Books in Our Library

Fiction

F BAR

Bardugo, Leigh. Six of crows. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2015.
"Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction--if they don't kill each other first"--Provided by publisher.

F CAS

Cashore, Kristin. Graceling. 1st ed. Orlando, Fla. : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008.
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace of killing and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.

F Coelho

Coelho, Paulo. The alchemist : a fable about following your dream. 1st HarperPerennial ed. New York : HarperPerennial, 1998, c1993.
Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy, sets out from his home in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of buried treasure, but through his encounters with a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself a king, and an Alchemist, he learns the value of the treasures found within himself.

FIC HEN

Hendrix, Grady, author. Witchcraft for wayward girls.

In 1970, fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at a home for unwed mothers in Florida, where she will have her child and give it up for adoption under the supervision of Miss Wellwood and Dr. Vincent. There she meets Rose, Zinnia, and Holly. When Fern visits a bookmobile, she meets the mysterious librarian Miss Parcae who give her a book on witchcraft that changes everything. First the girls try only minor spells, but when they work, they are empowered to try to protect one of their own from danger. However, there is a steep price to pay for the witchcraft.

F Le Guin

Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-. A wizard of Earthsea. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers ;, c1991.
A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.

F Lewis

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe. New York : HarperEntertainment, [2005], c1950.
Four English school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch who has cursed the land with eternal winter.

F MIL

Miller, Madeline. The song of Achilles. 1st Ecco pbk. ed. New York : Ecco, 2012.
Patroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to the hands of Fate. Set during the Trojan War. 'Includes a character glossary.

F MON

Monir, Alexandra, author. Realm of wonders. First edition.
After Jafar's defeat, Princess Jasmine is ready to explore her new life with Aladdin, but tragedy intervenes when her father dies. Rather than inheriting the throne outright, Agrabah's ministers decree she must participate in a tournament to prove she has what it takes to be the next sultan. In addition, dark forces are descending upon the realm and Jasmine races to put a stop to the threat before Agrabah's future falls into the hands of nefarious forces.

F Morgen

Morgenstern, Erin. The night circus : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2011.
A circus known as Le Cirque des Rêves features two illusionists, Celia and Marco, who are unknowingly competing in a game to which they have been irrevocably bound by their mercurial masters, and as the two fall deeply and passionately in love with each other, their masters intervene with dangerous consequences.

F NOV

Novik, Naomi. Spinning silver. 1st ed. New York : Del Rey, [2018].
"A . . . retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairytale . . . Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father is not a very good one. Free to lend and reluctant to collect, he has left his family on the edge of poverty--until Miryem intercedes. Hardening her heart, she sets out to retrieve what is owed, and soon gains a reputation for being able to turn silver into gold. But when an ill-advised boast brings her to the attention of the cold creatures who haunt the wood, nothing will be the same again. For words have power, and the fate of a kingdom will be forever altered by the challenge she is issued . . ."--Provided by publisher.

F PULLMAN

Pullman, Philip, 1946-. The golden compass. New York : Dell Laurel-Leaf, [2003].
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.

F Pullman

Pullman, Philip, 1946-. The golden compass. Deluxe 10th anniversary ed. New York : Knopf, [2006], c1995.
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.

F TAHIR

Tahir, Sabaa. An ember in the ashes. New York, N.Y. : Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2015].
"Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution"--Provided by publisher.

FIC BAR

Bardugo, Leigh. Shadow and bone. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt, 2012.
Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.

FIC LIU

Liu, Ken, 1976-. The paper menagerie and other stories. 1st ed. London : Saga Press, [2016].
A collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by Ken Liu.

FIC MIL

Miller, Madeline. Circe : a novel. 1st ed.: April 2018. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2018.
"Follows Circe, the banished witch daughter of Helios, as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals"--Provided by publisher.

FIC TOI

Toil & trouble : 15 tales of women & witchcraft.
Starsong / Tehlor Kay Mejia -- Afterbirth / Andrea Cremer -- The heart in her hands / Tess Sharpe -- Death in the Sawtooths / Lindsay Smith -- The truth about Queenie / Brandy Colbert -- The Moonapple Menagerie / Shveta Thakrar -- The legend of Stone Mary / Robin Talley -- The one who stayed / Nova Ren Suma -- Divine are the stars / Zoraida Cordova -- Daughters of Baba Yaga / Brenna Yovanoff -- The well witch / Kate Hart -- Beware of girls with crooked mouths / Jessica Spotswood -- Love spell / Anna-Marie McLemore -- The Gherin Girls / Emery Lord -- Why they watch us burn / Elizabeth May. History is filled with stories of women accused of witchcraft, of fearsome girls with arcane knowledge. Toil & Trouble features fifteen stories of girls embracing their power, reclaiming their destinies and using their magic to create, to curse, to cure---and to kill.

FIC TOL

Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. The fellowship of the ring : being the first part of The lord of the rings. 2nd ed. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., c1993.
Frodo the hobbit and his companions set out to destroy the Ring of Power before the evil Sauron grasps control.

GN FIC FOR

Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018, author. A wizard of Earthsea : a graphic novel. First edition.
Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets and unleashed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tumultuous tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance. Experience the bestselling first adventure of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle as a masterly crafted graphic novel. Fred Fordham brings new life to Le Guins iconic fantasy classic with his breathtaking illustrations and thoughtful text adaptation.

S OXFORD

The Oxford book of modern fairy tales. Oxford ; : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Uncle David's nonsensical story about giants and faires / C. Sinclair -- Feathertop / N. Hawthorne -- The King of the Golden River / J. Ruskin -- The story of Fairyfoot / F. Browne -- The light princess / G. MacDonald -- The magic fishbone / C. Dickens -- A toy princess / M. De Morgan -- The new mother / L.L. Clifford -- Good luck is better than gold / J.H. Ewing -- The apple of contentment / H. Pyle -- The Griffin and the minor canon / F. Stockton -- The selfish giant / O. Wilde -- The rooted lover / L. Housman -- The song of the morrow / R.L. Stevenson -- The reluctant dragon / K. Grahame -- The book of beasts / E. Nesbit -- The queen of Quok / L.F. Baum -- The magic shop / H.G. Wells -- The king of the elf-folk / Lord Dunsany -- The story of Blixie Bimber and the power of the gold buckskin whincher / C. Sandburg -- The lovely Myfanwy / W. De la Mare -- The troll / T.H. White -- Gertrude's child / R. Hughes -- The unicorn in the garden / J. Thurber -- Bluebeard's daughter / S.T. Warner -- The chaser / J. Collier -- The King of the Elves / P.K. Dick -- In the family / N. Mitchison -- The Jewbird / B. Malamud -- Menaseh's dream / I.B. Singer -- The glass mountain / D. Barthelme -- Prince Amilec / T. Lee -- Petronella / J. Williams -- The man who had seen the rope trick / J. Aiken -- The courtship of Mr. Lyon / A. Carter -- The princess who stood on her own two feet / J. Desy -- The wife's story / U. Le Guin -- The river maid / J. Yolen -- The porcelain man / R. Kennedy -- Old man Potchikoo / L. Erdich. Presents forty modern fairy tales by British and American writers.