<div>A collection of young adult vampire stories that is “a who’s who of teen-literature and genre luminaries” (Kirkus Reviews). The first bite is only the beginning. Twenty of today's favorite writers explore the intersections between the living, dead, and undead. Their vampire tales range from romantic to chilling to gleeful—and touch on nearly every emotion in between. Neil Gaiman's vampire-poet in “Bloody Sunrise” is brooding, remorseful, and lonely. Melissa Marr's vampires make a high-stakes game of possession and seduction in “Transition.” And in “Why Light?” Tanith Lee's lovelorn vampires yearn most of all for the one thing they cannot have—daylight. Drawn from folk traditions around the world, popular culture, and original interpretations, the vampires in this collection are enticingly diverse. But reader beware: The one thing they have in common is their desire for blood. . . . “An eclectic mix of tales and tones, the stories (refreshingly, not all focused on romance) are dark, humorous, bittersweet, mocking or some combination thereof.” —School Library Journal </div>

Teeth

<div>This &ldquo;wondrous&rdquo; collection of fantasy tales from Neil Gaiman, Patricia A. McKillip, and others &ldquo;is a treasure chest. Open it and revel in its riches&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). For this enchanting anthology&mdash;a World Fantasy Award finalist&mdash;editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling &ldquo;asked their contributors to reimagine F&auml;erie&rdquo; in the present day, or &ldquo;search its more dimly lit pathways,&rdquo; and the authors have responded with bountiful imagination. The title piece is a poem by Neil Gaiman, but most of the others are longer pieces, &ldquo;like shards of stories you want to hear more of.&rdquo; Jeffrey Ford &ldquo;limns the heartbreaking tale&rdquo; of fairies who live in sandcastles built by young children; Ellen Steiber&rsquo;s &lsquo;Screaming for Fairies&rsquo; &ldquo;sketches the lineaments of desire.&rdquo; Bruce Glassco &ldquo;finds a different voice for Tinkerbell and Captain Hook in &lsquo;Never Never.&rsquo;&rdquo; Tanith Lee&rsquo;s &lsquo;Elvenbrood&rsquo; tale is eerie and &ldquo;chilling.&rdquo; Gregory Maguire, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Patricia A. McKillip, and Emma Bull&rsquo;s stories all &ldquo;enchant&rdquo; and bewitch. Delia Sherman&rsquo;s &lsquo;CATNYP&rsquo; is &ldquo;both funny and deeply clever, warming the cockles of anyone who has ever had dealings with a research library, especially New York Public&rsquo;s&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). This companion volume to The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest is &ldquo;a rewarding choice for those who like the traditional with a twist&rdquo; (Booklist).</div>

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The Faery Reel

<div>Stories of the archetypal Trickster from Michael Cadnum, Charles de Lint, Patricia A. McKillip, Jeffrey Ford, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, and others. World Fantasy Award Finalist The mythic Trickster is both good and bad, wise and witless, sacred and profane. He appears in many different guises in world mythology, taking the form of a god in Greek legend; a coyote, raven, or rabbit in Native American lore; a meddlesome faery in English folktales; a larger-than-life human being in Germany; or the charming, seductive, and deadly kitsune of the Japanese. In true Trickster fashion, this captivating collection of stories will elicit both laughs and gasps. A Louisiana swamp girl makes a wager with a bon &agrave; rien who fiddled the devil out of hell in Delia Sherman&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Fiddler of Bayou Teche.&rdquo; World Fantasy Award winner Patricia A. McKillip introduces a pickpocket who tries to predict the future with stolen cards, but for whom fate has something else in store, in &ldquo;The Fortune-Teller.&rdquo; And in &ldquo;The Dreaming Wind&rdquo; by Jeffrey Ford, a seasonal gale causes havoc among humans and nature&mdash;but nothing compares to what happens when it fails to reappear. &ldquo;The anthology features tricksters of many cultures from all over the world. Along with Coyote, there are stories here of Loki, Legba, Hermes, Raven, the Monkey King of China, and the fox spirits of Japan. . . . Windling and Datlow have done their usual excellent job of selecting quality work.&rdquo; &mdash;Strange Horizons &ldquo;Sophisticated and well-written.&rdquo; &mdash;Fantasy Literature</div>

