The Wakefield Legacy: The Untold Story
10 best books like The Wakefield Legacy: The Untold Story (Francine Pascal): Bellman & Black, Saving Francesca, Night Probe!, Paradise Lost, Les Liaisons dangereuses, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, The Long Flight Home, The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Witches of Wenshar, Last Night at Chateau Marmont
Bellman & Black is a heart-thumpingly perfect ghost story, beautifully and irresistibly written, its ratcheting tension exquisitely calibrated line by line. Its hero is William Bellman, who, as a boy of 10, killed a shiny black rook with a catapult, and who grew up to be someone, his neighbours...
| Author | Melina Marchetta |
| ISBN | 0375829830 |
MOST OF MY friends now go to Pius Senior College, but my mother wouldn't allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didn't bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If you know my mother, you'll sense there's an irony there, based on the fact that she is the Queen of the...
| Author | Clive Cussler |
| ISBN | 0553277405 |
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In the midst of an international crisis, Heidi Milligan, a beautiful, brilliant American naval commander, accidentally discovers an obscure reference to the long-buried North American Treaty, a precedent-shattering...
| Author | John Milton |
| ISBN | 0140424393 |
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's...
| Author | Pierre Choderlos de Laclos |
| ISBN | 0192838679 |
The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. The subject of major film and stage adaptations, the novel's prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil,...
| Author | William McDonough |
| ISBN | 0865475873 |
"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart point out in this provocative, visionary book, such an approach only perpetuates the one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing...
| Author | Alan Hlad |
| ISBN | 1496721675 |
Inspired by fascinating, true, yet little-known events during World War II, The Long Flight Home is a testament to the power of courage in our darkest hours—a moving, masterfully written story of love and sacrifice.
It is September 1940—a year into the war—and as German bombs fall on...
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
| ISBN | 0679444734 |
Oscar Wilde made up these very special fairy stories for children. He was telling them more than stories about princes, giants, nightingales, and roses, he was teaching them about life and the way to live it. You will find in them so much sweetness and tenderness you will never forget them.
They...
| Author | Barbara Hambly |
| ISBN | 0345420608 |
Once, it was said, Wenshar had been a city of witches, summoning and controlling demons for their evil magic. But in nearby Tandieras, Kaltha claimed to have found their lost book of spells to perform only white magic. When Sun Wolf arrived, he discovered increasing signs of evil magic and demon-controlling...
Last Night at Chateau Marmont
| Author | Lauren Weisberger |
| ISBN | 0007311001 |
Heartbreak, headlines and Hermes – welcome to Brooke's new world…
Brooke and Julian live a happy life in New York – she's the breadwinner working two jobs and he's the struggling musician husband. Then Julian is discovered by a Sony exec and becomes an overnight success – and their...
Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns
| Author | Lauren Weisberger |
| ISBN | 1439136637 |
Almost a decade has passed since Andy Sachs quit the job “a million girls would die for” working for Miranda Priestly at Runway magazine—a dream that turned out to be a nightmare. Andy and Emily, her former nemesis and co-assistant, have since joined forces to start a high end bridal magazine,...
| Author | Lauren Weisberger |
| ISBN | 1476778213 |
The new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and Revenge Wears Prada—a dishy tell-all about a beautiful tennis prodigy who, after changing coaches, suddenly makes headlines on and off the court.
Charlotte “Charlie” Silver has always been a good...
The Return of The Little Prince
| Author | Ysatis De Saint-Simon |
| ISBN | 1414004001 |
Even though a sequel to The Little Prince is completely unnecessary, I wanted to read this because it's written by Saint-Exupery's niece (although not by blood). She did the best thing and based it on true events and turning points in her own life, instead of being inspired by nothing but profit. She has...
| Author | Carolyn Keene |
| ISBN | 0448095351 |
I came across The Haunted Showboat (Book #35) in near mint condition at a local antique show this past fall and decided it was time to read my very first Nancy Drew mystery. Published in 1957 and stamp-marked 2.95 (no dollar sign) on the back cover, I gladly paid my $10.Anyway, in this case, our young sleuth...
I heard a lot of bad things about this book and, well, I'm the sort of masochist that reads the comments on news articles online. I was both pleased and disappointed by this book.
To begin with, I loved the basic idea of the story, which is what drew me to borrow a kindle and read it. Despite the many...
