fantasy - fiction

An English girl, a Polish refugee, and a displaced boy from the Orient explore an island-strewn river flowing past the ancient manor house of Green Knowe.

The inhabitants of Green Knowe become involved with black magic when a modern-day witch attempts to find books of witchcraft supposedly hidden in the old house by a mad seventeenth-century alchemist.

In one moment, millions around the globe disappeared.

Digory's Uncle thinks he is a magician. But when he sends Dirgory and his friend Polly hurtling to a strange, enchanted land called Narnia, they find adventure beyond belief.

Trapped within the Secret Country, a land they invented as a game, now somehow is a reality. As the old king dies, Ted must take over ruling the country. But the Secret Country is on the verge of war with the treacherous Dragon King. Will he know how to rule a country, battle magic, or inspire followers.

Septimus Heap, the seventh son of the seventh son, disappears the night he is born, prounced dead by the midwife. That same night, the baby's father, Silas Heap, comes across an abandoned child in the snow - a newborn girl with violet eyes. She is taken in by the Heaps but who is she?.

In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a messenger, to run to new places in her beloved but decaying city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.

Nathaniel is a magician's apprentice learning traditional arts. But one day he has an encounter with Simon Lovelace, a ruthless magician who humiliates Nathaniel in public...and sparks the embers of revenge.

No one believes Lucy when she discovers the secret of the wardrobe in the professor's mysterious house. But it is a magic doorway to the land of Narnia and adventure beyond belief.

In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages, it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. From his fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, Sauron's power spread far and wide. He gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched far and wide for the One Ring that would complete his dominion. On Bilbo's eleventy-first birthday, he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin, Frodo, the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. THE LORD OF THE RINGS tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.