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Once Upon a Time, Again more fairy tales re-mixed
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by Elizabeth Canning Blackwell
When Elise Dalriss hears her great-granddaughter recount a minstrel’s tale about a beautiful princess asleep in a tower, it pushes open a door to the past, a door Elise has long kept locked. For Elise was the companion to the real princess who slumbered—and she is the only one left who knows what actually happened so many years ago.
a gothic re-telling of Sleeping Beauty.
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by Eli Brown
Kidnapped by a ruthless woman pirate and ordered to serve exquisite Sunday dinners or forfeit his life, renowned chef Owen Wedgwood transforms meager shipboard supplies into sumptuous meals.
a gastronomic re-telling of Scheherazade set on a 19th century pirate ship.
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by Elizabeth C. Bunce
Upon the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of an overwhelming mortgage
a historical fiction re-telling of Rumpelstiltskin.
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by John Connolly
Taking refuge in fairy tales after the loss of his mother, twelve-year-old David finds himself violently propelled into an imaginary land in which the boundaries of fantasy and reality are disturbingly melded.
a nightmare odyssey through an alternate world inspired by the darkest aspects of various fairy tales.
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Bet me by Jennifer CrusieWhen perfectly nice Min overhears her dreary ex-boyfriend bet the super-hot Cal that he won't be able to get into Min's sensible white panties, well, all bets are off. a contemporary (and hilarious) re-telling of The Ugly Duckling. Or is it the fairy tale with Prince Charming? One of those.
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Beastly by Alex FlinnA vain and handsome Manhattan private school student is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form. A modern re-telling of Beauty and the Beast.
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by Kate Forsyth
After Margherita's father steals parsley from the walled garden of the courtesan Selena Leonelli, he is threatened with having both hands cut off, unless he and his wife relinquish their precious little girl.
Rapunzel re-told using the real-life characters of Selena (muse of artist Tiziano) and Charlotte-Rose de la Force (banished from Versailles by Louis XIV and the original author of the Rapunzel tale).
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by Neil Gaiman
A brave young queen and her dwarf companions set out to rescue an enchanted princess who is not quite what she seems. the familiar and new twisted together to tell a brilliant version of Snow White (sort of) and Sleeping Beauty (almost).
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by Eliza Granville
When Dr. Josef Breuers description of the young woman found nearly dead on the grounds of an abandoned Viennese mental hospital includes mention of a shaved head and a line of inked characters on her left arm, we know that she is somehow a concentration camp survivor, even though the year is 1899.
a dark and time-shifting version of Hansel and Gretel
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by Jane Green
Bored, fat and unhappy Jemima Jones is a hack writer on a small London paper, whose weight precludes both promotion (which she richly deserves, because she's smart) and getting together with the man of her dreams: kind, modest and gorgeous reporter Ben Williams.
a modern rom-com re-telling of The Ugly Duckling.
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by Rosamund Hodge
Betrothed to the demon who rules her country and trained all her life to kill him, seventeen-year-old Nyx Triskelion must now fulfill her destiny and move to the castle to be his wife.
a Steampunk fantasy re-telling of Beauty and the Beast.
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by Eloisa James
When impoverished Kate Daltry meets Prince Gabriel at a ball, the prince is drawn to this spirited beauty despite being engaged to another, but their irresistible attraction is ill-fated until a kiss changes everything.
a Regency-era Cinderalla tale.
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by John Katzenbach
The tale of a widowed New York psychotherapist roused from the cocoon of his habitual rounds by an anonymous letter -- a letter threatening him with a fate worse than death.
Rumplestiltskin re-imagined as a threatening, malign, and quite possibly psychotic killer.
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by Gail Carson Levine
In the kingdom of Ayortha, who is the fairest of them all? Certainly not Aza. She is thoroughly convinced that she is ugly. What she may lack in looks, though, she makes up for with a kind heart, and with something no one else has-a magical voice.
a fantasy re-telling of Snow White.
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by Malinda Lo In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Her only joy comes by rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted. a romantic lesbian re-telling of Cinderella.
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by Juliet Marillier
Anluan has been crippled since childhood, part of a curse that has besieged his family and his home of Whistling Tor. But when the young scribe Caitrin is retained to sort through family documents, she brings about unexpected changes in the household.
a fantasy re-telling of Beauty and the Beast.
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by Patrick Ness
A middle-aged, divorced American living in London has given up on finding love. After he saves a wounded crane, he meets and falls in love with a Japanese artist named Kumiko.
based on a Japanese folk-tale.
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by Lynsay Sands
Clumsy Clarissa Crambray has a problem -- she can't see without her glasses. But when she stumbles onto a scarred yet honorable nobleman, it may be a match made in heaven.
a Regency-era re-telling of Beauty and the Beast.
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by Genevieve Valentine
Jo, the firstborn, "The General" to her eleven sisters, is the only thing the Hamilton girls have in place of a mother. She is the one who taught them how to dance, the one who gives the signal each night, as they slip out of the confines of their father's townhouse to await the cabs that will take them to the speakeasy. Together they elude their distant and controlling father, until the day he decides to marry them all off.
a flapper-era re-imagining of The Twelve Dancing Princesses.
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by Susan Wiggs
An awkward misfit in an accomplished Boston family, Isadora Peabody yearns to escape her social isolation and sneaks aboard the Silver Swan, bound for Rio, leaving it all behind.
a Victorian-era, shipboard romance, re-telling of The Ugly Duckling.
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