The New Women of Wonder

7 best books like The New Women of Wonder (Pamela Sargent): Young Warriors: Stories of Strength, The Subtle Knife, The Glass God, Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History, Not Flesh Nor Feathers, Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are, Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History

Young Warriors: Stories of Strength

Author	Tamora Pierce
ISBN	0375829636

What makes warrior?

This gutsy collection of fifteen original short stories offers a variety of answers to this question with thoughtfulness, heart, and the occasional wink. Compiled by bestselling author Tamora Pierce and folklorist/author Josepha Sherman, Young Warriors includes...

The Subtle Knife

Author

Philip Pullman

The second instalment in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, join Lyra as her terrifying journey continues.

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She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy?

The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer.

When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once.

Lyra...

The Glass God

Author	Kate Griffin
ISBN	0356500659

Sharon Li: apprentice shaman and community support officer for the magically inclined. It wasn't the career Sharon had in mind, but she's getting used to running Magicals Anonymous and learning how to Be One With The City.

When the Midnight Mayor goes missing, leaving only a suspiciously...

Author

Owen Davies

Cunning-folk were local practitioners of magic, providing small-scale but valued service to the community. They were far more representative of magical practice than the arcane delvings of astrologers and necromancers. Mostly unsensational in their approach, cunning-folk helped people with...

Not Flesh Nor Feathers

Author	Cherie Priest
ISBN	0765313103

Down by the river, the first to go missing were not much lamented. Disappearances of homeless men foraging through trash or nuisance skater kids who rolled their boards along the planked piers at night were not noteworthy enough to delay the city's development projects.

But deep beneath the...

Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are

Author	Kevin J. Mitchell
ISBN	0691173885

A leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you think

What makes you the way you are--and what makes each of us different from everyone else? In Innate, leading neuroscientist and popular science blogger Kevin Mitchell traces human diversity and individual...

Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History

Author	Rachel Laudan
ISBN	0520954912

Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world's great cuisines--from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present--in this superbly researched book. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines to reveal the underlying simplicity...