Audio cd. Norwegian Fairytales read by Earl Hyman.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Michigan

Once Upon a Time...Norwegian Fairytales

Kaitlyn Dunnett

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Nevada

As a professional Scottish dancer, Liss MacCrimmon has performed strathsprays and reels, jigs and Highland flings until a knee injury cuts her career short. Returning to her hometown of Moosetookalook, Maine, she decides to help her aunt run her Scottish emporium.


Liss hasn't been in Moosetookalook in over ten years, but the quaint little town, nestled in the hilly terrain of western Maine, looks exactly as she remembers it. But then her bliss soon turns to dread when she finds the dead body of her aunt's nosy neighbor, Amanda Norris, under a bolt of Flower of Scotland fabric in the stock room. And if things weren't bad enough, the state police hone in on Liss as the prime suspect.



Now Liss will have to do some fancy footwork to prove she's innocent while avoiding becoming the killer's next victim. . .




"A blithe and bonny mystery from Kaitlyn Dunnett! Cozy mystery readers should pour a cuppa and settle down to savor the flavor of the Highlands, the wee dram of Scottish folklore and the small town skullduggery that season this clever debut."
--Nancy Martin, author of the Blackbird Sisters Mysteries


"Strong local color and a surprise ending will make this a hit with the cozy crowd."
--Publishers Weekly

"A nice little debut with enough local color and romance to make a congenial addition to the cozy ranks."
--Kirkus Reviews

Kilt Dead

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New Jersey

A Novel





"A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family's reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this family's way home is full--in equal measure--of melancholy and love."

--Tommy Orange, author of There There

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Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago--from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson

In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimer's in her husband, Ernest. Their adult daughter, Sonja, leads a life of solitude, punctuated only by spells of dizzying romantic obsession. And their son, Edgar, fled home long ago, turning to drugs to mute his feelings of alienation.

With the family's annual bonfire approaching--an occasion marking both the Cherokee National Holiday and Ray-Ray's death, and a rare moment in which they openly talk about his memory--Maria attempts to call the family together from their physical and emotional distances once more. But as the bonfire draws near, each of them feels a strange blurring of the boundary between normal life and the spirit world. Maria and Ernest take in a foster child who seems to almost miraculously keep Ernest's mental fog at bay. Sonja becomes dangerously fixated on a man named Vin, despite--or perhaps because of--his ties to tragedy in her lifetime and lifetimes before. And in the wake of a suicide attempt, Edgar finds himself in the mysterious Darkening Land: a place between the living and the dead, where old atrocities echo.

Drawing deeply on Cherokee folklore, The Removed seamlessly blends the real and spiritual to excavate the deep reverberations of trauma--a meditation on family, grief, home, and the power of stories on both a personal and ancestral level.

"The Removed is a marvel. With a few sly gestures, a humble array of piercingly real characters and an apparently effortless swing into the dire dreamlife, Brandon Hobson delivers an act of regeneration and solace. You won't forget it." --Jonathan Lethem, author of The Feral Detective

The Removed

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A Tale of Martinique

Haunting language & photography evoke the lives of workers at a rum distillery in the mountains of Martinique.

Seven Dreams of Elmira

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James George Frazer

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Wisconsin

The Roots of Religion and Folklore

Surveys ancient mythologies and modern primitive cultures to interpret their views on magic, witchcraft, taboos, sexual rites, and human sacrifices.

The Golden Bough

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Lucy Holland

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Arizona

Inspired by the traditional murder ballad "The Two Sisters", set against the rich backdrop of ancient Britain, Sistersong is a dark and lyrical tale of siblings and sorcery from a spellbinding new voice. In the ancient kingdom of Dumnonia, there is old magic to be found in the whisper of the wind, the roots of the trees, the curl of the grass. King Cador knew this once, but now the land has turned from him, calling instead to his three children. Riva can cure others, but can't seem to heal her own deep scars. Keyne battles to be accepted for who he truly is--the king's son. And Sinne dreams of seeing the world, of finding adventure. All three fear a life of confinement within the walls of the hold, their people's last bastion of strength against the invading Saxons. However, change comes on the day ash falls from the sky. It brings with it Myrdhin, meddler and magician. And Tristan, a warrior whose secrets will tear them apart. Riva, Keyne and Sinne--three siblings entangled in a web of treachery and heartbreak, who must fight to forge their own paths. Their story will shape the destiny of Britain. "​From its opening pages, Sistersong transports you to a time period often overlooked, and spins a tale of family, loyalty, and the triumph of becoming the person you were always meant to be. I was utterly captivated from the beginning to the tragic, bittersweet end." --Genevieve Gornichec, author of The Witch's Heart "If you like poetic reimaginings of mythology, such as Madeline Miller's Circe and The Song of Achilles, you need to make sure to pick up Sistersong." --Grimdark Magazine

