Charles De Lint
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English
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A woman photojournalist investigates reports of "animal people" in her town. She finds them after being attacked in a slum and saved by a taxi driver who is one of the people. He introduces her to the world of shape-shifting individuals with animal blood and magical powers who live on the edge of society.
3) Widdershins
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English
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In Widdershins, fantasy author Charles de Lint has delivered one of his most accessible and moving works of his career.
Jilly Coppercorn and Geordie Riddell. Since they were introduced in the first Newford story, "Timeskip," back in 1989, their friends and readers alike have been waiting for them to realize what everybody else already knows: that they belong together. But they've been more clueless about how they feel for each other than the characters...
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English
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Isabelle Copley, as the young student of the cruel, brilliant artist Vincent Rushkin, discovered that she could paint images so vividly real that they brought her wildest fantasies to life, freeing ancient spirits. But when the forces she unleashed brought tragedy to those she loved, she turned her back on her talent and her dreams.
Now, twenty years later, Isabelle must come to terms with the shattering memories she has long denied and unlock
...5) Moonheart
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Charles de Lint
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Formatting repaired. Sorry to discover there were glitches in the first upload; if you already purchased this book prior to December 25/13, please download it again (at no cost).Moonheart is the award-winning novel that propelled Charles de Lint to his status as a master of urban fantasy.Unique to this Triskell Press edition is a new afterword by de Lint reminiscing on the impact of his seminal work. We are grateful to Charles Vess for the use of...
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Blackstone Publishing
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English
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Welcome to Newford: to the music clubs, the waterfront, and the alleyways where ancient myths and magic spill into the modern world. Gemmins live in abandoned cars and skells traverse the tunnels below, while mermaids swim in the gray harbor waters and fill the cold night with their song.
Come meet Jilly, painting wonders in the rough city streets; and Geordie, playing fiddle while he dreams of a ghost; and the Angel of Grasso Street gathering the...
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TOR
Pub. Date
1995.
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English
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Stories on the fictional city of Newford where hard-edged street life is touched by ancient magic. In Bird Bones and Wood Ash, a woman manages to save children from being eaten by their monster parents, while in Dream Harder, Dream True, the protagonist saves a fairy with a broken wing.
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Newford ; 22
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Triskell Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Anyone who knows her wouldn't be surprised to learn that Jilly sees the world through a prism of faerie tales. It was years before I came to understand that she wasn't just being whimsical when she talked so easily about hobs and brownies and various kinds of faerie creatures. They were real. Faerieland, otherworlds, and all the denizens and creatures you might imagine to live there. It was all real. And so were ghosts. I remember when I first realized...
12) A circle of cats
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Viking
Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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Twelve-year-old Lillian, an orphan who loves roaming the woods looking for fairies when her chores are done, is bitten by a deadly snake and saved through the magical forest creatures.
13) The blue girl
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Viking
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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New at her high school, Imogene enlists the help of her introverted friend Maxine and the ghost of a boy who haunts the school after receiving warnings through her dreams that soul-eaters are threatening her life.
17) Eyes like leaves
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Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Magic is already fading in the green Isles, but it's still a time when myths walk the world and the children of the ancient gods are engaged in one final confrontation. But when legendary creatures wage war, it's the ordinary people who suffer the consequences- unless they, themselves, can find a way to bring an end to the hostilities. The trouble is, not all of them are able to pick a side. From book jacket.
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Viking
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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Fourteen-year-old T.J. and her new friend, sixteen-year-old Elizabeth, a six-inch-high "Little" with a big chip on her shoulder, help one another as T.J. tries to adjust to her family's move from a farm to the big city and Elizabeth tries to make her own way in the world.
