Babylonne

10 best books like Babylonne (Catherine Jinks): Hidden Voices: The Orphan Musicians of Venice, The Ghosts of Kerfol, Darkness Under the Water, Down Sand Mountain, The Social Climber's Handbook, The Purloined Paperweight, Naked Eye, The Best Laid Plans, Bloodline, Cassandra's Sister

AuthorPat Lowery Collins
ISBN0763639176
While studying under Vivaldi, three girls in a Venice orphanage forge their own notions of love in a sensuous, engrossing novel told in three narrative voices.

It is a longing and search for love that motivates three girls living in the Ospedale della Pietà, an orphanage renowned for its extraordinary...
AuthorDeborah Noyes
ISBN0763630004
In an enthralling work of Gothic suspense, an Edith Wharton story inspires five connected tales set in the same haunted manor over the centuries.

In her classic ghost story "Kerfol," Edith Wharton tells the tale of Anne de Barrigan, a young Frenchwoman convicted of murdering her husband,...
AuthorBeth Kanell
This gripping, ultimately hopeful tale of an Abenaki-French Canadian girl in 1920s Vermont explores a dark episode in New England history.

Just as the waters of a river roar through her town, Molly Ballou's life is riding on a swift current, where change comes faster than a spring flood. As...
AuthorSteve Watkins
ISBN0763638390
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...
AuthorMolly Jong-Fast
ISBN0345501896
HIGH SOCIETY CAN BE A KILLER.
 
Upper East Side socialite Daisy Greenbaum is accustomed to the finer things—designer clothes, summers in the Hamptons, elite private school educations for her daughters, and a staggeringly expensive Park Avenue apartment. But Daisy finds her well-heeled...
AuthorP.G. Wodehouse
ISBN0933756097
TL;DR: 5 stars, one of the two best non-series Wodehouse I've read to date.

This was the perfect choice for the day. It's been far too long since I read some Wodehouse and Company for Henry has all the best Wodehouse tropes. Aunts and Uncles, Country Houses, poor relations, people engaged to the...
AuthorFrancine Pascal
ISBN0689878249
The greatest weapon against a serial killer? A girl with no fear.

An agent’s work is never done.

Hot-shot recruit Gaia Moore has just managed to close one case—and find her way back into the FBI’s good graces—when the Lollipop Murderer strikes again. Every minute that passes...
AuthorLynn Edelman Schnurnberger
From Lynn Schnurnberger, bestselling co-author of Mine Are Spectacular! and The Botox Diaries, comes a novel of big secrets, family ties, and a reminder that sometimes The Best Laid Plans can lead to delightful surprises.

Tru Newman is one of the Upper East Side “M&Ms”—the wealthy...
Bloodline
AuthorKaty Moran
ISBN1406309389
A smooth , compelling read set in Dark Ages England, one of my favourite periods and settings. Traces the stroy of Essa, a half Briton, half Saxon boy abandoned by his travelling bar/spy/father in a Wixna village without explanation when he is nine
He grows up in the village, struggles to find his...
AuthorVeronica Bennett
ISBN0763634646
How did a country girl named Jenny become the celebrated novelist Jane Austen? A highly engaging historical novel by the author of ANGELMONSTER.

Young Jane — or Jenny, as she is called — is a girl with a head full of questions. Surrounded by her busy parents and brothers, Jenny finds a place...
Dark World
AuthorDanielle Q. Lee
A beautiful monster.

That’s what Scarlet Prince became after she was damned to a nocturnal world crawling with sphinxes, gargoyles, and necromancers. If only she’d heeded the warnings of the local legend, none of this would have happened.

With a dark destiny haunting her and...
Jiu Jiu, Vol. 2
AuthorTouya Tobina
ISBN1421542781
Werewolves at the door...and in the house

Born into a family of “Hunters,” Takamichi’s destiny is to pursue and slay demons. When her twin brother is killed, she is saved from despair by a pair of Jiu Jiu—shape-shifting familiars—in the form of two wolf pups named Snow and Night....
Punch!, Vol. 2
AuthorRie Takada
ISBN1421508753
Today's post is on Punch! volume 2 by Rie Takada. It is the second volume in her Punch! series. It is 179 pages long and is published by Shojo Beat. The cover has the main female character Elle looking very cute. The intended reader is someone who likes shojo manga and funny characters. The story is told from...
Catalyst
AuthorH.M. Ward
ISBN0615718949
Blood is power. Since the world froze and the humans died off, blood has become scarce. There’s barely enough to sustain the vampire population, even though their masses have dwindled. Many vampires are reduced to the measly few drops of blood rationed to them by the Regent, which is enough to keep...
Stray Love Hearts, Vol. 05
AuthorAya Shouoto
ISBN4048702343
On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Kozue Hiyoki is visited in her dreams by a man who steals her heart- literally! Determined to find him and retrieve her stolen heart, Hiyoki, with the color of the man’s hair and the tattoo on his chest as her only leads, enrolls in the S-Hall dormitories of St. Nazareth...
Immortal Rain, Vol. 7
AuthorKaori Ozaki
ISBN1598167987
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Charmed Vengeance
AuthorSuzanne Lazear
ISBN0738733024
In the Faerie realm, Noli Braddock's relationship with her best friend V has grown into something more. But V's mother, Faerie Queen Tiana, has ruled that they are forbidden to see each other. Returning to the mortal realm, Noli joins the crew of her brother's air-pirate ship, the Vixen's Revenge. There...
Change
AuthorElaine Pierson
ISBN9781621108
Change is the second book in The Lacey Hannigan trilogy.


Eighteen year old Lacey Hannigan always thought her human life was hard and unfair, but now that she is no longer human, her life is about to get a whole lot harder.
Taken away from the man she loves to a remote mountain so that she...
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