Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded
10 best books like Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded (Ann VanderMeer): Little, Big, The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York, Blue Dahlia, Black Rose, Red Lily, The Bone Houses, Wicked Wonders, Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters, Key of Light, Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology
Author | John Crowley |
ISBN | 0061120057 |
John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood—not found on any map—to marry Daily Alice Drinkwater, as was prophesied. It is the story of four generations of a singular family, living in...
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
Author | Deborah Blum |
ISBN | 1594202435 |
Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. In The Poisoner's Handbook Blum draws from highly original research to track the fascinating, perilous days...
Author | Nora Roberts |
ISBN | 0749935332 |
A good romance and beginning of the trilogy. The hero is a bit hard to fall in love with, and the beginning is terribly sad, but the story comes around. Of course, It's Nora Roberts so its well written and the characters are developing perfectly.
Stella moves back to Tennessee after losing her husband....
Author | Nora Roberts |
ISBN | 0739453823 |
A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries-old mansion just outside of Memphis. And for as long as anyone alive remembers, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked the halls, singing lullabies at night...
At forty-seven, Rosalind Harper is a woman whose experiences have made her...
Author | Nora Roberts |
ISBN | 0515139408 |
Listening length: 10 hours, 34 minutes
A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries-old mansion just outside of Memphis. And for as long as anyone alive remembers, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked the halls, singing lullabies at night...
Hayley Phillips came to Memphis...
Author | Emily Lloyd-Jones |
ISBN | 0316418412 |
Seventeen-year-old Aderyn ("Ryn") only cares about two things: her family, and her family's graveyard. And right now, both are in dire straits. Since the death of their parents, Ryn and her siblings have been scraping together a meager existence as gravediggers in the remote village of Colbren, which...
Author | Ellen Klages |
ISBN | 1616962615 |
The award-winning author of The Green Glass Sea returns with smart and subversive new tales
A rebellious child identifies with Maleficent instead of Sleeping Beauty. Best friends Anna and Corry share one last morning on Earth. A solitary woman inherits a penny arcade haunted by a beautiful...
Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
Author | Laura Thompson |
ISBN | 1784970875 |
The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party;...
Malory Price’s life plan has hit a snag. She’s in danger of losing her job managing an art gallery in Pleasant Valley, Pennsylvania. A welcome distraction comes in the form of an invitation to a cocktail party at Warrior’s Peak, an infamous estate overlooking the town. But no one else she knows...
Author | James Patrick Kelly |
ISBN | 1892391538 |
Following the rapid evolution of cyberpunk from Bruce Sterling and William Gibson into the current millennium, this vivid anthology welcomes a new generation of exciting writers to take the genre in new and unexpected directions. Cyberpunk freewheels with punk rock energy, careening between...
Space-opera heroines, gender-bending aliens, post-apocalyptic pregnancies, changeling children, interplanetary battles of the sexes, and much more: a groundbreaking new collection of classic American science fiction by women from the 1920s to the 1960s
Warning: the visionary women...
Author | Gardner Dozois |
ISBN | 0399593780 |
Hot on the heels of award-winning editor Gardner Dozois's acclaimed anthology The Book of Swords comes this companion volume devoted to magic. How could it be otherwise? For every Frodo, there is a Gandalf ... and a Saruman. For every Dorothy, a Glinda ... and a Wicked Witch of the West. What would Harry...