The Illusionist
9 best books like The Illusionist (Dinitia Smith): Princess of the Midnight Ball, Crossing to Safety, Furnace, The Glass Ocean, Good Enough to Dream, Latitude Zero, Survivor, Revolution #9, Remember Me Like This
Princess of the Midnight Ball
| Author | Jessica Day George |
| ISBN | 1599903229 |
A tale of twelve princesses doomed to dance until dawn…
Galen is a young soldier returning from war; Rose is one of twelve princesses condemned to dance each night for the King Under Stone. Together Galen and Rose will search for a way to break the curse that forces the princesses to dance...
Called a "magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom" by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives,...
| Author | Muriel Gray |
| ISBN | 0002257157 |
Josh Spiller is a long-distance truck driver. Although his girlfriend is pregnant, he's got no major personal problems--until the day he rolls into a small town called Furnace, where a middle-aged woman pushes a baby carriage straight into his wheels and then vanishes. The dead baby's teenage mother...
| Author | Beatriz Williams |
| ISBN | 0062642472 |
From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten Room comes a captivating historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century—two deep in the past, one in the present—to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania.
May 2013
Her...
| Author | Roger Kahn |
| ISBN | 0803277792 |
Roger Kahn’s first major league hit was a grand slam: The Boys of Summer, his runaway bestseller that immortalized the 1950s Brooklyn Dodgers. Now Kahn does the same for players whose moment in the sun has not yet arrived. Good Enough to Dream is the story of his year as owner of the Class A, very minor...
| Author | Windsor Chorlton |
| ISBN | 0752802097 |
Latitude Zero, I found, doesn't have a lot of strength in its plot. Like many books before (and after) it, the common theme of an unfortunate mishap such as a plane crash stranding ordinary citizens and leading them to behaviour previously never thought possible, survival instincts kicking in, has...
| Author | Tabitha King |
| ISBN | 0451190904 |
A beautiful photographer is driving home one night when a car swerves past her and kills two pedestrians. Although she escapes the accident without harm, she has trouble shaking off the after effects...and comes to unsettling crossroads in her life. Soon she marries a local hockey star whose raucous...
| Author | Peter Abrahams |
| ISBN | 0345445805 |
Blake Wrightman died during the Vietnam War. Not on a Southeast Asian battlefield, but on an American college campus. He died the day the bomb he planted at an anti-war protest claimed a small boy’s life—and forced Blake Wrightman to vanish. Now, after twenty-years as “Charlie Ochs,” Cape...
| Author | Bret Anthony Johnston |
| ISBN | 1400062128 |
A gripping novel with the pace of a thriller but the nuanced characterization and deep empathy of some of the literary canon’s most beloved novels, Remember Me Like This introduces Bret Anthony Johnston as one of the most gifted storytellers writing today. With his sophisticated and emotionally...
