[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fw: Fantasy January 2008
- From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:19:50 -0800 (PST)
Servant: The Awakening is already in the collection, with an excellent rating:
http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=47593
Along with Talon of the Silver Hawk, also excellent:
http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=17443
Carrie
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New and Recently Released!
The Year's Best
Fantasy and Horror 2007: 20th Annual Collection - edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly
Link, and Gavin J. Grant
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Check Library
Catalog
Pub Date: 10/1/2007
ISBN: 9780312369439
ISBN-10:
0312369433
Anthology. The 20th annual round-up of the year's best fantasy
(chosen by authors Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant) and horror stories (selected
by well-known
editor Ellen Datlow) also includes poems, essays, and
obituaries. But, as it should be, the focus is mainly on the chosen stories:
you'll likely discover
authors you may not have read before (Ellen Klages,
Margo Lanagan) as well as tales by authors you probably have (Joyce Carol
Oates,
Gene Wolfe). Readers
will certainly want to check out the fantasy stories and
will likely want to read the horror tales as well (after all, they've been
declared the "best,"
and the lines between the genres aren't so well defined
nowadays).
Table of Contents
Servant: The Awakening - by L.L.
Foster
Publisher: Berkley Books
Check Library Catalog
Pub Date:
10/2/2007
ISBN: 9780425218747
ISBN-10: 0425218740
Urban Fantasy. This
1st in a new series (written pseudonymously by romance author Lori Foster)
features a strong, independent heroine who's also an anti-social
demon hunter
doing work for God. Gabrielle Cody, who was raised by a priest after her mother
died giving birth to her, gets headaches whenever evil is
about. But evil
doesn't always look evil and she has to be careful that she isn't caught and
accused of murder--especially when she meets her match in
Detective Luther
Cross. In a starred review, Booklist says the novel "unfolds, scene by scene,
like a graphic novel."
Reserved for the Cat - by Mercedes
Lackey
Publisher: DAW Books
Check Library Catalog
Pub Date:
10/2/2007
ISBN: 9780756403621
ISBN-10: 0756403626
Historical Fantasy.
Ninette Dupond goes from being an obscure ballerina at the Paris Opera to an
acclaimed talent to an unemployed dancer after the prima
ballerina becomes
jealous of her. Penniless and with the rent due, Ninette desperately follows
the
advice of a cat named Thomas, who's an elemental master
and can speak to her
mind-to-mind. She travels to Blackpool, England--where there are other
elemental
masters--and impersonates a missing Russian ballerina.
But the Russian dancer
isn't so much missing as being possessed by an evil being. If you enjoy tales
set in Victorian England, you'll certainly want to
check out Reserved for the
Cat, the 6th book in the Elemental Masters series.
Heart of Stone - by C.E.
Murphy
Publisher: Luna
Check Library Catalog
Pub Date:
11/1/2007
ISBN: 9780373802920
ISBN-10: 0373802927
Urban Fantasy.
Gargoyles, djinns, vampires, selkies, and dragons, oh my! These five old races
walk among us and, as Manhattan Legal Aid lawyer Margrit Knight
finds out,
sometimes they need lawyerly assistance. In Heart of Stone, the 1st book in the
Negotiator Trilogy, a gargoyle named Alban is suspected of killing
women in
Central Park--but he says he didn't do it and needs Margrit's help to prove his
innocence. Readers looking for a smart (well, other than her penchant
for
jogging through the park in the dark) heroine who wants to do the right thing
and help those in need will enjoy this new series; the next, House of
Cards,
is due out in March.
First Chapter
Reader and Raelynx - by Sharon
Shinn
Publisher: Ace Books
Check Library Catalog
Pub Date:
11/6/2007
ISBN: 9780441014699
ISBN-10: 0441014690
Romantic Fantasy. In
Reader and Raelynx, the last of the Twelve Houses books, King Baryn opens the
doors to possible suitors for his daughter, Princess
Amalie, amid rumblings
of political upheaval. In order to make sure Amalie marries a worthy man and
succeeds her father, Baryn hires the mystic Cammon
to read the suitors to
make sure they don't have evil intentions. But Amalie may find love closer to
home. If you haven't read the earlier novels in this
series (Mystic and
Rider, The Thirteenth House, and Dark Moon Defender), you might want to try
them
before picking up this enchanting fairy-tale-esque
story.
In the Cities of
Coin and Spice - by Catherynne M. Valente
Publisher: Bantam Books
Check
Library Catalog
Pub Date: 10/30/2007
ISBN: 9780553384048
ISBN-10:
055338404X
Fantasy. Author Catherynne M. Valente concludes her wonderful
duology with a book that's just as good as the first one, In the Night Garden
(which was a
World Fantasy Award nominee and a James Tiptree, Jr. Award
winner). Like the first book, In the Cities of Coin and Spice is a novel of
interconnected short
stories reminiscent of Arabian Nights, with a
storyteller who is a young girl with eyelids covered in tattooed tales. She
lives alone in a sultan's palace
garden, her only company a boy who comes to
hear her stories. This "masterpiece of imagery and sensual detail" (Library
Journal) will especially please
you if you love complex fantasies that come
together to form an absorbing whole.
