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The Poet Wolf loves to write pithy verse in the pine forest, but his forest friends see not a poet, but a hungry wolf. That is, until they listen to his lovely poems about life in the woods and discover that behind this apex predator is a sensitive soul who prefers to eat not his furry fellow creatures, but crisp pears.
122) Caperucita Roja
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In an original story inspired by the classic Grimm fairy tale, Caperucita Roja meets a lumberjack who is chopping down trees and causing the forest animals to flee in terror. He warns her about a dangerous wolf roaming the forest, and she thanks him for the warning. When she arrives at her grandmother's house and meets the wolf, things don't go quite as expected.
123) El salvaje
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Two years after religious fanatics murdered his older bother, Carlos, an act which also led to the deaths of his grandmother and his parents, Juan Guillermo seeks revenge, becoming as savage as the wolf whose life parallels his own.
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"The young girl tells us that her mom's new friend is just like the big bad wolf. At first the wolf is sweet and kind to her mom, though the girl notices the wolf's cold eyes from the very beginning. When her mom arrives home late one day, the wolf suddenly hurls angry words and terrible names at her. From that day on her mother doesn't smile anymore. The girl is careful to clean her room and brush her teeth and do everything to keep the peace, but...
125) Imagine a wolf
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"What do you see when you imagine a wolf? Sharp, pointy teeth? Big, hungry eyes? A soft sweater and a friendly smile? Wait a minute! The wolf in this story would rather knit than huff, puff, or blow anyone's house down. But that doesn't stop the townsfolk from crying wolf anyway. What's a kind-hearted wolf to do when everyone keeps running and screaming at 'Hello'? It's time to show the world that this wolf is the furthest thing from Big and Bad....
126) Spice & Wolf: Vol. 6
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"As Lawrence and Holo put into motion the final phase of their plan to extricate themselves from the jaws of financial ruin, they are confronted by an unforeseen obstacle. With the wolves at the door--both figuratively and literally--can the travelers keep their wits about them and come out ahead of the pack?"--P. [4] of cover.
127) Quest for the Grail
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Cavall the deerhound must lead King Arthur and his friends deep into the forest on a quest for a legendary grail with magical healing properties.
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"In this illustrated fractured fairy tale for kids, a book falls to the floor and a wolf tumbles out. The wolf needs to get back to his story, but a hungry cat has other ideas. Jumping from book to book, this wolf is on a journey to find a new home (and to avoid becoming dinner). His sharp, pointy teeth don't help him fit in with the dinosaurs, and his shiny black fur doesn't get him into the ball. But a little girl in a red hood is waiting for someone...
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Krasznahorkai in a maddening nutshell, The Last Wolf features a classic obsessed narrator, a man hired (by mistake) to write the true tale of the last wolf in Spain. It is narrated--all in a single sentence--as a sad looping tale, a howl more or less, in a dreary Berlin bar to a patently bored bartender. In Herman, a "peerless virtuoso of trapping" is hired to clear a forest's last "noxious beasts." Herman begins with great zeal, but then, suspecting...
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Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear return with the third book in their Iskryne trilogy, An Apprentice to Elves. The trilogy began with A Companion to Wolves, and continued in The Tempering of Men. This novel picks up the story of Alfgyfa, a young woman who has been raised in the Wolfhall by her father Isolfr, who is the human leader of the queen-wolf Viridechtis' pack, and was the protagonist of the first book. The warrior culture of Iskryne forbids...