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Par Sarah L Thomson. 2016
In this thrilling coming of age adventure, a female ninja -- a deadly flower -- faces a host of extraordinary…
obstacles some of them supernatural, when she takes on her first lethal assignment. Some violence. For junior and senior highPar Crystal Wilkinson. 2000
Eighteen short stories exploring the curious lives of black, country women in "Affrilachia". Characters speak of their trials, sorrows, laughter,…
love, and tears. Their lives are never simple, but are black and juicy, just like a blackberry. 2000Par Celu Amberston. 2022
"Shape-shifting beings and magical powers move in the natural world, and curious humans find unexpected roles to play in these…
stories from a celebrated author. Selkies and dragons have their tales to tell here. Ghosts and aliens with their own agendas and a troll interact with humans in stories that reference myths in new ways. Here, the reader will find reverence and reflection as well as adventure, and even humour. Refugees And Other Stories is a collection of stories by author Celu Amberstone. Previously available only in anthologies and magazines, these stories are gathered together here for the first time. Drawing on her Indigenous and Celtic heritage, Amberstone writes powerful fiction subtly different from the usual science fiction or fantasy adventures. The introduction to her fine collection of stories is written by author and professor Dr Allan Weiss, whose specialization is in Canadian Literature. Amberstone integrates her Celtic and Indigenous heritage into these stories. Her characters (whether human, alien, or mythic beings) are strangers in a strange land, at the intersection of the real world and words of magic - and if that makes you think of Heinlein and LeGuin, you are on the right track." -- Provided by publisherPar Crystal Wilkinson. 2002
Par Melissa Iwai. 2022
"Gigi can't wait for her Ojiji--Japanese grandpa--to move in. Gigi plans lots of things to do with him, like playing…
tag, reading books, and teaching Roscoe, the family dog, new tricks. But her plans don't work out quite the way she'd hoped. And her grandpa doesn't seem to like Roscoe. Will Gigi find a way to connect with her Ojiji?" -- Provided by publisherPar Celeste Ng. 2022
"Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books…
in a university library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve "American culture" in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic-including the work of Bird's mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old. Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn't know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn't wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is pulled into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change." -- Provided by publisherPar Adrian Tchaikovsky. 2022
"Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fantasy with a darkly inventive portrait of…
a city under occupation and on the verge of revolution. There has always been a darkness to Ilmar, but never more so than now. The city chafes under the heavy hand of the Palleseen occupation, the choke-hold of its criminal underworld, the boot of its factory owners, the weight of its wretched poor and the burden of its ancient curse. What will be the spark that lights the conflagration? Despite the city's refugees, wanderers, murderers, madmen, fanatics and thieves, the catalyst, as always, will be the Anchorwood - that dark grove of trees, that primeval remnant, that portal, when the moon is full, to strange and distant shores. Ilmar, some say, is the worst place in the world and the gateway to a thousand worse places. Ilmar, City of Long Shadows. City of Bad Decisions. City of Last Chances." -- Provided by publisherPar Tim Waggoner. 2018
"Jayce's twenty-year-old daughter Emory is missing, lost in a dark, dangerous realm called Shadow that exists alongside our own reality.…
An enigmatic woman named Nicola guides Jayce through this bizarre world, and together they search for Emory, facing deadly dog-eaters, crazed killers, homicidal sex toys, and - worst of all - a monstrous being known as the Harvest Man. But no matter what Shadow throws at him, Jayce won't stop. He'll do whatever it takes to find his daughter, even if it means becoming a worse monster than the things that are trying to stop him." -- Provided by publisherPar David Weber. 2007
"It began with two men. They came from very different worlds - entirely different universes, in fact - and they…
met in a virgin forest on a duplicate planet Earth. Neither of them had expected it, but both of them realized how important the first contact with any other transuniversal human civilization might be. But something went wrong. Neither side knows who shot first. But both the magic-using civilization of Arcana and steel-and-steam age Sharona, with its psionic Talents, think it was the other side. And it doesn't really matter now, because the original incident has snowballed. Both sides have additional dead to mourn; both sides have additional wrongs to avenge. Both sides have additional military forces moving toward the front. War between the universes is the last thing responsible leaders on either side want. But the fury of their respective populations, xenophobic fear of the unknown, and cries for justice (or vengeance) are all driving both sides toward the brink. The actions of local military commanders and diplomats may well determine the final outcome, and unscrupulous, power-hungry men - and Arcana and Sharona alike - have agendas of their own. The fuse has been lit, and a war stretching across the universes, across an endless succession of identical Earths, fought between dragons, spells, and crossbows and repeating rifles, machine guns, and artillery is about to begin in white-hot rage and fury. Where it will end - and how - no one knows." -- Provided by publisherPar Mally Cox-Chapman. 1977
