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1) Good omens
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English
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The world is preparing to come to an end according to the Divine Plan recorded in the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (recorded 1655). Meanwhile, a fussy angel and a fast-living demon have grown fond of living among the earth's mortals for many millennia and are not looking forward to the apocalypse. If Crowley and Aziraphale are going to stop it from happening, they must find and kill the Antichrist.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
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Shadow spent three years in prison, keeping his head down, doing his time. All he wanted was to get back to the loving arms of his wife and to stay out of trouble for the rest of his life. But days before his scheduled release, he learns that his wife has been killed in an accident, and his world becomes a colder place. On the plane ride home to the funeral, Shadow meets a grizzled man who calls himself Mr. Wednesday. A self-styled grifter and rogue,...
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English
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"Spanning Gaiman's career to date, The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction is a ... collection from one of the world's most beloved writers, chosen by those who know his work best: his devoted readers. A ... representation of Gaiman's ... imaginative fiction, this ... volume includes excerpts from each of his five novels for adults--Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane--and nearly fifty of his short...
4) Stardust
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Language
English
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In the sleepy English countryside, at the dawn of the Victorian era, the pursuit of a fallen star sends a lovelorn young man over the city wall and into another reality.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Returning to his childhood home to attend a funeral, a middle-aged man is drawn back to a place once alive with monsters and magic; to a past where the impossible is all too frighteningly real . . .
A haunting meditation on memory, wonder, friendship, and sacrifice, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which was named “Book of the Year” by the UK National Book Awards, is a groundbreaking triumph of storytelling as delicate as a butterfly’s wing...
6) Anansi boys
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English
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"Fat Charlie" Nancy leads a life of comfortable workaholism in London, with a stressful agenting job he doesn't much like, and a pleasant fiancée, Rosie. When Charlie learns of the death of his estranged father in Florida, he attends the funeral and learns two facts that turn his well-ordered existence upside-down: that his father was a human form of Anansi, the African trickster god, and that he has a brother, Spider, who has inherited some of their...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he presents his fashioning of the primeval Norse myths into a novel, which begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds, delves into the exploits of the deities, dwarves, and giants, and culminates in Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and the rebirth of a new time and people. Gaiman stays true to the myths while vividly recreating...
Author
Series
American gods volume 1
Language
English
Description
Shadow spent three years in prison, keeping his head down, doing his time. All he wanted was to get back to the loving arms of his wife and to stay out of trouble for the rest of his life. But days before his scheduled release, he learns that his wife has been killed in an accident, and his world becomes a colder place. On the plane ride home to the funeral, Shadow meets a grizzled man who calls himself Mr. Wednesday. A self-styled grifter and rogue,...
10) Chivalry
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged)
Language
English
Description
"An elderly British widow buys what turns out to be the Holy Grail from a second-hand shop setting her off on an epic visit from an ancient knight who lures her with ancient relics in hope for winning the cup"--
11) The truth is a cave in the Black Mountains: a tale of travel and darkness with pictures of all kinds
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
73 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
You ask me if I can forgive myself? I can forgive myself... And so begins The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains, a haunting story of family, the otherworld, and a search for hidden treasure.
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Series
Sandman library volume 12
Publisher
Vertigo/DC Comics
Pub. Date
[1999.]
Physical Desc
126 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Dream Hunters is a novella with a story tangential to The Sandman series. Inspired by Japanese folklore, Gaiman tells of a fox who wins a monk's temple to use as her den, falls in love with the cleric and bargains with the Japanese Bringer of Dreams to protect the monk from his enemy, the lord of a neighboring estate.
13) M is for magic
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Stories to delight, enchant, and surprise you.
Bestselling author and master storyteller Neil Gaiman here presents a breathtaking collection of tales that may chill or amuse readers - but always embrace the unexpected.
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Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
©ł995
Physical Desc
1 volume (various pagings)
Language
English
Description
These four chilling and entertaining tales make up the tapestry that is Dream Country. The world fantasy award-winning tale of the first performance of William Shakespear's "A Midsummer's Night Dream"...
A beautiful muse enslaved by a novelist to feed his need for stories...
A cat's eye view of the tyranny of mankind...
And an immortal and indestructible woman, who only wants to die...
As an additional bonus, Dream Country prints Neil Gaiman's original...
Author
Series
Sandman omnibus volume Vol. 3
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) , chiefly illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The Sandman is the universally lauded masterwork following Morpheus, Lord of the Dreaming -- a vast hallucinatory landscape housing all the dreams of any and everyone who's ever existed. Regardless of cultures or historical eras, all dreamers visit Morpheus' realm -- be they gods, demons, muses, mythical creatures, or simply humans who teach Morpheus some surprising lessons. In this epic tale, Delirium, youngest of the Endless, prevails upon the Sandman...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy - an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack - who has already killed...
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English
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New York Times bestselling and Newbery and Carnegie Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman has created a thrillingly reimagined fairy tale, ""told in a way only Gaiman can"" (GeekInsider.com), that the Guardian calls ""a refreshing, much-needed twist on a classic story.""
In this captivating and darkly funny tale, Neil Gaiman has twisted together the familiar and the new as well as the beautiful and the wicked to tell a brilliant
...18) Stardust
Author
Series
Colección brainstorming volume 7
Language
Español
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Description
On seeing a falling star, a girl promises a boy his heart's desire if he will get it for her. As it happens the boy is a member of a magic people so finding it presents no problem, until he runs into evil witches who are also after the star. A fairy love story.
Author
Series
Sandman library volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
234 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
An occultist attempting to summon and imprison Death instead traps her younger brother Morpheus, the Sandman, who, after eventually escaping imprisonment, must regain his lost objects of power while on an arduous journey.
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