This award-winning novel takes you on a fun, madcap medieval adventure with a gorgeous alchemist, teenage genius and a 600-year-old shrunken eggplant that speaks to whoever wears it. You’ll cross Europe with the Children’s Crusade, hijack a caravan in the Sahara Desert, touch the petrified body of Adam, and rediscover paradise on the island of Bahrain. $0.99 on Kindle.