Yarrow

10 best books like Yarrow (Charles de Lint): Mythago Wood, The Sorceress and the Cygnet, The Cunning Man, The Wood Wife, Finder, The Thread That Binds the Bones, The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, Fear, Trustee from the Toolroom, One Lonely Night

AuthorRobert Holdstock
ISBN0765307294
The mystery of Ryhope Wood, Britain's last fragment of primeval forest, consumed George Huxley's entire, and long, life. Now, after his death, his sons have taken up his work. But what they discover is beyond what they could have expected. For the Wood is a realm where myths gain flesh and blood, tapping...
AuthorPatricia A. McKillip
ISBN0441775675
Corleu was different from the typical dark-haired Wayfolk. His blond hair and his fascination with the legends and children's rhymes about the Cygnets, Gold King, Blind Lady, Dancer, and Warlock set him apart.

When Corleu and a band of Wayfolk become trapped in an endless swamp, he crosses...
AuthorRobertson Davies
ISBN0140243437
"Should I have taken the false teeth?" This is what Dr. Jonathan Hullah, a former police surgeon, thinks after he watches Father Hobbes die in front of the High Altar at Toronto's St. Aidan's on the morning of Good Friday. How did the good father die? We do not learn the answer until the last pages of this...
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...
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...
AuthorNina Kiriki Hoffman
ISBN0380772531
Tom Renfield, janitor-cum-taxi driver, has always had some weird abilities - seeing ghosts, perceiving other 'currents' of energy... but he's always tried to ignore them. Running from himself seems to be a large part of how he ended up in the tiny town of Arcadia. However, when he picks up a beautiful...
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN0670061948
Coyote. Anansi. Brer Rabbit. Trickster characters have long been a staple of folk literature, and are a natural choice for the overarching subject of acclaimed editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's third mythic anthology. The Coyote Road features a remarkable range of authors, each with his...
AuthorL. Ron Hubbard
ISBN1870451554
A novel of compelling suspense. Professor James Lowry didn' believe in spirits, or witches, or demons. Not until a gentle spring evening when his hat disappeared, and suddenly he couldn't remember the last four hours of his life. Now, the quiet university town of Atworthy is changing - slightly at first,...
AuthorNevil Shute
ISBN1842323016
This was such a pleasure to read. It is a simple story about an uncomplicated man who is required to perform some difficult tasks. He has to step way beyond his comfort zone and in doing so discovers his own inner strengths. Even better, it becomes a bit of a fairy story as he discovers he has friends he never...
AuthorMickey Spillane
ISBN0792721055
Nobody ever walked across the bridge at night. But on the foggy night that Hammer took that chance, his encounter with a gun-toting thug and a girl on the lam ended with both strangers dead. Soon Hammer is caught in a web of sinister gangsters and beautiful women the likes of which he's never seen -- and his...
AuthorFritz Leiber
The battle mist overcame Colum now. His knee lifted to drive into Donnan's crotch. As the man bent over in pain, Colum struck him a savage blow across the back of the neck with a closed fist. Donnan dropped like a felled ox and lay still.

But colum wasn't done with him yet. Still cursing, he grabbed...
AuthorHolly Lisle
ISBN0671722026
Lisle is a writer I'd never read before; but, intrigued by the theme of a mother putting her life on the line to rescue her kidnapped kids, I bought this book at a flea market as a Mother's Day gift for my wife. When the type proved too small for her to read comfortably, I agreed to read it aloud to her. That proved...
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...
AuthorElizabeth Ann Scarborough
ISBN0441002692
Seattle social worker Rose Samson wishes for a fairy godmother to save "the whole damned city". Magical Felicity Fortune tries to help Snohomish Quantrill, knife-wielding assassin sent by her envious step-mother, abandoned children Gigi and Hank threatened by a powerful pedophile, Vietnam refugee...
The Broken Citadel
AuthorJoyce Ballou Gregorian
ISBN0441080987
In the Otherworld, change was afoot. The winds whistled through the ruins of Treglad, echoing the name of a long-forgotten goddess. In the city of Treclere, the Deathless Queen slowly drew all the land under her spell of dark sorcery. In the city of Tredana, a Prince pledged himself to a quest that would...
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