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After being transformed into a woman for 10 days and experiencing what it is to be a woman in a culture that does not respect women, Odin returns to his masculine form remembering every aspect of his time as a woman. Odin has been transformed into a complete warrior, not just a great fighter. He has learned to balance his own own masculine and feminine energies and has kept his heart fully open while maintaining his lethal warrior's spirit. Odin begins making changes immediately that shock the entire kingdom—changes that are gut-wrenching for some and heart-warming for others.

An ancient creature stirs, a mysterious figure watches, and four kids are caught in the middle. Four teenagers—Momo, who nearly lost her life the day she was born, at the hands of her own father; Mia, a brilliant mind wrapped in effortless beauty; and best friends Tyson and Lucas, inseparable since the moment they met—find themselves stranded in the middle of the ocean. But something is wrong. Their memories have been stolen. Who—or what—has done this? As doubt creeps in, questions arise: Are they truly as close as they seem? Do they carry hidden agendas of their own?

Nachdem er mit seiner alten Tastatur achtzehn erfolglose Jahre in Räume vorgedrungen ist, in denen noch nie ein Gedanke gewesen ist, versucht, der gealterte Schriftsteller sich das Leben zu nehmen. Am abgründigsten Punkt seines Lebens, macht er die größte Entdeckung seines Lebens und stiehlt die heilige Lampe von Mekka. Der Legende nach, Aladins verschollene Wunderlampe. Aber warum wurde die Geschichte aus Tausendundeiner Nacht niemals korrekt zu Ende erzählt?

Dorothea und Gretchen Wild, die Geschwister Hassenpflug und Haxthausen, Jenny Droste Hülshoff und Dorothea Viehmann usw.: Es waren überwiegend Frauen, die den Grimms die Märchen zutrugen - jedoch nicht nur.

Die Bildersprache der Märchen: fremd, wie zu einer fernen, längst vergangenen Welt gehörend, und doch unendlich nah und vertraut. Eine Sprache, die man nicht erst erlernen muss, um sie zu verstehen, und die man nicht verlernen kann, weil sie als zu den menschlichen "Denk- und Fühlformen", zum menschlichen Sein dazugehörig erscheint. Sie ist, wie Wilhelm Grimm beschreibt, eine Sprache die "längst verloren, aber […] noch empfunden" wird, die vom Damals ins Heute hinüberreicht und - mehr noch - durch das Menschliche hindurchreicht.

Of all the legends of Western civilization, perhaps the glorious adventures of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table are the best known. The Quest for the Holy Grail, and the undying illicit love between Sir Launcelot and Queen Guenevere, have provided inspiration for storytellers and poets down the ages, and sparked so many films and books of our own time.

Emily H. Wilson presents Book 2 in the Sumerians Trilogy.

In this enchanting, poignant novella from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Spinning Silver and the Scholomance trilogy, a young witch who has inadvertently cursed her brother to live a life without love must find a way to undo her spell. Celia discovers her talent for magic on the day her beloved oldest brother Argent leaves home. Furious at being left behind, she lashes out, not realising her childish, angry words will suddenly become imbued with the power of prophecy, dooming him to a life without love.

Unter der Wasseroberfläche des Sees lauert ein Monster: Jenny Greenteeth ist immer hungrig und bereit zum Angriff. Bis eines Tages ein wütender Mob eine Hexe in ihren See wirft. Obwohl die beiden nichts gemeinsam haben, müssen sie ihre Kräfte auf einer magischen Quest vereinen, um das Böse zu besiegen, das Jennys See und Temperances Familie bedroht.

When Detective Stayer takes a job in the idyllic Australian beach town of Thoorgala, he hopes it will offer a chance to reconnect with his sister, Ruby, who he hasn’t spoken to in almost a decade. As local women are found murdered on the sand dunes, marked with a peculiar symbol, locals begin blaming Tall Harry, a shadowy urban legend, as the culprit.

