Midsummer Night

10 best books like Midsummer Night (Freda Warrington): The Bird of the River, The Bards of Bone Plain, Prospero Lost, Bad Ass Faeries, Except the Queen, Braided: A Lesbian Rapunzel, The Fairies in Tradition and Literature, Nettle King, The Sea Thy Mistress, The House on Durrow Street

AuthorKage Baker
In this new story set in the world of The Anvil of the World and The House of the Stag, two teenagers join the crew of a huge river barge after their addict mother is drowned. The girl and her half-breed younger brother try to make the barge their new home. As the great boat proceeds up the long river, we see a...
AuthorPatricia A. McKillip
ISBN0441019579
Scholar Phelan Cle is researching Bone Plain-which has been studied for the last 500 years, though no one has been able to locate it as a real place. Archaeologist Jonah Cle, Phelan's father, is also hunting through time, piecing history together from forgotten trinkets. His most eager disciple is...
AuthorL. Jagi Lamplighter
ISBN0765319292
More than four hundred years after the events of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the sorcerer Prospero, his daughter Miranda, and his other children have attained everlasting life. Miranda is the head of her family’s business, Prospero Inc., which secretly has used its magic for good around the world....
Bad Ass Faeries
AuthorDanielle Ackley-McPhail
ISBN1606592041
Clap Your Hands...NOW! Because you better believe the world is full of Bad-Ass Faeries! Toss out your childhood notions of faeries that are all goodness and light. No golden pixies clothed in gossamer, dancing on the wind, here to make the rainbows shine and the birds sing. These tales are of faeries...
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0451462734
From award winning authors Jane Yolen and Midori Snyder comes a tale of two worlds-and one destiny...
Sisters Serena and Meteora were once proud members of the high court of the Fairy Queen- until they played a prank that angered her highness. Separated and banished to the mortal realm of Earth,...
Braided: A Lesbian Rapunzel
AuthorElora Bishop
Zelda is cursed to spend her days on a platform in an ancient, holy tree, growing her hair long enough to touch the ground. But it wasn’t her curse to bear: Gray, the witch’s daughter, was meant for that lonely fate. Gray visits Zelda each day, mourning their switched fates, and falling deeper in love...
AuthorKatharine M. Briggs
ISBN0415286018
Fairies fascinate young and old alike. To some they offer tantalizing glimpses of other worlds. to others a subversive counterpoint to human arrogance and weakness. Like no other author. Katharine Briggs throughout her work communicated the thrill and delight of the world of fairies. and in this...
AuthorKatherine Harbour
ISBN0062286781
The mesmerizing conclusion to the Night and Nothing series—part Buffy the Vampire Slayer and part Alice in Wonderland—finds Finn fighting against the land of the dead.

When her beloved Jack disappears, Finn vows to find him—even if it means a daring odyssey into the land of the dead....
AuthorElizabeth Bear
ISBN0765318849
This direct sequel to Elizabeth Bear’s highly acclaimed All the Windwracked Stars picks up the story some fifty years after Muire went into the sea and became the new Bearer of Burdens.

Beautiful Cathoair, now an immortal warrior angel, has been called back to the city of Eiledon to raise...
AuthorGalen Beckett
ISBN0553807595

