Minerva Wakes
10 best books like Minerva Wakes (Holly Lisle): Motherless Brooklyn, Wizard's First Rule, The Grass Dancer, As She Climbed Across the Table, Darkfall, Not for Glory, Amnesia Moon, Magician's Gambit, Men and Cartoons, The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye
| Author | Jonathan Lethem |
| ISBN | 0375724834 |
Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn’s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in the most startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent’s Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster...
| Author | Terry Goodkind |
| ISBN | 0765346524 |
In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, appears in Richard Cypher's forest sanctuary seeking help . . . and more.
His world, his very beliefs, are shattered when ancient debts come due with thundering violence. In a dark age it takes courage to...
| Author | Susan Power |
| ISBN | 0425159531 |
What I said in the secrecy of my thoughts was: Fanny, mazaska, the white iron you call money, is useless to me. Even the goods I take from the sutler's store, the flour, coffee, sugar, and tobacco, the knives and blankets, are things I do not want. I give them to my cousins who live upriver.These words belong...
As She Climbed Across the Table
| Author | Jonathan Lethem |
| ISBN | 0375700129 |
Anna Karenina left her husband for a dashing officer. Lady Chatterley left hers for the gamekeeper. Now Alice Coombs has her boyfriend for nothing … nothing at all. Just how that should have come to pass and what Philip Engstrand, Alice’s spurned boyfriend, can do about it is the...
| Author | Dean Koontz |
| ISBN | 0425214591 |
They found four corpses in four days. Each more hideously disfigured than the last, the bodies punctured with dozens of tiny wounds.At first they thought it was a savage psychopath. Then they thought it was a vicious gangland war. Then they thought packs of demonic rats were escaping through the ventilation...
| Author | Joel Rosenberg |
| ISBN | 0451158458 |
To maintain the integrity of their reputation as the galaxy's mercenary elite, the soldiers of the barren world of Metzada adhere to a rigid code of loyalty and honor reminiscent of their Jewish-Israeli ancestors. When a veteran soldier apparently betrays the code, it becomes the ongoing task of his...
In Jonathan Lethem's wryly funny novel, we meet a young man named Chaos, who's living in a movie theater in post-apocalyptic Wyoming, drinking alcohol, and eating food out of cans.
It's an unusual and at times unbearable existence, but Chaos soon discovers that his post-nuclear reality may...
| Author | David Eddings |
| ISBN | 0345335457 |
Ce'Nedra, Imperial Princess of Tolnedra, is confused. Everyone knows the tales of the Orb protecting the West from the evil god Torak are just silly legends. But here she is, forced to join a dangerous quest to recover that stolen Orb. No one believes in sorcery, but Garion's aunt and grandfather seem...
| Author | Jonathan Lethem |
| ISBN | 1400076803 |
A boozy ex-military captain trapped in a mysterious vessel searches for his runaway son, an aging superhero settles into academia, and a professional "dystopianist" receives a visit from a suicidal sheep. Men and Cartoons contains eleven fantastical, amusing, and moving stories written in a...
The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye
| Author | Jonathan Lethem |
| ISBN | 0156032481 |
A dead man is brought back to life so he can support his family in "The Happy Man"; occasionally he slips into a zombielike state while his soul is tortured in Hell. In "Vanilla Dunk," future basketball players are given the skills of old-time stars like Michael Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain. And in "Forever,...
When someone kills your buddy, it's time for a road trip.
October Kohl no longer captains the Emperor's Black. He's spent his time since the war drinking whiskey. When a courier arrives carrying a message from an old friend, he knows it's time to saddle up. The AI Algernon joins him.
What they...
| Author | Malvina G. Vogel |
| ISBN | 0866119922 |
First published in 1726, this classic work of satire presents a world gone haywire, where humans, despite their pomposity and grandiose illusions, are no better than weak and helpless fools. Lemuel Gulliver#39;s journeys take him to Lilliput, a country whose inhabitants are no more than six inches...
| Author | Ann Campbell |
| ISBN | 0451202953 |
I love the idea of what Ann Campbell is trying here, but the final product is uneven. The only people who don't love dogs or antiques are probably a bunch of dirty Socialists, so let's get that out of the way now. The lead characters of Annie and Claudius are fun to read until the third chapter when yet again,...
| Author | Jessica Beck |
| ISBN | 1250001064 |
Powdered PerilJessica Beck It’s hard to keep a secret in April Springs—especially when it involves a no-good cheater like Peter Morgan. Donut shop owner Suzanne Hart has tried to be civil with the guy, since he’s dating her best friend Grace. But when Grace shows up at her doorstep—sobbing—Suzanne’s...
| Author | James Cannon |
| ISBN | 1581952201 |
The iconic Saint Paul – in his lifetime a scholar, prosecutor for the high court of the Jews, accomplice in murder, adventurer, traveler, orator, writer, advocate, and organizer of a new faith – was in fact a Jewish-Hellenistic citizen of the Roman Empire, a man who by the force of his intellect and...
The Secret of Red Gate Farm
| Author | Carolyn Keene |
| ISBN | 1557091609 |
I don’t remember this one from my childhood, but I’m sure I must have read it. As an adult it is rather absurd, but as a kid looking for adventures, I’m sure it was exciting and suspenseful.
As an adult it is always easy to pick out features of children’s mystery books that help give away...
NEW STANDALONE NOVEL FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE HONOR HARRINGTON SERIES, DAVID WEBER
A Man of Two Worlds
Doctor Benjamin Schröder was far from a man of action. In fact, he was a history teacher — Chairman of the Castle Rock University history department...
Endless Shadow/The Arsenal of Miracles (Ace Double, F-299)
Ace Double F-299 containing two stories: The Arsenal of Miracles in its first book publication, 156pp. and Endless Shadow, 97pp. Covers by Valigursky and Gaughan. Brunner's Endless Shadow was revised as Manshape in 1984.
The Arsenal of Miracles: When Earth's stellar empire was attacked by the...
