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Burn out is a heart warming and life changing novel. About a teddy bear who had become sad because he had been abandoned. He was overwhelmed with his life and about to give up on himself. With the help of his friends and the adventures he experienced in his dreams, he found his way back to himself and his strength. Who dances with stars,loves his shadow,makes people laugh,the world remains a world full of wonders.Dedicated to all the dreamers and the awakened,those who dare to dream,and who live their dream.

The story of the ancient Welsh poet Taliesin and his transformation from the lowly pot-stirrer Gwion Bach to the radiant-browed, omniscient Chief Poet of the West by the power of Ceridwen's cauldron of awen plays a central role in the spiritual lives of many thousands of modern Pagans and Druids. Individual poems from the corpus such as Preideu Annwfyn ("The Spoils of Annwfn") and Kat Godeu ("The Battle of the Trees") have assumed an almost totemic siginificance in the discussion of the origins of the bards and their craft and feed into many people's sense of belonging in the Pagan tradition. It is a pity then that so much of this discussion depends on out-dated and woefully inaccurate translations of the original Welsh texts. The main aim of this book, therefore, is to present modern, reliable translations of all the medieval poems assigned to or concerning Taliesin together with all three variant versions of the Early Modern prose tales known variously as Ystoria Taliesin ("The Story of Taliesin") or Hanes Taliesin ("The History of Taliesin"). Translations of medieval court poems with a bearing on the development of the Taliesin persona are also included in the appendices. An attempt has been made to return to the poems their unity as works of art, rather than regarding them as texts to be deciphered and dissected.

The Legend of Delaware Valley - and other poems is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1877.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

With the help of her late father, Alison Lennox has carved out a promising career path in a kingdom dominated by land-hoarding elves and industrial tycoon dwarves. But her salary barely covers the rising rent, let alone the luxury lifestyle she dreams of. So when she unexpectedly inherits a neglected property in a distant land, it seems like the solution she's been seeking.All she needs to do to keep her life on track is get in, flip the cottage, and get out, hopefully with a pocket full of coin for the effort.Upon her arrival, Alison quickly discovers she isn't immune to the village's charms. But maybe she could look past the quaint shops, the sweet little old ladies, and the adorable talking cat and stick to the plan if it weren't for Keir Ainsley. At first, she finds the former doctor and town recluse good and irritating, and he's definitely wrong about where his property ends and Alison's begins. But then he has to go and save her life from a DIY disaster. And then he shows her that under his bristly exterior, there's a tenderness that feels familiar and right.Not good.But the town does have a problem. A mysterious vine is spreading through the land, choking out everything in its path. "Cute cottage; minor overgrowth issue-probably not poisonous" isn't going to work as a real estate listing, but that's not all that's wrong. The deeper her connection to Keir and the town grows, the further she strays from the life her father wanted for her.And she'll have to dig deep into the town's thorny past to have any hope of stopping the vine.

Nachdem Áine Bailey die Höllenfahrt verhinderte, merkt sie nun, welche Konsequenzen damit einhergingen. Nicht nur, dass sie den Tod ihres besten Freundes verkraften muss, ebenso hat sie ihrem Vater seine Lügen immer noch nicht verziehen. Zum Glück findet sie rasch einen, Job der ihr gefällt, dazu auch eine Kollegin, mit der sie sich anfreundet. Doch ihr Glück hält nicht lange an, als Vampire über die Stadt herfallen und ihre neue Freundin ihnen zum Opfer fällt.Schnell findet Áine heraus, die Vampire sind nicht ohne Grund in Hel. Und ihr Anführer hat etwas ganz besonderes mit Áine vor...

Can you solve Holly's puzzle? A vibrantly illustrated and enchanting book for 5 to 8 year olds. Kris and Kate continue their adventures - in and out of the sea, on an enchanted island, on the trees, in storms and in dead calms. And their adorable dog Holly is there too (helping or endangering?) - interested only in finding her bone again.But - would they all get home in time for tea? And where oh where is Holly's bone?

