The Cuckoo Tree

Author	Paula Guran
ISBN	1607012898

For more than eighty years H.P. Lovecraft has inspired writers of supernatural fiction, artists, musicians, filmmakers, and gamers. His themes of cosmic indifference, the utter insignificance of humankind, minds invaded by the alien, and the horrors of history—written with a pervasive atmosphere...

Author	Susan Cooper
ISBN	1416949658

"When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back, three from the circle, three from the track; wood, bronze, iron; water, fire, stone; five will return, and one go alone.”

With these mysterious words, Will Stanton discovers on his 11th birthday that he is no mere boy. He is the Sign-Seeker,...

Author	Lucy M. Boston
ISBN	0152024689

L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century.

There are three children: Toby, who rides the majestic horse Feste; his mischievous little sister, Linnet;...

Author	Susan Cooper
ISBN	0689840330

The Dark is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. And Will Stanton -- last-born of the immortal Old Ones, dedicated to keeping the world free -- must join forces with this ageless master Merriman and Bran, the Welsh boy whose destiny ties him to the Light. Drawn in with them are the three...

Author	Susan Cooper
ISBN	0689840349

Simon, Jane, and Barney, enlisted by their mysterious great-uncle, arrive in a small coastal town to recover a priceless golden grail stolen by the forces of evil -- Dark. They are not at first aware of the strange powers of another boy brought to help, Will Stanton -- nor of the sinister significance...

Author

Susan Cooper

On holiday in Cornwall, the three Drew children discover an ancient map in the attic of the house that they are staying in. They know immediately that it is special. It is even more than that -- the key to finding a grail, a source of power to fight the forces of evil known as the Dark. And in searching for it...

Author	Becky Chambers
ISBN	0062936018

In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the solar system instead transform themselves.

Ariadne is one such explorer. As an astronaut on an extrasolar research vessel,...

Author	Tove Jansson
ISBN	0374423075

"It's finished. There isn't a stamp, or an error that I haven't collected. Not one. What shall I do now?"
"I think I'm beginning to understand," said Moomintroll slowly. "You aren't a collector anymore, you're only an owner, and that isn't nearly so much fun."

My children and I believed...

Author	Diana Wynne Jones
ISBN	0575075376

It is eight years after the tours from offworld have stopped. High Chancellor Querida has retired, leaving Wizard Corkoran in charge of the Wizards' University. Although Wizard Corkoran's obsession is to be the first man on the moon, and most of his time is devoted to this project, he decides he will...

Author	Susan Cooper
ISBN	1416949674

"Fire on the Mountain Shall Find the Harp of Gold Played to Wake the Sleepers, Oldest of the Old..."

With the final battle between the Light and the Dark soon approaching, Will sets out on a quest to call for aid. Hidden within the Welsh hills is a magical harp that he must use to wake the Sleepers...

Author	Alison Croggon
ISBN	0763630152

A young woman embraces her power -- and her destiny -- as the thrilling quest begun in THE NAMING continues!

Maerad is a girl with a tragic and bitter past, but her powers grow stronger by the day. Now she and her mentor, Cadvan, hunted by both the Light and the Dark, must unravel the Riddle of the...

Author

Jodi Taylor

'Max, your father is here. He's come to take Matthew away'

Have you ever wondered what would happen if Max's husband met Max's father? What would Leon do?

They're normally a fairly amiable bunch, but this is the story of what to expect if St Mary's doesn't like someone. As in, really doesn't...

Author

W.E. Johns

BIGGLES LEARNS TO FLY
Age just seventeen and with almost no flying experience, James Bigglesworth is sent to tackle the enemy in the hostile skies over First World War France. In a drama of war, where instinct and fast reactions are everything, Biggles must learn to be a real fighter pilot, or die....

Author	Christian Kracht
ISBN	3462041312

An outrageous, fantastical, uncategorizable novel of obsession, adventure, and coconuts.

In 1902, a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg named August Engelhardt set sail for what was then called the Bismarck Archipelago, in German New Guinea. His destination: the island Kabakon....

Author	John Verney
ISBN	0030810051

As Britain debates leaving the European Union, it made me feel old to read this novel of the years when Britain wanted to join the EU. This is the fourth volume (at least in the US) of a series that began with an undiscovered fictional element called caprium, not really a metal but "pure energy," being discovered...

Author

Della T. Lutes

Written before WWII, about the author's childhood, this memoir still reads, to me, as if only one generation back. Farm life didn't change much until quite recently, and in some ways still hasn't. I do thank goodness I don't have to deal with the capricious, egotistical, and self-centered old man Della's...

Author	Stella Pevsner
ISBN	0590044834

I received this book for as a Christmas present from my fourth grade teacher Mrs. Logan. I really liked it at the time and reread it frequently when we were making fewer trips to the library. (All the books I owned I read over and over and over again.) The things I remember the most about it were that it got sort...

Author	Anne Harbers
ISBN	0908022166

Jane Austen wrote her six novels in a small English village almost 200 years ago. She never traveled abroad and she never mentioned Australia or New Zealand. So why do people "down under" read her novels today? Why do they watch films based on her books in record-breaking numbers? Why do they find her plots,...