Leave It to Chance Volume 1: Shaman's Rain
10 best books like Leave It to Chance Volume 1: Shaman's Rain (James Robinson): In an Absent Dream, Anya's Ghost, Friends With Boys, Brain Camp, Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book 1, A Brief History of Seven Killings, The Tea Master and the Detective, The Book of Night Women, The Stepsister Scheme, Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids
This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. As well she should.
When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles...
| Author | Vera Brosgol |
| ISBN | 1596437138 |
Anya could really use a friend. But her new BFF isn't kidding about the "Forever" part.
Of all the things Anya expected to find at the bottom of an old well, a new friend was not one of them. Especially not a new friend who’s been dead for a century.
Falling down a well is bad enough, but...
| Author | Faith Erin Hicks |
| ISBN | 1596435569 |
After years of homeschooling, Maggie is starting high school. It's pretty terrifying.
Maggie's big brothers are there to watch her back, but ever since Mom left it just hasn't been the same.
Besides her brothers, Maggie's never had any real friends before. Lucy and Alistair don't...
| Author | Susan Kim |
| ISBN | 1596433663 |
Neither artistic, dreamy Jenna nor surly, delinquent Lucas expected to find themselves at an invitation-only summer camp that turns problem children into prodigies. And yet, here they both are at Camp Fielding, settling in with all the other losers and misfits who've been shipped off by their parents...
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book 1
| Author | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| ISBN | 1302900536 |
A new era begins for the Black Panther! MacArthur Genius and National Book Award-winning writer T-Nehisi Coates (BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME) takes the helm, confronting T'Challa with a dramatic upheaval in Wakanda that will make leading the African nation tougher than ever before. When a superhuman...
A Brief History of Seven Killings
WINNER OF THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a masterfully written novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s.
On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before...
The Tea Master and the Detective
| Author | Aliette de Bodard |
| ISBN | 1596068647 |
Welcome to the Scattered Pearls Belt, a collection of ring habitats and orbitals ruled by exiled human scholars and powerful families, and held together by living mindships who carry people and freight between the stars. In this fluid society, human and mindship avatars mingle in corridors and in...
| Author | Marlon James |
| ISBN | 1594488576 |
The Book of Night Women is a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and storytelling. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they and she...
| Author | Jim C. Hines |
| ISBN | 0756405327 |
What would happen if an author went back to the darker themes of the original fairy tales for his plots, and then crossed the Disney princesses with "Charlie's Angels?" Hines delivers a new take on what happened to Cinderella and her prince after the wedding. Original.
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Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids
| Author | Daniel Loxton |
| ISBN | 0231153201 |
Throughout our history, humans have been captivated by mythic beasts and legendary creatures. Tales of Bigfoot, the Yeti, and the Loch Ness monster are part of our collective experience. Now comes a book from two dedicated investigators that explores and elucidates the fascinating world of cryptozoology.
Daniel...
| Author | Dave Roman |
| ISBN | 1593620527 |
Agnes Quill is the story of a teenage detective, the haunted city she lives in, the strange cases she solves and the ghosts who help, hinder or just plain annoy her. Set in Legerdemain -- a congested, fog-filled, cobblestone-paved Victorian city built around a cemetery the size of Central Park -- Agnes'...
| Author | Raymond Queneau |
| ISBN | 0811207897 |
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From what point of view should I review the book? Evidently: from all possible points of view.
Snobbish
Needless to say, I am reading the original French edition. I can hardly believe that his delicate linguistic irony would survive translation into English. Quelle...
| Author | Lois McMaster Bujold |
In this sequel novella to “Mira’s Last Dance”, Temple sorcerer Penric and the widow Nikys have reached safety in the duchy of Orbas when a secret letter from a friend brings frightening news: Nikys’s mother has been taken hostage by her brother’s enemies at the Cedonian imperial court, and...
| Author | Peter Carey |
| ISBN | 0571338879 |
Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together with Willie, their lanky navigator, they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the continent, over roads no car will ever quite survive.
A Long Way from Home is Peter Carey's...
| Author | Genevieve Cogman |
| ISBN | 1447256255 |
Librarian-spy Irene is working undercover in an alternative London when her assistant Kai goes missing. She discovers he's been kidnapped by the fae faction and the repercussions could be fatal. Not just for Kai, but for whole worlds.
Kai's dragon heritage means he has powerful allies, but...
