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  • El oro de Mallorca
    Rubén Darío
    El oro de Mallorca es una novela incompleta del escritor nicaragüense Rubén Darío, formada por seis capítulos que parecen ser la primera parte del libro. La compuso en Buenos Aires entre diciembre de 1913 y marzo de 1914 y cuenta la historia del autorretrato de Darío, Benjamín Itaspes, quien viaja de Marsella a la isla de Mallorca en España para pasar un tiempo de retiro en la ...
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    17,50 €

  • Tirante el Blanco
    Joanot Martorell
    Antiguamente, el orden militar era tenido en tanta reverencia, que no era galardonado con el honor de caballería más que el más fuerte, el más animoso, el más prudente y el más experto en el ejercicio de las armas. La fortaleza corporal y el coraje se tienen que ejercitar con sabiduría, porque, así como algunas veces unos pocos han obtenido victoria sobre muchos a causa de la p...
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    24,90 €

  • El regreso de Don Quijote
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    El regreso de don Quijote (1926) es la última novela de Chesterton y uno de los más hermosos homenajes que jamás se hayan rendido al Quijote y a Cervantes.En esta peculiar obra Chesterton da rienda suelta a su fabulosa imaginación, aunque sin despegar los pies del suelo, y crea un puñado de personajes únicos, signados todos por el sello del quijotismo: el bibliotecario loco que...
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    19,99 €

  • The Eagle and the Sparrow
    Claire Youmans
    Japan, 1875-6. Toki-Girl Azuki has found another dual-natured bird-human: Eagle-Boy Akira from far-away Hokkaido. He wants to join her family and friends but can he find a way to live as a human in a changing society where individual lives and wishes count for little?Sparrow-Boy Shota knows what he wants but increasing responsibilities mean he must leave behind what he loves, t...
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    17,48 €

  • Jumping the Moon
    Angel Leigh McCoy
    Creating a new mythology for the 21st century...Viviane’s story continues in Book #2 of the Wyrdwood Welcome series.Viviane, her mother Gisèle, and her cohort-in-crime Corona arrive in Wyrdwood just in time to become embroiled in a bloody political struggle as ancient as the gods. The Fomorians are a mythical race who were banished to Purgatory. They covet their original homela...
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    14,82 €

  • Selkie Summer
    Ken MacLeod
    Siobhan Ross has several reasons for taking a holiday job on the Isle of Skye – her keen interest in marine biology for one – but she’s also determined to escape Glasgow and put distance between herself and a failed relationship with fellow student Kieran.   The last thing Siobhan’s looking for is romance, let alone with a Selkie, but…  In Selkie Summer, Ken MacLeod delivers a ...
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    14,45 €

  • Reliquiae
    Reliquiae is a literary journal of poetry, prose and translations. It interleaves ecologically aware writing from the past and present, ranging from the ethnological to the philosophical, the lyrical to the visionary. It is published biannually in May and November.Vol 8 No 1 features new work from the following:Peter Mark Adams, Dan Beachy-Quick, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Roz Qui...
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    17,56 €

  • Cinderella Assassin
    Allie Burton
    She yearns to fit in. But if humans discover her secret, her life will be no fairytale.Elle Milford needs to keep her fairy heritage undercover. But after her wicked stepmother refuses to let her go to the royal ball with the fully human kids, the sixteen-year-old defiantly parties with her smoke sprite bestie... who promptly gets arrested. And the only way to rescue her is for...
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    8,99 €

  • The Princess and the Peacock
    C. S. Johnson
    From award-winning, genre-hopping author C. S. Johnson comes an original fairy tale that’s sure to enchant you ... The first time I fell in love with Princess Mele was when I saw her smile, and I fell in love with her the second time the moment I heard her sing.Two memories burn within Kaipo’s heart -- the death of his mother, which left him alone to die, and the arrival of Pri...
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    14,82 €

