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10 best books like Singer in the Snow (Louise Marley): Shakespeare's Daughter, Goddess of Yesterday, The Best of Father Brown, The Dream-Maker's Magic, The Hidden Land, Brides of Eden: A True Story Imagined, god bless the gargoyles, A Coalition of Lions, Waters Luminous and Deep, The Hex Witch of Seldom

Shakespeare's Daughter
AuthorPeter W. Hassinger
ISBN0060284676
Susanna Shakespeare finds the small town of Stratford-upon-Avon much too quiet and provincial. She yearns to travel to London to see her father's world of players and poets, and to follow a secret dream of her own. Once Susanna arrives in London, nothing is quite as she expected it to be -- least of all...
Goddess of Yesterday
AuthorCaroline B. Cooney
ISBN0440229308
At age six Anaxandra is taken by King Nicander to be a companion to his crippled daughter on the island of Siphnos. Anaxandra has adjusted to her new life when, six years later, Siphnos is sacked by pirates, and she is the sole survivor. When a fleet of ships stops on the island to investigate, she assumes...
The Best of Father Brown
AuthorG.K. Chesterton
ISBN0752851683
This Halcyon Classics ebook contains twenty-four Father Brown stories written by British author, philosopher, and Christian apologist G.K. Chesterton. Chesterton (1874-1936) wrote a number of influential religious works, including THE EVERLASTING MAN and ORTHODOXY, and was also an accomplished...
The Dream-Maker's Magic
AuthorSharon Shinn
ISBN0670060704
**MIGHT CONTAIN SPOILERS**
what if your gender was doubtful ,
i mean what if your mother strongly believed that you were born a boy,
but yet here you are all girl and no exceptions?

i was hooked from the very first. following Kellen as she tries to find her true identity.


you...
The Hidden Land
AuthorPamela Dean
ISBN0142501433
"That talent of mine that in my country turns to sorcery, in yours turns to this making up." (italics mine).

Essentially, this and the Secret Country should have been one book. I would have still been furious with it for being desperately and deliciously subtle, but the jarring feeling of the...
Brides of Eden: A True Story Imagined
AuthorLinda Crew
ISBN0064472175
In our defense, I can say only that nothing seemed so terribly strange in the beginning...

When, in 1903, the fiery preacher Joshua arrives in sleepy Corvallis, Oregon, Eva Mae -- and the whole town -- is never the same again.

Joshua is wonderful. He's charismatic. Insisting on simplicity,...
god bless the gargoyles
AuthorDav Pilkey
ISBN0152002480
Four separate adult friends of mine who've experienced horrific abuse cried over this book. I did, too. It is undoubtedly the most cathartic children's book I've ever read.

The most popular reviewer of this book, who observes in passing that it's "goodhearted and kind" (even as, for example,...
A Coalition of Lions
AuthorElizabeth E. Wein
ISBN0142401293
After the death of virtually all of her family in the battle of Camlan, Goewin, Princess of Britain, daughter of the High King Artos, makes a desperate journey to African Aksum, to meet with Constantine, the British ambassador and her fiance. But Aksum is undergoing political turmoil, and Goewin's...
Waters Luminous and Deep
AuthorMeredith Ann Pierce
ISBN0142403563
A spellbinding collection of short stories by the author of the Darkangel and Firebringer trilogies.

Meredith Ann Pierce's acclaimed novels are the proof of a remarkable imagination. Here is more proof--eight shorter works of fiction, each with a strong heroine, a tangibly imagined world,...
The Hex Witch of Seldom
AuthorNancy Springer
ISBN0142302201
The King, the Sorceress, the Trickster . . . they are members of the Circle of Twelve, primal human archetypes whose powers are manifest in us all. Most people never meet the Twelve, except in books and movies-but they exist. Those who have the Sight, like young Bobbi Yandro, can speak with them at will....
The Quest for Arthur's Britain
AuthorGeoffrey Ashe
ISBN0897332873
The story of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is the chief myth of Britain. But is it something more than myth? Solid facts have emerged through the recent work of archaeologists. This book examines the historical foundations of the Arthurian tradition, and then presents the results of excavations...
Kieli, Vol. 2
AuthorYukako Kabei
ISBN0759528527
As the holidays wind down, Kieli continues her "research trip" with her companions - Harvey, a near-immortal soldier known as an Undying, and the Corporal, a soldier's spirit possessing an old radio. Their fates irrevocably intertwined by a bloody war waged eighty years ago, Harvey has promised to...
Arthur's Britain
AuthorLeslie Alcock
ISBN0141390697
We are all familiar with the heroic deeds and enchantments of the legendary tales surrounding King Arthur. But what evidence is there for a real figure beneath the myth and romance?

