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The moon and the sun
Par Vonda McIntyre. 1997
At the command of King Louis XIV, a Jesuit natural philosopher captures a female sea monster, thought to hold the…
secret to immortality. The Jesuit's sister understands the creature's songs, realizes that she is a thinking, feeling being, and befriends her. Protecting the sea lady leads to confrontations with the king and even the popeRoverandom
Par J. Tolkien. 1998
A young and foolish dog is turned into a toy after biting a sorcerer. As a plaything, Roverandom is owned…
by a little boy named Two. After many adventures, Roverandom manages to be turned back into a real dog. For junior and senior high and older readersEach author of these eleven tales has set a story in his or her well-established universe. Some episodes take place…
at earlier times in the history of their worlds, and some simply enhance sideline events. Includes work of Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, Terry Goodkind, Anne McCaffrey, and Robert Jordan. Some strong languageWitches' brew
Par Terry Brooks. 1995
Ben Holiday, High Lord of the Magic Kingdom of Landover, is challenged by King Rydall of Marnhull for mastery of…
the realm. And Ben cannot refuse to do battle with the champions that Rydall sends against him, because Ben's daughter has been abducted through a witch's magic, and Rydall holds the key to her fate. Sequel to The Tangle Box (RC 44690, BR 11179)Rouge
Par Mona Awad. 2023
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose…
mother's unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her mother’s fate—and find a connection that is more than skin deep?For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother’s considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother’s demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Méduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother’s) obsession with the mirror—and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass.Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry—as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath.The tangle box: a magic kingdom of Landover novel
Par Terry Brooks. 1994
Ben Holiday, sovereign of the Magic Kingdom of Landover, allows confidence-man Horris Kew to return from exile on Earth. But…
Horris has become the unwitting dupe of the evil sorcerer Gorse, who plans to enslave the fairy folk of Landover and imprison Ben and his companions in the Tangle Box. Sequel to Wizard at Large (RC 33053)Wren's quest
Par Sherwood Smith. 1993
Exhilarated by saving Tess in Wren to the Rescue (BR 11175), Wren is eager for more excitement. She also wants…
to find her own parents now that she sees how happy Tess is to be back with her family. Wren, now attending magician's school, takes time out to look for her parents--and is off on another adventure. For junior and senior high readersWren's war
Par Sherwood Smith. 1995
In this sequel to Wren's Quest (BR 11176), Princess Teressa is returning from a diplomatic mission when she sees her…
parents being brutally murdered. With the help of Wren, Tyron, Connor, and their magic, Tess prepares to take on the role of ruler. For junior and senior high readersWren to the rescue
Par Sherwood Smith. 1990
Wren and Tess have become close friends while living at Three Groves Orphanage, but Wren is still surprised when Tess…
announces she is really a princess and has been hiding from the evil King Andreus. The time has come for Tess to return home, and she takes Wren with her. But they are only there one day when Tess is kidnapped. Prequel to Wren's Quest (BR 11176). For junior and senior high readersNeverwhere
Par Neil Gaiman. 1997
En route to a formal dinner, London businessman Richard Mayhew spots a young woman lying wounded in the street. He…
takes the victim to his home and awakes the next day to find that he has lost his identity in the real world. Mayhew joins the now-healed woman in a perilous quest through an eerie subterranean realm. Strong language and violenceLe sang de la cité: Capitale du sud, tome 1 (Cycle de la Tour de Garde #1)
Par Guillaume Chamanadjian. 2023
Enfermée derrière deux murailles immenses, la Cité est une mégalopole surpeuplée, constituée de multiples duchés. Commis d'épicerie sur le port,…
Nox est lié depuis son enfance à la maison de la Caouane, la tortue de mer. Il partage son temps entre livraisons de vins prestigieux et lecture de poésie avec ses amis. Un jour, on lui confie un livre qui raconte l'origine de la Cité. Très vite, Nox se rend compte que le texte fait écho à sa propre histoire. Malgré lui, il est emporté dans des intrigues politiques qui le dépassent et se retrouve confronté à la part sombre de sa ville, une cité-miroir peuplée de monstres. Prix des lecteurs du Livre de Poche 2023 | Prix imaginaire de la 25e heure du livre 2021 | Prix imaginaire de L'Antre Guillemets 2021 | Prix du meilleur roman imaginaire Libr'à nous 2022 | Prix Imaginales du roman francophone 2022 | Prix Imaginales des bibliothécaires 2022.La Tour de Garde est une édification commune de Claire Duvivier et Guillaume ChamanadjianThe hunting moon (Luminaries #2)
Par Susan Dennard. 2023
"Davies captures the magic of Dennard's exciting world and illuminates each character" — AudioFile on The Luminaries The Hunting Moon…