  • The Legend of Nimway Hall
    Stephanie Laurens
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens brings you the opening story in a series of romances touched by magic as old as time. A gentleman fleeing the bonds of loveless marriage and a lady in desperate need of a champion join forces to defend an ancient legacy. Jacqueline Tregarth, lady and guardian of Nimway Hall, is devoted to protecting her people, the Hall, th...
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    11,69 €

  • Courting The Winter Prince
    Liana Brooks
    She plays in the meadow, the only place safe to cry about her mother’s death. He finds her there, the wide-eyed boy, thrown by his horse, lost in the woods. She guides him home, in the process finding the road out of her grief-and a friend. But then she discovers his true identity. And everything changes. A hopeful fairy tale retelling for people who still believe in the transf...
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    5,19 €

  • Last of the Exalted
    D.PPrior / Derek Prior
    One of the best fantasy novels I have read so far this year.'  Rebecca Ross, Reedsy DiscoveryWhen a bloodthirsty horde storms out of the north, refugees flee for their lives, among them the skald Nyra Sahtis and Sister Caelin, a priestess who was once a trainer of armies.But with the capital, Jeridium, under siege from a second incursion, there is nowhere left to run.As rival a...
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    32,28 €

  • Adventures of the Argonauts
    William Henry Denham Rouse
    The Argonauts were a band of heroes in Greek mythology who in the years before the Trojan War accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece. Their name comes from their ship, Argo.'The familiar ground makes excellent going even for those who know it best, for Dr Rouse has his own way of dealing with the stories. Boys and girls of 11 to 13 years of age coul...
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    23,42 €

  • The Changeling
    I.H.M. Sister Mary John / I.H.MSister Mary John / Sergey Avdeev
    The Changeling is a Fairy Tale Fantasy about a human child who was switched with a Fairy child and now must learn what it means to be human. He learns lessons about friendship, love, and God while he tries to break a curse and win a beautiful princess using what he learned from the fairies. For children ages 6 and up. ...
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    21,08 €

  • The Legend of Old
    Sam Nemri
    In the epic pentalogy, the author has composed five mysterious tales in one fascinating book. In these marvelous stories of mystery, danger lies at every forest, mountain, and street corner. ...
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    44,50 €

  • Water Stories of Native American and Asian Indians
    Arun Chintaman Prabhune / Teresa Pijoan
    The water legends in this book are from nomadic and settled groups of Native American and Asian Indians of rural India and have marked similarities. There are stories with local mythological and legendary themes covering historical as well as relatively recent periods. Each story highlights man’s life-threatening struggle with nature and, in particular, the water element. Reade...
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    18,91 €

  • Adrian(d)
    Jeanette S Hansen
    We follow a little rubber duck’s exciting journey around the world in search of his family. On his way he visits a lot of countries and makes lots of friends. The book contains cute photos, beautiful drawings and lots of humor, fantasy and facts. ...
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    16,12 €

  • The Darkest Fairytale
    Donna J.A Olson
    Have you ever wished to become a part of one of the stories that you have read?Kayla MacLeish always used books as a type of escape for herself. A way to get away from her life and the judgments in it. But on her sixteenth birthday, her escape became her prison. Coming into powers she never knew that she possessed, Kayla becomes trapped inside one of the books that she always w...
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    40,85 €

  • Palabras Silenciosas
    Peter Hertzberg
    Una colección de cuatro cuentos cortos sobre grandes temas. Todas los cuentos contadas solo a través de ilustraciones, sin ningún texto, que puedan ser leídas por todos, sin importar la edad o el idioma. El libro contiene las historias: 'Los Pintores de Sueños' Por la noche, cuando todos estamos dormidos y todo está tranquilo, ellos atreven a salir, los pequeños pintores de sue...
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    58,52 €

  • The Rabbit on the Moon
    Gracelynn Wan
    The rabbit on the moon loves reading books about children and their friends. But why does his life look so different? ...
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    11,74 €

