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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
Description
How hard can it be to write a fantasy trilogy? When YA author Philip Murdstone's star starts to wane, his agent, the ruthless Minerva Cinch, convinces him that his only hope is to write a sword-and-sorcery blockbuster. Unfortunately, Philip is utterly unsuited to the task. In a dark hour, a dwarfish stranger comes to his rescue. But the deal he makes with Pocket Wellfair turns out to have Faustian consequences.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Formats
Description
Longing for the days when he was a 'real ogre,' Shrek signs a deal with Rumpelstiltskin to get his roar back, but turns his world upside down in the process. Donkey suddenly can't remember his best friend, Fiona is now a tough warrior princess, and Puss in Boots is one fat cat! Together, they have just 24 hours to reverse the contract and restore happily forever after.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Shylock has grown wealthy through money-lending, the only profession open to Jewish businessmen of the time, but faces indignity and danger when he ventures beyond the Jewish quarter. In the same city, though in a different world, lives Antonio, a Christian merchant beset by worry over the fate of his trading vessels and his increasing isolation from his best friend Bassanio. The younger man has fallen in love with the beautiful Portia, and seeks...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Robin Voigt is dead. If her sister Leslie had arrived at her cramped Las Vegas apartment just hours earlier, this would have been their first reunion in a decade. In the years since Robin ran away from home as a teenager, Leslie has stayed in New Mexico, taking care of their dying father, even as she began building a family of her own. But when their father passed away, Leslie received a rude awakening: she and Robin would receive the inheritance...
Series
Criterion collection volume 214
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Having promised his soul to the Devil in exchange for good fortune, Jabez Stone asks the talented lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain.
Author
Series
Bareknuckle bastards volume 1
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 17 cm.
Description
"When Wicked Comes Calling . . .When a mysterious stranger finds his way into her bedchamber and offers his help in landing a duke, Lady Felicity Faircloth agrees--on one condition. She's seen enough of the world to believe in passion, and won't accept a marriage without it. The Wallflower Makes a Dangerous Bargain . . .Bastard son of a duke and king of London's dark streets, Devil has spent a lifetime wielding power and seizing opportunity, and...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The ear-repressible Bugs Bunny takes top billing in this rollicking, rambunctious romp. Things start out plenty looney as Yosemite Sam strikes a Devilish bargain to send Bugs straight to you-know-where. The looniness continues as Daffy and Tweety tangle with a pair of feather-brained bird-napping gangsters. Even loonier, Bugs turns Hollywood's glitziest awards ceremony into a cartoon-star-studded disaster zone.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Anhelando los días cuando se sentía un "ogro real", Shrek firma el contrato mágico de Rumpelstilskin y ¡puf! - en un instante, todo y todos a quienes conoce han cambiado. Burro ya no lo reconoce como su mejor amigo; Fiona es una princesa guerra implacable; y Gato ¡está gordo! Juntos, sólotienen 24 horas para anular el contrato, para salvar Muy Muy Lejano y restaurar nuestro final Feliz Para Siempre.
Author
Series
Gentleman bastard novels volume 3
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Physical Desc
650 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Description
With what should have been the greatest heist of their career gone spectacularly sour, Locke and his trusted partner, Jean, have barely escaped with their lives. Or at least Jean has. But Locke is slowly succumbing to a deadly poison that no alchemist or physiker can cure. Yet just as the end is near, a mysterious Bondsmage offers Locke an opportunity that will either save him or finish him off once and for all.
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