Download or read book She Who Hears All Whispers written by DaVaun Sanders and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Matriarch rules over Mataano Qahndo with casual ruthlessness and unimaginable power. Her focus is entirely on the Bay, which seems to contain the mysterious source of the phage -- an infectious agent that is both the cause of a bewildering array of maladies as well as the power source for all magic in the Revealed Lands.Suraldisha is a woman who has lost everything but a tiny pouch of bones and an all-consuming need for reventge. She is one of hundreds streaming into the city, hoping to offer their bodies as vessels for phage in service of the Matriarch. But she is hiding more than seething hatred and a fish knife in her sun robes.Will she get close enough to the Matriarch to carry out her plan? And what does justice look like in a world where power is drawn from the suffering of so many?

Download or read book The Whispers written by Greg Howard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A middle grade debut that's a heartrending coming-of-age tale, perfect for fans of Bridge to Terabithia and Counting By 7s. Eleven-year-old Riley believes in the whispers, magical fairies that will grant you wishes if you leave them tributes. Riley has a lot of wishes. He wishes bullies at school would stop picking on him. He wishes Dylan, his 8th grade crush, liked him, and Riley wishes he would stop wetting the bed. But most of all, Riley wishes for his mom to come back home. She disappeared a few months ago, and Riley is determined to crack the case. He even meets with a detective, Frank, to go over his witness statement time and time again. Frustrated with the lack of progress in the investigation, Riley decides to take matters into his own hands. So he goes on a camping trip with his friend Gary to find the whispers and ask them to bring his mom back home. But Riley doesn't realize the trip will shake the foundation of everything that he believes in forever.

Download or read book The Whisper written by Pamela Zagarenski and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-time Caldecott Honor artist shares “a sumptuously illustrated fable about the magic of storytelling and the power of imagination” (School Library Journal, starred review). When a little girl receives a curious book filled only with pictures, a whisper urges her to supply the words she cannot see. As the pages turn, her imagination takes flight and she discovers that the greatest storyteller of all might come from within. Pamela Zagarenski’s debut as an author reminds us that we each bring something different to the same book. "Surreal, staggering mixed-media paintings make traveling across such beautifully varied and bizarre storyscapes exhilarating."—Kirkus, starred review

Download or read book Whisper to Me written by Nick Lake and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Raw and lovely, dark and light, heartbreaking and human." - Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places Printz winner Nick Lake delivers an emotionally gut-wrenching love story told in reverse--starting with the post-break up apology letter--in this riveting, choices-of-the-heart summer romance. Cassie is writing a letter to the boy whose heart she broke. She's trying to explain why. Why she pushed him away. Why her father got so angry when he saw them together. Why she disappears some nights. Why she won't let herself remember what happened that long-ago night on the boardwalk. Why she fell apart so completely. Desperate for his forgiveness, she's telling the whole story of the summer she nearly lost herself. She's hoping that love-love for your family, love for that person who makes your heart beat faster, and love for yourself-can save both of them after all. Awards for There Will Be Lies A Boston Globe Best YA Book of 2015 A Texas TAYSHAS Pick

Download or read book Whispers from the Dead written by Joan Lowery Nixon and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes Whispers from the Dead from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon. Only Sarah senses the horror. The minute she steps through the doorway of her family’s new home, Sarah feels a smothering cold mist, and hears the echo of a scream and a heartbreaking whisper in Spanish, “Help me!” Sarah feels compelled to find out who is trying to reach her. But can she uncover the mysteries of the past before terror strikes again? “A master at creating compelling suspense novels, Nixon has written yet another carefully plotted, subtly terrifying thriller.” –Publishers Weekly

Download or read book A Ruin of Shadows written by L. D. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Daynja Édo is a legend: head of the Boorhian Empire's military and possessor of a mask of invulnerability. She has raised her Shadow Army of seven assassins from childhood. But mounting disillusionment over a life of brutality, a petulant emperor, and prodding from The Artful Djinni force her to defy orders for the first time in her thirty year career. When the empire decides they no longer need Édo if they can get the mask, she must face the monsters of her own making and the legacy they've turned against her.

Download or read book Whispers in the Dark written by Maya Banks and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathan is being held captive and is in agony. His saving grace is the voice of an angel who eases his pain and helps him regain enough strength to escape. When he does, she leaves him with a void that he can barely stand. When he escapes and returns to the KGI, he hears her again-now she needs him. Her name is Shae, and she's on the run with her sister. A government group wants to harness their abilities to heal. The KGI wants to help- but can Nathan quiet his soulmate's doubts and convince her that they are meant to face these dangers together?

