The Squire's Tale

6 best books like The Squire's Tale (Margaret Frazer): The Chosen, Raptor, Taltos, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, The Book of Lights, In the Beginning

The Chosen
AuthorChaim Potok
ISBN0449213447
Danny Saunders en Reuven Malter groeien in de jaren veertig van de vorige eeuw op in een gemeenschap van chassidische joden in New York. Danny is orthodox opgevoed en voorbestemd zijn vader op te volgen als rabbijn. Het milieu waarin zijn vriend Reuven opgroeit, is veel moderner. Steeds meer wordt Danny...
Raptor
AuthorGary Jennings
ISBN0553562827
AN ADVENTURER UNLIKE ANY OTHER--THE RAPTOR...
HE BOLDLY EMBRACED THE PASSION AND VIOLENCE OF AN EMPIRE AS CORRUPT AS IT WAS MAGNIFICENT

An abandoned waif, the blond, gray-eyed Goth was called simply Thorn. From his unorthodox sexual awakening in a monastery and a convent to his exciting...
Taltos
AuthorSteven Brust
ISBN0441182003
Journey to the land of the dead. All expenses paid!

Not my idea of an ideal vacation, but this was work. After all, even an assassin has to earn a living.

The trouble is, everyone knows that a living human cannot walk the Paths of the Dead, and return, alive, to the land of men.

But...
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra
AuthorVaseem Khan
ISBN0316386820
On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits two unexpected mysteries.

The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant. As his search for clues takes him across the teeming city of Mumbai, from its grand high...
The Book of Lights
AuthorChaim Potok
ISBN0449001148
Mysticism Demystified

Anarchism is a visionary politics
Mysticism is the anarchism of religion
Mystics don't rely on structure
- William Everson

Mystics, as William Everson suggests in his poem, are anarchists. This does not mean that they throw bombs, at least any...
In the Beginning
AuthorChaim Potok
A superbly written story of a exceptionally intelligent young Jewish boy, David, his family, and their struggle to establish their lives in the United States, and to aid other Jewish families who wish to leave Poland and settle in New York. The family thrives in the US in the prosperous 1920's, though...
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