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Compared to her friends, Whimsy Lafayette had never been exactly "normal," but nothing in her life could have prepared her for the challenges that she was about to face. It was the first day of her senior year and her seventeenth birthday, so to mark the occasion, her father gave her two very special gifts: the crystal pendant bearing an eight-pointed star, a family heirloom that was all that remains of his own childhood, and the promise that he would finally reveal to her the secrets of his mysterious past. But before he has the chance to fulfill that promise, Whimsy is magically transported...

The most complete corpus of the proverbs and fables of Aesop ever assembled

Ben Edwin Perry's "Aesopica" remains the definitive edition of all fables reputed to be by Aesop. The volume begins traditionally with a life of Aesop, but in two different and previously unedited Greek versions, with collations that record variations in the major recensions. It includes 179 proverbs attributed to Aesop and 725 carefully organized fables, for which Perry also provides their eldest known sources. To better evaluate the place of Aesop in literary history, Perry includes testimonies about Aesop made by...

Exiled by the Fae and rejected by the Broken, Whimsy has spent the last year trapped alone in Everwynn, struggling to survive in a world where nearly everything is trying to kill her. Meanwhile, visions of Josiah's plans to seize control of this magical world and punish her for standing against him haunt her dreams, but when a stranger arrives with an offer that may help her defeat the Dragon once and for all, Whimsy finds herself on her most dangerous quest yet to find her missing friends in the Elflands before Josiah can use them against her. With more action, romance, and magic than ever...

Whimsy has found her way back from Everwynn, but nothing is the way that she left it. With her home destroyed by the Dragon's fire, Whimsy has lost everything but her memories, and those memories are tearing her apart. Not only is she haunted by the events of her time in Everwynn, but she is also having visions, reliving the horrific memories that she absorbed when Josiah destroyed the Well of Soul. Worst of all is the discovery that Josiah is still alive, trapped within the prison of her own mind because she used a magic that she didn't fully understand in order to defeat him. Now, her only...