is the highly anticipated sequel to The Luminaries by New York Time s bestselling author Susan Dennard. Winnie Wednesday has gotten everything she thought she wanted. She passed the deadly hunter trials, her family has been welcomed back into the Luminaries, and overnight, she has become a local celebrity. The Girl Who Jumped. The Girl Who Got Bitten. Unfortunately, it all feels wrong. For one, nobody will believe her about the new nightmare called the Whisperer that's killing hunters each night. Everyone blames the werewolf, even though Winnie is certain the wolf is innocent. On top of that, following her dad's convoluted clues about the Dianas, their magic, and what happened in Hemlock Falls four years ago is leaving her with more questions than answers. Then to complicate it all, there is still only one person who can help her: Jay Friday, the boy with plenty of problems all his own. As bodies and secrets pile up around town, Winnie finds herself questioning what it means to be a true Wednesday and a true Luminary—and also where her fierce-hearted loyalties might ultimately have to lie. A Macmillan Audio production from Tor BooksHunt on dark waters (Crimson Sails #1)
Par Katee Robert. 2023
A stern captain meets his witchy match in this captivating first fantasy romance novel in the Crimson Sails series from…
Katee Robert, the New York Times bestselling author of the TikTok smash-hit Neon Gods . Evelyn is a witch with a perfect storm of impulses: terrible taste in bed partners, sticky fingers, and a lust for danger. After she steals from her vampire ex and falls through a portal to another realm, she’s fished out of the waters by a band of seafarers and their telekinetic captain. She’s immediately given a choice—join their ship’s crew or die. Bowen has no memory of his life before he became one of the Cŵn Annwn. He and his band of pirates are bound by vow to patrol through Threshold, the magical sea in between realms, keeping the portals to other worlds safe. When he rescues Evelyn, he doesn’t expect to be attracted to the unflappably brassy pickpocket. The longer he spends in her presence, the more he begins to question if his heart is the next thing she’ll steal. But as tension heats up between Bowen and Evelyn, the danger at sea escalates as well. Because Evelyn has no intention of keeping her vows to the Cŵn Annwn, and if she betrays the crew, both she and Bowen will pay the ultimate priceThe olympian affair (Cinder Spires #2)
Par Jim Butcher. 2023
The fate of the Cinder Spires may be decided by crossed swords in the next exhilarating fantasy adventure from the…
author of the Dresden Files, in this New York Times bestselling series of noble families, swordplay, and airships. For centuries the Cinder Spires have safeguarded humanity, rising far above the deadly surface world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses rule, developing scientific marvels and building fleets of airships for defense and trade. Now, the Spires hover on the brink of open war. Everyone knows it's coming. The guns of the great airship fleets that control the skies between the last bastions of humanity will soon speak in anger, and Spire Albion stands alone against the overwhelming might of Spire Aurora's Armada and its new secret weapon—one capable of destroying the populations of entire Spires. A trading summit at Spire Olympia provides an opportunity for the Spirearch, Lord Albion, to secure alliances that will shape the outcomes of the war, and to that end he dispatches privateer Captain Francis Madison Grimm and the crew of the AMS Predator to bolster the Spirearch's diplomatic agents. It will take daring, skill, and no small amount of showmanship to convince the world to stand with Spire Albion—assuming that it is not already too lateOut of time
Par Caroline Cooney. 1996
In this sequel to Both Sides of Time (BR 10273), 1990s Annie Lockwood once again travels through time to see…
the friends she made in 1895. The young man she loves, Strat, has been institutionalized because of his description of Annie. She is his only chance for escape. For junior and senior high readersVeronica: a novel
Par Nicholas Christopher. 1996
A tale of magic and illusion. Leo falls in with the mysterious and beautiful Veronica, who needs him to contact…
her vanished magician father. She leads the compliant Leo on a mystical and spiritual quest through time and space. Explicit descriptions of sexZod Wallop
Par William Spencer. 1995
Fictional Harry Gainesborough writes Zod Wallop while being treated in a psychiatric hospital following the death of his daughter Amy.…
The book becomes a bestseller, and a producer wants to make it into a movie. Also another patient at the hospital, who has read the book, wants to bring the characters to life. Strong language and some descriptions of sexAn acceptable time
Par Madeleine L'Engle. 1989
In this companion to A House like a Lotus (BR 6368), sixteen-year-old Polly O'Keefe visits her grandparents' farm in Connecticut…
and discovers a "time gate" that takes her back three thousand years. There she meets Anaral, a Native American girl; Karralys, a druid expelled from Britain; and Tav, a warrior who has accompanied Karralys. For junior and senior high readersDragon's blood: a fantasy
Par Jane Yolen. 1982
Jakkin Stewart steals a hatchling dragon and trains it secretly in the desert. If Heart's Blood, the young dragon, can…
win in the gaming pits, his young owner can buy his freedom and win the love of a mysterious girl. Jakkin can't even think of what will happen if his dragon loses. First book of the Pit Dragon trilogy. For junior and senior high and older readersNo one noticed the cat
Par Anne McCaffrey. 1996
The venerable Mangan, regent of Esphania, dies, ceding the throne to Prince Jamas and bequeathing his wisdom to his cat,…
Niffy. When Jamas becomes the target of usurpers and falls deeply in love, Niffy protects him from harm and guides him on a true path