The Black Opera
10 best books like The Black Opera (Mary Gentle): A Song for Arbonne, UR, Daughter of Moloka'i, The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise, Cold Comfort Farm, Mother of Storms, The Rainbow (Brangwen Family, #1), The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, A Million Open Doors, Age of Godpunk: Collecting Age of Anansi, Age of Satan and Age of Gaia
| Author | Guy Gavriel Kay |
| ISBN | 0451458974 |
Based on the troubadour culture that rose in Provence during the High Middle Ages, this panoramic, absorbing novel beautifully creates an alternate version of the medieval world.
The matriarchal, cultured land of Arbonne is rent by a feud between its two most powerful dukes, the noble troubador...
Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor and avid book lover Wesley Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend's parting shot: "Why can't you just read off the computer like everyone else?" He buys an e-book reader out of spite, but soon finds he can use the device to glimpse realities he had never...
| Author | Alan Brennert |
| ISBN | 1250137683 |
DAUGHTER OF MOLOKA′I is the highly anticipated sequel to Alan Brennert’s acclaimed book club favorite, and national bestseller, MOLOKA′I. It’s a companion tale that tells the story of Ruth, the daughter that Rachel Kalama—quarantined for most of her life at the isolated leprosy settlement...
| Author | Julia Stuart |
| ISBN | 0385533284 |
Brimming with charm and whimsy, this exquisite novel set in the Tower of London has the transportive qualities and delightful magic of the contemporary classics Chocolat and Amélie.
Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his 120-year-old pet tortoise...
| Author | Stella Gibbons |
| ISBN | 0143039598 |
Update I've just watched the film. It's even better than the book, by a long way. It's very affectionate, and very much played for gentle laughs. The cast is fantastic, some of the best actresses around including Eileen Atkins and Joanna Ab Fab Lumley, Stephen Fry and Ian McKellan. The attention to detail...
| Author | John Barnes |
| ISBN | 0812533453 |
In the middle of the Pacific, a gigantic hurricane accidentally triggered by nuclear explosions spawns dozens more in its wake.
A world linked by a virtual-reality network experiences the devastation first hand, witnessing the death of civilization as we know it and the violent birth of...
| Author | D.H. Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0451530306 |
Set in the rural Midlands of England, The Rainbow (1915) revolves around three generations of the Brangwens, a strong, vigorous family, deeply involved with the land. When Tom Brangwen marries a Polish widow,Lydia Lensky, and adopts her daughter Anna as his own, he is unprepared for the conflict and...
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
| Author | Priya Parker |
| ISBN | 1594634920 |
A transformative exploration of the power, purpose, and benefits of gatherings in our lives: at work, at school, at home and beyond.
Every day we find ourselves in gatherings, Priya Parker says in The Art of Gathering. If we can understand what makes these gatherings effective and memorable,...
| Author | John Barnes |
| ISBN | 0812516338 |
Nou Occitan is a place where duels are fought with equal passion over insults and artistic views alike. Giraut--swordsman, troubador, lover--is a creature of this swashbuckling world, the most isolated of humanity's Thousand Cultures.
But the winds of change have come to Nou Occitan. As...
Age of Godpunk: Collecting Age of Anansi, Age of Satan and Age of Gaia
| Author | James Lovegrove |
| ISBN | 1781081298 |
James lovegrove presents three novellas with three different ‘gods’ and their apprearance in the worlds of man.
AGE Of ANANSI
An original stand-alone novella in James Lovegrove's best selling Patheon series.
Dion Yeboah leads an orderly, disciplined life... until...
The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
| Author | Leon M. Lederman |
| ISBN | 0385312113 |
In this extraordinarily accessible and enormously witty book, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman guides us on a fascinating tour of the history of particle physics. The book takes us from the Greeks' earliest scientific observations through Einstein and beyond in an inspiring celebration...
Sing for the Coming of the Longest Night
The world you know is underneath the substance of another, with cracks in the firmament that let the light of its magic in…
Layla and Nat have nothing in common but their boyfriend – enigmatic, brilliant Meraud – and their deep mutual dislike. But when Meraud disappears after an ambitious...
