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10 best books like Gift of the Unmage (Alma Alexander): A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers, City of Fire, That Game We Played During the War, Metaplanetary, Aria of the Sea, Doctor Who: The Holy Terror, Doctor Who: Whispers of Terror, Doctor Who: The Apocalypse Element, Doctor Who: The One Doctor, Doctor Who: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor

A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers
AuthorAlyssa Wong
The day my sister ended the world, the sky opened up in rain for the first time in years, flooding the desert wash behind our house. The snakes drowned in their holes and the javelinas stampeded downstream, but the water overtook them, and the air filled with their screaming as they were swept away.

this...
City of Fire
AuthorLaurence Yep
ISBN0765319241
Two-time Newbery Honor Award-winning author Laurence Yep kicks off an action-packed new fantasy trilogy

Sure to appeal to fans of Rick Riordan and Eoin Colfer, this action-packed tale takes readers on an unforgettable journey through an alternate version of our world in 1941—a world...
That Game We Played During the War
AuthorCarrie Vaughn
ISBN0765389355
The people of Gaant are telepaths. The people of Enith are not. The two countries have been at war for decades, but now peace has fallen, and Calla of Enith seeks to renew an unlikely friendship with Gaantish officer Valk over an even more unlikely game of chess, in Carrie Vaughn's novella That Game We Played...
Metaplanetary
AuthorTony Daniel
ISBN0061020257
The human race has extended itself into the far reaches of our solar system -- and, in doing so, has developed into something remarkable. The inner system of the Met -- with its worlds connected by a vast living network of cables -- is supported by the repression and enslavement of humanity's progeny,...
Aria of the Sea
AuthorDia Calhoun
ISBN0374404542
On the island of Normost, in the kingdom of Windward, 13-year-old Cerinthe Gale is a folk healer who dreams of being a dancer. When her mother falls ill, Cerinthe fights to save her -- but fails. She blames herself for her mother's death, gives up healing, and decides to pursue dance. Cerinthe travels...
Doctor Who: The Holy Terror
AuthorRobert Shearman
ISBN1903654106
The TARDIS lands in a forbidding castle in a time of religious upheaval. The old god has been overthrown, and all heretics are to be slaughtered. Obviously it isn't the sort of thing which would happen there every day - just every few years or so.

And when the Doctor and Frobisher are hailed as messengers...
Doctor Who: Whispers of Terror
AuthorJustin Richards
ISBN1844350681
The Doctor and Peri find themselves in the Museum of Aural Antiquities, where every sound is stored for posterity - from the speeches of Visteen Krane to security service wire taps and interrrogation tapes. But they also find an intruder, mysteriously changed recordings, and a dead body.

Before...
Doctor Who: The Apocalypse Element
AuthorStephen Cole
ISBN1903654017
When the planet Archetryx is threatened by a Dalek assault squad, the Doctor and Evelyn become embroiled in an ever-deepening mystery. What has become of President Romana, missing for twenty years? What lurks in the vast gravity wells of Archetryx? What is the secret of the ancient element the Daleks...
Doctor Who: The One Doctor
AuthorGareth Roberts
ISBN1903654564
When the evil Skelloids launch an attack upon the seventeen worlds of the Generios system, its peace-loving inhabitants face total destruction.

So it's fortunate that the famous traveller in time and space known only as the Doctor is in the area, and doubly lucky that, with the help of his pretty...
Doctor Who: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
AuthorNicholas Pegg
ISBN1844350711
In a desolate Cornish landscape littered with relics of prehistoric man, the Doctor and Evelyn uncover a catalogue of mysteries.

What is the secret of the fogou? Can the moor be haunted by a demonic host of imps? And what is Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart doing in Pengriffen?

Teaming...
Doctor Who: The Fearmonger
AuthorJonathan Blum
ISBN1844350444
         
One would-be assassin is in a mental ward. Another's on the run. Their intended victim is stirring up the mobs. Terrorists are planning a strike of their own. A talk-radio host is loving every minute of it. A Whitehall insider whispers about a mysterious UN operative, with a hidden agenda....
Doctor Who: Colditz
AuthorSteve Lyons
ISBN1903654475
October 1944: As World War II draws towards its conclusion, a Nazi defeat begins to seem almost inevitable. But that might be about to change...

