Young Woman in a Garden

7 best books like Young Woman in a Garden (Delia Sherman): The Wise and the Wicked, Princess Princess Ever After, Mongrels, A Song for a New Day, The Gift, The Mystics of Mile End, The Book of Mistakes

The Wise and the Wicked
AuthorRebecca Podos
Ruby Chernyavsky has been told the stories since she was a child: The women in her family, once possessed of great magical abilities to remake lives and stave off death itself, were forced to flee their Russian home for America in order to escape the fearful men who sought to destroy them. Such has it always...
Princess Princess Ever After
AuthorKatie O'Neill
ISBN1620103400
"I am no prince!"

When the heroic princess Amira rescues the kind-hearted princess Sadie from her tower prison, neither expects to find a true friend in the bargain. Yet as they adventure across the kingdom, they discover that they bring out the very best in the other person. They'll need to...
Mongrels
AuthorStephen Graham Jones
ISBN0062412698
A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy whose family lives on the fringes of society and struggles to survive in a hostile world that shuns and fears them.

He was born an outsider, like the rest of his family. Poor yet resilient, he lives in the shadows with...
A Song for a New Day
AuthorSarah Pinsker
In this captivating science fiction novel from an award-winning author, public gatherings are illegal making concerts impossible, except for those willing to break the law for the love of music, and for one chance at human connection.

In the Before, when the government didn't prohibit large...
AuthorBarbara Browning
ISBN1566894689
Praise for Barbara Browning:

“A provocative novel . . . that blurs the boundaries between life and performance, dance, art, and viral video.”—Slate

“Deftly blending highbrow intellectual concerns with the informality of Facebook-era communiqués, Browning’s newest...
AuthorSigal Samuel
ISBN0062412175
Sigal Samuel’s debut novel, in the vein of Nicole Krauss’s bestselling The History of Love, is an imaginative story that delves into the heart of Jewish mysticism, faith, and family.

“This is not an ordinary tree I am making.

“This,” he said, “this is the Tree of Knowledge.” 

In...
The Book of Mistakes
AuthorCorinna Luyken
ISBN0735227926
Zoom meets Beautiful Oops! in this memorable picture book debut about the creative process, and the way in which "mistakes" can blossom into inspiration.

One eye was bigger than the other. That was a mistake.
The weird frog-cat-cow thing? It made an excellent bush.
And the inky smudges......
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