Close Kin
10 best books like Close Kin (Clare B. Dunkle): Court Duel, The Truth-Teller's Tale, The Folk Keeper, A Well-Timed Enchantment, Troll Mill, An Earthly Knight, The Summer King, The Healer's Keep, The Tenth Power, Krystalhjertet
| Author | Sherwood Smith |
| ISBN | 0152016090 |
I've revised my opinion of this book (or should I say these books?) after a second reading, so instead of editing my old review I shall write another here.
I enjoyed it much more than I did the first time! Actually I couldn't remember reading Court Duel at all previously, only Crown Duel, so unless...
| Author | Sharon Shinn |
| ISBN | 0142407844 |
Innkeeper's daughters Adele and Eleda are mirror twins - identical twins whose looks are reflections of each other's, and their special talents are like mirrors, too. Adele is a Safe-Keeper, entrusted with hearing and never revealing others' secrets; Eleda is a Truth-Teller, who cannot tell a lie...
| Author | Franny Billingsley |
| ISBN | 0689844611 |
She is never cold, she always knows exactly what time it is, and her hair grows two inches while she sleeps. Fifteen-year-old Corinna Stonewall--the only Folk Keeper in the city of Rhysbridge--sits hour after hour with the Folk in the dark, chilly cellar, "drawing off their anger as a lightning rod draws...
| Author | Vivian Vande Velde |
| ISBN | 0152049193 |
It's bad enough that Deanna has to waste her summer in France and her only friend is a mangy black cat, but now she's staring hopelessly into a well, trying to figure out what in the world to wish for.
Before she can make a wish, the cat scratches her, her watch falls into the well, and then . . . so has...
Fifteen-year-old Peer Ulfsson is haunted by his past. Forced to live with his evil uncles under the eerie shadows of Troll Fell, he nearly fell prey to their plan to sell children to the trolls. Now Peer lives with his friend Hilde's family, but can he ever truly belong? And will Hilde ever share his deeper...
| Author | Janet McNaughton |
| ISBN | 0060089946 |
A cloud has descended over the household of Lady Jeanette Avenel.
The year is 1162. Sixteen-year-old Jenny has always enjoyed her freedom as second daughter of a Norman nobleman in Teviotdale, Scotland. But when Jenny's sister, Isabel, disgraces the family by running away with a dangerous...
| Author | O.R. Melling |
| ISBN | 0810959690 |
Sequel to the critically-acclaimed "The Hunter's Moon"
This second book in a series "shimmering with magic, myth, and romance" ("Booklist"), follows sixteen-year-old Laurel as she tries to understand the cause of her twin sister's mysterious death. Honor believed in Faerie, a parallel land...
Something is threatening the legendary Healer's Keep, where students gifted in the healing arts are trained. Will they learn enough in time to keep the darkness at bay? Or will the Shadow King turn their gifts against them and once again walk the world?
"This complex and engrossing companion to...
| Author | Kate Constable |
| ISBN | 0439554829 |
Kate Constable's magnificent musical trilogy reaches its high note as Calwyn returns to Antaris and discovers the true Singer of All Songs.
At the beginning of THE SINGER OF ALL SONGS, Calwyn fled Antaris with Darrow to defeat the ambitious chanter Samis. In THE TENTH POWER, she comes back to the...
Mira har mistet det kraftfulde smykke, hun har arvet efter sin farmor, og hun bliver holdt fanget i minerne, hvor hun oplever sine medmennesker fra deres værste side. Men selv midt i rædslen bliver hun mindet om, at hun har en opgave at løse: uden hende kan de dæmoner, der har besat Dakjas indbyggere,...
"And she stomped purposely out of the room, muttering something about using all the power she could get and maybe asking Sayley if she'd like to join her in a little adventure.
Coren stared after her. Well, that was life with Lenora. Never dull.
He shrugged an apology to Fullbright and...
| Author | David Calder |
| ISBN | 0590630938 |
This was a really good book and I enjoyed it quite a bit. While the english can be hard to understand in some parts of the book it had a story that really keep in into the story. If there is a second book I wanna read it soon. The reason I choose to read this book is becuase I saw it on the book shelf and I mistook it...
| Author | Gerald Morris |
| ISBN | 0547144245 |
Why is it, Terence wondered, that the things you know most surely are always the things you can’t demonstrate to any one else?
And why is it, after all of these years, that Terence is still just a squire, offering advice on how best to scrub the rust spots from armor? But Squire Terence has more...
| Author | Hilari Bell |
| ISBN | 0060825065 |
The Boys Are Back! Sir Michael Sevenson and his squire, Fisk, can't seem to keep out of hot water. After five long years, Fisk has been called home to Ruesport to investigate who framed his sister Anna's husband, Max, as a blackmailer. Anna figures that Fisk, with his criminal past, is uniquely qualified...
| Author | Margit Sandemo |
| ISBN | 8250917995 |
(Description from the back of the book)
SAGAEN OM ISFOLKET - etterkommerne til den onde Tengel, som hadde inngått en pakt med djevelen...
Saga Simon var en av isfolkets utvalgte, og da hun fikk vite at slekten i Norge trengte hennes hjelp, la hun straks ut på den strabasiøse ferden mot...
