Charles de Lint
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Description
“The Crow Girls and their kind, once seen, are impossible to forget. Wild, but curiously childlike; wise and yet playful; existing outside the confines of conventional morality, and yet bringing hope and clarity to everyone whose lives they touch.” —Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat, from her introduction to this book.Charles de Lint’s readers have been asking him to put together story collections featuring their favourite Newford characters....
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Description
When asked to choose his “very best” stories, Charles de Lint went directly to his fans, who helped him select this collection of timeless, magical tales. From his beloved Newford to the streets of modern Ottawa, these stories take you effortlessly to a place where mystery and myth are right next door. To quote his readers: “His stories are good for the heart and soul…he reminds you of hope and strength and Beauty and Grace that you may have...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Description
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...
Author
Series
Newford series volume 18
Pub. Date
by Charles De Lint
Description
The book takes place in 1972 and begins with Jilly getting a surprise visit from an old friend-her only friend-from her runaway days. Interspersed with the main story that leads off from that meeting are flaskbacks to pivotal moments in her life: time spent in the Home for Wayword Girls, her life on the street, meeting and working with the Grasso Street Angel, the first time she meets various familiar face (Geordie, Sophie, etc.) You'll find out how...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Description
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 in this expansion on the author's and illustrator's previous work, A circle of cats.
9) Dingo
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
Seventeen-year-old Miguel Schreiber and a long-term enemy are drawn into a strange dream world when they fall in love with shapeshifting sisters from Australia--twins hiding from a cursed ancestor who can only be freed with the girls' cooperation.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
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.
13) Juniper Wiles
Author
Series
Newford volume 21
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Juniper Wiles once starred as a plucky teen detective in the popular TV show, Nora Constantine. When the series ended seven years ago, Juniper decided to leave L.A., return to Newford, and join friends at Bramleyhaugh artists' collective, the center of which is her pal, faerie artist Jilly Coppercorn. Now, with the strange murder of a young man, the fictional world of Nora Constantine starts to bleed into Newford. Juniper wanted to leave her role...
Author
Series
Newford series volume 9
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
The artist colony of Newford is endangered when ancient spirits battle for power.
16) Muse and reverie
Author
Series
Newford series volume 19
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
An all-new collection of short fiction in Charles de Lint's "Newford" universe.
17) Eyes like leaves
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
"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..."--Jacket.
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