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Lahr and Neffi are gentle and fun-loving Gelflings who want little more than to enjoy the simple pleasures of life and love. But when their villages are attacked and plundered by the violent Garthim, their worlds are turned upside down as they narrowly escape with their lives. No...

"Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, resourceful, and brilliant female sleuths in mystery fiction. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original. For the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the most iconic women of the detective can...

This award-winning series brings to life 26 of the most magical classic fairy tales of all time, now digitally remastered.

Rome, 2012. Sarah Adamson, a beautiful young Catholic graduate student from Boston studying at the Vatican Library for her thesis on the first Christian heretic, Marcion of Pontus. After a terrible encounter with the dark side at a castle in Tuscany, Sarah is given a ring set wit...

Pete Huttlinger has become widely known as one of the most awe-inspiring acoustic guitar players in the world. His unique arrangements and spellbinding musicality and precision have entertained audiences all from Los Angeles to Milan. His live appearances demonstrate what audienc...

Follows the story of a blue crystal that fell to the Earth and journeyed throughout human history in the hands of several owners, from a young girl who first discovers it on the African plain, to its bearers in nineteenth-century America.

Creation Myths, a prequel to The Dark Crystal, reveals the definitive origins of the Skeksis, Mystics, Gelfling, and the Dark Crystal itself while introducing all new characters in an epic spanning thousands of years.

"A ringed seal, known in Inuktitut as nattiq, has returned to his Arctic home after a long journey south. His friends -- a polar bear, caribou, raven, walrus and narwhal -- gather round to hear about his trip. "What did you see beyond our land?" shouts the polar bear. Nattiq desc...

The true story of Victorian artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, who built life-sized models of dinosaurs in the hope of educating the world about what these awe-inspiring ancient animals and what they were like.

"Hailed as a precursor of both pop art and contemporary abstraction, Stuart Davis captured the energy of mass culture and modern life. Beginning in 1921, a series of breakthroughs led him to develop a more abstract approach. Fusing American urban experience with European modernis...

Hot off the Italian charts, this serial killer chiller introduces a remarkable noir writer whose tales of bloody imagination and seductive perversity recall the films of Dario Argento This unforgettable gothic journey through the dark streets of Bologna follows a beautiful kill...

"This book addresses the challenging task of collection development in modern academic libraries and contains practical advice and innovative strategies for current collection development librarians and future librarians seeking guidance in this complex position."

"Something is amiss with the world's magic. Spells don't work the way they used to -- when they work at all. Only the powers of the Crystal Mages remain as they were, powers founded on the use of the mystical element adamis, the harvesting of which has enslaved the peoples of the...