Catalog Search Results
1) Coraline
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Spooky Middle Grade
The Perks of Being Left Off the Time Best of YA List
Spooky Middle Grade
The Perks of Being Left Off the Time Best of YA List
Description
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Belly Laughs
Funny/Weird Meets Funny/Haha
JCLS-Bear Creek Cluster Staff Winter Reads Picks
Things to Keep You Up at Night - 2023
Funny/Weird Meets Funny/Haha
JCLS-Bear Creek Cluster Staff Winter Reads Picks
Things to Keep You Up at Night - 2023
Description
A brand new full cast audiobook production of the classic collaboration from internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett starring Rebecca Front as the Narrator, Michael Sheen as Aziraphale, and David Tennant as Crowley!
""Good Omens . . . is something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don DeLillo had collaborated. Lots of literary inventiveness in the plotting
...Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION (POST C 1945). 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 subway stations and sewer tunnels below the city -- a world far stranger and more dangerous than the only one he has...
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Banned Books Week: Graphic Novels, Comics, and Manga
Spooky Middle Grade
Tween Gold Hill Book Club Picks 2020 - 2021
Spooky Middle Grade
Tween Gold Hill Book Club Picks 2020 - 2021
Description
Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy--an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack--who has already killed...
6) Chivalry
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A delightfully humorous and sweet fantasy story brought to you from the Eisner-award winning team of Snow, Glass, Apples: Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran! An elderly British widow buys what turns out to be the Holy Grail from a from a second hand shop, setting her off on an epic visit from an ancient knight who lures her with ancient relics in hopes of winning the cup. From the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, Nebula award-winning, and New York...
7) The sandman
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When The Sandman, also known as Lord Morpheus--the immortal king of dreams, stories and the imagination--is pulled from his realm and imprisoned on Earth by a nefarious cult, he languishes for decades before finally escaping. Once free, he must retrieve the three "tools" that will restore his power and help him to rebuild his dominion, which has deteriorated in his absence.
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A chilling fantasy retelling of the Snow White fairy tale by New York Times bestselling creators Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran!
A not-so-evil queen is terrified of her monstrous stepdaughter and determined to repel this creature and save her kingdom from a world where happy endings aren't so happily ever after.
From the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, Nebula award-winning, and New York Times bestselling writer Neil Gaiman (American Gods)...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword, and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom. This queen will decide her own future -- and the princess who needs rescuing is not quite what she seems.
11) Norse mythology
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Neil Gaiman stays true to the myths in envisioning the major Norse pantheon: Odin, the highest of the high, wise, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odin's son, incredibly strong yet not the wisest of gods; and Loki, son of a giant, blood brother to Odin, and a trickster and unsurpassable manipulator. Gaiman fashions these primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds and delves into the exploits of deities,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Newly updated and expanded with the author's preferred text. Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the magic day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, all he wanted was to be with Laura, the wife he deeply loved, and start a new life. But just days before his release, Laura and Shadow's best friend is killed in an accident. With his life in pieces and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Prepare to meet the wicked progeny of the master of modern horror. In Lovecraft's Monsters, H. P. Lovecraft's most famous creations-Cthulhu, Shoggoths, Deep Ones, Elder Things, Yog-Sothoth, and more-appear in all their terrifying glory. Each story is a gripping new take on a classic Lovecraftian creature, and each is accompanied by a spectacular original illustration that captures the monsters' unique visage.
Legions of Lovecraft fans continue to...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Description
"Sam was brushing her hair when the girl in the mirror put down the hairbrush, smiled, and said, 'We don't love you anymore. '" So began the Twitter Audio project, with a dazzling first line penned by New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman. What followed was an epic tale of imaginary lands, magical objects, haunting melodies, plucky sidekicks, menacing villains, and much more. From mystical blue roses to enchanted mirrors to pesky puppets,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman comes this collection, featuring two magical and disturbing stories lushly adapted to comics by veteran painter Michael Zulli (The Last Temptation). Rewritten by Gaiman for this graphic novel, these two ominous stories from the author's award-winning prose work Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions feature animals and people not being quite what they seem. In "The Price," a black cat...
Author
Language
English
Description
The best stories of the year: here is a collection of the year's best fantasy stories, by some of the genre's greatest authors, and selected by Rich Horton, a contributing reviewer too many of the field's most respected magazines. In this volume, you'll find stories Peter Beagle, Paul Di Filippo, Neil Gaiman, Theodora Goss, Kelly Link, Gene Wolfe and many more!
Complete contents:
PIP AND THE FAIRIES, by Theodora Goss
COMBER, by Gene Wolfe
THREE URBAN...
17) Stardust
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of young Tristran Thorn and his adventures in the land of Faerie. He has fallen in love with beautiful Victoria Forester and in order to win her hand, he must retrieve a fallen star and deliver it to her.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Collecting together the critically acclaimed The Book of Ballads and Sagas series by the legendary fantasy artist Charles Vess. The award-winning compendium of English, Irish and Scottish fairy tales and folklore returns to print in a sumptuous new collection featuring stories written by multi-award winning author Neil Gaiman ('Sandman', 'Coraline', and 'Stardust'), Eisner and Harvey Award-winning cartoonish Jeff Smith ('Bone'), Aurora award-winning...
Author
Series
Norse Mythology volume 1
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman and Eisner Award-winning comics legend P. Craig Russell breathe new life into the ancient Norse stories in this comic-book adaptation of the hit novel Norse Mythology.
Gaiman and Russell team with a legendary collection of artists to take readers through a series of Norse myths, including the creation of the Nine Worlds, the loss of Odin's eye and source of his knowledge, the crafting of Thor's hammer...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Written by Neil Gaiman; painted art and cover by Dave McKean In stores April 18. Reoffered to coincide with the release of THE QUOTABLE SANDMAN HC, this comprehensive collection contains all the painted covers that Dave McKean produced for THE SANDMAN series, including all the collections, one-shots, trading cards, and more. Writer Neil Gaiman and McKean offer running commentary throughout.
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Jackson County Oregon can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request