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Book Synopsis Myth and Magic: Queer Fairy Tales by : Radclyffe
Download or read book Myth and Magic: Queer Fairy Tales written by Radclyffe and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myth, magic, and monsters--the stuff of childhood dreams (or nightmares) and adult fantasies. Delve into these classic fairy tales retold with a queer twist and surrender to the world of seductive spells and dark temptations.
Book Synopsis Myth and Magic: Queer Fairy Tales by : Radclyffe
Download or read book Myth and Magic: Queer Fairy Tales written by Radclyffe and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myth, magic, and monsters—the stuff of childhood dreams (or nightmares) and adult fantasies. Delve into these classic fairy tales retold with a queer twist and surrender to the world of seductive spells and dark temptations.
Book Synopsis Kissing the Witch by : Emma Donoghue
Download or read book Kissing the Witch written by Emma Donoghue and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1999-02-27 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances--sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous. Told with luminous voices that shimmer with sensuality and truth, these age-old characters shed their antiquated cloaks to travel a seductive new landscape, radiantly transformed.Cinderella forsakes the handsome prince and runs off with the fairy godmother; Beauty discovers the Beast behind the mask is not so very different from the face she sees in the mirror; Snow White is awakened from slumber by the bittersweet fruit of an unnamed desire. Acclaimed writer Emma Donoghue spins new tales out of old in a magical web of thirteen interconnected stories about power and transformation and choosing one's own path in the world. In these fairy tales, women young and old tell their own stories of love and hate, honor and revenge, passion and deception. Using the intricate patterns and oral rhythms of traditional fairy tales, Emma Donoghue wraps age-old characters in a dazzling new skin. 2000 List of Popular Paperbacks for YA
Book Synopsis Lesbian Fairy Tales by : C. D. Overstreet
Download or read book Lesbian Fairy Tales written by C. D. Overstreet and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thousand years ago they did not call women who liked other women gay, lesbians, or homosexuals. They had another word for it. They called them Wicked. Now for the first time ever you can read the versions of the stories you never did before. Learn how Snow White and the Wicked Queen outsmart the hunter who vows he will have one of them or see them dead. Understand why a King and Queen would risk disaster to snub a Wicked Fairy. Find out why Wicked Witches live in the woods luring young girls into their cottages or lock them away in towers. Stories from your favorite fairy tales and other legends from around the world you may have never heard are collected here, each one with a wicked twist. The stories collected here are just like the ones you heard growing up, except this time it's the women that are going to end up with the princesses. Classics like stories from the Brothers Grimm including Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Jack and the Beanstalk, and many others have been rewritten with a girl on girl ending. Original and unaltered lesbian stories from around the world like Greek mythology, stories from China and India, Japanese legends, and even the Bible. In this book the handsome prince can stay home because the ladies are doing the rescuing and the loving this time. Who needs a prince when you have wicked witches beautiful queens, sexy nymphs, unattainable goddesses, or enchanted princesses? For the first time read a collection of fairy tales, both classics you know and new stories you have never heard, where the girl gets the girl. Be they miller's daughters, royalty, warriors, or a magical fairy godmother you can enjoy the magic and true love shared by women in legends and mythologies from around the world.
