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"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the greatest villain of them all? Snow White's dark queen tells her side of the story in this queer, witchy re-imagining of the classic fairy tale from the author of Malice"--

"A "smart and deft" fabulist debut collection of stories re-imagining the nine-tailed fox spirit of Asian folklore (C. Pam Zhang). A fox spirit avenges a teen girl by seducing her abuser. A shapeshifting woman finds herself chased through the woods by fox hunters; meanwhile, an assassination plot called Operation Fox Hunt unfolds against the last Queen of Korea. Chinese migrants hoping to make new lives as "paper children" in America find their pasts-and their hopes for the future-embodied in the foxes that haunt the harbor in 1900s Angel Island. In the nine tales of Ninetails, acclaimed poet Sally Wen Mao reimagines the fox spirit from Asian folklore-a shapeshifter, shaman, and seductress-as an icon of vengeance, solidarity and liberation. The characters of her stories are varied-from silicone sex dolls who come to life with new purpose, to women whose crushes manifest as stones-but they all reach for a common purpose: to find truth and belonging in a difficult world determined to consider them alien. With the fabulist vibrancy of Carmen Maria Machado, the sinuous world-building of Helen Oyeyemi, and the sensuous feminist rage of Han Kang, Ninetails is both timeless-unearthing a cultural icon whose origins date back over a thousand years-and timely in its contemporary political urgency"--

Der Autor, in Breslau geboren, erzählt die Geschichte seiner aus Schlesien stammenden Familie und ihre Geschicke über ein Zeitraum von sechs Generationen. Bildern berichten Großeltern und ihre Töchter und Söhne aus ihrem ereignisreichen Leben. Darunter einige starke Frauen, deren Wirken in Zeiten der Wirtschaftskrise, der Weltkriege und der Vertreibung aus dem Osten die Familie in schiffbare sichere Gewässer geleitet haben. Da ist die Oma, die mit Geschäftstüchtigkeit und Organisationstalent ein Hotel führte, in dem die von ihrem Ehemann und Dirigenten erworbene Kapelle eine ganze Stadt unterhielt und zeitweise Soldaten unterschiedlicher Couleur unterbrachte. Unermüdlich hat sie das Leben von Kindern und Enkeln mitbestimmt, ist dann im letzten Moment wie alle anderen Familienmitglieder durch die Vertreibung nach Niedersachsen gelangt.So manche Begebnisse aus dem Krieg und den Jahrem danach gewähren Blick in die Wirklichkeit jener Zeit: sie können die Leser nachdenklich machen und an die eigene Familienhistorie erinnern.

Why would the High Fairy send Meribabell, a young know-it-all fairy, after a runaway renegade? Something strange is going on out on the frontier of the Faerie Kingdom, and Meribabell runs smack dab into it, collecting friends and enemies along the way. Everyone gets more than they expected.Can anyone say - dwarves, elves, pixies, trolls and a wizard? And, oh yes, humans, too.

Believing that he loves his beautiful pet bird too much to set it free, a wealthy merchant discovers that animals are sometimes better at learning by example than humans are.

In this humorous tale, a man greedily and impatiently hopes to acquire the skills and senses of an animal but ends up limiting his abilities rather than enhancing them.

Still pining over Tania and hesitant to follow fate's path, Terra fights the undeniable attraction she and Hank share. She can't help jealousy's ugly head rearing when Hank is showered with female attention.Life relieves her temporarily of her inner Hank turmoil as she is thrust into the secrets of the past and the destiny of a future only she and Hank can save. The Serenity Tree is dying and the Stones of Hovrath are stolen from under her nose. Facing the withered tree, she finds they must go to Marsidia to save the tree, the realms, and all life, or everything will perish and succumb to darkness before life can start anew. The weight on her shoulders heavy as bars of gold.If that wasn't enough, a new and powerful enemy stands in her and Hank's way. Will she succumb to her feelings for Hank and defeat the enemy, salvaging all that's been destroyed?

Prolific author, teacher, and parent Jan Yager retells the classic "The Three Little Pigs" fairy tale and then she shares her original sequel. That is followed with a request that readers/children write their own sequel and even illustrate it. This is a fun book for all ages! Cover art by Chrish Vindhy and original interior line drawings by Jan Yager.>About the AuthorJan Yager's 50+ books, translated into 35 languages, include the children's book series, illustrated by Mitzi Lyman, of The Cantaloupe Cat, The Quiet Dog, and The Reading Rabbit. For more on Jan, visit her main website: www.drjanyager.com

Hunter returns home for the funeral, but before he can leave, he is arrested for killing the King of Crows. Now he must find the true killer and return the Thief's Coin to the House of Crow.

In diesem Buch erzählt der Autor von Menschen, die auf sehr unterschiedliche Weise Mut zeigen, um für eine bessere Welt zu kämpfen, oder die Hoffnung an sie nicht aufgeben. Sie sollen dazu ermutigen, den Weg des geringsten Widerstandes zu meiden und dadurch Freiheit, Mitmenschlichkeit und Würde zu bewahren.Wie in den ersten beiden Bänden "Das einsame Land" und "Die Katze des Teemeisters" möchte dieses Buch aber vor allem anspruchsvoll unterhalten, mit märchenhaften, manchmal poetischen und manchmal etwas gruseligen Elementen gewürzt.