Once upon a time a baby princess was born. The kingdom's fairies blessed her with happiness, luck, cleverness, kindness and beauty . . . but one wicked fairy was angry at having been left out of the celebration and placed a wicked curse on the little princess. On her sixteenth bi...
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"How can librarianship be liberatory? How does librarianship help people to be free? How is library capacity and expertise used to increase freedom, justice, and community? This invigorating collected volume from Core unpacks these questions, and many others besides, to reveal th...
When the two older witch's children use their magic to create trouble in the park, the Little One knows how to fix the problem.
Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast.
When last we saw George, he and his bride Ursula were living in wedded bliss in the peaceful jungle. Unfortunately this is about to change. Scheming mother-in-law, Beatrice Stanhope, is not about to let her daughter and grandson hang out in the jungle forever. In an elaborate plo...
Rejected by all of the other royal families she meets, it takes an encounter with a humble court jester, who declares her the queen of his heart, for the princess to discover where her kingdom really lies.
Troy: In 1193 B.C., Prince Paris, the son of the King of Troy falls in love with Helen, the wife of the king of Sparta, and convinces her to follow him away from her husband, Menelaus; the result is an epic war. The Greeks sail to Troy and lay siege. Achilles, the greatest warrio...
When the two older witch's children use their magic to create trouble in the park, the little one knows how to fix the problem.
Follows Mark David Chapman through the days leading up to his murder of John Lennon on Dec. 8, 1980.
During a dispiriting March snowstorm, all four of the Lauder Jones children are living at home again. It's a rare moment of congress before the family dissolves. Their father, Douglas, is an obscure short-story writer, and their mother, Ursula, a neuroscientist searching for the ...
When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be: a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, a science fiction and fantasy author in an era that dismissed "genre" literature as unserious, and a westerner living far from...
The singer, model, and actress tells her story. Born in Jamaica into a strict Pentecostal family, Jones rebelled and left for America. She eventually landed in New York, where she was part of the club scene and built a successful, if unconventional, career. Some descriptions of s...
Aileen's family of magic makers includes Aunt Beck, the most powerful magician on Skarr, but her own magic does not show itself until a mission for the King and a magical cat help her find strength and confidence.
"Named for the anarchist utopia in Ursula K. Le Guin's science fiction classic The Dispossessed, Dispatches from Anarres embodies the anarchic spirit of Le Guin's hometown, Portland, Oregon, while paying tribute to her enduring vision. In stories that range from fantasy to sci fi...