fantasy fiction

"Before he can be reborn, Zan has spent 499 years bound in a 500-year curse to process souls for the monstrous Ferryman--and if he fails he dies. In Portland, Bastian is grieving. He survived a car accident that took his mother and impulse-purchased a crumbling bookstore with the life insurance money. But in sleep, death's mark keeps dragging Bastian into Zan's office. It shouldn't be a problem to log his soul and forget he ever existed. But when Zan follows Bastian through his memories of grief and hope, Zan realizes that he is not ready for Bastian to die. The boys borrow time hiding in the memories of the dead while the Ferryman hunts them, and Zan must decide if he's willing to give up his chance at life to save Bastian--and Bastian must decide if he's willing to keep living if it means losing Zan"--Provided by publisher.

After drowning and making a deal with Death for a new life, Andres Santos starts over in Miami where he forms a polyamorous triad with Renee and Liora, but when Liora ends up in a coma, Andres and Renee embark on a journey into the underworld to retrieve her spirit and reunite it with her body before it is too late.

"Mary is in love with the so-called prince of Charles Town, except he doesn't love her back. Which is inconvenient. Since she's a mermaid, being brokenhearted means she'll--poof!--turn into sea-foam. But instead, Mary finds herself pulled out of the sea and up onto a pirate ship. To survive, she joins them. But Mary isn't willing to just sing the yo-ho-hos. She wants the pirate life, all of it, and she's ready to make a splash . . . by becoming captain. But when Blackbeard dies suddenly, Mary has a chance to become so much more: Pirate King . . . or Queen. She won't let anyone stop her--not Blackbeard's cute son, not her best friend from back under the sea who's having a bit too much fun with his new legs, and certainly not everyone who says she can't be a pirate just because she's a girl. She may not be the best man for the job, but she'll definitely prove that she's worth her salt"--Provided by publisher.

Witches and lovers Caro Rabbit and Iccadora Alice Sickle's twisted past comes to light as they are once again thrust into each other's lives and beckoned back to Wonderland, the dark, monster-filled forest where it all began.

Eighteen-year-old orphan Evie Wilder catches the attention of the Dark Fable, a legendary group of thieves impressed by her unique ability to turn invisible, which leads her into a newfound family, but as she delves deeper she uncovers dark secrets that may hold the key to her own mysterious past.

Young Keladry of Mindalen, daughter of nobles, enters the page program as the only girl and must prove herself to the males around her if she is ever to fulfill her dream of becoming a knight.

". . . delves into the story of Kyoshi, the Earth Kingdom-born Avatar . . . [following] her journey from a girl of humble origins to the merciless pursuer of justice who is still feared and admired centuries after she became the Avatar"--Provided by publisher.

Antsy and her friends at Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children learn that the place she came from, the Shop Where the Lost Things Go, could be a central hub for accessing other worlds and may be the key to helping students find lost doors. Though Antsy is cautious about returning to the Shop, she, Sumi, Cora, Kade, and Christopher are forced to make a quick decision to return after a school bully begins demanding she help her find a lost door. Upon returning, Antsy learns Vineta and Hudson haven't kept their promise, and she sets about turning things to right and helping her friends make choices about returning to their old worlds.

Young Antoinette has lost her father, metaphorically speaking, which means she will not find him in the shop where lost things go: he will never be sitting there among the favorite childhood toys and missing socks and misplaced headphones. Then, "Antsy" finds she has lost herself, literally, and must search through many worlds and doors to escape the shop and discover, as all must, that childhood and innocence cannot be retrieved once they are gone.