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10 best books like The Bards of Bone Plain (Patricia A. McKillip): Spindle's End, The Anvil of the World, The Sleeping Beauty, To Keep the Sun Alive, Water, The Witches of St. Petersburg, Translated from the Gibberish: Seven Stories and One Half Truth, Moonlight Shadow, Goody Hall, Jeweled Fire

Spindle's End
AuthorRobin McKinley
ISBN0441008658
Spindle's End (a retelling of Sleeping Beauty) is odd in a lot of respects, and therefore a lot of people aren't going to like it. To outline these:

1. Most of the book is narration. There is very little in the way of dialogue, even when it comes to things that most other authors would have left for...
The Anvil of the World
AuthorKage Baker
ISBN0765349078
Kage Baker's stories and novels of the mysterious organization that controls time travel, The Company, have made her famous in SF. So has her talent for clever dialogue, and pointed social commentary with a light touch.

The Anvil of the World is her first fantasy novel, a journey across a fantastic...
The Sleeping Beauty
AuthorMercedes Lackey
Heavy is the head--and the eyelids--of the princess who wears the crown...

In Rosamund's realm, happiness hinges on a few simple beliefs:

For every princess there's a prince.

The king has ultimate power.

Stepmothers should never be trusted.

And bad things...
To Keep the Sun Alive
AuthorRabeah Ghaffari
A cinematic debut about an Iranian family and their fruit orchard, caught up in the Revolution of 1979

The year is 1979. The Islamic Revolution is just around the corner, as is a massive solar eclipse. In this epic novel set in the small Iranian city of Naishapur, a retired judge and his wife, Bibi,...
Water
AuthorRobin McKinley
ISBN0142402443
Seven tales describe magical beings that inhabit our waters. Some are familiar mer-people; some as strange as as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of the Great Desert Kalarsham, where the mad god Geljdreth rules; or the unknowable, immense Kraken, dark beyond the darkness of the deepest ocean, who will...
The Witches of St. Petersburg
AuthorImogen Edwards-Jones
ISBN0062848526
Inspired by real characters, this transporting historical fiction debut spins the fascinating story of two princesses in the Romanov court who practiced black magic, befriended the Tsarina, and invited Rasputin into their lives—forever changing the course of Russian history. As daughters...
Translated from the Gibberish: Seven Stories and One Half Truth
AuthorAnosh Irani
ISBN0735278520
The bestselling author of The Parcel writes, for the first time, about Canada as well as India in this unforgettable collection of seven moving stories and one "half truth" (a semi-fictional "translation" of what it means to be an immigrant).

Twenty years ago, to the mystification...
Moonlight Shadow
AuthorBanana Yoshimoto
ISBN8858851056
C'è un giorno, un giorno soltanto, in cui in condizioni particolari è possibile rivedere i propri cari defunti. Dicono che qualcuno è pure in grado di sentirli e parlar loro. Che sia possibile per Satsuki, che non riesce in alcun modo a scordare il ragazzo perduto, e Hiiragi, che per ricordare Yumiko...
Goody Hall
AuthorNatalie Babbitt
ISBN0844671681
I found this book to be tremendously clever when I read it as a child. I particularly liked the parallels between the life-stories of itinerant hat-maker/actor/tutor Hercules Feltwright, and his mythological namesake. For this reason, I chose to read it aloud to my son immediately after finishing...
Jeweled Fire
AuthorSharon Shinn
ISBN0425277054
The national bestselling author of Troubled Waters and Royal Airs returns to her Elemental Blessings series with the story of a young princess who will need more than blessings to survive in a kingdom where everyone will do whatever it takes to claim the throne…

As one of the four princesses...
The Gateway Trip
AuthorFrederik Pohl
ISBN0345375440
Cuando nos ha gustado un libro o una saga, siempre hemos querido saber más sobre ese mundo, esos personajes o esas situaciones que se hablan de pasada en la historia principal pero que por motivos de ritmo literario (es decir, no hacer libros de 1500 páginas) no tienen cabida.
Pues Frederik Pohl...
Animals Eat Each Other
AuthorElle Nash
ISBN1938604431
In Elle Nash’s stunning and powerful debut, a girl with no name embarks on a fraught three-way relationship with Matt, a satanist and a tattoo artist, and his girlfriend Frances, a new mom. The liaison is caged by strict rules and rigid emotional distance. Nonetheless, it’s all too easy to surrender...
Vermilion
AuthorMolly Tanzer
ISBN1939905087
The Adventures of Lou Merriwether, Psychopomp

Gunslinging, chain smoking, Stetson-wearing Taoist psychopomp, Elouise “Lou” Merriwether might not be a normal 19-year-old, but she’s too busy keeping San Francisco safe from ghosts, shades, and geung si to care much about that. It’s...
How to Stop Feeling Lonely: An Essential Guide to Coping With and Overcoming Loneliness
AuthorMillie Winters
If you hate feeling lonely and are ready to embrace all the opportunities life has to offer, then this book is for you!
Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet, or Kindle device.

Loneliness is one of the most complex phenomena known to mankind. Not only does it alter your mental and emotional...
An Unrestored Woman
AuthorShobha Rao
ISBN1250073820
The twelve paired stories in Shobha Rao's An Unrestored Woman trace their origins to the formation of India and Pakistan in 1947, but they transcend that historical moment.

A young woman in a crushingly loveless marriage seizes freedom in the only way left to her; a mother is forced to confront...
Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
ISBN0312862113
Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the greatest science fiction writers and many times the winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Her career as a novelist was launched by the three novels contained in Worlds Of Exile And Illusion. These novels, Rocannon's World, Planet Of Exile, and City Of Illusions, are set in...
Luminous Ink
AuthorTessa McWatt
ISBN1770865195
Twenty-six writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood’s opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of the country’s finest writers see their world today. With an...
Pastoral
AuthorAndré Alexis
ISBN1552452867
There were plans for an official welcome. It was to take place the following Sunday. But those who came to the rectory on Father Pennant's second day were the ones who could not resist seeing him sooner. Here was the man to whom they would confess the darkest things. It was important to feel him out. Mrs Young,...
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