Mythology & Folk Tales
epub, mobi | | | Author:Guy Gavriel Kay [Kay, Guy Gavriel]

She opened her eyes. The room rocked and spun, both. The floor dropped sickeningly away, then rushed precipitously back toward her. She had a stupefying headache and, even without moving ...
( Category: Epic March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:Alexander McCall Smith [Smith, Alexander McCall]

Angus is kind to pigs There were people who had been changed into pigs, something which happened from time to time in those days. They lived in a part of ...
( Category: Mythology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jasper Fforde

“I wouldn’t have dropped it if you hadn’t been chasing me.” “I wouldn’t have been chasing you if you hadn’t stolen it!” “I wasn’t stealing it.” “What then?” “I was ...
( Category: Humorous March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:Laura Kaye [Kaye, Laura]

His big fingers stroked her hair off her face. “You do?” “I really do.” He smiled and kissed her forehead. “Thank the gods for that. Are you tired?” “A little.” ...
( Category: Mythology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-27 | Author:Laura Kaye [Kaye, Laura]

Chapter Sixteen As the weather continued to deteriorate, the gods exchanged rushed good-byes and departed, Boreas first, then Zeph and Ella. Within minutes, the storm ratcheted down in intensity, making ...
( Category: Mythology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Laura Kaye [Kaye, Laura]

Chapter Seventeen A persistent mechanical growl pulled Megan from sleep the next morning. The sound was so foreign, she bolted upright, listened. The fog lifted from her brain. Mr. Johansson, ...
( Category: Mythology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-05-28 | Author:Jeanette Winterson [Jeanette Winterson]

He looked at the apple. For the first time he began to think that he had colluded in his punishment. Why had he fought against the gods? He already had ...
( Category: Fairy Tales March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-02 | Author:Zachary Mason [Mason, Zachary]

*In the eighteenth century B.C. there was a thriving cult of the goddess Quickness, known for virginity, quick thinking, harsh laughter and an association with owls. Her particular enemy was ...
( Category: Fairy Tales March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Carolyn Turgeon

A few days later, I arranged a meeting between myself and Snow White in the gardens. It was a glorious afternoon as I waited for her, after a morning of ...
( Category: Historical Fantasy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Odette Beane [Beane, Odette]

CHAPTER 9 SKIN DEEP Winter had descended on the town with a vengeance, bringing with it all manner of accidents and emergencies. Emma rarely saw Mary Margaret and only sometimes ...
( Category: Fairy Tales March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:A. S. Byatt [Byatt, A. S.]

Hel Nine days and nights Hermodur rode the eight-legged horse through the kingdom of death, along valleys and ashen paths where there was no light, only grey on grey, solids ...
( Category: Fairy Tales March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-08 | Author:Philip Pullman [Pullman, Philip]

*** Tale type: ATU 720, ‘The Juniper Tree’ Source: a story written by Philipp Otto Runge Similar stories: Katharine M. Briggs: ‘The Little Bird’, ‘The Milk-White Doo’, ‘Orange and Lemon’, ...
( Category: Fairy Tales March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alexander Mccall Smith [Smith, Alexander Mccall]

"There are no strange animals at that place," she said. "You must be making all this up." But the father believed the boy and said that the next day they ...
( Category: Fairy Tales March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alexander Mccall Smith [Smith, Alexander Mccall]

“The man who marries her will have to give me lots of cattle,” went on the father. “How many?” asked Kumalo. “I am sure that I will have that many.” ...
( Category: Fairy Tales March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:K. W. Jeter & Gareth Jefferson Jones [Jeter, K. W. & Jones, Gareth Jefferson]

“What the hell does this mean?” Hank looked back at the Devil. “I’ve been seeing it all day. And now I find it here, too, on the desk and on ...
( Category: Fairy Tales March 26,2014 )