Palma, Felix J.
Summary: When a New York socialite challenges her millionaire suitor to reproduce the extraterrestrial invasion featured in Wells' War of the Worlds, three fantastical adventures in time travel and mystery ensue, replete with cameos by such figures as a young Edgar Allan Poe, Captain Shackleton and Charles Winslow from "The map of time'.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALDabos, Christelle
Summary: "When Ophelia is promoted to Vice-storyteller by Farouk, the ancestral Spirit of Pole, she finds herself unexpectedly thrust into the public spotlight. her gift--the ability to read the secret history of objects--is now known by all, and there can be no greater threat to the nefarious denizens of her icy adopted home than this. Beneath the golden rafters of Pole's capitol, she discovers that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DABShea, Jamison
Summary: "Laure Mesny is a perfectionist with an axe to grind. Despite being constantly overlooked in the elite and cutthroat world of the Parisian ballet, she will do anything to prove that a Black girl can take center stage. To level the playing field, Laure ventures deep into the depths of the Catacombs and strikes a deal with a pulsating river of blood. The primordial power Laure gains promises...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHEJames, Anna (Anna Lois)
Summary: When eleven-year-old Tilly Pages joins Oskar and his family on a Christmas trip to Paris, she and her friend bookwander into the land of fairy tales, where someone--or something--is causing chaos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JAMCogman, Genevieve
Summary: "The first book in a rollicking new historical-fantasy series that reinvents the French Revolution with vampires as the aristocrats, in a lively retelling of The Scarlet Pimpernel from the author of the beloved Invisible Library series. It is 1793 and the French Revolution is in full swing. Vampires are a normal part of society across Europe--usually rich and aristocratic, they have slaked the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COGSchwab, Victoria
Summary: Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "Grace and her friends are still recovering from the evil attacks plotted by ancient warlord Daijiang when Nate suddenly reappears and whisks Grace away to the Dragon King's lair. There, she learns that Daijiang is searching for a powerful dragon stone that will help him take over the world -- and that he has enlisted a terrifyingly fierce beast called Shadowfire to capture Grace. Pursued by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023
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Summary: In the chaos of wartime Marseille, 1941, American engineer--and occult disciple--Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including Surrealist theorist Andre Breton. In the strange games of the dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde artists, Parsons finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIESchwab, Victoria
Summary: France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever, and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction SchWerlin, Nancy
Summary: "Sylvie and her mother and grandmother are beloved, trusted healers in their French village at the end of the Middle Ages, though some whisper that fifteen-year-old Sylvie and her grand-mère deal in more than herbs and medicines. Perhaps they're a bit . . . witchy? After her grandmother dies, and an attempt to use her untrained magic to heal her mother's grief yields tragic consequences, Sylvie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WERMorgan, Louisa
Summary: "A Secret History of Witches follows five generations of women -- all of whom happen to be witches -- from nineteenth-century Brittany to London during World War II. Brittany, 1821. After Grand-mère Ursule gives her life to save her family, their magic seems to die with her. Even so, they fight to keep the old ways alive, practicing half-remembered spells and arcane rites in hopes of a revival....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORChokshi, Roshani
Summary: Set in a darkly glamorous world The Gilded Wolves is full of mystery, decadence and dangerous but thrilling adventure. Paris, 1889: The world is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. In this city, no one keeps tabs on secrets better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier, Séverin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CHOMorgan, Louisa
Summary: "There hasn't been a witch born in the Orchière clan for generations. According to the elders, that line is dead, leaving the clan vulnerable to the whims of superstitious villagers and the prejudices of fearmongering bishops. Ursule Orchière has been raised on stories of the great witches of the past. But the only magic she knows is the false spells her mother weaves over the gullible women...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORSteel, Danielle.
Summary: A woman is torn between a man and his clone. The heroine is Stephanie who is being wooed by Peter, a bionic company director. When Peter is called away by work he sends Paul, his clone, who outdoes him in bed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEMonir, Alexandra
Summary: "Jasmine thought that she had earned her happily ever after when she and Aladdin defeated Jafar. Then her beloved father dies and, overnight, all her plans for the future change. Instead of her wedding, she's now planning a funeral and a coronation--her coronation, to become the first woman to rule Agrabah. But before the sultan's crown is placed on her head, her claim to the throne is called...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MONMosse, Kate
Summary: Extraordinary Thriller, rich in the atmosphere of medieval and contemporary France, the lives of two Women born centuries apart are linked by A common destiny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSBarbery, Muriel
Summary: Two girls from France and Italy who possess uncanny respective abilities to communicate with nature and perform music at a preternatural level come into contact with magical and malevolent forces before meeting each other in world-changing ways. "An inspiring literary fantasy about two gifted girls from the bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog, The Life of Elves sings of the human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARSchwab, Victoria
Summary: France, 1714. In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-- and cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Addie LaRue's life will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art. After nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore. He remembers her name-- and everything changes. How far will she go to leave...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction SchwabMeadows, Daisy
Summary: "Here comes the bride! Rachel's aunt Angela is a talented wedding planner. She's organizing the biggest wedding Tippington has ever seen--and she needs Rachel and Kirsty's help. Rachel and Kirsty are put in charge of the bride's flower girls. When Jack Frost shows up uninvited, the wedding is at risk. Luckily for everyone, Blossom the Flower Girl Fairy has a very special kind of magic--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MEAVanderMeer, Jeff
Summary: "Before Area X, there was Ambergris. Jeff VanderMeer conceived what would become his first cult classic series of speculative works: the Ambergris Trilogy. Now, for the first time ever, the story of the sprawling metropolis of Ambergris is collected into a single volume, including City of Saints and Madmen, Shriek: An Afterword, and Finch"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020