The Unexpected Dragon
10 best books like The Unexpected Dragon (Mary Brown): Horns, Daughter of the Blood, The Darkest Part of the Forest, Something Blue, Last Year, Recipes for Love and Murder, The Aeronaut's Windlass, The Last Dragonlord, Dragon and Phoenix, Counterfeit Unrealities
| Author | Joe Hill |
| ISBN | 0061147958 |
Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache . . . and a pair of horns growing from his temples.
At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He had...
| Author | Anne Bishop |
| ISBN | 0451456718 |
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The Dark Kingdom is preparing itself for the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy--the arrival of a new Queen, a Witch who will wield more power than even the High Lord of Hell himself. But this new ruler is young, and very susceptible...
The Darkest Part of the Forest
| Author | Holly Black |
| ISBN | 0316213071 |
Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill a monster and feel quite proud of themselves. A girl can look at her brother and believe they’re destined to be a knight and a bard who battle evil. She can believe she’s found the thing she’s been made for.
Hazel lives...
| Author | Emily Giffin |
| ISBN | 0312323867 |
Following the smash-hit Something Borrowed comes story of betrayal, redemption, and forgiveness
Darcy Rhone has always been able to rely on a few things: Her beauty and charm. Her fiance, Dex. Her lifelong best friend, Rachel. She never needed anything else. Or so she thinks until...
| Author | Robert Charles Wilson |
| ISBN | 0765332639 |
From the author of the bestselling and Hugo Award-winning Spin, comes an SF tale that poses searching questions about tourism and colonization
Two events made September 1st a memorable day for Jesse Cullum. First, he lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses. Second, he saved the life of President...
Recipes for Love and Murder
| Author | Sally Andrew |
| ISBN | 1782116451 |
Meet Tannie Maria: A woman who likes to cook a lot and write a little. Tannie Maria writes recipes for a column in her local paper, the Klein Karoo Gazette.
One Sunday morning, as Maria savours the breeze through the kitchen window whilst making apricot jam, she hears the screech and bump that...
| Author | Jim Butcher |
| ISBN | 0451466802 |
Jim Butcher, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dresden Files and the Codex Alera novels, conjures up a new series set in a fantastic world of noble families, steam-powered technology, and magic-wielding warriors…
Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity,...
| Author | Joanne Bertin |
| ISBN | 0812545419 |
Dragonlord Linden Rathan, last-born of a race of immortal weredragons, has spent six hundred years alone, searching for his soultwin while his fellow Dragonlords watch over humanity's Five Kingdoms.
When the Queen of Cassori dies mysteriously, Linden and the other Dragonlords are called...
| Author | Joanne Bertin |
| ISBN | 0812545427 |
Once every thousand years the phoenix of Jehanglan burns to death in a magical release. For millennia the emperors of Jehanglan have tried to harness the awesome power of the phoenix's rebirth. One has finally succeeded, using black magic and the enslavement of a dragon.
Far away at the Crown...
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 0739426141 |
Mood organs. Scramble suits. Poison tongue darts. Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) may have invented more wildly imaginative creations per novel than any of his peers. An eccentric whose mind danced on the blurry edge between illusion and reality, madness and metaphysics, he produced a body of work that...
| Author | James Reese |
| ISBN | 0061031844 |
Herculine is only six-years-old when she watches her mother die horribly and inexplicably. A child alone in the nineteenth-century French countryside, she makes her way to the secluded convent, where she is taken in as a foundling orphan and raised by nuns who teach the children of the privileged to...
In her eagerly awaited new novel, beloved New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin returns with an extraordinary story of love and loyalty—and an unconventional heroine struggling to reconcile both.
Thirty-three-year-old Shea Rigsby has spent her entire life in Walker, Texas—a...
| Author | Jo Watson |
| ISBN | 1472257782 |
LOVED it.
even though, this story has the same pattern of a
"forbidden romance"
as these types of stories tend to have, BUT here the "seriousness" of the starter trope is vowen with such a
liberating humor and comedy of situation
- where a heroine aka
Sera De La Haye
has a mind-blowing hawt...
"Your problem is that your heart is too big, it leaves you vulnerable and makes you weak." He spoke in such certainty that it brought tears to my eyes, because it was the truth. I was vulnerable and delicate, I was weak and let my guard down too much. "You put your heart on your sleeve. You are oblivious to evil...
| Author | Isley Robson |
| ISBN | 1503943674 |
To stay sane, Andie Tilly must keep her mind on her work. Her job as a pediatric occupational therapist is the perfect distraction from the unspeakable tragedy she experienced as a child. But when she meets alternative-energy magnate Rhys Griffiths and his autistic toddler, Will, she quickly realizes...
| Author | William Campbell Powell |
| ISBN | 0765338289 |
What happens when you turn eighteen and there are no more tomorrows?
It is the year 2049, and humanity is on the brink of extinction….
Tania Deeley has always been told that she’s a rarity: a human child in a world where most children are sophisticated androids manufactured by Oxted...
| Author | V.M. Escalada |
| ISBN | 0756409330 |
The Faraman Polity was created by the first Luqs, and has been ruled for generations by those of the Luqs bloodline. It is a burgeoning empire maintained by the combined efforts of the standing military force and the Talents of the Halls of Law. While the military preserves and protects, it is the Halls'...
Meet Tannie Maria - recipe writer turned crime fighter - and before she has time to take her Venus Chocolate Cake out of the oven, our glorious heroine finds herself embroiled in another mystery.
In this wonderful sequel to Recipes for Love and Murder, Slimkat the bushman finds his life under...
