The Darkangel Trilogy

Author	Hitoshi Ashinano
ISBN	4063210502

One of the most amazing views of the end of the world ever. In a futuristic japan, Alpha the robot waits for her master at the Cafe Alpha. Japan is dying: the roads are crumbling, the sea is devouring the land, people are few and far between. Robots are turning feral, and the people are abandoning the country...

Author

Veronica Blade

A Cinderella who spends her nights as a wolf. A prince with a taste for blood.
Seventeen year old Cydney struggles against her werewolf nature, trying to keep everyone around her safe. No way will she risk exposing the beast at the prince's ball, no matter how her two cousins try to persuade her. As...

Author	Sarah Monette
ISBN	0441015964

Corambis
Or
Felix Tries Not To Be A Dick For a Change and Seriously Who Designed This Cover?

This was an excellent conclusion to the series. There are dark parts in the story telling, but over all things end on an unapologetically happy note. Which feels right and fair for everything...

Author	Norah Lofts
ISBN	0449230953

The old Suffolk country house of Nethergate provided a welcome refuge for young Isabella de Savigny, fleeing from the terror of revolutionary France. But she was treated with subtle cruelty by Lady Rosaleen Franklin and despised by Martha Pratt, the lady's maid, when she allowed herself to be seduced...

Author	Tanith Lee
ISBN	1585677795

The gothic genius of Lees great works of fantasy are finally available in onevolume. Witness the city of Paradyss life and history through the eyes of itsprovocative and perverse citizens, in this darkly fascinating odyssey as onlythe award-winning author could imagine it.

Includes:
The...

Author

Christopher Shields

"The Aetherfae (Weald Fae Journals, Book 3)" by Christopher Shields is a magical and epic fantasy story for young adults and young-at-hearts.
Although this is the third in the series I read this book first when it came out. I have since read the first two and even though I missed a few details by reading...

Author	Lisa Goldstein
ISBN	0553050907

I can’t remember how I found out about this novel, presumably a list of recommendations somewhere? The combination of surrealists, dreams, time travel, and revolution had obvious appeal and the library didn't have it, so I bought a cheap copy off eBay. Unfortunately I think it had been stored in a...

Author	Maud Hart Lovelace
ISBN	0064408604

Welcome back to Deep Valley!Winona Root is almost eight years old. More than anything in the world, she wants a pony for her birthday. She wishes so hard for a pony that she's sure to get one--at least, that's what she tells her friends Betsy, Tacy, and Tib. It's only when the exciting day grows near that...

Author	Lenora Mattingly Weber
ISBN	0425014584

The introductory book of the Beany Malone series. Mary Fred spends the fifteen dollars that is intended for a new formal to buy her beloved Mr. Chips, a lame horse. Elizabeth's husband, Don, is sent overseas, and a weak and wan Elizabeth arrives at the Malones' with her two-week-old son, Martie. When...

Author	Meagan McKinney
ISBN	0821758039

Left penniless after her father's death, Alexandra Benjamin strikes an unusual bargain with John Damien Newell, the darkly seductive master of Cairncross Castle. Hired to teach his troubled younger brother, Samuel, to speak, she soon discovers the castle harbors many terrible secrets. Secrets...

Author	Katherine Harbour
ISBN	0062286781

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....

Author	Clay Griffith
ISBN	1616145234

Princess Adele struggles with a life of marriage and obligation as her Equatorian Empire and their American Republic allies stand on the brink of war against the vampire clans of the north. However, the alliance's horrific strategy for total victory drives Adele to abandon her duty and embark on a desperate...

Author

Debbie Herbert

Librarian's Note: the ISBN for this book was reused on a completely different book - ISBN 13: 9780373009336

Deep in the bayou, a strange and beautiful world of merfolk exists…

Mermaid Jet Borsage never fit in with her own kind. Her dark hair and eyes set her apart from the other merfolk....

Author	Kathe Koja
ISBN	0142406937

Sixteen-year-old Maggy's life consists of trying to be invisible at school, taking care of her alcoholic mother, and spending all the time she can at the Blue Mirror, a downtown café. She can lose herself there for hours with a cappuccino and her sketchbook, in which she creates a paper world she calls...

Author	Diana Wynne Jones
ISBN	0600204065

Diana was born in London, the daughter of Marjorie (née Jackson) and Richard Aneurin Jones, both of whom were teachers. When war was announced, shortly after her fifth birthday, she was evacuated to Wales, and thereafter moved several times, including periods in Coniston Water, in York, and back...

Author	Hayao Miyazaki
ISBN	1569313482

Hayao Miyazaki was a budding filmmaker in 1982 when he agreed to collaborate on a project with the popular Japanese anime magazine Animage. This was Nausicaa, which would make Miyazaki's reputation as much as his 11 films and TV shows. Set in the far future, Nausicaa visualizes an Earth radically changed...

Author	Sandra Schwab
ISBN	0505527200

Into the Darkness

Celia Fussell's father is dead, and she is reduced to the status of a poor relation in the house of her brother, the new baron, and his shrewish wife. A life of misery looms ahead.

But, no. There is hope. Deep in the Black Forest, in the Great Duchy of Baden, stands Celia's...

Author

Kenya Wright

After Dante Bottelli’s slaughter of Vamp-owned Mixbreeds, Lanore and Zulu execute a well-planned attack that hits Dante where it hurts the most—his pockets. But their attack triggers a chain of unfortunate events, and allows Detective Rivera to blackmail Lanore.

Rivera forces Lanore...

Author

Pamela Palmer

They call her the last sorceress: Quinn Lennox, the only hope of the vampires who are trapped in Vamp City watching their dark otherworld slowly die. But an ancient curse shackles the magic Quinn needs to save not only the vampires she’s come to call friends, come to care for, come to love, but her beloved...

Author	Jonathan Vankin
ISBN	1563895013

I always enjoy a bit of Grimm before retiring for the evening and The Big Book of Grimm did not disappoint this Grimm aficionado! Stunning in all of its' grim, gruesome, and sometimes gory glory, the only criticism I have is that it would have been even more amazing in COLOR (just compare the impact of the...

Author	Brenda Joyce
ISBN	0312966210

Amidst whispers of treachery and murder, the Stanhope heir vanishes without a trace...

After Lionel De Vere's mysterious disappearance, Garrick De Vere becomes heir to an estate shrouded in scandal. Blackmailed by his powerful father into returning to England after a decade-long exile,...

Author	Heather Gladney
ISBN	0441800831

Originally reviewed for Uniquely Pleasurable.

Cars become antiques when they hit the age of 20 years. But they don’t necessarily become classics when they hit that age. What goes into making an antique car a classic is harder to define…the smoothness of the ride, the quality of the craftsmanship,...

Author	Pierre Berton
ISBN	0385676484

To commemorate the bi-centenary of the War of 1812, Anchor Canada brings together Pierre Berton's two groundbreaking books on the subject. The Invasion of Canada is a remarkable account of the war's first year and the events that led up to it; Pierre Berton transforms history into an engrossing narrative...

Author	Martha Wells
ISBN	0380808005

Tremaine Valiarde and a small, brave band of heroes ventured into a wondrous new realm on their desperate mission to save Ile-Rien from the conquering Gardier. Now, as a relentless enemy creates chaos and destruction -- with the fate of the magical city of Lodun hanging in the balance -- the last hope...