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10 best books like Sebastian Darke: Prince of Explorers (Philip Caveney): Flora's Fury, The Whatnot, Samuel Blink and the Runaway Troll, Grandville Bête Noire, How Loathsome, Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl, Fairy Tales, No Other Story, Lola: A Ghost Story, The Best American Comics 2013

Flora's Fury
AuthorYsabeau S. Wilce
Despite her troublesome attraction to magick, Flora Fyrdraaca has — more or less — spent her life doing what's been expected of her. Yet now, at sixteen, she knows that this path has been strewn with secrets. Secrets have kept her from following her passion of becoming a ranger, of perfecting her...
The Whatnot
AuthorStefan Bachmann

"Oh, the Sly King, the Sly King, in his towers of ash and wind."  

Pikey Thomas doesn’t know how or why he can see the changeling girl. But there she is. Not in the cold, muddy London neighborhood where Pikey lives. Instead, she’s walking through the trees and snow of the
enchanted...
Samuel Blink and the Runaway Troll
AuthorMatt Haig
ISBN0399247408
When Troll-Son runs away from home, he decides to leave the Shadow Forest behind and move in with his idol, Samuel Blink. Samuel isn't thrilled with the idea of hiding a runaway troll, especially one who copies everything he does, even (ugh!) using his toothbrush. But should Samuel return Troll-Son...
Grandville Bête Noire
AuthorBryan Talbot
ISBN1595828907
The baffling murder of a famed Parisian artist in his locked and guarded studio takes the tenacious Detective Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard and his faithful adjunct, Detective Sargent Ratzi, into the cut-throat Grandville art scene to track the mysterious assassin. As the body count mounts...
How Loathsome
AuthorTed Naifeh
ISBN1561633860
The new series by the artist of Gloom Cookie and Courtney Crumrin! Do the town with gender outlaw Catherine Gore and her disreputable friends. It's Friday night and Catherine is dragged to an S&M play party to see what passes for sex these days. There, the beautiful, enigmatic fem fatale Chloe takes...
Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl
AuthorDaniel Pinkwater
ISBN0547223242
Big Audrey is a girl . . .
with cat s whiskers . . .
and sort of cat s eyes.
But, is there an other cat-whiskered, sort of cat-eyed girl?

Big Audrey waves goodbye to her friends Iggy and Neddie, Seamus, and Crazy Wig, in Los Angeles and hitches a ride with bongo-playing-while-driving...
Fairy Tales
AuthorE.E. Cummings
ISBN0871406586
The four tales in this enchanting, newly illustrated volume, tell of lonely and extraordinary characters finding friendship in unlikely companions. In "The Old Man Who Said Why" a wise fairy's kind nature is taxed when one old man's questions throw the entire heavens into madness. In "The Elephant...
No Other Story
AuthorCuthbert Soup
ISBN1599908247
The Cheeseman family is back from back-in-time. Or at least, they're in the LVR (their super-secret time machine) and on their way to save the life of their beloved mother, Olivia. But then the LVR gets kicked off the Time Arc into a place called Sometimes. And unlike olden times or present times, Sometimes...
Lola: A Ghost Story
AuthorJ. Torres
ISBN1934964336
Jesse sees dead people, monsters, demons, and lots of other things that go bump in the night that no one else can see. No one except his ailing grandmother—a woman who used her visions to help those living in her small town... the same rural community in all the scary stories Jesse's heard as a child. Man-eating...
The Best American Comics 2013
AuthorJeff Smith
ISBN0547995466
I'm always happy to see a new volume in this series. Whether one agrees that these are literally the "best" comics of the year or not, it's certainly at least an anthology of excellent work. Styles tend to skew more towards the arty, but if you don't like a particular piece, just skip to the next one. Some...
Simon's Cat: Feed Me!
AuthorSimon Tofield
ISBN0857862774
Cats are obsessed with food -- eating food, catching food, playing with food, stealing food, even napping on top of food. This collection of Simon's Cat cartoons deal with that food obsession.

