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10 best books like The Claidi Collection (Tanith Lee): Alice Through the Needle's Eye: A Third Adventure for Lewis Carroll's Alice, The Crystal Gryphon, The Slave and the Free, Sally Lockhart Quartet, The Little Mermaid, Darkwater, The Book of the Wind, Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood, The Prince of Ill Luck, Pyromancer

Alice Through the Needle's Eye: A Third Adventure for Lewis Carroll's Alice
AuthorGilbert Adair
ISBN0330291580
I Did It for A Dare!

To attempt a sequel to Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” series raises reader expectations on at least two levels.

Firstly, the originals are so well-known and well-loved, not to mention extraordinarily well-written, that readers will approach the...
The Crystal Gryphon
AuthorAndre Norton
ISBN0812547381
I remember the day I first discovered science fiction grand dame Andre Norton. I walked into our favorite used bookstore in San Antonio, Texas. The same used bookstore where I first ran across so many other gems. This particular trip I was looking for something unusual and different and my eye caught...
The Slave and the Free
AuthorSuzy McKee Charnas
ISBN0312869126
After thirty years, Suzy McKee Charnas has completed her incomparable epic tale of men and women, slavery and freedom, power and human frailty.

It started with Walk to the End of the World, where Alldera the Messenger is a slave among the Fems, in thrall to men whose own power is waning.

In...
Sally Lockhart Quartet
AuthorPhilip Pullman
ISBN0439959233
I admire Philip Pullman more than almost any other writer, for so many reasons, but mostly because he works in a genres where something is usually given-up or left-out -- prurience overrides sex, ripping yarns become didactic, complexity is traded in for main-character likability -- and written young-adult...
The Little Mermaid
AuthorDeborah Hautzig
ISBN0606140093
This is a wonderful retelling of the true and entire story of The Little Mermaid is poignant because it also includes a scene where the prince professes his love for the little mermaid and gives the reader a little glimmer of hope that the prince might marry the little mermaid which made it all the more heartbreaking...
Darkwater
AuthorCatherine Fisher
ISBN0803738188
What would you sell your soul for?

Sixteen-year-old Sarah Trevelyan would give anything to regain the power and wealth her family has lost, so she makes a bargain with Azrael, Lord of Darkwater Hall. He gives her one hundred years and the means to accomplish her objective--in exchange for her...
The Book of the Wind
AuthorCarrie Asai
ISBN0689864337
When I was six months old, I dropped from the sky -- the lone survivor of a deadly Japanese plane crash. The newspapers named me Heaven. I was adopted by a wealthy family in Tokyo, pampered, and protected. For nineteen years, I thought I was lucky.
I'm learning how wrong I was.
I'VE LOST EVERYTHING....
Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood
AuthorMeredith Ann Pierce
ISBN0142500135
First she is Brown Hannah, a drab healer living in the enchanted Tanglewood. Then, when she challenges the magician who holds her captive, she becomes Green Hannah. Next, she is Golden Hannah traveling through the land, with talking animals and birds by her side. And, finally, Russet Hannah, when she...
The Prince of Ill Luck
AuthorSusan Dexter
ISBN0345380657
Leith had been born under a curse, but when he found Valadan, a fabulous black stallion, he thought his luck and his life were about to change. He was only partly right. He wins the hand of a maiden who she doesn't want to be won. The maiden claims her missing mother is a witch and wants to look for her, not marry....
Pyromancer
AuthorDon Callander
ISBN0441692222
This book is somewhat dated, and has more of a YA feel to it, which is pretty typical of the era and genre. This is not a criticism, mind you, just a caveat to people who may hold expectations for this book.

There is no doubt I would have enjoyed this book more when I was a teen (or tween) and as an adult...
The Unexpected Dragon
AuthorMary Brown
ISBN0739405837
I've read fantasy novels most of my life and the ultimate-evil-that-threatens-to-rule-the-world calibre of story (ala Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings) starts to get old after awhile. So in comes Mary Brown whose plucky heroine Summer (they're all plucky if they're women), is a Cinderella who's...
Cat's Eye
AuthorT.L. Shreffler
ISBN1604616927
An assassin, a necklace,
and a girl who dreams of adventure....

Sora planned on running away from her confined life, but she never expected to be kidnapped! Dumped into a world full of thieves, mercenaries, and magic, she soon finds herself in the company of a dangerous assassin, haunted...
The Dark God's Bride Trilogy
AuthorDahlia Lu
Note: New cover/author name edition for ASIN# B00D96E5HQ

“If you die without my permission, I will drag you back from the Realm of the Dead.”

Once again imprisoned in an elaborate trap, Summit spends three years trying to break free. When he returns to the mortal world, he finds...
Fortress of Frost and Fire
AuthorMercedes Lackey
ISBN0671721623
Mercedes entered this world on June 24, 1950, in Chicago, had a normal childhood and graduated from Purdue University in 1972. During the late 70's she worked as an artist's model and then went into the computer programming field, ending up with American Airlines in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In addition to her...
The Death-Defying Pepper Roux
AuthorGeraldine McCaughrean
ISBN0061836656
Pepper's fourteenth birthday is a momentous one.

It's the day he's supposed to die.

Everyone seems resigned to it—even Pepper, although he would much prefer to live. But can you sidestep Fate? Jump sideways into a different life? Naïve and trusting, Pepper sets a course through...
The Floodgate
AuthorElaine Cunningham
ISBN0786918187
After a fight, some warriors seek to return home.
Others seek revenge.

The battle of Akhlaur's Swamp is over, and its heroes part ways. One becomes a wizard's apprentice and tries to unravel her mysterious lineage. Another hero returns to his queen, only to find that all is not as it was.

Hidden...
A High and Hidden Place
AuthorMichele Claire Lucas
ISBN0060740566
Christine Lenoir's early childhood memories are vague. Told that her family perished of influenza, she grows up in the aftermath of World War II believing herself fortunate that her parents at least did not die violently, as so many did, and because she found a good and loving home. But after she witnesses...
The Sleep of Stone
AuthorLouise Cooper
ISBN0886775558
I read this book when I was a kid, and while I only remembered some of the details, I remember how it made me feel-- pensive, a little haunted, strangely nostalgic. It took me forever to hunt down a copy of it to re-read, and I'm really glad that I did because it absolutely held up (which it not the case with some...
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