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A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, Babylon traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.

The wolf boasts to everyone that he is the biggest and baddest animal in the forest-- until he meets his match.

"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives."--...

"Have you ever wanted to dress up as your favorite character for a movie premiere, party, school dance, or work event, but couldn't wear a costume? Or been Disney-bound and wanted to get into the spirit without violating the park rules? Never fear! True superfans show their love through the art of casual cosplay--styling regular street clothes to resemble a character or share the vibe of a favorite franchise. Join style maven Krystal Everdeen and...

In this prequel to Alice in Wonderland, Cath would rather open a bakery and marry for love than accept a proposal from the King of Hearts, especially after meeting the handsome and mysterious court jester.

In this clever new picture book from the creator of the "New York Times" bestseller "Press Here, " readers are encouraged to interact with a book that is still in the process of being invented. Illustrations.

"Story is a Promise explores the mechanics of how a story transports an audience. It offers advice about story structure to new authors and authors doing revisions. Deep Characterization explores what happens when story characters are an extension of authors. Any author who has been told their novel's minor characters were more interesting than a main character need to read this material. The Spirit of Storytelling suggests techniques for authors...

"With the help of Rumpelstiltskin, an evil queen sends the Avengers Grimm back in time. Trapped in the past, they must get back to the present before the evil queen rules all the land"--Container.

Once upon a time, there was a king who passed. He left behind two sons, one beloved and one outcast. The older of the two was set to take the throne, but before he could, he had to find a queen to call his own. The younger one was known to be unruly and unhinged. The chosen queen was warned to keep far away from him. Beautiful and cunning, in the light is where she stayed. But late at night, it was the shadowed lands in which she played. Mistakes...

A novel that follows Shen Yuan as he is reborn into the world of the novel, Proud immortal demon way, as the character Shen Qingqiu, the teacher of the young half-demon Luo Binghe.