The Xanadu Adventure
10 best books like The Xanadu Adventure (Lloyd Alexander): The Stationery Shop, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, Strange Practice, Wunderland, River of Darkness, A Taste of Honey, Messenger of Truth, Unpregnant, The Watcher in the Shadows, Lloyd Alexander
| Author | Marjan Kamali |
| ISBN | 1982107480 |
Look at love
How it tangles
With the one fallen in love
Look at spirit
How if fuses with earth
Giving it new life
Five lyrical, heart-wrenching/ripping/breaking into pieces, soul shaking, perception changing, revolutionary, magical, eternal love stars!
The list...
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
| Author | Alan Bradley |
| ISBN | 0385342314 |
Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey are over—until beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfortunate...
Greta Helsing inherited the family's highly specialized, and highly peculiar, medical practice. In her consulting rooms, Dr. Helsing treats the undead for a host of ills - vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies. Although barely making ends meet, this is just...
| Author | Jennifer Cody Epstein |
| ISBN | 0525576908 |
East Village, 1989
Things had never been easy between Ava Fisher and her estranged mother Ilse. Too many questions hovered between them: Who was Ava's father? Where had Ilse been during the war? Why had she left her only child in a German orphanage during the war's final months? But now Ilse's ashes...
| Author | Rennie Airth |
| ISBN | 0143035703 |
In a quiet and picturesque English countryside where people are still recuperating from the ravages of World War I, the peace of a small Surrey village is shattered by the discovery of a horrifying murder. Five victims; four of them killed with military efficiency and, judging from the wounds, a military...
Long after the Towers left the world but before the dragons came to Daluça, the emperor brought his delegation of gods and diplomats to Olorum. As the royalty negotiates over trade routes and public services, the divinity seeks arcane assistance among the local gods.
Aqib bgm Sadiqi, fourth-cousin...
| Author | Jacqueline Winspear |
| ISBN | 0805078983 |
London, 1931. On the night before the opening of his new and much-anticipated exhibition at a famed Mayfair gallery, Nicholas Bassington-Hope falls to his death. The police declare the fall an accident, but the dead man's twin sister, Georgina, isn't convinced. When the authorities refuse to conduct...
Seventeen-year-old Veronica Clarke never thought she would wish she’d failed a test until she finds herself holding a thick piece of plastic in her hands and staring at two solid pink lines. Even the most consistent use of condoms won’t prevent pregnancy when your boyfriend secretly pokes holes...
| Author | Chris Moriarty |
| ISBN | 0547466323 |
“A fabulously imaginative historical fantasy.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review of The Inquisitor’s Apprentice
At the turn of the twentieth century, New York’s Bowery District becomes the scene of a terrible murder when the Klezmer King gets fried to a crisp by his Electric...
| Author | Jill P. May |
| ISBN | 0805747176 |
May's book provides useful insights into Alexander and his writing process, which is what I was hoping for. It examines his writings in light of his life, and describes both audience and critical responses to the books.
Although it sometimes feels somewhat dry and academic, the book held my...
Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology
| Author | Dimitra Fimi |
| ISBN | 1137552816 |
Fantasy literature owes much of its imaginative power to myth, legend and folklore, often as recorded in European medieval literature. Some of the most successful texts of contemporary fantasy literature have turned to the 'Celtic' tradition, drawing inspiration from medieval Irish and Welsh...
| Author | S.B. Divya |
| ISBN | 0765389797 |
The Minerva Sierra Challenge is a grueling spectacle, the cyborg's Tour de France. Rich thrill-seekers with corporate sponsorships, extensive support teams, and top-of-the-line exoskeletal and internal augmentations pit themselves against the elements in a day-long race across the Sierra...
Changes for Samantha: A Winter Story
| Author | Valerie Tripp |
| ISBN | 0937295957 |
Times change for Samantha when she moves to New York City to live with Uncle Gard and Aunt Cornelia. They change for Nellie, Samantha's servant friend in Mount Bedford, too. But Nellie's changes aren't as happy as Samantha's and Nellie has to find work again. When her friend disappears, Samantha thinks...
| Author | Christopher G. Nuttall |
Years ago, Heart’s Eye, a school built on top of a nexus point, was attacked and captured by a necromancer. The nexus point was snuffed out, the handful of survivors forced to flee and the once-great school turned into a forward base for a necromantic invasion. All seemed lost, until Emily killed the...
Håkan Nesser is firmly established as one of the world's bestselling crime novelists. And now the novel that introduced Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is available for the first time in English. The swift conviction left Van Veeteren uneasy: Janek Mitter woke one morning with a brutal hangover and...
If only she'd said no...
Katherine knew she’d had too many drinks, but they were only going a short distance. And as Eve pointed out, it was late, there was no traffic anyway...
Now, Katherine would do anything to turn back the clock. If anyone ever found out about the accident, it...
| Author | Andrea Rexilius |
| ISBN | 0988713721 |
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| Author | Brandon Sanderson |
| ISBN | 0449818438 |
The shorter a Sanderson read is, the less impressed I am with myself if I figure out the twisty paths of that man's genius mind . . .
That being said, I GUESSED THE TWIST AGAIN!!! *gloats* *booty shakes*
Anyway, MITOSIS was a short entertaining story that gave just a (possible) hint more...
