The Wood Nymph and the Cranky Saint
10 best books like The Wood Nymph and the Cranky Saint (C. Dale Brittain): Ombria in Shadow, The Book of Three, Inda, Shadows, Curtsies & Conspiracies, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, Sweet Silver Blues, Jumper, A Fistful of Sky, Point of Hopes
| Author | Patricia A. McKillip |
| ISBN | 0441010164 |
Ombria is a place heaped with history -- and secrets. There is a buried city beneath it inhabited by ghosts, accessible only through magical passages and long-forgotten doorways. When the Prince of Ombria dies suddenly, his wicked great-aunt Domina Pearl seizes power by becoming regent to the prince's...
| Author | Lloyd Alexander |
| ISBN | 0805080481 |
Taran wanted to be a hero, and looking after a pig wasn't exactly heroic, even though Hen Wen was an oracular pig. But the day that Hen Wen vanished, Taran was led into an enchanting and perilous world. With his band of followers, he confronted the Horned King and his terrible Cauldron-Born. These were...
| Author | Sherwood Smith |
| ISBN | 0756402646 |
“Power begets politics, and politics are more dangerous than war because there are fewer rules.”
May I present you one of the best hidden gems under the radar of Goodreads hype I have ever discovered? Inda brings the best of traditional high fantasy: the best tropes and arcs reworked in...
| Author | Robin McKinley |
| ISBN | 0399165797 |
A compelling and inventive novel set in a world where science and magic are at odds, by Robin McKinley, the Newbery-winning author of The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword, as well as the classic titles Beauty, Chalice, Spindle’s End, Pegasus and Sunshine
Maggie knows something’s...
Does one need four fully grown foxgloves for decorating a dinner table for six guests? Or is it six foxgloves to kill four fully grown guests?
Sophronia's first year at Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality has certainly been rousing! For one thing, finishing...
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
| Author | Catherynne M. Valente |
| ISBN | 0312649614 |
Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, September is met at her kitchen window by a Green Wind (taking the form of a gentleman in a green jacket), who invites her on an adventure, implying that her help...
| Author | Glen Cook |
| ISBN | 0451450701 |
It should have been a simple job. But for Garrett, a human detective in a world of gnomes, tracking down the woman to whom his dead pal Danny left a fortune in silver is no slight task. Even with the aid of Morley, the toughest half-elf around, Garrett isn't sure he'll make it out alive from a land where magic...
| Author | Steven Gould |
| ISBN | 0765342286 |
Davy lives alone with his father. But the truth is, it isn't much of a home. When things get so bad that Davy decides to run away, his big question is, Where? And how will he live?
The magical answer: anywhere Davy wants!
Davy discovers he has the power to "jump" from one place to another....
| Author | Nina Kiriki Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0441011772 |
The LaZelle family of southern California has a secret: they can do magic. Real magic. As a teenager, a LaZelle undergoes "the Transition"--a severe illness that will either kill him or leave him with magical powers. If he's lucky, he gains a talent like shape-changing or wish-granting. If he's unlucky,...
| Author | Melissa Scott |
| ISBN | 0812550994 |
The royal city of Astreiant, the capital of the Kingdom of Chenedolle, is bracing itself for the influx of people, money, and trouble that invariably accompanies the Midsummer Fair. For Nicolas Rathe, the wiry, street-smart pointsman with a strong sense of justice, the fair means more work: keeping...
| Author | Doris Egan |
| ISBN | 0886773288 |
THE SCIENCE OF MAGIC ---
is what lures people from all over the galaxy to the world of Ivory. Ivory, exotic and dangerous, where everything is for sale, and law exists only to protect the most powerful families. And to anthropology student Theodora of Pyrene, Ivory --- the one place in the known...