The MacKade Brothers: Devin and Shane
| Author | Nora Roberts |
| ISBN | 0373218850 |
The sinfully sexy MacKade brothers are back! New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts's reader favorites are once again breaking the hearts of women everywhere. Sheriff Devin MacKade watched -- patiently, painfully -- as the woman he secretly cherished suffered through a less-than-perfect...
| Author | Margaret Chittenden |
| ISBN | 1575661896 |
First time author for me. Margaret Chittenden's series features Charlie (Charlotte) Plato, part-owner of Chaps, a country-western dance club/bar in the San Francisco area. Chittenden started out w/ romanaces prior to this 1996 mystery release. A mild earthquake reveals a skeleton buried on the...
The MacKade Brothers: Rafe and Jared
| Author | Nora Roberts |
| ISBN | 0373218575 |
Ten years later and the bad boy of the bunch had returned home. Appealing as ever, no even lovely Regan Joners, the town's reserved antiques dealer, was immune to Rafe MacKade. Regan claimed her plans didn't include relationships with rebels, but her reaction to
The Return of Rafe MacKade
- and his...
**Book 2 in the Top 10 Bestselling Epic Fantasy series on Amazon**
Raz i'Syul Arro is a hunted man. To the south, the Mahsadën of Miropa are gone. The šef lay dead, slain at Raz's own hands, their cruel will ripped from the shadows of the city. In response, riders careen to every reachable...
The Quest for Screen Time
| Author | Marti Dumas |
| ISBN | 1943169012 |
Giant Afro. Even Bigger Brain.
Jaden Toussaint is a five year-old who knows it all. I mean, really knows it all. Animal Scientist. Great Debater. Master of the art of ninja dancing. There’s nothing Jaden Toussaint can’t do. The only problem is that grown-ups keep trying to convince him...
Among the scattered fringe cities bordering the Cienbal desert, the true name of the Monster of Karth is spoken only in whispers...
RAZ I'SYUL ARRO.
A sellsword of the utmost caliber, Raz is a killer of paramount skill and highest regard. Towering tall even amongst the atherian,...
| Author | Ann Claycomb |
| ISBN | 0062560697 |
A modern-day expansion of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, this unforgettable debut novel weaves a spellbinding tale of magic and the power of love as a descendent of the original mermaid fights the terrible price of saving herself from a curse that has affected generations of women...
| Author | Marthe Blau |
| ISBN | 0743271122 |
You'll want to scream, but you'll be gagged. You'll want to cry, but you'll be blindfolded. You'll want to run away, but you'll be tied up. You'll have no way of begging me, I'll do what I want with you. Submission, the controversial novel that, according to The Sunday Times (London), "sent tremours through...
The Black Cat Steps on a Crack
Sabrina Tate and her cat, Hitchcock, must sort through the clues when a librarian is killed and justice is overdue . . .
With construction on the town’s new library nearing completion, mystery writer Sabrina Tate is thrilled that local book lovers, and her own forthcoming novel, will soon...
Be Careful What You Witch For
| Author | Dawn Eastman |
| ISBN | 0425264475 |
Leaving a traumatic police career behind, Clyde Fortune has returned to her seemingly quiet hometown of Crystal Haven, Michigan. In spite of the psychic powers of its residents, there’s no telling what trouble is brewing in this burg…
The highlight of this year's fall festival in Crystal...
| Author | Daniel Hecht |
| ISBN | 1582343594 |
In City of Masks, the first Cree Black novel, parapsychologist Cree and her partner take a case in New Orleans's Garden District that leaves them fearing for their own lives. The 150-year-old Beauforte House has long stood empty, until Lila Beauforte resumes residence and starts to see some of the house's...
Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that, against all odds, seduces beautiful Connie into a second date and eventually into marriage. Now, almost three decades after their relationship first blossomed in London, they live more or less happily in the...
The Titanic meets the delicious horror of Ransom Riggs and the sass of Mean Girls in this follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller How to Hang a Witch, in which a contemporary teen finds herself a passenger on the famous “ship of dreams”—a story made all the more fascinating because the author’s...
Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto
This book is an account of Irena Sendler—the “female Oskar Schindler”—who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.
In 1942, one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was granted access to the Warsaw ghetto...
