New Releases by Diana Wynne Jones

Once he becomes a pawn in a game played by a powerful group he calls them, 12-year-old Jamie is repeatedly catapulted through space and time.

An illustrated collection of short stories and excerpts from longer works dealing with witches, fairies, magic, and fantasy worlds.

Science fiction. Unbeknown to most people a group of benevolent witches are hard at work keeping the world safe from evil and destruction.

A teenage boy learns that his new friend possesses supernatural powers, and as they encounter a series of mysterious people, he discovers his friend''s true origins.

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At nineteen, Polly has two sets of sometimes overlapping, sometimes conflicting memories, the real-life ones of school days and her parents'' divorce, and the heroic adventure ones that began the day she accidentally gate-crashed a funeral and met the cellist Thomas Lynn.

Stories deal with warlock bank robbers, magic, dragons, robots, nosy neighbors, a boy with strange powers, magical mushrooms, an eccentric aunt, and a sorcerer

The first three volumes of Diana Wynne Jones''s quartet of novels about the mythical kingdom of Dalemark were originally published in this country in the 1970s and soon earned lasting popularity. The Spellcoats, the third of the Dalemark books, is a prequel to Cart and Cwidder and Drowned Ammet. Tanaqui and her family have always known they are somewhat different from the other villagers of Shelling. But when the great floods come and they are driven from the village, they begin to see the part they must play in the destiny of the land. As Tanaqui weaves the story of their frightening journey to the sea, and of the terrifying, powerful evil of the mage Kankredin, she realizes the desperate need to understand the meaning of it all. Can she fit the pieces of the puzzle together in time to stop Kankredin''s destructive power? Here is a welcome look back to the early clays in the everfascinating chronicle of Dalemark.