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Good things come in threes! Celebrate Pride by checking out these incredible queer trilogies. 

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Prince Fickle and the Fair Helena

A fairy helps a girl with the impossible tasks set by the girl’s stepmother; later she is wooed by a prince! When he forgets all about her, what will she do? 

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Prunella

A girl takes plums from a witch’s tree, and the witch takes her prisoner in return. Will the witch’s son help the girl, or stay loyal to his mother?

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Japanese Ghost Stories

If you’ve never read or heard of the Japanese ghost stories of Lafcadio Hearn, you are in for a real ghost story lover’s treat.  These stories are so dearly loved by the Japanese that they have come to be regarded in Japan as classics in their own right.