Wizard at Work
10 best books like Wizard at Work (Vivian Vande Velde): Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death, A Precious Jewel, Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls, A Wizard's Dozen: Stories Of The Fantastic, Gothic!: Ten Original Dark Tales, Alien III, The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen, With Face Aflame, Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis, we the daughter
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition.
Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut’s body if it were pushed out of a space...
Author | Mary Balogh |
ISBN | 0451176197 |
New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh weaves a sensuous spell of romance that brings together the unlikeliest pair of lovers in the unlikeliest place of all– an infamous London house of pleasure.
She was unlike any woman he’d ever met in the ton or the demimonde. But Sir Gerald...
Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls
Nobody's Victim is an unflinching look at a hidden world most people don’t know exists—one of stalking, blackmail, and sexual violence, online and off—and the incredible story of how one lawyer, determined to fight back, turned her own hell into a revolution.
“We are all a...
Author | Michael Stearns |
ISBN | 0590865420 |
Do you believe in magic? For this collection is overflowing with everything mystical, magical, fantastic and unbelievable. This book features stories by Patricia Wrede, Jane Yolen, Bruce Coville and many others. "A balanced and pleasing introduction to the genre".--School Library Journal.
"Do...
Author | Deborah Noyes |
ISBN | 0763627372 |
"Get ready to sleep with the lights on!" — GIRLS' LIFE
A lovesick count and the ghost of his brutalized servant . . . a serial killer who defies death . . . a house with a violent mind of its own and another that holds a grotesque secret within its peeling walls. Here are witches who feast on faces,...
Audible is bringing William Gibson’s uncovered Alien III script to life in audio for the first time, to mark the 40th Anniversary of the birth of the Alien franchise.
Alongside a full cast, Michael Biehn and Lance Henriksen reprise their iconic roles as Corporal Hicks and Bishop from the...
The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen
What would life be like if something had prevented Jane Austen from ever publishing any of her books? Dedicated Janeite, Rose, is about to find out!
It’s September, and the city of Bath is playing host to the annual Jane Austen Festival, a celebration of the famous author and her works.
Rose...
Born with a red mark emblazoned across her face, seventeen-year-old Madge is lonely as she spends her days serving guests and cleaning rooms in the inn her father keeps.
One day, she meets an unusual minstrel in the marketplace. Moved by the beauty of his song and the odd shape of his body, she...
Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
Author | Ada Calhoun |
ISBN | 0802147852 |
When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too?
Calhoun decided to find some answers....
one day he left me because i asked him to. and then i felt the weight of my world crash on my shoulders, begged him to stay, and watched him continue to walk away. i do not know what love is, but i know what it's not. and here friends come and go, but when they stay, mercury goes in and out of retrograde - then we all...
Call and Response: Litanies for Congregational Prayer
Author | Fran Pratt |
ISBN | 0578213869 |
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Call and Response by Fran Pratt is both poetic and powerful. It is an excellent resource for pastors and worship planners. As the pastor of two churches in Pennsylvania, I am constantly searching for prayers and litanies...
The Worst Couple in the World
Author | Holly Tierney-Bedord |
From the author of The Woman America Loves a Latte and I Will Follow Him comes a satirical novella about an over-the-top fame-hungry duo whose love for each other is only rivaled by their love of attention.
No longer content to just be Snappigram sensations, folk hop singers Zeke and Angelique...
Hagar: Rediscovering the God Who Sees Me (Bible Study)
Author | Shadia Hrichi |
ISBN | 0891124705 |
You are "The God Who Sees Me."
Discover a close relationship with God no matter the pain or suffering in your life. Witness the depths of God's compassion through the eyes of Hagar, a runaway slave who meets the living God in a desert of despair, where she gives Him the name El Roi, "The God Who Sees...
Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives of Horses
Author | Jean O'Malley Halley |
ISBN | 0820355267 |
Horse Crazy explores the meaning behind the love between girls and horses. Jean O'Malley Halley, a self-professed "horse girl," contends that this relationship and its cultural signifiers influence the manner in which young girls define their identity when it comes to gender. Halley examines how...
Author | Emily McGovern |
ISBN | 1449497470 |
From the creator of the hit webcomic My Life As a Background Slytherin comes a hilarious graphic novel pastiche of classic Romantic literature led by a trio of queer misfits—and several angry vampires.
Set in early nineteenth-century Britain, Bloodlust & Bonnets follows...
Author | A.E. Walnofer |
ISBN | 1511759402 |
Young Jonathan Clyde causes mischief for everyone at Whitehall, the stately home of his privileged ancestors. As he matures, however, he comes to despise the vanity and conceit surrounding him.
Misfortune requires Lydia Smythe, an exceptionally clever farmer’s daughter, to seek employment...
The Slave Across the Street: The True Story of How an American Teen Survived the World of Human Trafficking
Author | Theresa L. Flores |
ISBN | 0982328680 |
Yea....I couldn't even finish this book. FIRST, let me clear that this is nothing personal against her story. What happened to her was terrifying and horrible. My thoughts and review are on her BOOK - how she told her story. I do not think the story was told well. There was lots of repetition - I felt like...
Writing Fiction - a user-friendly guide
'Writing Fiction is a little pot of gold… "Screenplay" by Syd Field for film, "Writing Fiction" by James Essinger for fiction. It’s that simple.’
William Osborne, novelist and screenwriter
'Writing Fiction – a user-friendly guide' is a must-read if you want to write stories...