Falling Out of Fashion
10 best books like Falling Out of Fashion (Karen Yampolsky): Good Night, Mr. Tom, The Face on the Milk Carton, Storm Born, The Pirate's Daughter, Thorn Queen, Winter's Passage, Beyond the Reflection's Edge, At Risk, Flight #116 Is Down!, Just as Long as We're Together
London is poised on the brink of World War II. Timid, scrawny Willie Beech -- the abused child of a single mother -- is evacuated to the English countryside. At first, he is terrified of everything, of the country sounds and sights, even of Mr. Tom, the gruff, kindly old man who has taken him in. But gradually...
The Face on the Milk Carton
The face on the milk carton looks like an ordinary little girl: hair in tight pigtails, a dress with a narrow white collar, a three-year-old who was kidnapped more than twelve years ago from a shopping mall in New Jersey.
As fifteen-year-old Janie Johnson stares at the milk carton, she feels...
| Author | Richelle Mead |
| ISBN | 1420100963 |
Just typical. No love life to speak of for months, then all at once, every horny creature in the Otherworld wants to get in your pants...
Eugenie Markham is a powerful shaman who does a brisk trade banishing spirits and fey who cross into the mortal world. Mercenary, yes, but a girl's got to eat....
| Author | Margaret Cezair-Thompson |
| ISBN | 1932961402 |
“Back in America, little was known of my life in Jamaica,” wrote Errol Flynn.
In 1946, a storm-wrecked boat carrying Hollywood’s most famous swashbuckler shored up on the coast of Jamaica, and the glamorous world of 1940’s Hollywood converged with that of a small West Indian society....
| Author | Richelle Mead |
| ISBN | 0553819879 |
Eugenie Markham is a shaman for hire. She's paid
to bind and banish creatures from the
Otherworld.
But something happened after her last battle. She became queen of the Thorn Land. With her kingdom in tatters, her love life in chaos, and eager to avoid the prophecy about her firstborn...
| Author | Julie Kagawa |
| ISBN | 1426858329 |
Meghan Chase used to be an ordinary girl..until she discovered that she is really a faery princess. After escaping from the clutches of the deadly Iron fey, Meghan must follow through on her promise to return to the equally dangerous Winter Court with her forbidden love, Prince Ash. But first, Meghan...
Beyond the Reflection's Edge
| Author | Bryan Davis |
| ISBN | 0310715547 |
Sixteen-year-old Nathan Shepherd has a great life traveling where the careers of his father, an investigator, and mother, a renowned violinist, take him ... until his parents are found murdered. Left with only a mirror and notes from his father's last case, Nathan goes into hiding at the remote country...
| Author | Alice Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0425165299 |
Some readers have complained that this book--written about a family coping with an AIDS diagnosis at the height of the AIDS panic of the late 1980s/early 1990s--feels dated. While I recognize that it is no longer the "current events" novel it was originally conceived and written as, I feel that this...
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0590444794 |
The students have been reading this for years. I've long recognized it as a book to pull students into reading. But I'd never taken it off the shelf until yesterday.
It is good! At first I was confused. The author begins by taking the readers into the thoughts and motivations of a lot of characters....
Just as Long as We're Together
| Author | Judy Blume |
| ISBN | 0330398040 |
I'm mad as hell that Goodreads doesn't have the cover of the version that I read, because I liked that cover a LOT. It's the one that has Stephanie, Rachel and Alison in someone's room (Rachel's?) and they are laughing and someone's holding up one of the purple t-shirt that say "FRIENDS" in yellow letters....
Miss Abigail Wright, disillusioned spinster, hides her secret pain behind encouraging smiles and optimistic laughter. Self-pity, she believes, is for the truly wretched. So when her mother insists she attend a house party—uninvited—she determines to simply make the best of it…until an...
| Author | Melody Carlson |
| ISBN | 0310714893 |
The Carter House girls are just getting to know one another when the subject of boys comes up. Rhiannon’s dating Bradford, the most popular jock in school, Eliza’s seeing Harry, and even DJ has dated Conner, although now he acts as if he doesn’t like her. Boys aren’t always easy to understand,...
The Wicked House of Rohan
A fallen woman. A most wicked plan for redemption.
Venice, 1740.
Desperate, starving, Kathleen Strong makes her way to a job interview that promises a chance at proper employment...and maybe a bite to eat. Accused of "gross immorality," she's adrift after being dismissed from her...
| Author | Melody Carlson |
| ISBN | 0310714885 |
When her mom died, DJ had to move in with her grandmother, internationally famous ’60s fashion model Katherine Carter. Now Mrs. Carter’s opened a boarding home for young ladies, and DJ—who would rather wear her basketball team uniform than haute couture—is just sure they’ll all be unbearable...
I picked up this book on spec a couple of years ago and somehow it got shelved before getting read. I am not familiar with this author, but will be adding her books after finishing this review. This one was a British psychological thriller that I found riveting. Suspenseful? Definitely. Intricately plotted?...
| Author | M.E. Rabb |
| ISBN | 1844281132 |
When Sophie shares her late mother's matzo ball soup recipe with the owner of the local diner, she realizes that she's made a slip. But she has no idea just how much trouble it will cause. After adding a few Midwestern touches to the soup, Wilda enters it in a cooking contest and wins first prize! She's going...
| Author | Michele Hauf |
| ISBN | 0373617712 |
Death cocktail is what the vampires call a witch's blood.
It's poisonous--a drop will destroy a vampire within
minutes. Nikolaus Drake is the rare vampire who
has survived his first taste. Now he's on the hunt for
the witch who almost brought him to his demise--
Ravin Crosse.
A...
It is very hard for me to choose between two and three stars for this novel--I rarely enjoy political fiction, and this book is no different in that respect.
Still, at its core, this novel is a murder mystery and the political elements that should support the mystery are more like a side-plot which...
