The Rope Trick

10 best books like The Rope Trick (Lloyd Alexander): Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, The Princess and the Goblin, Queen of the Sea, Dynasty of Evil, Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark, Black Spire, Star Wars: Darth Vader - Dark Lord of the Sith, Vol. 1: Imperial Machine, Star Wars: Darth Vader - Dark Lord of the Sith, Vol. 2: Legacy's End, One Dead Spy, Queen of the Empire

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

Author	Mary Roach
ISBN	0393339912

Maybe she could have titled the book The Right Stiff.

I needed to have tissues handy while reading Mary Roach’s latest. No, it is not because it made me sad, but because I was laughing so hard my eyes were gushing. Mary Roach has had that effect on me before. I have read two of her books. Stiff and...

The Princess and the Goblin

Author	George MacDonald
ISBN	0140367462

Published in 1872, The Princess and the Goblin is one of the first books in the modern fantasy genre. This book had tremendous and very visible influence on all the (now much more famous) authors that came after it.

It is of course very dated. It does not match the standards that fantasy have created...

Queen of the Sea

Author	Dylan Meconis
ISBN	1536204986

Cult graphic novelist Dylan Meconis offers a rich reimagining of history in this hybrid novel loosely based on the exile of Queen Elizabeth I by her sister, Queen Mary.

When her sister seizes the throne, Queen Eleanor of Albion is banished to a tiny island off the coast of her kingdom, where the...

Dynasty of Evil

Author	Drew Karpyshyn
ISBN	0345511565

Twenty years have passed since Darth Bane, reigning Dark Lord of the Sith, demolished the ancient order devoted to the dark side and reinvented it as a circle of two: one Master to wield the power and pass on the wisdom, and one apprentice to learn, challenge, and ultimately usurp the Dark Lord in a duel...

Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark

Author	Cecelia Watson
ISBN	0062917935

A page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the world’s most polarizing punctuation mark

The semicolon. Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut, and Orwell detest it. Herman Melville, Henry James, and Rebecca Solnit love it. But why? When is it effective? Have we been misusing...

Black Spire

Author

Delilah S. Dawson

Walk the ancient streets, meet the colorful characters, and uncover the secret history of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, the upcoming expansion to the Disney Parks experience!

After devastating losses at the hands of the First Order, General Leia Organa has dispatched her agents across the...

Star Wars: Darth Vader - Dark Lord of the Sith, Vol. 1: Imperial Machine

Author	Charles Soule
ISBN	1302907441

Picking up where Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith ends, follow Darth Vader as he receives his legendary red lightsaber and begins his ruthless rise! Anakin Skywalker is now more machine than man. Having lost everything once dear to him, he must forge a new future--as a Dark Lord of the Sith! Join...

Star Wars: Darth Vader - Dark Lord of the Sith, Vol. 2: Legacy's End

Author

Charles Soule

Vader's story continues! Jocasta Nu, the Jedi Temple librarian, puts forth a desperate eff ort to gather and preserve whatever he can of the Jedi legacy after the purge. Vader and the Grand Inquisitor cannot let Jocasta succeed and are sent after her, as alpatine views her as a particular threat. Her...

One Dead Spy

Author

Nathan Hale

Alternate cover edition here.

Nathan Hale, the author’s historical namesake, was America’s first spy, a Revolutionary War hero who famously said “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country” before being hanged by the British. In the Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales...

Queen of the Empire

Author	Paul Davids
ISBN	0553158910

The battle against the evil Empire rages on as heroic men, women, and aliens of the Rebel Alliance continue their struggle to end the era of darkness. But the ultimate defeat of the Imperial forces could come from within the Empire itself.The Imperial grand moffs are in revolt against the Prophets of...

Curse of the Harvester

Author	Greg Grunberg
ISBN	0545826071

Ben and Jake are back for more! With the Dream Jumper business making them some serious money, all seems to be going great. But Ben is put to the test in a way he never saw coming when a new and formidable foe invades his nightmares. With Jake backing him up and a mysterious newcomer in the Dream World, Ben may...

White Crow

Author	Marcus Sedgwick
ISBN	1842551876

“If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn’t seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.”
– William James.

What a weird little book is the one I have just read. Markus Sedgwick sure knows how to write books that...

Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations

Author	Craig Ferguson
ISBN	0525533915

From the comedian, actor, and former host of The Late Late Show comes an irreverent, lyrical memoir in essays featuring his signature wit.

Craig Ferguson has defied the odds his entire life. He has failed when he should have succeeded and succeeded when he should have failed. The fact that he...

Uncanny Magazine Issue 29: July/August 2019

Author

Lynne M. Thomas

The July/August 2019 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Sarah Pinsker, Greg van Eekhout, Rachel Swirsky and P. H. Lee, Marie Brennan, A.C. Wise, and Maurice Broaddus. Reprinted fiction by Tim Pratt, essays by Aidan Moher, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Karlyn Ruth Meyer,...