Im ewigen Eis auf der Nachtseite Kardeiras gilt Narjas ganze Leidenschaft der Jagd. Nach der Heilung von einer schweren Verletzung möchte sie sich wieder ganz vorn in der Rangordnung positionieren. Als sie ohne ihren Partner von einer Jagd zurückkehrt, degradiert Herdenführer Tjaris sie zum Teesammeln im Wald der glühenden Bäume. Frustriert macht sie von dort einen Abstecher in die nahegelegene Zone und fällt dem Wächter des verwunschenen Gartens in die Hände. Der denkt gar nicht daran, Narja wieder gehen zu lassen. Sie soll für ihn das Geheimnis des Gartens lösen. Ob es ihr gelingen wird? Schließlich ist jeder vor ihr gescheitert und hat sein Leben im verwunschenen Garten gelassen.***Einzelband - abgeschlossene Handlung***

When you travel anywhere, be prepared to discover differences between your home and your destination. It's part of what makes the journey so memorable. In this tale from Fiji, a young prince travels to a neighboring island. And, that's where he discovers that the people on this new land have "little friends". You might know them as mosquitoes. It was a very memorable travel discovery for the young prince.

Three children are willingly reduced to miniature size by a Native American sorcerer. They decide to travel from Newfoundland to Canada's West Coast on the backs of wild geese. They are pursued by two mean birds eager to do them harm... thrilling adventures enhanced by local legends in each of the ten provinces.Meet Caroline, Valerie, and their brother in these adventures. It will be a valuable roadmap to guide your children over the next few years. The author addresses a broad spectrum of essential life skills, ranging from emotional intelligence to setting goals and taking responsibility. It equips kids with the necessary tools to navigate the world around them.

What do you get when you mix a heaping teaspoon of a "Fairy trapped with somewhere to be," a dash of a "Grizzled old man that could return at any moment," and a sprinkle of a "War between a gang of ladybugs and an Irish Wolfhound?" A recipe for a grand ol' time!The fairy, Sidhe, is trapped in a human's den after an untimely run-in with a brick-brained gargoyle on the way to see her sister, Aven, for the last time. With a set of torn wings on her back, and an amateur's grasp on "clever thinking," Sidhe sets out on an adventure to escape, back to the forest, before the sun reaches its apex and she misses her last chance to say "I'm sorry," all the while avoiding an Irish Wolfhound and its master, and maybe, learning a thing or two about herself along the way."The Scurrying Sun" is a fantasy story about overcoming grief with a few laughs on the way. A story, both silly and sentimental, that'll bring a smile to your face and a tear to your eye.When you're the size of two acorns wrapped in a trench coat, even the tiniest of adventures feel enormous.The debut novella of author and illustrator, Zaeem Farooqi.

Det Gamle Testamente er fuld af dramatiske historier og gode fortællinger lige til at læse højt for de små. Hør om drengen David, der var endnu stærkere end kæmpen Goliat, om Josef, der blev drillet af sine brødre og om den lille Moses, der var et hittebarn, men som blev fundet af en prinsesse. I denne samling kan hele familien gå på opdagelse og mærke suset fra de allerstørste fortællinger gendigtet og nyfortolket efter Morten Pontoppidans klassiske Bibelske historier fortalt for børn.

"Twins Calla and Briar have spent their entire lives hiding from the powerful sorceress who destroyed their kingdom... and from the humans, who don't know they're wolves. Each twin has their purpose in life: Briar's is to marry the prince of an ally pack and save the Golden Court. Calla's is to remain a secret, her twin's shadow...the backup plan."--

Poems of Sidney Lanier is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Brokenburne - A southern auntie's war tale is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

The Bibelot - A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers - Volume III is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Im 16.ten Jahrhundert lebte ein Arzt, der seiner Zeit weit voraus war, weshalb man ihm nachsagte, ein Alchemist, Magier oder Wunderheiler zu sein: Paracelsus. Er studierte die Schul- und Volksmedizin, forschte in Sachen Heilkraft des Glaubens, der Hermetischen Gesetze und hinterließ in den Geschichten, die er selbst von seinen unzähligen Reisen durch Europa berichtete und die andere über ihn erzählten, eine Anleitung der Geistheilung, wie sie aktueller nicht sein könnte. Das war dann eben auch der Grund, weshalb ich als Sagen- und Märchenerzähler auf Paracelsus aufmerksam geworden bin, soll er sich doch selbst u.a. als Geschichtenerzähler, als Barde verstanden haben. Es heißt, er hätte die Kranken vom Sterbebett gezerrt, nicht um sie in ein Krankenhaus zu schleifen, sondern mit den Totkranken in die Kneipe zu gehen. Dort ließ er auftafeln, ausschenken und erzählte das Wunderbarste und Sonderlichste von seinen langen, abenteuerlichen Reisen. Wenn dann die Augen des Kranken aufleuchteten, gab es noch Hoffnung auf Heilung!Seine Gedanken und Anregungen, die man beinahe als Meditationsanleitungen verstehen könnte, sind nach 500 Jahren noch immer bahnbrechend. Sie helfen in verhaltensoriginellen Zeiten, ganzheitlich gesund, wohlgelaunt und verliebt in diese verrückte Welt zu bleiben. Um dich in die Welt von Paracelsus mitzunehmen, war Sagenhafter Harz auf seinen Spuren unterwegs und besuchte all seine wichtigsten Lebensstationen, die in dem Werk allesamt bebildert mit aufgeführt sind!

