Old Fantasy

In this beautiful book of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his 50 favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a 'clear as water' retelling, in his unique and brilliant voice.

He's my hottest crush, my undying obsession... And my secret admirer? JADE: Three years ago, I confessed my secret feelings for him, but he looked at me like I was crazy. Michael Morse is the only man I've ever been serious about, but he's also my father's best and oldest friend. But when I come home after being fired on the day before Valentine's Day, I find a mysterious jewelry box. I barely catch my breath before I realize he's here, at the same time. Is it possible? Is it finally happening? MICHAEL I've done everything I can to stay away from her. She's the one woman I can't have, and ...

Get Wet, Get Wild. I thought I had found my balance, juggling the passionate worlds of Claire, Sophia, and Jenny. But my education took a new turn when Claire introduced me to her old college roommate, Lisa, a longtime professional swimmer with a competitive streak and a challenge that made my pulse race. Lisa insisted I needed to stop reading so much and join her in the pool. Something about her drew me in - maybe it was the confidence in her stance or the way her eyes sparkled with challenge. Whatever it was, I found myself accepting her dare, diving headfirst into a rigorous training ...

Garulto didn’t know what to do. Dori was his everything, but his career, the one he’d always put before everything, was interfering with their relationship and he feared she would leave him. Dori loved Garulto. He was her soul mate and she knew it, but her first husband had put his career first and been killed in action. She couldn’t deal with that kind of loss again. Will fate step in and give them both what they need or will they call it a day and go their separate ways? Love can be magical, but it can also hurt.

In the town of Night Vale, there's a faceless old woman who secretly lives in everyone's home, but no one knows how she got there or where she came from...until now. Told in a series of eerie flashbacks, the story of the Woman is revealed, as she guides, haunts and sabotages an unfortunate Night Vale resident named Craig. In the end, her dealings with Craig and her history in 19th century Europe will come together in the most unexpected and horrifying way.

Eleven-year-old Wunder Ellis is a miracologist. In a journal he calls The Miraculous, he records stories of the inexplicable and the extraordinary. And he believes every single one. But then his newborn sister dies, at only eight days old. If that can happen, then miracles can’t exist. So Wunder gets rid of The Miraculous. He stops believing.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ROCHESTER MANSION! Sergeant Steve Ballard never thought... ...he'd be the proud owner of a spunky little Jinn! With years of extensive specialty military training, Steve's biggest use to his unit was his experience as a plumber before he enlisted. Now, fresh off the debacle with the hot, California-blonde MILF succubus, Steve's got bigger fish to fry. The succubus is hot on Cinder's trail and the nerdy girls have to team up once Steve goes missing! What is magic anyway, and how far does its influence stretch? Steve has a lot to learn, but his tutor, a sweet ...

I anticipated a tranquil mountain retreat with just my daughter, but fate had other plans when I rescued Harper Jones from a crash - the relentless attorney who represented my ex in our divorce. Now stranded together, tension crackles between us. She certainly looks down on my blue-collar lifestyle. But the longer we're stuck together, I see there's more to Harper than meets the eye. She is passionate, quick-witted, and undeniably charming. Despite my efforts to resist, I find myself drawn to her. I'm fighting this attraction every step, but how long until I give in to our explosive ...

An Action-Packed Book that is full of drama, bullying, and boy crushes, with a sprinkle of magic! Mel and Jackie continue to harass the twins, causing so many problems! Why can't this nasty witch and evil little elf just disappear! But these bullies aren't the only problem that Cindy and Lindy face. Their dad, who also happens to be their Deputy Principal, doesn't want his little girls to grow up, and he freaks out when he finds out that they have boyfriends! To make matters even worse, Grandma Thelma seems to have fallen in love with Mr. Janskee - the school principal!!! Could it get any ...

Nymphadonna Twerks has spent the past years perfecting her talents as a shape-changer and now she has a secret to share with the rest of the student body!

It's a different kind of world now, full of quick hits and idle hands. Long forgotten are the times when life was simple and pure - well, until now. Take a rowdy group of old timers and throw in an apocalypse, and you have the makings for quite an adventure, when they are forced to rescue their grandchildren from the world as we know it and teach them the Old Skool way of life to survive.

Here is another collection of 71 poems most of which were written over the past year. The collection also includes several poems from twenty years ago when I was serving as a pastor. They are subdivided into categories of general poetry, fantasy, love, Bible (Old Testament and New), and General Christian. The poems are done in free, blank, and rhyming verses.

This is your friendly purveyor of smut, Rayna. I’m so glad to be back with another anthology of the best erotic stories of the year. I received so much generous feedback from last year’s anthology, and I’ve integrated a lot of your thoughts into this new volume.

The war in Heaven is over and everything is back to normal. Except for a third of the angels, now banished from Heaven... And Lysander has no clue what to do. With the creation of Earth, the arrival of Adam and Eve, and the construction of the Garden of Eden completed, he now has more responsibilities than ever before. And his focus is divided as he desperately wants to save the fallen angels. But when human lives are lost in his quest, he realizes that he has to make the ultimate decision - to neglect his heavenly duties, or give up on the fallen altogether. He soon formulates a plan to ...

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I’d led a deadly squad of genetically enhanced, uber-powerful magic wielders through life-threatening missions multiple times in the first 21 years of my life. When marked for death, I’d led the escape from those who’d bred us, controlled us. Utterly annihilating the Collective’s compound, and destroying everything that had gone into creating us—the Five. I found Christopher and Paisley a home, a safe haven.

Published in 1959, this is a classic and extremely funny sci-fi story by Randall Garrett. The FBI learns that the Russians have a sensationally brilliant and dangerous spy who can read minds! So they search for someone who can detect the telepath and find a crazy old lady who thinks that she's Queen Elizabeth Tudor... Get ready for a perfect mix of laughter and nail biting.

Three days. That was all the reprieve we got before one of the five showed up, injured and on the run. The snowstorm that had encased the property, as well as stifled the town, hadn’t even melted away. That wounded prey led our newest adversary directly to me. To Christopher. Inconvenient timing, but not unexpected. It was the betrayal forcing me to stay my hand against that adversary that shocked me. Betrayal from the least likely of sources. Or so I would have thought.

For Ted Riley the moral of the story is be careful what you wish for.Claire Riley is your average mild-mannered suburban housewife. Mother of two and wife to Ted. After years of marriage and a brand new case of empty nest syndrome, her life has settled into a gentle rocking hum of doldrums. Little does she know it but her world is about to be turned upside down and changed forever. When she catches her husband Ted watching interracial cuckold porn on the internet she realizes that the problem isn't with their marriage it's with their sex life in particular. She peels back the boring facade ...

I’d given myself and Sisu 12 days to get settled into our new life before tackling my first official day as the head archivist of the magical archives at the National Museum of Ireland. Our new kitchen was under construction, with the electrical and plumbing upgrades in the main rooms of the estate well on the way. I knew how and where to buy groceries, and had arranged a tutor for Sisu. Totally under control.