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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.

“A novel about the truthssome wonderful, some terriblethat children know and adults do not.” Time magazine. A beautiful, immersive, fully illustrated edition of Neil Gaimans beloved #1 bestselling novel, featuring illustrations by Elise Hurst. “They say you cannot go home again, and that is as true as a knife . . .” A man returns to the site of his childhood home where, years before, he knew a girl named Lettie Hempstock who showed him the...

A collection of more than twenty-five short fictional works follows a theme of the intersections between life and death, perception and reality, and darkness and light. Includes the Story “How to Talk to Girls at Parties” - Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Nicole Kidman. A24 Film Directed by John Cameron Mitchell also Stars Elle Fanning and Ruth Wilson. “A prodigiously imaginative collection. . . . The best of these clever fantasy metafictions...

This third collection of short fiction by Gaiman includes previously published pieces of short fiction -- stories, verse, and a very special Doctor Who story that was written for the fiftieth anniversary of the beloved series in 2013 -- as well "Black Dog," a new tale that revisits the world of American Gods.

"Spanning Gaiman's career to date, The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction is a...collection from one of the world's most beloved writers, chosen by those who know his work best: his devoted readers. A ... representation of Gaiman's...imaginative fiction, this...volume includes excerpts from each of his five novels for adults--Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane--and nearly fifty of his short stories."...

After the death of his father, Odd's life has been stuck in a downward spiral. However, his luck begins to change after he frees a trapped bear in the woods. Discovering that the bear is actually a Norse god, twelve-year-old Odd embarks on a perilous quest to save the other gods from evil frost giants.

El océano al final del camino es una novela sobre la validez de los recuerdos, la magia y la supervivencia sobre el poder de la imaginación y la oscuridad que hay dentro de cada uno de nosotros.

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.