On My Wishlist #12

This is a fun weekly event hosted by

Carolyn at  Book Chick City,

 and runs every Saturday.

Each participating blogger features books 

s/he hasn't actually bought yet,
but desperately wants to read!!

These books can be either newly-published,

to be released in the near future,

or in print for several years.

If you'd like to know more, just click HERE.

In my particular case, any books I place

on my wish list are strictly the print versions,

since I do not read ebooks. 

Here are my choices for this week!

Storm Glass

Maria V. Snyder

Trade Paperback, 488 page

Published by Mira Books

April 28, 2009

Genre: Fantasy

From the Goodreads Synopsis

As a glassmaker and a magician-in-training, Opal Cowen understands trial by fire. Now it's time to test her mettle. Someone has sabotaged the Stormdancer clan's glass orbs, killing their most powerful magicians. The Stormdancers—particularly the mysterious and mercurial Kade—require Opal's unique talents to prevent it happening again. But when the mission goes awry, Opal must tap in to a new kind of magic as stunningly potent as it is frightening.  And the further she delves into the intrigue behind the glass and magic, the more distorted things appear. With lives hanging in the balance—including her own—Opal must control powers she hadn't known she possessed…powers that might lead to disaster beyond anything she's ever known.

Since I recently purchased Sea Glass,
the second installment in this series,
it's only logical (right, Spock?)
that I acquire the first one!
Besides, no excuse is necessary for
an inveterate book addict!!! 

The Onion Girl

Charles de Lint

Hardcover, 508 pages

Published by Tor Books

October 2, 2001

Genre: Fantasy

From the Goodreads Synopsis

At the center of all the entwined lives in Newford stands a young artist named Jilly Coppercorn, with her tangled hair, her paint-splattered jeans, a smile perpetually on her lips--Jilly, whose paintings capture the hidden beings that dwell in the city's shadows. Now, at last, de Lint tells Jilly's own story...for behind the painter's fey charm lies a dark secret and a past she's labored to forget. And that past is coming to claim her now.

"I'm the onion girl," Jilly Coppercorn says. "Pull back the layers of my life, and you won't find anything at the core. Just a broken child. A hollow girl." She's very, very good at running. But life has just forced Jilly to stop.

Charles de Lint is one of my favorite

writers, in any genre!

Ever since I read his short-story collection,

Dreams Underfoot,

which contains a series of tales about

the inhabitants of the fictional town of Newford,

I've been totally hooked!! 

I would love to get every

single one of his Newford books!!

Twilight of Avalon

Anna Elliott

Trade Paperback, 432 pages

Published by Touchstone

May 5, 2009

(first published April 18, 2009)

Genre: Fantasy, Romance

From the Goodreads Synopsis

Ancient grudges, old wounds, and the quest for power rule in the newly widowed Queen Isolde's court. Hardly a generation after the downfall of Camelot, Isolde grieves for her slain husband, King Constantine, a man she secretly knows to have been murdered by the scheming Lord Marche -- the man who has just assumed his title as High King.

One of her few allies is Trystan, a prisoner with a lonely and troubled past.  Together they escape, and as their companionship turns from friendship to love, they must find a way to prove what they know to be true -- that Marche's deceptions threaten not only their lives but the sovereignty of the British kingdom.

This is an interesting variation on the story

of one of fantasy's great love stories!

It's based on "...the earliest written versions

of the Arthurian tales..."  (Goodreads)

As a lifelong fan of King Arthur,

as well as a romance fan, I just knew I had to add

this magical novel to my ever-growing wish list!!

What wonderful books are you all

wishing for this week?