Sistersong

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"Adult and child can delight together in the richness of color, gilt and detail...captured in such art. The story is palinly and gracefully told."--The New York Times Book Review"A lush and substantial offering." -- Booklist

Rumpelstiltskin

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Emi Watanabe Cohen

Texas

Kohei Fujiwara has never seen a big ryū in real life. Those dragons all disappeared from Japan after World War II, and twenty years later, they've become the stuff of legend. Their smaller cousins, who can fit in your palm, are all that remain. And Kohei loves his ryū, Yuharu, but.

.Kohei has a memory of the big ryū. He knows that's impossible, but still, it's there, in his mind. In it, he can see his grandpa - Ojiisan - gazing up at the big ryū with what looks to Kohei like total and absolute wonder. When Kohei was little, he dreamed he'd go on a grand quest to bring the big ryū back, to get Ojiisan to smile again.

But now, Ojiisan is really, really sick. And Kohei is running out of time.

Kohei needs to find the big ryū now, before it's too late. With the help of Isolde, his new half-Jewish, half-Japanese neighbor; and Isolde's Yiddish-speaking dragon, Cheshire; he thinks he can do it. Maybe. He doesn't have a choice.

In The Lost Ryū, debut author Emi Watanabe Cohen gives us a story of multigenerational pain, magic, and the lengths to which we'll go to protect the people we love.

The Lost Ryu

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Amy Cohn

First Scholastic printing, October 1993. 

Small dent in back cover (see photos).

A Treasury of American Folklore and Folk Songs

A compilation of more than 120 folk songs, tales, poems, and stories telling the history of America and reflecting its multicultural society. Illustrated by award-winning artists.

From Sea to Shining Sea

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Maine

Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

Mythology 

R. J. Stewart

The three aspects of Maryland in three faces – bright youth, mad prophet and wise elder. Will represent the interaction of spiritual and magical powers and their relationship to the land and the environment.

Maryland

Insights from the Merlin Conference

The Book of Merlin

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Jan Harold Brunvand

From the master folklorist and sly wit, Jan Brunvand, comes a collection of all-new urban legends.

Did your cousin's wife's dentist's daughter go to the tanning parlor once too often and had her insides cooked? Has your husband's brother's nephew teacher try to make a dead rabbit look alive? If so, you've heard―or you yourself may have told―two of the seventy-plus legends in this collection.

Urban legends are "those bizarre but believable stories about batter-fried rats, spiders in hairdos, Cabbage Patch dolls that get funerals, and the like that pass by word of mouth as being the gospel truth." But of course, though often told as having happened to a FOAF (friend of a friend), they aren't true. Included in this collection are legends about sex, horror, cars, business, and academia. Among them are "The Bible Student's Exam," "The Pregnant Shoplifter," "The Ice Cream Cone Caper," "Don't Mess with Texas," and "Mrs. Fields' Cookie Recipe."

The Hottest Urban Legends Going

Did your cousin's wife's dentist's daughter go to the tanning parlor once too often and had her insides cooked? Has your husband's brother's nephew teacher try to make a dead rabbit look alive? If so, you've heard--or you yourself may have told--two of the seventy-plus legends in this collection.



Urban legends are "those bizarre but believable stories about batter-fried rats, spiders in hairdos, Cabbage Patch dolls that get funerals, and the like that pass by word of mouth as being the gospel truth." But of course, though often told as having happened to a FOAF (friend of a friend), they aren't true. Included in this collection are legends about sex, horror, cars, business, and academia. Among them are "The Bible Student's Exam," "The Pregnant Shoplifter," "The Ice Cream Cone Caper," "Don't Mess with Texas," and "Mrs. Fields' Cookie Recipe."

