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  2. Allerleirauh - Wikipedia

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    An old hag directs the princess to a castle where she can find work as a lamb-girl. The princess dons her three dresses to attend a meeting between the king and a lord. Later, the princess loses her shoe; the king summons every maiden to try on the shoe. The birds indicate the crow-cloaked girl is the true owner of the shoe, and she becomes his ...

  3. Disguise (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The book begins during the Battle of Berlin. A mother, Mrs Liedmann and her son are living in a house in the city. Her husband is fighting for the German forces on the Western front. A bomb falls on their house and kills her son Gregor. Distraught, she searches among the ruins for her son.

  4. The Portrait of Mr. W. H. - Wikipedia

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    Wilde's story may have been an influence on John Masefield, whose book Shakespeare and Spiritual Life (1924) suggests that the Fair Youth was an actor who was delicate and small enough to play parts such as the boy-servant Moth in Love's Labours Lost and the sprite Ariel in The Tempest. He believed that he may even have been a kind of symbol to ...

  5. ghostgirl - Wikipedia

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    ghostgirl is the debut novel from author and filmmaker Tonya Hurley.It is the story of high school senior "Charlotte Usher", The young teenager dreams of becoming popular in school, but before she gets the chance of that OR asking Damen out, she dies from choking on a gummy bear.

  6. Fantomina - Wikipedia

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    Title page for the first publication of Fantomina in 1725. Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze is a novel [a] by Eliza Haywood published in 1725. In it, the protagonist disguises herself as four different women in her efforts to understand how a man may interact with each individual persona.

  7. King Thrushbeard - Wikipedia

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    A version is told in the book Servant of the Dragon by David Drake. A version of the story also appears in the cartoon series Simsala Grimm. In this version, the princess' name is Constance, while King Thrushbeard's name is Conrad. In addition, Constance's father decrees that she will be married to the next minstrel who comes to the castle.

  8. Jean Kwok - Wikipedia

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    Jean Kwok is the award-winning, New York Times and international bestselling Chinese American author of the novels Girl in Translation, Mambo in Chinatown, [1] and Searching for Sylvie Lee, which was chosen as The Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick.

  9. The Goddess Girls - Wikipedia

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    The Goddess Girls is a series of children's books written by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams, published by Simon & Schuster under the Aladdin imprint. The books are based on Greek mythology and depict the younger generation of the Olympian pantheon as privileged tween students attending Mount Olympus Academy (MOA) to develop their divine skills.