The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual—and the Modern Home Began
10 best books like The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual—and the Modern Home Began (Joan DeJean): Blood of Adoria, Shadow Queen, Vögelein: Clockwork Faerie, The Clockwork Man, The Animal, Candy Wars: The Tooth Fairies vs The Candy King, Mate Night: Kane, The Last Great Wizard of Yden, Rescue Bunnies, Equilibrium
Author | J.S. Chancellor |
ISBN | 1936850052 |
Garren, once the High Lord of the Laionai, now fights alongside Adorian leader Michael as they return to Eidolon in the hopes of saving the human Sara from a life of slavery, and the Ereubinian boy Micah from a sure execution. Back in Adoria, the mysteries surrounding the connection between Ariana and...
Author | Deborah Kalin |
ISBN | 1741756162 |
I put out a hand to steady myself as the vision took me. The parquetry floor washed to black...As if sparked by the hard glare, a fire burst and raged through the room, the flames hot enough to crisp bones and raise the smell of marrow burning to cinders. And me in the middle, wrapped in the black shroud of the...
Author | Jane Irwin |
ISBN | 0974311006 |
When Jakob, Vögelein's Guardian of fifty years, dies quietly in his sleep one night, her life is thrown into utter turmoil. Left without someone to wind her, the tiny clockwork faerie has less than five hours to live--unless she can find someone to trust. Unable to reach the keyhole in her back, she continues...
Author | William Jablonsky |
ISBN | 1605420999 |
I think I got more than I bargained for here in The Clockwork Man. I usually enjoy novels that have things blow up, wise cracking detectives, international tales of intrigue, secret agents saving the world from the next newest megalomaniac. Here I get to read about a guy made of clock parts and he brings...
Author | Nicholas Beck |
ISBN | 1451507232 |
An incredible story that has everything from raw action, science fiction twists, romance elements, and contains psychological suspense throughout. Terry Jones was living what seemed to be a normal life. With a steady job at a oil company that promised huge career advancemnets. Everything changes...
Author | R.G. Cordiner |
ISBN | 1453701877 |
You may not like your sister, but are you really going to fight a war against her?
James and Emily never get on - always fighting and arguing! But when James wakes up one night as his tooth is stolen by a jelly monster he follows it into a weird and wonderful world. Chocolate archers come out of the...
Author | Eliza Gayle |
ISBN | 1606599461 |
This book was previously titled Kane.
Kane Gunn is beyond frustrated. He has a kill order to fulfill and after weeks of chasing his quarry he's boiling over with tension. Then he catches the woman who's become his obsession and Kane becomes consumed by a desire that overwhelms everything...including...
For his sixteenth birthday, all Jon wanted were the keys to the family car. Instead, he got a lousy magic ring…
Artistic prodigy Jon Hansen yearns to fit in, but when he stumbles onto a supernatural kidnapping, his life changes forever. Unfortunately, his search for answers uncovers a magical...
Author | Doreen Cronin |
ISBN | 0061128716 |
Newbie is a Rescue Bunny trainee.
She has passed the Physical Fitness Test. She has passed the Emergency Rescue Roping Test. She has even passed the Blind Taste Test. Now it's time for the toughest Rescue Bunny test of all . . . the Field Test!
It involves a scared giraffe in a sinking mudhole,...
Author | Imogen Rose |
ISBN | 0615376819 |
It's not every day you see a naked body slumped by the side of the road...
This ominous sight is just the beginning of a mystery that will span two dimensions.
When California teen Arizona Darley and her siblings go missing, their mother, Dr. Olivia Darley, discovers that the time-travel...
Author | Walter Rhein |
ISBN | 0982743726 |
Deserter on the run Malik emerges from the swamps of Plaiden seeking only shelter, food, and the time necessary to take the chill from his bones. But after a barroom brawl lands him in trouble with the local authorities, he flees to the mountains with two orphaned children who have the power to heal. Pursued...
Author | Julia London |
ISBN | 1416547096 |
Should some questions be left unanswered?
Adopted as an infant, Jane Aaron longs to know the identity of her birth mother and why she gave her up. Her only clue is the name of the small Texas town where she was born, so she’s come to Cedar Springs for answers.
Handsome ad executive Asher...
Author | Anton Strout |
ISBN | 0441018440 |
Shaking up the spirits of Manhattan
The spirit populace of Manhattan doesn't appreciate its well-deserved RIP being disturbed, and Department of Extraordinary Affairs Agent Simon Canderous is sent in to do damage control. Meanwhile, his vacationing partner, Connor Christos, is in a sorry...
Author | Travis Thrasher |
ISBN | 1434764214 |
His Loneliness Will Soon Turn to Fear…. When Chris Buckley moves to Solitary, North Carolina, he faces the reality of his parents’ divorce, a school full of nameless faces—and Jocelyn Evans. Jocelyn is beautiful and mysterious enough to leave Chris speechless. But the more Jocelyn resists...
Author | John Baxter |
ISBN | 0061562335 |
A witty cultural and culinary education, Immoveable Feast is the charming, funny, and improbable tale of how a man who was raised on white bread—and didn't speak a word of French—unexpectedly ended up with the sacred duty of preparing the annual Christmas dinner for a venerable Parisian family.
Ernest...
Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates
Author | Adrian Johns |
ISBN | 0226401189 |
Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America, for instance, claimed that in 2005 the film industry...
Author | Michael Grant |
ISBN | 0061833681 |
In the thrilling second book of the Magnificent 12 series, Mack MacAvoy is challenged by his spectral mentor, Grimluk--who only appears in the shiny chrome pipes of bathrooms.
Mack must find the ancient ones, the great forgotten forces. Some will help; some not so much. But above all-- Learn...
Author | Stephane Kirkland |
ISBN | 0312626894 |
Stephane Kirkland gives an engrossing account of Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and one of the greatest transformations of a major city in modern history
Traditionally known as a dirty, congested, and dangerous city, 19th Century Paris, France was transformed in an extraordinary period...
Author | Charles Benoit |
ISBN | 0061947040 |
This wasn’t the way it was supposed to go.
You’re just a typical fifteen-year-old sophomore, an average guy named Kyle Chase. This can’t be happening to you. But then, how do you explain all the blood? How do you explain how you got here in the first place?
There had to have been...