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Magnetic Press
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2022.
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English
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"A giant baby girl is found and adopted by a local family who bring her back to their village. She grows to become an even bigger giant, learning life's lessons complicated even further by her enormous size and uniqueness. Can she weather a society that faces her with frightened hostility and prejudice to find live and, ultimately, the freedom to be herself? A wondrous, fantastical tale of feminism, difference, love, freedom, and the quest to be oneself"--Amazon....
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When Anna Swan came into the world, people chattered. They whispered over tea and gossiped across fences. Because even when she was small, Anna was ... tall. By the time she was four, she'd risen higher than a rain barrel. At six, she was taller than her mother. By ten, she towered over her father. And still she grew, always feeling she did not fit into her world. But Anna had dreams that matched her height -- she imagined a life of travel and adventure....
4) The giantess
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Kane/Miller Book Publishers
Pub. Date
1997
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English
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Through the friendship of a kind neighbor, a young giantess discovers that her height is no obstacle to happiness.
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A satirical look at modern culture. In Glen's Homophobia Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 2, the author parodies the whining of minority groups, Diary of a Smoker tackles the persecution of smokers, and Santaland Diaries describes the author's experiences as a Macy's elf.
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At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives—each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In another version, you work as a background character in other people’s dreams. Or you may find that God is a married couple, or that...
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 12
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English
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When the Tin Woodman and his friends set off to find his former fiancée, their many adventures include an encounter with a wicked giantess and a meeting with the tinsmith who first made the renowned tin man.
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Carolyn Custis James unpacks three transformative themes the Bible presents that invest the lives of every woman and girl with cosmic significance that nothing can destroy. These new images of what can be in Christ come with a blazing call for them to join their brothers in advancing God's gracious kingdom on earth. Carolyn offers readers a positive, kingdom approach to the changes, challenges, and opportunities facing women throughout the world today....
11) Before the war
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"1922. Vivien is twenty-four and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and--almost worse--intelligent. At nearly six feet tall, she is known unkindly by her family as "the giantess." Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to London and bribe a charismatic gentleman publisher to marry her. What he does not know is that Vivien is pregnant with another man's child and will die in childbirth in just a few months......
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Matilda Hayward is determined to have a career, after all, it is 1888! While reporting for the Women's Journal newspaper, Matilda is sent to cover the visiting 'Freak Show' and to interview Mrs Anna Tufton, a giantess. During the interview, the giantess slips a note to Matilda begging for help to her escape the show she is forced to do by her husband. But when the giantess's husband is found murdered; the giantess is a likely suspect. Matilda enlists...
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The giantess tribe is coming. Can one hero turn the tide of war?
Young monster hunter Brat Sidik has arrived in the Clear Valley ready to do battle. The monstrous Thundress Tribe is advancing, destroying villages and devouring people as they seek to reclaim dominion over humans. It is a time where heroes will be made, and Brat believes skill can overcome size.
But he's never killed a giant – and is yet to find a mentor who has.
Brat is forced...
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Marvel Worldwide, Inc
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Collects She-Hulk (2005) #1-5. Join She-Hulk as she deals with the bizarre legal problems of the Marvel Universe! Strange twists, exciting adventures and lots of guest-stars! And She-Hulk isn't the only one returning. Get ready, True Believer! Hawkeye's back! We kid you not! So why is Clint Barton giving Jen Walters such a hard time? And how is his fate tied in to She-Hulk's latest case? Featuring guest appearances by the New Avengers and Cassie Lang...
15) Frostborn
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Destined to take over his family farm in Norrøngard, Karn would rather play the board game Thrones and Bones, until half-human, half frost giantess Thianna appears and they set out on an adventure, chased by a dragon, undead warriors, an evil uncle, and more.
16) Fourth Dates
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They went out for dinner – only to become it. To impress Kym on their fourth date, Cameron takes her to the border between Kent and the lands of the giants. The views are beautiful and the risk-factor exciting – and no one ever really runs into giants. So Cameron thought. But when a giantess comes foraging, the couple and their fellow tourists have no chance of escaping. What does this monstrous woman plan to do with them? Taken back to the lair...
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European short stories volume no. 4
Publisher
Fjord Press
Pub. Date
1997
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English
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Fourteen stories on relations between men and women. In one story, an estranged couple find common cause in their dislike of their marriage counsellor, in another, a wife patiently waits for the right moment to reveal to her husband she knows of his infidelity.
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"This book is based on the premise that all of us possess the ability to receive divine information through rune practice. Rather than explaining what the runes mean, the book offers an interactive practice to discover the unique ways in which the runes speak to us, and introduces the concept of the runes as beings rather than simply an alphabet or magical tools. The book explores the history of the runes, both in myth and through the connection with...
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A thorough, academic look at the past, present, and future of Norse polytheism. Welch highlights many Norse goddesses as well as other divine females of the Norse pantheon - Valkyries, Norns, Giantesses, Disir - and in a straightforward manner, makes a definitive case for the primordial goddess.
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"The year is 1937 and Andorra Kelsey--7'11" and just under 320 pounds--is on her way to Hollywood to become a star. Hoping to escape both poverty and the ghost of her dead husband, she accepts an offer from the wily Rutherford Simone to star in a movie about the life of Anna Swan, the Nova Scotia giantess who toured the world in the 19th century. In parallel narrative, Anna Swan's story unfurls. Where Andorra is seen as a disgrace by an embarrassed...
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