Leonardo's Shadow: Or, My Astonishing Life as Leonardo Da Vinci's Servant
8 best books like Leonardo's Shadow: Or, My Astonishing Life as Leonardo Da Vinci's Servant (Christopher Peter Grey): Five Quarters of the Orange, Pope Joan, The Night Diary, The Boy at the Top of the Mountain, The Fate of Mercy Alban, Oranges in No Man's Land, The Waterless Sea, The Ramsay Scallop
Five Quarters of the Orange
| Author | Joanne Harris |
| ISBN | 0060958022 |
The novels of Joanne Harris are a literary feast for the senses. Five Quarters of the Orange represents Harris's most complex and sophisticated work yet - a novel in which darkness and fierce joy come together to create an unforgettable story.
When Framboise Simon returns to a small village...
| Author | Donna Woolfolk Cross |
| ISBN | 0345416260 |
A world-wide bestseller, major motion picture and upcoming "Director's Cut" TV mini-series exclusively for the U.S!
For a thousand years her existence has been denied. She is the legend that will not die–Pope Joan, the ninth-century woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to become...
| Author | Veera Hiranandani |
| ISBN | 0735228515 |
It's 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India. The divide has created much tension between Hindus and Muslims, and hundreds of thousands are killed crossing borders.
Half-Muslim, half-Hindu twelve-year-old Nisha doesn't...
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain
| Author | John Boyne |
| ISBN | 0857534793 |
When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and the Second World War is fast approaching; and this is no ordinary house, for this is the Berghof,...
| Author | Wendy Webb |
| ISBN | 1401341934 |
From award-winning novelist Wendy Webb comes a spine-tingling mystery about family secrets set in a big, old haunted house on Lake Superior.
Grace Alban has spent twenty years away from her childhood home, the stately Alban House, for reasons she would rather forget. But when her mother's...
| Author | Elizabeth Laird |
| ISBN | 0330450271 |
Oranges in No Man's Land brings Elizabeth Laird's emotional and gripping adventure to her next generation of fans. Since her father left Lebanon to find work and her mother tragically died in a shell attack, ten-year-old Ayesha has been living in the bomb-ravaged city of Beirut with her granny and her...
| Author | Kate Constable |
| ISBN | 0439554810 |
The sequel to the critically aclaimed THE SINGER OF ALL SONGS draws readers even deeper into the magical world of Tremaris--and presents a temptation that Calwyn may not be able to overcome...
The second novel in the captivating Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy follows Calwyn and her friends to the...
| Author | Frances Temple |
| ISBN | 0064406016 |
The year is 1299. Fourteen year-old Elenor reluctantly awaits the return of her betrothed -- a man she hardly knows -- from the Crusade. Thomas, broken, and disillusioned from years of fighting, finds the very idea of marriage and lordship overwhelming. So when the village priest sends them on religious...