" ... À quoi bon secouer davantage la poussière des vieux documents : vous trouverez (si le c¿ur vous en dit) toutes ces choses, et d'autres encore, dans le savant recueil du baron de la Flotte publié à Paris chez Dentu en 1860. Nil novo sub soli.En ce menu aide-mémoire, j'ai tâché de vous rappeler par les meilleurs exemples quelques notions que vous possédez tous, d'ailleurs, mais qui pourront peut-être servir aux débutants. Fallait-il puiser dans l'antiquité? Dieu merci, nous sommes au vingtième siècle, et l'enseignement moderne a fait justice de tous ces radotages de cuistres. J'ai cru devoir prendre, au contraire, et sans hésiter, dans le vaste arsenal de la presse contemporaine, pour faire une ¿uvre qui soit bien de notre temps. L'avenir est, comme on dit, aux leçons de choses. Apprendre à se servir du Larousse, du Musée de la Conversation ; s'exercer rapidement à une facture souple et agréable ; s'assimiler superficiellement les notions nouvelles, pour les exposer de même: à cela doit se borner votre ambition. Chacun de ces courts chapitres a été rédigé pour vous y aider. N'oubliez pas que vous êtes devenus les instructeurs du peuple..."

Le Roi au masque d'or est un recueil de contes fantastiques écrit par Marcel Schwob et publié en 1892. Dans la première nouvelle, Le roi au masque d'or, le monarque et ses sujets, les femmes, les bouffons et les prêtres, portent tous un masque, selon l'ordre instauré par les rois ancestraux. Ainsi, personne à la cour du roi n'a jamais vu de visage humain, en particulier personne n'a vu celui du roi. Un jour, un mendiant aveugle se présente, qui dit au roi qu'il ne connaît pas ses sujets, et qu'il ne se connaît pas lui-même. Il décide alors de faire tomber les masques ; il découvre alors qu'il est lépreux, et que ses ancêtres ont ordonné le port du masque pour cacher ce mal dont ils souffraient aussi.

Publié pour la première fois en 1894 et remanié en 1903, Le Livre de Monelle est un petit ouvrage littéraire, à la croisée du conte romantique et du poème en prose. Il constitue un véritable petit chef d'¿uvre, le genre de petit livre (à peine plus de 100 pages) que l'on parcourt les yeux écarquillés, en s'étonnant à chaque page de l'¿uvre étrange et fascinante que l'on est en train de lire...

Peu avant la 5ème croisade de 1219, des milliers de jeunes pèlerins allemands et français partent pour la Terre Sainte. Ils seront, pour la plupart, massacrés avant de pouvoir embarquer. Ce récit relate cet événement de point de vue des huit personnes suivantes : un clerc misérable (Goliard), un lépreux, le pape Innocent III, trois petits enfants, un autre clerc (François Longuejoue), Kalandar (le mendiant), la petite Allys et le pape Grégoire IX.

'A marvel of a collection' Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time'A consummate storyteller' New York Times'There is nothing more terrifying than the monster that squats behind the door you dare not open...'The bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time weaves ancient fables into fresh, unexpected forms and forges new unforgettable legends.The myth of the Minotaur in his labyrinth is turned into a wrenching parable of maternal love - and of the monstrosities of patriarchy.The lover of a goddess, Tithonus, is gifted eternal life but without eternal youth.Actaeon, changed into a stag after glimpsing the naked Diana and torn to pieces by his hunting dogs, becomes a visceral metaphor about how humans use and misuse animals.From genetic engineering to the eternal complications of family, Haddon showcases how we are subject to the same elemental forces that obsessed the Greeks, as he reimagines stories from Laika the Soviet space dog on her fateful orbit to St Anthony wrestling with loneliness in the desert.'In sentences as precisely cut as paper sculptures, Mark Haddon fits ancient myth to the cruelties and wonders of the present' Francis Spufford, author of Cahokia Jazz