First Chapter
Feathered Flights of
Fantasy
Pet Peeve - by Piers Anthony
Publisher: Tor
Check Library
Catalog
Pub Date: 10/3/2006
ISBN: 9780765343116
ISBN-10:
0765343118
Humorous Fantasy. Where would modern fantasy be without the
beloved Xanth novels? Not nearly as punny, that's for sure. In Piers Anthony's
29th novel set
in the Florida-shaped land, Goody Goblin must find a suitable
home for a foul-tempered bird who speaks only in insults...using the voice of
the person
he's with. Goody's quest inadvertently triggers some robots to
plot to take over Xanth, forcing Goody to enlist the aid of the various peoples
and creatures
of Xanth. Pick up any of these novels if you like puns and need
a good laugh. And if you like Pet Peeve, he plays a large role in next book in
the series,
Stork Naked, too.
The Priest of Blood - by Douglas
Clegg
Publisher: Berkley Books
Check Library Catalog
Pub Date:
8/29/2006
ISBN: 9780441013746
ISBN-10: 0441013740
Historical Fantasy.
If you're a vampire-fiction addict, you must pick up this 1st book in the
outstanding Vampyricon trilogy (the next two are The Lady
of Serpents and The
Queen of Wolves). In The Priest of Blood, a bastard son of a prostitute has an
affinity for birds that gets him a job as a falconer
for local baron. But
after an ill-fated relationship with a girl above his station, he is
conscripted
as a soldier in the Crusades where he comes face-to-face
with a vampire...and
his own future. Readers who like historic elements will be happy to know that
the "evocative, vivid medieval setting is every bit
as appealing as the
vampire lore" (Booklist).
The Fortress of Glass: The First Volume of the
Crown of the Isles - by David Drake
Publisher: Tor
Check Library
Catalog
Pub Date: 4/18/2006
ISBN: 9780765312594
ISBN-10:
076531259X
Heroic Fantasy. Prince Garric and his companions journey to
various kingdoms of the Isles in order to help solidify his succession to the
throne. But in
the land of First Atara, the Prince is separated from his
companions and his kingdoms when he is literally taken to another world...one
where he meets
up with a mysterious and powerful creature called The Bird.
Adding to Garric's troubles are a king who comes back from the dead and the
supernatural Green
Woman. The Fortress of Glass is the 1st in a trilogy and
7th in the Lord of the Isles series (though readers needn't have read the first
six books to enjoy
this one).
Talon of the Silver Hawk: Conclave of
Shadows, Book 1 - by Raymond E. Feist
Publisher: HarperTorch
Check Library
Catalog
Pub Date: 4/1/2004
ISBN: 9780380803248
ISBN-10:
0380803240
Fantasy. Kieli is a young boy from a peaceful land that has been
mercilessly destroyed. Facing death himself, Kieli is saved by rescuers and
takes the name
Talon of the Silver Hawk in honor of the bird that visited him
when he was near death. With his family massacred, Talon sets out to seek both
his destiny
and revenge. Shedding his innocence with the help of several
strangers, he soon learns about fighting, women, and spying. This smoothly
written and taut
story takes place in Midkemia, where Feist has set numerous
other books, but newcomers can easily start here. If you've read all the
Tolkien
books and
are looking for something else, try the Conclave of Shadows series,
of which this is the 1st.
In the Forests of Serre - by Patricia A.
McKillip
Publisher: Ace Books
Check Library Catalog
Pub Date:
6/1/2004
ISBN: 9780441011575
ISBN-10: 0441011578
Fairy Tale Fantasy.
Shattered by the loss of his wife and infant, a grieving Prince Ronan of Serre
unsuccessfully tries to get himself killed in battle.
Now, traveling home,
his horse tramples a white hen in the road--which is a bit of a problem since
the hen was the favorite bird of a powerful witch who
retaliates by cursing
him. Once back at the castle, Ronan learns that due to political reasons he is
to be married in just a few days time to Sidonie,
a princess from a magical
kingdom. But before the nuptials can occur, Ronan sees a mysterious firebird
from a window and sets off in pursuit of it through
the forests of Serre.
Based on a Russian folk story, this is a "hauntingly beautiful tale"
(Booklist).
One for Sorrow, Two for Joy - by Clive Woodall
Publisher:
Berkley Books
Check Library Catalog
Pub Date: 12/26/2006
ISBN:
9780441014637
ISBN-10: 0441014631
Fantasy. In the land of Birddom, the
malevolent magpie Slyekin leads the others of his species, as well as the
crows,
in a war against smaller birds--resulting
in a devastating and incredibly
violent genocide-like war. Kirrick, possibly the only robin left in the realm,
speaks with a learned old owl who hatches
a plan requiring the brave little
robin to go on several dangerous quests around the country in order to prevent
more innocent avian deaths. Library Journal
says that this debut novel,
written by a British supermarket employee for his sons, "offers a bird's-eye
view of courage and sacrifice."
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