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Yesterday's Dreams
Danielle Ackley-McPhail
Paperback - $27.95
History...Legacy...Destiny... Triggered by an act of self-sacrifice, all three converge upon Kara O'Keefe, transforming her simple life into one both magical and menacing. Overwhelmed by the expenses of her father's cancer treatments, Kara finds hers ...
Aesop's Fables
Aesop
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If you have ever heard phrases like, "look before you leap," "necessity is the mother of invention," or "two wrongs don't make a right," you are not alone. These phrases and many like them, which have become so commonplace, were first coined by Aesop ...
Aesop's Fables
Aesop
Paperback - $29.95
From "The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox": A Dog and a Cock became great friends, and agreed to travel together. At nightfall the Cock flew up into the branches of a tree to roost, while the Dog curled himself up inside the trunk, which was hollow. At br ...
Narrator as Interpreter : Stability and Variation in Hausa Tales
S. B. Ahmad
Paperback - $62.95
Based on a corpus of 150 tales from the many towns and villages in the main Hausa states of Northern Nigeria. The author examines the stability of the form of the tales and variations in relation to narrative freedom and constraints, narrative perfor ...
Anubis : A Desert Novel
Ibrahim Al-Koni
Hardcover - $30.95
The tale of one man??'s quest and survival in the Sahara Desert, set in the framework of Tuareg mythology
The Animals' Lawsuit Against Humanity : A Modern Adaptation of an Ancient Animal Rights Tale
Ikhwan al-Safa
Paperback - $23.95
In this interfaith and multicultural fable, eloquent representatives of all members of the animal kingdom--from horses to bees--come before the respected Spirit King to complain of the dreadful treatment they have suffered at the hands of humankind. ...
The Girl Who Lost Her Smile
Karim Alrawi
Paperback - $12.95
Derived from a collection of Islamic stories and poetry called Mathnawi, The Girl who lost her Smile is a simple folktale about uncovering life's hidden beauty
A Tale of Four Dervishes
Mir Amman
Paperback - $20.95
A dazzling Urdu epic that evokes a magical Indo-Muslim world
Originally composed in the fourteenth century and made popular in 1803 by Mir Ammans colloquial retelling, this wonderfully entertaining story paints a portrait of a distant and colorf ...
Folk Tales of Napoleon : Napoleonder and the Napoleon of the People
Alexander Amphiteatof
Paperback - $47.95
The folk-tales of Napoleon Bonaparte herewith presented, if judged from the viewpoint of the historian or the biographer, are absurdly and grotesquely untrue; but to the anthropologist and the student of human nature they are extremely valuable as se ...