The Coyote Road

<div>In book three of the Curse Workers series, &#8220;the perfect end to this gem of a trilogy&#8221; (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), trust is a priceless commodity and the lines between right and wrong become dangerously blurred. Cassel Sharpe knows he&#8217;s been used as an assassin, but he&#8217;s trying to put all that behind him. He&#8217;s trying to be good, even though he grew up in a family of con artists and cheating comes as easily as breathing to him. He&#8217;s trying to do the right thing. And he&#8217;s trying to convince himself that working for the government is the right choice, even though he&#8217;s been raised to believe they are the enemy of all curse workers. But with a mother on the lam, the girl he loves about to take her place in the Mob, and all new secrets coming to light, what&#8217;s right and what&#8217;s wrong become increasingly hard to tell apart. When the Feds ask him to do the one thing he said he would never do again, he starts to wonder if they really are the good guys, or if it&#8217;s all a con. And if it is, Cassel may have to make his biggest gamble yet&#8212;on love. Love is dangerous and trust is priceless in Holly Black&#8217;s &#8220;powerful, edgy, dark&#8221; fantasy series (Publishers Weekly).</div>

Black Heart

<div>Discover the Newbery Honor winner Doll Bones, from Holly Black, the cocreator of the Spiderwick Chronicles. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book. A School Library Journal Best Book. A Booklist Editor&#8217;s Choice Books for Youth. A Publishers Weekly Best Children&#8217;s Book. A NYPL &#8220;100 Titles for Reading and Sharing.&#8221; A 2013 Goodreads Choice award nominee. A People Magazine &#8220;Best New Kids Book.&#8221; Six starred reviews! Winner of a 2014 Newbery Honor Medal. Zach, Poppy, and Alice have been friends forever. And for almost as long, they&#8217;ve been playing one continuous, ever-changing game of pirates and thieves, mermaids and warriors. Ruling over all is the Great Queen, a bone-china doll cursing those who displease her. But they are in middle school now. Zach&#8217;s father pushes him to give up make-believe, and Zach quits the game. Their friendship might be over, until Poppy declares she&#8217;s been having dreams about the Queen&#8212;and the ghost of a girl who will not rest until the bone-china doll is buried in her empty grave. Zach and Alice and Poppy set off on one last adventure to lay the Queen&#8217;s ghost to rest. But nothing goes according to plan, and as their adventure turns into an epic journey, creepy things begin to happen. Is the doll just a doll or something more sinister? And if there really is a ghost, will it let them go now that it has them in its clutches? Doll Bones is a winner of the Newbery Honor, is the recipient of six starred reviews, was on four Best Book lists, and was called "perfect" by The New York Times.</div>

Doll Bones

<div>Thanks to the mysterious field guide left behind by their long-lost great-great-uncle Arthur Spiderwick, life for the Grace kids&#8212;Jared, Simon, and Mallory&#8212;is beyond weird. When Simon goes missing, Jared is convinced creatures from the faerie world have something to do with it. Mallory is not convinced. That is, until she and Jared have to contend with a band of menacing, marauding goblins. Simon is clearly in danger, and it&#8217;s up to Mallory and Simon to save him, before it&#8217;s too late&#8230;</div>

The Seeing Stone

<div>From #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black comes the &ldquo;dangerously, darkly gorgeous&rdquo; (Cassandra Clare) Curse Workers trilogy, now together in one beautiful bind-up! Cassel Sharpe comes from a family of curse workers, people who have the power to change emotions, memories, and luck with the slightest touch of their hands. And since curse work is illegal, they&rsquo;re also all criminals. Many become mobsters and con artists, but not Cassel. He doesn&rsquo;t have magic, so he&rsquo;s an outsider, the straight kid in a crooked family&#8212;except for the small detail that he killed his best friend, Lila, three years ago. Cassel has carefully built up a facade of normalcy, blending into the crowd. But his facade starts to crumble when he finds himself sleepwalking, propelled into the night by terrifying dreams about a white cat that wants to tell him something. He&rsquo;s noticing other disturbing things, too, including the strange behavior of his two older brothers, who are keeping secrets from him. As Cassel begins to suspect he&rsquo;s an unwitting pawn in a huge con game, he must unravel his past, and his memories. To find the truth, Cassel will have to out-con the conmen. This magical bind-up includes: White Cat Red Glove Black Heart</div>

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