Search Results: Returned 14 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 14
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By Beaton, M. C2000., St. Martin's Minotaur Call No: SC MYS Fic Bea Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Agatha Raisin Volume: 10
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By Dean, Sunyi2022., Adult, Tor Call No: Fic Dea Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries. Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon—like all other book eater women—is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairytales and cautionary stories. But real life doesn't always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger—not for books, but for human minds.
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c2014., General, Hamish Hamilton Call No: BLK Fic Oye Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty--the opposite of the life she's left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined she'd become, but elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out when the birth of Boy's daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as lightskinned African Americans passing for White. Among them, Boy, Snow, and Bird confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold.
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2015., Adolescent, Bloomsbury Call No: Fic Maa Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Court of thorns and roses series Volume: book 1Summary Note: "Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from stories, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin, a High Lord of the faeries. As her feelings toward him transform from hostility to a firey passion, the threats against the faerie lands grow. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose Tamlin forever."--From publisher.
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-- Ginger bread.2019., Adult, Hamish Hamilton Call No: BLK Fic Oye Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What is Not Yours is Not Yours returns with a bewitching and inventive novel. Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories--equal parts wholesome and uncanny; from the tantalizing witch's house in "Hansel and Gretel" to the man-shaped confection who one day decides to run as fast as he can--beloved novelist Helen Oyeyemi invites readers into a delightful tale of a surprising family legacy, in which the inheritance is a recipe. Perdita Lee may appear your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are. For one thing, they share a gold-painted, seventh-floor walk-up apartment with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. And then there's the gingerbread they make. Londoners may find themselves able to take or leave it, but it's very popular in Druhástrana, the far away (or, according to many sources, non-existent) land of Harriet Lee's early youth. The world's truest lover of the Lee family gingerbread, however, is Harriet's charismatic childhood friend Gretel--a figure who seems to have had a hand in everything (good or bad) that has happened to Harriet since they met. Decades later, when teenaged Perdita sets out to find her mother's long lost friend, it prompts a new telling of Harriet's story. As the book follows the Lees through encounters with jealousy, ambition, family grudges, work, wealth, and real estate, gingerbread seems to be the one thing that reliably holds a constant value. Endlessly surprising and satisfying, written with Helen Oyeyemi's inimitable style and imagination, it is a true feast for the reader."--.
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2021., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: MYS Fic Gol Edition: First Canadian edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It's December in a small seaside town, and Ruby Harper spends her nights looking into her neighbor's apartment. Unable to sleep due to insomnia and the heartache of a family she has run away from, she fantasizes that the mystery man she watches could be the answer to her loneliness. But one night Ruby sees something unexpected: the man is not alone; a woman and a child are sharing the apartment, and they never go outside. Why are they kept hidden? Then the man is found half-drowned in the bathtub, a pile of women's clothes is left on the beach, and a little girl is discovered, abandoned. Detective Sergeant Joanna Harper is assigned to the case, which grows more complicated by the minute. Soon, a shocking revelation and a desperate bid for freedom put Ruby at the center of a crime, and hot on her trail is DS Harper, who knows her better than anyone and is ready to anticipate her every move.
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-- Le petit prince2017., Arcturus Call No: Fic Sai Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When a pilot crash-lands in the Sahara Desert he meets a stranger -- a little prince -- who has arrived on Earth from an entirely different planet. By listening to the prince's stories and his questions about the world, it becomes clear to the pilot that truths about life can reveal themselves in the most unlikely places.
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2015., Sceptre Books Call No: Fic Bac Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 'Granny has been telling fairy tales for as long as Elsa can remember. In the beginning they were only to make Elsa go to sleep, and to get her to practise granny's secret language, and a little because granny is just about as nutty as a granny should be. But lately the stories have another dimension as well. Something Elsa can't quite put her finger on...' Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy. Standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-men-who-want-to-talk-about-Jesus-crazy. She is also Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa runs to her grandmother's stories, to the Land of Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas. There, everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal. So when Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has hurt, it marks the beginning of Elsa's greatest adventure.
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2020., William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Fic Moo Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Set adrift by his pirate crew, Pocket of Dog Snogging--last seen in The Serpent of Venice--washes up on the sun-bleached shores of Greece, where he hopes to dazzle the Duke with his comedic brilliance and become his trusted fool. But the island is in turmoil. Egeus, the Duke's minister, is furious that his daughter Hermia is determined to marry Demetrius, instead of Lysander, the man he has chosen for her. The Duke decrees that if, by the time of the wedding, Hermia still refuses to marry Lysander, she shall be executed . . . or consigned to a nunnery. Pocket, being Pocket, cannot help but point out that this decree is complete bollocks, and that the Duke is an egregious weasel for having even suggested it. Irritated by the fool's impudence, the Duke orders his death. With the Duke's guards in pursuit, Pocket makes a daring escape. He soon stumbles into the wooded realm of the fairy king Oberon, who, as luck would have it, IS short a fool. His jester Robin Goodfellow--the mischievous sprite better known as Puck--was found dead. Murdered. Oberon makes Pocket an offer he can't refuse: he will make Pocket his fool and have his death sentence lifted if Pocket finds out who killed Robin Goodfellow. But as anyone who is even vaguely aware of the Bard's most performed play ever will know, nearly every character has a motive for wanting the mischievous sprite dead. With too many suspects and too little time, Pocket must work his own kind of magic to find the truth, save his neck, and ensure that all ends well.
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2018., Adult, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Shape Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An otherworldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment.
![The shape of water [DVD] (2018). Directed by Guillermo Del Toro](/Library/images/~imageCT84622.JPG "The shape of water [DVD] (2018). Directed by Guillermo Del Toro")
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By Winter, Guy2018., CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Call No: SC MYS Fic Win Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Three changelings will come, to shape Scotland; One from the Wayward Sisters, one from the Still Folk, and one from Man… The hale and hearty Tam O’Shanter pays no heed to the prophecies of old. Who cares what a bunch of haggard old crones forewarn, when his favourite pub has an empty seat waiting for him? It isn’t until the actions of a malevolent new coven threaten his own family that Tam is forced to take action. Three wicked witches, led by the beautiful but vile Cutty Sark, plan to make a dreadful sacrifice to change the fate of Scotland and kill Bonnie Prince Charlie, heir to the British throne. Their choice has fallen on Tam’s own son, Wee Tam. When the witches come for Tam’s family, he teams up with a group of boisterous and brave companions to try to break their spell and save Wee Tam from a horrible fate. This swashbuckling yarn takes the Tam O’Shanter of Robert Burns’ poem and gives him a new adventure full of magic, action and the best drink Scotland has to offer. In his quest to save one young boy, Tam may yet save his entire country.
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2023., Adult, House of Anansi Call No: IND Fic Nut Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Tauhou envisions a shared past between two Indigenous cultures, set on reimagined versions of Vancouver Island and Aotearoa that sit side by side in the ocean. Each chapter in this innovative hybrid novel is a fable, an autobiographical memory, a poem. A monster guards cultural objects in a museum, a woman uncovers her own grave, another woman remembers her estranged father. On rainforest beaches and grassy dunes, sisters and cousins contend with the ghosts of the past -- all the way back to when the first foreign ships arrived on their shores. In a testament to the resilience of Indigenous women, the two sides of this family, Coast Salish and Māori, must work together in understanding and forgiveness to heal that which has been forced upon them by colonialism. Tauhou is an ardent search for answers, for ways to live with truth. It is a longing for home, to return to the land and sea.
