Editing List of Books (section)

==Unnamed Books==  

*An [[Alchemy|alchemical]] glossary found in the [[Hillsglade House]] library.<ref>Twenty large, fat coins.  I couldn’t make head or tails of the 
language on the coin’s faces.  I was careful as I moved them aside, wary of the guard I couldn’t see or hear.<br><br>Two books.  One on alchemy, more like a dictionary than any kind of spellbook, filled with tables and measurements and Latin words.  Aqua Regia, Aurum Regia, Aqua Justatium, Lapis Philosophorum, and so on.  Each chapter was prefaced with the sort of stuff that started with ‘Evidenced herein’ and spent more time referring to other parts of the text than it did actually ''saying'' anything. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/09/09 Excerpt] from [[Malfeasance 11.2]]</ref><ref>Ty reached around, grabbing a book, and placed it so it sat open, standing up, blocking his view of Evan’s cards.  He did the same for me, dealing the two cards face up, behind the books.  It looked like he’d done it before.<br><br>Nothing interesting in the book.  A glossary of alchemical symbols, it looked like.<br><br>He doled out what looked like copper coins from another nationality. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/09/06 Excerpt] from [[Malfeasance 11.1]]</ref>
*An alchemy textbook found in the [[Blue Heron Institute]] library.<ref name=":13">Avery found some stuff on Alchemy, picked out one book, then handed it 
to Verona, pointing and giving her a light push to put her on course for the rest of the books in that department. [...] Verona had found the Alchemy, Realms, and Rhetoric texts, organizing them into three stacks. [...] “Cool, cool,” Verona said, already hunched over the Alchemy text. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/31 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.2]]</ref>
* A book on [[Realm]]s found in the [[Blue Heron Institute]] library.<ref name=":13" />
*A book on the use of rhetoric in magic found in the [[Blue Heron Institute]] library.<ref name=":13" />
*A French-language comic read by [[Snowdrop]] and [[Cherrypop]] where a guy gets a spine shoved down his throat.<ref>She placed the papers on the nightstand, tucked her fork into her waistband, and then sat down on the bed, stabbing herself in the belly with the fork.  She adjusted, lay back, and paged through her graphic novel.  It was in French, and had been left out in the woods for at least one bout of rainy weather, and the blue in the cover had faded away.  But it was a gift from Cherry.  Cherrypop liked the part where the one guy got someone else’s spine jammed down his throat, even though she couldn’t really read that well.  Snowdrop could recite it all by heart now. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/12 Excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.x]]</ref> 
*A children's book about [[Kathryn Thorburn]]'s life found in the Library of the Abyss. The book preyed on her fears of being hated by everyone in her life, including her son, husband, and self, and reading it resulted in her despairing and becoming a bogeyman with crayon scribbles for eyes, trapped in the Abyss.<ref>Kathryn wept, lying on the ground, propped up with her one good arm.<br><br>“Move!” Rose said.<br><br>But Kathryn didn’t budge an inch.<br>[...]<br>“Leave me behind,” Kathryn said.  Her voice was a croak.  “Please.  Just leave me.”<br>[...]<br>Kathryn lay across a sprawl of books.<br><br>Children’s books.  More square than rectangular.  The scrawled figure on the covers and the open pages bore a striking resemblance to her.  My eldest cousin.<br><br>I picked one up.  Saw Kathryn flinch.<br><br>It was open to the last two pages.<br><br>''But, Big Bad Kathy told herself, even if my son doesn’t love me, and even if my husband hates me so, I love myself.  I do, I do!''<br><br>I glanced at Kathy.  I looked down at the last page.<br><br>''I do, Big Bad Kathy lied to herself.  I do, I do, I do.''<br><br>Kathy had met my eyes.  They weren’t eyes anymore, but scrawls.  Crayon scribbles.  A tear leaked from the corner of one.<br>[...]<br>“She’s gone,” I said, wincing at the noise in my head.  “Do like she wants.  Leave her.”<br>[...]<br>Kathy only hung her head.<br>[...]<br>Kathy didn’t respond, but moving slowly, she did pick up her books, and she hurried off in another direction. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2015/01/06 Excerpt] from [[Possession 15.1]]</ref>
*A book covered with the skin of a goblin, magical and potentially cursed, currently in [[Verona|Verona's]] library.<ref>The book was bound in goblin skin, the goblin’s face stretched across the cover, and its mouth opened and closed, yellow eyes rolling around, looking at nothing in particular.  A chain bound it closed.<br><br>“Probably magic, might need identification.  S.  Been getting a few of those.  A lot of cursed books, but hey, curses are usually the flip side of decent practice. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/28 Excerpt] from [[Crossed with Silver 19.1]]</ref>