Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary
10 best books like Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary (Pamela Dean): Parnassus on Wheels, Beguilement, Winter Solstice, The Daughter of Time, Night at the Vulcan, Home Remedies, The Hollow, A Natural History of Dragons, The Tropic of Serpents, Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
Parnassus on Wheels
| Author | Christopher Morley |
| ISBN | 1414270658 |
Opening Credits:
It is a glorious morning on a deserted track somewhere in the rural Midwest. Rolling on the lane is a long gypsy-type wagon being pulled by a great big horse. On the open seat up front holding the reins is a cheery man of middle years...
Beguilement
| Author | Lois McMaster Bujold |
| ISBN | 0061139076 |
Troubled young Fawn Bluefield seeks a life beyond her family's farm. Enroute to the city, she encounters a patrol of Lakewalkers. The necromancers armed with human bone knives fight "malices", immortal entities that draw out life, enslaving humans and animals....
Winter Solstice
| Author | Rosamunde Pilcher |
| ISBN | 0340752483 |
The Daughter of Time
| Author | Josephine Tey |
| ISBN | 0684803860 |
For one thing, during the entire novel, Inspector Alan...
Night at the Vulcan
| Author | Ngaio Marsh |
| ISBN | 0312966687 |
From the leading lady's liaison to the harassment of an aging juvenile lead-there's never a dull moment, darling, at the Vulcan Theatre. But vanity and hysterics, suspicion and superstition, brandy and jealousy, are upstaged by a death on opening...
Home Remedies
| Author | Xuan Juliana Wang |
| ISBN | 1984822748 |
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The Hollow
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0007121024 |
A Natural History of Dragons
| Author | Marie Brennan |
| ISBN | 0765331969 |
The Tropic of Serpents
| Author | Marie Brennan |
| ISBN | 0765331977 |
Attentive readers of Lady Trent’s earlier memoir, A Natural History of Dragons, are already familiar with how a bookish and determined young woman named Isabella first set out on the historic...
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
| Author | Paul French |
| ISBN | 0143121006 |
Royal Street
| Author | Suzanne Johnson |
| ISBN | 0765327791 |
The Sittaford Mystery
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0007136846 |
The Moving Finger
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0007120842 |
The Best of Friends
| Author | Susan Mallery |
| ISBN | 1416567186 |
In high school, studious Jayne Scott and wild child Rebecca Worden became unlikely best friends—a tie that endured even after Rebecca...
Please Ignore Vera Dietz
| Author | A.S. King |
| ISBN | 0375865861 |
So when Charlie dies in dark circumstances, Vera knows a lot more than anyone—the kids at school,...
Winner Take All
| Author | Laurie Devore |
| ISBN | 1250082889 |
For Jackson Hart, everyone is a pawn in his own game.
They both have everything to lose.
Nell wants to succeed at everything—school, sports, life. And victory is sweeter when it means beating Jackson Hart, the rich, privileged,...
All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah
| Author | Emily Jenkins |
Acclaimed author Emily Jenkins (A Greyhound, a Groundhog) and Caldecott Award-winning artist Paul O. Zelinsky...
Missing Susan
| Author | Sharyn McCrumb |
| ISBN | 0345483596 |
The unsinkable Elizabeth is on tour of England's most famous murder sites, when Rowan Rover, the group leader, is quietly asked to commit murder. He does, of course, but not without misgivings--not the...
| Author | Jane Robins |
| ISBN | 1848541082 |
| Author | Rose Macaulay |
| ISBN | 0860683400 |
Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
| Author | John Hodgman |
| ISBN | 0525561102 |
After spending most of his twenties pursuing a career as a literary agent, John Hodgman decided to try his own...
One Life, One Incarnation: Beautiful Bones
| Author | Mo Bao Fei Bao |
A Wreath for Rivera
| Author | Ngaio Marsh |
| ISBN | 0312966067 |
When Lord Pastern Bagott takes up with the hot music of Breezy Bellair and his Boys, his disapproving wife Cecile has more than usual to be unhappy about. The band's devastatingly handsome but roguish accordionist, Carlos Rivera, has taken a rather...
The Street of Seven Stars
| Author | Mary Roberts Rinehart |
| ISBN | 1406839310 |
Knitting Without Tears: Basic Techniques and Easy-to-Follow Directions for Garments to Fit All Sizes
| Author | Elizabeth Zimmermann |
| ISBN | 0684135051 |
Do you love to knit -- and hate to purl? Have you ever started a sweater without enough yarn from the same dye lot to finish it? When you cast on, do you end up with a tail of yarn that's maddeningly too long or too short? Elizabeth Zimmermann comes to the rescue with clever solutions to frustrating problems...
Killer Dolphin
| Author | Ngaio Marsh |
| ISBN | 0312970102 |
The once-dilapidated Dolphin Theater, now restored to its former glory, is open again-and all of London is buzzing about its new play, The Glove, inspired by the discovery of a genuine Shakespearean glove. But on one unfortunate...
In a Hotel Garden
| Author | Gabriel Josipovici |
| ISBN | 0811212912 |
- I think you might like this novel, babe.
- Really? It's not as fat as some of the books you've read this year.
- That's one of the reasons I liked it.
- Good. I don't like long novels, unless they're historical fiction.
- Or crime fiction?
-...
Death of a Peer
| Author | Ngaio Marsh |
| ISBN | 0312964277 |
The Lampreys were a charming, eccentric happy-go-lucky family, teetering on the edge of financial ruin. Until the gruesome murder of their uncle-and unpleasant Marquis, who met his untimely death while leaving the Lamprey flat-left them with a fortune....
Casting Fortune
| Author | John M. Ford |
| ISBN | 0812538153 |
"May These Events" is opening for its first (and only) run, and wizard Oten Chitaru is behind the scenes. Chitaru thinks nothing of producing steaming...
Enter a Murderer
| Author | Ngaio Marsh |
| ISBN | 0312966709 |