A Bone From a Dry Sea

10 best books like A Bone From a Dry Sea (Peter Dickinson): Inland, Sphinx's Princess, Eternal Kiss of Darkness, Whiskey When We're Dry, The Inheritors, Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature, The Captain's Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe, Dark Sons, Finding Your Way Without Map or Compass, The Way of the Sword

Inland

Author

Téa Obreht

In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives unfold. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life--her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her elder sons, who have vanished after...

Sphinx's Princess

Author	Esther M. Friesner
ISBN	0375856544

Nefertiti was far more than just a pretty face.

Nefertiti may be the dutiful daughter of a commoner, but her inquisitive mind often gets her into situations that are far from ordinary, like receiving secret lessons from a scribe. And she’s the kind of girl who acts first, and apologizes...

Eternal Kiss of Darkness

Author	Jeaniene Frost
ISBN	0061783161

An immortal war has been brewing in the darkness . . . And now one woman has stumbled into the shadows.

Chicago private investigator Kira Graceling should have just kept on walking. But her sense of duty refused to let her ignore the moans of pain coming from inside a warehouse just before dawn....

Whiskey When We're Dry

Author

John Larison

Named a Best Book by Entertainment Weekly, O Magazine, Goodreads, Southern Living, Outside Magazine, Oprah.com, HelloGiggles, Parade, Fodor's Travel, Sioux City Journal, Read it Forward, Medium.com, and NPR's All Things Considered.

"A thunderclap of originality, here is a fresh voice...

The Inheritors

Author	William Golding
ISBN	0156443791

When the spring came the people - what was left of them - moved back by the old paths from the sea. But this year strange things were happening, terrifying things that had never happened before. Inexplicable sounds and smells; new, unimaginable creatures half glimpsed through the leaves. What the people...

Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature

Author	Robin Brande
ISBN	0615960146

I knew today would be ugly...

It's the first day of high school for Mena, and already her world looks bleak: she's an outcast, all her former friends hate her, even her parents barely speak to her anymore. And why? Because she tried to do the right thing. And then everything went wrong.

But...

The Captain's Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe

Author	Roland Smith
ISBN	0152026967

Born the runt of his litter and gambled away to a rusty old river man, the Newfoundland pup Seaman doesn’t imagine his life will be marked by any kind of glory. But when he meets Captain Meriwether Lewis, Seaman finds himself on a path that will make history. Lewis is setting off on his landmark search...

Dark Sons

Author	Nikki Grimes
ISBN	1423102517

Sam can't believe it when his father leaves the family to marry another woman--and a white woman, at that. The betrayal cuts deep--Sam had been so close to his dad, he idolized him. Now who can he turn to, who can he trust? Even God seems to have ditched him.

Ishmael is his father's first son, the...

Finding Your Way Without Map or Compass

Author

Harold Gatty

During his remarkable lifetime, Harold Gatty became one of the world's great navigators (in 1931, he and Wiley Post flew around the world in a record-breaking eight days) and, to the benefit of posterity, recorded in this book much of his accumulated knowledge about pathfinding both on land and at sea.
Applying...

The Way of the Sword

Author

Chris Bradford

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141324319

JAPAN 1612.

One year of training in samurai school and Jack is in real trouble…
He’s struggling to prepare for the Circle of Three, an ancient ritual that tests courage, skill and spirit to the limit. At the same time, Jack is caught...

The Winter Soldier

Author	Daniel Mason
ISBN	0316477605

Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives, at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote...

Rivals! Frenemies Who Changed the World

Author

Scott McCormick

"Each volume of four 30-minute histories will dig into the petty name-calling and grumbling grudges that led to many of the world's greatest advancements, all delivered with a cheeky sense of humor."

Did you know that most of our dinosaur fossils were discovered because two grown men absolutely...

Jukebox Joyride

Author

Jacob Stein

If you could go back in time to witness any concert from all of history, what would it be? Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock? Mozart in the Salzburg court? The Beatles’ rooftop farewell?

Jukebox Joyride follows 12-year-old twins Jules and George on a wild adventure through time. Their Uncle Bob,...