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10 best books like The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (Ellen Datlow): Welcome to Bordertown, In the Forest of Forgetting, The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus, Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness, The Fair Folk, The Secret History of Fantasy, Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu, Happily Ever After, Jin Ping Mei, The Three Kingdoms: The Sacred Oath (The Three Kingdoms, 1 of 3)

Welcome to Bordertown
AuthorHolly Black
ISBN0375867058
Bordertown: a city on the border between our human world and the elfin realm. Runaway teens come from both sides of the border to find adventure, to find themselves. Elves play in rock bands and race down the street on spell-powered motorbikes. Human kids recreate themselves in the squats and clubs and...
In the Forest of Forgetting
AuthorTheodora Goss
ISBN1907881182
The reprint of In the Forest of Forgetting by award-winning author Theodora Goss, first published in 2006 by Prime Books, with an introduction by Terri Windling and cover art by Virginia Lee. The table of contents has been slightly modified: "Phalaenopsis" has been replaced by "Her Mother's Ghosts,"...
The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus
AuthorJoel Chandler Harris
ISBN0618154299
I've wanted to read this book for a while because my father always told me stories about Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox when I was younger. The one I remembered the most was the famous Tar-Baby story which was very similar to the version I'd heard (my dad has always been a good storyteller). At first, I was intimidated...
Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness
AuthorMike Allen
ISBN1934169986
You hold in your hands a cornucopia of modern cutting-edge fantasy. The first volume of this extraordinary new annual anthology series of fantastic literature explodes on the scene with works that sidestep expectations in beautiful and unsettling ways, that surprise with their settings and startle...
The Fair Folk
AuthorMarvin Kaye
Six stories from some of the most famous names in fantasy-all with one common thread-"the fair folk." From blithe fairies to sinister fey, some are fair, some are foul, all are fantastic.

In "The Kelpie," by Patricia A. McKillip, a carefree circle of bohemian artists is confronted by a being...
The Secret History of Fantasy
AuthorPeter S. Beagle
ISBN1892391996
Step right up and buy your ticket to the impossible marvels of the Barnum Museum. Take a highly caffeinated ride through the Empire of Ice Cream. If you dare, hunt feral archetypes deep within a haunted English forest. Or conquer the New World with a band of geographically-challenged Norsemen.

Tired...
Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu
AuthorChikamatsu Monzaemon
ISBN0231111010
Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) wrote some 130 plays, chiefly for the puppet theater, many of which are still performed today by puppet operators and Kabuki actors. Chikamatsu is thought to have written the first major tragedies about the common man. This edition of four of his most important plays...
Happily Ever After
AuthorJohn Klima
ISBN1597802204
Once Upon A Time...

...in the faraway land of Story, a Hugo-winning Editor realized that no one had collected together the fairy tales of the age, and that doorstopthick anthologies of modern fairy tales were sorely lacking...

And so the Editor ventured forth, wandering the land...
Jin Ping Mei
AuthorLanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
ISBN1596544643
The fullest translation of Jin Ping Mei available in English. This edition was derived from the Egerton translation, minus the Latin, with a few euphemisms thrown in, but is considerably more complete than the Olympia Press version most Westerners are familiar with. Given the fine academic tradition...
The Three Kingdoms: The Sacred Oath (The Three Kingdoms, 1 of 3)
AuthorLuo Guanzhong
ISBN0804843937
This exciting new translation will appeal to modern readers who find the twists and turns of Game of Thrones so compelling.

The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han Dynasty,...
Diwan Al Hallaj
AuthorMansur al-Hallaj
ISBN9799373034
Mansur al-Hallaj, died 0919, was born near Shiraz on 0858, and tortured and executed in Baghdad for declaring: "I am the Truth (An-al Haq)." Much has been written about his famous (and infamous) statement, but few of his powerful, often mysteries and always deeply conscious and spiritual poems in Arabic...
Madame de Stäel
AuthorMaria Fairweather
In her lifetime it was widely said that there were three political powers in Europe—Britain, Russia, and Madame de Stäel. Byron described her as "the first female writer of this, perhaps of any age," Germaine de Stäel was certainly the most remarkable woman of her time and she remains unique—both...
A Sister to Scheherazade
AuthorAssia Djebar
ISBN0435086227
Isma and Hajila are both wives of the same man, but they are not rivals.

Isma - older, vibrant, passionate, emancipated - is in stark contrast to the passive, cloistered Hajila. In alternating chapters, Isma tells her own story in the first person, and then Hajila's in the second person. She...
Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing
AuthorDelia Sherman
ISBN1931520240
Nineteen writers dig into the imaginative spaces between conventional genres—realistic and fantastical, scholarly and poetic, personal and political—and bring up gems of new fiction: interstitial fiction.

This is the literary mode of the new century, a reflection of the complex,...
Wings of Fire
AuthorJonathan Strahan
ISBN1597801879
Dragons: Fearsome fire-breathing foes, scaled adversaries, legendary lizards, ancient hoarders of priceless treasures, serpentine sages with the ages' wisdom, and winged weapons of war... Wings of Fire brings you all these dragons, and more, seen clearly through the eyes of many of today's most...
Firebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction
AuthorSharyn November
ISBN0142405523
First Firebirds. Then Firebirds Rising. Now there is Firebirds Soaring, the third anthology of original stories by some of today?s finest writers of fantasy and science fiction. These authors, including Nancy Farmer (The Sea of Trolls), Ellen Klages (The Green Glass Sea), Margo Lanagan (Black Juice),...
The Essential Bordertown
AuthorTerri Windling
ISBN0312867034
Bordertown. Once a normal American city, now a perilous nexus between the World and returned Elfland. From the banks of the addictive Mad River to the all-night clublands where young elves and humans fight and play, all the way up to glittering dragon's Tooth Hill, where high society seals itself away...
Woods and Waters Wild
AuthorCharles de Lint
ISBN1596061588
all 4 "pastiches" read 12/1/2011
♦ "A Tale of Tangle..." RE-READ 5/26/2015
♦ "Of the Temple in the City..." RE-READ 5/26/2015
♦ "Nareth the Questioner" RE-READ 5/27/2015
♦ "Llew the Homeless" RE-READ 5/27/2015
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♦ "Cold Blows the Wind"...
The Secret History of the Mongols
AuthorFrancis Woodman Cleaves
ISBN0674796705
Questo libro è l'epopea delle gesta del temibile Gengis Khan dalla nascita fino al racconto della sua eredità. Ci porta in sella a un cavallo, nelle vastità della steppa eurasiatica, dove un uomo venuto dal nulla, disprezzato e allontanato perché di padre dubbio, mette in piedi uno degli imperi...
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