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8 best books like The Song of Mavin Manyshaped (Sheri S. Tepper): The Ruby in the Smoke, The Tiger in the Well, Metallic Love, The Night Fire, The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777, Light Thickens, Tied Up In Tinsel, Black As He's Painted

The Ruby in the Smoke
AuthorPhilip Pullman
ISBN0394895894
Sally is sixteen and uncommonly pretty. Her knowledge of English literature, French, history, art and music is non-existent, but she has a thorough grounding in military tactics, can run a business, ride like a Cossack and shoot straight with a pistol.

When her dear father is drowned in suspicious...
The Tiger in the Well
AuthorPhilip Pullman
ISBN0679826718
Pullman is fast becoming a modern-day Dickens for young adults. The setting is the same, the strong eye for characters is there, as are the brooding atmosphere, the social conscience, and the ability to spin plot within plot.
Sally Lockhart is now a young woman, left alone with a toddler. Nothing...
Metallic Love
AuthorTanith Lee
ISBN0553584715
In her now-classic tale The Silver Metal Lover, award-winning author Tanith Lee told the spellbinding story of Jane and her forbidden love for a robot named Silver. In this stunning follow-up, the legend of their tragic romance lives on. But nothing is as it was–or as it seems.…

As an orphan...
The Night Fire
AuthorMichael Connelly
ISBN0316485616
Harry Bosch and LAPD Detective Renee Ballard come together again on the murder case that obsessed Bosch's mentor, the man who trained him -- new from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly

Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor...
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
AuthorRick Atkinson
ISBN1627790438
In the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental...
Light Thickens
AuthorNgaio Marsh
ISBN0312973144
"Is this a dagger which I see before me..."
Four murders. Three witches. A fiendish lady. A homicidal husband. A ghost. No wonder "Macbeth "is considered such bad luck by theatre people that they won't mention its name out loud. But the new London production of "the Scottish play" promises to be a...
Tied Up In Tinsel
AuthorNgaio Marsh
ISBN0006512275
A Christmas pageant turns unholy.

Holed up at Hilary Bill-Tasman's manor estate for Christmas, Troy Alleyn is to paint the man's portrait and, while she's there, view the Druid Christmas pageant. Along with a pack of eccentric guests, Troy enjoys the festivities-- until one of the pageant's...
Black As He's Painted
AuthorNgaio Marsh
ISBN0006512283
Portrait of a murder...

Superintendent Roderick Alleyn's old school chum-- whom his wife Troy longs to paint-- is now President of Ng'ombwana, a brand-new African republic. This handsome, charismatic dictator has enemies of every stripe: from ruddy-faced ex-colonists to new rivals,...
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