Chessmen of Doom
10 best books like Chessmen of Doom (John Bellairs): The Twenty-One Balloons, A Long Fatal Love Chase, The Princess Curse, My Dad, the Earth Warrior, The Water Babies, Belle's Song, Nightbooks, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1, Dead End in Norvelt, A Drowned Maiden's Hair
| Author | William Pène du Bois |
| ISBN | 0140320970 |
One month after graduating from college, I started working. That was in 1984. I am now in my 4th company and except for my paid vacation leaves and rare sick days, I have never been, even a single day, out of the corporate rate race.
27 years of working and trying to earn a living.
I know it...
| Author | Louisa May Alcott |
| ISBN | 0440223016 |
"I'd gladly sell my soul to Satan for a year of freedom," cries Rosamond Vivian to her callous grandfather. A brooding stranger seduces her from the remote island onto his yacht. Trapped in a web of intrigue, cruelty, and deceit, she flees to Italy, France, Germany, from Paris garret to mental asylum,...
| Author | Merrie Haskell |
| ISBN | 0062008137 |
Merrie Haskell’s middle-grade fantasy novel Princess Curse is an imaginative retelling of the fairy tales The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Beauty and the Beast.
In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Sylvania, the prince offers a fabulous reward to anyone who cures the curse that forces...
My Dad, the Earth Warrior
| Author | Gary Haq |
| ISBN | 1999933796 |
One boy.
A geeky dad.
A freak accident!
Dad wakes up from a bump to head claiming to be a Warrior sent to protect Mother Earth - and is soon up against a ruthless energy tycoon.
Hero is forced to go along with Dad's new persona. And when Gran mysteriously disappears, Hero and Dad...
| Author | Charles Kingsley |
| ISBN | 1853261483 |
Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the villainous chimney-sweep, Grimes, to climb up inside flues to clear away the soot. While engaged in this dreadful task, he loses his way and emerges in the bedroom of Ellie, the young daughter of the house who mistakes him for a thief. He runs away, and, hot and bothered,...
| Author | K.M. Grant |
| ISBN | 1849164088 |
Belle's Song is one of the oddest young adult books I have attempted to read all year because of the issues presented in it. I felt like this author combined modern-day issues with a Medieval setting. Twas quite strange and rather disappointing. I really wanted to read the tale of a journey to Canterbury,...
| Author | J.A. White |
| ISBN | 0062560107 |
A boy is imprisoned by a witch and must tell her a new scary story each night to stay alive. This thrilling contemporary fantasy from J. A. White, the acclaimed author of the Thickety series, brings to life the magic and craft of storytelling.
Alex’s original hair-raising tales are the only...
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1
| Author | Alan Moore |
| ISBN | 1563898586 |
London, 1898. The Victorian Era draws to a close and the twentieth century approaches. It is a time of great change and an age of stagnation, a period of chaste order and ignoble chaos. It is an era in need of champions.
In this amazingly imaginative tale, literary figures from throughout time...
| Author | Jack Gantos |
| ISBN | 0374379939 |
Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction!
Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid...
| Author | Laura Amy Schlitz |
| ISBN | 0763629308 |
Maud Flynn is known at the orphanage for her impertinence, so when the charming Miss Hyacinth and her sister choose Maud to take home with them, the girl is as baffled as anyone. It seems the sisters need Maud to help stage elaborate séances for bereaved, wealthy patrons. As Maud is drawn deeper into the...
Sin City, Vol. 2: A Dame to Kill For
| Author | Frank Miller |
| ISBN | 1593072945 |
The second volume of Frank Miller's signature series is now planned as the lead story in the upcoming Sin City 2! This newly redesigned edition sports a new cover by Miller - some of his first comics art in years! Stuck with nothing but a seedy gumshoe job and some demons, Dwight's thinking of all the ways...
| Author | Natalie Jane Prior |
| ISBN | 0142400203 |
As a family of dragon slayers, the Quenches of Ashby have always been burning successes...until the evil Black Count invades, and the family's fortunes go into a downward spiral. Then a dragon unexpectedly arrives and Lily, the last of the Quenches, is called upon to fight it. Soon she finds herself...
December 1938. Moscow. Josef Stalin has lost some gold. He is not a happy man. He asks his henchman Beria to track it down.
September 1940. London. Above the city the Battle of Britain rages and the bombs rain down. On the streets below, DCI Frank Merlin and his officers investigate the sudden...
What strange dark secrets can a college professor reveal -- after she has risen from the grave?
Do dogs howl at the moon... do their eyes glow in the night -- one hundred years after their death?
What evil power lurks in the fortune-teller's den -- embodied in the sinister form of a terrifying...
The Tragedy of Islam: Admissions of a Muslim Imam
| Author | Imam Mohammad Tawhidi |
| ISBN | 1925880206 |
Imam Mohammad Tawhidi is a third-generation Iranian-born Australian Muslim Imam and a publicly ordained Islamic authority who comes from a prominent Islamic lineage. His ancestors were the companions of Prophet Mohammad and played a significant role in the early Islamic conquests.
Imam...
Dear F*cking Moron: 101 More Rude Letters to Donald Trump
| Author | Aldous J. Pennyfarthing |
The sequel to the Amazon best-selling ebook (in the political fiction category) "Dear F*cking Lunatic," "Dear F*cking Moron: 101 More Rude Letters to Donald Trump" is a hilarious, bare-knuckles look at Donald Trump's second year in office. In this second installment of an ongoing series, author...
| Author | Alvin Schwartz |
| ISBN | 0060263415 |
Schwartz's three best-selling collections of scary folklore -- Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and Scary Stories 3 -- are made available in one book, each one in its complete form.
Reviews
"A wonderful collection of tales that range from creepy to...
Scare Scape: The Midnight Door
| Author | Sam Fisher |
| ISBN | 0545521637 |
More monsters. More magic. More mayhem!
Return to Dimvale, the darkest town in America, in the sequel to the "imaginative, not-too-dark urban fantasy" (Kirkus Reviews) with "high appeal for kids . . . who are fascinated with the creepy and the weird" (Bulletin of the Center for Children's...
