Books like Aru Shah and the City of Gold by Roshani Chokshi

Twelve‑year‑old Aru Shah fakes a story about a cursed lamp in her mother’s museum, only to unleash an ancient demon and must rescue her frozen friends by finding the reincarnated Pandava brothers.

Aru Shah must recover the missing bow and arrow of the god of love before the full moon, or she risks exile from the Otherworld, while she and her friends battle dangerous demons and uncover a plot deeper than they imagined.

A vivid continuation of Daughter of Smoke and Bone, where Karou confronts her identity and the lengths she will go to seek vengeance.

In Paris 1889, treasure hunter Séverin Montagnet‑Alarie is drawn into a quest by the secretive Order of Babel. Together with a diverse group—a debt‑bound engineer, a banished historian, a dancer haunted by the past—they pursue an ancient artifact that could reshape history.

A new prequel in John Flanagan’s Ranger’s Apprentice series, following the famed Ranger Halt in a tale of adventure, friendship, and medieval tournaments.

Seventeen-year‑old Maya is thrust into queenship after a political marriage to Amar; she must navigate court intrigue, protect her people, and unravel ancient prophecies that tie her fate to past lives.

A 12‑year‑old Aru Shah races to find her missing Pandava sisters, battle the looming war between devas and demons, and chase the wish‑granting Kalpavriksha before the Sleeper’s prophecy can unfold.

Anya and her sister must outwit their evil step‑stepfather, a wizard who turns people into frogs, with the help of a talking librarian, loyal royal dogs, and a princess of their own.

Kiranmala, a twelve‑year‑old from Parsippany, New Jersey, is suddenly whisked into a magical world after her parents vanish and a rakkhosh demon appears. Amid winged horses, talking birds, and charming princes, she must uncover her parents’ fate and save the realm.

Douglas Preston's Cities of Gold is a riveting account of his journey in the footsteps of Coronado, the legendary 16th-century explorer and conquistador who led the first European expedition through the American Southwest. Preston and a friend, Walter Nelson, set out on horseback across one thousand miles of vast deserts and unknown mountains retracing Coronado's search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold. Forced to battle extremes of heat and cold, impenetrable mesquite. Thickets, bad water, and paralyzing drought, they nonetheless find the country awesome in its scale and beauty - with much of it so untouched that it is recognizable from descriptions in Coronado's reports. Where Preston encounters various people - cowboys, ranchers, crazy old eccentrics - he listens to them talk about their lives, about growing up, and how the West has changed. His journey also takes him through a number of isolated Indian settlements, where he meets. Some of the actual descendants of the people who fought Coronado. At the heart of the book is Preston's search for a new understanding of that shocking moment when Europeans first fought Indians within the borders of what would become America - and the fatal consequences that resulted. For what Preston finds when he rediscovers the actual ruins of the Seven Cities of Gold, as well as in the haunting stories of the Indians, and the reminiscences of the old cowboys and. Ranchers, is not the triumph of Manifest Destiny, but something far more complex and mysterious. "The great myth of the American West," Preston writes, "is that there was a winning of it." Cities of Gold weaves in his adventures along the trail with unforgettable portraits of such Indian leaders as Geronimo, Cochise, and the Zuni governor Palowahtiwa, lively stories of gun battles and feuds, and memories of cattle drives, dust, and the vanished open range. Preston's. Vivid descriptions of the landscapes, people and history of the American Southwest put him in the company of such distinguished travel writers as Paul Theroux, Ian Frazier, and Jonathan Raban. In the end, Cities of Gold leaves the reader with an indelible portrait of the Southwest - as it was when Europeans first saw it and what it has become today. Like Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire, it has the unmistakable ring of a classic.