Book Synopsis The Last Days of Magic by : Mark Tompkins
Download or read book The Last Days of Magic written by Mark Tompkins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fantastic . . . an honest, beautifully detailed book and an entertaining read.” —DIANA GABALDON, THE WASHINGTON POST "A fantastical treat." —PEOPLE “Simultaneously sweeping and intricate . . . Tompkins’s amazing debut novel conjures an epic battle for the soul of Ireland. Filled with papal machination and royal intrigue, magic and mayhem, faeries, Vikings, legates, kings and queens, angels and goddesses, this is one wild and breathless ride.” —KAREN JOY FOWLER “Plundering the treasure chest of human myths, from mysterious biblical giants to ferocious Celtic faeries, Tompkins has created a fantasy adventure with the shifting perspectives of dreamscape. A novel rich and strange.” —GERALDINE BROOKS What became of magic in the world? Who needed to do away with it, and for what reasons? Drawing on myth, legend, fairy tales, and Biblical mysteries, The Last Days of Magic brilliantly imagines answers to these questions, sweeping us back to a world where humans and magical beings co-exist as they had for centuries. Aisling, a goddess in human form, was born to rule both domains and—with her twin, Anya—unite the Celts with the powerful faeries of the Middle Kingdom. But within medieval Ireland interests are divided, and far from its shores greater forces are mustering. Both England and Rome have a stake in driving magic from the Emerald Isle. Jordan, the Vatican commander tasked with vanquishing the remnants of otherworldly creatures from a disenchanted Europe, has built a career on such plots. But increasingly he finds himself torn between duty and his desire to understand the magic that has been forbidden. As kings prepare, exorcists gather, and divisions widen between the warring clans of Ireland, Aisling and Jordan must come to terms with powers given and withheld, while a world that can still foster magic hangs in the balance. Loyalties are tested, betrayals sown, and the coming war will have repercussions that ripple centuries later, in today’s world—and in particular for a young graduate student named Sara Hill. The Last Days of Magic introduces us to unforgettable characters who grapple with quests for power, human frailty, and the longing for knowledge that has been made taboo. Mark Tompkins has crafted a remarkable tale—a feat of world-building that poses astonishing and resonant answers to epic questions.
Book Synopsis The Fairy Tale World by : Andrew Teverson
Download or read book The Fairy Tale World written by Andrew Teverson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fairy Tale World is a definitive volume on this ever-evolving field. The book draws on recent critical attention, contesting romantic ideas about timeless tales of good and evil, and arguing that fairy tales are culturally astute narratives that reflect the historical and material circumstances of the societies in which they are produced. The Fairy Tale World takes a uniquely global perspective and broadens the international, cultural, and critical scope of fairy-tale studies. Throughout the five parts, the volume challenges the previously Eurocentric focus of fairy-tale studies, with contributors looking at: • the contrast between traditional, canonical fairy tales and more modern reinterpretations; • responses to the fairy tale around the world, including works from every continent; • applications of the fairy tale in diverse media, from oral tradition to the commercialized films of Hollywood and Bollywood; • debates concerning the global and local ownership of fairy tales, and the impact the digital age and an exponentially globalized world have on traditional narratives; • the fairy tale as told through art, dance, theatre, fan fiction, and film. This volume brings together a selection of the most respected voices in the field, offering ground-breaking analysis of the fairy tale in relation to ethnicity, colonialism, feminism, disability, sexuality, the environment, and class. An indispensable resource for students and scholars alike, The Fairy Tale World seeks to discover how such a traditional area of literature has remained so enduringly relevant in the modern world.
Book Synopsis Reading Children’s Literature: A Critical Introduction - Second Edition by : Carrie Hintz
Download or read book Reading Children’s Literature: A Critical Introduction - Second Edition written by Carrie Hintz and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Children’s Literature offers insights into the major discussions and debates currently animating the field of children’s literature. Informed by recent scholarship and interest in cultural studies and critical theory, it is a compact core text that introduces students to the historical contexts, genres, and issues of children’s literature. A beautifully designed and illustrated supplement to individual literary works assigned, it also provides apparatus that makes it a complete resource for working with children’s literature during and after the course. The second edition includes a new chapter on children’s literature and popular culture (including film, television, and merchandising) and has been updated throughout to reflect recent scholarship and new offerings in children’s media.
