When the stranger Ara-Karn unleashes the barbarians from the desolate lands, he threatens the lives and prosperity of every civilized city. Only the Divine Queen of the City Over the World can muster enough horse and lance to defeat the barbarian hordes. If she can overcome the squabbling among her subject cities - and if she's not betrayed! The second of four volumes of The Doom-Quest of Ara-Karn, a classic epic fantasy revised and reissued to mark its 30th anniversary. Views: 68
La Fi is not having a normal day. She broke someone’s nose and now a dead guy is on her doorstep. Although seeing the dead is not unusual for La Fi, since she and Thulu regularly deal with the supernatural. Thulu can usually find anything that's lost, but the amnesiac ghost is missing money, along with his memory. The couple must discover where all that cash went, which could prove tricky. Views: 68
Lu Zimmer's best friend moved away last summer. Salman Page is the new kid in school. Blos Pease takes everything literally. Three kids who are on the fringe of the middle school social order find each other and warily begin to bond, but suddenly things start going wrong. Salman becomes the object of the school bully's torment, and Lu's pregnant mother has some unexpected complications. Is something conspiring against them?In fact, through no fault of their own, Salman and Lu have become pawns in a game of jealous one-upmanship between Oberon and Titania, the king and queen of Faery, with the mischievous Puck trying to keep the peace.Taken from Titania's mention of a foundling in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, A. C. E. Bauer spins an original tale about magical intervention in the least magical of settings: a public middle school.From the Hardcover edition. Views: 68
“When a Siren sings, best listen”—Stephano
The god of war, Ares, had reached down to Hades and given Stephano another chance at life as one of his legendary fighters—Spartans. For centuries, he’d fought and survived more battles than he could recount. But the one fight he feared he might lose came in the form of one tiny, perfectly formed woman who was off-limits.
Yet, the longer he had with her, the more he realized she might be the one battle he would gladly lose.
Maeve was a Siren, one of only two remaining in her realm. When warriors arrived and offered her brother a way out of their realm, if only they led them to the gates between worlds, she knew she had to aid them. It was the only way to free her brother from the burden of caring for her. She would help them, lead them to the gates, then let her brother go so he could be free from her.
Only one warrior, one sexy, too-handsome rogue, might ruin her plan. Especially when he was clearly bent on seducing her. Worse, for the first time in her life, she was tempted to allow it, just to see if he could make her sing in his arms. Views: 68
What is the true measure of a champion? In the nineteenth century a boy named William was born. A sweet, gentle boy — no one could have guessed the suffering he'd cause, the pain he'd inflict. When, as a young man, he meets a woman called Drusilla — a strange woman, a woman unlike anyone William has ever known — he is fundamentally changed. She has turned him. There will be no more William. He is Spike now. As Spike, he travels Europe with a band of vagabond vampires. Dru, Darla, and Angelus instruct him on his new nature, and from them he learns about that greatest of vampiric enemies, the girl who is chosen to stand up against them, trained to kill them, endowed with the strength it takes to defeat them: the Slayer. Then and there, Spike decides he'll hunt down those slayers. He'll see how many he can find. Who would have thought then that he'd fight on the Slayer's side? Who would have guessed that Spike, once William, would go out and... Views: 68
"A riveting story with action, love and vengeance...a fantastic read." – The Not So Public Library As a Grand Mistress Necromancer, Elea's a witch who commands the ultimate power over spirit and bone. It's magic that she'll need in order to stop the Vicomte Gaspard from killing her Sisters by draining their magic along with their life force. To find and free her fellow witches, Elea must venture into some of the most dangerous places in the realm. What starts off as a rescue quest could easily turn into a suicide mission. And with the handsome warlock Rowan along to help, Elea may be risking more than her life. Her growing feelings for Rowan might put her heart on the line, too. BEHOLDER1. Cursed2. Concealed (Coming Fall 2016)3. Cherished (Spring 2017)4. Concealed (Fall 2017) ANGELBOUND ORIGINS1. Angelbound2. Scala3. Acca (Coming December 2016)4. Thrax (May 2017)5. Armageddon ANGELBOUND OFFSPRING1. Maxon2. Portia Views: 68
Take what you know about mythology and throw it out the window. Sixteen year old Isri dreams of marrying a handsome prince from a far away land. She has no desire to become the Raelisuir of her town, Cerynian, like her mother. Instead, she wants to become queen of anywhere else. However, things change when she starts having troubling dreams of a strange woman begging her to come to the dead city of Ialo. Isri relents and visits Ialo later that day with her suitor Est'it. Once in Ialo, she learns she is the only one that can break the blood oath made between the Cerynian people and a Narkurru demon named Lye-Ashe. The souls of her future children hang in the balance for if she fails they too will become cursed with the blood oath. Views: 68
After his mother is brutally killed, Dave Carver finds himself exposed to the dark, hidden side of New York City. Together with a small group of determined teenagers, Dave confronts the twisted, dark reality of vampires and black magic. Views: 68
When Liam meets Cody, a student from Chicago, he finds an ally in his religious small town. Even if they weather being outed, Cody must return to the city—and Liam won't survive being alone again. Views: 68
I am as brown as brown can be,
And my eyes as black as sloe;
I am as brisk as brisk can be,
And wild as forest doe.
(The Child Ballads, 295)
So begins a beautiful tale of love, loss and revenge. Following the seasons, A Pocketful of Crows balances youth and age, wisdom and passion and draws on nature and folklore to weave a stunning modern mythology around a nameless wild girl.
Only love could draw her into the world of named, tamed things. And it seems only revenge will be powerful enough to let her escape.
Beautifully illustrated by Bonnie Helen Hawkins, this is a stunning and original modern fairytale.
**About the Author
Joanne Harris is the author of the Whitbread-shortlisted CHOCOLAT (made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp) and many other bestselling novels. Her hobbies are listed in Who's Who as 'mooching, lounging, strutting, strumming, priest-baiting and quiet subversion'. She plays bass guitar in a band first formed when she was 16, is currently studying Old Norse, and lives with her husband and daughter in Yorkshire, about 15 miles from the place she was born.Find out more at www.joanne-harris.co.uk or follow her on Twitter @Joannechocolat Views: 68