I smiled the whole time I was reading this cartoon collection. I have four cats (all rescues) and have...
Curses! Foiled Again
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN1596436190
I enjoy this series. Sadly, Jane said in a fan question that First Second did not want to do another book, so Jane is not going to finish this series. The first book was better, but I enjoy this sword or weapon welding girl. I like how this ties into the other world of fairies. Baba Yaga shows up and her tea cup,...
The Destruction of the Books
AuthorMel Odom
ISBN0765346494
THE ROVER RETURNS
After his adventures on the mainland Wick, the Rover, returned to his duties at the Vault of All Known Knowledge and quickly worked his way up the hierarchy , continuing his quest for the preservation of books and the knowledge contained therein.
And now that quest is threatened.
AN...
Topeng Kaca - Bidadari Merah Vol. 11
AuthorSuzue Miuchi
Topeng kaca adalah favorit saya karya Suzue Miuchi, awalnya saya minjam dari kakak kos habis tu saya baca on line tapi sayangnya belum ada lanjutannya alias masih menggantung ceritanya. Ceritanya tentang perjuangan Maya Kitajima yang memiliki bakat luar biasa sebagai aktris panggung pemain drama....
The Shadow and the Light
AuthorS. K. Michels
ISBN1514177420
Eighty-three years ago, there was a man known as the Shadow. His hands wrought darkness, and through him, the Ending War gave rise to fear and devastation. He would have destroyed the land but for the Light, which stood in his way. And so, for nearly a century, he was imprisoned in a deep sleep.
Yet the...
Sang Pencerah
AuthorAkmal Nasery Basral
Kehidupan KH Ahmad Dahlan dan perjuangannya mendirikan Muhammadiyah ditulis Akmal Nasery Basral dalam novel “Sang Pecerah”. Novel ini berdasarkan skenario Film Sang Pencerah karya Hanung Bramantyo.

Selama ini kita sangat akrab dengan nama KH. Ahmad Dahlan namun cerita mengenai...
Who's The Fairest?
AuthorJane B. Mason
ISBN0439565537
Can Snow White's friends help her face the wickedest witch of all...her own stepmother?

The Maiden Games are fast approaching and Snow White is frozen with fear. It's bad enough that Princess School will be facing off against the nasty witches who attend the nearby Grimm School. But Snow's...
Till Death Do Us Bark
AuthorKate Klise
ISBN0547400365
Where there's a will, there's a...scavenger hunt!

When a shaggy dog arrives at Spence Mansion, Seymour is overjoyed. His adoptive parents, Ignatius B. Grumply and Olive C. Spence, are less enthusiastic--especially when Secret, the dog, begins barking all night long.

Is it possible...
Yeah, I Said It
AuthorWanda Sykes
ISBN0743482719
Yeah, I Said It
...about President George W. Bush: "Sometimes I feel like we're trapped on a bad reality show. He's not really a president. He's a construction worker. If he gets reelected, he gets a million dollars and we get screwed." Michael Jackson: "He still hasn't molested as many boys as the...
Pansy Vol. 1
AuthorMariko Okumura
Pansy adalah seorang anak yang dibesarkan oleh simpanse di pedalaman hutan Afrika. Setiap hari dia bergaul dengan Mark, Marin dan Edo, sehingga sedikit demi sedikit tingkah lakunya menjadi seperti anak perempuan. Setelah mengalami berbagai kejadian, akhirnya diketahui bahwa Pansy adalah cucu...
The ASBO Fairy Tales
AuthorChris Pilbeam
ISBN1843172933
Sit back, relax and allow Hans Christian Asbosen to tell you fantastical stories of far-away lands. Once upon a time there were. . . Hansel and Britney and their trail of Wotsits, Jack and the Weedstalk, Snow White and the Seven Dads and Bling-erella. Not quite as traditional as first glance might suggest,...
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