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Where is Wendy? Leading a labor strike against the Lost Boys, of course. In Jane Yolen's first full collection in more than 10 years, discover new and uncollected tales of beloved characters, literary legends, and much more.
A Scottish academic unearths ancient evil in a fishing village. Edgar Allan Poe's young bride is beguiled by a most unusual bird. Dorothy, lifted from Kansas, returns as a gymnastic sophisticate. Emily Dickinson dwells in possibility and sails away in a starship made of light. Alice's wicked nemesis has jaws and claws but really needs a sense of humor.
Enter the Emerald Circus and be astonished by the transformations within.
Winner of the 2018 World Fantasy Award.
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Jane Yolen never fails me for a reading choice. Her stories are always full of magic, compassion & a sense of childlike wonder, even in the tales obviously meant for adults. These tales, some new takes on old classics, others completely new, are sure to entertain & give warmth & light during cold, dark times.
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Eight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. There, she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and exact her revenge. Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the one person with power over her mother, fled to the human world. There, she lives feral in the woods. Lonely, and still haunted by the merciless torments she endured in the Court of Teeth, she bides her time by releasing mortals from foolish bargains.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved Being Back in Elfhame
- By K Demps on 01-23-23
By: Holly Black
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The Lost Sisters
- By: Holly Black
- Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,369
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,207
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,206
While Jude fought for power in the Court of Elfhame against the cruel Prince Cardan, her sister, Taryn, began to fall in love with the trickster Locke. Half-apology and half-explanation, it turns out Taryn has some secrets of her own to reveal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Still Hate Taryn
- By Samantha Sophia on 10-26-18
By: Holly Black
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How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
- By: Holly Black, Rovina Cai - illustrator
- Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 823
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 720
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 720
Once upon a time, there was a boy with a wicked tongue. Before he was a cruel prince or a wicked king, he was a faerie child with a heart of stone. Number one New York Times best-selling author Holly Black reveals a deeper look into the dramatic life of Elfhame's enigmatic high king, Cardan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This was a good story
- By Brittany on 12-29-20
By: Holly Black, and others
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The Silver Mask
- Magisterium, Book 4
- By: Holly Black, Cassandra Clare
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 861
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 789
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 792
The mystery and the magic intensifies in the fourth installment of the remarkable Magisterium series.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My new Harry Potter!
- By Marshall on 09-08-17
By: Holly Black, and others
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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
- By: Holly Black
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 980
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 907
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 905
One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked, opulent heart of Coldtown itself.
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4 out of 5 stars
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'Coldest Girl' is on Fire!
- By Angela Rhodes on 09-13-13
By: Holly Black
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The Darkest Part of the Forest
- By: Holly Black
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,366
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,225
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,224
A girl makes a secret sacrifice to the faerie king in this lush New York Times best-selling fantasy by author Holly Black. In the woods is a glass coffin. It rests on the ground, and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives...Hazel and her brother, Ben, live in Fairfold, where humans and the Folk exist side by side. Since they were children, Hazel and Ben have been telling each other stories about the boy in the glass coffin, that he is a prince and they are valiant knights, pretending their prince would be different from the other faeries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Holly Black does it again
- By Julie on 05-08-15
By: Holly Black
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The Bronze Key
- The Magisterium, Book 3
- By: Holly Black, Cassandra Clare
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,054
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 947
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 942
Students at the Magisterium are supposed to be safe. Under the watchful eyes of the mages, they are taught to use magic to bring order to a chaotic world. But now the chaos is fighting back. Call, Tamara, and Aaron should be worrying about things like pop quizzes and magic contests. Instead, after the shocking death of one of their classmates, they must track down a sinister killer...and risk their own lives in the process.
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4 out of 5 stars
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You are who?
- By Krista Jasper on 09-12-16
By: Holly Black, and others
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The Copper Gauntlet
- Magisterium, Book 2
- By: Holly Black, Cassandra Clare
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,342
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,225
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,225
Callum Hunt's summer break isn't like other kids'. His closest companion is a Chaos-ridden wolf, Havoc. His father suspects him of being secretly evil. And, of course, most kids aren't heading back to the magical world of the Magisterium in the fall. It's not easy for Call...and it gets even harder after he checks out his basement and discovers that his dad might be trying to destroy both him and Havoc. Call escapes to the Magisterium - but things only intensify there.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Harry Potter with a twist is back
- By Canadian eReader on 09-08-15
By: Holly Black, and others
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The Iron Trial
- Book One of The Magisterium
- By: Holly Black, Cassandra Clare
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,939
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,763
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,757
Most kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial. Not Callum Hunt. He wants to fail. All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. If he succeeds at the Iron Trial and is admitted into the Magisterium, he is sure it can only mean bad things for him. So he tries his best to do his worst - and fails at failing. Now the Magisterium awaits him. It's a place that's both sensational and sinister, with dark ties to his past and a twisty path to his future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Harry Potter it ain't!
