A Calculus of Angels
10 best books like A Calculus of Angels (Greg Keyes): The Other, The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice, The Tyrant's Tomb, The Silver Witch, Heartstone, Athena: Grey-Eyed Goddess, East of West, Vol. 1: The Promise, Zeus: King of the Gods, Kingdom Come, The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl
| Author | Thomas Tryon |
| ISBN | 0440167361 |
Entranced and terrified, the reader of The Other is swept up in the life of a Connecticut country town in the thirties—and in the fearful mysteries that slowly darken and overwhelm it.
Originally published in 1971, The Other is one of the most influential horror novels ever written. Its impeccable...
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
| Author | Wilkie Collins |
| ISBN | 1587156911 |
Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Is The Haunted Hotel the tale of a haunting -- or the tale of a crime? The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice --- or does it? Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona, and her erstwhile brother are...
| Author | Rick Riordan |
| ISBN | 1368001440 |
In his penultimate adventure, a devastated but determined Apollo travels to Camp Jupiter, where he must learn what it is to be a hero, or die trying.
It's not easy being Apollo, especially when you've been turned into a human and banished from Olympus. On his path to restoring five ancient oracles...
| Author | Paula Brackston |
| ISBN | 1250028795 |
A year after her husband’s sudden death, ceramic artist Tilda Fordwells finally moves into the secluded Welsh cottage that was to be their new home. She hopes that the tranquil surroundings will help ease her grief, and lessen her disturbing visions of Mat’s death. Instead, the lake in the valley...
| Author | C.J. Sansom |
| ISBN | 0230711251 |
C.J. Sansom dazzles with his great set of Tudor era historical mysteries, mixing a few legal conundrums with controversies of the time to keep the reader hooked. England is at war, though its citizenry is less than enamoured with the idea. France remains a thorn in the side of King Henry VIII and he has...
| Author | George O'Connor |
| ISBN | 1596434325 |
Step into a world of fearsome battle, cruel treachery, and fierce loyalty. Your guides are the three Fates, eerie figures who weave the tale of life. Their subject today is Athena, warrior goddess. Five astonishing tales of brave Athena's adventures lies ahead.
Get ready for adventures you've...
East of West, Vol. 1: The Promise
| Author | Jonathan Hickman |
| ISBN | 1607067706 |
3.5 stars
I'm kinda intrigued.
And I don't know what this has to do with anything, but every time the pasty dude got all angry and stabby, I kept hearing Kurt Russell in my head.
Only not. Because the pasty guy is Death...of the Four Horsemen variety.
He'd broken off...
| Author | George O'Connor |
| ISBN | 1596436255 |
Girl walks into my library. I'm putting her age at around nine, maybe ten. Asks if I have any books on Ancient Greece. Turns out the kid is so into Greek mythology that she is willingly learning more about the true history behind that area of the world for her own personal knowledge. In other words, she is...
| Author | Mark Waid |
| ISBN | 1563893304 |
Writer Mark Waid, coming from his popular work on Flash and Impulse, and artist Alex Ross, who broke new ground with the beautifully painted Marvels, join together for this explosive book that takes place in a dark alternate future of the DC Superhero Universe. Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and almost...
The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl
| Author | Theodora Goss |
| ISBN | 1534427872 |
Mary Jekyll and the Athena Club race to save Alice—and foil a plot to unseat the Queen, in the electrifying conclusion to the trilogy that began with the Nebula Award finalist and Locus Award winner The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter.
Life’s always an adventure for the Athena...
| Author | Vivian Shaw |
| ISBN | 0316434655 |
A charmingly witty fantasy adventure in the world of Strange Practice, starring Dr. Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, who must solve a dangerous medical mystery at a secret French spa for mummies.
Oasis Natrun: a private, exclusive, highly secret luxury health spa for mummies, high in...
| Author | James Aitcheson |
| ISBN | 1402280769 |
January 1069. Less than three years have passed since Hastings and the death of the usurper, Harold Godwineson. In the depths of winter, two thousand Normans march to subdue the troublesome province of Northumbria. Tancred a Dinant, an ambitious and oath-sworn knight and a proud leader of men, is among...
| Author | James Aitcheson |
| ISBN | 1402286198 |
Summer, 1070. Renowned for his valor in the battle for York, Tancred a Dinant is now a lord in his own right, with knights of his own to command and a manor to call home in the turbulent Welsh borderlands. But his hard-fought gains are soon threatened, as a coalition of enemies both old and new prepares to...
From the bestselling author of The Chronicles of St Mary's.
The Nothing Girl has grown up…
It’s life as usual at Frogmorton Farm – which is to say that events have passed the merely eccentric and are now galloping headlong towards the completely bizarre.
Once again...
Second in the trilogy that began with The Good Earth, Buck's classic and starkly real tale of sons rising against their honored fathers tells of the bitter struggle to the death between the old and the new in China. Revolutions sweep the vast nation, leaving destruction and death in their wake, yet also...
