ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults
"It is the heart of this place, and it is dying," says the Beast. And it is true; the center of the Beast's palace, the glittering glasshouse that brings Beauty both comfort and delight in her strange new environme... View details
Her earliest memory was of waking from the dream. It was also her only clear memory of her mother. Her mother was beautiful, dashing, the toast of the town. Her youngest daughter remembered the blur o...
The New York Times bestselling and Newbery Award-winning author tells a "brilliant tale of a sumptuous world" (New York Times Book Review)
All the creatures of the forest and field and riverbank knew the infant was special. She was the princess, spi... View details
The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned ...
"A fierce and beautiful story of rage and compassion, betrayal and loyalty, damage and love…A fairy tale for adults, one you'll never forget."-Alice Hoffman, New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic
The only daughter of a beloved king... View details
MANY YEARS LATER SHE REMEMBERED HOW HER PARENTS HAD looked to her when she was a small child: her father as tall as a tree, and merry and bright and golden, with her beautiful black-haired mother at h...
National bestselling author Juliet Marillier revisits the classic fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast in this "engaging Gaelic fantasy romance staring two fascinating reluctant souls"(Genre Go Round Reviews).
Whistling Tor is a place of secrets, a my... View details
Dusk was falling, and mist was closing in over a landscape curiously devoid of features. Apart from low clumps of grass, all I could see nearby was an ancient marker stone whose inscription was obscur...
ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults
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SHE SCOWLED AT HER GLASS of orange juice. To think that she had been delighted when she first arrived here—was it only three months ago?—with the prospect of fresh orange juice every day. But she had ...
For the past ten years, the Goblin King has stayed locked away in his caverns. He only opens his doors for one purpose: he will give one gold coin for every night a girl is willing to spend with him.
Despite his fearsome reputation, his fangs and cla... View details
The goblin king looked just the same as before. He walked into the room without making any comment on the water spilled everywhere or my damp hair. In fact, he seemed impatient, but I was freshly awar...
From award-winning and national bestselling author, Robin McKinley, comes this dark, sensual vampire fairy tale. "A gripping, funny, page-turning, pretty much perfect work of magical literature."-Neil Gaiman
There hadn't been any trouble out at the l... View details
Monday evening is our movie evening because we are celebrating having lived through another week. Sunday night we lock up at eleven or midnight and crawl home to die, and Monday (barring a few nationa...
That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nos... View details
That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head s...
A captivating tale, from bestselling and award-winning author, that reveals the healing power of duty and honour, love and honey.
Mirasol is a beekeeper, a honey-gatherer, with an ability to speak to the "earthlines"-the sentient parts of Willowlands... View details
Because she was Chalice she stood at the front door with the Grand Seneschal, the Overlord’s agent and the Prelate, all of whom were carefully ignoring her. But she was Chalice, and it was from her ha...
An m/m World War II-era retelling of Beauty and the Beast.During a chance summer shower, an English country parson takes refuge in a country house. The house seems deserted, yet the table is laid with a sumptuous banquet such as the parson has not s... View details
Others might have quibbled that Rose was not the most beautiful girl in the world, or even the prettiest girl in the village of Lesser Innsley. But to the parson she was all loveliness, all the more ...