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• Alice

  Henry, Christina, 1974-

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  Amongst the crumbling buildings there stands a hospital with walls which echo the screams of the poor souls inside. In the hospital, there is a woman. She doesn’t remember why she’s in there. Just a tea party long ago, and long ears, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Ever Afters

  the Untold Story of Cinderella's Stepmother

  Teller, Danielle,

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  A reimagining, presented from the stepmother's perspective, traces her escape from a life of harsh servitude before single motherhood forces her to take a job as a nursemaid to an otherworldly infant, who eventually becomes her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bear and the Nightingale

  a Novel

  Arden, Katherine,

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  Russian fairy tales follows the experiences of a wild young girl who taps the mysterious powers of a precious necklace given to her father years earlier to save her village from dark and dangerous forces.

• Bitter Greens

  a Novel

  Forsyth, Kate, 1966-

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  A story of desire, black magic, and love interweaves the Rapunzel fairy tale with the true-life story of French novelist Charlotte-Rose de la Force, who was banished from the court of Versailles by Louis XIV after a series of scandalous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book of Gothel

  McMyne, Mary,

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  Everyone knows of Rapunzel in the tower, but do you know the story of the witch who put her there? In this tale of dark magic, crumbling towers, mysterious woods, and evil princes. This is the truth they never wanted you to know.

• The Book of Lost Things

  Connolly, John, 1968-

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  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. By the author of The Black…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Burning Roses

  Huang, S. L.,

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  Rosa, also known as Red Riding Hood, is done with wolves and woods. Hou Yi the Archer is tired, and knows she’s past her prime. They would both rather just be retired, but that’s not what the world has ready for them.

• The Butcher of the Forest

  Mohamed, Premee,

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  To the north of a land ruled by a merciless tyrant lies a wild, forbidden forest. Veris Thorn, the only one to enter the forest and survive, is forced to go back to retrieve the tyrant's missing children. Inside await traps, trickery, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Changeling

  a Novel

  LaValle, Victor D., 1972-

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  Apollo Kagwa, who suffers from bizarre dreams, is shocked when his wife commits an act of astounding violence before disappearing, compelling Apollo's odyssey through a world he barely understands.

• A Court of Sugar and Spice

  A Nutcracker Retelling

  Kenney, Rebecca F.

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  Sisters Clara and Louisa, have to move-in with their godfather Drosselmeyer. One night, an accident brings to life one of the strange wooden dolls in his mansion. The Nutcracker doll is a cursed Fae prince, and he pleads for the sisters'…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Curse of the Wolf King

  a Beauty and the Beast Retelling

  Odette, Tessonja,

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  All Gemma Bellefleur wants is to leave her past behind and forget the day scandal broke her heart. But when she’s captured by a trickster fae king who threatens to hold her for ransom, she’ll find herself at the top of the gossip column…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dark and Deepest Red

  McLemore, Anna-Marie,

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  Trapped in a pair of red shoes that compel her to dance uncontrollably, Rosella is drawn to a youth of questionable intent whose family was blamed for witchcraft centuries earlier.

• Darling Girl

  a Novel of Peter Pan

  Michalski, Liz,

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  Holly Darling, the granddaughter of Wendy, yes, THAT Wendy when she gets a phone call that her comatose daughter, Eden, has been kidnapped from their estate and immediately suspects Peter Pan, who is real and very dangerous.

• For the Wolf

  Whitten, Hannah,

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  As the only Second Daughter born in centuries, Red has one purpose: to be sacrificed to the Wolf in the Wood. Plagued by a dangerous power she can't control, at least she knows that in the Wilderwood, she can't hurt those she loves. Again.

• Forest of a Thousand Lanterns

  Dao, Julie C.,

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  A dark and mystical East Asian fantasy reimagining of The Evil Queen legend about one peasant girl's quest to become Empress

• The Girl in Red

  Henry, Christina, 1974-

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  The woman in the jacket has no choice but to trek through the woods alone in the aftermath of the Crisis in this postapocalyptic retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.

• Hooked

  Wise, A. C.,

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  Captain Hook, the immortal pirate of Neverland, escapes through a door in the sky to live in London 22 years later where he runs into a grown-up Wendy Darling who understands the dark shadows cast on both their lives.

• Juniper & Thorn

  Reid, Ava,

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  A gruesome curse. A city in upheaval. A monster with unquenchable appetites. Marlinchen, begins an affair with a ballet dancer and tries to escape her abusive wizard father in a gothic horror retelling of the Brothers Grimm’s The Juniper…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

  a Novel

  Chokshi, Roshani,

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  Once upon a time, a man, a scholar of myths, who believed in fairytales married a beautiful, mysterious woman named Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada. In exchange for her love, Indigo extracted a promise: that her bridegroom would never pry into…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Salt Grows Heavy

  Khaw, Cassandra,

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  On the run, a mermaid is joined by a mysterious plague doctor with a darkness of their own and when they stumble upon a village of ageless children thirsty for blood, they must embrace the cruelest parts of their true nature to survive.