The Boy Who Cast No Shadow

10 best books like The Boy Who Cast No Shadow (Thomas Olde Heuvelt): Hannibal, The Good Son, The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, Surfacing, The Orchid House, Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome, Sleeper, Elephants and Corpses, The Ice Twins, Two Brothers

Hannibal
AuthorThomas Harris
ISBN0099297701
Years after his escape, posing as scholarly Dr. Fell, curator of a grand family's palazzo, Hannibal lives the good life in Florence, playing lovely tunes by serial killer/composer Henry VIII and killing hardly anyone himself. Clarice is unluckier: in the novel's action-film-like opening scene,...
The Good Son
AuthorYou-Jeong Jeong
ISBN0143131958
'The Talented Mr. Ripley meets The Bad Seed in this breathless, chilling psychological thriller by the bestselling novelist known as "Korea's Stephen King" Who can you trust if you can't trust yourself? Early one morning, twenty-six-year-old Yu-jin wakes up to a strange metallic smell, and a phone...
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
AuthorElaine F. Weiss
ISBN0525429727
The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political victories in American history: the down and dirty campaign to get the last state to ratify the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote.

"Anyone interested in the history of our country's ongoing fight to put its founding values...
Surfacing
AuthorMargaret Atwood
ISBN0385491050
Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing is the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. Setting out with her lover and another young couple, she soon finds herself captivated by the isolated setting, where...
AuthorLucinda Riley
ISBN1451655789

For fans of The House at Riverton and Rebecca—a debut spanning from the 1930s to the present day, from a magnificent estate in war-torn England to Thailand, this sweeping novel tells the tale of a concert pianist, Julia, and the prominent Crawford family whose shocking secrets are revealed,...
Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome
AuthorJohn Scalzi
ISBN1466871792
A new near-future science fiction novella by John Scalzi, one of the most popular authors in modern SF. Unlocked traces the medical history behind a virus that will sweep the globe and affect the majority of the world’s population, setting the stage for Lock In, the next major novel by John Scalzi.

Free...
Sleeper
AuthorJo Walton
ISBN1466880392


Let us say that the entity believing himself to be Matthew Corley feels that he regained consciousness while reading an article in the newspaper about the computer replication of personalities of the dead. He believes that it is 1994, the year of his death, that he regained consciousness after...
AuthorKameron Hurley
Bodies are only beautiful when they aren’t yours.

another fine, free tor short. these things are great because they allow you to sample authors completely risk-free! because it takes a special kind of author to be able to pull off a story whose concept revolves around a "corpse-jumping body...
The Ice Twins
AuthorS.K. Tremayne
ISBN0007563035
A year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, Angus and Sarah Moorcraft move to the tiny Scottish island Angus inherited from his grandmother, hoping to put together the pieces of their shattered lives.

But when their surviving daughter, Kirstie, claims...
Two Brothers
AuthorBen Elton
ISBN0593062051
The new novel from this well-loved, bestselling author.
 
Two Brothers is a heartrending story of two boys growing up under the darkening shadow of the Nazis. Born in Berlin in 1920 and raised by the same parents, one boy is Jewish, his adopted brother is Aryan. At first, their origins are irrelevant....
AuthorThomas Mann
ISBN0520070070
Forty years after their youthful association, Lotte Kestner, real-life heroine of Goethe's famous novel The Sorrows of Werther, makes a pilgrimage to Weimer to see Goethe. Upon her arrival, Lotte, to her surprise, is greeted as a celebrity and taken up into Goethe's set.

Thomas Mann, fascinated...
AuthorNeil Clarke
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“The Spell of History: Magic Systems and Real-World Zeitgeists” by Jeff Seymour
“In a Carapace of Light: A Conversation with...
AuthorChina Miéville
"What’s the first thing we learn about icebergs? That we only see the tip. Nine tenths of every one is out-of-sight." I've only read a handful of China Mieville's short stories, but so far they all have been just like icebergs - below the little bit on the surface hides the bulk of potentiality. The...
De meisjesmagneet
AuthorJackie van Laren
ISBN9022585654
Reinout Hollebeecq is een keurige, wat onzekere jongen uit Baarn die in Amsterdam Nederlands gaat studeren. Hij droomt van de liefde, maar gelooft eigenlijk niet dat een jongen als hij ooit serieus genomen kan worden door een meisje. Muziek is zijn enige ontsnappingsmogelijkheid: hij kan prachtig...
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon
AuthorCharles Fishman
ISBN1501106295
The remarkable story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic mission to reach the moon.

President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States should land a man on the Moon by 1970. No group was more...
Stillhet i støyens tid. Gleden ved å stenge verden ute
AuthorErling Kagge
ISBN8248918726
Behind a cacophony of traffic noise, iPhone alerts and our ever-spinning thoughts, an elusive notion - silence - lies in wait. But what really is silence? Where can it be found? And why is it more important now than ever?

