Angelmonster
10 best books like Angelmonster (Veronica Bennett): Victoria Rebels, The Kingdom, Sweetgrass, Good Fortune, The Remarkable Life and Times of Eliza Rose, Alien Taste, The Time Travelers: Volume One, Anahita's Woven Riddle, Crusade, The Queen's Secret
| Author | Carolyn Meyer |
| ISBN | 1416987290 |
Queen Victoria’s personal journals inform this captivating first-person account of one of history’s most prominent female leaders.
Queen Victoria most certainly left a legacy—under her rule as the longest reigning female monarch in history, the British Empire was greatly expanded...
Trapped on Earth since the fall of Lucifer, Prince Rioghan has left thousands of broken hearts in his wake, and he wants Lily’s to be the next. His father, the High King of Fairies, expects Rioghan to behave like the royal he is, but the challenge Lily presents is too inviting. Accustomed to living in...
| Author | Jan Hudson |
| ISBN | 0698117638 |
To become a woman meant everything to Sweetgrass. But... how was a 15-year-old Blood girl to wait for her parents to choose her husband when her heart yearned for Eagle Sun? Set in the historic horse-and-gun period of the Blackfoot confederacy, this daring first novel charts unknown territory on the...
| Author | Noni Carter |
| ISBN | 1416984801 |
Brutally kidnapped from her African village and shipped to America, Ayanna Bahati struggles to come to terms with her new life as a slave. Rising from the cotton fields to her master's house, Anna is threatened by the increasingly dangerous world of the plantation. Risking everything, she escapes...
| Author | Mary Hooper |
| ISBN | 1582348545 |
Ousted from her family by her new stepmother, Eliza Rose makes her way to London--only to be thrown straight into prison for stealing a bite to eat. Her life takes a remarkable twist when she is rescued and befriended by the infamous actress Nelly Gwyn. Nelly introduces her to the courtly intrigue, politics,...
| Author | Wen Spencer |
| ISBN | 0451458370 |
Wow. This book was exactly what I needed. Everything is just about perfect, from the very well-drawn characters to the setting (which I don't normally pay attention to but which I was impressed with) and the themes explored.
First the characters. I loved Ukiah Oregon. In fact, he may have to...
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0553494805 |
Imagine changing centuries - and making things worse, not better, on both sides of time.
Imagine being involved in two love triangles in two different centuries.
Imagine discovering that, no matter which direction you travel in time, you must abandon someone you love.
Meet...
| Author | Meghan Nuttall Sayres |
| ISBN | 0810954818 |
This book made me taste the flavors, see the colors, smell the spices, hear the sounds, and feel the fabrics. It employed each of my 5 senses. I felt like I was really in 19th century Iran, and it made me kind of want to be a Nomad. I was totally on Anahita's side when it came to absolutely NOT marrying the Khan,...
| Author | Linda Press Wulf |
| ISBN | 1408804840 |
Robert: Left on the steps of a church as a baby, Robert was often hungry but never stole food like the other orphans in town. Introverted and extraordinarily intelligent, he knew all the Latin prayers and hymns by heart by the time he was five years old.
Georgette: Her own mother died in childbirth,...
| Author | Jean Plaidy |
| ISBN | 1400082528 |
At the power and mercy of the court her life was a struggle to keep the Queen's Secret.
Katherine of Valois is born a princess, the daughter of King Charles VI of France. But by the time Katherine is old enough to know her father, he is called "Charles the Mad," given to unpredictable fits of insanity....
| Author | Beckie Weinheimer |
| ISBN | 0670061522 |
Kate was raised in the Holy Divine Church. It influenced everything from her homeschooling to her handmade clothes. But ever since her unbelieving father's death last year, she has suspected that there's more to life than memorizing scripture.
Taking advantage of their move to a new town,...
Dating Britain's royal Prince Freddie has made Year Eleven at St. Augustine s the best one so far for Calypso Kelly. Together with best friends Star and Georgina, and new chums Portia and Indie, LA-born Calypso at last seems to have everything she s dreamed of...or does she? With the national fencing...
| Author | Steve Watkins |
| ISBN | 0763638390 |
In a tale full of humor and poignancy, a sheltered twelve-year-old boy comes of age in a small Florida mining town amid the changing mores of the 1960s.
