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Tom Parker Bowles
Over 100 royal recipes for every occasion from Queen Victoria to the present day
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On War gathers together some of the finest writing on that troubling subject published in Raritan between 2003 and 2022. The editors, Jackson Lears and Karen Parker Lears, have selected…
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Victoria Parker
A retelling of the key events and characters of the Old Testament, with context notes and insights into Biblical times, shown in wonderful illustrations throughout.
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A retelling of the key events and characters of the New Testament, with context notes and insights into Biblical times, shown in wonderful illustrations throughout.
Victoria Lowery
Polly Parker has waited 14 years to meet her shadow and learn the six secrets that are prophesied to save the world from ancient, evil bloodlines. That goal cost her…
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Did you know that meat and fish are rich in protein? Or that nearly half of the fish we eat come from farms?
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An illustrated collection of fourteen animal fables first told by the Greek slave Aesop.
An illustrated collection of fourteen animal fables.
In The Athenian and the Theban, a man from Athens and a man from Thebes discuss whether Hercules or Theseus was a greater hero. Ultimately, the Athenian out-argues the Theban…
In The Lion and Mouse, a lion catches a mouse that begs to be set free, offering a favor in the future. The lion doesn’t think the mouse could ever…
An illustrated collection of fifteen animal fables first told by the Greek slave Aesop.
In Aesop’s fable of The Horse and His Rider, a boy buys a horse without asking if it has been broken for riding yet. As he mounts his new steed…
Aphorisms like slow and steady wins the race often prove true when put to the test. Many of these common phrases are summaries of famous fables like The Tortoise and…
Being a good friend takes practice and effort. Loyalty, patience, and selflessness are key parts of friendship, and hard to put into practice when trying to recruit many friends instead…
An illustrated collection of fifteen animal fables.
Rapunzel and Cinderella have both been imagined as movies with happy endings and positive morals. However, both stories began as haunting fairy tales long ago. In Rushen Coatie, a similar…
The story Beauty and the Beast is well known to most people–or is it? In this retelling of the classic fairy tale, the dark details of the original story return…
The first English edition of The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment was published in the early 1700s–and its tales are still being told today! The Third Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor introduces…
Hans Christian Andersen wrote many familiar fairy tales. However, his original stories have much scarier details than the versions many readers know. In The Little Mermaid, the sea witch didn’t…
The story of Little Red Riding Hood has always been a bit creepy: a wolf wants to eat a girl so badly he poses as her grandmother, who he also…
When an ogress kills a man’s two brothers, he sets out to find out what happened. Though beginning with this frightening premise, the tale Tritill, Litill, and the Birds teaches…
Fire-breathing dragons are the epitome of mystical evil. From guarding princesses in towers to destroying villages with fiery fury, dragons are found in fairy tales from all over the world…
What could be more terrifying than a city crawling with rats? In The Ratcatcher, a story eerily similar to the legend of the Piped Piper, readers are taken to an…
Cultures all around the world have told fairy tales for centuries. For many western nations, these have included the tales of Hans Christian Andersen. Retellings of Andersen’s The Snow Queen…
To many, the Wicked Witch of the West is one of the scariest literary villains of all time. Not only can she command flying monkeys to attack, but she preys…
From Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
In How the Cow Jumped Over the Moon, L. Frank Baum fills out a classic nursery rhyme with a main character named Bobby and a fairly realistic–if very silly–interpretation of…
To the cunning young man in How the Dragon Was Tricked, duping a dragon is easy and fooling a king is even easier! The magic and fun of this story…
