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(0)Patricia A. McKillip
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A collection of short stories, within whose pages we "find a youthful artist possessed by both his painting and his muse and seductive travelers from the sea enrapturing distant lovers. The statue of a mermaid comes suddenly to life, and two friends are transfixed by a haunted estate"--Amazon.com.
4) Od magic
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Possessing a unique talent for connecting with the agricultural environment, Brenden Vetch is hired as a gardener by the wizard Od, but Brenden's gifts could tip the balance of power in the Kingdom of Numis.
Author
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The death of her beloved grandfather forces bookstore owner Sylvia Lynn to return to her childhood home in upstate New York to confront the grandmother who had raised her and the nearby woods that had both enticed and terrified her.
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Scholar Phelan Cle is researching Bone Plain--which has been studied for the last 500 years, though no one has been able to locate it as a real place. Archaeologist Jonah Cle, Phelan's father, is also hunting through time, piecing history together from forgotten trinkets. His most eager disciple is Princess Beatrice, the king's youngest daughter. When they unearth a disk marked with ancient runes, Beatrice pursues the secrets of a lost language that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of conflict and unrest the Prince of Hed solves the puzzle of his future when he learns to harp the wind, discovers who the shape changers are, and understands his own relationship to Deth, harpist of the wizard Ohm.
10) Kingfisher
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the new fantasy from the award-winning author of the Riddle-Master Trilogy, a young man comes of age amid family secrets and revelations, and transformative magic.
Hidden away from the world by his mother, the powerful sorceress Heloise Oliver, Pierce has grown up working in her restaurant in Desolation Point. Traveling strangers tell him of the legendary capital city of Severluna. Heloise tells her son the truth: about his father, a knight in...
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
On discovering he is a prince a bard of lowly status sets out to reclaim his principality. As a child, Rook's family was killed in a massacre, from which he was the sole survivor and the shock caused him to lose his memory. Now his memory has returned and so have his magical powers.
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Stylistically rooted in fairy tale and mythology, McKillip explores imperceptible landscapes in these stories. There are princesses dancing with dead suitors, a knight in love with an official of exotic lineage, and fortune's fool stealing into the present instead of the future. In one tale, a time-traveling angel is forbidden to intervene in Cotton Mather's religious ravings, while another narrative finds a wizard seduced in his youth by the Faerie...
15) The night gift
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Description
As they work to create a beautiful room for the brother of one of them who had attempted suicide, three friends find their lives deeply affected by their project.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Raised on Eld mountain with only her father's magical menagerie for company, a young wizard is drawn irrevocably into the human world with all its sorrows and delights when a baby comes into her care.
