Download or read book The Rusted Lantern written by Bill Patterson and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient boat dock lantern, pulled from a puddle of salt water high up the cliffs, takes 15-year-old Jason on an adventure through the past where he discovers the fate of his mother he never knew. Along the way, the boy encounters pirates, sirens, and a mermaid, who tells Jason she knew his mother.

Download or read book The Lantern written by Deborah Lawrenson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A whirlwind love affair, a wife who dies under mysterious circumstances, and a string of murder—and ghosts!—all set in a crumbling countryside estate in Provence. This haunting tale is everything you could want in a Gothic mystery that doesn’t also include a heroine named Jane Eyre.” — Redbook Set in the lush countryside of Provence, Deborah Lawrenson’s The Lantern is an atmospheric modern gothic tale of love, suspicion, and murder, in the tradition of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. Drawn to a confident and artistic wealthy older man she barely knows, bookish Eve recklessly embarks on a whirlwind affair that soon offers a new life and a new home—Les Genévriers, a charming yet decaying hamlet nestled amid the fragrant lavender fields of Provence. But with autumn’s arrival the days begin to cool—and so, too, does Dom. Though Eve knows he bears the emotional scars of a failed marriage—which he refuses to talk about—his silence arouses suspicion and uncertainty. And, like its owner, Les Genévriers is also changing. Bright, warm rooms have turned cold and uninviting; shadows now fall unexpectedly; and Eve senses a presence moving through the garden. Is it a ghost from the past—or a manifestation of her current troubles with Dom? Can she trust Dom—or could her life truly be in danger? An evocative tale of romantic and psychological suspense, The Lantern masterfully melds past and present, secrets and lies, appearances and disappearances—along with our age-old fear of the dark.

Download or read book Lantern s Passage written by Andrew L. Macnair and published by Andrew Lomac-MacNair. This book was released on 2009-02-28 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drew MacLaren remembers the summers of 1958 and 1959 in the Outer Banks more clearly than any in his life-the months when super heroes streaked across the pages of comic books, and the hurricane winds of Big Leo ripped cottages from their pilings, when Clarisse Silver went violently insane, and his best friend, Maggie, was accused of murdering her mother. On a gray, windy afternoon Drew secretly watches Maggie Silver crying. He listens, terrified, as a voice shrieks inside her cottage and dishes of oatmeal shatter against the wall. He knows nothing about his neighbor, only, like all children instinctively do, that the she is poor and older than he is. He knows that her brother, Skeeter, has had polio and rolls around their porches on a low board with caster wheels. But from the moment he sees her smile rise up through her tears, he becomes determined to learn more of who she is. And from that smile, the adventure of his life begins.

Download or read book Darkhouse written by Alex Barclay and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this electrifying thriller—a bestseller in Great Britain and Ireland—Alex Barclay creates a stunning array of contrasts—from the violence of a cop’s world to the fragility of an embattled marriage, from the danger of New York’s gritty streets to the quiet of a seaside Irish village. With brilliance and subtlety, Barclay delivers a nerve-wracking tale of a troubled family, facing a brutal danger rushing relentlessly out of the past. One year has passed since a kidnapping drama exploded into violence on a New York street. And for NYPD detective Joe Lucchesi, the memory of that terrible moment is still alive. Joe’s wife, Anna, has brought him and their teenage son to Ireland, hoping to repair their fragile marriage—and cut the cord between Joe and the job. But when the girlfriend of their son vanishes, Joe begins to suspect that the crime may have its roots in his old life—and that someone has followed him all the way there…. An outsider in Ireland, Joe watches with rising apprehension as local cops try to solve the disappearance—and then reacts with fury when his son becomes the leading suspect. Frantically, Joe tries to piece together clues to the crime, certain that a predator has come to Ireland in a twisted act of vengeance. And in a culture he doesn’t understand, among people who may or may not be his friends, Joe must find a way to strike back…against a vicious killer who has Joe’s family in his sights.... A novel that plunges like a knife, Darkhouse delves into the intimate struggles between a husband and wife, between lovers and desperate friends. Seething with menace and mounting dread, Alex Barclay’s ingenious tale of a family under siege ratchets up the suspense one shocking revelation at a time as it races to its shattering climax....

