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Author
Series
Waxways volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Follows six teenage wizards as they fight to make it home alive after a malfunctioning spell leaves them stranded in the wilderness.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone and The Family Upstairs comes another riveting work of "gloriously twisted" (Marie Claire) psychological suspense. On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend. One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate....
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Derry and her eight siblings live in an isolated house by the lake, separated from the rest of the world by an eerie and menacing forest. They know it's for their own good. After all, the world isn't safe for people with magic. And Derry feels safe--most of the time. Until the night her eldest sister disappears. When a second sibling goes missing, feeling safe is no longer an option. Derry will risk anything to protect the family she has left. Even...
Author
Series
Hainish series volume 2
Pub. Date
[2010?]
Physical Desc
189 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When the Athsheans, the inhabitants of a peaceful world, are conquered by the bloodthirsty Yumens, they retaliate against their captors, abandoning their rules against violence and endangering the very foundations of their society.
7) For the wolf
Author
Series
Wilderwood novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
"As the only Second Daughter born in centuries, Red has one purpose - to be sacrificed to the Wolf in the Wood in the hope he'll return the world's captured gods. Red is almost relieved to go. Plagued by a dangerous power she can't control, at least she knows that in the Wilderwood, she can't hurt those she loves. Again. But the legends lie. The Wolf is a man, not a monster. Her magic is a calling, not a curse. And if she doesn't learn how to use...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Every seven years, the people of Three Graces send a sacrifice to the woods. The death of their 'best boy' ensures seven years free from disease, blight, and pain. But this year, the Slaughter Moon has risen early, and three, not one, will run into the forest as a sacrifice"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
403 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Deep in the Hungarian woods, the sacred magic of King Solomon lives on in his descendants. Gathering under the midnight stars, they perform small miracles and none are more gifted than the great Rabbi Isaac and his three daughters. But darkness is creeping across Europe, threatening the lives of every Jewish person in every village. Each sister will have to make an impossible choice in an effort to survive - and change the fate of their family forever"--...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
350 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm.
Description
Cursed. Maisie Cothay has never known the feel of human flesh: born with the power to kill or resurrect at her slightest touch, she has spent her childhood sequestered in her family's manor at the edge of a mysterious forest. Maisie's father - an anthropologist who sees her as more experiment than daughter - has warned her not to venture into the wood. Locals talk of men disappearing within, emerging with addled minds and strange stories. What he...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"One girl caught between the freedom she always wanted and a sister she can't bear to leave behind. Under the cover of the Night Forest, will Lucha be able to step into her own power ... or will she be consumed by it? This gorgeous and fast-paced fantasy novel from acclaimed author Tehlor Kay Mejia is brimming with adventure, peril, romance, and family bonds--and asks what it means for a teen girl to become fully herself"--
Author
Series
Forest novels (Shion Miura) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (6 1/2 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Yuki Hirano is enrolled in a forestry training program against his will. But as Yuki embraces the forest community of Kamusari, he starts to appreciate the harmony between nature and tradition.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
157 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Tom and Charlie have decided to live out the remainder of their lives hidden away in a remote forest, their only connection to the outside world a couple of pot growers who deliver whatever they need that they can't eke out for themselves. But one summer two women arrive. One is a young photographer documenting a series of catastrophic forest fires that swept Northern Ontario, and the elderly aunt of the one of the pot growers appears, fleeing the...
15) Legacy
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Since her older brother Andy died, Alison's mom is in perpetual mourning, her father ran out on them, Alison's reputation is trashed after hanging out with Andy's hard-partying friends. She planned to spend her senior year hanging out with her punk rocker boyfriend and trying not to flunk out of school, but a massive fight with her mother pushes her over the edge, and she runs away. Joining a group of radical environmentalists who are occupying a...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
390 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Description
Leelo has spent her entire life on Endla, coexisting with the bloodthirsty Forest and respecting the poisonous lake that protects her island from outsiders who seek to destroy it. But as much as Leelo cares for her community, she struggles to accept that her younger brother will be exiled by his next birthday, unless he gains the magic of enchanted song so vital to Endla. When Leelo sees a young outsider on the verge of drowning in the lake, she knows...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Jo lives in the same Appalachian town where her mother disappeared fifteen years ago. Everyone knows what happened to Jo's mom. She was wild, and bad things happen to girls like that. Now people are starting to talk about Jo. She's barely passing her classes and falls asleep at her desk every day. She's following in her mom's footsteps. Jo does have a secret. It's not what people think, though. Not a boy or a drug habit. Jo has a twin sister. Jo's...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"In the tradition of Stephen King (The Talisman), Scott Smith (The Ruins), and Jason Mott (The Returned), award-winning playwright Robert Levy spins a dark tale of alienation and belonging, the familiar and the surreal, family secrets and the search for truth in his debut supernatural thriller. When Michael Whitley, otherwise known as Blue, takes three friends into the hinterlands of Canada to sell a house he's inherited, it at first seems to everyone...
19) Wildful
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
213 pages : illustrations ; 18 x 26 cm
Description
"Nothing's been the same since Gran passed away. Mum's grief has kept her on the couch, so Poppy has started taking her dog Pepper for walks around the nieghborhood. When Poppy finds a forgotten forest through a hole in the fence, she meets a new friend who shows her that you can find magic in the wilderness--if you know where to look, what to listen for and how to wait...but will Poppy be able to help her Mum see it, too?"--
20) Timber Rose
Author
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
463 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
1907. Women climbing mountains in skirts. Loggers fighting for the eight hour day. The forests and mountains of the North Cascades are alive with progress, but not everyone is on board. Caroline Symington comes from a prominent family in Portland, Oregon. Much to her family's dismay, she's more interested in hiking outdoors and exploring the freedoms of a 1907's New Woman than fancy parties and money. When she falls in love with Bob Alford, an enterprising...
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