Erling Kagge, the Norwegian adventurer and polymath, once spent 50 days...
De goede zoon
AuthorRob van Essen
ISBN9025453414
In "De goede zoon' trekt Rob van Essen de lezer een omgeving in die dystopische trekken vertoont en tegelijk angstaanjagend herkenbaar is. In een wereld waar invoering van het basisinkomen heeft gezorgd voor lethargie en stijgend museumbezoek reizen twee mannen af naar het zuiden met een geheime...
The Lying Room
AuthorNicci French
ISBN0062676725
It should have been just a mid-life fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered. An escape from twenty years of routine marriage to her overworked husband, and from her increasingly distant children. But when Neve pays a morning-after visit to her lover, Saul, and finds him...
The Best of Subterranean
AuthorWilliam Schafer
From its launch in 2005 to its final issue in 2014, Subterranean magazine published stories by the leading lights of science fiction and fantasy literature. From Hugo and Nebula winners to Pulitzer and Booker Prize finalists to New York Times bestsellers, this anthology collects 30 pieces of Subterranean’s...
The Angelus Guns
AuthorMax Gladstone
ISBN1466878827


g, is for Gladstone.

4 Stars

What if all our work only builds a world in which we are impossible? What if we only exist now because we didn’t? What if time needs pain as much as harmony?

My brother is the only person I can honestly say that I hate and love in equal measure....
Daughter of Necessity
AuthorMarie Brennan
i do love stories like this - stories that take a well-known work as their foundation and then poke around in it to locate the parts of the story that stick out in our minds as unfinished or unexplored. where the heck did heathcliff go for those three years? what were bertha and miss havisham like before all...
De avond is ongemak
AuthorMarieke Lucas Rijneveld
‘De avond is ongemak’ van Marieke Lucas Rijneveld is het schrijnende verhaal van een gereformeerd boerengezin dat wordt getroffen door de dood van een kind. Door de ogen van Jas, die zich ophoudt in het niemandsland tussen kindertijd en volwassenheid, zien we hoe de familieleden elk op hun eigen...
The Hollow Man
AuthorDan Simmons
ISBN0553563505
Jeremy Bremen has a secret.  All his life he's been cursed with the ability to read minds.  He knows the secret thoughts, fears, and desires of others as if they were his own.  For years, his wife, Gail, has served as a shield between Jeremy and the burden of this terrible knowledge.  But Gail...
The Clue of the Tapping Heels
AuthorCarolyn Keene
CHALLENGING questions confront Nancy Drew when she attempts to solve the mystery of the strange tapping sounds in the house of a retired actress. Who is the tapper? How does he gain access to Miss Carter's house, despite securely locked doors and windows? Why do the tapping sounds come in Morse code?...
A History of Loneliness
AuthorJohn Boyne
ISBN0857520954
Propelled into the priesthood by a family tragedy, Odran Yates is full of hope and ambition. When he arrives at Clonliffe Seminary in the 1970s, it is a time in Ireland when priests are highly respected, and Odran believes that he is pledging his life to "the good."

Forty years later, Odran's...
Haat
AuthorMel Wallis de Vries
Een vreselijk ongeluk. Maar dat is slechts het begin...

Nikki wordt wakker in een park, gewond en onder het bloed. In haar handen houdt ze een mes, en iets verderop ligt een zwaargewond meisje. Nikki heeft geen idee wie ze is. Maar alles wijst erop dat Nikki haar hebt neergestoken. Alleen weet...
De een na laatste dood van het meisje Capone
AuthorIsabel Hoving
ISBN9045118335
Het jaar 2099. De zestienjarige Ewa Capone is op de vlucht. Vier jaar geleden is haar vader om het leven gekomen bij een overval, een paar maanden geleden is haar moeder vermoord en nu hebben twee gewapende mannen het op háár leven gemunt. Ze heeft geen idee waarom. Op de hielen gezeten door gevaren doorkruist...
A Burst of Light
AuthorAudre Lorde
ISBN0932379397
Another incredible collection examining sex industry, apartheid, lesbian parenting and reality of cancer. Bold, transformative and powerful. I can't recommend Audre Lorde strongly enough. She has always held a special place in my heart with her elegant and simulating messages of racism and women...
Die Katze und der General
AuthorNino Haratischwili
Alexander Orlow, ein russischer Oligarch und von allen »Der General« genannt, hat ein neues Leben in Berlin begonnen. Doch die Erinnerungen an seinen Einsatz im Ersten Tschetschenienkrieg lassen ihn nicht los. Die dunkelste ist jene an die grausamste aller Nächte, nach der von der jungen Tschetschenin...
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AuthorFleur van Groningen
Leven zonder filter
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