A Stir of Bones is the stand-alone prequel to acclaimed fantasist Nina Hoffman's award-winning adult novels A Red Heart of Memories and Past the Size of Dreaming. It is every bit as remarkable, warm, and heartwrenching. Fourteen-year-old Susan Backstrom seems to have a charmed life -- she's smart and beautiful, the only child of wealthy, attentive parents. But there are secrets inside her expensive house that Susan would never tell. One day, at the library, she overhears their housekeeper's son talking with some friends about sneaking into a nearby abandoned house. Much to her own surprise, Susan very much wants to join them -- and soon, she's part of the best secret of all. The house has a resident teenage ghost. More important than that, the house itself is a living, supernatural thing, able to serve as a magic conductor. With the help of five new friends - -three humans, one ghost, and the House itself -- Susan has what she needs to transform her life, if she dares.

A Stir of Bones

Children's Books

Hoffman, Nina Kiriki

Literature & Fiction

Firebird

“A Wildly inventive and surprisingly playful sci-fi thriller.”—Washington Post Roommates Jaimie Locke and Kim Calloway are each looking to find a new life at college. It’s Jaimie’s first time Outside—away from her large, complicated family and their magical traditions—and she wants to learn what nonmagical life is like. Kim is anxious to escape the depression that’s been dragging her down since last year so she can make new friends and create the art she loves. But almost as soon as they unpack, Jaimie realizes that Kim’s depression is different from normal sadness. Something outside of Kim is literally forcing her to be depressed, pursuing and draining her. Just like that, the two girls—along with Jaime’s cousins and a Presence named Rugee—try to capture and rout the creature that is following Kim. No one said that college would be easy....

Spirits That Walk in Shadow (Chapel Hollow)

Thresholds

Teen & Young Adult

Two lonely people with extraordinary powers--Edmund Reynolds, a wandering witch who helps those in need, and Matilda Black, an empathic "witness" to the inner dreams of people--embark on a journey into the imagination together, exploring the darkest secrets of the past.

A Red Heart of Memories

United States

Matilda "Matt" Black possesses the unique ability to speak with inanimate objects and witness the dreams of other people. Alone, yet never lonely, she’s now found a kindred spirit in Edmund Reynolds—a wandering witch of a spiritual quest to help those in need. Together, these two special people who live outside normal reality will embark on an odyssey of the imagination. They will look into the darkest depths of the past. And they will encounter things both wonderful and terrifying. “A Red Heart of Memories is full of beautiful, impossible magic. Hoffman has a unique talkent for manking prose soar.”—SF Site “…Hoffman’s best and most complete novel to date.”—Locus

A Red Heart of Memories (A Spores Ferry Novel)

The two travelers have come to the town where Edmund grew up, and found shelter, at least for awhile, in the benevolently haunted house that was a refuge for Edmund and his friends when they were children. But the house begins to speak to Matt, urgently, telling her that she and Edmund have to leave, to seek out his long-scattered friends. As they search, they find that some have grown up to be ordinary, untouched by any hint of wild magic. Others, though, have been transformed in ways that defy imagination. Now, they must all come together again, in the place none has ever forgetten. For a darkness is rising, a dangerous, powerful entity. And the only chance of stopping it lies in the hearts of the lost children of the house.

Past the Size of Dreaming

Contemporary

Ace Hardcover

The Nebula and World Fantasy Award-nominated author of A Red Heart of Memories continues the spellbinding story of the wandering witch Matilda (Matt) Black, who possesses the ability to communicate with inanimate objects and see into people’s dreamsand her companion Edmund Reynolds, a young man with magic of his own who is only beginning to come to grips with his past and his powers…
The two travelers have come to the town where Edmund grew up, and found shelter in the benevolently haunted house that was a refuge for Edmund and his friends when they were children. But the house begins to speak to Matt, urgently, telling her that she and Edmund have to leave, to seek out the long-scattered friends. For a darkness is rising, a dangerous, powerful entity. And the only chance of stopping it lies in the hearts of the lost children of the house…

Past the Size of Dreaming (A Spores Ferry Novel)

Short Stories & Anthologies

Ace Trade

A misfit in a family of spellcasters, Gypsum LaZelle possesses no magical ability whatsoever, until a mysterious and grave illness leads to the awakening of a strange and frightening power. Reissue.

A Fistful Of Sky

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Opal LaZelle is a special effects make-up artist, transforming actors into fantastical and grotesque creatures. Unknown to the casts and crews of the films she works on, Opal is gifted in the art of magicÂ—and she applies more than make-up when altering an actorÂ's features. Her latest job requires turning Corvus Weather into a dark god of the forest. But when CorvusÂ's performance becomes too convincingÂ—on set and offÂ—Opal realizes heÂ's not acting. Something has taken possession of Corvus. Something sinister tied to the townÂ's past, with the ability to absorb the very essence of life. Something Opal doesnÂ't have enough power to confront, much less drive from the man she has fallen in love with.

Fall of Light

Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Fistful of Sky Opal LaZelle turned her magical gift to alter people's features into a career as a make-up artist. But when the actor portraying the "Dark God" remains in character off set, Opal realizes something supernatural has taken possession of him.

Fall of Light (A LaZelle Novel)

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