This first volume in the Library of America edition of Octavia E. Butler's collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. Its heroine, Dana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre-Civil War past, where she finds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to preserve her own. In Fledgling, an amnesiac discovers that...

Dinah has been exiled from Wonderland. The vicious father she always feared has framed her for the brutal murder of her brother and turned the kingdom against her. Now hiding in the lush and mysterious Twisted Wood with only her war steed at her side, Dinah is faced with a choice -- to leave Wonderland forever, or stay and fight her father for the throne. When a chance encounter with one of her father's long-lost enemies brings Dinah more allies than...

Months after confronting the legendary La Llorona, Paola starts dreaming again, this time about fantasmas that are stalking her and someone who might be even more dangerous--her estranged father.

Ivy has always been able to see clocks over everyone's heads, counting down how long before they will die. Her own will hit the zero hour before she even graduates high school. She struggles with her deep love for on-again, off-again boyfriend Myers Patripski. And she struggles to cope with the murder of her best friend, Vanessa Donovan, another life she couldn't save. Then more girls start disappearing. The clock is always ticking. And Ivy's only...

With the help of a magic button, Jewish Ava and Muslim Nadeem go back in time to ancient Morocco to help Prince Abdur Rahman escape to Spain and fulfill his destiny as the ruler of a country in which Jews and Muslims work together to make medieval Spain a center of science, mathematics, music, and poetry.

"Four friends' casual campout turns monstrous when an antique book with a mind of its own starts weaving scary stories and a swamp monster descends on the campsite."--

In a world where magic had slowly faded away, a young elf named Ian Lightfoot receives special gifts for his sixteenth birthday: a wizard's staff, a Phoenix Gem, and a spell. Together these can be used to bring Ian's father back to life for one day.

"In this thrilling sequel and conclusion to the City of Nightmares duology, Ness is forced to make a twisted deal with the Nightmare Phantom--only to find herself embroiled in the explosive fallout of the agreement when a botched assassination attempt unleashes chaos into the City of Newham. City of nightmares duology series."--Provided by the publisher. Ness used to have a vehement terror of Nightmares-- people who had been turned into their worst...

When Fallon and her fellow gladiatrices are thrust into a vicious conflict with a rival gladiator academy, the only thing that might save them is a tribe of long-forgotten mythic Amazon warriors.

Young mouse Calib Christopher is finally a squire to the Knights of the Round Table, but there is no time to celebrate because his best friend, Cecily, and Merlin's magical treasure are in the clutches of the evil Saxons.