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Legends : Short Novels By the Masters of Modern Fantasy
A six-hundred-page anthology of stories on various fantasy worlds, each preceded by an introduction. They range from Terry Pratchett's The Sea and Little Fishes, set in Discworld, to Ursula K. Le Guin's Dragonfly, set in Earthsea. [1999 Award Winner]
715 p. 1998
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Barlow, Toby
Sharp Teeth
Caught in the middle of a battle to dominate L.A. are Anthony, a kind-hearted, besotted dogcatcher, and the girl he loves, a female werewolf who has abandoned her pack. Anthony has no idea that she's more than she seems, and she wants to keep it that way. But her efforts to protect her secret lead to murderous results--Publisher. [2009 Award Winner]
312 p. 2008
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Bates, Judy Fong
Midnight at the Dragon Cafe
"Su-Jen and her parents settle uneasily into their new life in a town where they are the only Chinese family, isolated by language and long hours at the diner they own. Things change when Lee-Kung, Su-Jen's half-brother, arrives." --BOOK JACKET [2006 Award Winner]
317 p. 2005
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Benioff, David
City of Thieves : a Novel
In a 1941 Leningrad prison Lev and Kolya are given a chance at saving their own lives by complying with an outrageous directive: secure a dozen eggs for a powerful colonel to use in his daughter's wedding cake. In a city cut off from all supplies and suffering unbelievable deprivation, Lev and Kolya embark on a hunt to find the impossible. [2009 Award Winner]
258 p. 2008
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Bradshaw, Gillian
The Sand-reckoner
The young scholar Archimedes leaves the Library at Alexandria when he learns that his father is ailing, and his home city of Syracuse is at war with the Romans. Reluctant but resigned, Archimedes takes himself home to find a job building catapults as a royal engineer...He finds fame and loss, love and war, wealth and betrayal-none of which affects him nearly as much as the divine beauty of mathematics. [2001 Award Winner]
351 p. 2000
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Brooks, Geraldine
Year of Wonders : a Novel of the Plague
In 1666, a young woman comes of age during an extraordinary year of love and death. Inspired by the true story of Eyam, a "plague village" in the rugged hill country of England, "Year of Wonders" is a richly detailed evocation of a singular moment in history, written by the author of "Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women." [2002 Award Winner]
308 p. 2001
Appears on the following book lists:
 Historical Fiction
Historical Fiction from Around the World
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Buckhanon, Kalisha
Upstate
"...a story told through letters between seventeen-year-old Antonio and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Natasha, set in the 1990s in New York. Antonio and Natasha's world is turned upside down, and their young love is put to the test, when Antonio finds himself in jail, accused of a shocking crime. Antonio fights to stay alive on the inside, while on the outside, Natasha faces choices that will change her life." --BOOK JACKET.[2006 Award Winner]
247 p. 2005
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Extraordinary Reads for High Schoolers
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Card, Orson Scott
Ender's Shadow
An urchin is picked off the street by a nun and sent to war school to become a brilliant space-war strategist. He is Bean, so called because of his diminutive stature, the result of an illegal genetic experiment. [2000 Award Winner]
379 p. 1999
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Chevalier, Tracy
Girl with a Pearl Earring
A maid becomes a model for the 17th century Dutch painter, Vermeer. The woman, an artisan's daughter with a strong power of observation, describes his manner of work, his household and life of the day, including the rigid class system and religious bigotry. A debut in fiction. [2001 Award Winner]
233 p. 1999
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Clarke, Breena
River Cross My Heart
The impact of a child's drowning on a black family in 1925 Washington, especially on the 12-year-old sister who was baby-sitting the girl. Told against the background of the lot of blacks at the time. [2000 Award Winner]
245 p. 1999
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Oprah's Books
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Connolly, John
The Book of Lost Things
Mourning the loss of his mother, David finds comfort in the books she left behind. But soon the make-believe world of the books melds with David's reality, and the figments of his imagination become startlingly real. Suddenly, he finds himself in a brutal land populated by trolls, harpies, and werewolf-like creatures. His only hope is to find the king, whose Book of Lost Things could show David the way home. [2007 Award Winner]