  • The Chimes - A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year in
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    'The Chimes' is an 1844 novella by Charles Dickens. First published one year after 'A Christmas Carol' in 1844, it represents the second of his famous 'Christmas books', which include 'A Christmas Carol', 'The Cricket on the Hearth', 'The Battle of Life', and 'The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain'. After poor working-class man Trotty loses his faith in humanity, he is visite...
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    25,94 €

  • The Cricket on the Hearth - A Fairy Tale of Home
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    'The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home' is a novella by Charles Dickens and the third in his 'Christmas Books' series published after 'The Chimes (1844) and before 'The Battle of Life' (1846). Dickens’s Christmas novels perfectly enraptured the spirit of the Victorian Christmas revival and even inspired a number of traditional aspects of the holiday, including seasona...
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    25,93 €

  • Dark Tides
    J.J. Marshall
    With the unexpected death of the siren King, Princess Serena finds herself next in line for the Adrellan crystal throne. But with a new ruler, comes a new agenda.Betrothal to the Land King's son was not what Serena had envisioned for herself and now she must find a way to live without her vicious instincts.Serena faces love and death.Heartache and ruin.And when a scorned Ma...
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    17,21 €

  • Longhairs and Short Tales
    Stefon Mears
    Longhairs and Short Tales, an irresistible collection of short stories featuring cats.Mythical cats and magical cats. Larcenous cats and inspiring cats. Sweet cats and wisecracking cats. Some talk, some keep their own counsel, and some might even work with aliens. All of them from the wild imagination of Stefon Mears, author of the Rise of Magic series and the Cavan Oltblood se...
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    11,13 €

  • Another Life
    Owen W Knight
    Imagine: if we could combine dreams and reality in a world where we live forever.Oliver believes his life to be one of disappointment and failure. Haunted by the memory of a mysterious woman he encountered thirty years ago, and obsessed with finding her, he embarks on a  journey embracing grief, hope, myths and legends to find her.He is drawn into diverse worlds, from ancient r...
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    13,82 €

  • Les Vacances
    Phil Sloman
    Monasteries rising and falling. Heretics and stakes and fire. There were rebellions and revolution and tales of abundance and happiness and new beginnings. Within the book there were also lies and omissions and fallacies all designed to gloss over a dark past many had long forgotten. Many but not all. The vacation of a lifetime.   ...
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    13,18 €

  • The Watcher in the Woods
    Charlotte Bond
    A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.From Black Shuck Books and Charlotte Bond comes The Watcher in the Woods, the sixteenth in the Black Shuck SHADOWS series. ...
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    7,68 €

  • TITANS (Books 1-3)
    Sotia Lazu
    Fearful of the Titans, Zeus cast them into stone.Now they’re back, and they’re unraveling.Only thing that can stop them from destroying the world? Bonding with their soulmates.A Nereid for the TitanPrometheus has hated Pherusa for the millennia since she betrayed him to Zeus.Only maybe she didn’t betray him.And maybe he’s still in love with her.A Maid for the TitanHyperion has ...
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    13,96 €

  • Demon Dancer
    Alexander Valdez
    With the discovery of a young girl’s body by a group of young neighborhood boys, it became the starting point for what would be a lifetime of adventure. This adventure would be filled with the unexplainable and one that would become all-consuming for the young boy named Alex. The old wives’ tale of a crying woman who threw her children into the river became a search for answers...
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    17,20 €

  • Fouché, el genio tenebroso
    Stefan Zweig
    Fouché, el genio tenebroso es una obra biográfica, pero desde la particular perspectiva de Stefan Zweig, sobre la vida del político francés Joseph Fouché. Este político fue importante a finales del siglo XVIII y principios del XIX, es decir, en el periodo convulso de la revolución francesa, el imperio napoleónico y la restauración monárquica en Francia. En esta obra es palpable...
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    18,90 €