Her courage saved the country of Altania and earned the love of a hero of the realm. Now sensible Ivy Quent wants only to turn her father’s sprawling, mysterious house into a proper home. But soon she is swept into fashionable society’s highest circles of power—a world that is vital to her family’s...
AuthorMike Carey
ISBN1401203035
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN is a new hardcover that reunites acclaimed writer Mike Carey (CROSSING MIDNIGHT, LUCIFER) with renowned fantasy painter John Bolton (FABLES: 1001 NIGHTS OF SNOWFALL, THE SANDMAN PRESENTS: THE FURIES). Bolton's lush palette perfectly captures both the lurid underbelly of modern...
AuthorGail Dayton
ISBN0765362511
Master conjurer Grey Carteret regains consciousness in a London gutter next to a concerned street urchin and not far from the body of a man murdered by magic. Some fool is hoping to use murder to raise a demon. Arrested for the crime, Grey must rely on the street urchin for help. But the lad turns out to be...
Courts of the Fey
AuthorMartin H. Greenberg
ISBN0756406994
As usual, any anthology Martin Greenburg participates in organizing is going to be good. I love this kind of book, because it let’s me try out different authors in nice little bite sized pieces. While dealing with the different Courts of the Fey, the themes run from Fairy conservation to the end of the...
Speak to the Devil
AuthorDave Duncan
ISBN0765323478
A new adventure of brotherhood and magic from beloved fantasist Dave Duncan

In the Kingdom of Jorgary, the days of feudal chivalry are fading as national armies are formed. But Ottokar Magnus is still baron, and his host of brothers include Anton, an ambitious young soldier, and Wulfgang,...
AuthorNevill Drury
ISBN8441408858
He aquí un regalo extraordinario: el libro secreto de Merlín lleno de sorprendentes poderes, conjuros y encantamietos.Las claves para dominar los elementos de la tierra, el fuego, el agua y el aire y los símbolos mágicos. Aquí se hallan las fórmulas secretas para convocar a los espíritus,...
AuthorMary Pope Osborne
ISBN0763629952
In this compelling tale of romance and terror, a little-known legend has been woven into a novel that will grip readers from beginning to end.

Who is Undine, the mysterious, wild maiden who swims at midnight to hear the fish sing? When Lord Huldbrand first meets her on a lost and haunted promontory,...
AuthorSigne Pike
ISBN0399536175
In search of something to believe in once more, Signe Pike left behind a career in Manhattan to undertake a magical journey-literally. In a sweeping tour through Mexico, England, Ireland, Scotland, and beyond, she takes readers to dark glens and abandoned forests, ancient sacred sites, and local...
A Magic of Dawn
AuthorS.L. Farrell
ISBN0756405971
The last chapter in the epic "richly imagined world (New York Times bestselling author George R.R. Martin)" of The Nessantico Cycle

Kraljica Allesandra sits on the Sun Throne of a much-diminished Holdings empire, while her son Jan rules the rival Coalition of Firenzcia. The schism between...
AuthorIan McDonald
ISBN0553290495
Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award and the Prix Imaginales: Three generations of women share a mysterious power—one that threatens to destroy them

In early-twentieth-century Ireland, life for Emily Desmond is that of the average teenage girl: She reads, she’s bored with school, and...
City of Dreams & Nightmare
AuthorIan Whates
ISBN0007345240
They call it the City of a Hundred Rows. The ancient city of Thaiburley is a vast, multi-tiered metropolis, where the poor live in the City Below and demons are said to dwell in the Upper Heights.

Having witnessed a murder in a part of the city he should never have been in, Tom, a lowly street-nick,...
AuthorGrant Morrison
ISBN1401234593
A #1 New York Times Best Seller!

Collecting for the first time ever all three volumes of controversial and fan-loved series THE INVISIBLES by Eisner Award winning writer Grant Morrison (ALL-STAR SUPERMAN, BATMAN)! Follow the adventures of The Invisibles, a secret organization out to battle...
Passion Play
AuthorBeth Bernobich
ISBN0765361981
Ilse Zhalina is the daughter of one of Melnek’s more prominent merchants. She has lived most of her life surrounded by the trappings of wealth and privilege. Many would consider hers a happy lot. But there are dark secrets, especially in the best of families. Ilse has learned that for a young...
Thirteen Years Later
AuthorJasper Kent
ISBN0593060652
Aleksandr made a silent promise to the Lord. God would deliver him -- would deliver Russia -- and he would make Russia into the country that the Almighty wanted it to be. He would be delivered from the destruction that wasteth at noonday, and from the pestilence that walketh in darkness -- the terror by...
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