The Well Between the Worlds
10 best books like The Well Between the Worlds (Sam Llewellyn): The Yard, Agent of Chaos, Between the Lines, The Forbidden Wish, Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale, Forest of a Thousand Lanterns, Nightbooks, Black Cat, Volume 01, All Souls Near & Nigh, Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix
| Author | Alex Grecian |
| ISBN | 0399149546 |
Victorian London is a cesspool of crime, and Scotland Yard has only twelve detectives—known as “The Murder Squad”—to investigate countless murders every month. Created after the Metropolitan Police’s spectacular failure to capture Jack the Ripper, The Murder Squad suffers rampant...
How did Fox Mulder become a believer? How did Dana Scully become a skeptic? The X-Files Origins has the answers.
The X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos explores the teen years of Fox Mulder, the beloved character depicted in the cult-favorite TV show The X-Files. His story is set in the spring of...
| Author | Jodi Picoult |
| ISBN | 1451635753 |
Delilah is a bit of a loner who prefers spending her time in the school library with her head in a book—one book in particular. Between the Lines may be a fairy tale, but it feels real. Prince Oliver is brave, adventurous, and loving. He really speaks to Delilah.
And then one day Oliver actually speaks...
She is the most powerful Jinni of all. He is a boy from the streets. Their love will shake the world...
When Aladdin discovers Zahra's jinni lamp, Zahra is thrust back into a world she hasn't seen in hundreds of years—a world where magic is forbidden and Zahra's very existence is illegal....
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
| Author | John Steptoe |
| ISBN | 0688040454 |
A Caldecott Honor and Reading Rainbow book, this memorable retelling of Cinderella is perfect for introducing children to the fairy tale as well as the history, culture, and geography of the African nation of Zimbabwe.
Inspired by a traditional African folktale, this is the story of Mufaro,...
Forest of a Thousand Lanterns
| Author | Julie C. Dao |
| ISBN | 1524738298 |
An East Asian fantasy reimagining of The Evil Queen legend about one peasant girl's quest to become Empress--and the darkness she must unleash to achieve her destiny.
Eighteen-year-old Xifeng is beautiful. The stars say she is destined for greatness, that she is meant to be Empress of Feng...
| Author | J.A. White |
| ISBN | 0062560107 |
A boy is imprisoned by a witch and must tell her a new scary story each night to stay alive. This thrilling contemporary fantasy from J. A. White, the acclaimed author of the Thickety series, brings to life the magic and craft of storytelling.
Alex’s original hair-raising tales are the only...
This started a bit slow for me, but took off quite strong. My first thought was the main characters were going to be a bit 2-dimensional. Soon, though I was drawn into wanting to know the mystery of the Man called the Black Cat. I like the Black Cat character and look forward to finding more to read. (Of course,...
You can’t bargain with death if you’ve already sold your soul.
Special Agent Patrick Collins has been reassigned by the Supernatural Operations Agency to New York City. Navigating his new relationship with Jonothon de Vere, the werewolf he’s now soulbound to, is nothing compared...
Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix
| Author | Julie C. Dao |
| ISBN | 1524738336 |
This fairy tale retelling lives in a mystical world inspired by the Far East, where the Dragon Lord and the Serpent God battle for control of the earthly realm; it is here that the flawed heroine of Forest of a Thousand Lanterns finally meets her match. An epic fantasy finale to the Rise of the Empress novels.
Princess...
The Last Book in the Universe
| Author | Rodman Philbrick |
| ISBN | 0439087597 |
This fast-paced action novel is set in a future where the world has been almost destroyed. Like the award-winning novel Freak the Mighty, this is Philbrick at his very best.
It's the story of an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz, who begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the...
| Author | Jeff Kinney |
| ISBN | 1419717014 |
Life was better in the old days. Or was it?
That’s the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn’t cut out for an old-fashioned world.
With tension building inside and outside...
| Author | Kentaro Yabuki |
| ISBN | 1421506076 |
A friend gave this to me and I didn't think I would enjoy it. Secret organizations, psychic/magic powers, assassins trying to bump each other off… so much if it was cliché without even breaking the binding. Haven't I already read this story over and over again for the past thirty years?
Glad...
The Nameless City—held by the rogue Dao prince Erzi—is under siege by a coalition of Dao and Yisun forces who are determined to end the war for the Nameless City once and for all. And the people of the city—the "Named"—are caught in between.
Meanwhile, Rat and Kai must infiltrate Erzi's...
| Author | C.M. Surrisi |
| ISBN | 1512411507 |
In the months after Quinnie Boyd cracked the mystery of her missing teacher, she expected life in her small Maine town to snap back to normal. But two writers from New York City have arrived in Maiden Rock, and there's something not quite right about them. Sure, Ceil and Edgar are pale. And they dress in...
File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents
| Author | Lemony Snicket |
| ISBN | 0316284033 |
Match wits with Lemony Snicket to solve thirteen mini-mysteries.
Paintings have been falling off of walls, a loud and loyal dog has gone missing, a specter has been seen walking the pier at midnight -- strange things are happening all over the town of Stain'd-By-The-Sea. Called upon to investigate...
Girl with a Camera: Margaret Bourke-White, Photographer: A Novel
| Author | Carolyn Meyer |
| ISBN | 1629795844 |
In this historical novel, noted writer Carolyn Meyer deftly captures the daring and passionate life of photographer Margaret Bourke-White. Growing up, young Peggy White was interested in snakes and caterpillars and other unfeminine things. She intended to become a herpetologist, but while she...
What a cruel world it was, that the true value of a thing could only be understood after it was lost.
Padore, the young queen of Ghedda, is given an ultimatum by the King of the Jinn: surrender the lives of 40 of her people or risk losing her kingdom to his wrath. But Padore is proud and will not bow to...
