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Kashina, Anna (editor)
Once Upon a Curse
Reprints eleven fantasy stories inspired by myths and fairy tales.
Contents
A Necklace of Rubies == Cindy Lynn Speer
Come Lady Death == Peter S. Beagle
Summer Wind == Nancy Kress
Stronger than Time == Patricia C. Wrede
Words Like Pale Stones == Nancy Kress
Every Word I Speak == Cindy Lynn Speer
Remains == Siobhan Carroll
Frayed Tapestry == Imogen Howson
The Cold Blackness Between == Lucy A. Snyder
Solstice Maiden == Anna Kashina
But Can Your Let Him Go == Cindy Lynn Speer
Anthology, 257 pages, Trade Paperback, Print on Demand
Signed by the author on the title page. Ages 10 and up. Princess Cimorene is everything a princess is not supposed to be: headstrong, tomboyish, smart . . . and bored. So bored that she runs away to live with a dragon. Soon she's coping with a witch, a jinn, a death-dealing talking bird, a stone prince, and some very oily wizards.
Recommended by Elizabeth
Novel, 212 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1990)
Signed by the author on the title page. Ages 9 and up. Eff was born a thirteenth child. Her twin brother Lan is the seventh son of a seventh son. This means he's supposed to possess amazing talent - and she's supposed to bring only bad things to her family and her town. When her family moves to the frontier, where her father will be a professor of magic at a school perilously close to the magical divide that separates settlers from the beasts of the wild, Eff and Lan do not know what awaits them in such an unknown place. There are steam dragons that hover in the sky, and strange creatures that could undermine the homesteaders' very existence. Eff is allowed to learn magic with the other students, but there's always the threat of it going horribly wrong, and she always feels one short step away from complete ruin. As Eff and Lan grow older, they face challenges they never dreamed of, and their magic is put to the test in a standoff that will alter their lives forever.
Recommended by Elizabeth
Novel, 344 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Signed by the author on the title page. Ages 12 and up. Eff was born a thirteenth child. Her twin brother Lan is the seventh son of a seventh son. This means he's supposed to possess amazing talent - and she's supposed to bring only bad things to her family and her town. When her family moves to the frontier, where her father will be a professor of magic at a school perilously close to the magical divide that separates settlers from the beasts of the wild, Eff and Lan do not know what awaits them in such an unknown place. There are steam dragons that hover in the sky, and strange creatures that could undermine the homesteaders' very existence. Eff is allowed to learn magic with the other students, but there's always the threat of it going horribly wrong, and she always feels one short step away from complete ruin. As Eff and Lan grow older, they face challenges they never dreamed of, and their magic is put to the test in a standoff that will alter their lives forever.
Signed by the author on the title page. Ages 9 and up. Eff's unique ways of doing magic and seeing the world, and her fascination with the magical creatures and land in the Great Plains, push her to work toward joining an expedition heading west. But things are changing on the frontier. There are new professors of magic for Eff and Lan to learn to work with. There's tension between William and his father. And there are new threats on the frontier and at home. Eff must travel beyond the Barrier, and come to terms with her magical abilities - and those of her brother - to stop the newest threat encroaching on the settlers.
Recommended by Elizabeth
Novel, 339 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC
Signed by the author on the title page. Ages 9 and up. Eff's unique ways of doing magic and seeing the world, and her fascination with the magical creatures and land in the Great Plains, push her to work toward joining an expedition heading west. But things are changing on the frontier. There are new professors of magic for Eff and Lan to learn to work with. There's tension between William and his father. And there are new threats on the frontier and at home. Eff must travel beyond the Barrier, and come to terms with her magical abilities - and those of her brother - to stop the newest threat encroaching on the settlers.
Signed by the author on the title page. Ages 12 and up. Eff, Lan, William, Professor Torgeson, Wash, and Professor Ochiba set out on a government expedition to map the Far West. Their research brings strange findings, and they discover more species - magical and otherwise - than they ever expected. After a long prairie winter in too-close quarters, spring arrives - threatening life near the Great Barrier Spell if they don't find a way to stop a magical flood in a hurry.
