Courting Magic

10 best books like Courting Magic (Stephanie Burgis): Alice in the Country of Diamonds: Bet On My Heart, Courtship and Curses, Eye of the Moon, Newt's Emerald, Of Noble Family, The Princess Who Had No Kingdom, The Time-Traveling Fashionista and Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, Hammer of Witches, Delete, Death of a Musketeer

AuthorQuinRose
ISBN1626921105
Epic adventure in the all-new Country of Diamonds!

After another Wonderland "move" throws Alice into the Country of Diamonds, she's in for a nasty surprise: in Diamonds, none of her old friends recognize her! A routine trip to the Hatter Mansion ends with Elliot's gun in her face and a trip to...
AuthorMarissa Doyle
ISBN0805096329
From the author of Bewitching Season and Betraying Season comes a brand new regency romance with plenty of intrigue--and magic!

Sophie's entrance into London society isn't what she thought it would be: Mama isn't there to guide her. Papa is buried in his work fighting Napoleon. And worst of...
Eye of the Moon
AuthorDianne Hofmeyr
ISBN1416910670
*no spoilers were harmed in the making of this review*

"I hope my story will soon enough be carved in stone so the truth will be known to all" ~Isikara

Hey guys, so I finished Eye of the Moon by Dianne Hofmeyr. I will be honest with you, really the only thing that I liked about this novel was...
AuthorGarth Nix
ISBN0062360043
On her eighteenth birthday, Lady Truthful, nicknamed “Newt,” will inherit her family’s treasure: the Newington Emerald. A dazzling heart-shaped gem, the Emerald also bestows its wearer with magical powers.

When the Emerald disappears one stormy night, Newt sets off to recover...
AuthorMary Robinette Kowal
ISBN0765378361
The final book of the acclaimed Glamourist Histories is the magical adventure that might result if Jane Austen walked on the darker side of the Regency...

Jane and Vincent have finally gotten some much-needed rest after their adventures in Italy when Vincent receives word that his estranged...
AuthorUrsula Jones
ISBN1846160421
A bedraggled Princess wanders around looking for her kingdom but can't find it. In the meantime, she delivers packages. (view spoiler)[A king and a variety of other leading nobility fall in love with her at a ball and have a food fight among themselves, so she marries a jester. Tres modern. (hide spoiler)].
The Time-Traveling Fashionista and Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile
AuthorBianca Turetsky
Walk, talk, and dress like an Egyptian.
When Louise Lambert tries on a lavender Grecian gown during a visit to the mysterious Traveling Fashionista Vintage Sale, she feels a familiar tug and falls back in time, arriving at the dusty base of an enormous pyramid. She has landed in ancient Egypt...or...
Hammer of Witches
AuthorShana Mlawski
ISBN1600609872
Baltasar Infante, a bookmaker’s apprentice living in 1492 Spain, can weasel out of any problem with a good story. But when he awakes one night to find a monster straight out of the stories peering at him through his window, he’s in trouble that even he can’t talk his way out of.

Soon Baltasar...
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AuthorKim Curran
ISBN1783450088
The country is at war. Beset by enemies within and without. And all because of the decisions changed by one boy, Scott Tyler. In this ravaged alternative world, Scott hardly recognizes himself. He's a war hero, a leader of a unit of Shifters and maybe the only one who can prevent the country's frail defenses...
Death of a Musketeer
AuthorSarah D'Almeida
ISBN0425212920
I give up.

I somehow made it through Les Larmes du Cardinal suffering nothing worse than tedious boredom. And I even enjoyed myself a bit reading the smutty and slightly offensive Sword & Blood (which was apparently written by the same author as this series?). But this innocuous little...
AuthorKate Elliott
ISBN0316344451
This gorgeous romance from World Fantasy Award finalist Kate Elliott is a prequel to Court of Fives, the epic story of Jessamy and her struggle to do what she loves in a society suffocated by rules of class and privilege.

Kiya is a Commoner who has just arrived in the bustling city of Saryenia....
AuthorSherwood Smith
Together for the first time, two stories about Meliara and Vidanric's oldest children: "Beauty" in which Princess Elestra (the plain one) goes to look at a tree, and discovers a handsome villain, and "Court Ship" in which Prince Alaraec and his friend Nadav, heir to Savona, go to court a princess, but...
Crystal Fire
AuthorJordan Dane
ISBN0373210930
Because of what you are, the Believers will hunt you down.

A storm is brewing on the streets of LA, one that has intensified since a tragic and deadly confrontation claimed an innocent life.

While Gabriel Stewart trains his army of teen psychics to stop Alexander Reese--the obsessed...
Cat's Tale: A Fairy Tale Retold
AuthorBettie Sharpe
Once upon a time there was a scheming, lying tart who cared for nothing but her own pleasures and her shoe collection. Once the peerlessly beautiful Lady Catriona, consort to the king, Cat's fortunes fall far when her aged husband dies. The king's wizard turns her into a cat and tries to drown her in the...
Putting the Science in Fiction: Expert Advice for Writing with Authenticity in Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Other Genres
AuthorDan Koboldt
ISBN1440353387
Science and technology have starring roles in a wide range of genres--science fiction, fantasy, thriller, mystery, and more. Unfortunately, many depictions of technical subjects in literature, film, and television are pure fiction. A basic understanding of biology, physics, engineering, and...
Love Charms and Other Catastrophes
AuthorKimberly Karalius
ISBN1250084040
Sometimes love comes gift-wrapped…literally.

Aspiring love-charm maker Hijiri Kitamura was excited to come back to Grimbaud for her sophomore year—until she learned about the upcoming charm-making competition. She, along with her friends and fellow rebels, had worked too hard...
Queen of Ashes
AuthorEleanor Herman
Power, betrayal and desire… It's a dangerous gambit in Queen of Ashes, an ebook companion to the Blood of Gods and Royals series by New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Herman!

If you look away from her face, you will die.

This is the warning given to the suitors of Queen Laila...
Macbeth #killingit
AuthorCourtney Carbone
ISBN0553538802
Macbeth, one of the greatest stories ever told . . . in texts?!
 
Imagine: What if that tragic couple, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, had smartphones? A classic is reborn in this fun and funny adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays!
 
A prophecy from three witches.
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AuthorChristopher Healy
The League of Princes returns in the hilariously epic conclusion to the hit series that began with Christopher Healy's The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom, which the Los Angeles Times called "one of the more clever, hilariously successful incarnations of the current literary rage to rip apart...
AuthorF.T. Bradley
ISBN0062104438
In the third installment of F. T. Bradley’s madcap spy series, troublemaker Linc Baker must infiltrate the set of a Hollywood blockbuster in order to thwart a plan for worldwide destruction.

Linc thought his undercover junior-spy days were behind him, with tons of boring studying ahead...
AuthorWilliam Joyce
ISBN1442473487
Where’s my homework? Who took my other sock? What’s that in my belly button? The creators of the #1 New York Times bestselling and Academy Award–winning The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore have found the answers to these and other life mysteries…and no, it’s not your fault!

Strange...
The Night Has Teeth
AuthorKat Kruger
Geeky loner Connor Lewis arrives in Paris on a scholarship for his last year of high school.

It seems everyone he meets in the city has secrets — the military brats who befriend him on the first day of class, the young tattoo artist and her menacing dog who make up his host family, and an enigmatic...
AuthorAndré Maurois
ISBN1903252075
Can I describe this as a geopolitical children’s book with an eventual message of peace and reconciliation?

The idea is that two squabbling brothers, one fat and one thin, discover an underground world divided into two states, that of the plump Fattypuffs and that of the scrawny Thinifers....
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