Quicksilver
10 best books like Quicksilver (Stephanie Spinner): A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder, Metamorphoses, The Lives of Christopher Chant, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Ultimate Guide, The Siren Song, To Keep the Sun Alive, The Broken Vow, The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections, Galatea, Spill Zone
A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder
| Author | Dianne Freeman |
| ISBN | 1496716876 |
In this exciting historical mystery debut set in Victorian England, a wealthy young widow encounters the pleasures—and scandalous pitfalls—of a London social season . . .
Frances Wynn, the American-born Countess of Harleigh, enjoys more freedom as a widow than she did as a wife. After...
Prized through the ages for its splendor and its savage, sophisticated wit, The Metamorphoses is a masterpiece of Western culture--the first attempt to link all the Greek myths, before and after Homer, in a cohesive whole, to the Roman myths of Ovid's day. Horace Gregory, in this modern translation,...
The Lives of Christopher Chant
| Author | Diana Wynne Jones |
| ISBN | 0688163653 |
His father and uncles are enchanters, his mother a powerful sorceress, yet nothing seems magical about Christopher Chant except his dreams. Night after night, he climbs through the formless Place Between and visits marvelous lands he calls the Almost Anywheres. Then Christopher discovers that...
| Author | Rick Riordan |
| ISBN | 1423121716 |
The Ultimate Guide is a good book for Percy Jackson fans, but you can get a little bored of it. It's packed with information about Percy, Annabeth, Grover, and even monsters he fought! I liked that you could take a quiz about who your god parent would be, but I didn't like that the Ultimate Guide has a whole...
| Author | Anne Ursu |
| ISBN | 1416905898 |
Inside an ordinary middle school in an ordinary city, a small redheaded eighth grader is doing something very ordinary, indeed. Ever since Charlotte Mielswetzski and her cousin, Zee, saved the world, life has been rather ordinary. Ordinary, that is, if you call being ultramegagrounded (in Charlotte's...
A cinematic debut about an Iranian family and their fruit orchard, caught up in the Revolution of 1979
The year is 1979. The Islamic Revolution is just around the corner, as is a massive solar eclipse. In this epic novel set in the small Iranian city of Naishapur, a retired judge and his wife, Bibi,...
| Author | Scott Westerfeld |
| ISBN | 1626721505 |
Only the very brave or the very desperate dare enter the Spill Zone—Addison Merritt is a little of both. In exchange for a suitcase full of cash, she made one last to the Zone. She survived the encounter, but came back changed.
Addison is not alone. In a remote village in North Korea, a young man...
The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections
| Author | Tina Connolly |
| ISBN | 1250296994 |
Nebula nominee for best novelette in 2018! 4.5 stars for this excellent Tor fantasy story, free online here at Tor.com. Review first posted on Fantasy Literature:
Saffron is one of the official food tasters for Duke Michal, the regent for an infant prince. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind...
In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece – the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen – the gift of life. Now his wife, Galatea is expected to be obedience and humility personified, but it is not long before she learns to use her beauty...
Nobody's ever really explained the Spill. Was it an angelic visitation? A nanotech accident? A porthole opening from another world? Whatever it was, no one's allowed in the Spill Zone these days except government scientists and hazmat teams. But a few intrepid explorers know how to sneak through the...
