Garth Nix, . . HarperTrophy, $6.99 (, $6.99 ISBN p) ISBN 978-0-06-000542-9
In this sequel to Sabriel, Lirael is the only one in a community of clairvoyant women not to be gifted with "the sight." PW
called the story "instantly compelling" and noted that the cliffhanger ending points the way to a third entry in the series. Ages 12-up. (May)
In this first volume in Nix's (Sabriel) Mister Monday series, magic splashes across virtually every page. First, a brief, cryptic prelude tells of "the Continue reading »
PW called this ""a riveting continuation of the story begun in Sabriel and Liraed. At once an allegory regarding war and peace and a testament to friendship, this is a thought-provoking fantasy."" Continue reading »
One Beastly Beast (Two Aliens, Three Inventors, Four Fantastic Tales)
Garth Nix
Successfully training his sights on a middle-grade audience, the acclaimed Nix (the Abhorsen trilogy) presents a quartet of wacky yarns set in fantasy-laced worlds and topped off with plenty of Continue reading »
Each of the 16 selections in Strahan's superb anthology (the launch of an annual series) does a disturbing take on a premise that genre fans may find familiar from more mundane examples of Continue reading »
PW gave a starred review to this Australian fantasy about a young necromancer, calling it ""rich, complex, involving, hard to put down."" Ages 12-up. Continue reading »
Earth has been taken over by the terrible Overlords in this ""amply imagined"" science fiction/quest story, said PW. ""The twists and turns of the action-filled plot are compelling."" Ages 12-up. Continue reading »
The second in Garth Nix's Keys to the Kingdom series, Grim Tuesday, brings back Arthur Penhaligon after his defeat of the titular villain in Mister Monday. While a new nemesis, Grim Tuesday, Continue reading »
PW called this ""a riveting continuation of the story begun in Sabriel and Liraed. At once an allegory regarding war and peace and a testament to friendship, this is a thought-provoking fantasy."" Continue reading »
Sabriel is her last year at Wyverley College, a private school in Ancelstierre, where Magic does not work, but near the Border with the Old Kingdom, where it does. She and her father are also highly Continue reading »
Plunge directly into a nightmare--a scrawny boy flees monstrous trackers in an urban wasteland. Gradually the reader learns that Earth has been taken over by the terrible Overlords, the laws of Continue reading »
In Nix's sequel to Sabriel, readers return to the entrancing and complicated Old Kingdom: a world of necromancy, seers, dangerous monsters and talking animals (the cat Mogget is back). The Continue reading »
In this enjoyable romp, first in a planned series, 12-year-old twins Jaide and Jack Shield, who have just had their house blown up under mysterious and possibly magical circumstances, are Continue reading »
In this exciting space opera, 19-year-old Khemri is a Prince of the Empire, one of 10 million Princes who rule much of the galaxy under a mysterious Emperor and an AI called the Imperial Mind. Raised Continue reading »
Three previously published short stories from Nix, best known for his young adult books (Sabriel, etc.), appear in this deluxe hardcover edition. The eponymous characters are a world-weary mercenary Continue reading »
In a prequel to his classic Old Kingdom series, set some 600 years before the previous novels, Nix introduces Clariel, the 17-year-old daughter of a supremely talented goldsmith mother. Clariel only Continue reading »
The title novella, set in Nix’s Old Kingdom, is the gem of this collection of 19 stories, all previously published in recent years. It concerns Morghan, a penniless young man determined to win a job Continue reading »
At her 18th birthday party, Lady Truthful, daughter of Admiral the Viscount Newington, is presented with the fabulous Newington Emerald, an heirloom of great magical power—which is immediately stolen Continue reading »
Nix returns to the Old Kingdom with a solid addition to his popular series. Lirael is now Abhorsen-in-Waiting, a far cry from the lowly Second Assistant Librarian she once was. Her older sister, the Continue reading »
In his rollicking new novel, the space opera A Confusion of Princes, Australian writer Garth Nix, author of the classic Abhorsen Chronicles and the recent Keys to the Kingdom Continue reading »
It has been more than a decade since Australian author Garth Nix published Abhorsen, the third volume (after Sabriel and Lirael) in his Old Kingdom fantasy Continue reading »
'Clariel' is the first novel about Garth Nix's Old Kingdom in more than a decade. It's a prequel set 600 years before the original trilogy, which helps to establish some of the Continue reading »
In a family of five siblings, this book’s narrator—the second-oldest—describes how “we can split anything.” Divvying things up is easy when it comes to broccoli (“Hey, you Continue reading »
A boy with an affinity for animals, a girl who can fly when the wind blows, and a secreted-away world in need of saving propel this realms-roving dazzler, a trilogy opener from Continue reading »
Five major currents in the Atlantic Ocean “swirl billions of gallons of water clockwise around and around,” creating an immense body of water, called the Sargasso Sea after the Continue reading »
As Edward Imagined: The Story of Edward Gorey in Three Acts
Matthew Burgess
In a world bound by rules and conventions, what’s it like to be someone “content to do his own thing, in his own way, in his own time”? Burgess (Sylvester’s Letter) and Majewski Continue reading »