The Mighty Thor, Volume 1: Thunder in Her Veins
DR. JANE FOSTER IS THE GODDESS OF THUNDER--AND IT'S KILLING HER.
Her enemies are many as Asgard descends further into chaos, and unrest threatens to spread throughout the Ten Realms. Yet she wages her greatest battle against a far more personal foe: the cancer killing her mortal form. When...
Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard
| Author | Paul Collins |
| ISBN | 0393357325 |
On November 23rd of 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city’s richest men simply vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston’s West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting his alma mater, Harvard Medical School. Police scoured city tenements and the harbor, and offered...
Justice League, Volume 7: Darkseid War, Part 1
| Author | Geoff Johns |
| ISBN | 1401259774 |
Geoff Johns pits the heroes of the DC universe against the might of Gods in the seventh volume of the best-selling series!
The Justice League came together to stop the forces of Darkseid from destroying Earth five years ago. Now the ruler of Apokolips returns, but sets his sights on the world-shattering...
Mockingbird, Vol. 2: My Feminist Agenda
| Author | Chelsea Cain |
| ISBN | 1302901230 |
A top secret mission on behalf of an old friend, a tropical cruise. What could go wrong? Turns out it's a theme cruise - super-hero themed, naturally - a floating comic con. Now Bobbi is trapped on a boat with a thousand cosplayers, caped colleagues she was trying to avoid, an ex-boyfriend who keeps showing...
We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
| Author | José Andrés |
| ISBN | 0062864505 |
FOREWORD BY LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA AND LUIS A. MIRANDA, JR.
The true story of how a group of chefs fed hundreds of thousands of hungry Americans after Hurricane Maria and touched the hearts of many more
Chef José Andrés arrived in Puerto Rico four days after Hurricane Maria ripped through...
Justice League, Volume 8: Darkseid War, Part 2
| Author | Geoff Johns |
| ISBN | 1401263410 |
The concluding volume of Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok's best-selling epic is here!
Darkseid is dead! In the midst of the Lord of Apokolips being slain at the hands of the Anti-Monitor, the Justice League has inherited the power of the Gods! Batman, Superman, The Flash, Shazam and Green Lantern have...
| Author | Marie Brennan |
| ISBN | 0765325373 |
Marie Brennan returns to the Onyx Court, a fairy city hidden below Queen Victoria's London. Now the Onyx Court faces its greatest challenge.
Seven years ago, Eliza's childhood sweetheart vanished from the streets of Whitechapel. No one believed her when she told them that he was...
| Author | Ben Costa |
| ISBN | 0399556176 |
Nimona meets Adventure Time in this full-color graphic novel as a singing skeleton continues to search for his origins alongside his gelatin monster sidekick!
Rickety Stitch is a walking, talking, singing skeleton minstrel, the only animated skeleton in the dungeon who seems to have retained...
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
| Author | Thomas Asbridge |
| ISBN | 0060787287 |
The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge—a renowned historian who writes with “maximum vividness” (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker)—covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this big, ambitious,...
Atlas of Cursed Places: A Travel Guide to Dangerous and Frightful Destinations
| Author | Olivier Le Carrer |
| ISBN | 1478908084 |
Oliver Le Carrer brings us a fascinating history and armchair journey to the world's most dangerous and frightful places, complete with vintage maps and period illustrations in a handsome volume.
This alluring read includes 40 locations that are rife with disaster, chaos, paranormal activity,...
The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling
| Author | Peter Ackroyd |
| ISBN | 0670021229 |
God bless you, Peter Ackroyd for making this book very easy to read. It did not lose its original meaning. He only used the words that are familiar to us. Consider this example in the original 14th century English in London:My konnyng is so wayk, O blisful Queene,
For to declare thy grete worthynesse
That...
| Author | Wilkie Collins |
| ISBN | 1426404735 |
Tiene partes muy lentas y aburridas, pero como me gustan las historias de esa época, pude disfrutar incluso esas partes.
El misterio...no es lo mejor, sin duda la Dama de blanco sigue siendo su mejor libro para mi,pero si a sido muy interesante en ciertas partes (a pesar de lo predecible).
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| Author | Wilkie Collins |
| ISBN | 1434610276 |
The Black Robe is an 1881 epistolary novel by famed English writer, Wilkie Collins. The book relates the misadventures of Lewis Romayne, and is also noted for a perceived anti-Catholic bias. As the story begins, Romayne and his friend, Major Hynd, are in Boulogne to visit Romayne's aunt, who is dying....
| Author | Wilkie Collins |
| ISBN | 1592244068 |
Three years ago, her husband stood accused of murder -- and the verdict that came in from the jury was the Scottish Verdict, Not Proven. The jury had not evidence enough to convict him -- nor enough to comfortably exonerate him. Eustace could not bear the weight of her discovery; he fled to the continent,...
