The Singing Stone

10 best books like The Singing Stone (O.R. Melling): The Dark Garden, Waiting for Sarah, The Curse of the Viking Grave, Island of the Mighty, Jackalope Wives and Other Stories, Robin Hood, The Hidden World, Under Camelot's Banner, In the Shadow of the Oak King, Stealing the Elf-King's Roses

AuthorMargaret Buffie
ISBN1553370910
In this Gothic novel by award-winner Margaret Buffie, 16-year-old Thea is suffering from traumatic amnesia. As she returns home and begins to rediscover who she is, the empty places of her mind fill up with shadowy memories. When she begins to hear voices from the past, she must find out what these ghosts...
Waiting for Sarah
AuthorBruce McBay
ISBN1551432706
"I told you. I don't need anyone." "Everyone needs someone. Parents, for instance; everyone needs parents." "I've got no parents." "Everyone's got parents." She thought for a second. "Unless you're an orphan." "I've got work to do. So get lost." "You're not very nice." He scowled. "Just because I'm...
AuthorFarley Mowat
ISBN0771066805
The popular sequel to his award-winning Lost in the Barrens, this is Farley Mowat’s suspense-filled story of how Awasin, Jamie and Peetryuk, three adventure-prone boys, stumble upon a cache of Viking relics in an ancient tomb somewhere in the north of Canada. Packed with excitement and with little-known...
AuthorEvangeline Walton
ISBN0020264720
Tricked into giving birth to him, the sorceress Arianhod swore that the child should be nameless until she named him...that he should not bear arms until she herself bestowed them...and that he should never love a woman of the human race.

But her brother and lover Gwydion tricked her into bestowing...
AuthorT. Kingfisher
Winner of the Nebula and WSFA Short Fiction Awards

From award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes a collection of short stories, including "Jackalope Wives," "The Tomato Thief," "Pocosin," and many others. By turns funny, lyrical, angry and beautiful, this anthology includes two all-new...
AuthorLouis Rhead
ISBN0517671298
A comprehensive, well-researched, clearly written and beautifully illustrated collection of the original Robin Hood tales. Rhead sticks very close to the canonical ballads- perhaps too close, resulting in a few too many tales that follow the eventually tedious pattern of Robin meeting someone,...
AuthorAlison Baird
ISBN0670882216
Maeve is disgruntled and depressed when she is sent for the summer to her aunt's house in Newfoundland while her parents try to work out problems in their marriage and careers. But she does enjoy Newfoundland's rustic charms and the closeness she feels there to her favourite grandmother, now dead. Maeve's...
AuthorSarah Zettel
ISBN0373802315
Camelot’s Sword isn’t my favourite book of the series, because the characters are definitely not my favourite and I think the way they eventually get together is a little too rushed. However, the way Zettel plays with the Arthurian mythos continues to be delightful, from her portrayal of Guinevere...
AuthorCourtway Jones
ISBN0671734040
An interesting retelling of Malory, which is neither medieval nor quite 5th century. While the author is a cultural anthropologist, this "reconstruction" seem more like a fantasy world to me. The Druids definitely come across as the bad guys here, with their human child sacrifices. The love story...
AuthorDiane Duane
ISBN0446609838
This is not an especially easy book to describe.

The cosmological background is that there are multiple alternate Earths, six of which currently have regular communication and trade with each other. A seventh has just been discovered as the story opens, and is subsequently revealed to be...
Shadow Patriots: A Novel of the Revolution
AuthorLucia St. Clair Robson
ISBN0765344629
In July of 1776, the American colonies are ablaze with passion. In the streets, those who would be free boldly read aloud the newly written Declaration of Independence. It is a cry of freedom, but it is also a time of critical confrontation, both on the battlefield and off as the people of a new nation choose...
A.D. 500: A Journey Through The Dark Isles Of Britain And Ireland
AuthorSimon Young
ISBN0753819465
From back cover - "From Tintagel and tin-mining to saints and slave markets, from alcohol and King Arthur to boat burials and beavers - here are the realities of life in the sixth century A.D.

Based squarely on archaeological and historical evidence, this window on the mysterious world of the...
Dead Water Zone
AuthorKenneth Oppel
ISBN0061234427
For as long as he can remember, Paul has looked after his younger, weaker brother Sam. But when Sam leaves home to work as a research assistant in Watertown, he disappears into the dark folds of the city's noxious slum. When Paul goes looking for Sam in Watertown, he learns a dark secret: something in the...
Spellbound
AuthorNancy Holder
ISBN0743426991

After months of battles and betrayals, Holly Cathers's coven of Light, the Tri-Coven, is in disarray -- Eddie, Kialish, Silvana, and Alonzo are dead; Nicole is trapped on the island of Avalon; and Holly -- delirious from being pulled out of the Dreamtime -- has turned herself over to the leader of...
Kraken Bake
AuthorKaren Dudley
REHEAT THE KRAKEN!

It’s a great day for Greece when Perseus defeats the dreaded kraken. But victory begins to lose its lustre when tonnes of tentacles start to swamp the shores and fishing nets of the Aegean. Now after weeks of kraken cakes, kraken kabobs, kraken fritters and kraken stew,...
Before Wings
AuthorBeth Goobie
ISBN1551431637
Fifteen-year-old Adrien barely survived a brain aneurysm two years earlier, and is haunted by the fact that she could die from another one at any time. In fact, issues of life and death completely fill her world at Camp Lakeshore, owned and operated by her Aunt Erin, a woman with a haunted past of her own....
Two Lines
AuthorMelissa Marr
“I am not a monster.”

Or at least that’s what Eavan tells herself. Though Eve knows she is a Glaistig, and that hunger for sex and death – preferably together – runs in her blood, she is determined to keep herself human. She will turn full Glaistig only in the event that she engages in...
Winter Wood
AuthorSteve Augarde
ISBN0385605633
In this astonishing final part of Steve Augarde's captivating trilogy, past and present are connected and the interwoven threads lead to an astonishing series of revelations.





Midge's discovery of the hidden tribes is like a dream to her now, their existence all but forgotten...
Seriously Hexed
AuthorTina Connolly
ISBN0765383772
Tina Connolly continues the hilarious adventures of teen witch Camellia and her mother, wicked witch Sarmine, in this latest installment to the Andre Norton Award-nominated "Seriously Wicked" series.

Teen witch Cam has resigned herself to being a witch. Sort of. She s willing to do small...
The Wildkin's Curse
AuthorKate Forsyth
ISBN0330426052
Three times a babe shall be born,
between star-crowned and iron-bound.
First, the sower of seeds, the soothsayer,
though lame, he must travel far.
Next shall be the king-breaker, the king-maker,
Though broken himself he shall be.
Last, the smallest and the greatest –...
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