検索キーワード： 伝説・神話・童話

On the home front in 1944, Kate wants to do her part for the war effort. She'd prefer filling in for the window dressers at the New York department store where she works, but her mother insists on sending her to audition for roles she never gets. When relatives arrive from war-torn Poland with a mysterious steamer trunk and an even more mysterious story, her life is about to hit center stage.

Il mostruoso Pitone si è rimpossessato dell'Oracolo di Delfi, e questa è solo la prima delle minacce che Apollo ha dovuto affrontare per ottenere il perdono di Zeus e tornare tra gli immortali. Tre malvagi imperatori vogliono ora conquistare tutti gli Oracoli dell'antichità, per interrompere ogni comunicazione tra i semidei e le fonti di profezie necessarie a compiere eroiche imprese.

After waking up on the floor of an abandoned warehouse with no memory of her life, where she came from, or even an ID, Nicole had to resort to the oldest profession in the world - relax, she’s just stealing for a living. Unlike her best friend, Pinky, she has never believed in the Gods or their legendary academy, where special recruits train to become Demigods and protect the world. But when a girl with blue hair and black, glorious wings, appears on the TV - fighting a fire in Pecunia, Greece — Nicole is forced to change her mind.

Fifteen-year-old Iggy never believed in prophecies or heroes, content to survive the battleground of high school. Yet, destiny is not content to leave him be. Plucked from the life he knows, Iggy is thrust into an ancient struggle, where ethereal beasts stir and sorcery lurks in the shadows. He must navigate a treacherous path, armed only with the fragile hope that he might be the one to turn the tide against the encroaching darkness.

Provincial France, 1700. Lana Moreau, beautiful daughter of a bankrupt nobleman, is desperate for a suitor with a brain. But things don’t go as planned when her father takes her to the local prophet, looking for insight into her many failed courtships. When the seer names her as the Belmorta, a woman doomed to love a beast and bring famine and destruction, Lana flees in hopes of reversing her dark fortune. Escaping the wrath of the frightened villagers, she finds salvation in a seemingly empty magical castle.

When the invitation to the prince's ball was put in her hands, Ella imagined a single night of wonder, a single night to escape her wretched life and be anyone else for a while. She never expected to turn the prince's head, and she certainly never expected to run off with his heart. Five years later, Ella looks back on her fairy tale rise from soot-stained cinderwench to the queen the people call Cinderella. Ignored and humiliated much of her life, she could hardly believe her sudden good fortune. Nor could she anticipate what was to follow - not the lies, not the betrayal...

Der 16-jährige Adrian Blackwell ist entschlossen, den Tod seines Vaters aufzuklären. Dabei gerät er zwischen die Fronten der letzten Götter Asgards und Hel, der Herrscherin des Totenreichs. Denn Adrian besitzt einen Schlüssel zu Hels Reich: den Runen-Code seines Vaters. Auf der Jagd nach dem Schlüssel hetzt Hels Bruder, der mächtige Fenriswolf, Adrian durch halb London bis hinab ins Totenreich. Dort muss Adrian sich entscheiden, ob er sein eigenes Leben rettet oder die Götter Asgards vor dem Untergang bewahrt.

Seven years ago, Tanvi was spirited away to the subterranean realm of Nagalok, where she joined the ranks of the dream runners: human children freed of all memory and emotion, who collect mortal dreams for the entertainment of the serpentine, immortal naga court. But when one of Tanvi’s dream harvests goes awry, she begins to remember her life on earth. Panicked and confused, she turns to the one mortal in Nagalok who might be able to help: Venkat, the dreamsmith responsible for collecting the dream runners’ wares and shaping them into the kingdom’s most tantalizing commodity.

Torin Ten-Trees and his closest companions, Bryn and Grimsa, set out to join The Gatewatch and become trollhunters. When a troupe of meddling dwarves throws them off course, they are captured by trolls, and taken as prisoners to a secret gathering deep underground. There, they learn that an ancient giant has crowned himself king of the trolls, and he plans to utterly destroy The Gatewatch. Their perilous journey back to the land of sun and stars will stretch their strength to the limit, strain their wits, and demand an unspeakable sacrifice. Will it be enough to defeat the Troll King?

