This collection includes five books in Coulter's supernatural series: The Strange Visitation at Wolffe Hall, The Resident Evil at Blackthorn Manor, The Ancient Spirits of Sedgwick House, The Virgin Bride of Northcliffe Hall, and The Red Witch of Ravenstone Folly. Set in the mid-nineteenth century and featuring a delightfully quirky cast of characters, The Grayson Sherbrooke Novella Collection will keep you entertained for hours as you join Sherbrooke and his rag-tag team of investigators to solve bizarre, out-of-this-world cases. From his home on the northern coast of England, Sherbrooke leaps into these otherworldly mysteries to find the truth with the help of his son, Pip his beautiful neighbor, Miranda, and her daughter, P. Much like the hero of his frightening gothic adventure stories, well-known English author Grayson Sherbrooke has his own share of run-ins with peculiar supernatural beings, both good and evil.
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If a book says it is "not in library" or "checked out," a copy might still be available! Click on the book's cover to see if you can borrow one of the other editions. Want to donate a physical book to make it borrowable? Click for Book Drive info. People, too, just seem to happen to Ariah. Sanders is essentially giving you a world toura culture here, a political conflict therethrough events kind of just happening to Ariah. You can read or borrow a book if the bar underneath the cover says "Borrow" or "Read." A review in here called it an idea fantasy and that’s really what it feels like especially once you catch on that there is literally no plot at all. Many books have a scanned digital version, which you can borrow for an hour (or longer) if you make a free account. The Open Library aims to have an entry for every edition of every book ever published. This collection contains winners of the Bisexual Book Awards, an annual set of awards given since 2013 by the Bi Writers Association to honor books across many genres written by bi writers or engaging with the bi experience. Read Parallel Hells for a different take on vampires, demons and monsters you never knew existed. 'A glorious collection of short stories that reads as if Edgar Allan Poe and Shirley Jackson had a little queer baby' Big Issue The Collection is harrowing, melancholic, terrifying and intense. Livia orchestrates a Satanic mass to distract herself from a recently remembered trauma and two lovers must resolve their differences in order to defy a lethal curse. Parallel Hells is a debut collection of short stories written by Leon Craig. An Oxford historian, in bitter competition with the rest of her faculty members, discovers an ancient tome whose sinister contents might solve her problems. In the thirteen darkly audacious stories of Parallel Hells we meet a golem, made of clay, learning that its powers far exceed its Creator's expectations a ruined mansion which grants the secret wishes of a group of revellers and a notorious murderer who discovers her Viking husband is not what he seems.Īsta is an ancient being who feasts on the shame of contemporary Londoners, who now, beyond anything, wishes only to fit in with a group of friends they will long outlive. In this deliciously strange debut collection, Leon Craig draws on folklore and gothic horror in refreshingly inventive ways to explore queer identity, love, power and the complicated nature of being human. 'The short, twisted tales collected in Leon Craig's Parallel Hells have a laconic elegance that's both chilling and pleasurable' Financial Times It's the queer horror book of your dreams' Kirsty Logan The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is regarded by many critics and scholars to be the first Great American novel. While traveling down the river, Huck and Jim have many adventures, but more importantly, during many long talks, they become the best of friends, both in search of freedom. Soon Huck comes across Jim, Miss Watson's slave. When Huck escapes kidnapping by his own drunken father, he decides to find a canoe to shove off down the river, leaving behind his life of confinement and civilization. Featuring an intricate laser-cut jacket with foil stamping, this stunning, giftable first edition is one of just 10,000 copies ever to be printed! In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a thirteen-year-old boy, Huck, is in search of adventure on the beautiful shores of the Mississippi River before the Civil War in the American south. We've listed similar copies below.Ī fine, exclusive edition of one of literature's most beloved stories. We're sorry this book is temporarily unavailable. It was republished in the Oxford Children's Modern Classics series in 1998. She wrote a noted children's book, The Ship that Flew (1939) which concerns Norse mythology and time travel. The Witch and the Priest (1956) about the seventeenth century Lincolnshire witch trials is well worth reading, even second hand in the freely available but lurid Hilda Winifred Lewis (née Maizels, 1896-1974) was a British writer. Wife to Charles II and I, Jacqueline are available in The Book People's historical fiction paperback collection. I am Mary Tudor (1972), received attention. Her three YA books, including the well-received The Gentle Falcon, are available for Kindle and iBooks. Hilda Winifred Lewis (née Maizels, 1896-1974) was a British writer. Even so, the writing of The Love Wager and the storyline immediately captivated me. The Love Wager by Lynn Painter is a fun rom-com to read this spring.