By Paulo Coelho
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, September 10, 2013. 7:30 PM.

A fable about undauntingly following one's dreams, listening to one's heart, and reading life's omens features dialogue between a boy and an unnamed being.

By George Orwell
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
With Jean Simpson, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, July 14, 2015. 7:30 PM.

A satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government.

Became the movie: Animal Farm.

By Paulo Coelho

Follows the journey of Brida, a beautiful young Irish girl, on a quest for knowledge and understanding as she encounters a wise man who teaches her how to overcome her fears and a woman who introduces her to the hidden music of the world.

By Pallavi Aiyar

A fable set in contemporary Beijing and told from the perspectives of two cats from disparate backgrounds who are adopted by foreigners traces how their newly pampered lives are threatened when cats are blamed for the spread of a mysterious virus.

By Mark Dunn

Recounts what happens when the citizens of an island must rely on all their ingenuity to communicate in an increasingly limited language when the goverment progressively bans letters from the alphabet.

By Chris Knopf

As a strong storm approaches the shore, residents interact and clash with each other on the island of Elysiana, New Jersey during the summer of 1969.

By Bill Willingham
Series Fables
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

This elaborate fantasy series begins as a whodunit, but quickly unfurls into a much larger story about Fabletown, a place where fairy tale legends live alongside regular New Yorkers.

By Bill Willingham
Series Fables

Travel to upstate New York, where the non-human Fable characters have found refuge on a farm, miles from mankind. But all is not well on the farm and a conspiracy to free them from the shackles of their perceived imprisonment may lead to a war that could wrest control of the Fables community away from Snow White.

By Stephen C. Lundin

The book draws lessons aimed at combating dysfunctional workplaces from the happy fishmongers at Seattle's Pike Place Market.

By John Gruen

A collection of fourteen short fables each of which describes a different flower.

By David Duchovny

When cow Elsie Bovary sneaks out of her pasture, she makes a discovery that shakes her very world to its core, forcing her, along with a motley crew of fellow animals, to escape to a better, safer world in search of mutual understanding and acceptance.

By Richard Bach

More concerned with the dynamics of his flight than with gathering food, Jonathan is scorned by the other seagulls.

By John P. Kotter

Kotter presents his framework for an effective corporate change initiative through the tale of a colony of Antarctic penguins facing danger–inspired, perhaps, by today's real–life global warming crisis.

By Bill Willingham

Long ago, in the deepest dark of the Black Forest, Peter Piper and his older brother Max encountered ominous forces that changed them both irreparably, in an epic tale of sibling rivalry, magic, music and revenge that spans medieval times to the present day.

By Vikram Chandra

Combining Indian myths, epic history, and the story of three college kids in search of America, a narrative includes the monkey's story of an Indian poet and warrior and an American road novel of college students driving cross-country.

By David Sedaris

An original collection of humorous fables features animals with unmistakably human failings, including a cynical cat struggling to sit through his prison-mandated AA meetings, and a pair of lovers separated by prejudiced family members.

By Mitch Albom
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

“Given one last chance at redemption, Father Time, the inventor of the world’s first clock, must teach two earthly people the true meaning of time - a journey that leads him to a teenage girl who is about to give up on life and a wealthy businessman who wants to live forever.”

By Jon Scieszka

The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.