Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Checkmark Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xv, 302 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Demons and Demonology explores various aspects of folklore and religion and the role that demons play in the modern world. This comprehensive resource documents beliefs about demons and demonology from ancient history to the present and representations of demons in books, movies, and television shows.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A magical debut novel for readers of Naomi Novik's Uprooted, Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, and Neil Gaiman's myth-rich fantasies, The Bear and the Nightingale spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice. At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn't mind--she spends the winter nights huddled around...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Bailey Ruth loves to return to earth as an emissary from Heaven's Department of Good Intentions. Problem is, she's a bit of a loose cannon as far as ghosts go--forgetting to remain invisible, alarming earthly creatures--so she's far from the top of department head Wiggins's go-to list for assignments. That's why she's surprised when the Heaven-sent Rescue Express drops her off at a frame house on the outskirts of her old hometown, Adelaide, Oklahoma,...
7) The jumbies
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
891 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor.
Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 451 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From Anne Rice, conjurer of the beloved best sellers Interview with the Vampire and Prince Lestat, an ambitious and exhilarating new novel of utopian vision and power "In my dreams, I saw a city fall into the sea. I heard the cries of thousands. I saw flames that outshone the lamps of heaven. And all the world was shaken."--Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis At the novel's center: the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, hero, leader,...
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
244 pages : ill., map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Satsuki and her sassy little sister Mei have moved to the country to be closer to their ailing mother. While their father is working, the girls explore their sprawling old house and the forest and fields that surround it. Soon, Satsuki and Mei discover Totoro, a magical forest spirit who takes them on fantastic adventures through the trees and the clouds.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Lestat, Prince of the vampire world, shares how he became the reigning monarch and his battle with Rhoshamandes, a demon spirit who refuses to live in harmony at the Court of Prince Lestat and threatens all that Lestat holds dear.
12) Cemetery Boys
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
344 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy, and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family.
Author
Language
English
Description
" Making Award Winning Wines at Home is the ultimate instruction manual for anyone who doesn't just want to make drinkable wine, but strives to make excellent wine at home. This book covers absolutely everything that amateur winemakers need to know, with sound and accurate advice based on modern science and professional-level winemaking methodology. Author Bill Smith is a wine competition judge who draws on his life's work as an anaerobic fermentation...
Author
Series
Zachary Ying volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After his augmented reality gaming headset is possessed by the spirit of the First Emperor of China, twelve-year-old Chinese American Zack Ying is compelled to travel across China to steal an ancient artifact, fight figures from Chinese history and myth, and seal a portal to prevent malicious spirits from destroying the human realm.
15) Never look back
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A modern retelling of the myth, Orpheus and Eurydice, in which Eury leaves Puerto Rico for the Bronx, haunted by losing all to Hurricane Maria and by evil spirit Ato, and meets a bachata-singing charmer, Pheus.
16) We Could Fly
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
As a mother and daughter watch a bird take flight, the young girl feels a trembling in her arms and a lightness in her feet. Her mama shares that once, long ago, their ancestors could actually fly. Every night they would slip away and soar through the skies, searching for safety, looking for the promised land.
Mama feels in her bones that her daughter is meant to follow those old ways, like her grandmother before her. So Mama grabs hold of her hand,...
17) La Belle Sauvage
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
When Malcolm finds a secret message inquiring about a dangerous substance called Dust, he finds himself embroiled in a tale of intrigue featuring enforcement agents from the Magisterium, a woman with an evil monkey daemon, and a baby named Lyra.
Author
Series
Jujutsu Kaisen volume 1
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Yuji Itadori is resolved to save the world from cursed spirits, but he soon learns that the best way to do it is to slowly lose his humanity and become one himself!
In a world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna were lost and scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna's body parts, the power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately, there exists a mysterious...