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10 best books like The Worlds of Chrestomanci (Diana Wynne Jones): Gift of the Unmage, Midnight Hour Encores, The Selected Journals Of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 5: 1935-1942, Doctor Who: The Holy Terror, Doctor Who: Whispers of Terror, Air & Earth, Cat And The Stinkwater War, The Wild Hunt, Doctor Who: The Apocalypse Element, Doctor Who: The One Doctor

Gift of the Unmage
AuthorAlma Alexander
ISBN0060839554
Thus says Cheveyo: mage, teacher, the first person in Thea's life to remain unimpressed by her lineage as Double Seventh, the seventh child of two seventh children. From birth, great things were expected of Thea, gradually replaced by puzzled disappointment as it became evident her magical abilities...
Midnight Hour Encores
AuthorBruce Brooks
ISBN0064470210
On the Road

Sibilance T. Spooner thinks she's one of the world's more promising cellists. The world thinks so too. Given up by her mother on the day she was born, she believes she has almost raised herself--with just a bit of guidance from her unconventional father, Taxi. When Sib finally asks...
The Selected Journals Of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 5: 1935-1942
AuthorL.M. Montgomery
ISBN0195421167
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942), the author of the classic novel for children, Anne of Green Gables, kept extensive journals for most of her life, beginning them in 1889 when she was fourteen and continuing them until shortly before her death. The much anticipated final volume of The Selected Journals...
Doctor Who: The Holy Terror
AuthorRobert Shearman
ISBN1903654106
The TARDIS lands in a forbidding castle in a time of religious upheaval. The old god has been overthrown, and all heretics are to be slaughtered. Obviously it isn't the sort of thing which would happen there every day - just every few years or so.

And when the Doctor and Frobisher are hailed as messengers...
Doctor Who: Whispers of Terror
AuthorJustin Richards
ISBN1844350681
The Doctor and Peri find themselves in the Museum of Aural Antiquities, where every sound is stored for posterity - from the speeches of Visteen Krane to security service wire taps and interrrogation tapes. But they also find an intruder, mysteriously changed recordings, and a dead body.

Before...
Air & Earth
AuthorTamora Pierce
ISBN0760742510
Daja is the outcast Trader whose magic is with metalcraft. Briar is a former "street rat" who is learning plant magic. Together with their fellow mages in training, Sandry and Tris must help two communities whose people are in dire peril. In books three and four, the spellbinding conclusion to the riveting...
Cat And The Stinkwater War
AuthorKate Saunders
At first glance there's nothing special about the little white stone which Cat's archeologist father gives her. But then Cat makes a catastrophic discovery. The stone does have amazing powers. Power to take her away from bullying Emily Baines. Power to turn her into someone graceful, fast and agile....
The Wild Hunt
AuthorJane Yolen
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...
Doctor Who: The Apocalypse Element
AuthorStephen Cole
ISBN1903654017
When the planet Archetryx is threatened by a Dalek assault squad, the Doctor and Evelyn become embroiled in an ever-deepening mystery. What has become of President Romana, missing for twenty years? What lurks in the vast gravity wells of Archetryx? What is the secret of the ancient element the Daleks...
Doctor Who: The One Doctor
AuthorGareth Roberts
ISBN1903654564
When the evil Skelloids launch an attack upon the seventeen worlds of the Generios system, its peace-loving inhabitants face total destruction.

So it's fortunate that the famous traveller in time and space known only as the Doctor is in the area, and doubly lucky that, with the help of his pretty...
Doctor Who: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
AuthorNicholas Pegg
ISBN1844350711
In a desolate Cornish landscape littered with relics of prehistoric man, the Doctor and Evelyn uncover a catalogue of mysteries.

What is the secret of the fogou? Can the moor be haunted by a demonic host of imps? And what is Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart doing in Pengriffen?

