Daughter of Hounds
10 best books like Daughter of Hounds (Caitlín R. Kiernan): Storm Glass, War for the Oaks, iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business, The Secret of Chimneys, Alchemy and Meggy Swann, A World Out of Time, The Affair of the Porcelain Dog, Swords and Deviltry, Dreams Underfoot, Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot
| Author | Maria V. Snyder |
| ISBN | 0778325644 |
Award-winning author Maria V. Snyder brings readers into a world of molten magic, where storms can be captured within a glass orb and a magician's powers can remain hidden…until challenged by enemy forces.
As a glassmaker and a magician-in-training, Opal Cowan understands trial by...
| Author | Emma Bull |
| ISBN | 0765349159 |
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...
iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
| Author | Jeffrey S. Young |
| ISBN | 0471787841 |
iCon takes a look at the most astounding figure in a business era noted for its mavericks, oddballs, and iconoclasts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Jeffrey Young and William Simon provide new perspectives on the legendary creation of Apple, detail Jobs’s meteoric rise, and the devastating...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0007122586 |
A young drifter finds more than he bargained for when he agrees to deliver a parcel to an English country house…
Little did Anthony Cade suspect that a simple errand on behalf of a friend would make him the centrepiece of a murderous international conspiracy. Someone would stop at nothing...
| Author | Karen Cushman |
| ISBN | 0547231849 |
Fans of Karen Cushman's witty, satisfying novels will welcome Meggy Swann,newly come to London with her only friend, a goose named Louise. Meggy's mother was glad to be rid of her; her father, who sent for her, doesn't want her after all. Meggy is appalled by London,dirty and noisy, full of rogues and...
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0345336968 |
Jaybee Corbell awoke after more than 200 years as a corpsicle -- in someone else's body, and under sentence of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars.
But Corbell picked his time and made his own move. Once he was outbound, where...
| Author | Jess Faraday |
| ISBN | 1602822301 |
London, 1889. For Ira Adler, former rent-boy and present plaything of crime lord Cain Goddard, stealing back the statue from Goddard's blackmailer should have been a doddle. But inside the statue is evidence that could put Goddard away for a long time under the sodomy laws, and everyone's after it,...
| Author | Fritz Leiber |
| ISBN | 1595820795 |
For the first time-the story of how the greatest heroes in fantastic literature first met.
'The two thieves had themselves been robbed by two youths, who eyed each other suspiciously over the sprawled, senseless bodies.
Fafhrd said: 'Our motives for being here seem identical.'...
| Author | Charles de Lint |
| ISBN | 0765306794 |
Welcome to Newford…
Welcome to the music clubs, the waterfront, the alleyways where ancient myths and magic spill into the modern world. Come meet Jilly, painting wonders in the rough city streets; and Geordie, playing fiddle while he dreams of a ghost; and the Angel of Grasso Street gathering...
| Author | Janet Asimov |
| ISBN | 0802764959 |
I've noticed a trend that I find somewhat alarming. Sometimes, when people write books for young audiences, they ignore the usual rules of good fiction writing - including quality characterization, continuity, solid narrative through-lines, raising the stakes, etc. Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot...
Batman and Robin, Volume 1: Born to Kill
| Author | Peter J. Tomasi |
| ISBN | 1401234879 |
As a part of the acclaimed DC Comics--The New 52 event of September 2011, Batman begins battling evil with his son, Damian, at his side, Batman now realizes that the hardest part of the job may be trying to work together.
As Batman and Robin try to adjust to their new partnership, a figure emerges from...
| Author | Michael Sims |
| ISBN | 0143105663 |
Take a trip back to a time when criminals armed themselves with wit rather than with guns, and the pinnacle of crime-fighting technology was represented by Sherlock Holmes's magnifying glass. Edited by award-winning author and editor Michael Sims, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime presents, for...
| Author | Gregory Benford |
| ISBN | 0061056383 |
Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. It is the monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline, and the secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the inevitable Dark Age with the science of psychohistory. Now, with the permission -- and blessing...
| Author | Parke Godwin |
| ISBN | 0385246358 |
Imagine if "Job" by Heinlein was written from the immortals' perspectives.
Good, yes? Now keep that image in mind. Hold it firm and tight, and you won't have to read this book, as likely what's in your head is better than what's on the page.
It's not bad, exactly. It's an interesting look...
| Author | Justine Musk |
| ISBN | 0451460529 |
In downtown Manhattan, a rising young painter is haunted by disturbing dreams...In small-town Minnesota, a teenage orphan struggles with a knowledge beyond his years-and a destiny he wants no part of...In California, young and old, hipsters and hippies, fall under the spell of a wildly charismatic...
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
| Author | Robert M. Gates |
| ISBN | 0307959473 |
From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vividly written account of his experience serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Before Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House in 2006, he thought he’d left Washington...
The True Meaning of Smekday
| Author | Adam Rex |
| ISBN | 0786849002 |
It all starts with a school essay.
When twelve-year-old Gratuity (“Tip”) Tucci is assigned to write five pages on “The True Meaning of Smekday” for the National Time Capsule contest, she’s not sure where to begin. When her mom started telling everyone about the messages aliens...
