The Wings of a Falcon
10 best books like The Wings of a Falcon (Cynthia Voigt): A Book Dragon, On Golden Pond, The Sunbird, Swollen, The Ballad of Mulan, Blow Him Away: How to Give Him Mind-Blowing Oral Sex, The Dubious Hills, The Reluctant God, The Dragonslayer's Apprentice, More Two-Minute Mysteries
| Author | Donn Kushner |
| ISBN | 0380707691 |
How have I not reviewed this delightful book before? A tragedy!
This charming, charming tale is the story of a dragon who becomes obsessed with watching a monk illuminate beautiful book. Dragons, you see, can make themselves larger or smaller, depending on what they eat. A steady diet of humans...
| Author | Ernest Thompson |
| ISBN | 0451112237 |
This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory but still as tart-tongued, observant and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years...
| Author | Elizabeth E. Wein |
| ISBN | 0142401714 |
Eleven-year-old Telemakos is the grandson of two royal men: one African, from the kingdom of Aksum; the other Artos, the fallen High King of Britain. He is also a remarkable listener and tracker. Now his country needs his skill. Even though there is a quarantine, plague is spreading through Aksum, leaving...
| Author | Melissa Lion |
| ISBN | 0553494082 |
Samantha only wants to be loved. By her father, by her best friend, and now by the new boy at school, Farouk. The more time Sam spends with him, the more she can’t stop thinking about him. But she’s cautious, because people can hurt. To escape, Sam runs track at school, finishing every race, but never...
| Author | Song Nan Zhang |
| ISBN | 1572270543 |
" They say the male rabbit likes to hop and leap, while the female rabbit prefers to sit still. But in times of danger, when the two rabbits scurry by, who can tell male from female?"
The Ballad of Mulan is about a woman who disguises herself to join the army in her father's place.
I first...
Blow Him Away: How to Give Him Mind-Blowing Oral Sex
| Author | Marcy Michaels |
| ISBN | 0767916565 |
Summary: you need good control over your mouth. Here are some exercises you can do to get a more dexterous tongue, more muscle control, and more supple lips. Then here are some specific blowjob techniques.
Some of the information in this book is pretty obvious (there's a whole section on swallowing,...
| Author | Pamela Dean |
| ISBN | 0812523628 |
This is a very peculiar book. The Dubious Hills are a place deliberately set aside from the rest of the fantasy world they are part of by a great spell performed by wizards long ago. There is no traffic to speak of in and out and weird rules govern the workings of the inhabitants' lives. For one, each area of...
| Author | Pamela F. Service |
| ISBN | 0449703398 |
Lorna Padgett, an archeologist's daughter, has inherited her father's love for ancient Egypt. Ameni lived over four thousand years ago. The son of a Pharoah, he loved adventure but had no idea what destiny the gods were holding for him. These two should never have met. But a walk in the hills near her father's...
| Author | David Calder |
| ISBN | 0590630938 |
This was a really good book and I enjoyed it quite a bit. While the english can be hard to understand in some parts of the book it had a story that really keep in into the story. If there is a second book I wanna read it soon. The reason I choose to read this book is becuase I saw it on the book shelf and I mistook it...
| Author | Donald J. Sobol |
| ISBN | 0590447882 |
More of what we enjoyed / hated from the first book. One of the stories was about our Doctor Haledjian knowing what side of the skirt is on. Well good for him!
The good ones are a lot of fun but the bad ones are worse than groan-worthy. You're just left wondering where Doctor Haledjian lives that there...
| Author | Shane Weller |
| ISBN | 0486272842 |
One 65-minute cassette of the finest love poems in the English language from Shakespeare to Edna St. Vincent Millay. Works by Ben Jonson, John Donne, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Andrew Marvell and many others, all beautifully and sensitively read by Brian Murray and Suzanne Toren and accompanied...
Truly magical. It shouldn't have taken three days to read as it is a very short book. With illustrations. But it is Christmas time and I'm busy. This is the kind of story that uses words like gerund and widdershins. Delicious!
Two boys are in this story. They each live in a house in a wood. The house...
| Author | Lloyd Alexander |
| ISBN | 0141310693 |
Theo is traveling through Westmark, learning about the country of which he will soon be Prince Consort. He is not surprised to find great poverty-Mickle (now known as Princess Augusta) could have told him that from her years on the street. His friend Florian could have told him about the aristocracy's...
| Author | Rachel Neumeier |
| ISBN | 0316193542 |
The Griffin Mage trilogy, now complete in one volume, tells the story of the war between men and griffins --- and the young girl, torn between two worlds, who will decide the fate of all.
Little ever happens in the quiet villages of peaceful Feierabiand. The course of Kes' life seems set: she'll...
| Author | Rosemary Sutcliff |
| ISBN | 1590785223 |
High in the mountains of the Lake District is a secret valley where the Vikings have their last stronghold--their Shield Ring. The Normans seek to crush this group of Northmen and to bring all of England under their control. They build a castle in Carlisle and send an army north. Meanwhile,...
| Author | Vivian Vande Velde |
| ISBN | 0061057053 |
Welland was less than a slave. Slaves are human, and he was wolf, allowed to assume human form only when it suited the sorceress Daria.Daria kept an army of changelings mostly wolf but some lynx or weasel, a bear or two, and at least one rat. She used them to hunt and kill. And sometimes to pretend to be human,...
The World's Great Speeches
| Author | Lewis Copeland |
| ISBN | 0486409031 |
This outstanding compendium of 292 great speeches contains addresses from nearly every historical era and nation, from the formal orations of ancient Greece and the speeches of Julius Caesar, to modern-day addresses by Nelson Mandela, Ronald Regan and Václav Havel.
Among the memorable speeches...
| Author | S. Michael Wilcox |
| ISBN | 1590385861 |
Tens of thousands of women in the U.S. and Canada have laughed, wept, and learned together at Time Out for Women events. Now you can share the spirit of those occasions with these Time Out mini-books. Each contains a favorite presentation designed especially to uplift and teach. When Your Prayers Seem...
| Author | Louisa May Alcott |
| ISBN | 0553377957 |
This chilling tale of lust, deception and greed, first published anonymously in 1877, allowed Alcott the chance to exercise "the lurid style" she believed was her "natural ambition". A novel of psychological complexity that touches on the controversial subjects of sexuality and drug use, A Modern...
