Fantasy fiction

  • The girl with glass feet

    Creator

    Shaw, Ali

    Abstract

    An inventive and richly visual novel about young lovers on a quest to find a cure for a magical ailment, perfect for readers of Alice Hoffman Strange things are happening on the remote and snowbound archipelago of St. Hauda's Land. Unusual winged creatures flit around the icy bogland, albino animals hide themselves in the snow-glazed woods, and Ida Maclaird is slowly turning into glass. Ida is an outsider in these parts, a mainlander who has visited the islands only once before.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Henry Holt and Company

    Not specified
  • The awakening : Hasea chronicles, book 1

    Creator

    Meczes, Stuart

    Abstract

    Alexander Eden is one unhappy teenager. A geeky, social pariah, he's the victim of constant bullying at school. His home life isn't much better with a stepfather who resents him and a half brother who is better than him at everything. But that all changes the day the mysterious and beautiful Gabriella De Luca walks into his life. Everyone wants to know her, to be with her. But she is interested in Alex. Because Alex is different. Soon afterwards he is thrown into a world he never thought possible. A world where he and others like him are the last line of defence.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Solon

    Stuart Meczes

    Not specified
  • The wolf : Black Dagger Brotherhood: prison camp, book 2

    Creator

    Ward, J.R.

    Abstract

    Return to the sizzling glymera's prison camp in this dark and sexy second novel in the new Black Dagger Brotherhood Prison Camp spin-off series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author J.R. Ward. In the next installment of bestselling author J.R. Ward's Prison Camp series, things get steamy when Lucan, a wolven forced into bartering drug deals for the infamous Prison Colony, meets Rio, the second in command for the shadowy Caldwell supplier, Mozart. After a deal goes awry, a wolf with piercing golden eyes swoops in to save her from certain death.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Simon & Schuster Audio

    Not specified
  • Vespertine

    Creator

    Rogerson, Margaret

    Abstract

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Sorcery of Thorns and An Enchantment of Ravens comes a thrilling new YA fantasy about a teen girl with mythic abilities who must defend her world against restless spirits of the dead. The dead of Loraille do not rest. Artemisia is training to be a Gray Sister, a nun who cleanses the bodies of the deceased so that their souls can pass on; otherwise, they will rise as spirits with a ravenous hunger for the living. She would rather deal with the dead than the living, who trade whispers about her scarred hands and troubled past.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Simon & Schuster Audio

    Not specified
  • The veiled throne : The Dandelion dynasty, book 3

    Creator

    Liu, Ken

    Abstract

    With the invasion of Dara complete, and the Wall of Storms breached, the world has opened to new possibilities for the gods and peoples of both empires as the sweeping saga of the award-winning Dandelion Dynasty continues in this third book of the "magnificent fantasy epic" (NPR). Princess Théra, once known as Empress Üna of Dara, entrusted the throne to her younger brother in order to journey to Ukyu-Gondé to war with the Lyucu. She has crossed the fabled Wall of Storms with a fleet of advanced warships and ten thousand people.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Simon & Schuster Audio

    Not specified
  • The book of magic : Practical magic, book 2

    Creator

    Hoffman, Alice

    Abstract

    Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters. The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred years but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger-the curse is already at work.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Simon & Schuster Audio

    Not specified
  • The bones of ruin : The bones of ruin, book 1

    Creator

    Raughley, Sarah

    Abstract

    An African tightrope walker who can't die gets embroiled in a secret society's deadly gladiatorial tournament in this thrilling historical fantasy set in an alternate 1880s London, perfect for fans of The Last Magician and The Gilded Wolves . As an African tightrope dancer in Victorian London, Iris is used to being strange. She is certainly a strange sight for leering British audiences always eager for the spectacle of colonial curiosity . But Iris also has a secret that even "strange" doesn't capture...​ She cannot die.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Simon & Schuster Audio

    Not specified
  • Une cour de voleurs : Un trône pour des sœurs, book 2

    Creator

    Rice, Morgan

    Abstract

    « Morgan Rice a imaginé ce qui promet d'être une autre série brillante et nous plonge dans une histoire de fantasy avec trolls et dragons, bravoure, honneur, courage, magie et foi en sa propre destinée. Morgan Rice a de nouveau réussi à produire un solide ensemble de personnages qui nous font les acclamer à chaque page ....

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    Brooklyn

    Morgan Rice

    Not specified
  • Une chanson pour des orphelines : Un trône pour des sœurs, book 3

    Creator

    Morgan Rice

    Abstract

    "Morgan Rice a une imagination sans bornes. Dans une autre série qui promet d'être aussi divertissante que les précédentes, Un Trône Pour Des Sœurs nous présente l'histoire de deux sœurs (Sophia et Kate), des orphelines qui se battent pour survivre dans le monde cruel et difficile de l'orphelinat. C'est un succès immédiat.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    Brooklyn

    Morgan Rice

    Not specified
  • Un trône pour des sœurs : Un trône pour des sœurs series, book 1

    Creator

    Rice, Morgan

    Abstract

    « Morgan Rice a imaginé ce qui promet d'être une autre série brillante et nous plonge dans une histoire de fantasy avec trolls et dragons, bravoure, honneur, courage, magie et foi en sa propre destinée. Morgan Rice a de nouveau réussi à produire un solide ensemble de personnages qui nous font les acclamer à chaque page ....

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    Brooklyn

    Morgan Rice

    Not specified