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The House with Chicken Legs
Children's fantasy
The House with Chicken Legs
Book 1 of the The House of Chicken Legs series
272 pages · First published 2018
Twelve-year-old Marinka longs for a real friend, but her house keeps walking away on its enormous chicken legs. Her grandmother, Baba Yaga, guides the dead into the afterlife, and Marinka is expected to inherit the same lonely calling. Determined to choose a different future, she breaks the rules—with consequences that threaten everything she loves. Her efforts to find her missing grandmother become a journey through grief, belonging, and the boundary between life and death. Beneath its bone fences and wandering-house magic lies a tender coming-of-age story for a long winter evening, with sorrow, wonder, and room for hope.
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Content notes
Death and bereavement are central themes, including parental loss and the deaths of children; sustained grief, loneliness, and separation from loved ones; spirits, an imagined afterlife, bone-and-skull imagery, and frightening magical peril.
Alcohol-Free Pour
Blackberry Sparkler
Dark blackberry and bright lemon mirror the story’s mingling of grief, wonder, and unexpected friendship.
What you'll need
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- Combine the noncarbonated ingredients in a glass or shaker and stir or shake until mixed. Pour over ice, top with any carbonated ingredient, and stir gently.
- Garnish: Use a matching citrus wheel, berry, or herb from the recipe when available.
- Glassware: Highball glass.
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Maple & Orange Old Fashioned
For adults of legal drinking age. Please drink responsibly.
Maple sweetness and orange bitters echo the warmth and sorrow of a magical home poised between life and death.
What you'll need
- 2 oz bourbon
- 1/4 oz pure maple syrup ↗
- 2 dashes aromatic bitters
- 1 wide strip orange peel ↗
- Ice
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How to mix it
- Add the bourbon, maple syrup, and bitters to a mixing glass with ice.
- Stir until well chilled.
- Strain over one large ice cube in a rocks glass.
- Express the orange peel over the drink, rub it around the rim, and add it as the garnish.
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