The Facts of Life
10 best books like The Facts of Life (Graham Joyce): The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Ombria in Shadow, Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time, The Water Dancer, Wakenhyrst, Our Lady of Darkness, The Dark Is Rising Sequence, Physiognomy, The Sandman: Endless Nights, The Antelope Wife
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
| Author | Kij Johnson |
| ISBN | 0765386518 |
When a student from the Ulthar Women's College goes missing with her dreaming lover, Vellitt Boe journeys across the dreamlands to find a way to the waking world to bring her back. With a cat in tow, will Vellitt be able to find Clarie Jurat?
Ghouls, ghasts, and gugs, oh my! The Dream-Quest of Vellitt...
| Author | Patricia A. McKillip |
| ISBN | 0441010164 |
Ombria is a place heaped with history -- and secrets. There is a buried city beneath it inhabited by ghosts, accessible only through magical passages and long-forgotten doorways. When the Prince of Ombria dies suddenly, his wicked great-aunt Domina Pearl seizes power by becoming regent to the prince's...
Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time
| Author | Doris Pilkington |
| ISBN | 0786887842 |
The remarkable true story of three young girls who cross the harsh Australian desert on foot to return to their home.
Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up by whites and taken to settlements to be assimilated....
| Author | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| ISBN | 0399590595 |
Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme:...
| Author | Michelle Paver |
| ISBN | 1788549562 |
1906: A large manor house, Wake's End, sits on the edge of a bleak Fen, just outside the town of Wakenhyrst. It is the home of Edmund Stearn and his family – a historian, scholar and land-owner, he's an upstanding member of the local community. But all is not well at Wake's End. Edmund dominates his family...
| Author | Fritz Leiber |
| ISBN | 0441644171 |
Middle-aged San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen is rediscovering ordinary life following a long alcoholic binge. Then one day, peering at his apartment window from atop a nearby hill, he sees a pale brown thing lean out his window…and wave.
This encounter sends Westen on a quest through...
| Author | Susan Cooper |
| ISBN | 0020425651 |
This series is fantastic, and has been horridly overlooked, particularly so seeming that our current culture seems so fascinated with all things Potter. Not that The Dark Is Rising is anything like Harry Potter - not at all. It's thickly steeped in Celtic and Arthurian legend, is relentless in its exploration...
| Author | Jeffrey Ford |
| ISBN | 2290319732 |
Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel: Cley has mastered the art of physiognomy—and now he is about to learn its ultimate truth
In the Well-Built City, Master Drachton Below’s power is absolute, and he will not hesitate to use it. His primary method of control is through his...
The Sandman: Endless Nights
Endless entertainment!
This volumen is a special presenting short stories featuring each member of The Endless.
The general rating is an average sum of the ratings given to each story contained in this comic book.
All stories are written by Neil Gaiman.
A...
| Author | Louise Erdrich |
| ISBN | 0007136366 |
One of America's most celebrated authors offers a powerful story suffused with a Native American sense of magic. Originally an important hunting ground for the Ojibway, the city of Minneapolis draws from nearby reservations many Native people, people who infuse the city with a strong and ongoing...
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 0446691402 |
A fable satirizing Spenser's "The Fairie Queen" and reflecting the real life of Elizabeth I, tells of a woman who ascends to the throne upon the death of her debauched and corrupted father, King Hern. Gloriana's reign brings the Empire of Albion into a Golden Age, but her oppressive responsibilities...
