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Butler, Octavia E.

Summary: This first volume in the Library of America edition of Octavia E. Butler's collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. Its heroine, Dana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre-Civil War past, where she finds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUT

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF BUT

Monsters of Folk

Contents: Dear God (sincerely M.O.F.) -- Sat please -- Whole lotta losin' -- Temazcal -- The right place -- Baby boomer -- Man named truth -- Goodway -- Ahead of the curve -- Slowdown -- Losin' yo head -- Magic maker -- Map of the world -- The sandman, the brakeman, and me -- His master's voice.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Shangri-La Music 2009

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MON

Grimm, Jacob

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Summary: "When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their 'Children's and Household Tales' in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as 'Rapunzel, ' 'Hansel and Gretel, ' and 'Cinderella' would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2014

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Cunning Folk

Contents: This is how it starts -- The old straight track -- The modern antiquarian -- What has been and gone before -- Chalk horses -- Uncommon ground -- Brief history of agriculture and mining -- The chime child -- Lancashire, God's country -- The song of the nidge -- Walk through the juniper

Format: sound recording-musical

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK CUN

Colfer, Chris

Summary: An illustrated nursery rhyme and fairy tale collection features the classic tales that Alex and Conner fall into in the Land of Stories series.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398 COL

Baker, E. D.

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Summary: Esmeralda, who is both a princess and a powerful witch, travels back in time to end a family curse so that she can marry her true love, Prince Eadric.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005

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Summary: "The traditional stories of Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales transport us to the fantastical world of Celtic folklore. These timeless tales brim with wit and magic, and each one is brought to life with elegant silhouette art in this special illustrated edition." -- Page [4] cover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 CEL

Contents: Introduction: fairies fearsome, friendly and funny -- Uous / by Tanith Lee -- Grace notes / by Megan Lindholm -- The gypsies in the wood / by Kim Newman -- The kelpie / by Patricia A. McKillip -- An embarrassment of elves / by Craig Shaw Gardner -- Except the queen / by Jane Yolen and Midori Snyder -- Afterword: some facts (?) about fairies.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2007

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAI

Scieszka, Jon

Summary: Madcap revisions of familiar fairy tales.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1992

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E Sci

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCI

Maupin, Armistead.

Summary: After suffering personal calamities in New York, Mary Ann Singleton moves back to San Francisco after being gone for twenty years and begins to slowly rebuild her life, only to confront fresh terrors when her past comes back to haunt her.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAU

Cowan, Laura

Summary: "Do you like fairy tales? Poppy and Sam do, and these are the ones they like best of all. Open the book to lose yourself in these enchanting stories of bears, wolves, fairies and magic -- and a brave little girl in a red cape." --

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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2021

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Doeden, 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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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DOE

Rusu, Meredith

Summary: "George Beard and Harold Hutchins are back with original new comic adventures starring the world-famous Waistband Warrior, Captain Underpants! This collection features George and Harold's hilarious comix from the first two seasons of the TV show."--Provided by publisher

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 CAP

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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Abrahams, Roger D.

Contents: Tales of wonder from the great ocean of story -- Stories to discuss and even argue about -- Tales of trickster and other ridiculous creatures: tales to entertain -- Tales in praise of great doings -- Making a way through life.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1983

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2096 ABR

Summary: A wide variety of creatures walk, fly, leap, slither, and swim through fairy-tale history. Some marvelous animal characters are deeply inscribed in current popular culture⁰́₄the beast redeemed by beauty, the wolf in pursuit of little girls and little pigs, the frog prince released from enchantment by a young princess. But like the adventures of many fairy-tale heroes, a curious reader's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398 FEA

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)

Contents: The forethought -- Of our spiritual strivings -- Of the dawn of freedom -- Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and others -- Of the meaning of progress -- Of the wings of Atalanta -- Of the training of Black men -- Of the Black belt -- Of the quest of the Golden Fleece -- Of the sons of master and man -- Of the faith of the fathers -- Of the passing of the first-born -- Of Alexander Crummell -- Of the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 DU B

Scieszka, Jon

Summary: "A long time ago, people used to tell magical stories of wonder and enchantment. Those stories were called Fairy Tales. Those stories are not in this book. The stories in this book are Fairly Stupid Tales. In this fourth wall-breaking picture book, young readers will delight in the strange twists on familiar tales. From “The Stinky Cheese Man” to “Cinderumpelstiltskin” these unique, hilarious...

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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas] 2023

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Baker, E. D.

Summary: Although a princess, Millie cannot keep herself from turning unexpectedly into a dragon, so she ventures off to the Frozen North to find the Blue Witch, who she hopes will help her learn to control her dragon magic.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010

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1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT CD Fiction Baker

Baker, E. D.

Summary: After reluctantly kissing a frog, an awkward, fourteen-year-old princess suddenly finds herself a frog, too, and sets off with the prince to seek the means--and the self-confidence--to become human again.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BAK

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Bak

Sebag-Montefiore, Mary

Summary: A collection of illustrated stories, featuring diverse, inspiring and empowering characters, celebrating kindness, courage and the importance of being true to yourself. Forgotten Fairy Tales of Kindness and Courage breathes new life into a collection of once much-loved, now forgotten tales, beautifully retold by Mary Sebag-Montefiore. A disabled prince fights for his kingdom, and learns the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2021

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Yolen, Jane.

Summary: This book includes retellings of four fairy tales paired with lunch recipes connected to each story.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alphabet Soup 2010

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Fairy Yolen

Yolen, Jane.

Summary: This book includes retellings of four fairy tales paired with breakfast recipes connected to each story.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alphabet Soup 2010

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Fairy Yolen

Peyo

Summary: "Tired of being three-apples tall, Poet Smurf gets inspired to write the next Smurfs adventure where the Smurfs are the larger-than-life heroes who interact with a race of miniature people, the Pilus. But does size really matter?"--Amazon.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PEY

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