The Prince of Ill Luck

10 best books like The Prince of Ill Luck (Susan Dexter): Lord of the Flies, Dark Needs at Night's Edge, A Step from Heaven, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, A Wrinkle in Time, Speak, The Hollow Kingdom, iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business, iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

AuthorWilliam Golding
ISBN0140283331
At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society, failing,...
Dark Needs at Night's Edge
AuthorKresley Cole
Bestselling author Kresley Cole continues her seductive Immortals After Dark series with this tale of a vampire shunned even by his own kind and a beautiful phantom, bound together by a passion they cannot resist.

A RAVEN-HAIRED TEMPTRESS OF THE DARK...

Néomi Laress, a famous ballerina...
AuthorAn Na
ISBN0142500275
When Young Ju is four years old, she learns that her family is leaving their small fishing village in Korea to live in Mi Gook. Young Ju has heard enough about Mi Gook to be sure the place they are moving to is paradise, that she and her family are going to heaven.

After flying through the sky for a long...
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
AuthorSuzanne Collins
Except for the whole "science that makes absolutely no sense even if it is set in the future as it has no actual basis in reality, and you need a basis in reality to make the science believable and my biology background made me cringe" thing, the last two books weren't terrible but they weren't great either....the...
AuthorMadeleine L'Engle
ISBN1250153271
It was a dark and stormy night.

Out of this wild night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe on a most dangerous and extraordinary adventure - one that will threaten their lives and our universe.

Winner...
AuthorLaurie Halse Anderson
ISBN0374311250
The first ten lies they tell you in high school.

"Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say."

From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because...
AuthorClare B. Dunkle
ISBN0805081089
This book is exactly the type of fairy tale that I love the most. Now, I know that I have been outspoken in the past about my dislike of fantasies featuring caveman, bad-boy type hero characters. However, I think that I know and respect dozens of women who melt in the presence of these guys. Do I look down on...
iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
AuthorJeffrey S. Young
ISBN0471787841
iCon takes a look at the most astounding figure in a business era noted for its mavericks, oddballs, and iconoclasts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Jeffrey Young and William Simon provide new perspectives on the legendary creation of Apple, detail Jobs’s meteoric rise, and the devastating...
iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
AuthorSteve Wozniak
ISBN0393330435
"iWoz traces the life and times of a brilliant, gifted... individual whose contributions to the scientific, business and cultural realms are extensive."—Bookpage

Before slim laptops that fit into briefcases, computers looked like strange, alien vending machines. But in "the most...
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
AuthorJoan Aiken
ISBN0385327900
Wicked wolves and a grim governess threaten Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia when Bonnie's parents leave Willoughby Chase for a sea voyage. Left in the care of the cruel Miss Slighcarp, the girls can hardly believe what is happening to their once happy home. The servants are dismissed, the furniture is sold,...
Westmark
AuthorLloyd Alexander
ISBN0141310685
When Theo agrees to print a traveling showman's pamphlet, he only thinks of the money it will bring in. Instead, it sets off a chain reaction that results in the smashing of the press and the murder of his master. Caught on the wrong side of the law, Theo must flee the city. Soon, he has teamed up with the traveling...
Welcome to Temptation
AuthorJennifer Crusie
ISBN0312932804
Sophie Dempsey is content living a quiet life filming wedding videos until an assignment brings her to Temptation, Ohio. From the moment she drive into town, she gets a bad feeling; Sophie is from the wrong side of the tracks and everything in Temptation is a little too right. And when she has a run-in with...
Faking It
AuthorJennifer Crusie
ISBN0312932782
LOVE AND DECEPTION HAVE A LOT IN COMMON.
Meet the Goodnights, a respectable family who run a respectable art gallery-and have for generations. There's Gwen, the matriarch who likes to escape reality, Eve the oldest daughter who has a slight identity problem (she has two), Nadine, the granddaughter...
AuthorElizabeth E. Wein
ISBN0142500143
The story of Medraut - strong, skilled, daring, and never to be king...

Medraut is the eldest son of Artos, high king of Britain; and, but for an accident of birth, would-be heir to the throne. Instead, his younger half-brother, Lleu, is chosen to be prince of Britain. Lleu is fragile, often ill,...
Stolen Songbird
AuthorDanielle L. Jensen
ISBN1908844965
For five centuries, a witch’s curse has bound the trolls to their city beneath the mountain. When Cécile de Troyes is kidnapped and taken beneath the mountain, she realises that the trolls are relying on her to break the curse.

