The Gaslight Dogs

10 best books like The Gaslight Dogs (Karin Lowachee): Disappearing Earth, George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution, The Wicked Cometh, The Book Charmer, The White Devil's Daughters: The Fight Against Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown, Freedom's Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror, The Toll, The Woman Who Loved Reindeer, Tactics of Mistake, Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires

Disappearing Earth
AuthorJulia Phillips
For fans of Anthony Marra's A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife: the kidnapping of two small girls on a remote peninsula in Russia sets in motion an evocative, moving, searingly original debut novel by a dazzling young writer.

One August afternoon, on the...
George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
AuthorBrian Kilmeade
As a Long Islander endlessly fascinated by eventsthat happened in a place I call home, I hope withthis book to give the secret six the credit they didn tget in life. The Culper spies represent all the patrioticAmericans who give so much for their country but, because of the nature of their work, will not...
The Wicked Cometh
AuthorLaura Carlin
ISBN1473661374
The year is 1831

Down the murky alleyways of London, acts of unspeakable wickedness are taking place and no one is willing to speak out on behalf of the city's vulnerable poor as they disappear from the streets.

Out of these shadows comes Hester White, a bright young woman who is desperate...
The Book Charmer
AuthorKaren Hawkins
ISBN1982105542
The New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular MacLean Curse series crafts a charming and evocative story about a picturesque Southern town, two fiercely independent women, and a magical friendship that will change their lives forever.

The residents of Dove Pond, North Carolina,...
The White Devil's Daughters: The Fight Against Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown
AuthorJulia Flynn Siler
ISBN1101875267
A revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San Francisco during the first century of Chinese immigration (1848-1943) and the "safe house" on the edge of Chinatown that became a refuge for those seeking their freedom

From 1874, a house on the edge of San Francisco's...
Freedom's Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror
AuthorCharles Lane
ISBN1335006850
Freedom’s Detective reveals the untold story of the Reconstruction-era United States Secret Service and their battle against the Ku Klux Klan, through the career of its controversial chief, Hiram C. Whitle

In the years following the Civil War, a new battle began. Newly freed African American...
The Toll
AuthorCherie Priest
From Cherie Priest, the author of The Family Plot and Maplecroft, comes The Toll, a tense, dark, and scary treat for modern fans of the traditionally strange and macabre.

State Road 177 runs along the Suwannee River, between Fargo, Georgia, and the Okefenokee Swamp. Drive that route from east...
AuthorMeredith Ann Pierce
ISBN0152017992
I gave The DarkAngel (of The DarkAngel Trilogy) by Meredith Ann Pierce three stars when I read it in early 2009. Absence made my heart grow fonder, or something, and I later upgraded it to a fox force five. I would tell my sister about it and that made it a different kind of reading experience. Something like...
AuthorGordon R. Dickson
ISBN0812545311
It's obvious that Cletus Graeme--limping, mild-mannered scholarly--doesn't belong on a battling field, but instead at a desk working on his fourth book on battle strategy and tactics. But Bakhalla has more battlefields than libraries, and Graeme sees his small force of Dorsai--soldiers of fortune--as...
AuthorMichael E. Bell
ISBN0786710497
Forget Bela Lugosi's Count Dracula. In nineteenth-century New England another sort of vampire was relentlessly ravishing the populace, or so it was believed by many rural communities suffering the plague of tuberculosis. Indeed, as this fascinating book shows, the vampire of folk superstition...
AuthorMartin Dugard
ISBN0316166251
Few historical figures are as inextricably linked as Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. But less than two decades before they faced each other as enemies at Appomattox, they had been brothers--both West Point graduates, both wearing blue, and both fighting in the same cadre in the Mexican War. They...
The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier & the Yukon Gold Rush
AuthorHoward Blum
ISBN0307461726
New York Times bestselling author Howard Blum expertly weaves together three narratives to tell the true story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush.

It is the last decade of the 19th century. The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures--gun-toting...
Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun
AuthorGuillermo del Toro
ISBN0062414461
Fans of dark fairy-tales like The Hazel Wood and The Cruel Prince will relish this atmospheric and absorbing book based on Guillermo del Toro’s critically acclaimed movie.

Oscar winning writer-director Guillermo del Toro and New York Times bestselling author Cornelia Funke have come...
African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
AuthorThomas Lockley
Warrior. Samurai. Legend.

“A readable, compassionate account of an extraordinary life.” —The Washington Post

The remarkable life of history’s first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society.

When...
Shadows of the Dark Crystal
AuthorJ.M. Lee
ISBN0448482894
The first series of original novels ever set in the world of Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal.  

Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: Shadows of the Dark Crystal is set years before the events of the classic film and follows the journey of a young Gelfling woman who leaves her secluded home to uncover...
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