Books like Fable
Abandoned on an island of thieves by her trader father after her mother drowned, seventeen-year-old Fable dives for gems to buy her way off it, and finally talks her way onto a ship whose young captain has secrets of his own.
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The Ever King
Livia, a princess of the earth fae, once kept company with a captive boy king during the war; years later Erik Bloodsinger, the scarred King of the Ever, whose crown her father stole, takes her as a pawn in his revenge.
Captains Courageous
Harvey Cheyne, the spoiled son of an American railroad millionaire, falls overboard from a liner and is fished out by a Gloucester cod schooner whose captain won't turn back for months.
Robinson Crusoe
A shipwrecked sailor survives alone for twenty-eight years on an island off South America, building a life from what he can salvage and turning survival into a colonial project.
Treasure Island
Young Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map in a dead pirate's sea chest and sails in search of the gold, with a crew that includes the charming, treacherous ship's cook, Long John Silver.
Salt to the Sea
In the winter of 1945, as the Soviet army closes in on East Prussia, four young people, a Lithuanian nurse, a Prussian forger, a Polish teenager and a German sailor with delusions of grandeur, converge on the port where the Wilhelm Gustloff waits to carry refugees west.
Raise the Titanic!
The United States needs byzanium, a rare element for a secret defence system, and the only known supply went down with the Titanic in 1912, so Dirk Pitt of the National Underwater and Marine Agency sets out to raise the ship while Soviet agents work to stop him.
Lightlark
Every hundred years the island of Lightlark appears for the Centennial, a deadly game in which the rulers of six cursed realms compete to break their curses, and Isla Crown, young ruler of the Wildlings, arrives with secrets of her own.
Powerless
In a kingdom where the gifted Elites rule and the powerless Ordinaries are hunted, a thief named Paedyn Gray hides that she has no power at all, until she saves a prince and is thrown into the deadly Purging Trials.
Rites of Passage
Near the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Edmund Talbot, a young gentleman sailing to Australia to take up a colonial post, keeps a journal of the voyage for his godfather, and of a timid clergyman who becomes the butt of the ship.
Three Dark Crowns
On the island of Fennbirn, every generation of queens is born as triplets, each with a different gift, and when they turn sixteen they must fight to the death for the crown: Mirabella the elemental, Katharine the poisoner and Arsinoe the naturalist.
Red Queen
In a kingdom where silver-blooded nobles with powers rule red-blooded commoners, Mare Barrow, a Red thief, shows in front of the whole court that she has a power of her own, and the king hides her in plain sight as a lost Silver noblewoman.
The Serpent and the Wings of Night
Oraya, the human adopted daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, enters the Kejari, a deadly tournament held for the goddess of death, and is forced into an alliance with Raihn, a rival vampire she has every reason to fear.