Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=7431&browse=true&N=3+7439+4294967124 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742780 Regency-era glamourists Jane and Vincent Ellsworth hope to bolster Melodys chances for a good marriage by accepting a commission from a prominent London family, a job that embroils them in an international crisis. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1599459 Queen Victoria is the undead matriarch of a Britain where the Aristocracy is made up of werewolves and vampires, where goblins live underground, and where mothers know better than to let their children out after dark. In this world, being part of the nobility means being infected with the Plague (side-effects include undeath), Hysteria is the popular affliction of the day, and leeches are considered a delicacy--and technology lives side by side with magic. The year is 2012 and Pax Britannia still reigns. Xandra Vardan is a member of the elite Royal Guard, and it is her duty to protect the Aristocracy. But when her sister goes missing, Xandra will set out on a path that undermines everything she believed in and uncover a conspiracy that threatens to topple the empire. And she is the key-the prize in a very dangerous struggle. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1572213 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684692 In this sequel to The Alchemist of Souls, a group of renegades cause a rift among the Skraylings. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668264 Jane Silverlake, a young woman from the wild heath regions of Victorian England, uses her paranormal ability to see the souls of handcrafted objects to infiltrate a mysterious dream-manipulation cult into which the man she loves has gone missing. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1595161 Janes not happy. Shes been packed off to England to fight in a war when shed much rather be snogging Anyan. Unfortunately, Janes enemies have been busy stirring up some major trouble-the kind that attracts a lot of attention. In other words, theyre not making it easy for Jane to get any alone time with the barghest, or to indulge in her penchant for stinky cheese. Praying she can pull of a Joan of Arc without the whole martyrdom thing, Jane must lead Alfar and halflings alike in a desperate battle to combat an ancient evil. Catapulted into the role of Most Unlikely Hero Ever, Jane also has to fight her own insecurities as well as the doubts of those who dont think she can live up to her new role as Champion. Along the way, Jane learns that some heroes are born. Some are made. And some are bribed with promises of food and sex.--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1565701 After inheriting her sixteenth-century childhood home, Julia Beckett is astonished when she is transported back in time and into the body of Mariana, a woman who is struggling against treachery for her love of Richard de Mornay. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1614916 A tale set in an alternate-universe, post-World War II era finds precarious peace agreements between England and the USSR threatened by the murders of warlocks responsible for safeguarding British national security, a situation that falls into the hands of two supernaturally enhanced siblings and a former spy who would protect the queen. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1653814 When he is hired by Professor Lovecraft, who has been tinkering with the secrets of life and death, to find the fabled Moonstone, Phaeton Black brings his lady friend Miss America Jones, the daughter of a Cajun witch, along on an adventure that leads them to the Orient and puts them both in a compromising position. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711764 Deep beneath the streets of England lies another realm...one few in our modern world know exists. Daniel and Freya, however, know it all too well. Eight years ago, these friends first journeyed through portals into the hidden land of Niergeard--discovering a city filled with stones, secrets, and sleeping knights that serve to protect the world they call home. Having served for centuries as the first and last outpost at the borders to other worlds, Niergeard must be reclaimed and the mystery of its fall discovered. Daniel and Freya, along with an ancient knight and a Scottish police officer, must return to the legendary city, rally the surviving citizens, and awaken the sleeping knights--knights who are being killed, one by one, as they sleep.--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1390994 Darcy is acting rather oddly. After months of courting Elizabeth Bennet, no offer of marriage is forthcoming and Elizabeth is first impatient, then increasingly frightened. For there is no denying that the full moon seems to be affecting his behavior, and Elizabeths love is going to be tested in ways she never dreamed...--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1261133 The year is 1918. Alex White, a young American soldier recently wounded in the Great War, comes to Gatford to escape his troubled past. The pastoral English village seems the perfect spot to heal his wounded body and soul, but the neighboring woods are said to be haunted by capricious, even malevolent, spirits. He is warned to steer clear of the woods, and the perilous faerie kingdom it borders, but Alex cannot help himself. Drawn to its verdant mysteries, he finds love, danger, and wonders that will forever change his view of the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1312326 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1294262 It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303308 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1365255 While attending to Lady Adelie, wife to the Earl of Pengraic, as a terrible plague sweeps across Europe, young noblewoman Maeb Langtofte discovers that the walls of Pengraic castle are no longer safe after stumbling upon the Earls dark secret. