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A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in Antiquity

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? Spanning chronologically from the third millennium BCE through to the se…

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Nalini Bera,
Gold Sand, Gold Water

A river that once carried gold now bears the weight of memory and the struggles of those who call its banks home.The Subarnarekha River shimmers with legend; once said to carry flecks of gold, it remains …

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Nabarun Bhattacharya,
Dog Star

Set in the underbelly of Calcutta, a story that reimagines a city's relationship with its abandoned animals, interlacing dark humor and political critique into a fable of resistance.A city on edge and a r…

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Gerry Smyth
Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom, and Myth

An entrancing collection of myths and legends of the sea The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untamable. Storytelling offered our ancesto…

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Barry Sanders
The Manifesto of Herman Melville

In this iconoclastic and sure to be contentious re-casting by a renowned critic, the great American novel Moby Dick is presented as a work that has been widely misread, an error that continues to this day…

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Emily Hunt Kivel
Dwelling

A dazzling, surrealist fairy tale of a young woman's quest for house and home-from New York to the Texas hinterlands and, maybe, back again.The world is ending. It has been ending for some time. When did …

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Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 43: 2024

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, Volume 43 includes Liam Breatnach on the Senchas Már, an early Irish legal text, Benjamin Bruch keynote on Cornish and Welsh linguistics as well as articles o…

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The Rolling Stones

Some Girls (SHM-CD)

Mit »Some Girls« traten Jagger und Co. gegen Punk in London und Disco in New York an. Der Nachfolger von »Black And Blue« befreite die Stones 1978, in Zeiten der Sex Pistols und des Studio-54, vom Stigma …

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Roy Scranton
Impasse

"Extreme heat, fires, floods, and storms are transforming our planet. Yet instead of serious responses from world leaders, we get increasing emissions, divisive politics, and ersatz solutions that of…

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Clare Pollard
The Modern Fairies

Winner of the Tadeusz Bradecki Prize • A BookPage Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year • "Artfully composed...keenly alive...this memorable novel reminds the reader of the enduring power of story…

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Emily Hunt Kivel
Dwelling

A dazzling, surrealist fairy tale of a young woman's quest for house and home-from New York to the Texas hinterlands and, maybe, back again.The world is ending. It has been ending for some time. When did …

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Amitav Ghosh
Wild Fictions

From the 2025 recipient of the Pak Kyongni Prize, often referred to as Korea's Nobel Prize in Literature.A collection of essays on themes central to Ghosh's work: imperialism and decolonization, climate c…

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Sarah Ensor
Queer Lasting

"Queer Lasting asks what contemporary environmentalism's seemingly necessary emphasis on the future has rendered unthinkable, and looks to the literatures from two periods of queer extinction (the 18…

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Thomas Bulfinch
Bulfinch's Mythology

This wide-ranging collection of legendary tales of myth and romance have fascinated readers for thousands of years.Can't keep all your gods and goddesses straight? Wondering about mythological references …

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Amitav Ghosh
Great Derangement

Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major …

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Emily Mcbride
Queen Mab

In this debut novel, a new mother-a scholar steeped in fairy lore-wrestles with the legacies and madness of motherhood.There is a changeling in this story-but who is it?Madeleine is young for motherhood, …

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Cristina Bacchilega, Pauline Greenhill,
Justice in 21st-Century Fairy Tales and the Power of Wonder

Exploring a range of international works such as films, streaming television series, a graphic novel, and a picture book, this open access book interrogates how, and to what extent, fairy tales are put to…

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Heinrich Zimmer,
The King and the Corpse

A classic work of comparative mythology by acclaimed scholar Heinrich ZimmerDrawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common co…

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Mara Gold
Ancient Myths and Legends Without Men

Meet the goddesses, warriors, witches, and monsters who shaped and subverted womanhood from the very beginning.Was Circe really just a temptress?  Were the Amazons nothing more than bloodthirsty fighters?…

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Sage Vogel,
Dichos En Nichos

Sage Vogel's debut short-story collection invites readers into the heart of a proverbial 1950s Northern New Mexico village, where the fruit orchards, arroyo roads, adobe homes, and even pigsties hold tale…

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