The Arcanum

9 best books like The Arcanum (Thomas Wheeler): Drood, Silent Spring, Wintersmith, Minor Mage, Njal's Saga, Why Kill the Innocent, La Mémoire de Babel, Necropolis, Pocket Apocalypse

Drood
AuthorDan Simmons
ISBN0316007021
Drood… is the name and nightmare that obsesses Charles Dickens for the last five years of his life.

On June 9, 1865, Dickens and his mistress are secretly returning to London, when their express train hurtles over a gap in a trestle. All of the first-class carriages except the one carrying...
Silent Spring
AuthorRachel Carson
ISBN0618249060
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land,...
Wintersmith
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0060890312
Tiffany Aching is a trainee witch — now working for the seriously scary Miss Treason. But when Tiffany witnesses the Dark Dance — the crossover from summer to winter — she does what no one has ever done before and leaps into the dance. Into the oldest story there ever is. And draws the attention of...
Minor Mage
AuthorT. Kingfisher
Oliver was a very minor mage. His familiar reminded him of this several times a day.

He only knew three spells, and one of them was to control his allergy to armadillo dander. His attempts to summon elementals resulted in nosebleeds, and there is nothing more embarrassing than having your elemental...
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0140447695
Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept up in a tide of violence beyond their control....
Why Kill the Innocent
AuthorC.S. Harris
ISBN0399585621
In the newest mystery from the national bestselling author of Where the Dead Lie, a brutal murder draws Sebastian St. Cyr into the web of the royal court, where intrigue abounds and betrayal awaits.

London, 1814. As a cruel winter holds the city in its icy grip, the bloody body of a beautiful young...
La Mémoire de Babel
AuthorChristelle Dabos
ISBN2075081891
Deux ans et sept mois qu'Ophélie se morfond sur son arche d'Anima. Aujourd'hui il lui faut agir, exploiter ce qu'elle a appris à la lecture du Livre de Farouk et les bribes d'informations divulgées par Dieu. Sous une fausse identité, Ophélie rejoint Babel, arche cosmopolite et joyau de modernité....
Necropolis
AuthorGiordano Tedoldi
ISBN8832961598
Liberarsi della Storia. Della Verità. Della Giustizia. Degli altri. Delle Abitudini che avevano preso il posto della Costituzione e delle vecchie leggi scritte. Liquidare le tradizioni morte che soffocano l'essenza dell'Uomo. Questo sembra essere il pensiero recondito del Maresciallo Yarden...
Pocket Apocalypse
AuthorSeanan McGuire
ISBN0756408121
Endangered, adjective: Threatened with extinction or immediate harm.
Australia, noun: A good place to become endangered.

Alexander Price has survived gorgons, basilisks, and his own family—no small feat, considering that his family includes two telepaths, a reanimated corpse,...
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