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A beautiful but rude and conceited princess is taught a lesson.
A soldier risks his life to uncover the secret of twelve beautiful princesses.
A wicked enchantress imprisons a beautiful girl in a tower.
A little girl has an encounter with a wolf while visiting her grandmother.
A princess makes a promise to a talking frog.
A dark tale of abandoned children featuring the celebrated gingerbread house.
When a woodcutter boasts to a king that his daughter can spin gold from straw, she is forced to make a pact with a strange little man.
Charlie and John Green were brothers. They were raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Jackson County, North Carolina.
An assistant lighthouse keeper arrives at his first appointment - on an island with the lighthouse keeper and his strange young wife.
Twisted coming of age tale. A young boy is persecuted by his brothers, sister and ungrateful father. Contains adult language.
My mum is the undisputed tea-drinking heavyweight champion of the world… or at least the whole of South Lexington Avenue.
I'd been forgetting a lot of things lately. Then again, I'm not alone in that.
By a stagnant lagoon, as his love lies dying, Arsat tells the story of their meeting and the price he had to pay to be with her.
Story which promotes the argument that a pure, sober and honest man cannot compete against a prodigal son.
He was The Mouse. He wasn’t Mouse. That would have been a kind nickname. The Mouse was named in one of his many foster homes by one of his many not so nice foster brothers.
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
“Go to Goldman’s Greenhouses. Joseph … will start you … at a buck sixty an hour.” His lungs empty of smoke, “Go talk to him. He’s your uncle. He’ll hire you.
A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger.
My mum is the undisputed tea-drinking heavyweight champion of the world… or at least the whole of South Lexington Avenue.
Shepherd's family made money by being outlaws. Well, outlaws in the governments' eyes.
"Damn thing," old Ernie muttered, glancing up from his laptop. He reached out to shut off the annoying noise but noticed the call was from his area. This was unusual.
The cozy brick bungalow stood on a short lane of similarly modest houses with a small, mostly overgrown park at the far end and an intersection leading to Darlington High Street.
"It's at the ranch, on the other side of the farm, in those mountains. All we need to do is catch it. Can you imagine how much we can sell it for?
The spark of his life was fading, but his mind was still sharp, and his memories cocooned him.
Dessie O'Connell was 6 feet 3, thick of bone, and naturally muscular. Unlike almost all of the actors with whom he'd first competed for parts, he hardly needed to work out in order to resemble a Hellenic god.
