desperate to forget a nightmarish expedition that left him doubting his sanity, Watson is close to destitution when he meets the extraordinary Sherlock Holmes, who is investigating a series of deaths in the Shadwell district of London. Several bodies have been found, the victims appearing to have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817 WINAnderton, Helen
Summary: This delightful book is packed with well-known fairy tales, whimsically illustrated by Stuart Lynch & retold in funny, rhyming text. Featuring ten classic stories: Cinderella, Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel & Gretel, The Ugly Duckling, Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, The Princess and the Pea, Rumpelstiltskin & Puss in Boots.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Make Believe Ideas 2015
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Summary: The Smurfs and friends are after the fountain of strength in this latest installment of THE SMURF TALES! After discovering an old book telling the tale of an adventurous Smurf gaining extraordinary strength after bathing in a fabled spring, the Smurfs decide to find the source for themselves. And, as a special bonus, also from Peyo, the creator of THE SMURFS, we present a story from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2024
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Summary: Presents a selection of stories by the well-known author.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Courage Books 1986
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JF Classic PotterCortázar, Julio
Summary: "In time for his centenary: two groundbreaking works from a major figure of world literature, one of the founders of the Latin American Boom. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS. With these two books--the "counter-novel" Hopscotch and the short-story collection Blow-Up--Cortazar earned a place among the most innovative authors of the twentieth century. Hopscotch follows the adventures of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Everyman's Library, Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORDoeden, Matt
Summary: A choose-your-own-adventure in which the reader can proceed as a knight facing a female beast, explore the future with an android prince, or chase super-stardom in a modern version of the classic fairy tale. Includes a history of Beauty and the Beast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2019
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Summary: "The last kids may have escaped the forbidden fortress by the skin of their teeth, but there isn't much to celebrate. Thrull has what he needs to complete the Tower, Rezzoch will most certainly come to Earth, and the world as they know it will cease to exist. Except Jack's Cosmic Hand is now even more powerful than he realized, and it might just be able to stop the inevitable from happening. To...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRADoyle, Arthur Conan
Contents: Tales of terror: The horror of the heights. The leather funnel. The new catacomb. The case of Lady Sannox. The terror of Blue John Gap. The Brazilian cat.--Tales of mystery: The lost special. The beetle-hunter. The man with the watches. The japanned box. The black doctor. The Jew's breastplate. The nightmare room.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1977
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Summary: In her second adventure in the Land of Fake-Believe, Princess Pink meets Scaredy-Pants Wolf, a baker whose business has been robbed by Little Red Quacking Hood--and to save the bakery Princess must figure out why the ducks are suddenly so interested in pies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE JONAndersen, H. C. (Hans Christian),d1805-1875
Contents: The Little Mermaid -- The nightingale -- The ugly duckling -- The swineherd -- The tinder box -- The princess and the pea -- The emperor's new clothes -- The red shoes -- Thumbelina -- The steadfast tin soldier -- The little match girl -- The Snow Queen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Sets Anderson 2018Varley, Dax
Summary: It has been six months since Max's mother was taken by demons, and by now seven redheaded women are missing, so when a substitute teacher shows up at his school, wearing a necklace with a lock of his mother's hair, Max hopes that this is finally the break that he needs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2016
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Summary: Best friends Ouchie and Squishy, who love bowling and horror movies respectively, meet the eccentric owner of a local bowling alley and try to help him save Bowl-A-Rama from the wrecking ball and a destructive psychotic lunatic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Paperbacks for Children 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GUTMcFadden, Freida
Summary: Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until the evening when two detectives show up at her front door. A high school girl has vanished from Erika's quiet suburban neighborhood. The police suspect the worst--murder. And Erika's teenage son, Liam, was the last person to see the girl alive. Erika has always sensed something dark and disturbed in her seemingly perfect older child. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2019
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Summary: A clever crow leads Max to the underground site where his mother and the other kidnapped women are being kept, alive but asleep, behind a glass wall--then when he returns to the surface and is set upon by demons, the crow comes to his rescue, a new ally in his war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2016
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Summary: "Sister and brother Jorinda and Joringel fight to keep their promise to stay together throughout a new series of gruesome, twisted, Grimm-inspired stories"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GIDDe la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: "Tossed back into the not-so-familiar fairy-tale world of Never After, Filomena Jefferson-Cho and her friends set off on another adventure . . . this time in search of Cinderella's glass slipper. Or rather, glass slippers. It turns out the classic story of Cinderella is full of lies-starting with how Cinderella herself is far from the innocent heroine everyone thinks she is. She's manipulative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT PA Fiction De La Cruz 2022Contents: To build a fire / Jack London -- The great unknown / John Welsey Powell -- The battle of the marten and the porcupine / Mayne Reid -- Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe -- Love of life / Jack London -- Shipwreck of the whaleship Essex / Owen Chase -- An adventure with a dog and a glacier / John Muir -- The boat journey / Ernest Shackleton -- Battle with the giant octopus / Victor Hugo -- Encounter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLACummings, Troy
Summary: In the year since Alexander and his father moved to Stermont, he and his friends in the Super Secret Monster Patrol of Stermont Elementary have defeated all kinds of monsters, but now they face their greatest challenge, the boss-monster who has kidnapped fellow monster fighter Ms. Vanderpants and stolen the Notebook of Doom--and they have to do it before Alexander turns eight and stops being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Branches, Scholastic Inc. 2018