Signed by the author on the title page. Her kingdom's ancient enemies have kidnapped twenty-year-old Princess Alethia, carrying her off through the forest. These are magic woods, home to fabled creatures whose existence she has always doubted. To find her way home, Alethia will have to learn to trust the old tales, whose legends of magic and daring hold the only hope of saving her kingdom.
Novel, 232 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1982)
Open Road - 2011 - ISBN: 1453258299 / 9781453258293
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New019154
$14.99
Wrede, Patricia C.
Lyra #2: Daughter of Witches
Signed by the author on the title page. After her parents were executed for practicing magic, Ranira became indentured servant to a brutal innkeeper. While attempting to protect her from her master's cruelty, three guests reveal magical powers. Now she must unleash her own magical powers to save her new friends from certain death.
Novel, 222 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1983)
Open Road - 2011 - ISBN: 1453258280 / 9781453258286
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New019155
$14.99
Wrede, Patricia C.
Lyra #3: The Harp of Imach Thyssel
Signed by the author on the title page. Emereck, a minstrel, and Flindaran, a nobleman masquerading as a tramp, have found an abandoned castle, and in it, one of Lyra's most sought-after treasures. Emereck must learn to harness its strength to create and destroy, with the fate of the kingdom hanging in the balance.
Novel, 238 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1985)
Open Road - 2011 - ISBN: 1453236937 / 9781453236932
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New019156
$22.99
Wrede, Patricia C.
Lyra #4: Caught in Crystal
Signed by the author on the title page. When a sorceress asks for a room at Kayl's country inn, Kayl is sure the woman has come to take her back to the life she renounced. To save her family and her world, Kayl will have to unlock a side of herself she buried long ago.
Novel, 325 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1987)
Open Road - 2011 - ISBN: 1453236945 / 9781453236949
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New019157
$24.99
Wrede, Patricia C.
Lyra #5: The Raven Ring
Signed by the author on the title page. Learning that her mother has died far from home, of wounds sustained in an attack, Eleret sets out to reclaim her mother's belongings - especially a ring etched with a raven. She doesn't know what's special about the ring, but someone was willing to kill for it. To make it home in one piece, she will have to unlock the mysteries of the ring.
Novel, 294 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1994)
Open Road - 2011 - ISBN: 1453236953 / 9781453236956
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New019158
$23.99
Wrede, Patricia C.
A Matter of Magic: Mairelon the Magician / The Magician's Ward
Signed by the author on the title page. Ages 12 and up. When a stranger offers her a small fortune to break into a traveling magician's wagon, Kim doesn't hesitate. A hard life and lean times have taught her one lesson: steal from them before they steal from you. When the magician catches her in the act, she thinks she's done for. Instead, he offers to make her his apprentice. But can Kim learn to be both a proper lady and a magician in her own right in the face of murderers, thieves, and cloak-and-dagger politics?
Omnibus, 448 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1991 / 1997)
Orb - 2010 - ISBN: 0765326329 / 9780765326324
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New008467
$15.99
Wrede, Patricia C.
The Seven Towers
Signed by the author on the title page. Ages 12 and up. Seven players in a game of deadly magic each fight his or her own part in a war that has put the Seven Kingdoms on the edge of destruction
Novel, 324 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1984)
Kate & Cecy #3: The Mislaid Magician, or Ten Years After
Signed by both authors on the title page. Ages 12 and up. England is being transformed by the first railways; James and Cecy discover that the railway lines are wreaking havoc with ancient underground magic.
Kate & Cecy #3: The Mislaid Magician, or, Ten Years After
Ages 12 and up. England is being transformed by the first railways; James and Cecy discover that the railway lines are wreaking havoc with ancient underground magic.
Novel, 328 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2006 HC
