Returning My Sister's Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice

9 best books like Returning My Sister's Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice (Eugie Foster): Gods of Jade and Shadow, This Is How You Lose the Time War, Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea, The Raven Tower, The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl, A Song for a New Day, Young Woman in a Garden, The Rat-Catcher's Daughter, Gilded Cage

Gods of Jade and Shadow

Author

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark, one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore.

The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather’s house to listen to any fast tunes....

This Is How You Lose the Time War

Author

Amal El-Mohtar

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading.

And thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield...

Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea

Author	Sarah Pinsker
ISBN	1618731556

The baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present. The journey is the thing as Pinsker weaves music, memory, technology, history, mystery, love, loss, and...

The Raven Tower

Author	Ann Leckie
ISBN	0356506991

Gods meddle in the fates of men, men play with the fates of gods, and a pretender must be cast down from the throne in this breathtaking first fantasy novel from Ann Leckie, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards.

For centuries, the kingdom...

The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl

Author	Theodora Goss
ISBN	1534427872

Mary Jekyll and the Athena Club race to save Alice—and foil a plot to unseat the Queen, in the electrifying conclusion to the trilogy that began with the Nebula Award finalist and Locus Award winner The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter.

Life’s always an adventure for the Athena...

A Song for a New Day

Author

Sarah Pinsker

In this captivating science fiction novel from an award-winning author, public gatherings are illegal making concerts impossible, except for those willing to break the law for the love of music, and for one chance at human connection.

In the Before, when the government didn't prohibit large...

Young Woman in a Garden

Author	Delia Sherman
ISBN	1618730916

In her vivid and sly, gentle and wise, long-anticipated first collection, Delia Sherman takes seemingly insignificant moments in the lives of artists or sailors—the light out a window, the two strokes it takes to turn a small boat—and finds the ghosts haunting them, the magic surrounding them....

The Rat-Catcher's Daughter

Author

K.J. Charles

Music-hall singer Miss Christiana is in serious debt, and serious trouble. She owes more than she can pay to a notorious criminal, and now he plans to make an example of her. There's no way out.

But Christiana has an admirer. Stan Kamarzyn has watched her sing for a year and he doesn't want to see...

Gilded Cage

Author

K.J. Charles

Once upon a time a boy from a noble family fell in love with a girl from the gutter. It went as badly as you’d expect.

Seventeen years later, Susan Lazarus is a renowned detective, and Templeton Lane is a jewel thief. She’s tried to arrest him, and she’s tried to shoot him. They’ve never...