A Matter of Profit
10 best books like A Matter of Profit (Hilari Bell): Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales, Deadly Pink, The Adventures Of Dr. McNinja, A Bone From a Dry Sea, Singing the Dogstar Blues, Dragon and Thief, The King in the Window, The Blue Roan Child, Spellspam, Waters Luminous and Deep
| Author | Brian Jacques |
| ISBN | 0698118081 |
Filled with humor, adventure, and imagination, these seven short stories go from the lighthearted to the bizarre. From a teenager who drives a museum curator to mummify him for signing Phantom Snake (an anagram of his name) all over his exhibits, to a boy who's dared to visit the tomb of a vampire at midnight...
| Author | Vivian Vande Velde |
| ISBN | 0547738501 |
Grace Pizzelli is the average one, nothing like her brilliant older sister, Emily, who works for Rasmussem, creators of the world’s best virtual reality games. The games aren’t real, though—or at least they weren’t. Now Emily has hidden herself inside a pink and sparkly game meant for little...
| Author | Christopher Hastings |
This 126 page book collects "Meet the Doctor and His Friendly Staff", "So What Is a McNinja", and "There Is a Raptor In My Office" all together in one volume. BUT THAT'S NOT ALL! There are also the first five .Net Magazine Dr. McNinja comics, previously unavailable outside of the UK. It's got the 2005 April...
| Author | Peter Dickinson |
| ISBN | 0440219280 |
I immediately thought about this book when I started reading Sapiens, about the history of our species. It's an odd little novel that imagines our distant ancestors as sea apes. Half of the book follows Vinny, the daugher of a modern-day paleontologist (well, taphonomist) who visits the dig site that...
Seventeen-year-old Joss is a rebel, and a student of time travel at the prestigious Centre for Neo-Historical Studies. This year, for the first time, the Centre has an alien student? Mavkel, from the planet Choria. And Mavkel has chosen Joss, of all people, as his roommate and study partner. Then Mavkel...
| Author | Timothy Zahn |
| ISBN | 0765342723 |
Jack Morgan 13 has a dragon on his back - literally. The warrior K'da species are symbiotes, can only live six hours without their humanoid host. Draycos 30s is the sole survivor of the three ships destroyed scouting for their refugees, and Jack is the only possible choice. They may be an odd couple, but...
| Author | Adam Gopnik |
| ISBN | 0786838949 |
Oliver Parker is a ten-year-old American boy miserably trapped in Paris, where his father is stationed as a journalist. Intimidated by his French school and its prickly teachers, oppressed by gray and wintry Paris, and feeling curiously remote from his father-who spends more and more time staring...
| Author | Jamieson Findlay |
| ISBN | 0439627524 |
First published to great critical acclaim in Canada, this unforgettable adventure traces the magical relationship between a young girl and a wild mare. A horse story like no other.
Syeira is an orphaned girl who lives in a magical land. Fate pairs Syeira with Arwin, a wild mare whose two colts...
| Author | Alma Alexander |
| ISBN | 0060839589 |
What do you get when ordinary e-mail spam becomes infused with magic?
Spellspam.
At first, they seemed like harmless practical jokes, but now, for the students at the Wandless Academy, the spellspams are getting worse. Thea thought she was the only one who could reach through the...
| Author | Meredith Ann Pierce |
| ISBN | 0142403563 |
A spellbinding collection of short stories by the author of the Darkangel and Firebringer trilogies.
Meredith Ann Pierce's acclaimed novels are the proof of a remarkable imagination. Here is more proof--eight shorter works of fiction, each with a strong heroine, a tangibly imagined world,...
| Author | Sherryl Jordan |
| ISBN | 0064472310 |
The last of the great fire-breathing
dragons has awakened. . . .
Everyone thought all the dragons had been wiped out -- until a fierce flying beast appears, and leaves the village of Doran in flames. There is only one survivor: Jude, an ordinary man who never intended to be a hero. He'd rather...
Can honesty be the worst policy?
Bernadette Terrell has always known the right thing to do. Not the most popular girl in school, her focus has always been on academic, not social, success. When her favorite teacher names her to Wickham High School's state championship quiz bowl team, she believes...
| Author | Sally Prue |
| ISBN | 0439482682 |
Part human, part elfin, young Tom struggles to find a place to call home in this striking debut fantasy novel.
Tom is both elfin and human, and running for his life. Cast out from the elfin Tribe, he must hide among the hated humans, whom the Tribe call "demons." Tom's Tribe-half seeks freedom...
| Author | Patrick O'Leary |
| ISBN | 0312864035 |
A story within a story, The Gift is a story of innocence betrayed and magic rejected. Tim is robbed of his childhood, and Simon is tormented by hearing made too acute. Both are victims of The Usher of the Night, once a boy like them, now pathetically twisted by his own ambition and by Tomen, a malevolent creature...
| Author | Susan Price |
| ISBN | 0060721979 |
Andrea Mitchell has never felt as if she belongs in the 21st century. She's too fat, too clumsy, and too plain. So when she's offered the chance to take the Time Tube back to the 16th century -- and back to Per, the young Sterkarm warrior she fell in love with once before -- she doesn't hesitate. The lovely,...
| Author | Eoin McNamee |
| ISBN | 0739380389 |
The final book in the thrilling Navigator trilogy.
Twice the Harsh have tried to destroy time, and twice Owen and the Resisters have banded together to stop them. In City of Time, Owen killed the Harsh king, and now the Harsh are hungry for revenge. Their massive fleet is ready to set sail on the...
| Author | Peg Kerr |
| ISBN | 0446603937 |
Jean is the daughter and only child of Collas the Gemcutter, jeweler to the nobility and supplier of magical gems and amulets. Jena has learned everything her father can teach her, and has created some beautiful objects of her own--but as a girl, she is expected to marry, not carry on her father's business....
| Author | Isaac Mizrahi |
| ISBN | 1592403921 |
The king of real-world chic shares his tips and award-winning flair in a colorful guidebook designed to unleash every woman’s inner fashionista. A twenty-year veteran of the fashion industry, Isaac Mizrahi has become a unique icon in the world of style. He doesn’t do “makeovers” or take pleasure...
| Author | Adam Selzer |
| ISBN | 0385736509 |
Do you know America? No, I mean, do you REALLY know America? Would you recognize John Adams in a lineup? Can you identify any presidents between Lincoln and Roosevelt?
Hmmm. I thought so.
Well, you really need this book.
Not only will it improve your sorry historical knowledge,...
Vassily Belikov, composer and pampered son of privilege, suffered neurological damage in the accident that killed his father. Resentful of being treated as an invalid, he lives as a recluse, dependent on his mother. That changes the day she brings home a new husband with two sons of his own.
When...
| Author | Kathryn L. Nelson |
| ISBN | 1905016123 |
As marriage brings an end to a romantic tale, it begins a new story: how does 'happily ever after' really work? The day that Jane and Elizabeth Bennet wed Charles Bingley and Fitzwilliam Darcy marks the departure point for Pemberley Manor. While Mr and Mrs Bingley might be expected to get on famously,...
