Not Flesh Nor Feathers
10 best books like Not Flesh Nor Feathers (Cherie Priest): Across the Nightingale Floor, Young Warriors: Stories of Strength, The New Women of Wonder, Grass for His Pillow, Brilliance of the Moon, The Glass God, Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History, Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are, Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History, The Ice Dragon
Across the Nightingale Floor
| Author | Lian Hearn |
| ISBN | 1573223328 |
In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the warlord Iida Sadamu surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No assassin can cross it unheard.
The youth Takeo has been brought up in a remote mountain village among the Hidden,...
| Author | Tamora Pierce |
| ISBN | 0375829636 |
What makes warrior?
This gutsy collection of fifteen original short stories offers a variety of answers to this question with thoughtfulness, heart, and the occasional wink. Compiled by bestselling author Tamora Pierce and folklorist/author Josepha Sherman, Young Warriors includes...
| Author | Pamela Sargent |
| ISBN | 0394724380 |
This anthology contains:
Introduction (1977) by Pamela Sargent
View From The Moon Station (1977) by Sonya Dorman
Screwtop (1976) by Vonda N. McIntyre
The Warlord of Saturn's Moons (1974) by Eleanor Arnason
The Triumphant Head (1970) by Josephine Saxton
The Heat Death...
| Author | Lian Hearn |
| ISBN | 1594480036 |
Praised for its epic scope and descriptive detail, Across the Nightingale Floor, the first book in the Tales of the Otori series, was an international bestseller and critical success, named by the London Times as "the most compelling novel to have been published this year." With Grass for His Pillow,...
| Author | Lian Hearn |
| ISBN | 1594480869 |
A beautiful, haunting evocation of the medieval Japan of Lian Hearn's imagination, this thrilling follow-up to Grass for His Pillow and Across the Nightingale Floor delves deeper into the complex loyalties that bind its characters from birth. Filled with adventure and surprising twists of plot...
| Author | Kate Griffin |
| ISBN | 0356500659 |
Sharon Li: apprentice shaman and community support officer for the magically inclined. It wasn't the career Sharon had in mind, but she's getting used to running Magicals Anonymous and learning how to Be One With The City.
When the Midnight Mayor goes missing, leaving only a suspiciously...
Cunning-folk were local practitioners of magic, providing small-scale but valued service to the community. They were far more representative of magical practice than the arcane delvings of astrologers and necromancers. Mostly unsensational in their approach, cunning-folk helped people with...
| Author | Kevin J. Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0691173885 |
A leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you think
What makes you the way you are--and what makes each of us different from everyone else? In Innate, leading neuroscientist and popular science blogger Kevin Mitchell traces human diversity and individual...
Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History
| Author | Rachel Laudan |
| ISBN | 0520954912 |
Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world's great cuisines--from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present--in this superbly researched book. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines to reveal the underlying simplicity...
| Author | George R.R. Martin |
| ISBN | 0765316315 |
The ice dragon was a creature of legend and fear, for no man had ever tamed one. When it flew overhead, it left in its wake desolate cold and frozen land. But Adara was not afraid. For Adara was a winter child, born during the worst freeze that anyone, even the Old Ones, could remember.
Adara could not...