Teaming...
Doctor Who: The Fearmonger
AuthorJonathan Blum
ISBN1844350444
         
One would-be assassin is in a mental ward. Another's on the run. Their intended victim is stirring up the mobs. Terrorists are planning a strike of their own. A talk-radio host is loving every minute of it. A Whitehall insider whispers about a mysterious UN operative, with a hidden agenda....
Seeds of Change
AuthorJohn Joseph Adams
ISBN0809573105
Imagine the moment when the present ends, and the future begins -- when the world we knew is no more and a brave new world is thrust upon us. Gathering stories by nine of today's most incisive minds, Seeds of Change confronts the pivotal issues facing our society today: racism, global warming, peak oil,...
Doctor Who: Colditz
AuthorSteve Lyons
ISBN1903654475
October 1944: As World War II draws towards its conclusion, a Nazi defeat begins to seem almost inevitable. But that might be about to change...

Two intruders are captured in the grounds of Colditz Castle, the most secure POW camp in Germany. At first, the guards think they're dealing with British...
Doctor Who: The Shadow of the Scourge
AuthorPaul Cornell
ISBN1903654203
The Pinehill Crest Hotel in Kent is host to three very different events: a cross-stich convention, an experiment in time travel and... the summoning of the scourge.

The Doctor, Bernice and Ace find themselves dealing with a dead body that's come back to life, a mystical symbol that possesses...
Doctor Who: The Genocide Machine
AuthorMike Tucker
Attempting to return some overdue library books at the giant library on Kar-Charrat. The Doctor and Ace soon learn that the Daleks have been awaiting he’s arrival.
They plan to use the Time Lord to penetrate the time-sensitive defences of the building.

This is Big Finish’s first Dalek...
Doctor Who: Phantasmagoria
AuthorMark Gatiss
ISBN1903654092
The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Turlough to the London of 1702 where a mysterious highwayman roams the streets, a local occultist has made contact with the dead and gentlemen of fashion are disappearing, only to find themselves in a chamber whose walls weep blood...

The time-travellers become...
Uncanny Magazine Issue 13: November/December 2016
AuthorLynne M. Thomas
The November/December 2016 issue of the Hugo Award winning Uncanny Magazine.

Featuring new fiction by Paul Cornell, Brooke Bolander, Jennifer Marie Brissett, Alex Bledsoe, Kat Howard, and Nalo Hopkinson, reprinted fiction by Amal El-Mohtar, essays by Alyssa Wong, Monica Valentinelli,...
Cat Scratch Fever
AuthorTara K. Harper
ISBN0345380517
Tsia had dreamed all her life of becoming a guide, attuned to her world through a telepathic gate to another lifeform. At last, she took the guide virus that would mutate her body to create the gate she so desperately craved. But the lifeform her body took was the one lifeform forbidden--the felines, who...
The Skull of Truth
AuthorBruce Coville
ISBN0152060847
Mr. Elives’s magic shop is back, and this time it is on the other side of Tucker’s Swamp. And Tucker’s Swamp is where Charlie Eggleston heads to escape a beating-for lying. Charlie can’t seem to keep from lying, though sometimes his lies are for a good cause. When Charlie stumbles into Mr. Elives’s...
The Art of Space Travel
AuthorNina Allan
ISBN0765390655
The Art of Space Travel by Nina Allan is a science fiction novelette. In 2047, a first manned mission to Mars ended in tragedy. Thirty years later, a second expedition is preparing to launch. As housekeeper of the hotel where two of the astronauts will give their final press statements, Emily finds the...
Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo, Volume 2
AuthorMatsuri Akino
ISBN1427807108
The bestselling pet shop of horrors returns--in Tokyo

Kabukicho, Japan--a district where drifters gather and everything is obtainable. In the heart of Kabukicho, lays Neo Chinatown, an elaborate recreation of old Shanghai. Here, you can find all manner of goods from China, including food,...
Doctor Who: Spare Parts
AuthorMarc Platt
ISBN1903654726
On a dark frozen planet where no planet should be, in a doomed city with a sky of stone, the last denizens of Earth's long-lost twin will pay any price to survive, even if the laser scalpels cost them their love and hate and humanity.

And in the mat-infested streets, round tea-time, the Doctor and...
Doctor Who: Storm Warning
AuthorAlan Barnes
October, 1930. His Majesty's Airship, the R101, sets off on her maiden voyage to the farthest-flung reaches of the British Empire, carrying the brightest lights of the Imperial fleet. Carrying the hopes and dreams of a breathless nation.

Not to mention a ruthless spy with a top-secret mission,...
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