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Trader Charles de Lint FIC DE LINT Leonard Trader is a luthier, a maker of guitars. Johnny Devlin is chronically Fantasy: unemployed. Leonard is solitary, quiet, responsible. Johnny is a lady-killer, a drunk, Stories That Take You Away From It All a charming loser. When they inexplicably wake up in each other's bodies, Johnny gleefully moves into Leonard's comfortable and stable existence, leaving Leonard to In The Night Garden pick up the pieces of a life he had no part in Catherynne M. Valente breaking. Penniless, friendless, homeless, FIC VALENTE Leonard begins a journey that will take him Secreted away in a garden, a lonely beyond the streets of the city to an girl spins stories to warm a curious otherworld of dreams and spirits, where he prince. Peculiar feats and unspeakable must confront both the unscrupulous fates loop through each other and Johnny Devlin and his own deepest fears. back again to meet in the tapestry of In The Forest Of her voice. Inked on her eyelids, each twisting, tattooed tale is a piece in the Forgetting puzzle of the girl's own hidden history. Theodora Goss FIC GOSS A collection of 16 stories possessing a spare, surprising beauty, though the modern-day characters, like those in fairy Luka And The Fire Of Life tales, are constrained by the hard lessons Salman Rushdie Goss sets out to teach. The three linked FIC RUSHDIE stories, "Miss Emily Gray," "Conrad" and Luka must save his father, for Rashid "Lessons with Miss Gray," turn on the Khalifa, the legendary storyteller of Kahani, character of the title, a dark Mary Poppins has fallen into sleep from which no one can –like woman who exists to grant children wake him. To keep his father from slipping their hearts' desires—often at a high price. away, Luka must travel to the Magic World Goss layers the Victorian tone and and steal the Fire of Life. Thus begins a everyday magic of these tales with quest replete with unlikely creatures and commentary on familial negotiations and seemingly insurmountable challenges as the grave consequences for heedless Luka and an assortment of companions behavior. race through peril, pass through the land of Ysabel the Badly Behaved Gods, and reach the Guy Gavriel Kay Fire, where Luka's fate, and that of his father, will be decided. FIC KAY Saint-Saveur Cathedral of Aix-en- The Bards Of Bone Plain Provence is an ancient structure of many secrets-a perfect monument to fill the Patricia A. McKillip lens of a celebrated photographer, and a FIC MCKILLIP perfect place for the photographer's son, Scholar Phelan Cle is researching Bone Ned Marriner, to lose himself while his Plain-which has been studied for the last father works. While exploring Saint- 500 years, though no one has been able to Sauveur, Ned meets American exchange locate it as a real place. Archaeologist -student Kate Wenger, and the two Jonah Cle, Phelan's father, is also hunting surprise a knife-carrying, scar-faced through time, piecing history together from stranger, who tells them that they have forgotten trinkets. His disciple is Princess blundered into the corner of a very old Beatrice, the king's youngest daughter. story. Ned and Kate, then the rest of his When they unearth a disk marked with family, are drawn into an ancient conflict ancient runes, Beatrice pursues the secrets with the shades of Celtic spirits. of a lost language that she suddenly notices all around her, hidden in plain sight. The Book Of Lost Things John Connolly The Worm Ouroboros M CONNOLLY E.R. Eddison High in his attic bedroom, 12-year-old FIC EDDISON David mourns the death of his mother. In an imaginary world that appears He is angry and alone, with only the mainly medieval and partly books for company. But those books reminiscent of Norse sagas, the story have begun to whisper to him, and as follows the protracted war between he takes refuge in his imagination, he the domineering King Gorice of finds that reality and fantasy have Witchland and the Lords of begun to meld. While his family falls Demonland. apart around him, David is violently propelled into a land that is a strange reflection of his own world… a world populated by heroes and monsters and ruled over by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book… The Book of Lost Things. Stardust The Last Unicorn Neil Gaiman Peter S. Beagle SF GAIMAN In the tranquil fields and meadows of long FIC BEAGLE -ago England, there is a small hamlet that This tale recounts the quest of the last has stood on a jut of granite for 600 unicorn, who leaves the protection of years. Just to the east stands a high the enchanted forest to search for her stone wall, for which the village is named. own kind, and who is joined by Here, in the hamlet of Wall, young Schmedrick the Magician and Molly Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the Grue. When they arrive in the kingdom hauntingly beautiful Victoria Forester. of the evil King Haggard, they must One crisp October eve, Tristran makes meet the challenge of the Red Bull and his love a promise -- an impetuous vow the unicorn becomes just a little bit that will send him through the only breach mortal. in the wall, across the pasture...and into the most exhilarating adventure of his life. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell The Magicians Susanna Clarke Lev Grossman FIC CLARKE FIC GROSSMAN English magicians were once the wonder Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but of the known world, with fairy servants at miserable. A senior in high school, their beck and call; they could command he's still secretly preoccupied with a winds, mountains, and woods. But by the series of fantasy novels he read as a early 1800s they have long since lost the child, set in a magical land of Fillory. ability to perform magic. They can only Imagine his surprise when he finds write long, dull papers about it, while fairy himself unexpectedly admitted to a servants are nothing but a fading memory. very secret, very exclusive college of But at Hurtfew Abbey in Yorkshire, the magic in upstate New York, where he rich, reclusive Mr. Norrell has assembled a receives a rigorous education in the wonderful library of lost and forgotten craft of modern sorcery. He also books from England's magical past and discovers the other things people learn regained some of the powers of England's in college: friendship, love, sex, booze, magicians. and boredom. Something is missing, though. Magic doesn't bring him the adventure he dreamed it would. After The Stolen Child graduation he and his friends make a Keith Donohue stunning discovery: Fillory is real. FIC DONOHUE In The Land Of Time When Henry Day runs away at age seven, he is captured by a gang of Edward (Lord) Dunsany hobgoblins, or changelings. One of SF DUNSANY them assumes his identity and takes A pioneer in the realm of imaginative his place in his family, and the original literature, Lord Dunsany has influenced Henry, now called Aniday, adapts to such authors as J.R.R. Tolkien and H. P. life with ageless children who survive Lovecraft. This unique collection of short in the woods, awaiting their turn to stories ranges over five decades of his change places with a human. Told in work. Liberal selections of earlier tales-- alternating voices by the impostor and including the entire Gods of Pegana--are the real Henry, this story shows how followed by memorable later tales, their lives intertwine as they come to including several about the garrulous terms with their new realities. traveler Joseph Jorkens and the outrageous murder tale "The Two Bottles of Relish." Throughout, the stories are united by Dunsany's cosmic vision, his impeccable and mellifluous prose, and his distinctively Irish sense of whimsy. The Summer Tree The Night Circus Guy Gavriel Kay Erin Morgenstern FIC MORGENST FIC KAY The circus arrives without warning. Five university students embark on No announcements precede it. It is a journey of self-discovery when simply there, when yesterday it was they enter a realm of wizards and not. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves , warriors, gods and mythical and it is only open at night. Behind creatures- and good and evil. This the scenes, a fierce competition is is the first novel of the critically underway--a duel between two young acclaimed fantasy trilogy, The magicians, Celia and Marco, who Fionavar Tapestry. have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose. They do not know that this is a game in which only one can be left standing. However, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst in love--a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands. .