A story to prove there is still magic left in the world. Baggywrinkle is the name of the boy who…
the old Beachcomber carves from a wooden mast. The wooden figure magically becomes a real boy but sadly, he's a blind boy. To gain his sight, Baggywrinkle must go on a magical quest to the River of See-Through Things. In company with the old Beachcomber and Timbuctoo, the beautiful talking bird, Baggywrinkle learns courage and persistence on a journey that becomes a great adventure...and takes him to the Very Inside of the Sun. For grades 5-8Par Jeanne Walker Harvey. 2011
As a young boy growing up in North Carolina, Romare Bearden listened to his great-grandmother's Cherokee stories and heard the…
whistle of the train that took his people to the North people who wanted to be free. When Romare and his family, faced with Jim Crow laws, boarded that same train, he watched out the window as the world whizzed by. Later he captured those scenes in a famous painting, Watching the Good Trains Go By. Using that painting as inspiration and creating a text influenced by the blues and jazz that Bearden loved, Jeanne Walker Harvey tells the story of Bearden's children by describing the patchwork of daily southern life that Romare saw out the train's window and the story of his arrival in shimmering New York City. Artists and critics today praise Bearden's collages for their visual metaphors honoring his past, African American culture, and the human experience. 2011. For grades K-3Par Kat Zhang. 2022
"Amy Wu would love to welcome the new student in her class, but Lin has just come from China and…
does not speak much English, so with the help of her family Amy tries to work out a way to bridge the language gap." -- Provided by publisherPar David Anthony Durham. 2021
Par José María Guelbenzu. 2016
"Hermógenes Arbusto, tax adviser and successful businessman, sees death enter his office one day, and, reacting quickly, manages to dodge…
the blow of the scythe, rushes to the door, leaves in a hurry, and locks and deadbolts it behind him, leaving the reaper locked inside. Shortly after, and while he is getting his wits about him in Madrid's Plaza Mayor, he reaches a Faustian pact with the devil, the distinguished Forcas (with permission to travel to Earth), to whom he sells his soul in order to be free, at least temporarily, from meeting the Cold Lady again. Meanwhile, Tomás Beovide, poet and Literature teacher at the Juan García Hortelano Secondary School, corrects exams, laments the abandonment of his girlfriend, grieves happily over his unhappy love encounter with Maribel Arbusto and consoles himself by listening with joy to the long-suffering love songs of his admired Julie London. And we don't go on counting because everything that follows is pure nonsense, a narrative implausibility where a wild and stubborn nonsense builds its own logic until it blows any reasonable expectation or argument out of the water." -- Translation provided by NLSPar Rolando Hinojosa. 1989
Hinojosa's novel focuses on wealthy ranchers and their domination of the economic and political life of a small city on…
the Texas-Mexico border. These stories are universal in the sense that they are about fools and heroes, about borders between cultures, between generationsPar Kathleen V Kudlinski. 2004
Kudlinki evokes the extremes of desert life and the environment's mesmerizing effect on her characters. The plot takes off on…
the strength of the author's portrait of O'Keeffe. A strong sense of O'Keeffe's commitment to art, the desert, and its native inhabitants, and living life her way shines throughPar Diana Gabaldon. 2017
Books 7 and 8 in the Outlander Series. In An Echo in the Bone (DB 70073) from 2016, Jamie Fraser…
and his time-traveling wife Claire face suffering despite knowing the Revolution's outcome. In Written in My Own Heart's Blood (DB 79331) from 2017, Jamie, Claire and John must resolve the latter's marriage during the Revolutionary War. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2017Par Kameron Hurley. 2020
"The Dhai nation has broken apart under the onslaught of the Tai Kao, invaders from a parallel world. With the…
Dhai in retreat, Kirana, leader of the Tai Kao, establishes a base in Oma's temple and instructs her astrologers to discover how they can use the ancient holy place to close the way between worlds. With all the connected worlds ravaged by war and Oma failing, only one world can survive. Who will be sacrificed, and what will the desperate people of these worlds do to protect themselves?" -- Provided by publisherPar Gail Carson Levine. 2011
"Twelve-year-old Elodie journeys to Two Castles in hopes of studying acting but instead becomes apprentice to a dragon, who teaches…
her to be observant and use reasoning, thus helping her to uncover who is poisoning the king." -- Provided by publisherPar Mary Pope Osborne. 2008