Book Synopsis A Queer Little Book of Tales by : H.R. Harrison
Download or read book A Queer Little Book of Tales written by H.R. Harrison and published by NineStar Press. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of queer fairy tale retellings for the discerning reader. Dive into a world both familiar and strange and meet a colorful cast of characters from all different backgrounds and upbringings, from princes and paupers to aliens and dwarves, from merchant sons to sign language interpreters. And fairies, of course. But it’s important to remember… most fairies aren’t fairy godmothers. The White Cat follows the intrepid young prince Yufitri from across the Sea, who meets a mystical talking cat who offers to grant all his desires—even the call for a wife. The Fairy’s Gift tells the tale of a young princess Wynn who was cursed by an evil fairy to… have the body of her dreams? Oh no, whatever shall she do? Save a neighboring kingdom it seems! In From Stars They Fell, when a strange metal ship falls from the sky, an angel with dragonfly wings is left stranded in a strange land, and meets a young man who speaks with his hands. When the angel takes the job of the young man’s interpreter, Oswin, he sets out to find new work. The Echoes of the Dead finds him stumbling across mysterious black ruins in the woods, inhabited by a scarred and quiet elf whose kindness hides a depth of despair. In A Step Apart and a World Away, Naomhan, a duke’s son, who has always felt apart from the world, rescues a beautiful snake, who turns into a beautiful man promising rewards for Naomhan’s kindness. But Naomhan wants only to disappear. And In the Shade of the Tree of Life ends the collection with a tale of anxiety and heartbreak, when a tailor’s apprentice of maligned background falls in love with a hermit of a prince.
Book Synopsis Magic and Myth by : Kathryn Trattner
Download or read book Magic and Myth written by Kathryn Trattner and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in Magic and Myth reveal the connection between everyday occurrences and the otherworldly. The place where we pause to reassure ourselves that the world is full of the mundane and unmagical in every way--even as we check beneath the bed for monsters. Explore the point where myths collide with humanity and build a home, where unexpected magic crackles in the firelight, and the seasons gather around the dinner table. Crisscrossing these pages are creatures from dreams and legends--love and horror are intertwined, revenge is sweeter than any summer evening, and desire can be enough to reshape reality. The stories in this collection includes: Blackberry Baby - based on the fairy tale The Snow Child The Deer Woman - based on the myth of the Deer Woman The Black Cat - based on the myths about the boogeyman Tornado - a piece of magical realism flash fiction about the seasons
Download or read book Cheap as Beasts written by Jon Wilson and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like most soldiers, Declan Colette lost his fair share in the war—in his case a sailor, drowned off Iwo Jima. Since then he’s been scratching out a living as a cut-rate PI, drinking too much, and flirting with danger. Then a girl arranges to consult him, only to be murdered en route, and the cops tag Colette as their prime suspect. To save his neck he’ll need to find the real killer, a quest that pits him against a rival detective firm, a dangerously rich family, and a desperate foe whose murdering ways started back during the war. Could this be the case he’s been waiting for? Catching the killer could make his reputation. Failing, could cost him his life. Either way: win-win.
Download or read book Fool's Gold written by Jess Faraday and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For once, Ira Adler has it easy. He has money in his pocket, a comfortable arrangement with an undemanding young man, and no one’s punched, chased, or shot at him in years. Suddenly, an explosion turns everything upside down.Eager to leave London, Ira accompanies his friends to America to settle a family matter. But though a handsome lawman and a trip aboard a luxurious ocean liner provide welcome distraction, Ira soon finds himself embroiled in a plot that stretches from London’s back alleys to the dusty dirt roads of California. Before he knows it, Ira is up to his neck in train robbers, rattlesnakes, unscrupulous cattle kings, and persistent young women driven to frenzy by his exotic accent.Just when he’s ready to flee back to Britain, Ira gets a fistful of second chances. But London is calling. Will Ira answer? Or will he embrace a new life abroad?
Book Synopsis The Strange Case of the Big Sur Benefactor by : Jess Faraday
Download or read book The Strange Case of the Big Sur Benefactor written by Jess Faraday and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billiwack, California, 1884. When translator Rosetta Stein comes across her rival, Bartholomew Vincent, under attack by weird, raven-headed man-beasts behind the infamous Puckered Rosebud Gentleman’s Club, she senses opportunity. She rescues him in exchange for a crack at the commission he stole from under her nose—a strangely inscribed artifact found by Big Sur bigwig George Taylor Granville in the Santa Lucia mountains. Misfortune has stalked Vincent from the moment he took on the project, and he’s only too happy to share it. In the meantime, a lady marshal has come to Billiwack, investigating rumors of strange, unlicensed weapons, and she can’t seem to decide if she’d rather kiss Rosetta or arrest her. And Vincent is suffering romantic complications of his own, in the forms of Rosetta’s charming layabout brother, and an amorous professor who won’t take God, no! for an answer.
