Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths
epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Robert Browning [Browning, Robert]

IX. A thousand guilders! The Mayor looked blue; So did the Corporation too. For council dinners made rare havoc With Claret, Moselle, Vin–de–Grave, Hock; And half the money would replenish ...
( Category: Stories In Verse October 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-03 | Author:Chris Bradford [Bradford, Chris]

Jack emerged into the cold clear night air, relieved to get away from the constant eyeballing he had had to endure in the Hall of Butterflies. Any time Jack had ...
( Category: Military & Wars October 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-02 | Author:Afanas'Ev, Aleksandr [Afanas'Ev, Aleksandr]

THE GRUMBLING OLD WOMAN NIGHT AND DAY a certain old stepmother grumbled—one wondered why her tongue did not ache! She grumbled always at her stepdaughter: the girl was not clever ...
( Category: Russian October 31,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-05 | Author:Scott Westerfeld

TWENTY-TWO “It’s a zeppelin!” Alek shouted. “They’ve found us!” The wildcount looked up. “An airship, certainly. But that doesn’t sound like a zeppelin.” Alek frowned, listening hard. Other noises, tremulous ...
( Category: Europe October 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Westerfeld, Scott;Thompson, Keith [Westerfeld, Scott;Thompson, Keith]

The ship’s officers came a few hours later, just when Alek had managed to fall back asleep. A marine sergeant shook him awake, then snapped to attention with a painful ...
( Category: Fantasy & Magic October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-28 | Author:Westerfeld, Scott [Westerfeld, Scott]

Three hours later Deryn found herself staring out the Leviathan’s open cargo door, a heavy pack on her back and a rocky expanse rolling past below. She sighed. Might as ...
( Category: Fantasy & Magic October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-05 | Author:Disney Book Group

Meanwhile, at Tinkers’ Nook, a tall pile of acorn pails waiting for handles grew higher and higher on Tinker Bell’s worktable. The nature fairies would need every bucket, pail, and ...
( Category: Fantasy & Magic October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-28 | Author:Jessica Day George [George, Jessica Day]

On the Shore Nine dragons came from a cave to the south of the city. Nine dragons, gleaming in the moonlight, with bright eyes and silken wings. It was a ...
( Category: Fantasy & Magic October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:Jessica Day George [George, Jessica Day]

Taking Yourself Hostage So, we’re inside a volcano?” I gave the heaving river of fire a dubious look. “Isn’t that dangerous?” “We’re some distance away, actually,” Leontes reassured me. “I ...
( Category: Dragons October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-06-04 | Author:Jessica Day George [George, Jessica Day]

Wanting a Dragon, Getting a Prince Derda made it clear that if I wanted to get that horrid gown reworked for the Merchants’ Ball, I would have to do it ...
( Category: Dragons October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-23 | Author:Boudreau, Helene [Boudreau, Helene]

Chapter Eleven HOW MANY TEARS CAN you cry before your body gets squeezed dry? I felt completely wrung out by the time Dad and I arrived home well past midnight ...
( Category: Dragons October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-08 | Author:Boudreau, Helene [Boudreau, Helene]

I sat on a large rock by the ocean, just down the hill from the construction site, waiting for Dad to pick me up. The crowd was long gone, the ...
( Category: Dragons October 27,2014 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Anne Ursu

CHAPTER 16 Life Lessons From Charon IF YOU ASKED CHARON—NOT THAT ANYONE EVER does— he’d tell you he gets a bad rap. The Ferryman for the Dead is widely considered, ...
( Category: Greek & Roman October 27,2014 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 1894-01-01 | Author:Rudyard Kipling

Without waiting for breakfast, Rikki-tikki ran to the thornbush where Darzee was singing a song of triumph at the top of his voice. The news of Nag’s death was all ...
( Category: Short Stories October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-30 | Author:Tony Bradman

A man was putting up a sign nearby. Freddy read the sign and felt very uneasy. “Hi,” Freddy said. “Would you mind telling me what that sign means?” “Sure,” said ...
( Category: Royalty October 16,2014 )