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Dragon Life

Matt Doeden - Capstone Press
Format: Hardcover

Describes natural dragon behaviors and habitats. Includes a photo-glossary describing the appearance and characteristics of several dragon species.
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Quatrain

Sharon Shinn - Ace
Format: Hardcover

Sharon Shinns Twelve Houses books have fascinated readers and critics alike with their irresistible blend of fantasy, romance, and adventure. Now in Quatrain, she weaves compelling stories in four of the worlds that readers love in Fight, Blood, Gold, and Flame.
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The Anatomy of a Dragon (Blazers)

Matt Doeden - Capstone Press
Format: Library Binding

You might think you know what dragons look like. But not all dragons look the same. Find out how they fly and how they breathe fire. Learn all about the powerful bodies of these mighty beasts, and what makes each one special.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel

Neil Gaiman - William Morrow; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is Neil Gaiman's first new novel for adults since his #1 New York Times bestseller Anansi Boys.This bewitching and harrowing tale of mystery and survival,...
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Dragon Behavior

Matt Doeden - Capstone Press
Format: Print book

In popular dragon legends, dragons breathe fire and hoard treasures. But many kinds of dragons appear in stories from all over the world. What do these dragons eat? Where do they live? From dragons that fly to dragons that help people, find out what makes each type of dragon unique.
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Dragons in Mythology

Matt Doeden - Capstone Press
Format: Book

All over the world, people have told stories about dragons. These stories have caught the interest of adults and children for hundreds of years. Meet some legendary dragons and listen in as these stories come to life.,
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Dragonsblood

Todd J. Mccaffrey - Del Rey; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover

In Dragons Kin, bestselling author Anne McCaffrey did the unthinkable for the first time ever, she invited another writer to join her in the skies of her most famous fictional creation. That writer was her son, Todd McCaffrey. Together, they penned a triumphant new chapter in the annals...
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Book of Dragons, The

Michael Hague - William Morrow & Co.
Format: Print book

For thousands of years, the legendary dragon has inspired awe and wonder in cultures the world over. Now Michael Hague, one of America's most beloved painters of fantasy, boldly captures seventeen classic dragon tales. Within these pages are the stories of heroic dragon slayers such...
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I'm a Fire Breather!: Meet a Dragon

Renée Kurilla - Millbrook Press
Format: Book

Meet Alice. Shes a dragon! She breathes fire as she flies overhead. She likes her humans crispy! But dont worry. Alice isnt real. Shes one of the monsters you meet in stories. She just wants to tell you about dragons. Find out where dragons store their treasure. Learn about dragons special...
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Lavinia

Ursula K Le Guin - Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

In a richly imagined, beautiful new novel, an acclaimed writer gives an epic heroine her voice In The Aeneid, Vergil's hero fights to claim the king's daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives...
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A Practical Guide to Dragon Magic

Susan Morris - Mirrorstone
Format: Print book

The two most popular fantasy topics--dragons and magic--combine in this fascinating new volume of the New York Times best-selling series...Do you wish you could fly on wings of your own? Breathe fire? Cast spells in the blink of an eye? These are the secrets only dragon magic can teach...
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Pete's Dragon: Elliot Gets Lost

Disney Book Group. - Disney Press
Format: Print book

Elliot the puppy is lost in the forest, and needs to find a new home. Will it be with a family of sheep, or a questioning owl, or maybe some playful fox cubs? Or will his search lead him somewhere else? From the screen to the page, Elliot Gets Lost will bring the fun and heartwarming...
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Do Not Bring Your Dragon to the Library

Julie Gassman - Picture Window Books
Format: Print book

Have you ever thought about bringing your dragon to the library? Don't do it! You might have the best intentions, but that dragon will cause nothing but trouble. Using rhyming text and a diverse cast of characters, this charming picture book will provide some important and some not so important...
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The Extremely Greedy Dragon

Jessica Barrah - QEB Publishing
Format: Print book

Follow the fearless Georgie as she befriends a hungry dragon and shows others not to judge on first appearances in The Extremely Greedy Dragon. The village of Little Chiddling has a big problem. A sleeping dragon, that cannot be woken, is fast asleep on a railway line! The Mayor offers...
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Jill & Dragon

Lesley Barnes

"And they all lived happily ever after." At least, that's what Jill's storybook says, but Jill can't help noticing that at the end of the story, one character looks far from happy. Dragon is despised by the king because all he can do is singe, burn, and barbe
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Smoke: A Novel

Dan Vyleta - Doubleday
Format: Print book

Readers of the Harry Potter series and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell are sure to be mesmerized by Dan Vyleta's thrilling blend of historical fiction and fantasy, as three young friends scratch the surface of the grown-up world to discover startling wonders - and dangerous...
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Return of the Library Dragon

Carmen Agra Deedy - Peachtree Publishers
Format: Hardcover

After 682 years of faithful service, Miss Lotty is retiring from guarding books. But before she can check out of Sunrise Elementary for good, disaster strikes. Someone has ordered all the books removed from the library and replaced with machines! It s enough to make Lotty feel a little...dragon-like....
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Stardust

Neil Gaiman - Vertigo
Format: Hardcover

In the sleepy English countryside at the dawn of the Victorian Era, young Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to beautiful Victoria Forester. But Victoria is cold and distant -- as distant, in fact, as the star she and Tristran see fall from the sky on a crisp October evening. For the coveted...
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Little Wing Learns to Fly

Calista Brill - Harper
Format: Print book

No matter how hard Little Wing tries to fly, he always flops . . . until one day when his fluttering takes him above the clouds and far away - maybe too far away! Lost in the sky, Little Wing has to find his way home. But thanks to a special someone, he learns the importance of dragon rules....
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The Sword of Shannara Trilogy

