Nancy Springer, Author . Penguin Putnam/Firebird $5.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-698-11841-6
In what PW
called a "suspenseful debut novel," a pack of deer face the realization of an ancient prophecy—and a struggle between good and evil builds to the very end. Ages 12-up. (Jan.)I AM MORDRED: A Tale from CamelotNancy Springer.
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Nancy Springer, Author . Philomel/Sleuth $10.99 (216p) ISBN 978-0-399-24304-2
Springer (Rowan Hood
; I Am Mordred
) proves that she is as comfortable in England's late 19th century as she was in Sherwood Forest and Camelot with this debut title in the Enola Holmes Mystery series. Her heroine, however, is not. After Enola&#
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Nancy Springer, Author Harcourt Children's Books $10.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-15-200008-0
This strange book starts out as almost unbearably painful and ends as unbelievably blithe. Tuff is riding with his older brother, Dillon, on the back of his dirt bike, when Dillon is absurdly killed--shot by a rigged gun along a mountain path....
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Nancy Springer, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (240p) ISBN 978-0-380-80120-6
Budgies and a midlife crisis catapult a sorrowful heroine into a magical world of self-discovery and love, as the prolific Springer (Fair Peril) continues her theme of feminist-inspired fantasy. The aptly named Sassy Hummel gains some much needed...
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Nancy Springer, Author Arbor House Publishing $15.95 (230p) ISBN 978-0-87795-830-7
The young virgin Cerilla has been brought to the Sacred Isle as consortfor one hourof the Summer King Arlen before he is to be gruesomely sacrificed in the Winter-King ritual. Trying to escape, Cerilla meets Arlen and they fall in love. Arlen's...
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Nancy Springer, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (277p) ISBN 978-0-688-13175-3
Best known for her traditional fantasy novels, Springer ( Apocalypse ) here offers an offbeat contemporary tale that owes much to magical realism. Larque Harootunian is having a midlife crisis, taking stock of her comfortable life as a wife, mother...
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Nancy Springer, Author Avon Books $12 (246p) ISBN 978-0-380-78413-4
Like Springer's earlier book, Larque on the Wing, this is an eccentric, charming fantasy that combines fairy tale with a smack of satire. On the first anniversary of her divorce, storyteller Buffy Murphy heads to the woods for some well-deserved...
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Nancy Springer, Author Philomel Books $17.99 (227p) ISBN 978-0-399-23451-4
HThe equally suspenseful follow-up to Springer's I Am Mordred again reinterprets Arthurian legend through the eyes of an archetypal villain, this time sorceress Morgan le Fay. In stylish prose, Morgan narrates her transformation from a willful,...
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Nancy Springer, Author Philomel Books $16.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-399-23721-8
Nancy Springer's third volume of Tales of Rowan Hood, Outlaw Princess of Sherwood, follows the band of teenage outlaws led by the daughter of Robin Hood, as they take in a new member-a princess who has fled the prospect of a horrible arranged ...
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Nancy Springer. NAL, $14 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-451-23806-1
In her first suspense novel for adults, Springer (The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline) spins melodrama out of the secret that lupus sufferer Dorrie White has been hiding from her devoted but dull husband, Sam. As a teenager, Dorrie gave birth to a...
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Nancy Springer. Tachyon, $15.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-61696-289-0
The prolific Springer has written several pieces of Arthuriana, and this charming little book clearly uses some of the ideas and plot devices from the legends of Arthur while maintaining its own separate mythology. Aric, Prince of Calidon, is the...
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Nancy Springer. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8792-4
At the start of this sprightly tale of longing and renewal from Edgar-winner Springer (Dark Lie), Beverly Vernon, a children’s books illustrator who has recently settled in a small Florida Panhandle town following her husband’s death, receives bad...
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