Īs someone who hasn’t read Lynn Painter before, I had no idea what I was in for. We’re here to talk about her newest adult romance release though and that’s The Love Wager so let’s get into my thoughts. Wrong Number is one of her more popular titles, Lynn Painter has a decent-sized backlist including some YA offerings. Regardless, reading The Love Wager did convince me to pick up the first book so maybe that will give you a clue of how I felt about this book. While I didn’t read the first book, there was enough context that I wasn’t totally confused. This was an incredibly hyped romance book published in 2022. For me, the risk thankfully paid off with The Love Wager by Lynn Painter.Īs you might know, Lynn Painter is the author of Mr. Reading hyped authors can be a mixed bag. 'This novel was a phenomenal success when it was first published in Melbourne in 1886 and it became an international bestseller-It's easy to see why. Written more than 100 years ago, this murder mystery sold hundreds of thousands of copies around the world.It will give you a sense of Melbourne's history-you'll hear the hansoms rattling down Collins Street for weeks afterwards.' Herald Sun 'Australia's original blockbuster is back in print. In 1888 he settled in England and embarked on a literary career which produced over 130 novels. In 1885 he emigrated to Melbourne, the city in which he wrote and set The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. He grew up in New Zealand, where he became a lawyer. With its panoramic depiction of a bustling yet uneasy city, Hansom Cab has a central place in Australian literary history.įergus Hume was born in England in 1859. Set in the charming and deadly streets of Melbourne, this brilliantly plotted murder thriller tells the story of a crime committed by an unknown assassin. Over a century later, Hansom Cab has lost none of its page-turning power. Fergus Hume's sensational novel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is Australia's original blockbuster and international best-selling crime novel.įirst published in 1886, it was an overnight sensation, selling hundreds of thousands of copies around the world and being translated into eleven languages. You need to aware of that before reading the book. There are a few F-bombs dropped, but there are actually more explicit scenes than language. In a sense, that can be good as the reader can feel what Amber feels in her confusion of understanding what being a werewolf means and what it means to be an abnormal one. The story is rather fast paced and can get confusing at times as so much comes at you. She thinks she’s got it under control until a man from her past shows up and then she has control of nothing. She lives in the shadows of society trying to stay hidden as her werewolf gene is activated. What if they were good and still ate humans? Now, what if I told you it was a romance, too? Got your attention! That is what MaryLynn Bast brings you in No Remorse.Īmber is on the run. All the books have today are werewolves that are all bad or all good and don’t eat humans. What would the great Charlemagne say, could he see us now? What would even St. Sir Guy de Laval looked full in our faces as he spoke these words, and what could one reply? Ah me!-those were sad and sorrowful days for France-and for those who thought upon the bygone glories of the past, when she was mistress of herself, held high her head, and was a power with hostile nations. The days of miracles are past and gone! What future is there for hapless France? She lies in the dust. ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A HEROINE OF FRANCE***ĬHAPTER I. With this eBook or online at Title: A Heroine of France Re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withĪlmost no restrictions whatsoever. The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Heroine of France, by Evelyn Everett-Green People are dying and there’s something evil out there. But something happens that forces a lockdown outsiders cannot come in and no one from their community can leave. The world beyond their own Amish community is referred to as the “Outside”, and Katie is ready to go. She’s a good Amish girl who values her beliefs but has a bit of a rebellious streak and still wants to experience life on her own, to know what it feels to be truly independent. Katie has been waiting for her Rumspringa for a long time. She refuses to submit to the Elders’ rule and secretly brings the stranger into her community-but what else is she bringing in with him? But when Katie finds a gravely injured young man lying just outside the boundary of their land, she can’t leave him to die. Unsure why they haven’t yet been attacked, the Amish Elders make a decree: no one goes outside their community, and no one is allowed in. Something is out there…and it is making a killing. It begins with a fiery helicopter crash in the cornfields, followed by rumors of massive unrest and the disappearance of huge numbers of people all over the world. But before Rumspringa arrives, Katie’s safe world starts to crumble. Katie is on the verge of her Rumspringa, the time in Amish life when teenagers are free to experience non-Amish culture before officially joining the church. Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Horror, Dystopian |