Under the Mountain
10 best books like Under the Mountain (Maurice Gee): The Book of Jhereg, The Fionavar Tapestry, The 10 PM Question, I Am Not Esther, Pounamu Pounamu, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, Juggling With Mandarins, Juno of Taris, A Sword in Her Hand, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
| Author | Steven Brust |
| ISBN | 0441006159 |
A welcome addition to any fantasy fan's library, The Book of Jhereg follows the antics of the wise-cracking assassin Vlad Taltos and his dragon-like companion through their first three adventures: Jhereg, Yendi, and Teckla. From his rookie assassin days to his selfless feats of heroism, the dauntless...
| Author | Guy Gavriel Kay |
| ISBN | 0006479502 |
In the three novels that make up the Fionavar Tapestry trilogy collected in this omnibus edition (The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire, and The Darkest Road), five University of Toronto students find themselves transported to a magical land to do battle with the forces of evil. At a Celtic conference,...
| Author | Kate De Goldi |
| ISBN | 0763649392 |
Twelve-year-old Frankie Parsons is a talented kid with a quirky family, a best friend named Gigs, and a voice of anxiety constantly nibbling in his head: Could that kidney-shaped spot on his chest be a galloping cancer? Are the smoke alarm batteries flat? Has his cat, The Fat Controller, given them all...
| Author | Fleur Beale |
| ISBN | 0786816732 |
I really enjoyed this book, I thought the plot was great and enjoyed the characters even "grey Uncle Caleb."
Too often I have found that YA books are full of doom and gloom and angst. They try to tackle very heavy subjects, without entertainment or a satisfactory conclusion. I picked up this book...
| Author | Witi Ihimaera |
| ISBN | 0868636754 |
Pounamu Pounamu is classic Ihimaera. First published om 1972, it was immediately endorsed by Maori and Pakeha alike for its original stories that showed how important Maori identity is for all New Zealanders. As Katherine Mansfield did in her first collection In a German Pension (1911), and Janet...
| Author | Penelope Lively |
| ISBN | 1405225424 |
Annual re-read. First encountered at the age of ten, in primary school (in fact I still have Mrs. Halsall's own copy, sorry, Miss) and loved since. Lively's enduring ghost story tells of James Harrison being haunted by a bad-tempered C17th poltergeist whose distaste of the modern world manifests itself...
| Author | V.M. Jones |
| ISBN | 1869504623 |
Two, three, four - how many mandarins can Pip juggle? A coming-of-age novel about Pip, whose father wants him to be everything that Pip is not. Pip is good at English, like his mother; but Pip′s father wants him to be a soccer star like Nick, Pip′s brother, and to win at any cost. When Pip′s English...
| Author | Fleur Beale |
| ISBN | 1741662974 |
What happens when life in a perfect, protected bubble unravels? Juno is about to find out.
Your ordinary teen? Not quite! Because Juno lives — in the not-too-distant future — on Taris, a bubble-covered island in the Pacific, to which a select few hundred people were evacuated when Earth's...
| Author | Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem |
| ISBN | 1554512905 |
A feast of a medieval adventure with a thoroughly modern heroine.
As the murmur of prayers fills the icy room, mother and baby seem doomed. When the newborn finally struggles into the world, the Count of Flanders flees in a rage. The child is not the expected male heir -- but a girl.
Growing...
Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
| Author | Jane Goodall |
| ISBN | 0446676136 |
Her revolutionary studies of Tanzania's chimpanzees forever altered our definition of "humanity." Now, intriguing as always, Jane Goodall explores her deepest convictions in a heartfelt memoir that takes her from the London Blitz to Louis Leaky's famous excavations in Africa and then into the...
| Author | Stan Nicholls |
| ISBN | 0575074876 |
Combining the acclaimed trilogy of books, Bodyguard of Lightning, Legion of Thunder, and Warriors of the Tempest, plus a new short story previously only available in a small press anthology, this is the entire story of Stryke and his band of Orcs. Fantasy's bad guys finally get their own say in this fast...
| Author | Alan Duff |
| ISBN | 0824816846 |
I found this to be quite brilliant in its rather simplistic albeit solid and believable plot. Vivid characters and violence. Puts you in the mind of both criminal and survivalist who longs for a better present. Bringing their mentality and morals to the forefront to give you a true representation of...
| Author | Murray Ball |
| ISBN | 1852864222 |
Ball grew up in New Zealand before spending some years in Australia and South Africa. As a young man he worked for the Dominion newspaper in Wellington and the Manawatu Times before becoming a freelance cartoonist and moving to England, where he found work with publishers DC Thomson, of Dundee.
He...
