Selkies
Top 10 Selkies
: The Folk Keeper, Selkie Girl, The Visitors, The Nature of Water and Air, Home from the Sea, Seaward, Long Night Dance, Emerald Magic: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy, The Summer of Moonlight Secrets, The Salt God's Daughter
| Author | Franny Billingsley |
| ISBN | 0689844611 |
She is never cold, she always knows exactly what time it is, and her hair grows two inches while she sleeps. Fifteen-year-old Corinna Stonewall--the only Folk Keeper in the city of Rhysbridge--sits hour after hour with the Folk in the dark, chilly cellar, "drawing off their anger as a lightning rod draws...
| Author | Laurie Brooks |
| ISBN | 0375851704 |
ELIN JEAN HAS always known she was different from the others on their remote island home. She is a gentle soul, and can’t stand the annual tradition of killing seal babies to thin the population. Even Tam McCodron, the gypsy boy to whom she is strangely drawn, seems to belong more than she does.
It’s...
In the tradition of Neil Gaiman and Iain Banks, Simon Sylvester brings an ancient myth to life with this lush, atmospheric coming-of-age tale
Nobody comes to the remote Scottish island of Bancree, and seventeen-year-old Flora can't wait to move to the mainland when she finishes school. So...
The Nature of Water and Air
| Author | Regina McBride |
| ISBN | 0743203232 |
"My mother was never easy in the world of houses. She was a tinker, a traveler girl who had married a wealthy man. Her name was Agatha Sheehy....There are silences all around my mother's story."
So begins The Nature of Water and Air, set on a patch of Irish coast where, amid a flurry of whispers, we meet...
| Author | Mercedes Lackey |
| ISBN | 0756407273 |
This review also appears on my blog.
2.5 stars
In the newest Elemental Masters novel, Mari Prothero learns that her father's preternatural fishing and sailing abilities aren't just skill; long ago her family made a pact with the Selchs, a type of Selkie, and in order to keep the pact,...
| Author | Susan Cooper |
| ISBN | 0020421907 |
His name is West. Her name is Cally. They speak different languages and come from different countries thousands of miles apart, but they do not know that. What they do know are the tragedies that took their parents, then wrenched the two of them out of reality, into a strange and perilous world through...
| Author | Betsy James |
| ISBN | 0689850719 |
Fifteen-year-old Kat is more her father's housekeeper than his daughter. Just like all Upslope women, Kat is required to stay close to the hearth and as far away from Downshore and its savage people as possible. Kat must remain "respectable" -- and that means covering her wild red hair, finding a husband...
| Author | Andrew M. Greeley |
| ISBN | 0765305046 |
Mythology and magic come alive in this collection of Irish fantasy stories by some of today's finest authors.
Ireland is a nation that holds fast to its history and heritage, and nowhere is that more true than in its folktales and legends. From the great Celtic myths featuring the bard Taliesin,...
A summer tale full of magical wonder and starring an unforgettable antebellum hotel
At The Meriwether, Florida’s famous antebellum hotel off of Hope Springs, nothing is quite as it seems.
Secret staircases give way to servants’ quarters and Prohibition-era speakeasies make...
| Author | Ilie Ruby |
| ISBN | 1619020025 |
Set in Long Beach, California, beginning in the 1970s, The Salt God’s Daughter follows Ruthie and her sister, Dolly, as they carve out a life in a place filled with meteorological myths and exotic folklore, where female rites of passage are met with startling discoveries. Raised by a mother drawn...
| Author | Rosalie K. Fry |
| ISBN | 0786810637 |
Fiona McConville is a child of the Western Isles whose family left the fishing life and their home on the small islet of Ron Mor for the Scottish mainland when Fiona was six. But city life doesn’t suit Fiona so at age ten she is sent back to her beloved isles to live with her grandparents. There she learns...
| Author | Anne Bishop |
| ISBN | 0451459423 |
Final book in the Tir Alainn series and everything comes racing to the end. There's a bit more sense of urgency with this book than the previous two, and I liked that with this one. Well, liked it until I found myself awake in the wee hours attempting to finish it before I could sleep, muttering "Just one more...
| Author | Juliet Marillier |
| ISBN | 0765345013 |
Child of the Prophecy is the thrilling conclusion to Juliet Marillier's award-winning Sevenwaters Trilogy.
Magic is fading... and the ways of Man are driving the Old Ones to the West, beyond the ken of humankind. The ancient groves are being destroyed, and if nothing is done, Ireland will...
| Author | Anne Bishop |
| ISBN | 0451458990 |
When was the last time you truly read a book and enjoyed it, just for enjoyment's sake? Before I read this novel, I would've answered 'not for a very long time'.
I'm so happy that's not my answer anymore.
Shadows And Light is the second in the Tir Alainn trilogy by Anne Bishop. I've heard...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0425046435 |
An ambitious elaboration of the Danish legend echoed in Matthew Arnold's "The Forsaken Merman," here lavishly extended with history & other scaffoldings. Fleeing the ruined Jutish met-kingdom of Liri, the tribe of King Vanimen find their way to the coast of Dalmatia, already peopled with its...
Julia's House for Lost Creatures
| Author | Ben Hatke |
| ISBN | 1596438665 |
When Julia and her walking house come to town, she likes everything about her new neighborhood except how quiet it is! So Julia puts a sign up: "Julia's House for Lost Creatures." Soon she's hosting goblins, mermaids, fairies, and even a dragon. Quiet isn't a problem anymore for Julia...but getting...
| Author | Aimee Friedman |
| ISBN | 0439922283 |
Sixteen-year-old Miranda Merchant is great at science. . .and not so great with boys. After major drama with her boyfriend and (now ex) best friend, she's happy to spend the summer on small, mysterious Selkie Island, helping her mother sort out her late grandmother's estate.There, Miranda finds new...
| Author | Marele Day |
| ISBN | 1573227226 |
Carla, Margarita, and Iphigenia are three nuns living in a crumbling monastery on a remote island, forgotten by time, the world, and the church. Their liturgical calendar is governed by the changing of the seasons, and by the rising and setting of the sun. Their days are spent performing a ritual of prayer...
| Author | Shelley Moore Thomas |
| ISBN | 0374367493 |
In their present-day tourist trap of an Irish seaside town, famed for its supposed involvement with selkies in the past, three sisters are faced with the sudden disappearance of their mother. Crushed by the loss, their father is struggling to carry on. To make matters worse, there are rumors afloat...
The Dragon and the George
| Author | Gordon R. Dickson |
| ISBN | 0345350502 |
Jim Eckert was a dragon. He hadn't planned it that way, but that's what happened when he set out to rescue his betrothed. Following her through an erratic astral-projection machine, Jim suddenly found himself in a cockeyed world - locked in the body of a talking dragon named Gorbash.
That wouldn't...
| Author | Anne Bishop |
| ISBN | 0451458508 |
Myth and magic combine in a superb dark fantasy of a world in danger of being destroyed by those who deny themselves and their heritage, and let evil loose in the world. In Sylvalan, a witch hunt is in full force. As witches and innocents are brutally murdered, magic is disappearing from the land, and the...
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 0670011452 |
What do werewolves, vampires, and the Little Mermaid have in common? They are all shapechangers. In "The Beastly Bride," acclaimed editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling bring together original stories and poems from a stellar lineup of authors including Peter S. Beagle, Ellen Kushner, Jane Yolen,...
