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Author
Series
Norendy tales volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Shut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret, five friends--a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an owl--bicker, boast, and comfort one another in the dark. Individually, they dream of song and light, freedom and flight, purpose and glory, but they all agree they are part of a larger story, bound each to each by chance, bonded by the heart's mysteries. When at last their shared fate arrives, landing them on a mantel in a blue room...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
163 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this collection of reimagined Indonesian fairy tales, the girls are the ones with power. The power to fight evil, to protect others, and to grow as people. Because why should girls in folktales always need saving? What if they save themselves instead? Based on graphic novelist Clar Angkasa’s favorite childhood stories and gorgeously illustrated with a dedicated color palette for each tale, this retelling of “Keong Mas,” “Bawang Merah Bawang...
Author
Series
Dark Olympus novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Eurydice and Orpheus and Charon. Eurydice Dimitriou has always been the innocent sister, but she's finally ready to step out of the long shadow cast by her powerful family...and the ex who shattered her heart. Perhaps rough hands on soft skin are exactly what she needs to forget her heartbreak once and for all? Charon Ariti has been Hades's right-hand man for years. He's given everything to the lower city, but...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The stories in Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning, clawing, ravenous yearning: the hunger to be held, and seen, and known. And the terror, too: to be loved too well, or not enough, or for long enough. To be laid bare before your sweetheart, to their horror. To be recognized as the monstrous thing you are.
Two teenage girls working at a sinister roadside attraction called the Eternal...
Author
Series
Dark Olympus novels volume 5
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
He was my enemy. My lover. My husband. And the one man I swore by all Olympus I would destroy.
*A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Aphrodite and Hephaestus (and Pandora and Adonis).*
Aphrodite has never flinched at getting her perfectly manicured hands dirty, and she's not about to start now—even if that means marrying Olympus's enemy number one, the new Hephaestus. She has a wicked plan to keep
...7) The haunting
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Description
On Halloween, a copycat killer may be stalking a town still reeling from murders that took place one year earlier.
8) Vlad
Author
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
122 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
After centuries of war and blood shortages in Eastern Europe, an undead Vlad the Impaler moves to Mexico and offers eternal life to the only child of Yves and Asuncin̤ Navarro in exchange for their legal and real estate services.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Manisha is no stranger to monsters--she's been running from them for years, from beasts who roam the jungle to the King's army, who forced her people, the naga, to scatter to the ends of the earth. You might think that the kingdom's famed holy temples atop the floating mountains, where Manisha is now a priestess, would be safe--but you would be wrong. Seventeen-year-old Pratyush is a famed slayer of monsters, one of the King's most...
10) A tempest of tea
Author
Series
Blood and tea volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a criminal mastermind and collector of secrets. Her prestigious tearoom transforms into an illegal bloodhouse by night, catering to the vampires feared by society. But when her establishment is threatened, Arthie is forced to strike an unlikely deal with an alluring adversary to save it--she can't do the job alone. Calling on some of the city's most skilled outcasts, Arthie hatches a plan to infiltrate...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
142 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This spook-tactular collection features more than 20 fright-filled stories from around the globe. Retold with ghoulish relish by professional storyteller Wendy Shearer and beautifully illustrated by Teo Georgiev, these hair-raising tales are sure to send shivers down your spine."--
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
315 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
Haunting illustrations are woven throughout these horror stories that follow one extended Cherokee family across the centuries and well into the future as they encounter predators of all kinds in each time period.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ignoring a handwritten warning from her grandmother, Amelia reads an old book she finds in the attic, and as elements from the stories begin to come to life around her, she realizes that she may be in a spooky story of her own.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Calista Wynn will lose her ability to speak with the dead on her thirteenth birthday. And with only a few weeks left, children have started going missing. When Calista meets The Tall Lady--an angry spirit with a grudge against Calista, her family, and the entire town--she knows she's found the ghost responsible for the disappearances. It's up to Calista, the only one who can see The Tall Lady, to stop her. If she doesn't, Calista...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Monsters are still lurking on the island of Barrow's Bay. Dare Coates is sure of it. No drifter or ruffian could have killed her father, the Captain of the Guard, while he was on patrol. But everyone insists that monsters have been gone for years now. Dare's mother. Her classmates. Even the governor, who swiftly marries her mother just months after her father's death. Dare's suspicions grow even stronger when the governor suddenly ships her off...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
246 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Mythology class friends thought they were safe from the Dark Anitos, but now the evil Budniaan has arrived in their world with his army of zombie warriors and demented engkantos demons, and their lives are once again at stake. With Rey and Misha on the other side of the globe and the group at odds over what to do, the one course they can all agree on is the inevitable one--reunite and combine their strengths to thwart Budiaan's threat. Revisiting...
17) Spirit week
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Two people, aspiring filmmaker Elijah and thirteen-year-old tutor Suzy, are invited to a largely deserted hotel in Estes Park, Colorado to make a film about reclusive horror author Jack Axworth, and tutor his son, Danny; but the situation is not as expected: Jack is suffering from early onset dementia, and convinced that his books have released evil, is trying to buy up and destroy them as well as the hotel he lives in--but nobody is quite what they...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where the irrepressible Pinocchio gradually learns what it means...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Min the fox spirit and her ghost brother Jun are sent on a goodwill mission to prevent war from breaking out, they end up getting stranded on a death planet behind enemy lines"--
While on a mission to cement peace between the Sun Clans and the Thousand Worlds, Min the fox spirit and her ghost brother Jun get stranded on a death planet with Haneul the dragon spirit and Sebin the tiger spirit. To survive, the young cadets will have to rely on...
Author
Series
Indian Lake trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's been four years in prison since Jade Daniels last saw her hometown of Proofrock, Idaho, the day she took the fall, protecting her friend Letha and her family from incrimination. Since then, her reputation, and the town, have changed dramatically. There's a lot of unfinished business in Proofrock, from serial killer cultists to the rich trying to buy Western authenticity. But there's one aspect of Proofrock no one wants to confront... until Jade...
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