Witch Dreams
10 best books like Witch Dreams (Vivian Vande Velde): Tree Girl, The Oaken Throne, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Lion King: Pride Rock On Broadway, The Eternal Sea, Singer, The Dreamwalker's Child, Riding the Flume, Elissa's Odyssey, Nowhere Girl
Rowanna’s stern caretaker, Mellwyn, has warned her again and again not to go near the trees that surround their seaside cottage. But Rowanna is drawn to the forest—especially the High Willow on its faraway hill. Are the trees really forest ghouls, as Mellwyn says? Or could they possibly hold the...
| Author | Robin Jarvis |
| ISBN | 1587172771 |
The second book of the Deptford Histories brings readers into a time when a series of dark wars between the bats and the squirrels has raged for years. The squirrel leader, the Starwife, has been betrayed and poisoned. As she lies dying, she summons a falcon to take the magic Silver Acorn to safety. Far...
| Author | Joel Coen |
| ISBN | 0571205186 |
Joel and Ethan Coen are among America's best-loved and most lauded independent filmmakers. With their latest work, O Brother, Where Art Though?, The Oscar-winning team returns to the period-piece films of their earlier career (Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy) and showcase...
The Lion King: Pride Rock On Broadway
| Author | Julie Taymor |
| ISBN | 0786863420 |
The Lion King musical is a stunning visual piece of art that is a breathtaking experience no matter how many times you watch it. Pride Rock on Broadway chronicles the birth of the musical from idea to opening night in Julie Taymor's own words. The concept was a humble one that soon developed into the spectacular...
| Author | Angie Frazier |
| ISBN | 0545114756 |
Romance and adventure are just around the corner . . .
After the thrilling journey that led Camille through the dangerous discovery of love, secrets, and a magical stone that grants immortality, Camille has everything she wants. She's escaped the men who wanted her dead, and now she is ready...
| Author | Jean Thesman |
| ISBN | 0670059374 |
Gwenore's mother is the evil Rhiamon, whose thirst for power transcends any morality. For years, Gwenore has lived in terrified captivity, not understanding why her mother so loathes her. Then she manages to escape, along with her longtime nursemaid and a mysterious enchanter-priest. First Gwenore...
| Author | Steve Voake |
| ISBN | 1582346615 |
Fifteen-year-old Sam Palmer's life is dull--until a bizarre bicycle accident leaves him in a coma. Sam awakens in Aurobon, a world eerily similar to his own, only to discover that his accident was part of an elaborate abduction by a ruler with a deadly agenda. Now Sam must team up with a fearless girl pilot...
| Author | Patricia Curtis Pfitsch |
| ISBN | 0689866925 |
Don't tell anyone -- the only safety is in secrecy.
During the summer of 1894 the giant sequoia trees -- the oldest living things on earth -- are being felled for lumber in northern California. When fifteen-year-old Francie finds a note hidden in the stump of an old sequoia, she immediately recognizes...
| Author | Erica Verrillo |
| ISBN | 0375839488 |
IT’S HARD FOR Elissa to comprehend everything that has happened to her. In Elissa’s Quest, she discovered the truth about her father, and she and her new friend, Maya, just barely escaped a madman’s clutches. And Elissa’s Gift is not only growing in power . . . it’s changing. Elissa could always...
| Author | A.J. Paquette |
| ISBN | 0802722970 |
Luchi Ann only knows a few things about herself: she was born in a prison in Thailand. Her American mother was an inmate there. And now that her mother has died, Luchi must leave the only place she's ever known and set out into the world. Neither at home as a Thai, because of her fair skin and blond hair, nor...
When ten-year-old girl Allie learns that her family will be moving from their two-family home to their very own house in the country, she's hesitant until she finds out they will be living on a street with the magical name of Strawberry Hill. That changes everything! From her struggle to find a new best...
| Author | Babette Cole |
| ISBN | 0099650819 |
*OCD/ germaphobia warning - This book deals with hygiene issues, and made me compulsively over-wash my hands as a child as a form of OCD*
Despite the warning I give, don't be put off! Although this book needs to be handled with care, especially around children who are susceptible to every day...
| Author | Fay Weldon |
| ISBN | 1847242049 |
The wicked stepmother is a classic figure of literature. From "Cinderella" to "Hamlet", she is portrayed as an evil manipulator out to do down her husband's children. Reality is all too often the reverse, with stepchildren using all their cunning to do down daddy's new wife in a no holds barred, down...
| Author | Sue Moorcroft |
| ISBN | 1781890552 |
When Tamara Rix's sister Lyddie is involved in a hit-and-run accident that leaves her in need of constant care, Tamara resolves to remain in the village she grew up in. Tamara would do anything for her sister, even sacrifice a long-term relationship.
But when Lyddie's teenage sweetheart Jed...
The Last Good Place of Lily Odilon
| Author | Sara Beitia |
| ISBN | 0738720682 |
"We have to get to her first..." Abducted? Runaway? Murder victim? Lily Odilon--local wild child from a middle-of-nowhere town--has vanished after spending the night with her boyfriend, new kid Albert Morales. Suspected in her disappearance, Albert sets out with Lily's prickly younger sister,...
| Author | B. James Gladstone |
| ISBN | 1613745796 |
Open any movie magazine from the 1930s, ’40s, or ’50s and you’ll find a picture of attorney Greg Bautzer with a beautiful starlet. Columnists dubbed him “Hollywood Bachelor Number One,” and for good reason. His long-term relationships and momentary conquests were a who’s who of leading...
Dean enjoys women of all varieties, but unless they’re naked and in his bed he doesn’t have much use for them. He trusted his heart and soul to a woman before and he won’t let it happen again. Then Dean meets curvy Catherine Michaels, the mouthy woman claiming to be Gracie Baron’s long lost baby...
| Author | Joan Donaldson |
| ISBN | 0823421295 |
Viney is an artist. In the beauty of her Appalachian home, she sees light and colors and patterns to weave on her loom. And she certainly doesn’t see herself jumping into marriage, no matter how many beaus her competitive sister has. Or how much the neighbors talk.
When a group of young men arrive...
Overflowing with action and adventure, the third installment in the Legacy of the King's Pirates series will hold readers in its grip. Romantic Times
A woman’s desperate search for her kidnapped child
A father seeking forgiveness for an unconscionable act
Only when they join...
| Author | Sam Enthoven |
| ISBN | 1595141146 |
Jack’s best mate, Charlie, has always been effortlessly cool. When Charlie wakes up one day and finds a mysterious, moving black tattoo on his back, it’s a clear sign that he’s even cooler than Jack thought. To top it off, Charlie has got super powers also.
Or does he?
Jack soon...
Could It Be I'm Falling In Love
| Author | Eleanor Prescott |
| ISBN | 0857387170 |
This Valentine's Day, Roxy Squires is waiting for the phone to ring... Roxy is famous. At least, she used to be. She's a good-time TV presenter and, OK, so things haven't been going so well recently, but she knows her big break is just around the corner. What she's really looking for is someone to propel...
| Author | Annie Cossins |
| ISBN | 1743314019 |
The most common murder victim in 19th century Australia was a baby, and the most common perpetrator was a woman. Annie Cossins pieces together the fascinating story of the most infamous legal trial in Australia to reveal an underworld of struggling mothers, unwanted babies, and a society that preferred...
| Author | Virginia Nicholson |
| ISBN | 0670921319 |
In Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes, Virginia Nicholson tells the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm.
Turn the page back to the mid-twentieth century, and discover a world peopled by women with radiant smiles,...
