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"Spanning Gaiman's career to date, The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction is a ... collection from one of the world's most beloved writers, chosen by those who know his work best: his devoted readers. A ... representation of Gaiman's ... imaginative fiction, this ... volume includes excerpts from each of his five novels for adults--Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane--and nearly fifty of his short...
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Warlord chronicles volume 2
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Having reinvented the legend of Arthur in his bestselling "The Winter King", Cornwell resumes his magical recreation of the well-known story in this sequel. After securing a fragile peace with the Saxons, Arthur turns his attention toward new a new kind of foe: those who pose as friends.
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The name Kelmscott bears a legendary and magical sound among bibliophiles. When William Morris founded the Kelmscott Press in 1890, he combined his medieval craft ideals with his skills as one of Britain's most sophisticated, progressive designers. He achieved his goal - the creation of books as beautiful as those of the Middle Ages - by abandoning many of the commercial practices of his day. Morris designed types of great elegance and reintroduced...
4) Pinocchio
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Old woodcarver Geppetto's puppet creation, PINOCCHIO, magically comes to life with dreams of becoming a real boy. Easily led astray, Pinocchio tumbles from one misadventure to another as he is tricked, kidnapped and chased by bandits.
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Welcome to a land Ray Bradbury calls "the Undiscovered Country" of his imagination--that vast territory of ideas, concepts, notions and conceits where the stories you now hold were born. America's premier living author of short fiction, Bradbury has spent many lifetimes in this remarkable place--strolling through empty, shadow-washed fields at midnight; exploring long-forgotten rooms gathering dust behind doors bolted years ago to keep strangers locked...
7) Fury
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Menagerie (Rachel Vincent) volume 3
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1986: Rebecca Essig leaves a slumber party early but comes home to a massacre-committed by her own parents. Only one of her siblings has survived. But as the tragic event unfolds, she begins to realize that other than a small army of six-year-olds, she is among very few survivors of a nationwide slaughter. The Reaping has begun. Present day: Pregnant and on the run with a small band of compatriots, Delilah Marlow is determined to bring her baby into...
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"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands...
10) Excalibur
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Warlord chronicles volume 3
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Tells the story of Arthur's desperate attempt to triumph over a ruined marriage, the Saxons' determination to destroy him, and of Merlin and Nimue's dangerous quest to summon the gods back to Britain.
12) Big Gold Brick
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It recounts the story of fledgling writer Samuel Liston and his experiences with Floyd Deveraux, the enigmatic middle-aged father of two who enlists Samuel to write his biography. But the circumstances that lead up to this arrangement in the first place are quite astonishing and efforts to write the biography are quickly stymied by ensuing chaos in this darkly comedic, genre-bending film.
13) Spectacle
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Menagerie (Rachel Vincent) volume 2
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"When their coup of Metzger's Menagerie is discovered, Delilah and her fellow cryptids find their newly won freedom stripped away as they are sold into the Savage Spectacle, a private collection specializing in ruthless cryptid cage matches and living party favors"--
14) The wild things
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
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Facing trouble at home with his father gone and his mother and sister uninterested in him, Max runs away from home during an argument only to end up in the island of the Wild Things. Soon Max becomes the king of the island. But things get complicated when Max realizes his subjects want as much from him as he wants from them.
15) Boy, Snow, Bird
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"From the prizewinning author of Mr. Fox, the Snow White fairy tale brilliantly recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity. In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty-the opposite of the life she's left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never...
16) Finding Orion
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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790L
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"Rion Kwirk comes from a rather odd family. His mother named him and his sisters after her favorite constellations, and his father makes funky-flavored jellybeans for a living. One sister acts as if she's always on stage, and the other is a walking dictionary. But no one in the family is more odd than Rion's grandfather, Papa Kwirk. He's the kind of guy who shows up on his motorcycle only on holidays handing out crossbows and stuffed squirrels as...
17) Pigs: a novel
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Four children live on an island that serves as the repository for all the world's garbage. Trash arrives, the children sort it, and then they feed it to a herd of insatiable pigs: a perfect system. But when a barrel washes ashore with a boy inside, the children must decide whether he is more of the world's detritus, meant to be fed to the pigs, or whether he is one of them. Written in exquisitely wrought prose, Pigs asks questions about community,...
18) The Silver chair
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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840L
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Eustace Scrubb and Jill Pole are sent by the great lion Aslan on a quest to find the son of aged King Caspian stolen from him many years before by a wicked enchantress. The children and their Narnian companion Puddleglum find Prince Rilian, free him from his enchantment, and return him to his dying father.
19) Grendel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
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860L
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The Beowulf story retold from the monster's point of view, revealing the darker side of human nature and values.
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"After their shattering defeats at the hands of brilliant General Janus bet Vhalnich, the opposing powers have called all sides to the negotiating table in hopes of securing an end to the war. Queen Raesinia of Vordan is eager to see the return of peace, but Janus insists that any peace with the implacable Sworn Church of Elysium is doomed to fail. For their Priests of the Black, there can be no truce with the heretics and demons they seek to destroy,...
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