"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...

For generations, four Clans of cats have shared the forest. But ThunderClan is in grave danger, and ShadowClan grows stronger every day. In the midst of this turmoil appears a house cat named Rusty ... who may turn out to be the bravest warrior of them all.

Apprentice Septimus Heap must enter the Darke to save the Castle and the Wizard Tower from destruction, but he needs the help of many to battle the spreading Darkenesse.

Wolf Boy is sent on a Task by Aunt Zelda, while Septimus and the dragon, Spit Fyre, fly off to bring their friends home, but they all wind up on an island whose secrets are as dangerous as its inhabitants.

Twenty-two-year-old MacKayla Lane, having discovered she is descended from an ancient Celtic bloodline of powerful sidhe-seers, leaves Georgia and heads to Ireland to avenge the death of her sister Alina, and becomes entangled in a quest to find an ancient book of black magic that will enable her to force the encroaching Fae back from the human realm.

Kimber Langford, Earl of Chasen and alpha lord of a tribe of drakon--creatures that can change from human to smoke to dragon at will, is surprised to learn of the existence of a lost tribe of drakon in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania, but the discovery comes with the news that an unknown enemy is trying to annihilate the drakon, and he soon finds himself united with Carpathian princess Maricara in a struggle to preserve their race.

The further adventures of the family of miniature people who, after losing their home under the kitchen floor of an old English house, are forced to move out to the fields.

Despite their own immortality, the Avatars are confronted with the destruction of their empire when the vicious forces of the Crystal Queen engulf the land, briging terror, devastation, and death in their wake, and must join forces with their subjects to protect their world.

Kitty and Ben, the alpha pair in their Denver werewolf pack, elope to Las Vegas to get married human-style, but their plans are interrupted by a convergence of hostile forces bent on stopping their wedding and ending their lives.

When she incurs Neptune's wrath by finding a diamond ring buried under rocks in the ocean, Emily is put under a curse that will force her to choose to be either a mermaid or a human and split up her parents forever.