Freedom and Necessity

10 best books like Freedom and Necessity (Steven Brust): Clockwork Boys, The Wonder Engine, Descender, Vol. 2: Machine Moon, Fire and Hemlock, Master and Commander, A Little Light Mischief, A Scholar of Magics, Hither, Page, Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure, Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Vol. 1

Clockwork Boys
AuthorT. Kingfisher
A paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar ride out of town. It’s not the start of a joke, but rather an espionage mission with deadly serious stakes. T. Kingfisher’s new novel begins the tale of a murderous band of criminals (and a scholar), thrown together in an attempt to unravel the secret...
The Wonder Engine
AuthorT. Kingfisher
Pull three people out of prison--a disgraced paladin, a convicted forger, and a heartless assassin. Give them weapons, carnivorous tattoos, and each other. Point them at the enemy.

What could possibly go wrong?

In the sequel to CLOCKWORK BOYS, Slate, Brenner, Caliban and Learned...
Descender, Vol. 2: Machine Moon
AuthorJeff Lemire
ISBN1632156768
I was so happy to pick this up in my local comic shop and I knew I would love it as I did with the first one. This one I felt was even better with not only artwork that's stunning but also a beautifully developing story line which is really starting to make a bit more sense now. I love the emotional connection we...
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0060298855
Polly has two sets of memories...

One is normal: school, home, friends. The other, stranger memories begin nine years ago, when she was ten and gate-crashed an odd funeral in the mansion near her grandmother's house. Polly's just beginning to recall the sometimes marvelous, sometimes frightening...
Master and Commander
AuthorPatrick O'Brian
ISBN0393307050
As the Royal Navy takes part in the wars against Napoleonic France, young Jack Aubrey receives his first command, the small, old, and slow HMS Sophie. Accompanied by his eccentric new friend, the physician and naturalist Stephen Maturin, Aubrey does battle with the naval hierarchy, with his own tendency...
A Little Light Mischief
AuthorCat Sebastian
ISBN0062951033
A seductive thief

Lady’s maid Molly Wilkins is done with thieving—and cheating and stabbing and all the rest of it. She’s determined to keep her hands to herself, so she really shouldn’t be tempted to seduce her employer’s prim and proper companion, Alice. But how can she resist...
AuthorCaroline Stevermer
ISBN0765353466
Glasscastle University--on the surface, one of the most peaceful places in England. But underneath, its magic is ancient and dangerous…
American Samuel Lambert, sharpshooter, adventurer, late of the Wyoming plains and Kiowa Bob's Wild West Show, has been invited to Glasscastle University...
Hither, Page
AuthorCat Sebastian
A jaded spy and a shell shocked country doctor team up to solve a murder in postwar England.

James Sommers returned from the war with his nerves in tatters. All he wants is to retreat to the quiet village of his childhood and enjoy the boring, predictable life of a country doctor. The last thing...
Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure
AuthorCourtney Milan
Mrs. Bertrice Martin—a widow, some seventy-three years young—has kept her youthful-ish appearance with the most powerful of home remedies: daily doses of spite, regular baths in man-tears, and refusing to give so much as a single damn about her Terrible Nephew.

Then proper, correct...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Vol. 1
AuthorAkiko Higashimura
"I spent all my time wondering 'what if,' then one day I woke up and I was 33." She's not that bad-looking, but before she knew it, Rinko was thirty-something and single. She wants to be married by the time the Tokyo Olympics roll around in six years, but...that might be easier said than done! The new series...
The Rat-Catcher's Daughter
AuthorK.J. Charles
Music-hall singer Miss Christiana is in serious debt, and serious trouble. She owes more than she can pay to a notorious criminal, and now he plans to make an example of her. There's no way out.

But Christiana has an admirer. Stan Kamarzyn has watched her sing for a year and he doesn't want to see...
A Morte de Stálin
AuthorFabien Nury
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