The Silmarillion

The book is available in the library
Fantasy
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The book includes not only  "The Silmarillion," but also four short works: "The Ainulindale," "The Valaquenta," "The Akallabeth," and "Of the Rings of Power.".

The Iron Trail

Book One of the Magisterium Series: The Iron Trial.
A New York Times bestseller.

Most kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial. Not Callum Hunt. He wants to fail. All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. If he succeeds at the Iron Trial and is admitted into the Magisterium, he is sure it can only mean bad things for him. So he tries his best to do his worst – and fails at failing. Now the Magisterium awaits him — a place that’s both sensational and sinister, with dark ties to his past and a twisty path to his future. The Iron Trial is just the beginning, for the biggest test is still to come…

From the remarkable imaginations of bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes a heart-stopping, mind-blowing, pulse-pounding plunge into the magical unknown.

By the book’s end, readers will be chomping at the bit to get into the sequel. Collaborators Black and Clare describe an intoxicating underground setting and give their mostly male characters refreshingly nuanced male friendships. The third-person narration, filtered through Callum’s delightfully insecure-and- overcompensating-with-snarky-bravado perspective, carries a tone that will likely have readers chortling in recognition. A promising beginning to a complex exploration of good and evil, as well as friendship’s loyalty. — KIRKUS

Far Far Away by Tom McNeal

"Jeremy Johnson Johnson has the rare ability to hear ghosts’ voices, and that’s how Jacob Grimm’s ghost becomes his mentor and guardian. Thanks to Jacob, Jeremy’s a whiz at school, knows fairy tales inside out, and has an advantage in negotiating the romantic interest of amber-eyed Ginger Boultinghouse. But someone has it in for Jeremy and Ginger, a someone whose malignant purpose gives this buoyant, intelligent story a shiver of horror as dark as any of Grimms’. The stock figures and situations of Grimms’ tales glimmer in McNeal’s small-town, middle-American setting, like tantalizing clues in a story that becomes ever darker even as it sparkles with the dignified, affectionate voice of its ghostly narrator. Sprightly, assured and original." --The Toronto Star

From Review on Author's Website

Light (Gone #6) by Michael Grant

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It's been over a year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.
In the time since every person over the age of fourteen disappeared from the town of Perdido Beach, California, countless battles have been fought: battles against hunger and lies and plague, and epic battles of good against evil. Light, Michael Grant's sixth and final book in the New York Times bestselling Gone series creates a masterful, arresting conclusion to life in the FAYZ.

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

Synopsis: 

 “An immigrant tale that combines elements of Jewish and Arab folk mythology, The Golem and the Jinni tells the story of two supernatural creatures who arrive separately in New York in 1899. One is a golem, created out of clay to be her master’s wife—but he dies at sea, leaving her disoriented and overwhelmed as their ship arrives in New York Harbor. The other is a jinni, a being of fire, trapped for a thousand years in a copper flask before a tinsmith in Manhattan’s Little Syria releases him.

Each unknown to the other, the Golem and the Jinni explore the strange and altogether human city. Chava, as a kind old rabbi names her, is beset by the desires and wishes of others, which she can feel tugging at her. Ahmad, christened by the tinsmith who makes him his apprentice, is aggravated by human dullness. Both must work to create places for themselves in this new world, and develop tentative relationships with the people who surround them.

And then, one cold and windy night, their paths happen to meet.”

-Helene Wecker
http://www.helenewecker.com/the-golem-and-the-jinni-by-helene-wecker/synopsis-of-the-novel-the-golem-and-the-jinni/

Still Interested? View Helene Wecker’s website!

http://www.helenewecker.com/

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

Description: 

"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-haired girl running through the trees.

This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them."

-Shelfari

http://www.shelfari.com/books/22428219/The-Snow-Child

Still Interested? Visit Eowyn Ivey's website to learn more!

http://eowynivey.com/

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