A Robin McKinley Collection: Spindle's End, The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword (Folktales #1-3)
10 best books like A Robin McKinley Collection: Spindle's End, The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword (Folktales #1-3) (Robin McKinley): A Dream of Ebony and White: A Retelling of Snow White, Madame Pamplemousse And The Time Travelling Cafe, The King Must Die/The Bull from the Sea, The Collected Poems, The Scottish Chiefs, The Tripods Trilogy, Homer: Iliad II, Books 13-24 (Loeb Classical Library, #171), The Woman Who Loved Reindeer, Edward Eager's Tales of Magic, The Shoebox Project
Snow has always lived under the shadow of her cruel stepmother, with only her beloved father and her childhood friend--the huntsman, Alexander--to make life bearable. When her father dies, she should be crowned queen, but instead she finds herself fleeing for her life. With no allies, no skills, and...
| Author | Rupert Kingfisher |
| ISBN | 1408800543 |
From the point of view of an adult reading this to practice French, this was a great book. This is about the level that I can read to challenge myself but not get confused. The story is cute and funny, and the vocabulary is enough of a stretch that I had to pay close attention to get the details, but not so much...
| Author | Mary Renault |
| ISBN | 1568658060 |
Mary Renault was an English writer best known for her historical novels set in Ancient Greece. In addition to vivid fictional portrayals of Theseus, Socrates, Plato and Alexander the Great, she wrote a non-fiction biography of Alexander.
Her historical novels are all set in ancient Greece....
| Author | A.E. Housman |
| ISBN | 0805005471 |
Introduction, by Nick Laird
--A Shropshire Lad
Last Poems
--I. The West
--II. 'As I gird on for fighting . . .'
--III. 'Her strong enchantments failing . . .'
--IV. Illic Jacet
--V. Grenadier
--VI. Lancer
--VII. 'In valleys green and still . . .'
--VIII....
I learned about The Scottish Chiefs from the same person from whom I learned about many old-fashioned books: Louisa May Alcott, in her book A Garland for Girls. One of the stories contained therein is called Pansies, and in it some teenaged girls and Mrs Warburton, the elderly lady of the house the girls...
| Author | John Christopher |
| ISBN | 0020425716 |
Long ago the Tripods, gigantic three-legged machines, descended upon Earth and took control. They used "Caps," administered ceremoniously near each child's 14th birthday, to control humans' brains and keep them docile. Now there is pleasant life in villages, little technology, and no war--but...
| Author | Homer |
| ISBN | 0674995805 |
Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Homer's stirring heroic account of the Trojan war and its passions. The eloquent and dramatic epic poem captures the terrible anger of Achilles, "the best of the Achaeans," over a grave insult to his personal honor and relates its tragic result--a chain...
| Author | Meredith Ann Pierce |
| ISBN | 0152017992 |
I gave The DarkAngel (of The DarkAngel Trilogy) by Meredith Ann Pierce three stars when I read it in early 2009. Absence made my heart grow fonder, or something, and I later upgraded it to a fox force five. I would tell my sister about it and that made it a different kind of reading experience. Something like...
| Author | Edward Eager |
| ISBN | 0439325471 |
Have been reading this set to little kids all year (2013/2014). They have loved them. Quite long chapters, we read approx. one chp. per day, and even the smallest one makes sure he stays within earshot.
Stars reflect how much my kids love love love them, not necessarily how wonderful I think they...
The Shoebox Project is a collection of pictures, notes, letters, and scenes that focuses on the notorious Marauders - Mssrs. Remus Lupin (Moony), Peter Pettigrew (Wormtail), Sirius Black (Padfoot) and James Potter (Prongs). The narrative follows them through two years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft...
Coronation of Glory: The Story of Lady Jane Grey
| Author | Deborah Meroff |
| ISBN | 0921100787 |
Jane Grey was never allowed to forget that she was a Tudor, fifth in the royal line of succession after King Henry VIII. To Jane, this knowledge was a shadow across the peaceful days in her beloved valley home in the north of England.
The threat was a distant one until Henry died and Jane's cousin...
