A retelling of the German folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress.

Sanna Spence can cast spells, chop vegetables, and manage herself, thank you very much. Well, for the most part. After months of magical training and practice, she thinks she's ready to live on her own as a blind witch in Letum Wood. When she realizes she's not there yet, it's time to do something big. Live in the Network. With her mentor Gilbert at her side, what could go wrong? Her sister, Isadora Sinclair, is determined to find a job. How hard...

Elliot, a very proper young man, feels a kinship with the penguins at the aquarium and wants to take one home with him.

Retells the legend of the African American railroad builder who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.

"Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though she's now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is haunted by her time Under the Mountain and the terrible deeds she performed to save the lives of Tamlin and his people. As her marriage to Tamlin approaches, Feyre's hollowness and nightmares consume her. She finds herself split into two different people: one who upholds her bargain with Rhysand,...

Felicity Pickle is not like other people--where other people collect baseball cards or whatever, Felicity collects words. Words people say, think, and want. The word she wants, in all of her family's moving around, is "home." Finally, her mother's van called the "Pickled Jalapeno" rolls into Midnight Gulch, where she hopes maybe she has found the word "home," and maybe even "friend."

Gregor Samsa despierta una mañana transformado en un bicho monstruoso. No se trata de una pesadilla: este viajante de comercio no volverá a recuperar nunca más su identidad humana. La familia le margina en su cuarto por miedo y vergüenza, y a partir de ese momento todo cambia en sus vidas... En el cuento corto LA METAMORFOSIS Kafka nos habla de su propia vida llena de sentimientos ambivalentes que hacen al lector interrogarse por su propia

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Introduces the world of Roshar through the experiences of a war-weary royal compelled by visions, a highborn youth condemned to military slavery and a woman who would save her impoverished house.

Orson Scott Card's The Tales of Alvin Maker is a series of fantasy novels set in frontier America.
Alvin is a Maker, the first to be born in a century.
Now a grown man and a journeyman smith, Alvin has returned to his family in the town of Vigor Church. He will share in their isolation, work as a blacksmith, and try to teach anyone who wishes to learn the knack of being a Maker. For Alvin has had a vision of the Crystal City

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Three bears return home from a walk to find a little girl asleep in baby bear's bed.