Books Like The Land of Laughs
A teacher goes to the small Missouri town of his favorite children's author to write the man's biography. He finds the town's people may be his characters.
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The Owl Service
Three teenagers in a Welsh valley find a pattern of owls on a dinner service. They are forced to replay a tragedy from the Mabinogion.
Puck of Pook's Hill
Two Sussex children summon Puck, the last of England's fairies. He brings them Roman soldiers, Norman knights and other figures from the island's past.
Thursday Next
In an alternate England where literature is a national obsession, a literary detective chases criminals into the plots of classic books.
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A Cambridge scholar and his young ward follow an ancient potsherd into Africa. They find Ayesha, an immortal queen who has waited two thousand years.
Harold Shea
A psychologist uses symbolic logic to travel into the worlds of Norse myth, The Faerie Queene and other legends, where magic runs on rules he can learn.
Featured pick
Acenes of Sparta: The Dragon Slayer
A dragon is the real reason King Leonidas and his three hundred died at Thermopylae. Sixty-two years later the gods send a Spartan boy of the agoge to kill it. The book takes lessons from tragedy and the cost of sacrifice, as is the Greek way.