Alberic the Wise
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| Author | Lenore Look |
| ISBN | 0375868313 |
Let's face it, when it comes to death, everything is scary. Especially if your name is Alvin Ho and you maybe, sort of, agreed to go to a funeral for your Gunggung's best friend (who was your friend too).
Alvin's all freaked out and here's why:
1. He starts seeing bad omens...everywhere.
2....
The play’s the thing . . .
To the outside world, Tom Pryne is an orphan traveling Elizabethan England with his uncle’s theater troupe. In actuality, “Tom” is Viola, in disguise because her parents’ Catholic sympathies have put them at odds with the Crown and forced them into hiding....
| Author | Stephanie S. Tolan |
| ISBN | 0380733196 |
In a world of random violence and multiplying militias, four brilliant young misfits are thrown together in a group home for troubled youth. Isolated by their special abilities, Miranda, Doug, Taryn, and Elijah are unable to cope in a society that regards them as freaks.
But in the experimental...
| Author | Arthur Ransome |
| ISBN | 1903252164 |
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important,...
| Author | Martin H. Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0756405114 |
Thirteen original stories about friends conjured in times of need
We?ve all had them. We?ve all needed them. In this fun fantasy anthology, readers are given thirteen variations on what kinds of friends come in handy indeed in times of need. From a toy Canadian Mountie who suddenly comes to...
SHADOW KINGDOMS is the first volume of the Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, presenting all of Howard's work for the pulp magazine Weird Tales meticulously restored to its original magazine texts. Edited by Paul Herman. Introduction by Mark Finn. Cover by Stephen Fabian. This volume contains: Two-Gun...
| Author | Isobelle Carmody |
| ISBN | 0375838562 |
In a Fox Called Sorrow, the adventures continue for Little Fur, the half elf, half troll girl who heals animals in a magical grove in the heart of a big city. When Little Fur discovers that the Troll King is plotting against the earth spirit that binds all living things, she sets off on a new adventure with...
| Author | Gerald Morris |
| ISBN | 0618777156 |
Many years ago, the storytellers say, the great King Arthur held court with his gallant Knights of the Round Table. Poor Givret, who is easily the shortest man at court, bears the brunt of their jokes. But what he lacks in stature, Givret makes up for in brains—and before he knows it, his quick thinking...
| Author | Carol Ann Duffy |
| ISBN | 1447206401 |
A new tale celebrating the magic of Christmas from the Poet Laureate, illustrated by David Roberts
Down at the front, on a cold winter’s night in 1914, amidst the worst war the world had ever seen, an inexplicable silence spread from man to man. Belief was in the air. Then the soldiers ceased...
| Author | Thornton W. Burgess |
| ISBN | 0486291707 |
There's a big mystery brewing among the animals of the Green Forest — and it's all because of a strange little creature with no head, legs, or tail that came rolling down a hill and gave Peter Cottontail the fright of his life. What could it be?
Young readers and listeners will love finding out about...
| Author | Anne E. Neimark |
| ISBN | 0547997345 |
J. R. R. Tolkien was far more than a fantasy book writer. His lifelong fascination with medieval texts and languages gave him a unique vision and endless inspiration for his tales. His broad interests made possible his creation of faery worlds and entire races of beings, as well as the languages, cultures,...
Eric Carle's Treasury of Classic Stories for Children
| Author | Eric Carle |
| ISBN | 0590502131 |
Carle, E. (1988). Treasury of Classic Stories for Children: by Aesop, Hans Christian Anderson and the Brothers Grimm, selected retold and illustrated by Eric Carle. New York: Orchard Books.
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Carle's beautiful illustrations (in his usual style) help these classic folktales...
| Author | Geraldine McCaughrean |
| ISBN | 0140383093 |
A simplified, easy-on-the-senses retelling of "The Odyssey". The original is tucked away somewhere at the back of my book-shelf. It had me quaking in my boots.This, I get....and enjoy.
My interest was actually piqued by the **Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan. Constant references to...
Grandpa's Ghost Stories: Story and Pictures
| Author | James Flora |
| ISBN | 0689501129 |
Sitting on Grandpa's lap in the middle of a thunderstorm and listening to weird stories about what happened to him as a boy is not quite as cozy as it sounds. Skeletons in sacks; horrible witches; huge, scary, furry spiders with big, squishy mouths; hideous ghosts and hungry werewolves haunted Grandpa...
Who would suspect that the same mind that created the most famous literary detective of all time also took on the eternally popular genre of vampires? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a contemporary of Bram Stoker, gave us some fascinating works of vampire fiction. From the bloodsucking plant in “The American’s...
| Author | Emily Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0061802204 |
The thing about Hank's new friend Inkling is, he's invisible.
No, not imaginary. Inkling is an invisible bandapat, a creature native only to the Peruvian Woods of Mystery. (Or maybe it is the Ukrainian glaciers. Inkling hardly ever gets his stories straight.)
Now Inkling has found...
| Author | Kurt Vonnegut |
| ISBN | 0099387816 |
Oh wow! I finished it! Almost three months later...
I could say how ashamed I am about taking so long to read a less-than-650-pages book, but there was a mix of factors that prevented me from reading it faster. So, no, I'm not ashamed.
Relived, yes. With mixed feelings, too.
I...
The Dark Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol 1
| Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
| ISBN | 0809562677 |
Howard Phillips Lovecraft has been hailed by literary critics as the inventor of modern horror, and a cultivating force behind such modern writers as Robert Bloch, Wes Craven and Stephen King, just to name a few. "The Dunwich Horror" and "The Call of Cthulhu," perhaps two of his most well-known tales,...
| Author | Peter Tremayne |
| ISBN | 0312303823 |
Fidelma of Cashel - sister to the King of Muman, a religieuse of the Celtic Church and an advocate of the Brehon courts - returns in this new collection of fifteen tales. These stories of murder, mayhem, and mystery are not merely spellbinders but also provide insight into the ways and mores of the complex,...
| Author | Otto Penzler |
| ISBN | 0307473899 |
The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape.
Vampires! Whether imagined...
Judith Lucy has been cracking jokes about her parents for years. But when a birth relative's casual comment implied that she despised them, Judith was shocked. Sure, she had been talking about Ann and Tony Lucy like they were one-dimensional Irish nut bags who had ruined her life for years, but there...
| Author | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |
| ISBN | 0689872429 |
In a dingy shack in the less-than-desirable Indian neighborhood he calls home, twelve-year-old Anand is entrusted with a conch shell that possesses mystical powers. His task is to return the shell to its rightful home many hundreds of miles away. Accompanying him are Nisha, a headstrong but resourceful...
| Author | Dilys Evans |
| ISBN | 0811849716 |
For over 30 years, Dilys Evans has been deeply involved in the fine art of children's book illustration. In 1980 she foundedThe Original Art, an annual exhibition in New York featuring the best children's book illustration of the year. Now, in thisfascinating exploration of children's book illustration,...
