Bone and Jewel Creatures
10 best books like Bone and Jewel Creatures (Elizabeth Bear): The Black Tides of Heaven, Journey to the River Sea, Passing Strange, The Tea Master and the Detective, The Housemaid's Daughter, The Story Collector: A New York Public Library Book, What Judgments Come, Children of Jubilee, The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner: And Other Stories, The One-Eyed Man: A Fugue, with Winds and Accompaniment
The Black Tides of Heaven
The Black Tides of Heaven is one of a pair of standalone introductions to JY Yang's Tensorate Series. For more of the story you can read its twin novella The Red Threads of Fortune
Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery as children. While Mokoya developed...
| Author | Eva Ibbotson |
| ISBN | 0142501840 |
Sent in 1910 to live with distant relatives who own a rubber plantation along the Amazon River, English orphan Maia is excited. She believes she is in for brightly colored macaws, enormous butterflies, and "curtains of sweetly scented orchids trailing from the trees." Her British classmates warn...
| Author | Ellen Klages |
| ISBN | 0765389517 |
San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the city: the Magic City of the World’s Fair on an island created of artifice and illusion; the forbidden city of Chinatown, a separate, alien world of exotic food and nightclubs that offer “authentic”...
The Tea Master and the Detective
| Author | Aliette de Bodard |
| ISBN | 1596068647 |
Welcome to the Scattered Pearls Belt, a collection of ring habitats and orbitals ruled by exiled human scholars and powerful families, and held together by living mindships who carry people and freight between the stars. In this fluid society, human and mindship avatars mingle in corridors and in...
| Author | Barbara Mutch |
| ISBN | 1250016304 |
Barbara Mutch's stunning first novel tells a story of love and duty colliding on the arid plains of Apartheid-era South Africa
When Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in 1919 to travel to South Africa, she knows that she does not love the man she is to marry there —her fiance Edward,...
The Story Collector: A New York Public Library Book
| Author | Kristin O'Donnell Tubb |
| ISBN | 1250143802 |
In the tradition of E. L. Konisburg, this middle-grade mystery adventure is inspired by the real life of Viviani Joffre Fedeler, born and raised in the New York Public Library.
Eleven-year-old Viviani Fedeler has spent her whole life in the New York Public Library. She knows every room by heart,...
| Author | Dayton Ward |
| ISBN | 1451608632 |
Operation Vanguard has risked countless lives and sacrificed entire worlds to unlock the secrets of the Shedai, an extinct alien civilization whose technology can shape the future of the galaxy. Now, Starfleet’s efforts have roused the vengeful Shedai from their aeons of slumber. As the Taurus...
| Author | Margaret Peterson Haddix |
Children of Jubilee is the final book in the Children of Exile series. If you've read the first two books, great, keep reading! If not, beware, there are spoilers ahead from the first two books. I have loved this series, and though I'm sad to see it end, I love the conclusion. Rosi narrated Children of Exile....
The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner: And Other Stories
| Author | Terry Pratchett |
| ISBN | 0857534831 |
Poor Mr Swimble is having a bad day.
Rabbits are bouncing out of his hat, pigeons are flying out of his jacket and every time he points his finger, something magically appears – cheese sandwiches, socks . . . even a small yellow elephant on wheels!
It’s becoming a real nuisance –...
The One-Eyed Man: A Fugue, with Winds and Accompaniment
| Author | L.E. Modesitt Jr. |
| ISBN | 0765335441 |
The colony world of Stittara is no ordinary planet. For the interstellar Unity of the Ceylesian Arm, Stittara is the primary source of anagathics: drugs that have more than doubled the human life span. But the ecological balance that makes anagathics possible on Stittara is fragile, and the Unity...
| Author | Margaret Weis |
| ISBN | 0765381079 |
A bold new swashbuckling fantasy adventure set in the land of the exciting Dragon Brigade trilogy.
Politics, court intrigue, and piracy combine in this gripping fantasy adventure. On a world already riven by the ancient hatred between the Rosian and Freyan empires, privateers of each nation...
| Author | Margaret Peterson Haddix |
After Edwy is smuggled off to Refuge City to stay with his brother and sister, Rosi, Bobo, and Cana are stuck alone—and in danger—in Cursed Town in the thrilling follow-up to Children of Exile from New York Times bestselling author, Margaret Peterson Haddix.
It’s been barely a day since...
| Author | Gordon Korman |
| ISBN | 1443428817 |
From the master of middle grade, Gordon Korman, comes the final book in the bestselling Masterminds series — about a group of kids who discover they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history.
After a serious betrayal from one of their former friends,...
The beloved and bestselling author of Inkheart returns with a chapter book full of mischief, heart, and hilarious illustrations!
Ruffleclaw is a furry red monster who lives in a burrow under a toolshed. When he decides to move in with a family of humans, he climbs right into bed with a boy named...
| Author | Walter Dean Myers |
| ISBN | 0064472892 |
David Curry doesn't know what to make of his father, Reuben, whose violent out bursts and chilling nightmares torment his family. His older brother, Tyrone, says Reuben is crazy. But lately, even Tyrone isn't acting like himself.
Then David meets the mysterious Mr. Moses, who tells him that...
| Author | Margaret Weis |
| ISBN | 0765381095 |
The swashbuckling adventures of Captain Kate Fitzmaurice continues in this thrilling continuation of the epic tale of the Dragon Corsairs.
Captain Kate soon escapes from prison and saves her crew with the help of Prince Tom. She and her crew are drawn ever deeper into the intrigue and danger...
Father Christmas’s Fake Beard: Collector's Edition
Have you ever wanted Christmas to be different?
Turkey and carols, presents and crackers - they all start to feel a bit . . . samey.
How about a huge exploding mince pie, a pet abominable snowman, or a very helpful partridge in a pear tree? What if Father Christmas went to work at a zoo, or...
| Author | Deborah Coates |
| ISBN | 0765328984 |
When Sergeant Hallie Michaels comes back to South Dakota from Afghanistan on ten days' compassionate leave, her sister Dell's ghost is waiting at the airport to greet her.
The sheriff says that Dell's death was suicide, but Hallie doesn't believe it. Something happened or Dell's ghost...
