The second book in Madeleine L’Engle’s classic fantasy trilogy follows the adventures of Meg Murray and her unusual younger brother Charles Wallace as they encounter something completely unexpected. When six-year-old Charles becomes convinced that there are dragons in the family vegetable garden, his investigation uncovers not dragons but a mysterious alien. Soon he, Meg, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins (the unfriendly school principal) are involved in an intergalactic adventure that is singularly important to Charles. A WRINKLE IN TIME and A SWIFTLY TILTING PLANET are part of this wonderful trilogy.

Third book in the "Mage Winds" trilogy.

Book one of the "Heralds of Valdemar" trilogy. Talia is chosen by one of the Companions, a telepathic horse-like creature.

Using magical gifts inherited from her Indian mother, Maya Witherspoon, a half-Brahmin woman (her father was English), sets up a medical practice in London. Meanwhile, her aunt--who practices the dark arts of Kali worship and objected to the mixed marriage of Maya's parents--arrives in town to prevent her granddaughter from learning more about her skills.

The 1893 Chicago World's Fair is the setting for this true account of two very different men: the celebrated architect Daniel H. Burnham who designed and supervised the construction of the "White City" around which the fair was built, and H.H. Holmes (born Herman Webster Mudgett), a fiendishly clever serial killer posing as a doctor who murdered scores of people, mostly young women, in his World's Fair Hotel, which contained a gas chamber and a handy crematorium for disposing of his victims. Telling their entwined stories in alternating points of view, Erik Larson illuminates the lives of these two men, but provides insightful commentary on the changes that were taking place in American society that allowed both phenomena--a grandiose World's Fair and a string of unsolved murders--to take place. The book contains cameo appearances by such late-19th-century celebrities as Buffalo Bill Cody, Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Edison.

The 1893 Chicago World's Fair is the setting for this true account of two very different men: the celebrated architect Daniel H. Burnham who designed and supervised the construction of the "White City" around which the fair was built, and H.H. Holmes (born Herman Webster Mudgett), a fiendishly clever serial killer posing as a doctor who murdered scores of people, mostly young women, in his World's Fair Hotel, which contained a gas chamber and a handy crematorium for disposing of his victims. Telling their entwined stories in alternating points of view, Erik Larson illuminates the lives of these two men, but provides insightful commentary on the changes that were taking place in American society that allowed both phenomena--a grandiose World's Fair and a string of unsolved murders--to take place. The book contains cameo appearances by such late-19th-century celebrities as Buffalo Bill Cody, Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Edison.

The focus of this novel, unlike that of Le Guin's three previous Earthsea books, is not psychological, but social. Investigating themes of gender roles and child abuse, social justice and aging, Le Guin introduces Spark, an oppressive, macho man, and Apple, a kind and sympathetic woman. Meanwhile, the characters Tenar and Ged from the earlier books return, though both are growing older--Tenar is the mother of Spark and Apple, and Ged--now a goatherd--has lost his magic. Winner of the 1990 Nebula Award and the 1991 Locus Poll Award.

Set in a strange alternate world, this another of author Le Guin's fantasy novels for young adults.

This classic YA fantasy launched the Earthsea series, one of writer Ursula K. Le Guin's most famous sets of books. A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA is a coming-of-age tale set in a magical landscape populated by witches, wizards, and dragons. Despite these familiar fantasy trappings, Le Guin's powerful, lyrical prose allows her to avoid cliché and lend her world its own distinctive mythic quality. Ged, or Sparrowhawk as he's also known, is a precocious, reckless young wizard. When he inadvertently summons up a dark spirit during a spellcasting gone awry, the creature pursues Ged all over Earthsea until he finally learns how to confront it.

This classic YA fantasy launched the Earthsea series, one of writer Ursula K. Le Guin's most famous sets of books. A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA is a coming-of-age tale set in a magical landscape populated by witches, wizards, and dragons. Despite these familiar fantasy trappings, Le Guin's powerful, lyrical prose allows her to avoid cliché and lend her world its own distinctive mythic quality. Ged, or Sparrowhawk as he's also known, is a precocious, reckless young wizard. When he inadvertently summons up a dark spirit during a spellcasting gone awry, the creature pursues Ged all over Earthsea until he finally learns how to confront it.

This lyrically written YA fantasy, by the critically acclaimed author of the Earthsea series, concerns the nature of responsibility to one's family, one's abilities, and oneself. The people of the Uplands use their psychic powers, or gifts, as weapons in their endless petty feuds. Sixteen-year-old Orrec's power, the ability to "undo," or destroy, both inanimate and living things at a glance is seemingly uncontrollable, so he has willingly blindfolded himself for the past three years. Meanwhile, Gry, Orrec's friend since childhood and the woman whom he longs to marry, refuses to use her gift of animal communication to call beasts to be slaughtered during the hunt. Together, the two wonder if there is a way to use their gifts positively, and whether there is more of value to each of them than simply their magic.

Writing Woman and Thinking Man imagine what their ideal children would be like and those ideal children magically appear. Unfortunately, they're not quite what the duo expected.

This third book in the Earthsea epic fantasy series takes place several years after the previous novel, THE TOMBS OF ATUAN. A renegade sorcerer bent on immortality has shattered the line between life and death. As a result, the magic of Earthsea is suffering, and those who practice it are also suffering. The Archmage Ged, Earthsea's greatest wizard, and the young Prince Arren set out to find this sorcerer and seal the hole that he has made in the world.