Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Great excitement and awe greeted its publication in 1873, and today Around the World in Eighty Days remains Jules Verne's most successful novel. A daring wager by the eccentric and mysterious Englishman Phileas Fogg that he can circle the globe in just eighty days initiates this marvelous travelogue and exciting suspense story. Together with his manservant, Passepartout, Fogg makes a breathless world tour, overcoming wild misadventures and finding...
Author
Series
Alpha and Omega series volume 6
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In her bestselling Alpha and Omega series, Patricia Briggs "spins tales of werewolves, coyote shifters, and magic and, my, does she do it well" (USATODAY.com). Now mated werewolves Charles Cornick and Anna Latham face a threat like no other--one that lurks too close to home... They are the wild and the broken. The werewolves too damaged to live safely among their own kind. For their own good, they have been exiled to the outskirts of Aspen Creek,...
Author
Series
The Borrowers volume 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The further adventures of the family of miniature people who, after losing their home under the kitchen floor of an old English house, are forced to move out to the fields.
84) Ella enchanted
Author
Series
Ella enchanted volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. 'My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying, child.' I stopped. So begins this richly entertaining story of Ella of Frell, who wants nothing more than to be free of Lucinda's...
85) Graceling
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Adult - Superheroes, Supervillians, and Superpowers Teen Fiction
Teens - Dystopian Fiction
Teens - Magical Romances
Teens - Superheroes, Super-villains, & Super-powers
Teens - Dystopian Fiction
Teens - Magical Romances
Teens - Superheroes, Super-villains, & Super-powers
Description
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Adult - Best Children's Novels for Adults
Kids - Chapter Books (Staff Favorites)
Kids - Science Fiction Chapter Books
More Lists...
Kids - Chapter Books (Staff Favorites)
Kids - Science Fiction Chapter Books
More Lists...
Description
Young Meg Murry, her brother Charles, and their friend Calvin, embark on a journey through space and time, assisted by three eccentric women, when they set out to find Meg's father, a physicist who disappeared while experimenting with time travel.
Author
Series
Dresden files volume 2
Language
English
Description
“One of the most enjoyable marriages of the fantasy and mystery genres on the shelves,”(Cinescape) the Dresden Files have become synonymous with action-packed urban fantasy and nonstop fun. Fool Moon continues the adventures of Jim Butcher’s most famous—and infamous—reluctant hero…
You’d think there’d be a little more action for the only professional wizard listed in...
You’d think there’d be a little more action for the only professional wizard listed in...
88) A Feral Darkness
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Suspense, romance, and a Celtic dog bundled into a contemporary fantasy setting. As a child, dog-loving Brenna Fallon naively invokes an ancient Celtic deity to save her beloved hound - and inadvertently anchors the new-found power at a spring on her family's farm. She doesn't know she's also left an opening for a far more malevolent force. Years later, Brenna discovers the terrible potential of that gateway. With a devastating plague unfolding abruptly...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Quentin and his friends are now the kings and queens of Fillory, but the days and nights of royal luxury are starting to pall. After a morning hunt takes a sinister turn, Quentin and his old friend Julia charter a magical sailing ship and set out on an errand to the wild outer reaches of their kingdom. Their pleasure cruise becomes an adventure when the two are unceremoniously dumped back into the last place Quentin ever wants to see: his parent's...
Author
Series
Grigori trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
High Crag on Cornwall's desolate storm-lashed coast is a mysterious place with dark secrets. On these bleak shores, the rebel offspring of the angelic race landed many millennia ago. Their memory was never forgotten and across the centuries, seers, mystics and witches basked in the occult power of this prehistoric landscape, awaiting the rebirth of the Fallen Ones. Yet their modern day descendents, the Grigori, are already among humanity, hidden yet...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Author's Note - The following story takes place in the same world as my novel Blood Song, the first volume in the Raven's Shadow trilogy. I wrote it because I wanted to more fully explore characters who appear in Blood Song and the sequels Tower Lord and Queen of Fire. Readers familiar with my work are sure to recognise a certain pale-eyed, raspy voiced Sword Master of the Sixth Order and those curious as to the origins of the Tower Lord of the Southern...
Author
Series
Grigori trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
The Grigori are an ancient race; powerful people who possess abilities and powers humans do not. They gave rise to the legends of the fallen angels, and their descendents live on among us, hidden within human society, moving wheels within wheels, making changes unseen across the world.The twins Owen and Lily Winter always have always known they are different to everyone else who lives in the quiet village of Little Moor. Their mother is dead and...
94) Gifts
Author
Series
Annals of the Western Shore volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--a violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.
Author
Series
Once upon a broken heart volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After the discovery of a murderous curse, Evangaline Fox once again enters into a tenuous partnership with Jacks, the Prince of Hearts, and to break the spell they go on a journey of magic, mystery, and possible heartbreak.
Author
Series
Underland chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy.
Author
Series
Inheritance trilogy (N. K. Jemisin) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death...
Author
Series
Winternight trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
"In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow falls many months of the year, a stranger with piercing blue eyes presents a new father with a gift - a precious jewel on a delicate chain, intended for his young daughter. Uncertain of its meaning, Pytor hides the gift away and Vasya grows up a wild, willful girl, to the chagrin of her family. But when mysterious forces threaten the happiness of...
100) Dragon flight
Author
Series
Dragon slippers volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young seamstress Creel finds herself strategizing with the dragon king Shardas once again when a renegade dragon in a distant country launches a war against their country, bringing an entire army of dragons into the mix.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request