Mercedes entered this world on June 24, 1950, in Chicago, had a normal childhood and graduated from Purdue University in 1972. During the late 70's she worked as an artist's model and then went into the computer programming field, ending up with American Airlines in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In addition to her...
| Author | Bob Briner |
| ISBN | 0310591112 |
Bob Briner would have told you, "Absolutely!" Roaring Lambs is Briner's manifesto of our proper stance regarding the "culture-shaping arena." Christians can and ought to be the movers and shakers of social change -- "roaring lambs" who infiltrate and make an impact on their workplace and world with...
American Standard Version
The Old Testament
* Genesis
* Exodus
* Leviticus
* Numbers
* Deuteronomy
* Joshua
* Judges
* Ruth
* 1 Samuel
* 2 Samuel
* 1 Kings
* 2 Kings
* 1 Chronicles
* 2 Chronicles
* Ezra
* Nehemiah
* Esther
*...
| Author | Susannah Appelbaum |
| ISBN | 0375851739 |
Introducing a witty and macabre new fantasy trilogy.
There's little joy left in the kingdom of Caux: the evil King Nightshade rules with terrible tyranny and the law of the land is poison or be poisoned. Worse, eleven-year-old Ivy’s uncle, a famous healer, has disappeared, and Ivy sets out...
| Author | John Geiger |
| ISBN | 0143017519 |
Trader Ron DiFrancesco in the World Trade Center, diver Stephanie Schwabe, Sir Ernest Shackleton: All shared an experience that an unseen being helped them to survive against staggering odds. If it were just a handful of people, it might be dismissed, but in fact, this phenomenon has occurred again...
| Author | Michael Lewis |
| ISBN | 0679768092 |
Michael Lewis is a master at dissecting the absurd: after skewering Wall Street in his national bestseller Liar's Poker, he packed his mighty pen and set out on the 1996 campaign trail. As he follows the men who aspire to the Oval Office, Lewis discovers an absurd mix of bravery and backpedaling,...
This is a beautiful book that showed me, or helped me to understand, for the first time just what it means for a person to be "broken."
Life is FULL of difficulties on this earth, and at times it is nearly impossible to deal with things of the flesh and to remember that things of the spirit are far more...
| Author | Alexey Pehov |
| ISBN | 0765334895 |
Centuries after the disastrous War of the Necromancers, the Nabatorians, aligned with the evil necromancers of Sdis, mount an invasion of the Empire. Luk, a soldier, and Ga-Nor, a Northern barbarian, are thrown together as they attempt to escape the Nabatorian hordes and find their way back to their...
Through this engaging Who Was? biography, kids will discover the woman behind the sunglasses.
Private and bookish, Jackie Kennedy found herself thrust into the world spotlight as the young and glamorous wife of the President John F. Kennedy. As First Lady she restored the once neglected...
| Author | Elaine Cunningham |
| ISBN | 0786947845 |
The finale to one of the Forgotten Realms world's most endearing sagas.
Against the backdrop of the Recalamtion Wars in Tethyr, Arilyn Moonblade is called upon to make another difficult decision in a life of difficult decisions. The war may be drawing to an end, but sacrifices will still be...
| Author | C.R. Wiley |
| ISBN | 0982159803 |
The Purloined Boy, by C. R. Wiley, is a work of fantasy literature for young adults. In parts dark and grotesque, in others luminous and inspiring; it could be described as R. L. Stine meets Plato. It begins with the question, Where do all those children on the milk cartons go? It provides the answer through...
| Author | Christine Caine |
| ISBN | 0980518717 |
More than ever before, women are navigating through increasing amounts of responsibility, activity, scheduling and multi-tasking...and we need some answers about how to have and do it all in life!
For years, we as women have been told we can have it all, be it all and do it all. Inevitably, we...
| Author | Megan Stine |
| ISBN | 0399541926 |
The truly inspiring story of the first Latina Supreme Court Justice.
Outspoken, energetic, and fun, Sonia Sotomayor has managed to turn every struggle in life into a triumph. Born in the Bronx to immigrant parents from Puerto Rico, Sonia found out at age nine that she had diabetes, a serious...