Per un immortale non c'è condanna più crudele che diventare un mortale, eppure Apollo è riuscito a meritarne una ancora peggiore: non solo è precipitato dall'Olimpo a Manhattan in un cassonetto della spazzatura, ma si è ritrovato nelle sembianze di un goffo sedicenne di nome Lester Papadopoulos! Questa è la punizione che attende chi fa infuriare il potente Zeus. Il dio della poesia, della musica e del sole, tuttavia, è più che mai determinato a riconquistare bellezza, fascino e addominali a tartaruga.

With the heart of the Wittenhame still ringing from Izolda's actions and her new husband shocked at her betrayal, the future seems very grim indeed. If Izolda had been asked if she wanted to be rescued from her would-be bridegroom and returned to her home and family, she would have eagerly agreed to go, but now that she is back in the mortal world, she is quickly discovering that home, family, and even the inclinations of her own heart are not what she expected.

Cruella De Vil is the perfect villain: stylish, witty, relentless...and possibly cursed. From her lonely childhood, to her iconic fashion choices, to that fateful car crash (you know the one), Cruella tells all in this marvelous memoir of a woman doomed. Even the cruelest villains have best friends, true loves, and daring dreams. Now it's Cruella's turn to share hers.

In the wake of her father’s death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, she finds her only joy by the light of the dying hearth fire, re-reading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they are said to do. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she begins to believe that her wish may be granted.

A traitor in search of redemption. A king’s champion on a mission. He wants to free his people, but she’s determined he’ll never succeed. The moment Griffin crossed into the prison realm, every fae he’d ever known forgot he existed. Left with nothing - not even his magic - he’s had to survive in a land of eternal darkness where a ruthless king terrorizes his subjects. Now, he must return to his homeland with one purpose - destroy the magic binding the Dark Fae to the prison realm - or suffer the consequences.

The tides of the Faerie War are turning, but at how high a cost for the Kasric family? Justice Kasric, her siblings, and her parents are locked in combat on both sides of the Human-Faerie War. At 15, Justice may be the youngest ever admiral to command her own ship and lead a resistance, but she has the magic and the will to do it. If only nearly every other member of her family weren’t either in immediate danger of dying - or attempting to kill her! Forced to make dangerous pacts with more than one unpredictable ally, only Justice can decide how far she’ll go to save London.

An outcast princess, a dangerous goddess, a mysterious iceman and a half-demon. Royal blood is potent. But 18-year-old Evie Mor is unaware of the power she carries. Abandoned by her parents to be raised by centaurs, and unsure how to use her magic, she eagerly awaits the day she can leave the sacred forests and reunite with the humans. However, on the morning of her departure, she learns a horrific truth that leaves her questioning her true identity. Frustrated, but taught not to question the will of the gods, Evie travels deep into perilous lands in search of her birth mother.

What magical beings inhabit Earth’s waters? Some are as almost-familiar as the mer-people; some as strange as the thing glimpsed only as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of the Great Desert Kalarsham, where the mad god Geljdreth rules; or the unknowable, immense Kraken, dark beyond the darkness of the deepest ocean, who will one day rise and rule the world. Here are seven tales from the remarkable storytellers Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson. Vividly imagined and written, they transform the simple element of water into something very powerful indeed.

I'm the girl who wants to be strong in a world where everyone thinks I'm weak. A lot of questions ran through my head as I desperately clung to the roof of a magic train crossing over a gaping canyon. Like: How did I get here? What could I have done to avoid this fate? And, did I remember to shave my underarms before coming on this quest? But the biggest, most pressing question pulsing through my brain as my fingers started to slip and my enemy bore down on me was this: Could I really trust the person whose life I’d ruined to keep me from falling?

Her prince never came. Aurora woke up after sleeping for 100 years. Left alone and forgotten in her tower, she is determined to find out why. What happened in the past? How could a 16-year-old princess reclaim her lost kingdom from the wicked witch and her demon army? Aurora meets Devon, a handsome thief, who had been using her tower as his hideout. Devon and his gang of thieves, known as the Circle, promise to help defeat the witch who put Aurora under the curse. The prince’s betrayal broke her heart, but can she trust anyone else?

Rose Valrois thought she’d sacrificed everything to save her sister, the man she loved, and her entire world—but fate has other ideas. Now that the red priests have arrived, hidden truths are revealed that force Rose to make yet another impossible choice. With her sister trapped in the magical land of the Dark Elves, and her heart given to the guardian of the Darkwood, Rose must travel to the heart of enemy territory to discover her own powerful magic, and find the answers she so desperately needs.