Showing results for "The Book of Frog" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

One corpse. Several bizarre looking attackers. Some very strange magical powers. And a severe bout of amnesia. Madrona is not having a great week. It's going to be okay, though. All she has to do is find out who she really is, protect a soap star from being attacked by a stalker, and work out why so many people seem so afraid of her. Because surely she's a good person. Right?

The year 2039: A virus ravages the Earth. The year 2040: The caldera of Yellowstone National Park erupts and throws the world into six months of twilight. The year 2059: Across the world the homicide rate increases exponentially. In every city and town across the planet there is chaos. The letters DNA are found carved into every victim's forehead.

The weather is getting cold, but the frog population in New York is on the rise, thanks to a magical mafia that has a unique method for getting their enemies out of the way. When wizard Owen Palmer at Magic, Spells, and Illusions, Inc., gets a cryptic threat that the secretive organization called the Collegium is gunning for them, Katie Chandler puts their wedding on hold and goes undercover as a compromised magical immune to infiltrate the enemy.

In this brilliant retelling of the classic tale about the transcendent power of love, author Stephen Mitchell writes, "There are two kinds of women: those who marry princes and those who marry frogs.” While the frogs never become princes, over the course of an ordinary marriage, a prince may turn into a frog. However, Mitchell tells of a different kind of love story. This adult fairytale is the story of a meditative frog's love for a rebellious princess, how she came to love him in spite of herself, and how her refusal to compromise helped him become what he was truly meant to be.

Хороша была царевна Забава! Нравом весела, ликом пригожа. Всем женихам отказ давала, ни на кого с лаской не глядела. Обижались добрые молодцы, брови соболиные хмурили, головы кудрявые опускали, да так и уходили - ни с чем.