King Arthur: Dark Age Warrior and Mythic Hero
10 best books like King Arthur: Dark Age Warrior and Mythic Hero (John Matthews): Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, The Institute, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory, The Blind Assassin, After the Flood, America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today, The Middle Ages, In the Land of Giants: A Journey Through the Dark Ages, Joan of Arc: French Soldier and Saint
Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited
| Author | Aldous Huxley |
| ISBN | 0060776099 |
The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future--of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently...
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
In the traditional folktale of "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind's unconscious. Now Anne Rice's retelling of...
| Author | Stephen King |
| ISBN | 1982110562 |
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window....
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
| Author | Caitlin Doughty |
| ISBN | 0393351904 |
Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty—a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre—took a job at a crematory, turning morbid curiosity into her life’s work. Thrown into a profession of gallows humor and vivid characters (both...
Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. Told in a style that magnificently captures the colloquialisms and clichés of the 1930s and 1940s, The Blind Assassin...
| Author | Kassandra Montag |
| ISBN | 0062889397 |
An inventive and riveting epic saga, After the Flood signals the arrival of an extraordinary new talent.
A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America’s great...
America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
| Author | Pamela S. Nadell |
| ISBN | 0393651231 |
A groundbreaking history of how Jewish women have maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history.
What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? In a gripping historical narrative, Pamela S. Nadell weaves together the stories...
In this single indispensable volume, one of America’s ranking scholars combines a life’s work of research and teaching with the art of lively narration. Both authoriatative and beautifully told, THE MIDDLE AGES is the full story of the thousand years between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance...
In the Land of Giants: A Journey Through the Dark Ages
| Author | Max Adams |
| ISBN | 1681772183 |
A cultural exploration of the Dark Age landscapes of Britain that poses a significant question: Is the modern world simply the realization of our ancient past?
The five centuries between the end of Roman Britain and the death of Alfred the Great have left few voices save a handful of chroniclers,...
Joan of Arc: French Soldier and Saint
| Author | Philip Wolny |
| ISBN | 1680486470 |
Even centuries after her death, Joan of Arc remains both deeply admired and mysterious. This title recounts her rise from obscurity as the daughter of a tenant farmer to military leadership in the French campaigns against the British in the Hundred Years War. It also highlights a strong woman embracing...
From the beginning, the fight was coming. Vega Jane fought her way out of the village where she was born, crossed a wilderness filled with vicious creatures, and raised a ragtag army behind her. But each triumph earned through grit and pain only brought her closer to him.
Necro. A sorcerer whose...
Anne Rice's The Tale of the Body Thief (A Graphic Novel)
| Author | Faye Perozich |
| ISBN | 0970398107 |
Somewhat scary and creepy. If only I didn't have the mental image of Lestat - which Anne Rice did well - as homosexual, this might actually have had a spot in my favorites shelf.
Lestat's experience as a human again cracked me up a bit. He kept whining on and on about how the human body he inhabited...
| Author | Katherine Ramsland |
| ISBN | 0345397398 |
"The meaning of The Vampire Chronicles is still unfolding for me, and is as much connected to God as to the Devil, as much connected to pleasure as to pain. That the books are entertainment seems a given, and for that I'm grateful. That they can be seen as a religious journey is also clear. I am immersed in...
Warriors of the Dark Ages
| Author | Jennifer Laing |
| ISBN | 0750919205 |
Examines the barbarians from Europe and beyond who harassed, eroded and eventually caused the disintegration of the Roman Empire, including the Huns, Mongolian horsemen who swept into Europe to form a short-lived empire from the Urals to the Rhine; the Visigoths, or western Goths, who sacked Rome...
The Haunted House Next Door
| Author | Andrés Miedoso |
| ISBN | 1534410392 |
Meet Desmond Cole! A fearless eight-year-old who runs his own ghost patrol, looking for ghosts, monsters, and mischief makers everywhere. Oh, and he just so happens to be my new best friend…and thank goodness! Because I’m afraid of everything.
Welcome to Kersville, a town with a spooky...
Audible is bringing William Gibson’s uncovered Alien III script to life in audio for the first time, to mark the 40th Anniversary of the birth of the Alien franchise.
Alongside a full cast, Michael Biehn and Lance Henriksen reprise their iconic roles as Corporal Hicks and Bishop from the...
It has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world has moved on, always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian menace. Machinery looted from the abandoned capsules and war-machines has led to technological leaps forward. The Martians are vulnerable to...
The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan
| Author | Laurence Leamer |
| ISBN | 0062458345 |
The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history—the Ku Klux Klan.
On a Friday night in March...
