The Seventh Tower
10 best books like The Seventh Tower (Garth Nix): The Terminal Man, Ever, The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, The Owl Service, Into the Land of the Unicorns, Countdown, External Threat, The Road to Balinor, The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones, Song of the Wanderer
| Author | Michael Crichton |
| ISBN | 0060092572 |
Harry Benson is prone to violent, uncontrollable seizures and is under police guard after attacking two people.
Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit at University Hospital in Los Angeles, is convinced he can cure Benson through a procedure called...
| Author | Gail Carson Levine |
| ISBN | 0061229628 |
Falling in love is never easy, but falling in love with an immortal god while your days on earth are numbered is almost more than a young girl can bear.
Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine has created a stunning new world of flawed gods, unbreakable vows, and ancient omens in this spellbinding...
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
| Author | Tom Angleberger |
| ISBN | 0810984253 |
IT TAKES THE WISDOM OF YODA TO SURVIVE THE SIXTH GRADE
Meet Dwight, a sixth-grade oddball. Dwight does a lot of weird things, like wearing the same T-shirt for a month or telling people to call him "Captain Dwight." This is embarrassing, particularly for Tommy, who sits with him at lunch every...
| Author | Alan Garner |
| ISBN | 0152056181 |
Something is scratching around in the attic above Alison's room. Yet the only thing up there is a stack of grimy old plates. Alison and her stepbrother, Roger, discover that the flowery patterns on the plates, when traced onto paper, can be fitted together to create owls-owls that disappear when no one...
Into the Land of the Unicorns
| Author | Bruce Coville |
| ISBN | 0439108381 |
One unicorn dwells on Earth.
Hundreds fight in Luster.
Their legends are recorded in
THE UNICORN CHRONICLES
Into the Land of the Unicorns
As each chime sounds, Cara climbs faster up the steep bell tower. Eleven! She must be on the roof when the next bell tolls. Twelve! With...
At long last, an extraterrestrial civilization reached out and made the First Contact. However, no one on Earth took their communique for the genuine article. In a similar vein, very few people appreciated just how little time our new suzerains had promised to keep our planet safe.
Regardless,...
The countdown timer continues to tick, but Earth is still not ready to repel an invasion from space. Gnat is on his voyage with the Shiamiru, all the while trying to find backup for humanity among the great spacefaring races. After all, based on what he’s already seen, he knows not to count on the good...
| Author | Mary Stanton |
| ISBN | 0439062802 |
Introducing a new fantasy series about a girl, her unicorn, and her quest to restore peace in Balinor. After a terrible riding accident, Ari cannot remember anything of her past and is sent to live on a farm with foster parents. What Ari doesn't know is that she is not from our world, but from Balinor, a land...
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
| Author | Anthony Bourdain |
| ISBN | 1582344515 |
New York Times Bestseller
The good, the bad, and the ugly, served up Bourdain-style.
Bestselling chef and No Reservations host Anthony Bourdain has never been one to pull punches. In The Nasty Bits, he serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from...
| Author | Bruce Coville |
| ISBN | 0590459546 |
One unicorn dwells on Earth.
Hundreds fight in Luster.
Their legends are recorded in
The Unicorn Chronicles.
Book II: Song of the Wanderer
Cara must return to Earth to save her grandmother, the Wanderer. But to do so, Cara must first travel through the wilderness of Luster,...
Award-winning author Bruce Coville believes in unicorns, and his mission is to make believers out of all of us with this collection of stories by distinguished fantasy writers.
The guardian of memory / Bruce Coville
Tearing down the unicorns / Janni Lee Simner
Beyond the fringe...
| Author | Bentley Little |
| ISBN | 0451192249 |
Five complete strangers from across America are about to come together and open the door to a place of evil that they all call home. Inexplicably, four men and one woman are having heart-stopping nightmares revolving around the dark and forbidding houses where each of them were born. When recent terrifying...
| Author | Michael Hoeye |
| ISBN | 0698119916 |
Oh. My. God. Words cannot describe how much I loved this book. Which is kind of pathetic, since I'm a writer. ;-P And for someone who doesn't read mysteries, if you can get me interested in one, you know it's good!
Michael Hoeye's work is an example of world-building at its best. In a realm like-our-own-and-yet-not,...
7 Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin
| Author | James Sullivan |
| ISBN | 0306818299 |
In Seven Dirty Words, journalist and cultural critic James Sullivan tells the story of Alternative America from the 1950s to the present, from the singular vantage point of George Carlin, the Catholic boy for whom nothing was sacred. A critical biography, Seven Dirty Words is an insightful (and, of...
What if Darth Vader took an active role in raising his son? What if "Luke, I am your father" was just a stern admonishment from an annoyed dad? In this hilarious and sweet comic reimagining, Darth Vader is a dad like any other except with all the baggage of being the Dark Lord of the Sith.
Celebrated...
| Author | R.L. Stine |
| ISBN | 0439626293 |
Soon after he purchases a dusty can of monster blood at the funky old toy store near his great-aunt Kathryn's house, Evan begins to notice some strange things happening to the people around him.
While staying with his weird great-aunt Kathryn, Evan visits a funky old store and buys a dusty can...
| Author | David Lapham |
| ISBN | 1616550325 |
When a Boeing 777 lands at JFK International Airport and goes dark on the runway, the Center for Disease Control, fearing a terrorist attack, calls in Dr. Ephraim Goodweather and his team of expert biological-threat first responders. Only an elderly pawnbroker from Spanish Harlem suspects a darker...
