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Blue de la Cour has her life planned: hide the magic in her blood and continue trying to turn metal into gold so she can help her city's homeless. But when her father is murdered and a cruel but powerful woman claims custody of Blue and her property, one wrong move could expose her--and doom her once and for all. The only one who can help? The boy she's loathed since childhood: Prince Kellan. Kellan Renard, crown prince of Balavata, is walking a thin...
22) The Hazel Wood
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get.
24) Goose chase
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English
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Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl endures imprisonment, capture by several ogresses, and other dangers before learning exactly who she is.
25) Kill me softly
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Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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When sixteen-year-old Mira runs away to discover her secret past, she finds a place where Grimm's fairy tales come to life, and she cannot avoid her accursed fate.
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Xanth volume 9
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English
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To prove himself, Grundy Golem sets out on an adventure. As he travels he rescues the damsel Rapunzel which initiates a hot pursuit by the dreaded Sea Hag.
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Simon Pulse
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English
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The Emperor of China summons a great army, and each family must send a male to fight. Tomboyish Mulan, who can wield sword and bow and arrow as deftly as an embroidery needle, is determined to spare her aging father and bring her family honor, so she disguises herself and answers the call. But when she finds a friend and soul mate in her commander, Prince Jian, will she be brave enough to share her true identity and feelings with him?
29) The golden braid
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Series
Hagenheim volume 6
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Thomas Nelson
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English
Description
In medieval Hagenheim, Germany, seventeen-year-old Rapunzel asks God for guidance as she tries to dutifully serve and obey her unpredictable mother, yet fulfill her dream of learning to read and marrying.
30) Tam Lin
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Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
c1991.
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English
Description
An old Scottish ballad and fairy tale sings of Janet, who defied Tam Lin by walking on her own land. She then was compelled to do battle with the Faery Queen for possession of her lover's soul and his body. This retelling is set in the 20th Century in a small college in the Midwest, during the Vietnam era.
31) White as snow
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Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
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"Arpazia is the aging queen who paces the halls of a warlord's palace. Cold as winter, she has only one passion for the mysterious hunter who courts the outlawed old gods of the woodland. Coira is the princess raised in the shadow of her mother's hatred. Avoided by both her parents and half-forgotten by her father's court, she grows into womanhood alone until the mirror speaks, and blood is spilled, and the forest claims her."--Jacket.
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Thrown into prison by the man who has stolen his identity, Javan is forced to fight his way out during the prison's twice-yearly tournament in the hope of gaining an audience with the king, an effort that is assisted by a slave girl who keeps a dangerous secret. Based on the Arabian tale The False Prince.
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Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to her village looking for a wife. So, when she is taken to the king's dangerous court she believes death will soon follow. But night after night, Lo-Melkhiin comes to her and listens to the stories she tells, leading her to unlocking years of fear that have tormented and silenced the kingdom, and soon she is dreaming of bigger, more terrible magic, power enough to save a king, if she can put an...
35) Tear you apart
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Teenager Viv, who is constantly escaping her "Snow White" fairy-tale curse, meets the prince who is supposed to save her, but can not fall out of love with the young man destined to kill her."--
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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With Finch's help, Alice escaped the Hinterland and her reclusive grandmother's dark legacy. Now she and the rest of the dregs of the fairy tale world have washed up in New York City, where Alice is trying to make a new, unmagical life. But something is stalking the Hinterland's survivors--and she suspects their deaths may have a darker purpose. Meanwhile, in the winking out world of the Hinterland, Finch seeks his own adventure, and a way back home....
37) Snow
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
When her father, the duke, decides to remarry in the hopes of producing an heir to the throne, the young princess must learn to cope with her jealous and evil stepmother, but when the situation becomes dangerous, the princess flees to London.
38) Zel
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating chapters from the view of Zel, her mother, and the prince, this version delves into the psychological motivations of the characters.
39) Briar Rose
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English
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From one of America's most celebrated writers comes an exquisite and heartwrenching novel that no listener will forget. Jane Yolen takes the fairy tale of Briar Rose, the Sleeping Beauty, and tells it anew-set this time against the terrifying backdrop of the Holocaust. Briar Rose is easily Yolen's greatest accomplishment-blend of beautiful myth and dark history.
40) Ash
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English
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In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.
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