Dwarves and golems, Fates and minotaurs, metamorphoses, murder, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Each story in L.S. Johnson’s remarkable collection demonstrates the limitless capacity of intelligent speculative fiction to enthrall, inspire,...
Metamorphosis
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Author:Johnson, L.S.Summary: - Author:Crouch, BlakeSummary:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "If Michael Crichton had written a superhero novel, it would look a lot like Upgrade ."- The New York Times Book Review "You don't so much sympathize with the main character as live inside his skin."-DIANA...
- Author:Liu, Marjorie M.Summary:
He looks out of place in Dela Reese's Beijing hotel room. With his feline yellow eyes, he's like nothing from her world. Yet Dela has danced through the echo of his soul and knows this warrior will obey her every command. Hari...
- Author:Carle, EricSummary:
A collection of four books by Eric Carle. Includes "The very hungry caterpillar," "The grouchy ladybug," "The very busy spider," and "Walter the baker." Grades K-3. 1979.
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Author:Kafka, FranzSummary:Described by Nobel laureate Elias Canetti as, "one of the few great and perfect works of the poetic imagination," this short fable about a man who wakes up one morning transformed into a giant insect is deeply funny in its tragedy and...
- Author:Shaw, Ali.Summary:
An inventive and richly visual novel about young lovers on a quest to find a cure for a magical ailment, perfect for readers of Alice Hoffman Strange things are happening on the remote and snowbound archipelago of St. Hauda's Land...
- Author:Solomon, RiversSummary:
Vern, a hunted woman alone in the woods, gives birth to twins and raises them away from the influence of the outside world. But something is wrong, not with them, but with her own body. It's itching, it's stronger, it's...
- Author:Stiefvater, MaggieSummary:
SINNER follows Cole St. Clair, a pivotal character from the #1 New York Times bestselling Shiver Trilogy. Everybody thinks they know Cole's story. Stardom. Addiction. Downfall. Disappearance. But only a few people know Cole's...
- Author:Stiefvater, MaggieSummary:
Every summer Sam spends a few precious months being human, until the cold causes him to shift to a wolf once again. Discover what happens when he meets Grace in this chilling romance.
- Author:Yoder, RachelSummary:
An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later she steps into the bathroom for a break from her toddler's demands, only to...
- Author:Kafka, FranzSummary:
Benedict Cumberbatch reads Franz Kafka's famous story of man-turned-insect, Metamorphosis. After a night of troubled dreams, Gregor Samsa wakes to discover that he has turned into a huge, monstrous, cockroach-like creature, with an...
- Author:Stiefvater, MaggieSummary:
As Grace hides the vast depth of her love for Sam from her parents and Sam struggles to release his werewolf past and claim a human future, a new wolf named Cole wins Isabel's heart but his own past threatens to destroy the whole...
- Author:Petit, RichardSummary:
Des parents RETOMBÉS en enfance ! Du pâté chinois aux propriétés ÉTRANGES ! Des amis rendus MINUSCULES par des éclairs ! Et maintenant, ce GIGANTESQUE trou dans le sol en plein centre de la ville. QUE VA-T-IL SE PASSER DANS CET ULTIME...
- Author:Petit, RichardSummary:
Pour Fanny, Daphnée et leurs amis, la situation va de mal en pis ! Alors qu’ils cherchent une solution pour que les adultes cessent de se comporter comme des enfants, les choses se compliquent vraiment. Soupçonnant l’orage d’être...
- Author:Petit, RichardSummary:
À l’école, Fanny tente de prendre les choses en main : dans chaque classe, un ami a été choisi pour remplacer le professeur afin de s’occuper des parents qui sont mystérieusement retombés en enfance. Dans le laboratoire de bio, le...
- Author:Christensen, AndréeSummary:
Angéline, Lilith, Mélusine. Trois prénoms, un seul personnage énigmatique, assoiffé d’envol et de créativité, qui vit au cœur d’une forêt, en symbiose avec la nature. C’est en suivant une confrérie de corneilles en pleine tempête de...
- Author:Shields, ErinSummary:
When King Pandion marries his daughter Procne off to war hero King Tereus, she must leave her beloved sister Philomela behind. After years of isolation in a foreign land, Procne begs Tereus to collect her sister for a visit. When...
- Author:Stiefvater, MaggieSummary:
In the world of Erdas, only a rare few are able to summon a spirit animal in the way that Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan have. The bond they share with their animals is a partnership that allows them to access more-than-human...
- Author:Harris, CharlaineSummary:
The reader finds Sookie reeling from an explosive attack on the previous month's vampire summit. Many vampires were killed, including several of Sookie's friends. But most pressing for Sookie is the unknown status of her weretiger...
- Author:Stiefvater, MaggieSummary:
In Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver, Grace and Sam found each other. In Linger, they fought to be together. Now, in Forever, the stakes are even higher than before. Wolves are being hunted. Lives are being threatened. And love is harder...
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