The Zenda Vendetta
10 best books like The Zenda Vendetta (Simon Hawke): The Seeing Stone, Bone, Vol. 3: Eyes of the Storm, Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You, The King with Six Friends, Battle Angel Alita Deluxe Edition Volume 1, Darkness Falls, NYPD: A City and Its Police, The Colour Out of Space and others, Murder by the Book, Skorzeny, Hitler's Commando
| Author | Tony DiTerlizzi |
| ISBN | 0689859376 |
I read this with my daughter for a school book report. We read the first book together and decided to give this one a try too. The rating is from my daughter who I asked, "If five means you loved it and one you hated it, how many stars?"
I think the plot in this one was more complex and meaty. They are still...
Bone, Vol. 3: Eyes of the Storm
| Author | Jeff Smith |
| ISBN | 0439706386 |
In "Eyes of the Storm," book three in the epic BONE series, Gran'ma Ben reveals long-kept secrets about Thorn's royal heritage and the ancient enmities that may lead to war.
In "Eyes of the Storm," volume three of the nine-book BONE saga, Lucius, Smiley, and Phoney survive an attack by the rat...
Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You
| Author | Tony DiTerlizzi |
| ISBN | 0689859414 |
It all began with a strange, mysterious correspondence left for authors Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black at a small New England bookstore. Written by three siblings, the letter told of their great-great-uncle Arthur Spiderwick and an unfinished tome filled with eyewitness accounts of creatures...
| Author | Jay Williams |
| ISBN | 0819303429 |
There are many nice things about being a king. But there is one very bad thing. It's hard to find a job if you're out of work. All that a king can do is rule, and if you have no kingdom then you are out of work. That's what happened to young King Zar.
He was a good king, but young and without much experience....
Battle Angel Alita Deluxe Edition Volume 1
| Author | Yukito Kishiro |
| ISBN | 1632365987 |
After more than a decade out of print, the original cyberpunk action classic returns in glorious 400-page hardcover deluxe editions, featuring an all-new translation, color pages, and new cover designs!
In a dump in the lawless settlement of Scrapyard, far beneath the mysterious space...
| Author | Les Martin |
| ISBN | 0006482945 |
“When you mess with nature, justice turns blind. And everybody gets punished.” —– Mulder
Although not found anywhere in the broadcast episode, the above line from Mulder is thought-provoking and brilliantly made with environmental ethics in mind. In this X-Files novelization...
NYPD: A City and Its Police
NYPD details episodes as fresh as the shootings of unarmed men that have triggered mass protests against Mayor Rudy Giuliani. It also tells of forgotten but no less compelling dramas such as the Becker-Rosenthal case, in which a police lieutenant went to the electric chair, and the death of Joe Petrosino,...
The Colour Out of Space and others
| Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
| ISBN | 0318047101 |
« La ferme tout entière baignait dans cette couleur mêlée, inconnue et hideuse : les arbres, les bâtiments, et mêmle la verdure et l'herbage qui n'avaient pas complètement tourné à la fatale désintégration dans la grisaille. Les branches se tendaient toutes vers le ciel, coiffées...
| Author | Rex Stout |
| ISBN | 0553763113 |
It wasn't Leonard Dykes's writing style that offended. But something in his unpublished tome seemed to lead everyone who read it to a very unhappy ending. Now four people are dead, including the unfortunate author himself, and the police think Nero Wolfe is the only man who can close the book on this novel...
Skorzeny, Hitler's Commando
| Author | Glenn B. Infield |
| ISBN | 0880292121 |
Skorzeny: Hitler’s Commando by Infield was incredibly fun to read while also diving deep into a very controversial figure during and after the Third Reich. The author provides a neutral representation of Skorzeny and his activities before, during and after the Second World War from resuming Mussolini...
| Author | Haruki Murakami |
| ISBN | 9025440541 |
Twee vrienden stappen de deur uit om in de dichtstbijzijnde bakkerij met geweld hun honger te stillen. Maar ze hebben buiten de bakker gerekend. Deze stelt een ongewone ruiltransactie voor.
De legendarische ‘broodjesroofverhalen’ van Haruki Murakami zijn een toonbeeld van surrealistische...
| Author | Mitchell Graham |
| ISBN | 0060506768 |
The long-awaited conclusion to the epic tale of Mathew Lewin, a young man who is chosen for a remarkable destiny, in this final exciting installment from Mitchell Graham. It has been three years since we've last seen Mathew Lewin, who has been hiding incognito for the past few years in his long quest to...
How to fence epee -The fantastic 4 method
| Author | Clément Schrepfer |
| ISBN | 2322011606 |
"How to fence Epee - The fantastic 4 method" is an explanatory concentration method to perfect his practice of fencing.
It is the fruit of a reflection on several years of practice of epee fencing in competition at the highest level.
A practical manual to help those who read it:
- to understand...
Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard, Vol. 1
| Author | David Petersen |
| ISBN | 1932386947 |
Inside the June Alley Inn, located in the western mouse city of Barkstone, mice gather to tell tales, each trying to outdo the other. A competition, of sorts, begins. The rules: Every story must contain one truth, one lie and have never been told in that tavern before. With the winner getting his bar tab...
Mouse Guard: The Black Axe
| Author | David Petersen |
| ISBN | 1936393069 |
Think of Lord of the Rings, mixed up with a bit of Game of Thrones with maybe even a dash of The Odyssey...with mice as the main characters. It sounds silly, but let me assure you, it's not nearly as silly as it sounds. This is a pretty serious fantasy adventure, and using mice, ferrets, and other animals as...