Download or read book Rust written by Jonathan Waldman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally publlished in hardcover in 2015 by Simon & Schuster.

Download or read book Nice written by Sharon Hodde Miller and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God never called us to be nice. What happens when we replace courage with compromise? What happens when we replace honesty with likability? What happens when we replace conviction with clichés? What happens when we replace discipleship to Christ with a devotion to nice? We live in a culture that prizes niceness as one of its highest virtues. Niceness keeps the peace, wins friends, gains influence, and serves our reputations well, but it also takes the teeth out of our witness and the power out of our faith. When we choose to be nice instead of faithful, we bear fruits that are bland, bitter, empty, and rotten to the core. In this life-changing book, Sharon Hodde Miller explores the seemingly innocent idol that has crept into our faith and quietly corrupted it, producing the bad fruits of cowardice, inauthenticity, shallowness, and more. Then she challenges readers to cultivate a better tree, providing practical steps to reclaim our credibility as followers of Christ, and bear better, richer, more life-giving fruits.

Download or read book By Lantern s Light written by Carol J. Cutrona and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1861 a courageous band of women brave death and defy political powers to render battlefield relief, launching the first MASH Unit on American soil. By these deeds they write their page in history. This dramatic, fact-based story is told through the eyes of Havannah, a fiery but shallow debutante, who joins the first team of women to work the battlefields during the Civil War. While blood flows and Minie balls fly, Havannah squares off with head field hospital nurse who vows to dismiss her from the corps. The heroines love affair with a crusty army surgeon adds fuel to the fire. Meanwhile, sisters at home battle enemies who pledge to squash their efforts to establish the innovative relief plan. On the trail women, board wagons hauled by cantankerous mules, strap soup pots to wagons, forge mountain passes, dodge bullets, set up field hospitals alongside battlefields and scour the land, seeking life among the dead. The weapons they carried were not muskets but hot soup, whispered prayers and compassion, bolstered by fierce determination.

Download or read book Back Then Until Now written by Lloyd Wright and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of life's memories written in poems.

Download or read book The Stolen Child written by Keith Donohue and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A haunting fable about identity and the illusory innocence of childhood that moves from small-town America deep into the forest of humankind's most basic desires and fears. • "Utterly absorbing ... a luminous and thrilling novel about our humanity." —The Washington Post “I am a changeling—a word that describes within its own name what we are bound and intended to do. We kidnap a human child and replace him or her with one of our own....” The double story of Henry Day begins in 1949, when he is kidnapped at age seven by a band of wild childlike beings who live in an ancient, secret community in the forest. The changelings rename their captive Aniday and he becomes, like them, unaging and stuck in time. They leave one of their own to take his place, an imposter who must try–with varying success–to hide his true identity from the Day family. As the changeling Henry grows up, he is haunted by glimpses of his lost double and by vague memories of his own childhood a century earlier. Narrated in turns by Henry and Aniday, The Stolen Child follows them as their lives converge, driven by their obsessive search for who they were before they changed places in the world.

Download or read book Unholy Terrors written by Lyndall Clipstone and published by Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.. This book was released on 2024-09-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A whirlwind journey, filled with heart-wrenching tension and sinister twists. This is the kind of dark romance you thirst for!" - Alexandra Christo, author of To Kill A Kingdom. Sink your teeth into a bloodstained tale of a girl torn between her vows and her heart, where falling in love may be the deepest sin of all. . . Everline Blackthorn has devoted her life to the wardens - a fierce sect who wield arcane magic to guard their community against vampiric monsters known as the vespertine. When a strangely human vespertine is killed on their borders, and a series of unsettling events follow, Everline disobeys orders and uncovers a startling truth in the form of Ravel Severin: a rogue vespertine who reveals that monsters have secrets of their own. Everline's own magic has failed to appear, and she is feeling both outcast from her own community and powerfully drawn across the vespertine-fllled moors. As Ravel also needs Everline as cover to return home, he promises to use his magic to ensure safe passage for them both for the treacherous journey, but at a heavy price: vespertine magic requires blood, and Everline will have to allow Ravel to feed from her. But it's a sin for a warden to feed a vespertine - let alone love one. As Everline and Ravel travel across the desolate moorland, their fractured, temporary trust in each other is put thrillingly to the test and Everline realises the question isn't only whether she will survive the journey - but if she does, if she will ever be the same again . . .