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1222338 Witnessing the death of her witch mother in the spring of 1628, Bess Hawksmith turns to secluded warlock Gideon Masters for protection and learns formidable powers, including immortality, skills she begins teaching to a new apprentice centuries later. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1244234 In 1918, wounded WWI American soldier Alex White has a frightening encounter in the forest near the pastoral English village of Gatford. His encounter leads him into the arms of Magda Variel, an alluring red-haired widow rumored to be a witch. She warns him to steer clear of the wood and the perilous faerie kingdom it borders, but Alex cannot help himself. Drawn to its verdant mysteries, he finds love, danger, and wonders that will forever change his view of the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1117600 The Darkborn aristocracy has rejected magic, viewing the pursuit of science as the only worthy goal. But Lady Telmaine Hearne does not have that luxury. She has kept her own powers secret, fearful of being ruined in society ... until her husband Balthasar draws her into a conspiracy to protect the archduke and his brother against a magical enemy. But who will protect them from her? The second book in the Regency-flavored fantasy trilogy of magic and manners from the author of Darkborn. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298883 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1167316 In this hilarious retelling of Jane Austens Emma, Mr. Knightley is one of the most handsome and noble of the gentlemen village vampires. Blithely unaware of the secret society of vampires that surround her, Emma imagines she has a special gift for matchmaking. But when her dear friend Harriet Smith declares her love for Mr. Knightley, Emma realizes shes the one who wants to stay up all night with him. Fortunately, Mr. Knightley has been hiding a secret deep within his unbeating heart-his (literal) undying love for her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1057928 With the female master of the London Underground in her hands, stuntwoman-turned, vampire hunter Dawn Madison must fight off her followers, a vicious pack of undead teenage girls who put the vamps Dawn had to deal with in Los Angeles to shame... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1149814 In a Jane Austen-inspired alternate universe, two sisters, one beautiful and the other skilled in the glamour arts, test the limits of their gifts on an unscrupulous suitor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1130744 Being chased by cults, a maniac, and the sorcerers of the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit, cephalopod specialist Billy Harrow inadvertently learns that he holds the key to finding a missing squid--a squid that just happens to be an embryonic god whose powers, properly harnessed, can destroy all that is, was, and ever shall be. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=998124 Relocating to London to ferret out the citys vampire underground, former Los Angeles stuntwoman Dawn Madison tracks down her quarry at a private girls school but finds her teams efforts challenged by an internal threat and Dawns own restless psychic powers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=962325 While armies of the Shadowrealms gather and Machiavelli goes to Alcatraz to kill Perenelle Flamel, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman accompany the Alchemist to England to continue their search for the Codex. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=651744 The story of young Tristran Thorn and his adventures in the land of Faerie. He has fallen in love with beautiful Victoria Forester and in order to win her hand, he must retrieve a fallen star and deliver it to her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=559810 While growing up under Bartlemys protective eye, Nathan Ward senses something else watching him, a shift of shadows in the surrounding Darkwood. Then pieces of his dreams begin to come to life. A man he saved from the ocean washes ashore on the television news. A greenish stone cup set with jewels that has haunted his visions sounds eerily like one lost by the Thorn family centuries ago - a cup that has recently made its way back into the hands of the Thorns only remaining descendant. Yet when Nathan learns that the chalice may have come from another world, a land with bloodstained moons and a toxic sun, he knows he is destined to play a part in something beyond his most vivid imagination. But why is the cup here, and what could it possibly want with a teenage boy and a sleepy town of villagers full of tall tales? With the help of his best friend, Hazel, Nathan must figure out why hes been chosen - and for what purpose. Even if it means traveling deeper each night into dreams, into lands, into legends that both terrify and mesmerize him. The Greenstone Grail is the first novel of a new trilogy that traces a boys journey - a quest rife with magic, wonder, and forces as dark as midnight.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=557547 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=520580 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=497872 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1295049 In this new novel of magic and mystery in Edwardian England, beloved storyteller Lackey once again proves why she is one of the hottest writers in fantasy today.