The Whisper of Glocken
10 best books like The Whisper of Glocken (Carol Kendall): The Fatal Tree, Once: Six Historically Inspired Fairytales, The Water Of Life: A Tale From The Brothers Grimm, The Lioness and Her Knight, The Blue Hawk, Dido and Pa, Kestrel's Midnight Song, The Jedera Adventure, The Valley of Decision, The Last Motley
| Author | Stephen R. Lawhead |
| ISBN | 1595548084 |
Kit stared at his fellow questors. "Is this it . . . the End of Everything?"
It started with small, seemingly insignificant wrinkles in time: A busy bridge suddenly disappears, spilling cars into the sea. A beast from another realm roams modern streets. Napoleon's army appears in 1930s Damascus...
Once: Six Historically Inspired Fairytales
| Author | Elisabeth Grace Foley |
Six fairytales you thought you knew, set against a tapestry of historical backgrounds.
A lonely girl plots revenge in the shadow of a mountain. A stolen princess fumbles a century backward. A dwarfish man crafts brilliant automatons. A Polish Jew strikes matches against the Nazis. A dead...
| Author | Jacob Grimm |
| ISBN | 0823409074 |
Now, I have read many stories from the Brothers Grimm and I had enjoyed every single one of them! So, imagine my surprise when I finally came upon one of the Brothers Grimm’s stories being put into a singular children’s book called “The Water of Life” retold by Barbara Rogasky along with...
| Author | Gerald Morris |
| ISBN | 0618507728 |
Luneta is tired of living in dull Orkney with her mother and father (who happens to be the most boring knight of King Arthur’s Round Table). She prides herself on always getting what she wants, so when the opportunity presents itself, she jumps at the chance to stay at a family friend’s castle near...
| Author | Peter Dickinson |
| ISBN | 0330415468 |
This book caught my eye purely based on the name of the author -- I grew up loving the movie "Flight of Dragons," and not only did Peter Dickinson write the book that movie is based on, but the filmmakers named the main character in his honor. A curious reason to pick up a book, perhaps, but it at least caught...
| Author | Joan Aiken |
| ISBN | 0618196234 |
Readers who have followed Dido Twite’s escapades in Black Hearts in Battersea and Nightbirds on Nantucket will welcome her return in another wild adventure. Now back in print, Dido and Pa continues the Wolves Chronicles, the exhilarating and imaginative series that stemmed from Joan Aiken’s...
| Author | J.R. Parker |
| ISBN | 0615366503 |
The land of Gable--renowned for its birds, revered for its legends and secrets--is home to the grandest castle in the known world. Inside this castle, in a narrow cell atop the dungeon tower, the legendary Marauder known as James Kestrel awaits his hanging. Amidst the anticipation and speculation...
| Author | Lloyd Alexander |
| ISBN | 0141312386 |
Returning a library book is easy. Unless the book in question is a rare, valuable, very overdue library book. And it must be retumed to the famed library at Bel-Saaba in the North African country' of Jedera. And it's in the hands of Vesper Holly. Who's guaranteed to turn any seemingly simple errand into...
| Author | Shannon McDermott |
| ISBN | 0975502131 |
I loved this book!
THE VALLEY OF DECISION has revived my belief in self-published stories (because that was getting pretty low there for awhile...).
It was very well written and enjoyable and unique, and for the most part well thought out. The story, about the minions of an evil ruler...
Motleys. Candy-colored creatures with dark powers to drain the souls of men. That’s what Roderick always thought. Until he met one. Now he’s not so sure. But with seemingly everyone in the province hunting the motley down, he must quickly decide which side he’s on.
Is the motley the living...
The gasps and murmuring grew. Though some were hardly more than whispers, clear words reached Jace’s ears—dangerous, monster, animal, soulless. He tried to back away from their accusing eyes, but the collar pulled hard against his throat and held him in place.
For all his years as a slave,...
| Author | Patricia MacLachlan |
| ISBN | 0440840341 |
Facts and fictions are different truths. Minna Pratt stares at this message above her mother's typewriter every day and tries to understand it. But how can she, when her mind is already so full? She wishes her mother would ask her normal questions like "How was your day?" instead of "What is the quality...
| Author | Eleanor Cameron |
| ISBN | 0316125253 |
Although the first two books in the series have been republished, we had to get this one on interlibrary loan. These books are utterly charming in one way -- you want to know more about Mr. Bass, and Basidium, and Mebe and Oru. And yet I had forgotten how little "screen/page" time those characters actually...
| Author | Jill Williamson |
| ISBN | 0982598777 |
Darkness trembles.
Achan steps into his role as Crown Prince and prepares for war. But war against whom? Could Esek still be alive? Has Lord Nathak taken Esek's place? Or is the mysterious Hadad the true enemy Achan must confront?
Vrell has her own agenda of serving Prince Oren as a healer,...
| Author | Hal Foster |
| ISBN | 1606991418 |
Universally acclaimed as the most stunningly gorgeous adventure comic strip of all time, Prince Valiant ran for 35 years under the virtuoso pen of its creator, Hal Foster. (Such was its popularity that today, decades after Foster’s death, it continues to run under different hands.)
The...
| Author | Hazel B. West |
| ISBN | 1505596130 |
In an Ireland that mixes high kings, faeries, and modern warriors who drive fast cars, Ciran, a descendant from the famous warrior Fionn Mac Cool, bands together with a company of young warriors to go on a quest to recover their missing family members who were captured on patrol by the Goblins during a...
Having come to terms with her long-hidden identity, Princess Rynnaia E’veri is ready to take her rightful place. But before she can join her father at Castle Rynwyk, she must endeavor to fulfill a 200-year-old prophecy and defeat the Kingdom’s ancient enemy, the Cobelds. Joined by her faithful...
