Jinian Star-Eye
9 best books like Jinian Star-Eye (Sheri S. Tepper): The Ruby in the Smoke, The Tiger in the Well, Metallic Love, The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777, An Unkindness of Magicians, Son of a Trickster, Light Thickens, Trickster Drift, Black As He's Painted
Author | Philip Pullman |
ISBN | 0394895894 |
Sally is sixteen and uncommonly pretty. Her knowledge of English literature, French, history, art and music is non-existent, but she has a thorough grounding in military tactics, can run a business, ride like a Cossack and shoot straight with a pistol.
When her dear father is drowned in suspicious...
Author | Philip Pullman |
ISBN | 0679826718 |
Pullman is fast becoming a modern-day Dickens for young adults. The setting is the same, the strong eye for characters is there, as are the brooding atmosphere, the social conscience, and the ability to spin plot within plot.
Sally Lockhart is now a young woman, left alone with a toddler. Nothing...
Author | Tanith Lee |
ISBN | 0553584715 |
In her now-classic tale The Silver Metal Lover, award-winning author Tanith Lee told the spellbinding story of Jane and her forbidden love for a robot named Silver. In this stunning follow-up, the legend of their tragic romance lives on. But nothing is as it was–or as it seems.…
As an orphan...
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
Author | Rick Atkinson |
ISBN | 1627790438 |
In the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental...
An Unkindness of Magicians
Author | Kat Howard |
ISBN | 1481451219 |
There is a dark secret that is hiding at the heart of New York City and diminishing the city’s magicians’ power in this fantasy thriller by acclaimed author Kat Howard.
In New York City, magic controls everything. But the power of magic is fading. No one knows what is happening, except for...
Author | Eden Robinson |
ISBN | 0345810783 |
With striking originality and precision, Eden Robinson, the Giller-shortlisted author of the classic Monkey Beach and winner of the Writers Trust Engel/Findley Award, blends humour with heartbreak in this compelling coming-of-age novel. Everyday teen existence meets indigenous beliefs, crazy...
Author | Ngaio Marsh |
ISBN | 0312973144 |
"Is this a dagger which I see before me..."
Four murders. Three witches. A fiendish lady. A homicidal husband. A ghost. No wonder "Macbeth "is considered such bad luck by theatre people that they won't mention its name out loud. But the new London production of "the Scottish play" promises to be a...
Following the Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted Son of a Trickster comes Trickster Drift, the second book in Eden Robinson's captivating Trickster trilogy.
In an effort to keep all forms of magic at bay, Jared, 17, has quit drugs and drinking. But his troubles are not over: now he's being...
Author | Ngaio Marsh |
ISBN | 0006512283 |
Portrait of a murder...
Superintendent Roderick Alleyn's old school chum-- whom his wife Troy longs to paint-- is now President of Ng'ombwana, a brand-new African republic. This handsome, charismatic dictator has enemies of every stripe: from ruddy-faced ex-colonists to new rivals,...