In nineteenth-century Norway, fourteen-year-old Astri, whose aunt has sold her to a mean goatherder, dreams of joining her father in America.

An epic and action-packed fantasy adventure that weaves together Norse legends, shadowy creatures and an unforgettable hero. When Peer is orphaned he is taken by his wicked uncles to live at their foreboding mill in the shadow of Troll Fell. Here he meets beautiful and spirited Hilde and after a terrifying encounter with the sinister creatures who live below the fell the pair form an inseparable bond. They are thirsty for adventure, so when a Viking...

Swords, Sex, and Rockets! Paradise falls. Humanity is thrown back to an age of steel and blood. Now the fuel that powers the ''changed'' world is up for grabs in an orbiting spacecraft. With only days to plan, rough and ready paladin Herzer Herrick must assemble a team of expert warriors capable of both seat-of-the-pants engineering and hand-to-hand combat in space. In the meantime, Herzer must face his own demons as he waits for his emotionally-scarred...

A very slightly updated version of the traditional Norwegian folk tale from Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book from 1889. The Blue Fairy Book was the first of 12 Fairy Books to be written and published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and, though Lang is credited as the creator of these books, it is worth noting that almost all of the actual translation and writing of the stories was done by others - most notably his wife, Nora. This...

Beauty is kind and loving, even though her two sisters tease her and her merchant father is too poor to buy her presents. All she wants is a rose-so when her father sees a beautiful rose bush in the grounds of the Beast's castle, he plucks a flower for her. But the Beast is angry-and he demands something precious in return. In this Norwegian tale, East of the Sun, West of the Moon, a peasant farmer sends his youngest daughter to live with a mysterious...

'East of the Sun and West of the Moon' is a collection of Nordic and Norwegian folklore, edited and collated by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe. The two men were so closely united in their lives' work that their folk tale anthologies are commonly mentioned only as "Asbjørnsen and Moe." This volume contains the classic "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" and "The Three Billy Goats Gruff," alongside other lesser-known stories...

A girl travels east of the sun and west of the moon to free her beloved prince from a magic spell.

A girl travels east of the sun and west of the moon to free her beloved prince from a magic spell.