Newford series by Charles de Lint (#6-#8, #10)
Requirements: Epub reader, 464 Kb
Overview: Charles de Lint is the much beloved author of more than seventy adult, young adult, and children’s books. Renowned as one of the trailblazers of the modern fantasy genre, he is the recipient of the World Fantasy, Aurora, Sunburst, and White Pine awards, among others. Modern Library’s Top 100 Books of the 20th Century poll, conducted by Random House and voted on by readers, put eight of de Lint’s books among the top 100.
De Lint is a poet, folklorist, artist, songwriter and performer. He has written critical essays, music reviews, opinion columns and entries to encyclopedias, and he’s been the main book reviewer for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction since 1987. De Lint served as Writer-in-residence for two public libraries in Ottawa and has taught creative writing workshops for adults and children in Canada and the United States. He’s been a judge for several prominent awards, including the Nebula, World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon and Bram Stoker.
Genre: Fantasy, Urban
Moonlight and Vines (Newford #6)
The magical sequel to "Dreams Underfoot" and "The Ivory and the Horn", this volume of short stories is set in Newford, the quintessential North American city–tough and streetwise on the surface and rich with hidden magic for those who can see.
Forests of the Heart (Newford #7)
In the Old Country, they called them the Gentry: ancient spirits of the land, magical, amoral, and dangerous. When the Irish emigrated to North America, some of the Gentry followed…only to find that the New World already had spirits of its own, called manitou and other such names by the Native tribes.
Now generations have passed, and the Irish have made homes in the new land, but the Gentry still wander homeless on the city streets. Gathering in the city shadows, they bide their time and dream of power. As their dreams grow harder, darker, fiercer, so do the Gentry themselves–appearing, to those with the sight to see them, as hard and dangerous men, invariably dressed in black.
Bettina can see the Gentry, and knows them for what they are. Part Indian, part Mexican, she was raised by her grandmother to understand the spirit world. Now she lives in Kellygnow, a massive old house run as an arts colony on the outskirts of Newford, a world away from the Southwestern desert of her youth. Outsider her nighttime window, she often spies the dark men, squatting in the snow, smoking, brooding, waiting. She calls them los lobos, the wolves, and stays clear of them–until the night one follows her to the woods, and takes her hand….
Ellie, an independent young sculptor, is another with magic in her blood, but she refuses to believe it, even though she, too, sees the dark men. A strange old woman has summoned Ellie to Kellygnow to create a mask for her based on an ancient Celtic artifact. It is the mask of the mythic Summer King–another thing Ellie does not believe in. Yet lack of belief won’t dim the power of the mast, or its dreadful intent.
The Onion Girl (Newford #8)
In novel after novel, and story after story, Charles de Lint has brought an entire imaginary North American city to vivid life. Newford: where magic lights dark streets; where myths walk clothed in modern shapes; where a broad cast of extraordinary and affecting people work to keep the whole world turning.
At the center of all the entwined lives in Newford stands a young artist named Jilly Coppercorn, with her tangled hair, her paint-splattered jeans, a smile perpetually on her lips–Jilly, whose paintings capture the hidden beings that dwell in the city’s shadows. Now, at last, de Lint tells Jilly’s own story…for behind the painter’s fey charm lies a dark secret and a past she’s labored to forget. And that past is coming to claim her now.
"I’m the onion girl," Jilly Coppercorn says. "Pull back the layers of my life, and you won’t find anything at the core. Just a broken child. A hollow girl." She’s very, very good at running. But life has just forced Jilly to stop.
Spirits in the Wires (Newford #10)
At the heart of Spirits in the Wires are Saskia Madding and Christiana Tree, both of whom are tied to a perennial Newford character, the writer Christy Riddell. Are either Saskia or Christiana real? Christy’s girlfriend Saskia, believes she was born in a Web site, while Christiana is Christy’s "shadow-self" – all the parts of him that he cast out when he was seven years old.
At a popular Newford on-line research and library Web site called the Wordwood, a mysterious "crash" occurs. Everyone visiting the site at the moment of the crash vanishes from where they are sitting in front of their computers. Saskia disappears right before Christy’s eyes, along with countless others.
Now Christy and his companions must journey into Newford’s otherworld, where the Wordwood, it transpires, has a physical presence of its own…to rescue their missing friends and loved ones and to set this viral spirit right before it causes further harm.
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