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Author
Series
Companions quartet volume 2
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Description
Mallins Wood is home to the last surviving gorgon, and Col's mother, the gorgon's supernatural Companion, is determined to save it from encroaching development--even to the point of endangering Col and his best friend Connie, the most powerful Companion alive.
Author
Series
Companions quartet volume 4
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Connie and Col band together to save the world for all creatures, including the mythical ones of which few humans are aware, from the shape-shifter Kullervo's army and, along the way, Connie finds herself transformed in an amazing way.
Author
Series
The menagerie (Tui Sutherland) volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
"When twelve-year-old Logan Wilde wakes up to discover a baby griffin hiding under his bed, he suddenly finds himself thrown into a mystery involving his classmate Zoe Kahn and a magical menagerie right in the middle of his sleepy Wyoming town"--
Author
Series
Lot Lands volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The long-awaited war has come in the sweeping conclusion to the Lot Lands trilogy--another irresistibly swashbuckling, swaggering, foul-mouthed fantasy"--
8) Vero rising
Author
Series
The ether volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"While living a seemingly ordinary life, a 12-year-old boy discovers his true identity of a guardian angel and must begin his intense training under the guidance of the archangels while still living his suburban life"--
Author
Series
The ether volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"After discovering his true identity, a new enemy is after Vero Leland--a demoness known as the Lilith, and she will stop at nothing to destroy him, including attacking those closest to him"--
Author
Series
Dragonbreath volume 6
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Description
Danny Dragonbreath is excited about going to camp with his best friend Wendell and classmate Christiana even though his obnoxious, seven-year-old cousin Spencer is going too, but things change when Spencer finds a real jackalope.
11) The wild hunted
Author
Series
Pandora chronicles volume I
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Someone has started unleashing mythological creatures to wreak havoc and spirit away children amidst unnatural weather patterns. Experts claim the events are unrelated but a supernatural bounty hunter, Haydeez Blackhawk, knows better. Following the trail left by an enraged Loup garou, Haydeez travels to the British Isles in search of the keys to release the one being that can stop him, the Celtic god Cernunnos. Her only problem: the Loup garou wants...
12) Awakened
Author
Series
Awakened novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After years of planning and construction, New York's newest subway line is finally ready. Many dignitaries, including the American president, are in attendance for the inaugural run. When the train pulls into the station, they see that all the train cars are empty and the cars' interiors are drenched in blood. As chaos descends, all those in the pavilion scramble to get out. But the horror is only beginning. There's something living beneath New York...
Author
Series
Beast Charmer volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Exiled Charmer Leena Edenfrell is running out of time. Empty pockets forced her to sell her beloved magical beasts-an offense punishable by death-and now there's a price on her head. With the realm's most talented murderer-for-hire nipping at her heels, Leena makes Noc an offer he can't refuse: powerful mythical creatures in exchange for her life. Plagued by a curse that kills everyone he loves, Noc agrees to Leena's terms in hopes of finding a cure....
Author
Series
The menagerie (Tui Sutherland) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Zoe Kahn is no stranger to the risks that come with caring for mythical creatures. But even feeding deadly basilisks and tracking down missing griffins didn't prepare her for the crisis that is unfolding at her family's Menagerie. The goose who laid the golden eggs has been murdered--and all the evidence points to a dragon named Scratch. Now that he's part of the secret Menagerie, Logan Wilde is determined to help. He and Zoe are sure that the dragon...
15) Circe: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Historical Fiction- Adult/ YA
Mythology Reads - Adult/YA
Staff Recommends- Adult/YA
Women's History Month- Adult
Mythology Reads - Adult/YA
Staff Recommends- Adult/YA
Women's History Month- Adult
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Description
With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world.
17) Herc
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A queer revisionist retelling of the story of Hercules, for fans of The Song of Achilles, A Thousand Ships and Ariadne. This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures... everyone's favorite hero, right? Well, it's not. This is the story of everyone else: Alcmene: Herc's mother (She has knives everywhere) Hylas: Herc's first friend (They were more than friends) Megara: Herc's wife (She'll tell you about their marriage)...
Author
Series
Creature Keepers volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In this book, Abbie, Jordan, and Eldon travel to the snowy Himalayas to find the Yeti and save the world. Our heroes will need to find the Yeti first--and hopefully avert another catastrophe.
19) Alias Hook
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
""Every child knows how the story ends. The wicked pirate captain is flung overboard, caught in the jaws of the monster crocodile who drags him down to a watery grave. But it was not yet my time to die. It's my fate to be trapped here forever, in a nightmare of childhood fancy, with that infernal, eternal boy." Meet Captain James Benjamin Hook, a witty, educated Restoration-era privateer cursed to play villain to a pack of malicious little boys in...
20) Tender: stories
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Divided into "Tender Bodies" and "Tender Landscapes," the stories collected here in this first collection of short fiction from a rising star travel from the commonplace to the edges of reality. Some of Samatar's weird and compassionate fabulations spring from her life and literary studies; some spring from the world, some from the void. Tender explores the fragility of bodies, emotions, and landscapes, in settings that range from medieval Egypt...
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