The Novels of the Jaran: Jaran / An Earthly Crown / His Conquering Sword / The Law of Becoming
10 best books like The Novels of the Jaran: Jaran / An Earthly Crown / His Conquering Sword / The Law of Becoming (Kate Elliott): Dragonsdawn, Across the Nightingale Floor, Dust, Restoree, The Big Over Easy, Ariah, Monstress #3, Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight #1, Shadow's End, The Companions
| Author | Anne McCaffrey |
| ISBN | 0893662135 |
The beautiful planet Pern seemed a paradise to its new colonists - until unimaginable terror turned it into hell. Suddenly deadly spores were falling like silver threads from the sky, devouring everything - and everyone - in their path. It began to look as if the colony, cut off from Earth and lacking...
Across the Nightingale Floor
| Author | Lian Hearn |
| ISBN | 1573223328 |
In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the warlord Iida Sadamu surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No assassin can cross it unheard.
The youth Takeo has been brought up in a remote mountain village among the Hidden,...
On a broken ship orbiting a doomed sun, dwellers have grown complacent with their aging metal world. But when a serving girl frees a captive noblewoman, the old order is about to change....
Ariane, Princess of the House of Rule, was known to be fiercely cold-blooded. But severing an angel’s...
| Author | Anne McCaffrey |
| ISBN | 0552083445 |
There was a sudden stench of a dead sea creature. There was the sudden horror of a huge black shape closing over her. There was nothing...
Then there were pieces of memory, isolated fragments that were so horrible her mind refused to accept them. Intense heat and shivering cold; excruciating...
| Author | Jasper Fforde |
| ISBN | 0143037234 |
It's Easter in Reading—a bad time for eggs—and no one can remember the last sunny day. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, minor baronet, ex-convict, and former millionaire philanthropist, is found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. All the...
Ariah's magical training has been interrupted. Forced to rely on a mentor, Dirva, who is not who he claims to be, and a teacher who is foreign and powerful, Ariah is drawn into a culture wholly different from the elven one that raised him.
As his friendship with Dirva's brother blossoms into a...
Again this is a beautiful and brutal continuation of the story and in this issue we get to see more of Maika and the deadly power within her. Up to this point I don't think we've truly seen the 'monster' in up-close detail as much as we did in this issue and I have to say I would be scared if I was our main character...
Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight #1
| Author | Brynne Stephens |
| ISBN | 1560601760 |
This classic has been hanging over my head for years. I put off reading it guessing that like many other oldies, but goodies, I would read it and be unimpressed, thus becoming hated by all original die hard fans. I finally decided to give it a go. The beginning suffered from a slow start and over abundance...
| Author | Sheri S. Tepper |
| ISBN | 0553762842 |
The fragrant, sun-checkered canyon lands of the planet Dinadh seem to be a peaceful backwater of the universe...except for one thing. A century ago, a mysterious force wiped out human life on all surrounding worlds, leaving Dinadh untouched. Every team sent to investigate vanished. Every attempt...
| Author | Sheri S. Tepper |
| ISBN | 0575076283 |
Humankind has arrived on Moss to discover if any intelligent native life exists there, and to assess the planet, recently discovered by the Derac, a nomadic space-faring race, for development - and profit. Multi-coloured shapes of dancing light have been spotted; strange sounds are heard in the night;...
Many years ago, when advanced technology failed and humanity found itself in a turbulent, postapocalyptic world, extraordinary men and women birthed a new society from the ashes. In this new world of emperors and kings, new leaders emerged, making the world their own.
Two generations after...
The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide
| Author | Leah Buley |
| ISBN | 1933820187 |
Review copy provided by O'Reilly Press
There are plenty of books on user experience, heck there are probably 5 more being written right now. So why should you read Leah Buley's "The User Experience Team of One?" Not only is this a well written book, but Leah also fills a current void in the UX literature,...
Whyborne and Griffin, Books 4-6: Necropolis, Bloodline, and Hoarfrost
Books 4-6 in the Best-Selling Whyborne & Griffin Series, now in one convenient download. Save 30% off the cover price of buying separately!
Includes: Necropolis, Bloodline, and Hoarfrost
Necropolis: Whyborne and Griffin join Christine amidst the ancient ruins of the pharaohs....
| Author | Christopher G. Nuttall |
In the summer between Second and Third Year at Whitehall, Emily accompanies Lady Barb on her rounds of the Cairngorm Mountains bringing magical help to the locals and searching for new magicians. For Emily, tired and broken after the events of Study In Slaughter, it should be a chance to relax as well...
| Author | Christopher G. Nuttall |
After completing her first year of learning magic at Whitehall School, Emily accepts an invitation from Princess Alassa to accompany her on her progress back to her home country of Zangaria, where the princess may meet her future husband. Alassa, who was a spoiled brat before she met Emily, wants to...
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Agna had looked forward to her overseas assignment for the last four years. It was just a side project on the way to taking over her father’s art agency, of course, but she eagerly awaited the opportunity to use her education and prove...
| Author | Alis A. Rasmussen |
| ISBN | 0671697935 |
Transported to a magic-filled alternate world, a newlywed couple must find the treasure hidden in a labyrinth city if they ever wish to return home
With marriage comes change, and for Sanjay and Chryse, that change is literally world altering. After their wedding reception, they accidentally...
Ascension: The Complete Trilogy
This collection includes all three novels of the Ascension trilogy.
After stumbling upon an ancient rune in a dark cave, Corina Vyliss is awarded with immense power. And a death sentence. To stay alive, she'll have to defeat an immortal emperor possessed by the voice of God, rout armies empowered...
