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10 best books like Tam Lin (Pamela Dean): Black Heart, Ivory Bones, Fire and Hemlock, Winter Rose, Snow White and Rose Red, White as Snow, Jack of Kinrowan: Jack the Giant-Killer / Drink Down the Moon, Thomas the Rhymer, The Wood Wife, Finder, The Magic Circle

Black Heart, Ivory Bones
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN0380786230
Hair bright as gold...Lips red as blood...Heart black as sin...Truth sharp as bone...

As in their previous critically acclaimed volumes of reconsidered fairy tales, award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have gathered together remarkable stories that illuminate the...
Fire and Hemlock
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0060298855
Polly has two sets of memories...

One is normal: school, home, friends. The other, stranger memories begin nine years ago, when she was ten and gate-crashed an odd funeral in the mansion near her grandmother's house. Polly's just beginning to recall the sometimes marvelous, sometimes frightening...
Winter Rose
AuthorPatricia A. McKillip
ISBN0441004385
Sorrow and trouble and bitterness will bound you and yours and the children of yours...

Some said the dying words of Nial Lynn, murdered by his own son, were a wicked curse. To others, it was a winter's tale spun by firelight on cold, dark nights. But when Corbet Lynn came to rebuild his family estate,...
Snow White and Rose Red
AuthorPatricia C. Wrede
ISBN0812534972
THE FAIRY TALE SERIES — Created by Terri Windling — ONCE UPON A TIME... — ...fairy tales were written for young and old alike; it is only in the last century that they have been deemed fit only for children and stripped of much of their original violence, sensuality, and power to frighten and delight....
White as Snow
AuthorTanith Lee
ISBN0312875495
Once upon a time there was a mirror. . . .

So begins this dark, unusual retelling of the story of Snow White by the writer reviewers have called “the Angela Carter of the fantasy field”—a whole novel based on a beloved story, turning it into a dark and sensual drama full of myth and magic.

Arpazia...
Jack of Kinrowan: Jack the Giant-Killer / Drink Down the Moon
AuthorCharles de Lint
ISBN0312869592
Jack of Kinrowan An acknowledged classic of contemporary fantasy, Jack of Kinrowan brings together in one volume Charles de Lint's rollicking saga of wild faerie magic on the streets of the city. Hurled into the mythical land of Faerie by a faceless gang of bikers, young Jacky Rowan is stunned when she...
Thomas the Rhymer
AuthorEllen Kushner
ISBN0553586971
Award-winning author and radio personality Ellen Kushner’s inspired retelling of an ancient legend weaves myth and magic into a vivid contemporary novel about the mysteries of the human heart. Brimming with ballads, riddles, and magical transformations, here is the timeless tale of a charismatic...
The Wood Wife
AuthorTerri Windling
ISBN0765302934
Leaving behind her fashionable West Coast life, Maggie Black comes to the Southwestern desert to pursue her passion and her dream. Her mentor, the acclaimed poet Davis Cooper, has mysteriously died in the canyons east of Tucson, bequeathing her his estate and the mystery of his life--and death.

Maggie...
Finder
AuthorEmma Bull
ISBN0765347776
American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults
VOYA Best Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror

Welcome to Bordertown. A hybrid community of misfits, oddballs and runaways. Where humans, elves and halflings coexist. Where magic and the brutal realities of survival clash...
The Magic Circle
AuthorDonna Jo Napoli
ISBN0140374396
From the author of Zel, Stones in Water, and The Prince of the Pond.

Deep in the woods lives the old witch called Ugly One. All she wants is to forget—that she was once a loving mother and a healer, blessed and powerful within her magic circle, and not a witch, claimed by the devils. Then one day...
Fitcher's Brides
AuthorGregory Frost
ISBN0765301954
The tale of Bluebeard, reenvisioned as a dark fable of faith and truth

1843 is the “last year of the world,” according the Elias Fitcher, a charismatic preacher in the Finger Lakes district of New York State. He's established a utopian community on an estate outside the town of Jeckyll's...
The Nightingale
AuthorKara Dalkey
ISBN0441574467
In this deft and enchanting retelling of the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. Kara Dalkey has mixed history and legend, weaving the Andersen fable into a fascinating novel about court life in ancient Japan -- a life of pageantry and poetry, of great beauty and casual cruelty, of life and courtly...
Nevernever
AuthorWill Shetterly
ISBN0152052100
This YA punk fantasy from the early 1990s, is set in Bordertown, which is on the border between our world and Faerie. It's populated by elves, humans, and halfies. Ron, the human teenage protagonist in the previous book, Elsewhere, has been cursed by an annoyed elf and turned into Wolfboy, half wolf and...
The Sun, the Moon, & the Stars
AuthorSteven Brust
ISBN0312860390
Once upon a time there was a kingdom that lived in darkness, for the sun, the moon and the stars were hidden in a box, and that box was hidden in a sow's belly, and that sow was hidden in a troll's cave, and that cave was hidden at the end of the world.

Once upon a time there was a studio of artists who feared...
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