Haunted
10 best books like Haunted (Barbara Haworth-Attard): Banner of the Damned, Losing Joe's Place, Dancing Through Fire, Fast Speaking Woman: Chants and Essays, The Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs, Forbidden City, Ghosts of the Titanic, Journal infime, The Tiffin, Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen
| Author | Sherwood Smith |
| ISBN | 0756406773 |
Princess Lasva is about to be named heir to her childless sister, the queen. But, when the queen finally bears an heir, Lasva's future is shattered. Grief-stricken, she leaves her country of Colend and falls into the arms of Prince Ivandred of Marloven Hesea. His people are utterly different-with their...
| Author | Gordon Korman |
| ISBN | 0590427695 |
I remember reading this for the first time so clearly. I was probably ten or twelve or thereabouts. I didn't think it was as immediately funny as other Gordon Korman books, but I remember telling my friend that it built to an amazing crescendo, where all its threads came together in a way that made me laugh...
Like the captivating bestseller Girl with a Pearl Earring, this exciting new series explores the stories behind some of the world's most dazzling paintings.
Welcome to 19th-century Paris and the world of Degas's dancers. 13-year-old Sylvie is one of the pupils at the Paris Opera Ballet,...
Fast Speaking Woman: Chants and Essays
| Author | Anne Waldman |
| ISBN | 0872863166 |
Anne Waldman takes the opportunity with this twentieth-anniversary expanded edition to add twenty poems to this collection that brings into focus her lifelong engagement with “Chant” as central to contemporary performative poetry.
Here are spells, invocations, laments, ritual...
The Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs
| Author | Phoebe Gilman |
| ISBN | 0439961866 |
I've been going back to read old picture books from my childhood lately, and The Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs is one such excellent example of Canadian talent and a fun little story about using talent and imagination to build something fun and incredible. Following a little girl whose hobby of making...
| Author | William Bell |
| ISBN | 0440226791 |
Seventeen-year-old Alex Jackson comes home from school to find that his father, a CBC news cameraman, wants to take him to China's capital, Beijing. Once there, Alex finds himself on his own in Tian An Men Square as desperate students fight the Chinese army for their freedom. Separated from...
| Author | Julie Lawson |
| ISBN | 1443100412 |
Where’s Michael?
Has his body been taken by the sea?
What have you done, robber of the dead?
Kevin gagged with fear, his heart pounding in his throat. The girl was close enough for him to see her pale face, her wide, searching eyes. She was blaming him. Her arms reached out towards him....
| Author | Julien Neel |
| ISBN | 2723442756 |
Lou est une petite fille qui ne connaît pas son papa, qui vit seule avec sa maman et le petit chat qu'elles ont adopté. Toutes les deux ont une grande complicité, elles jouent à la console, dînent dans des pizzerias... Lou est amoureuse de son voisin d'en face mais, bien sûr, n'ose pas lui avouer......
| Author | Mahtab Narsimhan |
| ISBN | 1770860398 |
The "dabbawallas" of Mumbai deliver box lunches called "tiffins" to white collar workers all over the vast city. They are legendary for their near-perfect service: for every six million lunches sent, only one will fail to reach its intended destination. "The Tiffin" is about that one time in millions...
Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen
| Author | Marjorie M. Liu |
| ISBN | 1534313362 |
Maika and Corvin make their way through a warped and lethal land in search of Kippa, who is faced with her own terrible monsters. But when Maika comes face-to-face with a stranger from her deep past, startling truths are uncovered, and at the center of it all lurks a dangerous conspiracy that threatens...
How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People
| Author | D.L. Hughley |
| ISBN | 0062698567 |
3 hours, 45 minutes
A cutting satire of race relations in the age of Trump and Black Lives Matter from the hugely popular comedian—one of "The Original Kings of Comedy"—and author of the New York Times bestseller Black Man, White House.
"White people are always giving out ‘helpful’...
