Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of Snow White is set in the tumultous era of Italy's quattrocento, at the height of the Renaissance. Bianca de Nevada lives with her father, Vincente, high in the Tuscan hills. In 1702, when Bianca is seven, Lucrezia Borgia and her brother Cesare come to visit. Dangerous, powerful, and corrupt, the Borgia's soon send Vincente on an impossible quest. Raven-haired Bianca is left under the spell of the monstrously beautiful Lucrezia.
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Language
English
Description
"A retelling of the classic fairy tale set in a mythical Wild West follows the adventures of the gun-toting daughter of a Nevada silver baron and a Native American woman, whose wicked stepmother taunts her with an ironic nickname and abuses her for her mixed heritage."
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Edition
1st edition
Language
English
Description
"Brian Selznick takes readers on an intimate tour of the movie-making process as his Caldecott Award-winning book The Invention of Hugo Cabret is turned into a 3-D major motion picture by Academy Award-winning director, Martin Scorsese, written by Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, John Logan."--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Atwood's best-loved novel has taken the world by storm again. Riding high on bestseller lists for months and the basis for Hulu's Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning smash hit series, The Handmaid's Tale is everywhere--and it's primed for a stunning new graphic novel adaptation. The story is iconic: In the Republic of Gilead, a Handmaid named Offred lives in the home of the Commander, to the purpose that she become pregnant with his child....
6) Tangled
Author
Series
Publisher
A Golden Book
Language
English
Description
Based on the Disney film, this adaptation of the story of Rapunzel finds that she is a lost princess. With the help of Flynn she escapes from Mother Gothel.
Author
Language
English
Description
William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," is a classic comedy of mistaken identities, a device employed in a number of the bard's plays, which is believed to have been written sometime between 1601 and 1602. When Viola is shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria she is separated from her twin brother Sebastian, who she mistakenly believes to be dead. With the help of the ship captain who rescues her, she enters into the service of Duke Orsino, who has fallen...
Author
Series
A court of thorns and roses volume 4
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"As Feyre navigates her first Winter Solstice as High Lady, she finds that those dearest to her have more wounds than she anticipated--scars that will have far-reaching impact on the future of their Court"--
9) Hunted
Author
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Though Yeva grew up with the city's highest aristocrats, far from her father's old lodge, she knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who's ever come close to discovering them. So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved. Out in the wilderness, there's no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas...or...
10) Aesop's fables
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Language
English
Description
A collection of short moral tales first told by the Greek slave Aesop.
11) The golden braid
Author
Series
Hagenheim fairy tales volume 6
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
Rapunzel can throw a knife better than any man. She paints beautiful flowering vines on the walls of her plaster houses. She sings so sweetly she can coax even a beast to sleep. But there are two things she is afraid her mother might never allow her to do: learn to read and marry. Fiercely devoted to Rapunzel, her mother is suspicious of every man who so much as looks at her daughter, and warns her that no man can be trusted. After a young village...
Author
Series
Publisher
GRAPHIC NOVEL
Language
English
Description
"Cinderellla is a young, kind, and diligent girl who is forced to work as a servant in her own home by her wicked stepmother and her two evil stepsisters. But she dreams of what could be, and makes the best of everything with her animal friends. When the entire kingdom is invited to a royal ball, Cinderella's cruel stepmother prevents her from attending. Luckily, Cinderella's Fairy Godmother appears with her magic, and Cinderellla will go to the ball...
14) Fairest of all
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After moving to a new house, ten-year-old Abby and her younger brother Jonah discover an antique mirror that transports them into the Snow White fairy tale.
Author
Series
Ravenspire volume 1
Language
English
Description
Lorelai Diederich, crown princess and fugitive at large, has one mission: kill the wicked queen who took both the Ravenspire throne and the life of her father. To do that, Lorelai needs to use the one weapon she and Queen Irina have in common magic. She'll have to be stronger, faster, and more powerful than Irina, the most dangerous sorceress Ravenspire has ever seen. In the neighboring kingdom of Eldr, when Prince Kol's father and older brother are...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Finding seeds of inspiration in the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly Link spins classic fairy tales into utterly original stories of seekers-characters on the hunt for love, connection, revenge, or their own sense of purpose. In "The White Cat's Divorce," an aging billionaire sends his three sons on a series of absurd goose chases to decide which will become his heir. In "The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear,"...
Author
Series
Hagenheim volume 1
Language
English
Description
Rose has been appointed as a healer's apprentice at Hagenheim Castle, a rare opportunity for a woodcutter's daughter like her. While she often feels uneasy at the sight of blood, Rose is determined to prove herself capable. Failure will mean returning home to marry the aging bachelor her mother has chosen for her -- a bloated, disgusting merchant who makes Rose feel ill. When Lord Hamlin, the future duke, is injured, it is Rose who must tend to him....
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Description
"After Margherita's father steals parsley from the walled garden of the courtesan Selena Leonelli, he is threatened with having both hands cut off, unless he and his wife relinquish their precious little girl. Selena is the famous red-haired muse of the artist Tiziano, first painted by him in 1512 and still inspiring him at the time of his death. She is at the center of Renaissance life in Venice, a world of beauty and danger, seduction and betrayal,...
Author
Series
Wishbone's tales of a pup volume 2
Language
English
Description
Beginner readers can experience the tales of Arabian Nights when Wishbone imagines himself as Ali Baba.
In Texas Group Catalog
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by MetroShare Consortium can be requested from other Texas Group Catalog libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request