Arthur's Britain assembles a wealth of information about the history of Arthur by delving into the shadowy period...
Doctor Who: City at World's End
AuthorChristopher Bulis
ISBN0563555793
The Doctor and his companions land in the city of Arkhaven, the last bastion of civilisation in a doomed world.

The inhabitants of the city are pinning all their hopes on a final desperate gamble for survival. Behind the scenes there are jealous factions at work, secretly contesting for the...
Twilight Child
AuthorSally Warner
ISBN0670060763
Eleni didn t choose to be a twilight child; it chose her. Born on the longest day of the year in the northern country of Finland, Eleni can communicate with creatures unseen by others the tontuu of the sauna, the blue men of the Minch, and the brounies of the Scottish highlands. Part of her life is touched...
Growing Wings
AuthorLaurel Winter
ISBN0142302198
Eleven-year-old Linnet is growing wings. Auburn wings, with soft feathers. For a while, she can hide them, but they grow larger and larger, almost seeming to take on a life of their own-while taking away Linnet's old life. Her mother, Sarah, knows what it feels like . . . almost. For when the young Sarah...
A Voice for Princess
AuthorJohn Morressy
ISBN0441848001
If only I could find the right spell! By Raymond Mathiesen on July 6, 2009 At 160 years old Kedrigern is a relatively young, bachelor wizard of some reputation. He is a master magician, specializing in the performance of counter-spells, that is, magic to counteract the incantations of other spell-casters....
Songs of Power
AuthorHilari Bell
ISBN0786805617
Read for Popsugar's 2015 Reading Challenge: a book from an author you love that you haven't read yet.

I can clearly see the beginning of Hilari Bell's style in this, her first published novel. The naturalistic magic in a sci-fi setting is very Trickster's Girl/Traitor's Son. The story was well...
The Lynne Truss Treasury: Columns and Three Comic Novels
AuthorLynne Truss
ISBN1592401368
Lynne Truss debuted in America as a guffaw-inducing grammarian, but her Britishaudience has known her for years as a critically acclaimed novelist and columnist. Her previous works are now available stateside in one volume, complete with a new preface. With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed, a raucous...
Ambergate
AuthorPatricia Elliott
I am the girl with no name. I have a number branded on my left arm, but no name.....I have a secret. A secret I must never tell....I committed a crime. I did something so wicked I must never speak of it. If I did, they would come after me.
They call her Scuff. An orphan girl turned kitchen maid at Murkmere...
Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines: A Fable
AuthorRay Bradbury
ISBN0380977044
The Barnes & Noble Review
While peering at the stars one cool night in the desert, young Ahmed falls off his camel and becomes separated from his father's caravan. Certain he will die before he has even had an opportunity to live, Ahmed is reduced to tears. The sound of Ahmed's crying, and the wetness...
The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane
AuthorPolly Horvath
ISBN0374315531
When an accident leaves teenage cousins Meline and Jocelyn parentless, they come to live with their unknown and eccentric Uncle Marten on his private island. They soon discover that the island has a history as tragic as their own: it was once an air force training camp, led by a mad commander whose crazed...
The Green Dwarf: A Tale of the Perfect Tense
AuthorCharlotte Brontë
ISBN1843910489
Witty and engrossing, this early work displays the precocious intelligence, lively imagination, and flair for storytelling that Charlotte Brontë brought to perfection in her later fiction. Lady Emily Charlesworth is in love with Leslie, a struggling artist. Lord Percy, a fierce, arrogant aristocrat,...
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