Terry Brooks
Format: Hardcover

Twenty-five years ago, New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks wrote a novel that brought to life a dazzling world that would become one of the most popular fantasy epics of all time, beloved by millions of fans around the world. Ten more Shannara books would follow.
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There's a Dragon in My Closet

Dorothea Taylor - Agate Bolden
Format: Hardcover

The dragon in the closet is such a con: one minute he's dancing like a goof under sheets and leaving "get well" notes and peppermints when little ones are sick, and the next he's tracking dirty footprints all over the carpet and eating all the snickerdoodles out of the cookie...
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This Book Is Not About Dragons

Shelley Moore Thomas - Boyds Mills Press
Format: Print book

Meet a mouse narrator who stubbornly insists that this book contains absolutely no dragons - not even a claw nor a flame nor any large, pointy scales. Readers will know better - and enjoy being in on the joke - as a flock of dragons chase the mouse to the very end of the book within the book....
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A Practical Guide to Dragon Riding (Dragonlance: the New Adventure)

Lisa Trutkoff Trumbauer - Mirrorstone; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Take flight with this sequel to The New York Times best-selling A Practical Guide to Dragons!!How do you hatch a dragon egg? Do dragon riders need reins? How do you say fly in Draconic? Once again, Sindri Suncatcher opens up his notebooks to share with us more wonders of dragonkind. In this...
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A Time of Golden Dragons

Song Nan Zhang - Tundra Books
Format: Print book

Through the ages, the dragon has been an important symbol for the Chinese. A time of Golden Dragons is the most auspicious possible. In fascinating text and beautiful paintings, Song Nan and Hao Yu Zhang trace the dragon's history. Perhaps inspired by giant crocodiles, the image of the dragon...
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Dragons

Virginia Loh-Hagan - Cherry Lake Publishing
Format: Print book

Books in the Magic, Myth, and Mystery series explore those spooky creatures that go bump in the night, fill our dreams (or nightmares!) , and make us afraid of the dark. In Dragons you'll learn more about these creepy creatures. Written with a high interest level to appeal to a more...
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Equal Rites: A Discworld Novel

Terry Pratchett - Harper Perennial

Terry Pratchetts profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to the likes of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.In Equal Rites, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth...
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A Gathering of Shadows

V. E. Schwab - Tom Doherty Associates
Format: Print book

Four months have passed since the shadow stone fell into Kell's possession. Four months since his path crossed with Delilah Bard. Four months since Rhy was wounded and the Dane twins fell, and the stone was cast with Holland's dying body through the rift, and into Black London. In many...
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Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman - Avon
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart -- and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment forward he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existed -- a dark subculture flourish in abandoned...
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A Darker Shade of Magic: A Novel

Victoria Schwab - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

A Darker Shade of Magic, from #1 New York Times bestselling author V.E. SchwabKell is one of the last Antari -- magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons; Red, Grey, White, and, once upon a time, Black. Kell was raised in Arnes -- Red London...
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The Witch's Daughter

Paula Brackston - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn enthralling tale of modern witch Bess Hawksmith, a fiercely independent woman desperate to escape her cursed history who must confront the evil which has haunted her for centuries My name is Elizabeth Anne Hawksmith, and my age is three hundred...
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

George R R Martin - Bantam Books
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTaking place nearly a century before the events of A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R. R. Martin's ongoing masterwork, A Song of Ice and Fire. These never-before-collected adventures...
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Beren and Lthien

J R R TOLKIEN - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

The tale of Beren and Lthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by J.R.R. Tolkien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the following...
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The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback

THE GREATEST FANTASY EPIC OF OUR TIMEBilbo Baggins was a hobbit who wanted to be left alone in quiet comfort. But the wizard Gandalf came along with a band of homeless dwarves. Soon Bilbo was drawn into their quest, facing evil orcs, savage wolves, giant spiders, and worse unknown dangers....
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Anansi Boys: A Novel

Neil Gaiman - William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

One of fiction's most audaciously original talents, Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime.Anansi BoysGod is dead. Meet the kids.When Fat Charlie's dad named...
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Susanna Clarke - Bloomsbury
Format: Hardcover

In the Hugo-award winning, epic New York Times Bestseller and basis for the BBC miniseries, two men change Englands history when they bring magic back...

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Children of Earth and Sky

Guy Gavriel Kay - New American Library
Format: Print book

The bestselling author of the groundbreaking novels Under Heaven and River of Stars, Guy Gavriel Kay is back with a new book, set in a world inspired by the conflicts and dramas of Renaissance Europe. Against this tumultuous backdrop the lives of men and women unfold on the borderlands...
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The Faery Reel: Tales From the Twilight Realm

Charles Vess

Faeries, or creatures like them, can be found in almost every culture the world over&150benevolent and terrifying, charming and exasperating, shifting shape from country to country, story to story, and moment to moment. In The Faery Reel, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have asked some...
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The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth

Ursula K. Le Guin - Small Beer Press; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover

The Unreal and the Real is a major event not to be missed. In this two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best short stories—as selected by the National Book Award winning author herself—the reader will be delighted, provoked, amused, and faced with the sharp, satirical...
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Always Coming Home

Ursula K. Le Guin - University of California Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers of science fiction. More than five years in the making, it is a novel unlike any other. A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music,...
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Discworld)

Neil Gaiman - Workman Pub Co
Format: Hardcover

According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter--the world's only totally reliable guide to the future--the world will end on a Saturday.  Next Saturday, in fact.  Just after tea... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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