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10 best books like The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel (Don Marquis): The Amulet of Samarkand, The Golem's Eye, The Ring of Solomon, The Crown of Dalemark, The Edge Chronicles 11: The Nameless One: First Book of Cade, Sherlock Holmes vs. Zombies, Geis: A Matter of Life and Death, The Edge Chronicles Standalone: The Lost Barkscrolls, The Edge Chronicles 6: Midnight Over Sanctaphrax: Third Book of Twig, Margot & Me

The Amulet of Samarkand
AuthorJonathan Stroud
Nathaniel is a boy magician-in-training, sold to the government by his birth parents at the age of five and sent to live as an apprentice to a master. Powerful magicians rule Britain, and its empire, and Nathaniel is told his is the "ultimate sacrifice" for a "noble destiny."

If leaving his parents...
The Golem's Eye
AuthorJonathan Stroud
ISBN0786836547
At only fourteen, Nathaniel is a rising star: a young magician who is quickly climbing the ranks of the government. There is seemingly nothing he cannot handle, until he is asked to deal with the growing Resistance movement, which is disrupting London life with its thefts and raids. It’s no easy task:...
The Ring of Solomon
AuthorJonathan Stroud
ISBN0307738612
It is 950 B.C.E., and King Solomon rules Jerusalem with a steely hand; a hand on which gleams a magic ring of immense and unforgiving power. Solomon has just begun work on his marvelous temple, charging Khaba, a formidable magician in his royal court, to oversee its construction. The workforce is an ill-behaved...
The Crown of Dalemark
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0064473163

This is a long ‘un, folks.

Let me begin this with a confession: I am rating this book more by nostalgia than truth. It’s a horrible choice, I know. It inflates the rating and gives first-time readers a false impression. But, frankly my dears, I don’t give a damn.

I read the Dalemark...
The Edge Chronicles 11: The Nameless One: First Book of Cade
AuthorPaul Stewart
ISBN0857532340
Ok, backstory: I started reading The Edge Chronicles wayyyyyy back in the day, as a wee lad, and I loved them. A lot. A lot-lot. Was invested. Bought all the hardcovers. I remember liking the later books less (Freeglader and Vox, I think?) and I'm not sure if it was because I was getting old and dull, or because...
Sherlock Holmes vs. Zombies
AuthorIan Edginton
ISBN1401228402
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson battle a zombie outbreak that threatens to overwhelm London! In 1854, a meteor streaked across London’s skies, bringing with it a zombie plague. For twenty years, Her Majesty’s Secret Service kept the threat under control. But now dastardly fi end Moriarty has begun...
Geis: A Matter of Life and Death
AuthorAlexis Deacon
ISBN1910620033
As the great chief matriarch lay dying, she gave one final decree: Upon her death there would be a contest. Having no heir of her own blood she called on the Gods. Let fate decide the one truly worthy to rule in her place. The rich, the strong, the wise, the powerful; many put forward their names in hope of being...
The Edge Chronicles Standalone: The Lost Barkscrolls
AuthorPaul Stewart
ISBN0552555991
These exciting tales are ideal for those new to the Edge, or as an addition to the collection of any fan. The Lost Barkscrolls include the stories CLOUD WOLF, THE SLAUGHTERER'S QUEST, THE BLOODING OF RUFUS FILATINE and THE STONE PILOT.

Unfortunately, this book is no longer in print. However,...
The Edge Chronicles 6: Midnight Over Sanctaphrax: Third Book of Twig
AuthorPaul Stewart
ISBN0552554243
Twig Verginix has gained a formidable reputation as the young sky pirate captain who dared to sail over the Edge. But far out in open sky a storm is brewing. In its path lies Sanctaphrax – the great floating city tethered to the land by a massive chain.

Twig has learned of the approaching danger,...
Margot & Me
AuthorJuno Dawson
Sometimes love has to cross all kinds of barriers . . .

Fliss is on the way to visit her grandmother in Wales - the grandmother who she doesn't get on with - with her mother who is recuperating from chemotherapy. But her mum is getting better, that's the main thing, so Fliss can concentrate on being...
Nightlights
AuthorLorena Alvarez Gomez
ISBN1910620130
Every night, tiny stars appear out of the darkness in little Sandy's bedroom. She catches them and creates wonderful creatures to play with until she falls asleep, and in the morning brings them back to life in the whimsical drawings. When a mysterious new girl appears at school, Sandy's drawings are...
The Mental Load: A Feminist Comic
AuthorEmma
ISBN1609809181
A new voice in comics is incisive, funny, and fiercely feminist.

"The mental load. It's incessant, gnawing, exhausting, and disproportionately falls to women. You know the scene--you're making dinner, calling the plumber/doctor/mechanic, checking homework and answering work emails--at...
The Edge Chronicles 8: Vox: Second Book of Rook
AuthorPaul Stewart
ISBN0385750811
When young librarian knight Rook Barkwater is taken captive and forced to work for Vox Verlix – nominally the Most High Academe, but no more than a prisoner in reality – he stumbles across a terrible truth. Vox is brewing a plot to destroy the goblins and the shrykes at a stroke, so that he can seize control...
The Edge Chronicles 7: The Last of the Sky Pirates: First Book of Rook
AuthorPaul Stewart
Rook Barkwater lives in the network of sewer-chambers beneath Undertown, the bustling main city of the Edgeworld. He dreams of becoming a librarian knight – one of those sent out to explore the mysteries of their world. Somewhere out there lie the secrets of the past – including the lost floating...
The Edge Chronicles 10: The Immortals: The Book of Nate
AuthorPaul Stewart
ISBN1846577047
It’s five hundred years into the third age of flight and mighty phraxships steam across the immensity of the Deepwoods, plying their lucrative trade between the three great cities. But all across the Edge, trouble is brewing. The goblin clans are preparing for war. And a storm is gathering, unlike...
Freeglader
AuthorPaul Stewart
ISBN0385750838
'We have to save the Free Glades . . . we must never surrender!'

Undertown is destroyed! Dishevelled and homeless, those who once lived there--gnokgoblins, cloddertrogs, woodtrolls, waifs and many others--huddle by the ruins, preparing for a mass exodus across the Edgeworld to a new home...
The Edge Chronicles 3: The Clash of the Sky Galleons: Third Book of Quint
AuthorPaul Stewart
ISBN0375837426
Young sky-pirate Quint Verginix’s family was devastated when his mother and brothers were killed in a vicious arson attack. Now the treacherous quartermaster responsible, Turbot Smeal, has returned, and Quint and his father are determined to take revenge.

From the deserted quarries...
Cele zece iubiri ale lui Nishino
AuthorHiromi Kawakami
ISBN9734653784
Cartea lui Hiromi Kawakami cuprinde marturisirile a zece femei si tot atitea povestiri din care, pornind de la frinturi de amintiri, cititorii pot recompune personalitatea fascinanta, greu de prins, magnetica a unui barbat. Fie ca este vorba despre legaturi adolescentine sau din amiaza vietii,...
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