Two intruders are captured in the grounds of Colditz Castle, the most secure POW camp in Germany. At first, the guards think they're dealing with British...
Doctor Who: The Shadow of the Scourge
AuthorPaul Cornell
ISBN1903654203
The Pinehill Crest Hotel in Kent is host to three very different events: a cross-stich convention, an experiment in time travel and... the summoning of the scourge.

The Doctor, Bernice and Ace find themselves dealing with a dead body that's come back to life, a mystical symbol that possesses...
Doctor Who: The Genocide Machine
AuthorMike Tucker
Attempting to return some overdue library books at the giant library on Kar-Charrat. The Doctor and Ace soon learn that the Daleks have been awaiting he’s arrival.
They plan to use the Time Lord to penetrate the time-sensitive defences of the building.

This is Big Finish’s first Dalek...
Doctor Who: Phantasmagoria
AuthorMark Gatiss
ISBN1903654092
The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Turlough to the London of 1702 where a mysterious highwayman roams the streets, a local occultist has made contact with the dead and gentlemen of fashion are disappearing, only to find themselves in a chamber whose walls weep blood...

The time-travellers become...
The Art of Space Travel
AuthorNina Allan
ISBN0765390655
The Art of Space Travel by Nina Allan is a science fiction novelette. In 2047, a first manned mission to Mars ended in tragedy. Thirty years later, a second expedition is preparing to launch. As housekeeper of the hotel where two of the astronauts will give their final press statements, Emily finds the...
Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo, Volume 2
AuthorMatsuri Akino
ISBN1427807108
The bestselling pet shop of horrors returns--in Tokyo

Kabukicho, Japan--a district where drifters gather and everything is obtainable. In the heart of Kabukicho, lays Neo Chinatown, an elaborate recreation of old Shanghai. Here, you can find all manner of goods from China, including food,...
Doctor Who: Storm Warning
AuthorAlan Barnes
October, 1930. His Majesty's Airship, the R101, sets off on her maiden voyage to the farthest-flung reaches of the British Empire, carrying the brightest lights of the Imperial fleet. Carrying the hopes and dreams of a breathless nation.

Not to mention a ruthless spy with a top-secret mission,...
The Princess of Trelian
AuthorMichelle Knudsen
Part of Michelle Knudsen's exciting fantasy trilogy -- in a luminous paperback edition

Meg will soon be named the princess-heir of Trelian, but her connection to her dragon, Jakl, is making her parents' subjects uneasy. Calen is about to receive his first true mage's mark, but the ceremony...
Piper at the Gate
AuthorMary Stanton
ISBN0671698206
While i liked the characters in this book awhole lot more, i felt alot of it was too easy? not believable? It was like, the story is great, alot of potential, but the author didn't want to take the time to lead you there. Also,at the beginning of the book, I like Piper...alot. But by the end, he loses something,...
Pregnesia
AuthorCarla Cassidy
Pregnant. Alone. And running for her lifeFormer navy SEAL Lucas Washington was an expert at tackling impossible missions. But when a striking - and very pregnant - woman turned up in a car he was repossessing, suddenly he was in over his head. Shaken and bruised, she couldn't remember what had happened...
Doctor Who: Sword of Orion
AuthorNicholas Briggs
ISBN1903654157
The human race is locked in deadly combat with the 'Android Hordes' in the Orion System. Light years from the front line, the Doctor and Charley arrive to sample the dubious delights of a galactic backwater, little suspecting that the consequences of the Orion War might reach them there. But High Command's...
Doctor Who: The Marian Conspiracy
AuthorJacqueline Rayner
ISBN1903654173
Big Finish have produced so many great stories, but it’s the reappraisal of Colin’s Doctor that is easy their most important output.
The introduction of Evelyn Smythe as a companion really does benefit he’s incarnation of The Doctor.

Whilst tracking a nexus point in time, The Doctor...
Atlantis in Peril
AuthorT.A. Barron
The second in the Atlantis trilogy by New York Times bestselling author T. A. Barron

In Atlantis Rising, Promi and Atlanta saved their homeland by transforming it into the magical island of Atlantis. They had hoped that would keep it out of the clutches of the evil spirit warlord Narkazan....
The Glass Maker's Daughter
AuthorV. Briceland
ISBN0738714240
Magic lies at the heart of Cassaforte, medieval city of bewitchments and intrigue. Cassaforte is home to sixteen-year-old Risa Divetri, whose fate is about to be decided by the gods. Risa has led the sheltered life of a nobleman's daughter, but soon she plans to leave home to study the family craft-creating...
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