- By Douglas on 09-11-14
By: Holly Black, and others
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The Field Guide
- The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 1
- By: Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black
- Narrated by: Mark Hamill
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
After finding a mysterious, handmade field guide in the attic of the ramshackle old mansion they’ve just moved into, Jared; his twin brother, Simon; and their older sister, Mallory, discover that there’s a magical and maybe dangerous world existing parallel to our own—the world of faerie. The Grace children want to share their story, but the faeries will do everything possible to stop them.
By: Tony DiTerlizzi, and others
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The Seeing Stone
- The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 2
- By: Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black
- Narrated by: Mark Hamill
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Thanks to the mysterious field guide left behind by their long-lost great-great-uncle Arthur Spiderwick, life for the Grace kids—Jared, Simon, and Mallory—is beyond weird. When Simon goes missing, Jared is convinced creatures from the faerie world have something to do with it. Mallory is not convinced. That is, until she and Jared have to contend with a band of menacing, marauding goblins. Simon is clearly in danger, and it’s up to Mallory and Simon to save him, before it’s too late.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mark Hamill!
- By Ruth Scott on 03-09-23
By: Tony DiTerlizzi, and others
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The Golden Tower
- Magisterium Series, Book 5
- By: Holly Black, Cassandra Clare
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 719
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 645
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 641
The stakes have never been higher than in the final installment of Magisterium from the best-selling powerhouse authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun Ending
- By J. M. Sirley on 10-01-18
By: Holly Black, and others
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Black Heart
- The Curse Workers, Book 3
- By: Holly Black
- Narrated by: Jesse Eisenberg
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 289
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 257
In a world where magic is illegal, Cassel Sharpe has the most deadly ability of all: With one touch, he can transform any object - including a person - into something else entirely. And that makes him a wanted man. The Feds are willing to forgive all his past crimes if he’ll only leave his con-artist family behind and go straight. But why does going straight feel so crooked? For one thing, it means being on the opposite side of the law from Lila, the girl he loves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can You Live Long Enough to Make The Big Score?
- By Dave on 04-25-12
By: Holly Black
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The Charmed Wife
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 98
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Cinderella married the man of her dreams - the perfect ending she deserved after diligently following all the fairy-tale rules. Yet now, 13 and a half years later, things have gone badly wrong, and her life is far from perfect. One night, fed up and exhausted, she sneaks out of the palace to get help from the witch who, for a price, offers love potions to disgruntled housewives. But as the old hag flings the last ingredients into the cauldron, Cinderella doesn't ask for a love spell to win back her Prince Charming. Instead, she wants him dead.
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3 out of 5 stars
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By: Olga Grushin
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Wakenhyrst
- By: Michelle Paver
- Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
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In Edwardian Suffolk, a manor house stands alone in a lost corner of the Fens: a glinting wilderness of water whose whispering reeds guard ancient secrets. Maud is a lonely child growing up without a mother, ruled by her repressive father. When he finds a painted medieval devil in a graveyard, unhallowed forces are awakened. Maud's battle has begun. She must survive a world haunted by witchcraft, the age-old legends of her beloved fen - and the even more nightmarish demons of her father's past.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Strangely compelling
- By B. Coleman on 02-23-20
By: Michelle Paver
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My Name Is Resolute
- By: Nancy E. Turner
- Narrated by: Mhairi Morrison
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 129
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The year is 1729, and Resolute Talbot and her siblings are captured by pirates, taken from their family in Jamaica and brought to the New World. Resolute and her sister are sold into slavery in colonial New England and taught the trade of spinning and weaving. When Resolute finds herself alone in Lexington, Massachusetts, she struggles to find her way in a society that is quick to judge a young woman without a family. As the seeds of rebellion against England grow, Resolute is torn between following the rules and breaking free.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful story
- By Cheryl Lawhead on 06-10-21
By: Nancy E. Turner
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Beyond the Pale
- A Fantasy Anthology
- By: Jim Butcher, Saladin Ahmed, Peter Beagle, and others
- Narrated by: Jarret Lemaster
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Beyond the Pale is an anthology of 11 dark fantasy and paranormal stories that skirt the border between our world and others. Was that my imagination, or did I hear something under my bed? What was that blurred movement in my darkened closet? There is but a thin veil separating the real and the fantastic and therein dwell the inhabitants of these stories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Better than expected
- By Amazon Customer on 02-24-20
By: Jim Butcher, and others