339 p. 2006
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Davis, Amanda
Wonder When You'll Miss Me
At fifteen, Faith Duckle was lured under the bleachers by a bunch of boys and brutally attacked...Faith eventually turns to violence for retribution, forcing her to flee home in search of the only friend she has -- a troubled but caring busboy who is the lover of a sideshow performer -- and to tumble into the colorful, transient world of the circus. [2004 Award Winner]
259 p. 2003
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Doig, Ivan
The Whistling Season
In 1909, struggling to farm his remote homestead and raise three sons, widower Oliver Milliron despreately needs help. A housekeeper's ad in a Milwaukee newspaper, "Can't cook but doesn't bite," leads him to hire her site unseen. When perky Rose Llewellyn arrives, she brings her brainy brother, Morris...these two newcomers conceal a past that is colorful and infamous. [2007 Award Winner]
345 p. 2006
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Durham, David Anthony
Gabriel's Story
Gabriel and his mother flee the Reconstruction of the South to join his step-father on the prairie, but the farming life is not for him and he soon joins a gang of cowboys only to find a life of hardship and violence. [2002 Award Winner]
291 p. 2001
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Enger, Leif
Peace Like a River
Enger tells the story of 11-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy who has reason to believe in miracles. [2002 Award Winner]
313 p. 2001
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If you liked . . . The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Minnesota Authors
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Ferraris, Zoe
Finding Nouf
"When sixteen-year-old Nouf goes missing, along with a truck and her favorite camel, her prominent family calls on Nayir ash-Sharqi, a desert guide, to lead a search party...her body is discovered by anonymous desert travelers. But when the coroner's office determines that Nouf died not of dehydration but from drowning, and her family seems suspiciously uninterested in getting at the truth, Nayir takes it upon himself to find out what really happened to her." --BOOK JACKET. [2009 Award Winner]
305 p. 2008
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Fforde, Jasper
The Eyre Affair : a Novel
Welcome to a surreal version of Great Britain, circa 1985, where time travel is routine, cloning is a reality..., and literature is taken very, very seriously...All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection, until someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature. When Jane Eyre is plucked from the pages of Bronte's novel, Thursday must track down the villain and enter the novel herself to avert a heinous act of literary homicide. Book jacket. [2003 Award Winner]
374 p. 2002
Appears on the following book lists:
If you liked . . . The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
Alternate History
Classics Revamped
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Gaiman, Neil
Anansi Boys
Charlie's dad wasn't just any dad. He was Anansi, a trickster god, the spirit of rebellion able to overturn the social order, create wealth out of thin air, and baffle the devil. When he dies on a karaoke stage, things get very interesting for Charlie. [2006 Award Winner]
336 p. 2005
Appears on the following book lists:
Fantasy: Contemporary
Horrorific
Good Reads for High School
Minnesota Authors
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Gaiman, Neil
Stardust : Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie
Tristran Thorn falls in love with the prettiest girl in town and makes her a foolish promise: he says that he'll go find the falling star they both watched streak across the night sky. She says she'll marry him if he finds it, so he sets off, leaving his home of Wall, and heads out into the perilous land of Faerie, where not everything is what it appears. [2000 Award Winner]
240 p. 2007
Appears on the following book lists:
Flights of Fantasy
Books to Film
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Galloway, Gregory
As Simple as Snow
A story about a young man's quest to unravel the puzzle his missing girlfriend may (or may not) have left behind. She is a complicated high school girl with a penchant for riddles and affectionate mind games, who spends much of her time writing obituaries for every living person in town...But a week before Valentine's Day Anna disappears, leaving behind nothing except a dress placed neatly near a hole in the frozen river, and a string of unanswered questions. [2006 Award Winner]
308 p. 2005
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Good Reads for High School
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