It's 1966 and Dewey Turner is determined to start the school year right. No more being the brunt of every joke. No more "Deweyitis." But after...
| Author | Barbara Hambly |
| ISBN | 0425211681 |
An imaginative novel that puts a fresh and frightening new spin on Bram Stoker's Dracula.
The servant Renfield was the most enigmatic character to stalk in the shadows of Dracula. Now he takes center stage in an ingenious re-imagining of Bram Stoker's classic novel that explores the chilling...
| Author | K.M. Grant |
| ISBN | 1847241093 |
Blue Flame is about the Catholics and the Cathars, two religious groups who once lived in peace but are soon going to be torn apart by a religious crusade. In the midst of the battle two lifelong friends, Raimon (a Cathar), and Yolanda (a Catholic) are falling in love. Their romance is ill-fated - because...
The Haunting of Charles Dickens
| Author | Lewis Buzbee |
| ISBN | 0312382561 |
Meg Pickel’s older brother, Orion, has disappeared. One night, she steals out to look for him, and makes two surprising discoveries: She stumbles upon a séance that she suspects involves Orion, and she meets the author Charles Dickens, also unable to sleep, and roaming the London streets. He...
| Author | N.M. Browne |
| ISBN | 1582349169 |
I found this little book at Goodwill one day, read the inside flap, and was intrigued enough to get it. And then it sat in my TBR cupboard for 6 months or so. It just never seemed like the right time to read it. Then the other day when I was looking for a new one, it sort of called to me. Fit my mood. I was wanting fantasy,...
| Author | Stephanie Hemphill |
| ISBN | 0375861092 |
Maria is the younger daughter of an esteemed family on the island of Murano, the traditional home for Venetian glassmakers. Though she longs to be a glassblower herself, glassblowing is not for daughters—that is her brother's work. Maria has only one duty to perform for her family: before her father...
Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle
| Author | Janet Todd |
| ISBN | 1582433399 |
From the Romantic period's star circle, the story of its saddest casualty--Fanny Wollstonecraft, daughter of an original feminist, sister of a literary star, and hopeful object of a poet's affection, dead of suicide at the age of nineteen. Little contemporary information was written about Fanny...
| Author | Kelly McClymer |
| ISBN | 1416916458 |
Prudence Stewart is finally starting to get her witch on. It's been a month since her parents decided to give their magic-deficient daughter a crash course in enchantment by enrolling her in Agatha's Day School for Witches. And sure, Pru's still stuck in Magic for Dummies -- but at least she made the cheerleading...
| Author | Geraldine McCaughrean |
| ISBN | 0152058052 |
A gallant solider, a sharp wit, and a man of letters, Cyrano de Bergerac seems like the obvious romantic hero. He has just one noteworthy flaw: an improbably large nose. And after a lifetime of loving the beautiful Roxane from afar, Cyrano must find a way--any way at all--to express his feelings for...
Night of the Beasts, Vol. 1
| Author | Chika Shiomi |
| ISBN | 1933617144 |
Sometimes a book or manga falls into your lap that makes your emotions conflicted after reading it. You enjoyed your reading experience but you feel like there's just a few things missing that would've made it one of your favourites. But you don't forget you still enjoyed it. Night of the Beasts is one...
| Author | Dorothy Hoobler |
| ISBN | 0316000787 |
One murky night in 1816, on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron, famed English poet, challenged his friends to a contest--to write a ghost story. The assembled group included the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley; his lover (and future wife) Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; Mary's stepsister Claire Claremont;...
| Author | Christine Trent |
| ISBN | 0758265905 |
Strong-willed Annabelle Stirling is more than capable of running the family draper shop after the untimely death of her parents. Under her father's tutelage, she became a talented cloth merchant, while her brother Wesley, the true heir, was busy philandering about Yorkshire. Knowing she must change...