Curses! Broiled Again!

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Jacob Grimm

Wilhelm K. Grimm

Elizabeth Dalton

Perfect for children between the ages of 8 -12, but also enjoyable for teens, young adults and adults

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Linguists, philologists, and restorers of ancient texts, the Brothers Grimm practically invented the science of folklore with the publication of Kinder-und Hausmarchen (1812-1815), which became popularly known as Grimm's Fairy Tales. Comprising 120 of their best-loved tales, this new Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales includes criticism, reception, discussion questions, and legacies, to appeal to readers of all ages.

Grimm's Fairy Tales

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Allan Zola Kronzek

Elizabeth Kronzek

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Guide to the Magical World of Harry Potter

An intriguing look at the centuries old folklore, legends, mythology, and history that inspired J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series details the magical practices and rituals, creatures, personalities, and events that appear in the books, offering stories about the Basilisk, magic wands, love potions, and other objects from around the world. Original.

The Sorcerer's Companion

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Louisiana

Mythical Monsters

The First Strawberries

Margot Edmonds

Ella Clark

North Carolina

Native American Legends

This wonderfully colorful and appealing anthology gathers more than 130 Native American legends, many told to the authors by elder storytellers and tribal historians.

Voices of the Winds

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Anne Smith

Idaho

A collection of distinctive Ute animal and human tales that offers a rich source of Ute culture for anyone interested in the peoples of the Great Basin.

Ute Tales

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Pennsylvania

Myths and Folklore

Good, readable condition. Small tear and bent  on front cover. 

Virginia

Elmet 

Kelly Barnhill

Award-winning author Kelly Barnhill brings her singular talents to The Crane Husband, a raw, powerful story of love, sacrifice, and family.

"If I had to nominate a worthy successor to Angela Carter, I would nominate Kelly Barnhill. "--Laura Ruby

A Most Anticipated in 2023 Pick for BuzzFeed | The Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Mothers fly away like migrating birds. This is why farmers have daughters."

A fifteen-year-old teenager is the backbone of her small Midwestern family, budgeting the household finances and raising her younger brother while her mom, a talented artist, weaves beautiful tapestries. For six years, it's been just the three of them--her mom has brought home guests at times, but none have ever stayed.

Yet when her mom brings home a six-foot tall crane with a menacing air, the girl is powerless to prevent her mom letting the intruder into her heart, and her children's lives. Utterly enchanted and numb to his sharp edges, her mom abandons the world around her to weave the masterpiece the crane demands.

In this stunning contemporary retelling of "The Crane Wife" by the Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon, one fiercely pragmatic teen forced to grow up faster than was fair will do whatever it takes to protect her family--and change the story.

The Crane Husband

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Alaska

Includes "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp," "The Ebony Horse," "The Dream," and other stories.

Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights

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A Hopi Village

Bacavi

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Oklahoma

A Folklore Miscellany

Previous ed. published in 1985 by Southern Methodist University Press.

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Once Upon a Time...Norwegian Fairytales

Kaitlyn Dunnett

Kilt Dead

Brandon Hobson

The Removed

Patrick Chamoiseau; Mark Polizzotti (Translator)

Seven Dreams of Elmira

James George Frazer

The Golden Bough

Lucy Holland

Sistersong

Paul O. Zelinsky (Illustrator, Retold by); Brothers Brothers Grimm

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Emi Watanabe Cohen

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Amy Cohn

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Edith Hamilton

Mythology

R. J. Stewart

The Book of Merlin

Jan Harold Brunvand

Curses! Broiled Again!

Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm K. Grimm; Elizabeth Dalton

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Allan Zola Kronzek; Elizabeth Kronzek

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Mythical Monsters

Joseph Bruchac

The First Strawberries

Margot Edmonds; Ella Clark

Voices of the Winds

Anne Smith

Ute Tales

Henry I. Christ

Myths and Folklore

Fiona Mozley

Elmet

Kelly Barnhill

The Crane Husband

N. J. Dawood (Retold by); William Harvey (Illustrator)

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Peter Whiteley

Bacavi

Francis Edward Abernethy

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