The Ivanhoe Gambit
10 best books like The Ivanhoe Gambit (Simon Hawke): Bone, Vol. 3: Eyes of the Storm, The Nixie's Song, Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You, The King with Six Friends, Battle Angel Alita Deluxe Edition Volume 1, The Second Book of Swords, The Third Book of Swords, Darkness Falls, NYPD: A City and Its Police, The Colour Out of Space and others
Bone, Vol. 3: Eyes of the Storm
| Author | Jeff Smith |
| ISBN | 0439706386 |
In "Eyes of the Storm," book three in the epic BONE series, Gran'ma Ben reveals long-kept secrets about Thorn's royal heritage and the ancient enmities that may lead to war.
In "Eyes of the Storm," volume three of the nine-book BONE saga, Lucius, Smiley, and Phoney survive an attack by the rat...
| Author | Tony DiTerlizzi |
| ISBN | 0689871317 |
The Spiderwick Chronicles leave the old-fashioned charm of New England far behind and head south for some fiendish faerie fun in the hot Florida sun. Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas only thinks his life has been turned upside down after his developer father remarries and moves his new wife and daughter...
Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You
| Author | Tony DiTerlizzi |
| ISBN | 0689859414 |
It all began with a strange, mysterious correspondence left for authors Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black at a small New England bookstore. Written by three siblings, the letter told of their great-great-uncle Arthur Spiderwick and an unfinished tome filled with eyewitness accounts of creatures...
| Author | Jay Williams |
| ISBN | 0819303429 |
There are many nice things about being a king. But there is one very bad thing. It's hard to find a job if you're out of work. All that a king can do is rule, and if you have no kingdom then you are out of work. That's what happened to young King Zar.
He was a good king, but young and without much experience....
Battle Angel Alita Deluxe Edition Volume 1
| Author | Yukito Kishiro |
| ISBN | 1632365987 |
After more than a decade out of print, the original cyberpunk action classic returns in glorious 400-page hardcover deluxe editions, featuring an all-new translation, color pages, and new cover designs!
In a dump in the lawless settlement of Scrapyard, far beneath the mysterious space...
The Second Book of Swords
| Author | Fred Saberhagen |
| ISBN | 0812519345 |
I really enjoyed this book. It's like a heist movie but in an epic fantasy setting, and it's quite a refreshing change from all the newer fantasy novels that seem to follow the same basic formulaic plot.
The second book picks up the story five years later, and we get to follow Mark, Ben, and Barbara...
| Author | Fred Saberhagen |
| ISBN | 0708881513 |
The third and final novel in 'The Book of Swords' trilogy.
More stories of the twelve Swords continue with the Lost Swords series.
The gods, the creators of the twelve Swords, realize their error in giving powerful Swords to humans. The humans, both good and evil, are ready to fight to the...
| Author | Les Martin |
| ISBN | 0006482945 |
“When you mess with nature, justice turns blind. And everybody gets punished.” —– Mulder
Although not found anywhere in the broadcast episode, the above line from Mulder is thought-provoking and brilliantly made with environmental ethics in mind. In this X-Files novelization...
NYPD: A City and Its Police
NYPD details episodes as fresh as the shootings of unarmed men that have triggered mass protests against Mayor Rudy Giuliani. It also tells of forgotten but no less compelling dramas such as the Becker-Rosenthal case, in which a police lieutenant went to the electric chair, and the death of Joe Petrosino,...
The Colour Out of Space and others
| Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
| ISBN | 0318047101 |
« La ferme tout entière baignait dans cette couleur mêlée, inconnue et hideuse : les arbres, les bâtiments, et mêmle la verdure et l'herbage qui n'avaient pas complètement tourné à la fatale désintégration dans la grisaille. Les branches se tendaient toutes vers le ciel, coiffées...
| Author | Rex Stout |
| ISBN | 0553763113 |
It wasn't Leonard Dykes's writing style that offended. But something in his unpublished tome seemed to lead everyone who read it to a very unhappy ending. Now four people are dead, including the unfortunate author himself, and the police think Nero Wolfe is the only man who can close the book on this novel...
Skorzeny, Hitler's Commando
| Author | Glenn B. Infield |
| ISBN | 0880292121 |
Skorzeny: Hitler’s Commando by Infield was incredibly fun to read while also diving deep into a very controversial figure during and after the Third Reich. The author provides a neutral representation of Skorzeny and his activities before, during and after the Second World War from resuming Mussolini...
| Author | Haruki Murakami |
| ISBN | 9025440541 |
Twee vrienden stappen de deur uit om in de dichtstbijzijnde bakkerij met geweld hun honger te stillen. Maar ze hebben buiten de bakker gerekend. Deze stelt een ongewone ruiltransactie voor.
De legendarische ‘broodjesroofverhalen’ van Haruki Murakami zijn een toonbeeld van surrealistische...
| Author | Mitchell Graham |
| ISBN | 0060506768 |
The long-awaited conclusion to the epic tale of Mathew Lewin, a young man who is chosen for a remarkable destiny, in this final exciting installment from Mitchell Graham. It has been three years since we've last seen Mathew Lewin, who has been hiding incognito for the past few years in his long quest to...
How to fence epee -The fantastic 4 method
| Author | Clément Schrepfer |
| ISBN | 2322011606 |
"How to fence Epee - The fantastic 4 method" is an explanatory concentration method to perfect his practice of fencing.
It is the fruit of a reflection on several years of practice of epee fencing in competition at the highest level.
A practical manual to help those who read it:
- to understand...
| Author | Rex Stout |
| ISBN | 0886468655 |
Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American crime writer, best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the...
Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard, Vol. 1
| Author | David Petersen |
| ISBN | 1932386947 |
Inside the June Alley Inn, located in the western mouse city of Barkstone, mice gather to tell tales, each trying to outdo the other. A competition, of sorts, begins. The rules: Every story must contain one truth, one lie and have never been told in that tavern before. With the winner getting his bar tab...
Tohle je průměr s odřenýma ušima. Hlavně proto, že to po sobě L̶e̶o̶š̶ Franta očividně nečetl spolu s prvním dílem. Jinak by si asi všiml, že některé fráze opakuje pořád dokola (kolik, že bylo těch kulí v Sarajevu?) a u jednoho odstavce jsem si na 100% jistý, že ho prostě...
