Briar Rose
Author: Jane Yolen
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2002-03-15
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780765342300
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An American journalist is trapped in Nazi Germany in this variation on the Sleeping Beauty theme.
Author: Jane Yolen
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2002-03-15
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780765342300
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An American journalist is trapped in Nazi Germany in this variation on the Sleeping Beauty theme.
Author: Jana Oliver
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2013-09-12
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 1447241363
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Briar Rose believes in fairy tales . . . And now, because of a family curse, she’s living one. Doomed to fall asleep for one hundred years on her sixteenth birthday, Briar has woken up in the darkest, most twisted fairy tale she could ever have dreamed of – miles away from the safe, boring small-town life that she has left behind. Briar must fight her way out of the story, but she can’t do it alone. She always believed in handsome princes, and now she’s met one her only chance is to put her life in his hands, or there will be no happy ever after and no waking up . . .
Author: Kimberly Cates
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780671014957
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When the steely, practical Captain Lionel Redmayne is shot by unknown killers and left for dead, Rhiannon Fitzgerald finds him and takes him back to her ramshackle gypsy cart to help him heal. As Redmayne's confinement continues, the two attempt to ferret out the would-be killers --and find themselves falling head over heels in love.
Author: Katherine Coville
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1328950050
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ugly Lady Briar, beautiful Princess Rose, and Jack plot the downfall of the evil giant who plagues their kingdom while the girls face a curse that only true love can break.
Author: Sean Wilentz
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780393059540
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Praised by Robbie Robertson of The Band as "a classic & a ticket to ride," The Rose & the Briar assembles an astonishing group of writers and artists: Paul Muldoon, Stanley Crouch, R. Crumb, Jon Langford of the Mekons, Sharyn McCrumb, Luc Sante, Joyce Carol Oates, Dave Marsh, and more than a dozen other novelists, essayists, performers, and critics; to explore the ineffable power of the American ballad. From "Barbara Allen" through "The Wreck of the Old 97" to contemporary ballads by Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, The Rose & the Briar is, as Geoffrey O'Brien hailed in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, "a book full of internal echoes and provocative coincidences," featuring "historical investigation, shamanistic trance-journey, memoir, novella and cartoon," where "names and costumes change, soldiers become cowboys, demon lovers become backwoods murderer; the voices are unmistakably distinct but they share a common ground."
Author: Robert Coover
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9780802135414
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An allegorical retelling of Sleeping Beauty. It features a princess who dreams of a succession of kissing princes, and a fairy who inhabits her dreams, regaling her with legends of other sleeping beauties. A look at the power of romantic desire.
Author: Jane Yolen
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1993-11-15
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780812558623
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An American journalist is trapped in Nazi Germany in this variation on the Sleeping Beauty theme.
Author: Susan Wiggs
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780727822000
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Briar Rose, heiress to an English estate, falls for the disgraced knight errant, Lord Gareth Hawke.
Author: Jane Yolen
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 2020-01-28
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781250767066
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the heat of midsummer 1942, deep in a forest in the heart of Poland, Briar Rose arrives at a castle that has fallen into the hands of an evil army.Ever since she was a child, Rebecca has been enchanted by her grandmother Gemma's stories of Briar Rose. Becca would have sworn the stories were made up, but on her deathbed Gemma extracts from Becca a promise to fulfill three impossible requests: find the castle, find the prince, and find the spellmaker. Her vow sends Becca on a remarkable journey to uncover the truth of Gemma's astonishing claim: I am Briar Rose.Jane Yolen's graceful retelling of the Germand folktale Briar Rose--known to some as Sleeping Beauty--sets the story amid forests patrolled by the German army during World War II.
Author: Lena Goldfinch
Publisher: Six Sundance
Published: 2018-06-03
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
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