Magic's Child
10 best books like Magic's Child (Justine Larbalestier): The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Aru Shah and the Song of Death, The First Four Years, The Turning, The War at Ellsmere, The Black Unicorn, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Code Name: Lise. The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy, East of the Mountains, Grail
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
| Author | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN | 0140439269 |
Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is edited with an introduction by David Paroissien in Penguin Classics.
Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age,...
Aru Shah and the Song of Death
Aru is only just getting the hang of this whole Pandava thing when the Otherworld goes into full panic mode. The god of love's bow and arrow have gone missing, and the thief isn't playing Cupid. Instead, they're turning people into heartless fighting-machine zombies. If that weren't bad enough, somehow...
| Author | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| ISBN | 0060885459 |
Laura Ingalls Wilder is beginning life with her new husband, Almanzo, in their own little house. Laura is a young pioneer wife now, and must work hard with Almanzo, farming the land around their home on the South Dakota prairie. Soon their baby daughter, Rose, is born, and the young family must face the...
Does he belong to the land or to the sea?
Readers who loved Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon and Pam Muñoz Ryan's Echo will be transported to the place where the water and land meet in this exquisitely crafted coming-of-age tale about a selkie boy.
Aran has never truly fit...
Juniper is the newest scholarship student at the prestigious Ellsmere Academy. She soon finds herself labeled a "special project," harried by stringent standards, and in the novel position of being someone's nemesis.
Luckily for Jun, she has an ally in the quirky Cassie, who tells her the...
| Author | Terry Brooks |
| ISBN | 1857231082 |
The King of Landover has had his identity stolen by an evil wizard! Everyone believes the wizard to be Ben Holiday, the King, and Ben Holiday appears to them as a stranger. He is cast out of his castle by his friends. Thus begins a journey searching for the woman, Willow, who in turn is on a journey looking...
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
| Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
| ISBN | 1450562795 |
”One night I had a frightful dream in which I met my grandmother under the sea. She lived in a phosphorescent palace of many terraces, with gardens of strange leprous corals and grotesque brachiate efflorescences, and welcomed me with a warmth that may have been sardonic. She had changed--as those...
Code Name: Lise. The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
| Author | Larry Loftis |
| ISBN | 1501198653 |
The true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
The year is 1942, and World War II is in full swing. Odette Sansom decides to follow in her war hero father’s footsteps by becoming an SOE agent to aid Britain and her beloved homeland, France. Five failed attempts and...
| Author | David Guterson |
| ISBN | 1400032652 |
From the author of Snow Falling on Cedars comes this bestselling novel about a dying man’s final journey through a landscape that has always sustained him and provided him with hope and challenges.
When he discovers that he has terminal cancer, retired heart surgeon Ben Givens refuses to...
| Author | Elizabeth Bear |
| ISBN | 0553591096 |
Rife with intrigue and betrayal, heroism and sacrifice, Grail brings Elizabeth Bear’s brilliant space opera to a triumphant conclusion.
At last the generation ship Jacob’s Ladder has arrived at its destination: the planet they have come to call Grail. But this habitable jewel just...
Who are You, Calvin Bledsoe?
“A wild ride of a book . . . A story in which anything and everything can happen, and mostly does. This is a book of many trips--across oceans, back to the past, and, most profoundly, into the infinite deep space of the human heart. Brock Clarke has given us a wonderful novel that bursts with all the meaty...
Vampire Academy 10th anniversary edition (Vampire Academy, #1-1.4).
| Author | Richelle Mead |
| ISBN | 9780448494 |
Richelle Mead celebrates ten years of Vampire Academy with an exclusive, never-before-seen collection of stories that sheds new light on the world and its players:
The Turn and the Flame takes a deeper look into the dark stain on the Ozera dynasty...
From the Journal of Vasilisa Dragomir unearths...
Buffy: The High School Years - Freaks & Geeks
| Author | Faith Erin Hicks |
| ISBN | 1616556676 |
Moving to a new school and making new friends will create enough anxiety for any teenage girl. But when you're Buffy Summers, a vampire slayer--the Chosen One (with all that entails)--building a new life can be overwhelming. A group of nerdy vampires, shunned by their cooler brethren, decide to climb...
| Author | Rosalind Jana |
| ISBN | 0750287322 |
How would you describe yourself? Do you like to stand out, or fit in? Are you an Instagram junkie, or is Snapchat more your thing? Are you watching Zoella on YouTube, or reading Rookie on your phone? We're all different, and no-one's teenage years are the same. But we do all have one thing in common - being...
Eating Mindfully: How to End Mindless Eating and Enjoy a Balanced Relationship with Food
| Author | Susan Albers |
| ISBN | 1572243503 |
This book introduces and adapts the concepts of mindfulness and acceptance to the observation and management of eating habits. The result is a series of exercises and meditations that reinforce healthy habits and lead to greater tranquility at meals.
The book describes the four foundations...
The History Of The Musical
A major production for Naxos Audiobooks and a unique Audiobook, this bold and entertaining undertaking traces the musical from its origins in classical music (Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera, Offenbach’s operettas and Gilbert and Sullivan) through to its flowering in America; Showboat, Anything...
| Author | Adi Alsaid |
| ISBN | 0373211546 |
Never date your best friend.
Always be original.
Sometimes rules are meant to be broken.
Best friends Dave and Julia were determined to never be cliché high school kids—the ones who sit at the same lunch table every day, dissecting the drama from homeroom and plotting...
Fear-Free Food: How to ditch dieting and fall back in love with food
Imagine having a peaceful relationship with food. One which leaves you feeling healthy, happy and full of life. No anxiety or guilt. No calorie counting or cutting out food groups. No wasting energy worrying about what to eat or striving for a perfect diet that doesn't exist.
In Fear-Free Food,...
