The Wolf Tree
10 best books like The Wolf Tree (John Claude Bemis): Aladdin and His Wonderfully Infernal Device, The Siren's Cry, The Atomic Weight of Secrets or The Arrival of the Mysterious Men in Black, The Mystery at the Alamo, The Dark Deeps, Full Steam Ahead, What I Came to Tell You, The Five Fakirs of Faizabad, Lightbringers and Rainmakers, Missing Sisters
Aladdin and His Wonderfully Infernal Device
From the imagination behind the award-winning Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series comes a steampunk novella to a legend from A Thousand and One Arabian Nights.
Aladdin is a street-wise thief that finds himself under the tutelage of a world-renown illusionist. He is escorted deep into...
| Author | Jennifer Anne Kogler |
Not just an
Otherworldly...
an Unusual.
Fern is not like other girls. She has strange and vivid visions and has the ability to teleport—anywhere, anytime. Fern is an Otherworldly, a special kind of vampire that lives in the human world. What's more, Fern is one of the Unusual Eleven,...
| Author | Eden Unger Bowditch |
| ISBN | 1610880021 |
-In 1903, five truly brilliant young inventors, the children of the world's most important scientists, are taken from their lives and their parents by the mysterious men in black. They take twelve-year-old Jasper and six-year-old Lucy Modest from London, England; nine-year-old Wallace Banneker...
| Author | Gertrude Chandler Warner |
| ISBN | 0807554375 |
The Mystery at the Alamo is a short and simple book. Some things are correct, such as the fact that there’s a wax museum right across from the Alamo, but there is a glaring error about the ring. According to the book, little Angelina Dickinson was given the ring by her father. This is not correct. The ring...
| Author | Arthur Slade |
| ISBN | 0385737858 |
A fantastic Steampunk adventure in the deeps
Transforming his appearance and stealing secret documents from the French is all in a day’s work for fourteen-year-old Modo, a British secret agent. But his latest mission—to uncover the underwater mystery of something called the Ictíneo—seems...
| Author | Nathalie Gray |
| ISBN | 1603104488 |
This is a race against time. Against oneself. This is the Vendée Globe, the most grueling race around the world. Singlehanded. No stopovers. On board is Laurel Benson-Desmarais, a thirty-six-year-old racer from a family of sailors. Five foot and a quarter inch of pure adrenaline junkie. One hundred...
| Author | Tommy Hays |
| ISBN | 1606844334 |
Since his mother died earlier this year, Grover Johnston (named after a character in Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward Angel) has watched his family fall to pieces as his father throws himself into his work rather than dealing with the pain. Left to care for his younger sister, Sudie, Grover finds solace...
| Author | P.B. Kerr |
| ISBN | 0545126584 |
John and Philippa Gaunt are off on another spellbinding adventure in bestselling author P. B. Kerr's Children of the Lamp series!
John and Philippa Gaunt are all ready for their lives to return to normal now that their mother has given up her djinn powers. But the siblings are quickly drawn into yet...
I've been meaning to pick up Gilman ever since "Half-Made World" came out. A mash-up of the western and steampunk genres sounds fun, and I have heard good things about Gilman's work. So when I learned that this short story (novella?) shares the same setting of that longer work, I decided to start here and...
| Author | Gregory Maguire |
| ISBN | 0689505906 |
This book is about two young girls in 1960’s New York. Alice has a hearing loss and a speech impediment, and she lives in a Catholic home for orphans. Miami has been adopted into a crowded but happy home. Neither of them know about the other, and this book is about them finding each other again.
Oh,...
