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10 best books like Daughter of Exile (Isabel Glass): Sunlight and Shadow: A Retelling of The Magic Flute, Rhapsody: Child of Blood, Belle: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Spirited, The Night Dance: A Retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Before Midnight - A Retelling of Cinderella, Beauty Sleep: A Retelling of Sleeping Beauty, Midnight Pearls: A Retelling of The Little Mermaid, The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan, Water Song: A Retelling of The Frog Prince

Sunlight and Shadow: A Retelling of The Magic Flute
AuthorCameron Dokey
ISBN0689869991
A new spin on "The Magic Flute" by an acclaimed author!
In a time when the world was young and many things were quite commonplace that are now entirely forgotten, Sarastro, Mage of the Day, wed Pamina, the Queen of the Night. And in this way was the world complete, for light was joined to dark. For all...
Rhapsody: Child of Blood
AuthorElizabeth Haydon
ISBN0812570812
The brilliant new saga is born ...

Rhapsody is a woman, a Singer of some talent, who is swept up into events of world-shattering import. On the run from an old romantic interest who won't take no for an answer, Rhapsody literally bumps into a couple of shady characters: half-breeds who come to...
Belle: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast
AuthorCameron Dokey
ISBN1416961313
Belle is convinced she has the wrong name, as she lacks her sisters' awe-inspiring beauty. So she withdraws from society, devoting her time to wood carving. Secretly, Belle longs to find the fabled Heartwood Tree. If carved by the right hands, the Heartwood will reveal the face of one's true love.

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Spirited
AuthorNancy Holder
ISBN0689870639
In May 1756 war is formally declared between the British and the French. During this highly dangerous time, Isabella Sevens is travelling with her father to the British stronghold Fort William Henry.
In the forest, Wusamequin, the young and handsome medicine man, looks to avenge the death of his...
The Night Dance: A Retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses
AuthorSuzanne Weyn
ISBN1416905790
Under the stars, in a secret world... Rowena, the youngest of twelve sisters, loves to slip out of the castle at night and dance in a magical forest. Soon she convinces her sisters to join her. When Sir Ethan notices that his daughters' slippers look tattered every morning, he is certain they've been...
Before Midnight - A Retelling of Cinderella
AuthorCameron Dokey
ISBN1416934715
Etienne de Brabant is brokenhearted. His wife has died in childbirth, leaving him alone with an infant daughter he cannot bear to name. But before he abandons her for king and court, he brings a second child to be raised alongside her, a boy whose identity he does not reveal.The girl, La Cendrillon, and...
Beauty Sleep: A Retelling of Sleeping Beauty
AuthorCameron Dokey
ISBN1416940146
"ONCE UPON A TIME"
IS TIMELESS

The Princess Aurore has had an unusual childhood. Cursed at birth, Aurore is fated to prick her finger at the age of sixteen and sleep for one hundred years -- until a prince awakens her with a kiss. So, to protect her, Aurore's loving parents forbid any task requiring...
Midnight Pearls: A Retelling of The Little Mermaid
AuthorDebbie Viguié
ISBN1416940162
"ONCE UPON A TIME"IS TIMELESSIn a quiet fishing village seventeen years ago, one lone fisherman rescued a child from the sea. He and his wife raised the girl, Pearl, as their own daughter, never allowing themselves to wonder long about where she came from — or notice her silver hair, usually pale skin,...
The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan
AuthorCameron Dokey
ISBN1416971688
"Once upon a Time" Is Timeless


Wielding a sword as deftly as an embroidery needle, Mulan is unlike any other girl in China. When the emperor summons a great army, each family must send a male to fight, tom-boyish Mulan is determined to spare her aging father and bring her family honor, so she...
Water Song: A Retelling of The Frog Prince
AuthorSuzanne Weyn
ISBN1416940138
Young, beautiful, and wealthy, Emma Pennington is accustomed to a very comfortable life. Although war rages abroad, she hardly feels its effect. She and her mother travel from their home in Britain to the family estate in Belgium, never imagining that the war could reach them there. But it does. Soon...
Snow: A Retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
AuthorTracy Lynn
ISBN1416940154
"ONCE UPON A TIME"
IS TIMELESS

The Duchess Jessica's childhood began with a tragedy: her mother's death. Her father, heartbroken at the loss of his beloved wife, could not bear to raise the child. Largely ignored, Jessica spent the first eleven years of her life running free on the family...
The Crimson Thread: A Retelling of Rumpelstiltskin
AuthorSuzanne Weyn
ISBN1416959432
"ONCE UPON A TIME" IS TIMELESS

The year is 1880, and Bertie, having just arrived in New York with her family, is grateful to be given work as a seamstress in the home of textile tycoon J. P. Wellington. When the Wellington family fortune is threatened, Bertie's father boasts that Bertie will save...
Golden: A Retelling of Rapunzel
AuthorCameron Dokey
ISBN1416905804
Before Rapunzel's birth, her mother made a dangerous deal with the sorceress Melisande: If she could not love newborn Rapunzel just as she appeared, she would surrender the child to Melisande. When Rapunzel was born completely bald and without hope of ever growing hair, her horrified mother sent her...
The Rose Bride: A Retelling of The White Bride and the Black Bride
AuthorNancy Holder
ISBN1416935355
"ONCE UPON A TIME" IS TIMELESS

