Nickel
10 best books like Nickel (Robert Wilder): Castle in the Air, In the Hand of the Goddess, Lioness Rampant, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man, The Perfect Husband, Love You More, Hide, The Neighbor, The Dearly Beloved, The Goodness Gene
Author | Diana Wynne Jones |
ISBN | 0064473457 |
In which a humble young carpet merchant wins, then loses, the princess of his dreams
Far to the south of the land of Ingary, in the Sultanates of Rashpuht, there lived in the city of Zanzib a young and not very prosperous carpet dealer named Abdullah who loved to spend his time daydreaming. He was...
In the Hand of the Goddess
Author | Tamora Pierce |
ISBN | 0689878567 |
Disguised as a boy, Alanna of Trebond becomes a squire, to none other than the prince of the realm. But Prince Jonathan is much more to Alanna; he is her ally, her best friend, and one of the few who knows that she's really a girl. Now it will take all of Alanna's awesome skill, strength, and growing magical...
Author | Tamora Pierce |
ISBN | 0689878575 |
From Tamora Pierce, the final book in the Song of the Lioness Quartet, honored with the Margaret A. Edwards Award.
Having achieved her dream of becoming the first female knight errant, Alanna of Trebond is not sure what to do next. She has triumphed in countless bloody battles, and her adventures...
The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
Author | Tamora Pierce |
ISBN | 0689878583 |
"Let her prove herself worthy as a man." Newly knighted, Alanna of Trebond seeks adventure in the vast desert of Tortall. Captured by fierce desert dwellers, she is forced to prove herself in a duel to the death -- either she will be killed or she will be inducted into the tribe. Although she triumphs, dire...
Author | Lisa Gardner |
ISBN | 0553587692 |
What would you do if the man of your dreams hides the soul of a killer?
Jim Beckett was everything she'd ever dreamed of...But two years after Tess married the decorated cop and bore his child, she helped put him behind bars for savagely murdering ten women. Even locked up in a maximum security prison,...
Author | Lisa Gardner |
ISBN | 0553807250 |
One question, a split-second decision, and Brian Darby lies dead on the kitchen floor. His wife, state police trooper Tessa Leoni, claims to have shot him in self-defense, and bears the bruises to back up her tale. For veteran detective D. D. Warren it should be an open-and-shut case. But where is their...
Author | Lisa Gardner |
ISBN | 0553804324 |
You have good reason to be afraid. . . .
It was a case that haunts Bobby Dodge to this day—the case that nearly killed him and changed his life forever. Now, in an underground chamber on the grounds of an abandoned Massachusetts mental hospital, the gruesome discovery of six mummified corpses...
Author | Lisa Gardner |
ISBN | 0553807234 |
From a master of suspense comes a chilling new novel that explores the dangers lurking closer than you think. Because even in the perfect family, you never know what is going on behind closed doors...
This is what happened...
It was a case guaranteed to spark a media feeding frenzy—a young...
Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are jointly hired to steward the historic Third Presbyterian Church through turbulent times. Their personal differences however, threaten to tear them apart.
Charles is destined to succeed his...
Author | Sonia Levitin |
ISBN | 0525473971 |
How much can you trust the government? How much power should you give them? How does one define “best interest”? Levitin’s book makes the reader think about issues such as these. It is set in a future-world where the locations in the former United States have been renamed, and all the inhabitants...
Author | Lisa Gardner |
ISBN | 0553807242 |
A savage crime has rocked a working-class neighbourhood of Boston; four members of a family have been brutally murdered. The father is lying in an intensive care unit, his survival in doubt. He is the principal suspect.
Female police detective D.D. Warren, however, is not one to take things...
Author | Lisa Gardner |
ISBN | 0525954562 |
My name is Nicky Frank. Except, most likely, it isn’t.
Nicole Frank shouldn’t have been able to survive the car accident, much less crawl up the steep ravine. Not in the dark, not in the rain, not with her injuries. But one thought allows her to defy the odds and flag down help: Vero.
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