With the promise of finally learning her mother’s secrets, Brinna and her family gather together. Only somewhere between the truth and lies, Brinna wakes to find she’s trapped in a space in between the world awake and the nightmares of her family. All of them are asleep. Learning she has the ability to move from dream to dream, Brinna tries to find a way out of the dream world, but she’s stuck, unable to fix what’s ailing her family. But then an unexpected thing happens, Lucian Uraiahs, god of day and light, walks into her dream.

A phonograph cylinder that plays on a loop for eternity, casting out ghostly spectres of violence; a centuries-old stew made of severed body parts; a bigoted woman working at an ossuary, the bones she watches over her only remaining friends; three siblings who set out to scatter their father's ashes, a man none of them could stand; and a hag stone sitting in the pocket of a witch. Uncanny and unsettling, wild and wyrd, the ten stories in this collection showcase the best of folk horror.

Tauchen Sie ein in den herzzerreißenden Abschluss der Jahrtausende umspannenden epischen Saga, in der uralte Flüche auf moderne Liebe und Intrigen treffen. In „Tutanchamun – Der Fluch dahinter der goldenen Maske: Das Ende des Fluchs“ intensiviert sich der Kampf um die Beendigung eines jahrhundertealten Fluchs und spinnt eine Geschichte voller Geheimnisse, Liebe und unerbittlicher Verfolgung.

Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about him constantly. They carry on a day-to-day routine in what could be viewed as a post-Fukushima time, with all the children born ancient - frail and gray-haired, yet incredibly compassionate and wise. Mumei may be enfeebled and feverish, but he is a beacon of hope, full of wit and free of self-pity and pessimism.

Jim Oster ruptures the membrane between our world and afterworld (AKA, The Flimsy), creating a two-way tunnel between them. Jim's wife, Val, is killed in the process, and Jim finds himself battling his personal grief and an invasion of the Flims. The process of battling the invading Flims leads him to the center of the afterworld, where the ghost of his wife just might be. Can Jim save Earth with the help of a posse of Santa Cruz punks, and at the same time bring his wife back to life?

Superhjältar, superskurkar och superäventyr! T'Challa och Shuri hälsar på i Avengers Tower och visar Bruce Banner en ny teknologi. Men plötsligt dyker skurken Proxima Midnight upp! Hon och Corvus Glaive, båda en del av Black Order, är ute efter Antmans pym-partiklar. Tillsammans måste Avengers försöka stoppa dem, och rädda staden! Marvels Avengers samlar de häftigaste superhjältarna som slåss tillsammans mot onda krafter! Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Black Widow, Hulken, Black Panther och fler hittar du i dessa spännande äventyr.

Claudio Bianchi has lived alone for many years on a hillside in Southern Italy's scenic Calabria. Set in his ways and suspicious of outsiders, Claudio has always resisted change, preferring farming and writing poetry. But one chilly morning, as though from a dream, an impossible visitor appears at the farm. When Claudio comes to her aid, an act of kindness throws his world into chaos. Suddenly he must stave off inquisitive onlookers, invasive media, and even more sinister influences.

In a village at the edge of the wilderness of Northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow falls many months of the year, a stranger with piercing blue eyes presents a new father with a gift - a precious jewel on a delicate chain, intended for his young daughter. Uncertain of its meaning, the father hides the gift away, and his daughter, Vasya, grows up a wild, willful girl, to the chagrin of her family. But when mysterious forces threaten the happiness of their village, Vasya discovers that she may be the only one who can keep the darkness at bay.

From the translator of the best-selling Poetic Edda comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and comprise our best source of traditional lore about its members - including, among others, the dragon slayer Sigurd, Brynhild the Valkyrie, and the Viking chieftain Ragnar Lothbrok.

Ysabel is a contemporary fantasy that centers on the Saint-Sauveur Cathedral of Aix-en-Provence, where a 15-year-old boy accompanies his father on a photo shoot. Befriending a whip-smart American girl and confronting a knife-wielding maniac, the boy finds that the ancient site shimmers with mysteries of fantastical design.