When Sam and Tuck stumble on a coded verse in the Unicorn Protection Creed, they enter through the same portal Sam's mother disappeared through years ago, and discover a world plagued by problems that seemingly only Barloc's horn can solve.

"An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder in fantasy reimagining of the classic crime novel"-- In Daretana's most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead--killed, to all appearances, when a tree spontaneously erupted from his body. Even in this canton at the borders of the Empire, where contagions abound and the blood of the Leviathans works strange magical changes, it's a death...

Cragger becomes king of the crocodiles when his parents disappear, and he is determined to avenge them by defeating the lions--starting with his former friend, Laval.

As three warring fractures try to gain control of the kingdom, orphaned Zephyr, a strategist serving Xin Ren, infiltrates an enemy camp where she encounters the enigmatic Crow, an opposing strategist who might just be her match. The year is 414 of the Xin Dynasty, and chaos abounds. A puppet empress is on the throne. The realm has fractured into three factions and three warlordesses hoping to claim the continent for themselves. But Zephyr knows it’s...

Gifted with the ability to draw maps of worlds that are beyond imagining, K2 O'Hero, sworn to keep his family's Magical history a secret, must use his gift to find a crossing point into one of those worlds when his baby sister is kidnapped.

"The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with hunger. To stay alive until the mammoths can save them, Chih must unwind the intricate, layered story of the tiger Ho Thi Thao and her scholar lover--a woman of courage, intelligence, and beauty--and discover how truth can survive becoming history"--back cover.

"A novel about cowardice and courage in the face of repression, from a powerful new voice of French-African literature. The imaginary country of Sumal is a happy place, until, that is, it's taken hostage by a fundamentalist jihadist organization called The Brotherhood. The populace quickly becomes locked in a climate of violence, falling under the control of the militias as they impose silence, terror and the most rigid moral laws. Prohibitions and...

Drawn once again into the Kingdom of Fantasy, Geronimo discovers that the Land of Books is being threatened by a wave of grayness spreading from the Kingdom of Swamp Valley rotting books and turning all the characters gray, sad and worried--and it will be up to Geronimo, Winglet (daughter of Blossom and newly crowned empress), and the intrepid characters from fiction who join them along the way, to locate the source of this new evil and put a stop...

In this middle-grade madcap adventure, a brother and sister find themselves in the underground hospital for magical creatures where they must save the lives of millions of magical creatures... and themselves.

The people of Wrenly have always believed that goblins are dangerous creatures who were stripped of their magical powers by wizards after the Goblin Battles; and when Prince Lucas and Clara follow a young goblin, Zark, who has come from the wizard Grom, they find themselves captured by the goblin leader Golart, who has taken over Hobsgrove--but Grom has a plan, and it requires that the children put their trust in Zark.