The Light-Bearer's Daughter
10 best books like The Light-Bearer's Daughter (O.R. Melling): Hey Ladies!: The Story of 8 Best Friends, 1 Year, and Way, Way Too Many Emails, Tithe, The Naming, The Replacement, Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale, The Diviners, Pond, The Bridge Kingdom, The Never War, The Singing
Hey Ladies!: The Story of 8 Best Friends, 1 Year, and Way, Way Too Many Emails
| Author | Michelle Markowitz |
| ISBN | 1419729136 |
Based on the column of the same name that appeared in The Toast, Hey Ladies! is a laugh-out-loud read that follows a fictitious group of eight 20-and-30-something female friends for one year of holidays, summer house rentals, dates, brunches, breakups, and, of course, the planning of a disastrous...
| Author | Holly Black |
| ISBN | 0689867042 |
Welcome to the realm of very scary faeries!
Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop,...
| Author | Alison Croggon |
| ISBN | 0763631620 |
Maerad is a slave in a desperate and unforgiving settlement, taken there as a child after her family is destroyed in war. She is unaware that she possesses a powerful gift, one that marks her as a member of the School of Pellinor. It is only when she is discovered by Cadvan, one of the great Bards of Lirigon,...
| Author | Brenna Yovanoff |
| ISBN | 1595143378 |
Mackie Doyle is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess. He is a Replacement, left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now, because of fatal allergies to iron,...
| Author | Holly Black |
| ISBN | 0689868200 |
In the realm of Faerie, the time has come for Roiben's coronation. Uneasy in the midst of the malevolent Unseelie Court, pixie Kaye is sure of only one thing -- her love for Roiben. But when Kaye, drunk on faerie wine, declares herself to Roiben, he sends her on a seemingly impossible quest. Now Kaye can't...
| Author | Margaret Laurence |
| ISBN | 0226469352 |
The Diviners is the culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence's Manawaka cycle.
This is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love. For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process – putting distance between...
| Author | Claire-Louise Bennett |
Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Broken bowls, belligerent cows, swanky aubergines, trembling moonrises and horrifying sunsets, the physical world depicted...
| Author | Danielle L. Jensen |
| ISBN | 1733090320 |
What if you fell in love with the one person you'd sworn to destroy?
Lara has only one thought for her husband on their wedding day: I will bring your kingdom to its knees. A princess trained from childhood to be a lethal spy, Lara knows that the Bridge Kingdom represents both legendary evil - and...
| Author | D.J. MacHale |
| ISBN | 1597372552 |
Bobby Pendragon has visited the alternate dimension of Denduron and waded through the endangered underwater territory of Cloral. Now Bobby once again finds himself thrust beyond the boundaries of time and space into a place that seems somewhat familiar: First Earth.
Bobby and the Traveler from...
| Author | Alison Croggon |
| ISBN | 1406308021 |
The stunning conclusion to the epic Pellinor series—four books telling an extraordinary tale of another world.
The Singing follows the separate journeys of Maerad and Cadvan, and their brother Hem, as they desperately seek each other in an increasingly battle-torn land. The Black Army...
| Author | Alison Croggon |
| ISBN | 0763630152 |
A young woman embraces her power -- and her destiny -- as the thrilling quest begun in THE NAMING continues!
Maerad is a girl with a tragic and bitter past, but her powers grow stronger by the day. Now she and her mentor, Cadvan, hunted by both the Light and the Dark, must unravel the Riddle of the...
| Author | J.M. Sidorova |
| ISBN | 1451692714 |
The Empress Anna Ioannovna has issued her latest eccentric order: construct a palace out of ice blocks. Inside its walls her slaves build a wedding chamber, a canopy bed on a dais, heavy drapes cascading to the floor--all made of ice. Sealed inside are a disgraced nobleman and a deformed female jester....
Kindling the Celtic Spirit: Ancient Traditions to Illumine Your Life Through the Seasons
In this beautiful treasury of sacred wisdom, Mara Freeman shares the rich legacy of the Celts -- the festivals, gods and goddesses, saints, faeries, music, poetry, and storytelling that anchor this magical tradition. Discover myths, rituals, recipes, and crafts for every month of theyear. Honor...
| Author | Alison Croggon |
| ISBN | 0763634093 |
As this enthralling epic nears its climax, the young heroine’s brother discovers his own hidden gift—and the role he must play in battling the Dark.
Hem is a weary orphan whose struggle for survival ends when he is reunited with his lost sister, Maerad. But Maerad has a destiny to fulfill,...
