Bordertown

10 best books like Bordertown (Terri Windling): War for the Oaks, The Library of the Unwritten, The Black Tides of Heaven, The Warrior's Apprentice, Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes, The Vor Game, Widdershins, The Last Hot Time, The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World, The Shunned House

AuthorEmma Bull
ISBN0765349159
Acclaimed by critics and readers on its first publication in 1987, winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel, Emma Bull's War for the Oaks is one of the novels that has defined modern urban fantasy.

Eddi McCandry sings rock and roll. But she's breaking up with her boyfriend, her band just...
The Library of the Unwritten
AuthorA.J. Hackwith
ISBN1984806386
In the first book in a brilliant new fantasy series, books that aren't finished by their authors reside in the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, and it is up to the Librarian to track down any restless characters who emerge from those unfinished stories.

Many years ago, Claire was named Head Librarian...
The Black Tides of Heaven
AuthorJ.Y. Yang
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...
AuthorLois McMaster Bujold
ISBN0743468406
Between the seemingly impossible tasks of living up to his warrior-father's legend and surmounting his own physical limitations, Miles Vorkosigan faces some truly daunting challenges.

Shortly after his arrival on Beta Colony, Miles unexpectedly finds himself the owner of an obsolete...
Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
AuthorDana Thomas
ISBN0735224013
An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry and the grassroots, high-tech, international movement fighting to reform it

What should I wear? It's one of the fundamental questions we ask ourselves every day. More than ever, we are told it should be something...
AuthorLois McMaster Bujold
ISBN0671720147
A buddy read with Choko and Maria.

Miles Vorkosigan graduated from the Military Academy despite his handicap. He hoped for a decent assignment, but his superiors thought he had an insubordination problem, so they decided a good way to fix it is to assign him to a remote place which in this case...
AuthorOliver Onions
ISBN1406836214
A collection of eight marvellous stories of the supernatural. The stories are: The Beckoning Fair One, Phantas, Rooum, Benlian, Io, The Accident, The Cigarette Case, & Hic Jacket.

Excerpt: ...off!" he ordered me. "I'll send for you again when I want you!" He thrust me out. "An asylum,...
AuthorJohn M. Ford
ISBN0312875789
When Danny Holman leaves the cornfields of Iowa for the bright lights of Chicago, he expects his life to change. He just can't guess how much and how fast. A violent incident on the road brings Danny the favor of a man known only as Mr. Patrise, who gives Danny a job, a home, and a new identity.

The...
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World
AuthorSarah Weinman
ISBN0062661957
7 Hours and 26 Minutes

Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of eleven-year-old Sally Horner.

Weaving together...
The Shunned House
AuthorH.P. Lovecraft

Written in October of 1924, "The Shunned House" is not only Lovecraft's best early novella but also one of the two watershed works which mark his transition to the themes and style of his mature period. As such, it is not only a pleasure to read but also an important work for anyone who is interested...
Salvage and Demolition
AuthorTim Powers
Salvage And Demolition, the astonishing new 21,000 word novella by Tim Powers, begins when Richard Blanzac, a San Francisco-based rare book dealer, opens a box of consignment items and encounters the unexpected. There, among an assortment of literary rarities, he discovers a manuscript in verse,...
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