Experience the fairy tales like never before...The fairy tales have been resurrected. This collection of dark and disturbing tales is a retelling of our classic stories with a sharp return to the wicked absurdity of their original intent. These familiar characters break free from the prison of ethical chains imposed on them by our puritanical age. Meet them now unearthed from the coffin where their souls have gone to die. Beware, these fairy tales are written for adults.From melodic rhyme, to a prose frenetic and intense, each story is crafted to linger like a haunted lullaby. The pages are waves of madness that will toss your moral vessel adrift within the swelling seas of your mind. Prepare for a storm that will threaten to capsize and shatter your ship of fragile values.Pieced together from the skeletal remains of plot points long forgotten, the fairy tales will rise from the ashes to enthrall and entertain as they have for countless generations. The modern reader is forced to face the depraved villainy of our ancestral heritage in these nefarious tales retold.Jack and the BeanstalkRed Riding HoodBo PeepRumpelstitzkinThree Little PigsMomotaroCinderellaPuss in BootsFrog PrinceBilly Goats GruffHansel and GretelThe Pied PiperLet the aural fabric of the Fairy Tales echo through our culture once more. The time has come to amplify their sound.For a grimdark ride through a collection of twisted tales for adults...Buy now

I dette eventyr inviteres du ind i Eventyrskovens magiske uni - vers, hvor Benny Bjørn begiver sig ud på en spændende rejse i skoven for at finde det donordyr, der hjalp ham med at kom - me til verden. Undervejs møder han tre forskellige dyr i skoven, som hver giver ham tre værdifulde indsigter, han senere vil bru - ge til at forstå, hvad ægte kærlighed i virkeligheden er. Bogen henvender sig især til donorbørn, adoptivbørn og børn fra forskellige familiekonstellationer, herunder regnbuefamilier. Med dens budskab om den moderne families mangfoldighed, og kærlighedens styrke, vil den uden tvivl være til glæde og gavn for alle børn og voksne. Den fortæller om det paradoks, at det i dag er helt ’’almindeligt’’ at være opvokset under en ’’anderledes’’ fa - miliekonstellation, som disse børn kan spejle sig i. Bogen udforsker temaer som nysgerrighed, tolerance, (k)ærlig - hed, relationer og diversitet og er inspireret af forfatterens egen familiekonstellation, hvor både mor og far er kørestolsbrugere, og deres treårige søn er donorbarn.

The beloved multimillion-copy-bestselling novel and basis of the Tony Award-winning musical and movie, in a deluxe hardback edition with green stained edges, a ribbon marker, and an elegant foil-stamped cover.With millions of copies in print around the world, Gregory Maguire's Wicked is established not only as a commentary on our time but as a novel to revisit for years to come. Wicked relishes the inspired inventions of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, while playing sleight of hand with our collective memories of the 1939 MGM film starring Margaret Hamilton (and Judy Garland). In this fast-paced, fantastically real, and supremely entertaining novel, Maguire has populated the largely unknown world of Oz with the power of his own imagination. Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin--no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz's most promising young citizens.But Elphaba's Oz is no utopia. The Wizard's secret police are everywhere. Animals--those creatures with voices, souls, and minds--are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals--even if it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas. Recognized as an iconoclastic tour de force on its initial publication, the novel has inspired the blockbuster musical of the same name--one of the longest-running plays in Broadway history. Popular, indeed. But while the novel's distant cousins hail from the traditions of magical realism, mythopoeic fantasy, and sprawling nineteenth-century sagas of moral urgency, Maguire's Wicked is as unique as its green-skinned witch.

From New York Times best-selling author, Kim Harrison, comes the first book in her brilliant series, The Hollows; packed with vampires, werewolves and witches - don't miss out on the sexiest urban fantasy you'll read this year.Rachel Morgan lives in a world where a bioengineered virus wiped out most of the world's human population - exposing the existence of supernatural communities that had long lived alongside humanity. It's her job as a white witch working for Inderland Security to protect the humans from things that go bump in the night.For the last five years Rachel has been tracking down lawbreaking Inderlanders in modern-day Cincinnati, but now she wants to leave and start her own agency. Her only problem: no one quits the I.S.Marked for death, Rachel will have to fend off fairy assassins and homicidal werewolves armed to the teeth with deadly curses.Unless she can appease her former employers by exposing the city's most prominent citizen as a drug lord, she might just be a dead witch walking.