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Author
Publisher
SAGA, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Arrested on accusations of witchcraft and treason, Chant finds himself trapped in a cold, filthy jail cell in a foreign land. With only his advocate, the unhelpful and uninterested Consanza, he quickly finds himself cast as a bargaining chip in a brewing battle between the five rulers of this small, backwards, and petty nation.
4) The hakawati
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. The city is a shell of the Beirut Osama remembers, but he and his friends and family take solace in the things that have always sustained them: gossip, laughter, and, above all, stories. Osama's grandfather was a hakawati, or storyteller, and his bewitching stories--of his arrival in Lebanon, an orphan of the Turkish wars, and of how he...
5) Clockwork
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Long ago in Germany, a storyteller's story and an apprentice clockwork-maker's nightmare meet in a menacing, lifelike figure created by the strange Dr. Kalmenius.
6) Shadowbridge
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
7) Lord Tophet
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Author
Series
Khalifa Brothers volume 1
Publisher
Granta Books in association with Viking
Pub. Date
1990.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
The author of The Satanic Verses returns with his most humorous and accessible novel yet. This is the story of Haroun, a 12-year-old boy whose father Rashid is the greatest storyteller in a city so sad that it has forgotten its name. When the gift of gab suddenly deserts Rashid, Haroun sets out on an adventure to rescue his print.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A newlywed couple's car breaks down on a lonely desert road. The groom goes to look for help and a mysterious strangers stops to help and waits with the new bride. Aaron Quicksilver is a mysterious storyteller whose listeners invariably end up as the subjects of his gruesome, grisly tales. He tells the new bride stranded on a desert highway a horrifying account of a set of carnivorous teeth. Then he entertains a pickpocket with a spine-chilling story...
12) A choir of lies
Author
Series
Conspiracy of truths volume 2
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Three years ago, Ylfing watched his master-Chant tear a nation apart with nothing but the words on his tongue. Now Ylfing is all alone in a new realm, brokenhearted and grieving--but a Chant in his own right, employed as a translator to a wealthy merchant of luxury goods, Sterre de Waeyer. But Ylfing has been struggling to come to terms with what his master did, with the audiences he's been alienated from, and with the stories he can no longer trust...
13) My abuelita
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Language
English
Description
With great gusto, a child's grandmother performs deep knee bends, consumes a breakfast of "huevos estrellados, " and practices vocal exercises before going to work as a storyteller.
Author
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
"This first documentation of the Storyteller phenomenon contains a wealth of information for scholars, collectors, and general readers. Barbara Babcock's text links the invention of the Storyteller to Pueblo figurative tradition, traces the revival of figurative ceramics, makes stylistic comparisons, and discusses the artistic contributions of individual artists and Pueblos. The book is impressively illustrated and features a large section of color...
Author
Publisher
Hoopoe, an imprint of The American University in Cairo Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Nadine is a jinn tasked with one job: telling the stories of the dead. She rises every morning to gather pomegranate seeds--the souls of the dead--that have fallen during the night. With her daughter Layala at her side, she eats the seeds and tells their stories. Only then can the departed pass through the final gate of death. But when the seeds stop falling, Nadine knows something is terribly wrong. All her worst fears are confirmed when she is...
16) Poisoned prose
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Olivia thought gathering some of the most renowned storytellers in one place would be a nice, simple way for herself and the Bayside Book Writers to appreciate their talents. But things take a dark turn when the most famous storyteller in the nation, the captivating performer Violetta Devereaux, announces onstage that she will meet her end in Oyster Bay. When Violetta is discovered murdered after the show, everyone involved with the retreat becomes...
18) Cursed
Author
Series
Gilded volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
"When the true intentions of the Erlking are revealed, which could forever alter the mortal realm, Serilda and Gild must foil the Erlking's evil agenda by solving the mystery of Gild's forgotten name in order to protect their unborn child"--
19) Veil
Author
Series
Hush novel volume 2
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Shae and her friends journey to the mysterious land of Gondal in search of a dangerous magical book that could alter the fabric of the world, but as they cross the borders, they discover a world ruled not by magic but technology and industry--one fraught with perils of its own.
