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As long as she’s been alive, Tambika’s tribe, the Hehe, has lived in conflict. She longs to be a leader who stands up for her people, but her desire for vengeance endangers her destiny. When Tambika and her friends break into the German armory to take back their tribe’s silver, she attacks a young soldier and flees the scene. As she escapes into the bush, Tambika sees a cosmic light that fills the sky and transports her to another realm, the land of Glideon. She discovers an old journal with clues that lead her to an abandoned training facility, where her purpose in Glideon is revealed.

Cherokee people have lived in the Great Smoky Mountains for thousands of years. During all this time, they have told stories to each other to explain how things came to be, to pass on lessons about life, and to describe the mountains, animals, plants, and spirits around them. The Origin of the Milky Way and Other Living Stories of the Cherokee collects 26 stories that are great for kids and are still being told by storytellers today.

Amy Pond looks for her Raggedy Man, Jo Grant remembers her childhood, the Master hunts the past...a young girl discovers a love for explosives. Eleven incredible stories from the world of Doctor Who—the early lives of friends and foes that have never been told before.

Children, by default, have this curiosity to know where they come from? They have unrelenting questions about the cosmos, the early humans, animal behaviors, history of everything. All these questions can be addressed in the most real story ever told, the Origin Stories. The story began with the big bang and moved 14 billion years into the future.  The Enchanting Tales of Origin is one such attempt to introduce the idea of the origin of everything through a mystery tale, involving a boy Yug who moves to the jungles of Mayaban and gets hold of a magical book that takes him deep into the world ...

Enjoy this collection of origin folktales, also known as pourquoi stories, that explain why things are the way they are. In "Why Alligator Hates Dog", everyone respects M'su Cocodrie, the king of the swamp, except the dogs, who taunt him and make lots of noise.

Kalimán es el séptimo hombre de la dinastía de la diosa Kali. Es un hombre justo que dedica su vida en cuerpo y alma a combatir las fuerzas del mal, siempre acompañado de un niño egipcio, descendiente de faraones, llamado Solin.

Storytel nos trae una aventura clásica de Kalimán. Un ladrón experto en disfraces asalta el Museo Arqueológico de El Cairo y aparenta robar el valioso "Collar de Nefertiti", una valiosa joya del Egipto de los faraones. Para propiciar su fuga, el ladrón secuestra además al Ministro de...