Lewis Carroll
21) Jabberwocky
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[2003]
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English
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This poem describes a battle with a fearsome beast called "The Jabberwock" and is considered to be one of the greatest nonsense poems written in the English language. The poem is included in Lewis Carroll's 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In an early scene in that novel, Alice discovers a book that is written backwards. Realizing that she's in the inverted "looking-glass...
22) Ever Alice
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English
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"Alice's stories of Wonderland did more than raise a few eyebrows-it landed her in an asylum. Now at 15 years of age, she's willing to do anything to leave, which includes agreeing to an experimental procedure. When Alice decides at the last minute not to go through with it, she escapes with the White Rabbit to Wonderland and trades one mad house for another: the court of the Queen of Hearts. Only this time, she is under orders to take out the Queen....
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Pub. Date
[2013]-
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English
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"Freshly arrived in the Country of Hearts, Alice bounces from territory to territory in search of a stable home. She finally falls in with the Hatter family, a group of mobsters led by the seductive Blood Dupre. Yet Alice is shocked to discover that Blood looks exactly like her lost love from her home world. Can Alice see past the memory of the man she once loved and recognize the Mad Hatter for what he truly is?!"--Page 4 of cover.
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Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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"In the country of Hearts, Alice has started developing feelings for the angsty Clockmaker. She can see past Julius's doom and gloom to the gentle soul inside. When the path back home starts opening at last, Alice wonders if she'll be able to leave Julius when the time comes. Will she give up her world for a man who can barely voice his feelings? Love is timeless, but even in Wonderland the clock is always ticking"--Page [4] of cover.
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Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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"A love between the Knight of Hearts and Alice is a journey unto itself. Ace is a violent terror--even by Wonderland's twisted standards--but he's strangely protective and fond of Alice. Alice sees him as a rebel who challenges the rules, and understands the darkness inside him. but if Ace is a lost soul and Alice tries to guide him, will either of them ever find a way out?"--Cover verso.
35) Queen of Hearts
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"The Queen of Hearts explains how to be the best royal you can be"--Back cover.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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All Alice Liddell wants is to escape her Normal life in Oxford and find the parents who abandoned her ten years ago. But she gets more than she bargained for when her older sister Charlotte is arrested for having the infamous Wonder Gene--the key to unlocking the curious Wonderland Reality. Soon, Alice receives a rather cryptic invitation to play for Team Heart in this year's annual--and often deadly--Wonderland Trials. Now she has less than twenty-four...
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[2020]
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English
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Alice is planning to follow the family tradition and become a secret agent, so when she is recruited by Mr. White of Wonderland it seems like just what she is looking for; but Wonderland is seriously weird and her team consists of Maddie, who insists on stopping for tea every hour, and Kitty, who disappears (literally) at odd moments--and her first assignment, to sneak into Queenie Heart's garden party, may well turn out to be her last.