- Browse
- » Your Account
- » List
Author
Description
"From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious...
Author
Description
"Bryce Quinlan y Hunt Athalar han salvado Ciudad Medialuna, por fin ha llegado el momento de bajar la guardia y tratar de volver a la normalidad. Para ello, han acordado tomárselo con calma y no empezar su relación hasta el Solsticio de Invierno, si es que antes no incendian la ciudad con su deseo. Pero todavía no están fuera de peligro. Cuando Bryce, Hunt y sus amigos se ven involucrados en un movimiento rebelde del que no quieren formar parte,...
Author
Description
"Charlie Reade parece un chico normal de secundaria, excelente en béisbol y fútbol americano, un estudiante decente. Pero lleva una carga pesada. Su madre murió en un accidente de atropello y fuga cuando él tenía siete años, y el dolor llevó a su padre. a beber. Charlie aprendió a cuidar de sí mismo y de su padre. Cuando Charlie tiene diecisiete años, conoce a una perra llamada Radar y a su anciano amo, Howard Bowditch, un recluso en una...
Author
Formats:
Description
"An enthralling debut fantasy inspired by the legend of Chang'e, the Chinese moon goddess, in which a young woman's quest to free her mother sets her on a dangerous path and pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm. Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the feared Celesial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing the elixer of immortality. But when Xingyin's magic flares...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Main Library - Adult
Fiction King, S
1 available
Fiction King, S
1 available
Oliver La Farge - Adult
Fiction King, S
1 available
Fiction King, S
1 available
Southside - Adult
Fiction King, S
1 available
Fiction King, S
1 available
Description
"Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher -- for that world or ours." --
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident...
Author
Description
"Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar are trying to get back to normal--they may have saved Crescent City, but with so much upheaval in their lives lately, they mostly want a chance to relax. Slow down. Figure out what the future holds. The Asteri have kept their word so far, leaving Bryce and Hunt alone. But with the rebels chipping away at the Asteri's power, the threat the rulers pose is growing. As Bryce, Hunt, and their friends get pulled into the...
Author
Formats:
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams, and each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to be considered for initiation. Enter the latest round of six: Libby Rhodes and...
Author
Description
"The one thing you never talk about while you're in the Scholomance is what you'll do when you get out. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. But it's all we dream about: the hideously slim chance we'll survive to make it out the gates and improbably find ourselves with a life ahead of us, a life outside the Scholomance halls. And now the impossible dream has come true. I'm out, we're all out--and I didn't even have to turn into...
Author
Formats:
Checked Out
1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family -- and a new love -- changes the course of her life. As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don't mingle and draw attention. And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, she's used to being alone and she...
Author
Formats:
Description
"Casteel Da'Neer knows all too well that very few are as cunning or vicious as the Blood Queen, but no one, not even him, could've prepared for the staggering revelations. The magnitude of what the Blood Queen has done is almost unthinkable. Nothing will stop Poppy from freeing her King and destroying everything the Blood Crown stands for. With the strength of the Primal of Life's guards behind her, and the support of the wolven, Poppy must convince...
11) Kaikeyi: a novel
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Main Library - Adult
Fiction Patel, V
1 available
Fiction Patel, V
1 available
Southside - Adult
Fiction Patel, V
1 available
Fiction Patel, V
1 available
Description
""I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions -- much good it did me." So begins Kaikeyi's tale. The only daughter of the kingdom of Kekaya, she is raised on grand stories about the might and benevolence of the gods: how they churned vast oceans to obtain the nectar of immortality, how they offer the devoted and the wise magnificent boons, how they vanquish evil and ensure the land prospers. Yet she watches...
12) The book eaters
Author
Description
"Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters is a contemporary fantasy debut. It's a story of motherhood, sacrifice, and hope; of queer identity and learning to accept who you are; of gilded lies and the danger of believing the narratives others create for you. Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Main Library - Adult
Fiction Barnhill, K
1 available
Fiction Barnhill, K
1 available
Southside - Adult
Fiction Barnhill, K
1 available
Fiction Barnhill, K
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours. But this version of 1950's America is characterized by a significant event: The Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales and talons, left a trail of fiery destruction in their path, and took to the skies. Was it their choice? What will become of those left behind? Why did Alex's beloved Aunt Marla transform but her mother did not?...
14) Nettle & Bone
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Main Library - Adult
Fiction Kingfisher, T
1 available
Fiction Kingfisher, T
1 available
Oliver La Farge - Adult
Fiction Kingfisher, T
1 available
Fiction Kingfisher, T
1 available
Description
"This isn't a fairytale where the princess marries a prince. It's one where she kills him. From Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes an original and subversive new fantasy adventure. After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra -- the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter -- has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. No one, except for Marra herself. Seeking help...
Author
Formats:
Description
"Every great city has a soul. A human avatar that embodies their city's heart and wields its magic. New York? She's got six. But all is not well in the city that never sleeps. Though Brooklyn, Manny, Bronca, Venezia, Padmini, and Neek have temporarily managed to stop the Woman in White from invading -- and destroying the entire universe in the process -- the mysterious capital "E" Enemy has more subtle powers at her disposal. A new candidate for mayor...
Author
Description
Jack Tamerlaine hasn't stepped foot on Cadence in ten long years, content to study music at the mainland university. But when young girls start disappearing from the isle, Jack is summoned home to help find them. Enchantments run deep on Cadence: gossip is carried by the wind, plaid shawls can be as strong as armor, and the smallest cut of a knife can instill fathomless fear. The capricious spirits that rule the isle by fire, water, earth, and wind...
17) Thistlefoot
Author
On Shelf
Main Library - Adult
Fiction Nethercott, G
1 available
Fiction Nethercott, G
1 available
Oliver La Farge - Adult
Fiction Nethercott, G
1 available
Fiction Nethercott, G
1 available
Southside - Adult
Fiction Nethercott, G
2 available
Fiction Nethercott, G
2 available
Description
"The Yaga siblings -- Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist -- have been estranged since childhood, separated both by resentment and by wide miles of American highway. But when they learn that they are to receive a mysterious inheritance, the siblings are reunited -- only to discover that their bequest isn't land or money, but something far stranger: a sentient house on chicken legs. Thistlefoot, as...
Author
On Shelf
Oliver La Farge - Adult
Fiction Abdullah, C
1 available
Fiction Abdullah, C
1 available
Southside - Adult
Fiction Abdullah, C
1 available
Fiction Abdullah, C
1 available
Description
"Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hunts and sells illegal magic. When she saves the life of a cowardly prince, she draws the attention of his powerful father, the sultan, who blackmails her into finding an ancient lamp that has the power to revive the barren land -- at the cost of sacrificing all jinn. With no choice but to obey or be executed, Loulie journeys with the sultan's oldest...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Main Library - Adult
Fiction Miro, J
1 available
Fiction Miro, J
1 available
Oliver La Farge - Adult
Fiction Miro, J
1 available
Fiction Miro, J
1 available
Description
"England, 1882. In Victorian London, two children with mysterious powers are hunted by a figure of darkness -- a man made of smoke. Sixteen-year-old Charlie Ovid, despite a brutal childhood in Mississippi, doesn't have a scar on him. His body heals itself, whether he wants it to or not. Marlowe, a foundling from a railway freight car, shines with a strange bluish light. He can melt or mend flesh. When a jaded female detective is recruited to escort...