Tanith Lee
2) Wolf Tower
Author
Series
Claidi journals ; 1
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When a stranger is captured by the Guards of the House and Garden where she has worked all her life as a slave and maid, sixteen-year-old Claidi helps him escape and sets out with him to journey to his home city through the dangerous Waste.
Author
Series
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
A macabre dark fantasy of enchantment, misfortune, corruption, and death The unnerving third volume of the Secret Books of Paradys begins with a fable of two doomed weddings. In The Weasel Bride, a white weasel transforms into a fair maiden under the light of a full moon. A local trapper releases the animal from its curse by marrying it, but on their wedding day, the weasel inflicts the groom with a fatal wound. This tale flows into the story of a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
A surreal gothic fantasy of three nefarious cities: Paradise, Paradis, and Paradys Welcome to Paradise, where the sun hasn't shone for years and a callous, ritual-obsessed populace roams the decayed metropolis enshrouded in fog. The citizens are unhinged, murder and incest are praised, and madness reigns. Only a pair of twins, Felion and Smara, remains sane. But their sole hope of escaping the city is a mysterious ice labyrinth connecting parallel...
Author
Series
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A conclusion to the popular Secret Books of Venus quartet takes place in an alternate computer-regulated society, where an unexplained catastrophe claims several lives and points to a sinister threat that places the fate of the city in the hands of a traveler with a haunted past.
Author
Series
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
In the hedonistic atmosphere of an eighteenth-century Venice Carnival, gaiety turns deadly when Furian Furiano happens upon a mask of Apollo floating in the murky waters of the canals. The mask hides a sinister art, and Furian finds himself trapped in a bizarre tangle of love, obsession, and evil, stumbling into a macabre society of murderers. The beautiful but elusive Eurydiche holds the key to these murders and leads him further into a labyrinth...
7) Saint Fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Following Faces Under Water, Tanith Lee's alchemical thriller series continues with a Joan of Arc–inspired novel set in an alternate medieval Venice.
In Saint Fire, the second volume in the Secret Books of Venus series, Volpa is a strangely beautiful servant girl who glows with an inhuman inner flame. When her master, an abusive wood seller, is mysteriously incinerated, Volpa discovers her power of fire. Her gift is noticed by the Church leaders,...
Author
Publisher
childrensElibrary
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tanaquil, who is the daughter of the sorceress Jaive, feels her mother has rejected her because her only skill is that she can mend things. When Tanaquil rebuils the bones of a dead unicorn and Jaive accidentally brings it back to life, Tanaquil sees a chance to start a new life and follows the unicorn into the desert. She travels with a peeve, a furry animal who has the gift of speech due to a spillover of Jaive's magic. Follow Tanaquil's travels...
Author
Publisher
ABRAMS, Inc
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A princess born without feet must learn how to walk—and eventually how to rule—in this dark epic fantasy by an award-winning author.
Acclaimed author Tanith Lee transports her readers to an ominous yet seductive alternate universe, as fully realized as Marion Zimmer Bradley's Avalon, where fate organizes the forces of nature to bring to ruin those who dare to control it.
Horrible screams pierce the night air as the Daystar, Queen...
Acclaimed author Tanith Lee transports her readers to an ominous yet seductive alternate universe, as fully realized as Marion Zimmer Bradley's Avalon, where fate organizes the forces of nature to bring to ruin those who dare to control it.
Horrible screams pierce the night air as the Daystar, Queen...
12) Wolf queen
Author
Series
Claidi journals ; 3
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Claidi is on her way to reunite with her beloved Argul. But when she finally reaches Argul's camp, suspicious faces and hostile words tell her that something is teribly wrong.
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fairy tales reimagined—in stories by “a distinguished company of writers” including Neil Gaiman, Joyce Carol Oates, and Tanith Lee (Kirkus Reviews).
For many of us, the fairy tale was our first exposure to the written word and the power of storytelling. These wondrous works of magic and morality enthralled us, enchanted us, sometimes terrified us, and remain in our hearts and memories still. Once again, World...
For many of us, the fairy tale was our first exposure to the written word and the power of storytelling. These wondrous works of magic and morality enthralled us, enchanted us, sometimes terrified us, and remain in our hearts and memories still. Once again, World...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A bump on the head restores Art's memories of her mother and the exciting life they led, so the sixteen-year-old leaves Angels Academy for Young Maidens, seeks out the pirates who were her family before her mother's death, and leads them back to adventure on the high seas.
