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"At sixteen, Mina's mother is dead, her magician father is vicious, and her silent heart has never beat with love for anyone--has never beat at all, in fact, but she'd always thought that fact normal. She never guessed that her father cut out her heart and replaced it with one of glass. When she moves to Whitespring Castle and sees its king for the first time, Mina forms a plan: win the king's heart with her beauty, become queen, and finally know...
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The People Look like Flowers at Last is the last of five collections of never-before published poetry from the late great Dirty Old Man, Charles Bukowski. In it, he speaks on topics ranging from horse racing to military elephants, lost love to the fear of death. He writes extensively about writing, and about talking to people about writers such as Camus, Hemingway, and Stein. He writes about war and fatherhood and cats and women.
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Featuring 211 classic tales from the Brothers Grimm, including favourites such as "Hansel and Gretel," "Cinderella," "The Frog Prince," "Rapunzel," "Snow White," and "Rumpelstiltskin," The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales is accompanied by 40 colour plates and 60 black-and-white illustrations from award-winning English illustrator Arthur Rackham, whose books and prints are now highly sought-after collectibles
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Shout! Factory
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[2011]
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English
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New York's finest include the cool and collected Captain Barney Miller and his squad of detectives featuring the dryly miserable, intestinally-challenged Fish, the burley and boyish Wojo, the dapper and hip Harris, the coffee-killer Yemana, the fiery Chano and the encyclopedic deadpan Dietrich. With a criminally talented assortment of guest stars, Barney Miller pulls comic rank on every cop show ever made.
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Chronicle Books
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2006
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English
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Provides a collection of more than fifty poems, nursery rhymes, stories, and excerpts which feature little things in their pages or their titles, with illustrations by Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane, and other turn-of-the century artists.
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Princeton University Press
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[2019]
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English
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"An international collection of the traditional tales that inspired some of Shakespeare's greatest plays. Shakespeare knew a good story when he heard one, and he wasn't afraid to borrow from what he heard or read, especially traditional folktales. The Merchant of Venice, for example, draws from "A Pound of Flesh," while King Lear begins in the same way as "Love Like Salt," with a king asking his three daughters how much they love him, then banishing...
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