false 1221698 4695 4541 male 1960/11/10 1239026 4407 0747263744 9780747263746 2190 <![CDATA[American Gods]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1258417001m/4407.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1258417001s/4407.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4407.American_Gods 4.06 22405 ]]> 1221698 4.13 284835 26390 2001 14497 0060557818 9780060557812 1695 <![CDATA[Neverwhere]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256043709m/14497.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256043709s/14497.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14497.Neverwhere 4.08 19476 Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinarylife, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he knew.

]]> 1221698 4.13 284835 26390 1996 16793 0061142026 9780061142024 1920 <![CDATA[Stardust]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16793.Stardust 3.91 18292 Young Tristran Thorn will do anything to win the cold heart of beautiful Victoria—even fetch her the star they watch fall from the night sky. But to do so, he must enter the unexplored lands on the other side of the ancient wall that gives their tiny village its name. Beyond that old stone wall, Tristran learns, lies Faerie—where nothing, not even a fallen star, is what he imagined.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman comes a remarkable quest into the dark and miraculous—in pursuit of love and the utterly impossible.

]]> 1221698 4.13 284835 26390 1998 17061 0061139378 9780061139376 2351 <![CDATA[Coraline]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255716870m/17061.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255716870s/17061.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17061.Coraline 3.93 18157 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe or Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, you're on the wrong track. Neil Gaiman's Coraline is far darker, far stranger, playing on our deepest fears. And, like Roald Dahl's work, it is delicious.

What's on the other side of the door? A distorted-mirror world, containing presumably everything Coraline has ever dreamed of... people who pronounce her name correctly (not "Caroline"), delicious meals (not like her father's overblown "recipes"), an unusually pink and green bedroom (not like her dull one), and plenty of horrible (very un-boring) marvels, like a man made out of live rats. The creepiest part, however, is her mirrored parents, her "other mother" and her "other father"--people who look just like her own parents, but with big, shiny, black button eyes, paper-white skin... and a keen desire to keep her on their side of the door. To make creepy creepier, Coraline has been illustrated masterfully in scritchy, terrifying ink drawings by British mixed-media artist and Sandman cover illustrator Dave McKean. This delightful, funny, haunting, scary as heck, fairy-tale novel is about as fine as they come. Highly recommended. (Ages 11 and older) --Karin Snelson]]> 1221698 4.13 284835 26390 2002 2213661 0060530928 9780060530921 4384 <![CDATA[The Graveyard Book]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2213661.The_Graveyard_Book 4.14 15313 Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.

He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead.

There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer.

But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family. . . .

Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel for the audience that embraced his New York Times bestselling modern classic Coraline. Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, the graveyard book is sure to enthrall readers of all ages.

]]> 1221698 4.13 284835 26390 10365 4.08 29424 5395 2008 2744 0060515198 9780060515195 1276 <![CDATA[Anansi Boys]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255586640m/2744.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255586640s/2744.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2744.Anansi_Boys 3.87 14404 Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn't know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother.

Now brother Spider's on his doorstep&#8212about to make Fat Charlie's life more interesting . . . and a lot more dangerous.

]]> 1221698 4.13 284835 26390 2005 23754 1563892278 9781563892271 502 <![CDATA[The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1201718740m/23754.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1201718740s/23754.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23754.The_Sandman_Vol_1_Preludes_and_Nocturnes 4.33 9589 In Preludes and Nocturnes, Neil Gaiman weaves the story of a man interested in capturing the physical manifestation of Death but who instead captures the King of Dreams. By Gaiman's own admission there's a lot in this first collection that is awkward and ungainly--which is not to say there are not frequent moments of greatness here. The chapter "24 Hours" is worth the price of the book alone; it stands as one of the most chilling examples of horror in comics. And let's not underestimate Gaiman's achievement of personifying Death as a perky, overly cheery, cute goth girl! All in all, I greatly prefer the roguish breaking of new ground in this book to the often dull precision of the concluding volumes of the Sandman series. --Jim Pascoe

In PRELUDES & NOCTURNES, an occultist attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. After his 70 year imprisonment and eventual escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power. On his arduous journey Morpheus encounters Lucifer, John Constantine, and an all-powerful madman. This book also includes the story "The Sound of Her Wings," which introduces us to the pragmatic and perky goth girl Death.

]]> 1221698 4.13 284835 26390 13359 4.30 11166 668 7271 4.40 25158 885 52930 4.40 31506 946 321799 4.43 69934 1644 1991 25099 1563892251 9781563892257 152 <![CDATA[The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208546506m/25099.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208546506s/25099.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25099.The_Sandman_Vol_2_The_Doll_s_House 4.42 7427 The Doll's House, the second book of the Sandman magnum opus, Gaiman continues to build the foundation for the larger story, introducing us to more of the Dream King's family of the Endless.

The Sandman returns to his kingdom of the Dreaming after nearly a century of imprisonment, finding several things out of place; most importantly, an anomaly called a dream vortex has manifested itself in the form of a young girl who unknowingly threatens to rip apart the Dreaming. And there's the smaller matter of a few nightmares having escaped. Among them is Gaiman's creepiest creation: the Corinthian, a serial killer with a miniature set of teeth in each eye socket. Because later volumes concentrate so much on human relationships with Gaiman's signature fair for fantasy and mythology, it is sometimes easy to forget that the Sandman series started out as a horror comic. This book grabs you and doesn't let you forget that so easily. --Jim Pascoe

]]> 1221698 4.13 284835 26390 554069 4.42 7499 165 321799 4.43 69934 1644 7271 4.40 25158 885 52930 4.40 31506 946 12726 4.27 15092 372 10224 4.40 19113 401 1990 25101 1563890356 9781563890352 124 <![CDATA[The Sandman Vol. 4: Season of Mists]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167577135m/25101.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167577135s/25101.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25101.The_Sandman_Vol_4_Season_of_Mists 4.53 6733 Season of Mists is the pinnacle of the Sandman experience. After a brief intermission of four short stories (collected as Dream Country) Gaiman continued the story of the Dream King that he began in the first two volumes. Here in volume 4, we find out about the rest of Dream's Endless family (Desire, Despair, Destiny, Delirium, Death, and a seventh missing sibling). We find out the story behind Nada, Dream's first love, whom we met only in passing during Dream's visit to hell in the first book. When Dream goes back to hell to resolve unfinished business with Nada, he finds her missing along with all of the other dead souls. The answer to this mystery lies in Lucifer's most uncharacteristic decision--a delicious surprise.

There is something grandiose about this story, in which each chapter ends with such suspense and drive to read the next. This book is best summed up by a toast taken from the second chapter: "To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due." --Jim Pascoe

]]> 1221698 4.13 284835 26390 9934 4.31 9607 325 61983 4.49 12938 229 81221 4.47 25181 477 321799 4.43 69934 1644 10296 4.49 7895 190 7271 4.40 25158 885 52930 4.40 31506 946 38328 4.36 21485 813 1992 25100 156389226X 9781563892264 107 <![CDATA[The Sandman Vol. 3: Dream Country]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25100.The_Sandman_Vol_3_Dream_Country 4.39 6863 Dream Country has it beat hands down. "A Dream of a Thousand Cats" has such hope, beauty, and good old-fashioned chills that rereading it becomes a welcome pleasure. --Jim Pascoe]]> 1221698 4.13 284835 26390 947 3.86 510038 12701 321799 4.43 69934 1644 61959 4.37 6990 136 10763 4.33 25368 1126 52930 4.40 31506 946 24604 4.40 13281 235 1991