When Rose's mother dies, her only comfort is the exquisite rose garden her mother left behind. The purple blossoms serve as an assurance of her mother's love. But Rose is dealt a second blow when her father dies and his greedy widow, Ombrine, and her daughter, Desirée,...
The Diamond Secret: A Retelling of Anastasia
AuthorSuzanne Weyn
ISBN1416975306
Nadya is a mischievous kitchen girl in a Russian tavern. Having nearly drowned in the Iset River during the turmoil of the Revolution, she has no memory of her past and longs for the life she cannot remember. Then two young men arrive at the tavern and announce that Nadya's long-lost grandmother has sent...
Winter's Child: A Retelling of The Snow Queen
AuthorCameron Dokey
ISBN1416975608
"Once Upon a Time" is Timeless

Free-spirited Grace and serious Kai are the best of friends. They grew up together listening to magical tales spun by Kai's grandmother and sharing in each other's secrets. But when they turn sixteen and Kai declares his love for Grace, everything changes. Grace...
Violet Eyes: A Retelling of The Princess and the Pea
AuthorDebbie Viguié
ISBN1416986766
"ONCE UPON A TIME" IS TIMELESS

When a storm brings the dashing Prince Richard to her family's farm, Violet falls in love at first sight. Richard also gives Violet his heart, but he knows his marriage is destined to be an affair of state, not of passion. For the king and queen have devised a contest...
Poirot Investigates
AuthorAgatha Christie
ISBN0007120702
The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings…

First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond… then came the ‘suicide’ that was murder… the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat… a suspicious death in a locked gun-room…...
Not a Drop to Drink
AuthorMindy McGinnis
ISBN0062198505
Regret was for people with nothing to defend, people who had no water.

Lynn knows every threat to her pond: drought, a snowless winter, coyotes, and, most importantly, people looking for a drink. She makes sure anyone who comes near the pond leaves thirsty, or doesn't leave at all.

Confident...
Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists
AuthorJ.K. Rowling
ISBN1781106290
'No Muggle Prime Minister has ever set foot in the Ministry of Magic, for reasons most succinctly summed up by ex-Minister Dugald McPhail (term of office 1858-1865): “their puir wee braines couldnae cope wi’ it.”’ – J.K. Rowling

Pottermore Presents is a collection of J.K. Rowling’s...
Ember and Ash (Castings, #4)
AuthorPamela Freeman
ISBN0316053759
The old ones will have their revenge.

Two peoples have been fighting over the same land for a thousand years. Invaders crushed the original inhabitants, and ancient powers have reluctantly given way to newer magics. But Ember was to change all this with a wedding to bind these warring people...
Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
AuthorBarbara Ehrenreich
ISBN1478961260
Bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.

A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe, Natural Causes describes how we over-prepare...
Blood Heritage
AuthorSheri S. Tepper
ISBN0812526236
I found this novel, the first of Tepper's I've come across that I would classify as horror or dark fantasy, a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, I liked the focus on female characters, especially Molly the farmer's wife who turns out to be a lot more, and also the eccentric Professor with his dogs named after...
The Greatest Adventures of Sherlock Homes
AuthorArthur Conan Doyle
ISBN1435144570
Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective in all fiction, and his adventures are among the finest crime capers committed to the printed page. In tale after tale of his exploits, Holmes applies his unique powers of deduction to bringing some of the most ingenious crooks, criminals, rogues, and rascals...
The Last Days of New Paris
AuthorChina Miéville
"Beauty will be convulsive...."

It's 1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer - and occult disciple - Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including surrealist theorist André Breton. In the strange games of the dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries,...
A Different Class of Murder: Revised and updated
AuthorLaura Thompson
On 7 November 1974, a nanny named Sandra Rivett was bludgeoned to death in a Belgravia basement. A second woman, Veronica, Countess of Lucan, was also attacked. The man named in court as perpetrator of these crimes, Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, disappeared in the early hours of the following...
Quantico
AuthorGreg Bear
ISBN1593154453
It’s the second decade of the twenty-first century, and terrorism has escalated almost beyond control. New weapons are being spawned in remote basement labs, and no one feels safe. In North America, the FBI uses cutting-edge technology to thwart domestic terrorists. The War on Terror has reached...
Growing Season
AuthorMelanie Lageschulte
Enjoy the first novel in a heartwarming rural fiction series! Melinda Foster is already at a turning point when the "for rent" sign beckons her down a dusty gravel road. Facing forty and downsized from her copywriting job at a Twin Cities ad agency, Melinda is struggling to find her way forward when a phone...
Rescue his Heart (Love in the Mountains Book 3)
AuthorSuzanne Cass
When Molly is asked to guide Nathaniel on a day-ride into the Snowy Mountains, he reveals a secret tragedy that will bring them closer together. But neither of them expect to be caught up in a desperate search and rescue attempt for a missing girl.

Country girl, Molly has a dream. She’s working...
Robin Williams: When the Laughter Stops 1951 - 2014
AuthorEmily Herbert
ISBN1784183008
A thoughtful look at the brilliant life and tragic death of a comedy icon

At midday on August 11, 2014, much-loved comedian Robin Williams was pronounced dead at his California home. From Mrs. Doubtfire, Jumanji, and Aladdin to Good Will Hunting and Dead Poets Society, Robin Williams brought...
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