Susanna Clarke
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English
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Fairy Tales Retold
Fantastic Fantasy Novels (WPL-ADULT)
Fantasy for Those Who Don't Like Fantasy (SCPL)
OBD Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Century (So Far): Fiction - Adult
Fantastic Fantasy Novels (WPL-ADULT)
Fantasy for Those Who Don't Like Fantasy (SCPL)
OBD Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Century (So Far): Fiction - Adult
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At the dawn of the nineteenth century, two very different magicians emerge to change England's history. In the year 1806, with the Napoleonic Wars raging on land and sea, most people believe magic to be long dead in England until the reclusive Mr. Norrell reveals his powers, and becomes a celebrity overnight. Yet the cautious, fussy Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician, the brilliant novice Jonathan Strange. Young, handsome,...
2) Piranesi
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an...
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English
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Neurodiversity in Adult Fiction
OBD Baby, It's Cold Outside! - Adult
OBD Patron Picks Summer Reading 2025 - Adult
OBD Baby, It's Cold Outside! - Adult
OBD Patron Picks Summer Reading 2025 - Adult
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"Nineteen-year-old Merowdis Scot is an unusual girl. She can talk to animals and trees--and she is only ever happy when she is walking in the woods. One snowy afternoon, out with her dogs and Apple the pig, Merowdis encounters a blackbird and a fox. As darkness falls, a strange figure enters in their midst--and the path of her life is changed forever." --Back cover.
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English
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"Vivid and amusing . . . Magically funny." -Ursula K. LeGuin, Los Angeles Times
An enchanting collection of stories from Susanna Clarke, set in the same world as the award-winning, internationally bestselling Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
Susanna Clarke's The Ladies of Grace Adieu is a spellbinding collection of stories brimming with all the ingredients of good fairy tales: petulant princesses,...
An enchanting collection of stories from Susanna Clarke, set in the same world as the award-winning, internationally bestselling Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
Susanna Clarke's The Ladies of Grace Adieu is a spellbinding collection of stories brimming with all the ingredients of good fairy tales: petulant princesses,...
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Russian
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Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic into a flawlessly detailed vision of historical England. She has created a world so thoroughly enchanting that eight hundred pages leave readers longing for more.
English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call, they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long...
7) Piranesi
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Russian
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SHestnadcat' let nazad Syuzanna Klark vypustila "Dzhonatana Strendzha i mistera Norrella" - knigu, razoshedshuyusya po miru tirazhom svyshe 4 millionov ekzemplyarov i priznannuyu legendarnym shedevrom: "Tak mog by vyglyadet' roman "Master i Margarita", esli by ego napisal Dikkens" (A. Genis), "Luchshaya literaturnaya skazka na anglijskom yazyke za poslednie sem'desyat let" (N. Gejman). I vot nakonec my dozhdalis' vtorogo romana Klark. "Eto sobytie...
8) Piranesi
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Español
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Perfect Escape Reads
Staff Suggestions 2021 (SCPLD)
Thomas Ford Library's Science Fiction Book Club Selections
Staff Suggestions 2021 (SCPLD)
Thomas Ford Library's Science Fiction Book Club Selections
Description
La casa de Piranesi no es un edificio cualquiera: sus habitaciones son monumentales, con paredes llenas de miles de estatuas, y sus pasillos, interminables. Dentro del ďdalo de corredores hay un očano aprisionado en el que las olas retumban y las mareas inundan los aposentos. Pero Piranesi no tiene miedo: comprende las embestidas del mar igual que el patr̤n del laberinto, mientras explora los l̕mites de su mundo y avanza, con la ayuda de un hombre...
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Ukrainian
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"Feyri zavzhdy blyzhche, nizh zdayetʹsya. Buvaye, peretnesh nevydymu mezhu -- y dali rozbyraysya, yak umiyesh, iz nakhabnymy pryntsesamy, mstyvymy sovamy, damamy, shcho na dozvilli vyshyvayutʹ navkolyshnim strashnu dolyu, neskinchennymy stezhkamy u hlybokykh temnykh khashchakh i budynkamy, yaki shchorazu vyhlyadayutʹ po-inshomu. Same taki problemy oposidayutʹ heroyiv i heroyinʹ tsykh charivnykh istoriy -- samozakokhanoho svyashchennyka v dobu...
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English
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This fantasy miniseries tells the alternative history of 19th-century England, where magic once existed and has returned with two men: Gilbert Norrell and Jonathan Strange, who pit their skills against the might of Napoleon, the mythical Raven King and death. The clash between these two British magicians is about to become a dangerous duel of the dark arts where, in the midst of the Napoleonic wars the real battle is between their oversized egos.
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English
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20 fairy tales hauntingly reimagined by some of today's finest sci-fi and fantasy authors, including Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, and more. Once upon a time, all our cherished dreams began with the words once upon a time. This is the phrase that opened our favorite tales of princes and spells and magical adventures. World Fantasy Award–winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling understand the power of beloved stories—and in Black...

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