The Magicians

Fantasy comes of age in this tale of spell-casters in a Narnia-inspired world. Our reviewer, Jane Ciabattari, writes: "Time magazine senior book critic and Nerd World blog regular Lev Grossman's impeccably timed new fantasy novel [is] aimed at grown-ups who love J. K. Rowling's bewitching tales."

June 19: On this day in 1816, the Shelleys, Lord Byron, and entourage gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva to tell the ghost stories that would trigger Frankenstein. This most legendary of storm-tossed evenings inspired…

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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