Lest Darkness Fall/To Bring the Light
10 best books like Lest Darkness Fall/To Bring the Light (L. Sprague de Camp): The Anubis Gates, The Orphans of Raspay, Penric's Demon, Rose Red & Snow White: A Grimms Fairy Tale, Penric’s Mission, Robin Hood, It Ain't So Awful, Falafel, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History, Time on My Hands
Author | Tim Powers |
ISBN | 0441004016 |
Brendan Doyle, a specialist in the work of the early-nineteenth century poet William Ashbless, reluctantly accepts an invitation from a millionaire to act as a guide to time-travelling tourists. But while attending a lecture given by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1810, he becomes marooned in Regency...
Author | Lois McMaster Bujold |
When the ship in which they are traveling is captured by Carpagamon island raiders, Temple sorcerer Penric and his resident demon Desdemona find their life complicated by two young orphans, Lencia and Seuka Corva, far from home and searching for their missing father. Pen and Des will need all their...
Author | Lois McMaster Bujold |
On his way to his betrothal, young Lord Penric comes upon a riding accident with an elderly lady on the ground, her maidservant and guardsmen distraught. As he approaches to help, he discovers that the lady is a Temple divine, servant to the five gods of this world. Her avowed god is The Bastard, "master...
Author | Ruth Sanderson |
ISBN | 0316770949 |
След предните книги на Рут Сандерсън, които сме имали изключителното удоволствие да отразим, за нас не е никаква изненада, че и новата й книга не им отстъпва...
Author | Lois McMaster Bujold |
In his thirtieth year, Penric fell in love with light…
Learned Penric, a sorcerer and divine of the Bastard’s Order, travels across the sea to sunlit Cedonia on his first covert diplomatic mission, to attempt to secure the services of a disaffected Cedonian general for the Duke of Adria....
Author | Louis Rhead |
ISBN | 0517671298 |
A comprehensive, well-researched, clearly written and beautifully illustrated collection of the original Robin Hood tales. Rhead sticks very close to the canonical ballads- perhaps too close, resulting in a few too many tales that follow the eventually tedious pattern of Robin meeting someone,...
It Ain't So Awful, Falafel
Author | Firoozeh Dumas |
ISBN | 0544612310 |
Zomorod (Cindy) Yousefzadeh is the new kid on the block . . . for the fourth time. California’s Newport Beach is her family’s latest perch, and she’s determined to shuck her brainy loner persona and start afresh with a new Brady Bunch name—Cindy. It’s the late 1970s, and fitting in becomes...
Author | Joan Powers |
ISBN | 0525453660 |
NB: The copyright page states that the book is written by Joan Powers, the cover that A.A. Milne provided the inspiration.
Pooh, the Bear of Little Brain, has a perspective on things that is, to say the least, unique. This amusing little book offers suggestions and reminders on how to live a good...
Author | Gardner Dozois |
ISBN | 0345421949 |
Alternate History: The What-If? fiction that has finally come into its own! Shedding light on the past by exploring what could have happened, this bold genre tantalizes your imagination and challenges your perceptions with thrilling reinventions of humanity's most climactic events. Enter worlds...
Author | Peter Delacorte |
ISBN | 0671023241 |
While in Paris, Gabriel Prince, a somewhat jaded but charming writer of high-end travel guides, is offered the chance of a lifetime -- a trip through time. There's only one hitch: the left-wing owner of the time machine, quantum physicist Jasper Hudnut, wants Gabriel to perform an errand. Gabriel must...
Author | Lois McMaster Bujold |
In this NOVELLA set in The World of the Five Gods and four years after the events in “Penric’s Demon”, Penric is a divine of the Bastard’s Order as well as a sorcerer and scholar, living in the palace where the Princess-Archdivine holds court. His scholarly work is interrupted when the Archdivine...
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 | Lois McMaster Bujold |
Some eight months after the events of Penric and the Shaman, Learned Penric, sorcerer and scholar, travels to Easthome, the capital of the Weald. There he again meets his friends Shaman Inglis and Locator Oswyl. When the body of a sorceress is found in the woods, Oswyl draws him into another investigation;...