Download or read book New Light written by R. Jackson-Lawrence and published by Robert Jackson-Lawrence. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander's army seemed unstoppable.Phalathlan and Oster have fallen and they've turned their attention towards Morton where the surviving forces seem powerless to stop them. Refusing to run any more, Ben and Carl devise a plan that is both brilliant and insane. Hoping that one man can help them, they set off on an ocean voyage that will take Ben back to where he started. Their future will hinge on the answer to one question. Is the enemy of your enemy, your friend, or your enemy?

Download or read book The Wreckers written by Francis Lynde and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wreckers is an adventure novel about Jimmie Dodds visiting the Pioneer Short Line railway after his construction job and meeting an interesting slew of characters. Excerpt: "As a general proposition, I don't believe much in the things called "hunches." They are bad for digestion, and as often as not are like those patent barometers that are always pointing to "Set Fair" when it is raining like Noah's flood."

Download or read book Preserving Flowers written by Diane Flowers and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full-color, illustrated instructions for creating over forty dried and pressed floral designs and projects.

Download or read book The Tyranny of the Night written by Glen Cook and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world in which humans are ruled by demons and dark gods, the Praman warrior Else inadvertently defeats a creature of the Dark and is subsequently forced to penetrate the center of a rival religious faction, sparking a dangerous conflict.

Download or read book The Complete Instrumentalities of the Night Series written by Glen Cook and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 2400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This discounted ebundle includes: The Tyranny of the Night, Lord of the Silent Kingdom, Surrender to the Will of the Night, Working God's Mischief “Timely and timeless...The author of the Black Company series brings a stark realism to his tales of imaginary lands” —Library Journal (starred review) In this epic fantasy series from Glen Cook, politics, religion, and kingdoms collide on an earth-shattering scale. As introduced in the first book, The Tyranny of the Night, imps, demons, and dark gods rule in the spaces surrounding humanity, while a wall of ice at the edge of the world threatens to overtake the land of the Night. Readers won’t want to miss this magical series from the bestselling author, who, in the words of Steve Erikson, “single handedly changed the face of fantasy.” Tor books by Glen Cook Chronicles of the Black Company The Black Company Shadows Linger Port of Shadow The White Rose Shadow Games Dreams of Steel Bleak Seasons She Is the Darkness Water Sleeps Soldiers Live Dread Empire Reap the East Wind An Ill Fate Marshalling At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book The Rusted Blade written by Nicholas Kotar and published by Waystone Press. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aging warrior Otchigen safeguards Vasyllia, Mother of Cities, Jewel of the World, with his sword and his heart. Nobleman and beggar alike adore him. But after a routine training exercise goes horribly wrong, Otchigen fears he is going mad. To make matters worse, his city crumbles in fear and corruption around him. For the first time in his life, he feels powerless to stop any of it. But is it madness… or are there darker forces intent on destroying the city? The Forge of the Covenant is a prequel novella to the Raven Son epic fantasy series inspired by Russian fairy tales. Dostoyevsky meets Tolkien in an intense, poignant tale of a rich and complex character who is neither hero, nor villain, but who finds the weight of the world on his all-too-human shoulders. Begin an unforgettable journey in The Forge of the Covenanttoday!

Download or read book Biocode Resolution written by Terence McAdams and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-01-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multispectral signatures matching those of the Pleiades’ spacecraft have been detected on three different Pacific islands. Ciara and her friends journey to these locations only to discover that they are interconnected by a wormhole, serving as a portal to Earth’s twin planet. However, this connection has become unstable, generating high-intensity gravity fields that result in space-time distortions. Ciara’s life is threatened when she is transported back in time to be captured by the Taniwha, a supernatural being from Māori mythology. Ciara’s visions of her ancestor, 18th-century naval officer William Hartley, shed light on her own predicament. However, Hartley has been wrongfully accused of murdering Royal Society artist, Elliot Loundes. Unless the timeline can be restored, Ciara’s existence will come to an abrupt end. Can she and her friends outsmart the Taniwha, rescue her ancestor from the gallows, and stabilize the wormhole? The task will demand a sacrifice that few would be willing to make.