The Princess in the Tower
10 best books like The Princess in the Tower (Sharon Stewart): The Blue Castle, Anne Boleyn, Lady Susan, Zel, The Beggar's Opera, From Anna, Awake and Dreaming, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey, Mugglenet.com's Harry Potter Should Have Died: Controversial Views from the #1 Fan Site, The Parcel
| Author | L.M. Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0553280511 |
An unforgettable story of courage and romance. Will Valancy Stirling ever escape her strict family and find true love?
Valancy Stirling is 29, unmarried, and has never been in love. Living with her overbearing mother and meddlesome aunt, she finds her only consolation in the "forbidden"...
| Author | Norah Lofts |
| ISBN | 0698110056 |
Where do I even start with this book? If you look at my status updates, you see my state of mind deteriorate further and further to ravings of a madman. Why? Because I love Anne Boleyn. She was an ambitious woman who knew her mind and how to manipulate people, yet she was caring and soft and she did love Henry....
| Author | Jane Austen |
| ISBN | 0486444074 |
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
O Lady Susan Vernon, what a juicy jewel of a villainous character you are, a black diamond, repelling and fascinating at the same time, your wicked charm inspiring possibly an uncanny form of envy more than simple revulsion. Deceiving everyone...
| Author | Donna Jo Napoli |
| ISBN | 0141301163 |
High in the mountains, Zel lives with her mother, who insists they have all they need -- for they have each other. Zel's life is peaceful and protected -- until a chance encounter changes everything. When she meets a beautiful young prince at the market one day, she is profoundly moved by new emotions....
| Author | John Gay |
| ISBN | 0140432205 |
An 18th Century parody of the Italian Opera
23 December 2013
I want to give this play a high score simply because of it's context and content, and as it is one of the only satirical operas that has survived from the early 18th Century should also give this play, or more properly opera, some...
| Author | Jean Little |
| ISBN | 0064400441 |
Moving is never easy, especially when you're a little 9-year-old girl moving from the tumult of living in Nazi Germany to Canada in the 1930s. And if you're clumsy and your older brothers and sisters all call you "Awkward Anna" as well, it's even worse. In award-winning writer Jean Little's poignant...
Theo and her young, irresponsible mother seem trapped in their miserable, poverty-stricken life. Theo dreams of belonging to a “real” family, and her dream seems to come true when she is mysteriously adopted by the large, warm Kaldor family. But as time passes, the magic of Theo’s new life begins...
| Author | Anne Brontë |
| ISBN | 0862250560 |
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was a superb novel! It had a gripping plot that grabbed me from the first page and didn't let up until the last page. I liked the narrative style of the novel too. Anne Bronte uses the perspectives of her two primary protagonists, Mr. Gilbert Markham, and Mrs. Helen Graham, extraordinarily...
| Author | Emerson Spartz |
| ISBN | 1569757116 |
HARRY POTTER DIDN'T DIE.
The seventh and final book is out, but fans still fiercely debate the many controversial issues left unresolved. Now, the experts at MuggleNet.com argue passionately about what really happened and what should have happened.
•Would the series be stronger...
| Author | Anosh Irani |
| ISBN | 0345816749 |
Finalist for the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and for the Governor General's Literary Award, this powerful new work, about a transgender sex worker in the red-light district of Bombay who is given an unexpected task, is a gripping literary page-turner--difficult and moving, surprising and tender....
| Author | Munshi Premchand |
| ISBN | 0195668995 |
One of Premchand's most successful Hindi novels, Sevasadan is a bold statement on the political and religious debates about marriage, sexuality, and prostitution, at a time when Indian women were being held up as standard-bearers of a nation in chains.
Premchand depicts the hypocrisy of...
The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
| Author | James Rebanks |
| ISBN | 0385682840 |
Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family have lived and worked in and around the Lake District for generations. Their way of life is ordered by the seasons and the work they demand,...