Cécile has only one thing on her mind: escape. But the trolls...
Let It Shine
AuthorAlyssa Cole
**Let It Shine originally appeared in The Brightest Day: A Juneteenth Historical Romance Anthology. This version features the original story, as well as a bonus short story, No Valley Low.***

Sofronia Wallis knows that proper Black women don’t court trouble by upending the status quo,...
Getting Rid of Bradley
AuthorJennifer Crusie
ISBN1551668653
High school physics teacher Lucy Savage is finally getting rid of Bradley--and his hideous green recliner. In fact, her front lawn is littered with her cheating ex-husband's belongings. Because despite standing her up in divorce court, Bradley is out of her life for good. Or so she thinks.

When...
AuthorMeg Burden
ISBN0976812681
The debut novel of a young American writer creates a world of fantasy, where the land is divided into two-- the Northlands and the Southlands.
Ellin, a girl from the Southland, is forced to go with her physician father to heal the Northland king, even though Southlanders are despised and feared throughout...
AuthorSusan Cooper
ISBN0020421907
His name is West. Her name is Cally. They speak different languages and come from different countries thousands of miles apart, but they do not know that. What they do know are the tragedies that took their parents, then wrenched the two of them out of reality, into a strange and perilous world through...
AuthorDon Callander
ISBN0441692222
This book is somewhat dated, and has more of a YA feel to it, which is pretty typical of the era and genre. This is not a criticism, mind you, just a caveat to people who may hold expectations for this book.

There is no doubt I would have enjoyed this book more when I was a teen (or tween) and as an adult...
AuthorThorarinn Gunnarsson
ISBN1560769068
The recent opening of a thread dealing with fantasy and science fiction recommendations in one of my groups brought this book to mind, and reminded me that I'd never reviewed it. It was one that my wife and I read together back in the early 90s, having picked it up at a flea market. At the time, we liked it quite...
AuthorC. Bailey Sims
An Ancient Prophecy. A Powerful Relic. An Insatiable Evil. When all three converge, the fate of every living thing will be in peril.

All her life Catherine had hoped to see a fairrier cat. No book, no scroll provided to her by her tutors had ever mentioned this legend, much to her frustration,...
The Verdant Passage
AuthorTroy Denning
ISBN1560761210
A new creed kindled from despair...

Kalak: an immortal sorcerer-king whose evil magic has reduced the majestic city of Tyr to a desolate place of dust, blood, and fear.

His thousand-year reign of death is about to end.

Banding together to spark a revolution are a maverick...
Wizard's Bane
AuthorRick Cook
ISBN0671698036
What do software development and wizardry have in common? Read and find out.

The Black League (the bad guys) is slowly but surely winning over the Wizards Council (the good guys) and there seems to be no hope until the mightiest of the wizards came up with an idea which might help their cause. He...
The Brazen Gambit
AuthorLynn Abbey
I recently reread a different Darksun series from my youth, and this sparked an interest in checking out other novels in this universe. Troy Denning’s Prism Pentad was one of the first series of books I read (without being forced) when I was in middle school, and I have always had a special place in my...
Beyond the Moons
AuthorDavid Zeb Cook
ISBN1560761539
Poor Krynnish farmer Telden Moore has a space ship crash land in his field. The dying captain gives him a magical cloak and soon every miscreant in Wildspace is on the trail of Telden and his cloak. Will Telden's life ever be the same?

Even though I played a fair amount of D&D when I was a lad,...
The Tainted Sword
AuthorD.J. Heinrich
ISBN1560763957
Wyrmblight, once a sword of great renown, lies tarnished and forgotten by the one man who can wield it. But Fain Flinn--known in legends as Flinn the Mighty--has lost his honor and his pride. Now the land of Penhaligon faces a threat only Flinn can conquer.

All seems hopeless, until a young woman...
Phoenix Unbound
AuthorGrace Draven
ISBN0451489764
A woman with power over fire and illusion and an enslaved son of a chieftain battle a corrupt empire in this powerful and deeply emotional romantic fantasy from the USA Today bestselling author of Radiance.

Every year, each village is required to send a young woman to the Empire's capital--her...
Dig Deeper
AuthorT.S. Joyce
Morgan Holland is a poacher’s daughter looking for a way out of the swamp. She’s been making secret moves to relocate, but it seems like every time she takes a step forward, she gets shoved two steps back. Her dad and friends are on the hunt for the Shifters, and they’re closing in fast. She doesn’t...
Lonen's War
AuthorJeffe Kennedy
An Unquiet Heart
Alone in her tower, Princess Oria has spent too long studying her people’s barbarian enemies, the Destrye—and neglected the search for calm that will control her magic and release her to society. Her restlessness makes meditation hopeless and her fragility renders human...
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