Looking for the King

7 best books like Looking for the King (David C. Downing): The Shadow of the Bear, The Feral Detective, The Light Princess, Sugar Money, The Liar's Girl, Castaways of the Flying Dutchman, Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream

AuthorRegina Doman
ISBN0981931804
Once upon a time... In New York City, a young, secretive street tough who calls himself, Bear, lands on the doorstep of two teenaged sisters. On the one hand Rose is delighted with his surprising knowledge of literature, poetry, and music; on the other hand Blanche is afraid of his apparent connections...
The Feral Detective
AuthorJonathan Lethem
ISBN0062859080
Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer in the desert outside of Los Angeles. She's on a quest to find her friend's missing daughter, Arabella, and hears that Heist is preternaturally good at finding people who don't want to be found. A loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer,...
The Light Princess
AuthorGeorge MacDonald
ISBN1596440430
The Light Princess is a short story that is warm and humorous, with a surprisingly poignant conclusion. A princess doomed by a witch to lose her “gravity” results in a silly heroine that has neither physical nor spiritual weight. George MacDonald’s masterful teaching on the subject of sacrificial...
Sugar Money
AuthorJane Harris
ISBN0571336922
Martinique, 1765, and brothers Emile and Lucien are charged by their French master, Father Cleophas, with a mission. They must return to Grenada, the island they once called home, and smuggle back the 42 slaves claimed by English invaders at the hospital plantation in Fort Royal. While Lucien, barely...
The Liar's Girl
AuthorCatherine Ryan Howard
ISBN1504782542
Will Hurley was an attractive, charming, and impressive student at Dublin's elite St. John's College-and Ireland's most prolific serial killer. Having stalked his four young victims, he drowned them in the muddy waters of the Grand Canal. Sentenced to life imprisonment when he was just nineteen,...
AuthorBrian Jacques
ISBN0142501182
A boy and dog trapped aboard the Flying Dutchman, are sent off on an eternal journey by an avenging angel, roaming the earth throughout the centuries in search of those in need. Their travels lead them to Chapelvale, a sleepy nineteenth century village whose existence is at stake. Only by discovering...
Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream
AuthorCarson Vaughan
A moving true story of American struggle. Royal, Nebraska, population eighty-one—where the church, high school, and post office each stand abandoned, monuments to a Great Plains town that never flourished. But for nearly twenty years, they had a zoo, seven acres that rose from local peculiarity...
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