Book Synopsis Death By Sin by : Lyle Blake Smythers
Download or read book Death By Sin written by Lyle Blake Smythers and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finn M’Coul, the hero of Irish mythology, is assigned a new case by his boss Viledark, a monstrous hoglike being and an immortal shapeshifter. Together they run a private detective agency on Capitol Hill in modern-day Washington, D.C. A retired general has hired them to find his missing nineteen-year-old son, who appears to be involved with a new drug. Shotweed increases the male orgasm many times, in both duration and intensity, and is on the rise in the local gay community. It is highly addictive and may be fatal, and it only works on gay men. Finn’s search leads him to a psychotic supervillain who is unleashing deadly mischief for his own perverse entertainment. Drugs, monsters, and a man with a hook stand in Finn’s way as he works to save a beautiful boy and others like him.
Download or read book Brothers written by Ralph Josiah Bardsley and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At twenty-three, Jamus Cork’s plans are simple—graduate college, stay in New York City, and write. But those plans change when his parents are suddenly killed and he finds himself the guardian of his little brother, Nick. Jamus ends up back in the Boston neighborhood where he grew up, with a crying toddler on his knee and the challenge of building a new life for himself and the boy. Jamus somehow finds a way to navigate the ups and downs of single parenting, but over a decade of raising Nick, Jamus never truly overcomes his struggles with loneliness and the guilt he feels as the sole survivor of the crash that killed his parents. That changes when he meets bookishly handsome Sean Malloy. There’s a spark between the two men, but both must face down their own private demons to find love in the Irish enclave of South Boston.
Download or read book Final Departure written by Steve Pickens and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jake Finnigan is already having the worst day of his life when the corpse of notorious tabloid reporter Susan Crane is found locked in the trunk of her car on the ferry where he works. Worse still, though Crane is bound, gagged, and shot in the forehead, her death is ruled a suicide. Convinced of a cover-up, Jake finds himself entangled in the investigation, much to the annoyance of his partner of nearly a decade, Sam O’Conner. As Jake and Sam uncover more about the woman’s blackmailing schemes, the list of suspects grows, and the couple find themselves skidding unavoidably into the killer’s crosshairs.
Book Synopsis Big Hair and a Little Honey by : Russ Gregory
Download or read book Big Hair and a Little Honey written by Russ Gregory and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honey Agency: When you need a dick, and average will do. The tag line’s still dodgy, but Greg’s too distracted to notice. His relationship with Matt begins to falter when an old flame shows up in Austin just as Grandmother Honey starts hanging out with drag queens and Willa lands a new beau, who may not survive their courtship. To top it all off, Greg’s twenty-ninth birthday is just around the corner and his cat is stalking a neighbor’s cockatoo. When Livia Honey tries to engineer her son’s abduction, Greg’s problems look bigger than the hair in Texas.
Download or read book Puppet Boy written by Christian Baines and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A school in turmoil over its senior play, a sly career as a teenage gigolo, an unpredictable girlfriend with damage of her own, and a dangerous housebreaker tied up downstairs. Any of these would make a great plot for budding filmmaker Eric?s first movie. Unfortunately, they?re his real life. When Julien, a handsome wannabe actor, transfers to Eric?s class, he?s a distraction, a rival, and one complication too many. Yet Eric can?t stop thinking about him. Helped by Eric?s girlfriend, Mary, they embark on a project that dangerously crosses the line between filmmaking and reality. As the boys become close, Eric soon wants to cross other lines entirely. Does Julien feel the same way, or is Eric being used on the gleefully twisted path to fame?
