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An Enchantment of Ravens

Margaret Rogerson · 310 pages

Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread, weave cloth, or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel's paintings are highly prized. But when she receives her first royal patron--Rook, the autumn prince--she makes a terrible mistake. She paints mo

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The Stone Fey

Robin McKinley · 52 pages

A girl working as a shepherdess meets an otherworldly elemental, their relationship draws her away from her real world, to which she returns changed forever.

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The Snow Child

Eowyn Ivey · 389 pages

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-hai

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Wings

Aprilynne Pike · 305 pages

When a plant blooms out of fifteen-year-old Laurel's back, it leads her to discover the fact that she is a fairy and that she has a crucial role to play in keeping the world safe from the encroaching enemy trolls.

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The Darkest Part of the Forest

Holly Black · 352 pages

Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill a monster and feel quite proud of themselves. A girl can look at her brother and believe they’re destined to be a knight and a bard who battle evil. She can believe she’s found the thing she’s been made for. Hazel lives with her brother, Ben, in the strange town of Fairfold where humans and fae exist side by side. The faeri

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The Dreaming Tree

C.J. Cherryh · 464 pages

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Roses and Rot

Kat Howard · 328 pages

Imogen has grown up reading fairy tales about mothers who die and make way for cruel stepmothers. As a child, she used to lie in bed wishing that her life would become one of these tragic fairy tales because she couldn't imagine how a stepmother could be worse than her mother now. As adults, Imogen and her sister Marin are accepted to an elite post-grad arts program; Imogen as a writer and Marin a

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The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest

Jeffrey Ford, Charles de Lint, Tanith Lee, Jane Yolen, Katherine Vaz, Patricia A. McKillip, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Carol Emshwiller, Midori Snyder, Gregory Maguire, Emma Bull, Carolyn Dunn, Kathe Koja, Neil Gaiman, M. Shayne Bell, Delia Sherman, Bill Lewis, Michael Cadnum · 396 pages

A collection of stories and poems by a variety of authors relating to the Green Man and other myths of the forest.

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The Queen of Blood

Sarah Beth Durst · 392 pages

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The Hum and the Shiver

Alex Bledsoe · 349 pages

"No one knows where the Tufa came from, or how they ended up in the mountains of East Tennessee. When the first Europeans came to the Smoky Mountains, the Tufa were already there. Dark-haired and enigmatic, they live quietly in the hills and valleys of Cloud County, their origins lost to history. But there are clues in their music, hidden in the songs they have passed down for generations. . . . P

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Child of the Prophecy

Juliet Marillier · 608 pages

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In Darkling Wood

Emma Carroll · 231 pages

When Alice goes to stay with her grandmother she discovers the magical Darkling Wood, where she meets a strange friend and discovers letters written between a brother and sister during WWI.

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The Two Towers

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien · 348 pages

This is the second book in the trilogy The Lord of the Rings. It tells the epic story of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring and involves Gandalf the Wizard, Merry, Pippin and Sam, Gimli the Dwarf and Strider.

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Mortal Love

Elizabeth Hand · 364 pages

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Winter Rose

Patricia A. McKillip · 267 pages

Sorrow and trouble and bitterness will bound you and yours and the children of yours... Some said the dying words of Nial Lynn, murdered by his own son, were a wicked curse. To others, it was a winter's tale spun by firelight on cold, dark nights. But when Corbet Lynn came to rebuild his family estate, memories of his grandfather's curse were rekindled by young and old - and rumours filled the

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Fablehaven

Brandon Mull · 351 pages

For centuries, mystical creatures of all description were gathered to a hidden refuge called Fablehaven to prevent their extinction. The sanctuary survives today as one of the last strongholds of true magic in a cynical world. Enchanting? Absolutely! Exciting? You bet. Safe? Well, actually, quite the opposite . . . Kendra and her brother Seth have no idea that their grandfather is the current c

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The Butcher of the Forest

Premee Mohamed · 160 pages

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13 Treasures

Michelle Harrison

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The Forest Lover

Susan Vreeland

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Ash

Malinda Lo · 264 pages

In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted. The day that Ash meets Kaisa,

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Faeries

Brian Froud, Alan Lee · 197 pages

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Spinning Silver

Naomi Novik · 465 pages

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The Trees

Ali Shaw · 488 pages

The trees arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest. Buildings are destroyed. Broken bodies, still wrapped in tattered bed linen, hang among the twitching leaves. Adrien Thomas has never been much of a hero. But when he realizes that no help is coming, he ventures out into this unrecognizable world. Michelle, his wife, is across the s

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Phantastes

George MacDonald · 196 pages

One of George MacDonald's most important works, Phantastes is the story of a young man named Anotos and his long dreamlike journey in Fairy Land. It is the fairy tale of deep spiritual insight as Anotos makes his way through moments of uncertainty and peril and mistakes that can have irreversible consequences. This is also his spiritual quest that is destined to end with the supreme surrender of t

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