The Shield Ring
10 best books like The Shield Ring (Rosemary Sutcliff): The Professor, The Lightest Object in the Universe, East, Talking to Dragons, Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style, This Rough Magic, Year of the Griffin, The Freedom Maze, A Sending of Dragons, The Wings of a Falcon
| Author | Charlotte Brontë |
| ISBN | 1582870950 |
The Professor was the first novel by Charlotte Brontë. It was originally written before Jane Eyre and rejected by many publishing houses, but was eventually published posthumously in 1857. The book is the story of a young man, William Crimsworth. It describes his maturation, his loves and his eventual...
The Lightest Object in the Universe
| Author | Kimi Eisele |
| ISBN | 1616207930 |
If the grid went down, how would you find someone on the other side of the country? How would you find hope?
After a global economic collapse and failure of the electrical grid, amid escalating chaos, Carson, a high school teacher of history who sees history bearing out its lessons all around...
| Author | Edith Pattou |
| ISBN | 0152052216 |
Rose has always been different. Since the day she was born, it was clear she had a special fate. Her superstitious mother keeps the unusual circumstances of Rose's birth a secret, hoping to prevent her adventurous daughter from leaving home... but she can't suppress Rose's true nature forever. So when...
| Author | Patricia C. Wrede |
| ISBN | 0152046917 |
Always be polite to dragons!
That's what Daystar's mother taught him...and it's a very wise lesson--one that might just help him after his mom hands him a magic sword and kicks him out of the house. Especially because his house sits on the edge of the Enchanted Forest and his mother is Queen Cimorene.
But...
Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
| Author | Benjamin Dreyer |
| ISBN | 0812995708 |
A witty, informative guide to writing "good English" from Random House's longtime copy chief and one of Twitter's leading enforcers of proper grammar--a twenty-first-century
Elements of Style.
As authoritative as it is amusing, this book distills everything Benjamin Dreyer has...
| Author | Mary Stewart |
| ISBN | 0060747471 |
When Lucy Waring's sister Phyllida suggests that she join her for a quiet holiday on the island of Corfu, young English Lucy is overjoyed. Her work as an actress has temporarily come to a halt. She believes there is no finer place to be "at liberty" than the sun-drenched isle of Corfu, the alleged locale...
| Author | Diana Wynne Jones |
| ISBN | 0575075376 |
It is eight years after the tours from offworld have stopped. High Chancellor Querida has retired, leaving Wizard Corkoran in charge of the Wizards' University. Although Wizard Corkoran's obsession is to be the first man on the moon, and most of his time is devoted to this project, he decides he will...
| Author | Delia Sherman |
| ISBN | 1931520305 |
Thirteen-year-old Sophie isn't happy about spending summer at her grandmother's old house in the Bayou. But the house has a maze Sophie can't resist exploring once she finds it has a secretive and playful inhabitant. When she makes an impulsive wish, she slips one hundred years into the past, to the...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0152051287 |
Disappointing. The plot felt rushed and choppy, never seemed to find a rhythm or establish what direction the story was trying to take, and left any number of loose threads dangling. For instance, the possibility of the (view spoiler)[ Cave-men, armed with their metal, (hide spoiler)].
| Author | Cynthia Voigt |
| ISBN | 0590467131 |
Fantasy books get a lot of flack from "established" literature. Children or young adult fantasy books get ignored by adult fantasy readers. So between the two, I guess it's not surprising to find that this book is an undiscovered gem. But I urge anyone who has a few hours and spare 99p or whatever ridiculously...
| Author | Stuart Hill |
| ISBN | 1905294298 |
Book 2 continues the Saga of the never ending battle of the IceMark. I must say that I have been totally engulfed by all species. To the point thhat sometimes I forget if I am thinking about Wolf folk , Snow Leopards or human kind. The relationship between the species are so human that sometimes their does...
| Author | Alison Croggon |
| ISBN | 0763630152 |
A young woman embraces her power -- and her destiny -- as the thrilling quest begun in THE NAMING continues!
Maerad is a girl with a tragic and bitter past, but her powers grow stronger by the day. Now she and her mentor, Cadvan, hunted by both the Light and the Dark, must unravel the Riddle of the...
| Author | Hilari Bell |
| ISBN | 0689854161 |
THE SPIRIT OF THE ANCIENT CHAMPION, SORAHB, WAS REBORN INTO THE BODY OF A DEGHAN YOUTH.
There is not much time left on the Hrum's self-imposed limit— only a few months. If in that time they don't take all of Farsala, then the Farsalans will regain their independence.
Ceaselessly,...