Download or read book Sea of Whispers written by Tim Bowler and published by Oxford University Press - Children. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somehow the boat was still afloat - another wave had lifted it clear of the first rock and was driving it further inshore. It bumped against the base of Crab Rock and skewed around, then tipped momentarily to starboard . . . and as it did so, she saw a figure crouching in the bottom. Hetty's always been a bit of a loner, preferring to keep to the outer edges of the close-knit island community. But when a strange woman is washed up on the shore, Hetty finds herself under increasing scrutiny from the islanders. There's a connection between Hetty and the woman that makes people suspicious, so when death comes to the community the woman is branded a bad omen and Hetty has no choice but to take matters into her own hands. As she heads out to sea, a storm is breaking and the whispers that she's heard before are louder than ever. Voices from the very depths of the sea . . . and they're calling her name.

Download or read book House of Whispers written by R.L. Stine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amy Pierce knows nothing of the terrifying Fear history when she arrives for a visit with Simon and Angelica Fear. Their New Orleans mansion is beautiful—but Amy senses something evil there. Something that watches her. Waits for her. Will Amy be strong enough to escape the powers controlled by the Fear family?

Download or read book Whisper written by Chrissie Keighery and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Demi's world is shattered when she is left profoundly deaf by a sudden illness. Everything is different now, and Demi must learn to adapt to a new school, new friends and even learn a whole new language. Whisper is a coming-of-age tale about discovering who you are and where you fit in life. About friendships and first love and, most of all, learning to love the person you are.

Download or read book Willow s Whispers written by Lana Button and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating picture book about a very soft-spoken little girl's ultimately successful struggle to find her own voice.

Download or read book Whisper the Dead written by Alyxandra Harvey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cousins Gretchen, Emma, and Penelope are all dealing with what it means to be a Lovegrove. For Gretchen, it means she often feels like her head is going to explode. As a Whisperer, Gretchen constantly hears the whispers of other witches' spells. And while this does help her to know when one of her own spells is going wrong, the incessant buzzing and pain the whispers cause makes it difficult to use her gift. But when something evil begins to menace Mayfair, Gretchen must find a way to master her power. Along with her cousins, a madcap named Moira, and the icy yet irresistible Tobias Lawless, Gretchen faces deadly threats and unimaginable loss in the hopes of preventing the terrible Greymalkin Sisters from rising again. The second book in The Lovegrove Legacy trilogy, Whisper the Dead will leave readers spellbound.

Download or read book Whispers written by Ronald K. Siegel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-02-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a mesmerizing journey into mental illness, the author of Intoxication and Fire in the Brain captures the suspicion, terror, and rage that possess the minds of paranoids. "Horrifying and utterly fascinating . . . a hard book to put down".--Bettyann Kline, Los Angeles Times.

Download or read book The Whisper Man written by Alex North and published by Celadon Books. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "WORKS BEAUTIFULLY... If you like being terrified, The Whisper Man has your name on it." —The New York Times, Editor's Pick "SUPERB" —Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review "BRILLIANT... will satisfy readers of Thomas Harris and Stephen King." —Booklist, Starred Review "POIGNANT AND TERRIFYING" —Entertainment Weekly In this dark, suspenseful thriller, Alex North weaves a multi-generational tale of a father and son caught in the crosshairs of an investigation to catch a serial killer preying on a small town. After the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and his young son Jake heal. A new beginning, a new house, a new town. Featherbank. But the town has a dark past. Twenty years ago, a serial killer abducted and murdered five residents. Until Frank Carter was finally caught, he was nicknamed "The Whisper Man," for he would lure his victims out by whispering at their windows at night. Just as Tom and Jake settle into their new home, a young boy vanishes. His disappearance bears an unnerving resemblance to Frank Carter's crimes, reigniting old rumors that he preyed with an accomplice. Now, detectives Amanda Beck and Pete Willis must find the boy before it is too late, even if that means Pete has to revisit his great foe in prison: The Whisper Man. And then Jake begins acting strangely. He hears a whispering at his window...

Download or read book Humming Whispers written by Angela Johnson and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1996-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophy fears that she will become like her older sister Nicole who has schizophrenia.

Download or read book When the Devil Whispers written by Ajinkya Bhasme and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by real events. Read the grimmest tale in the history of the Indian judiciary.Trust no one; the devil walks among us.She sees everything and hears everything.And if She ever whispers to you, you must obey.Shalini now knows that death is not the worst that can happen.Why did a tolerant country like India sentence two women to be hanged to death for the very first time?Will Shalini survive the wrath of her kidnapper or will death greet her early to relieve her from her misery?Reviews-"It was ghastly. It reminded me of the time I fought for this case to get justice for all those who died. What a book."- Padma Shri Advocate Ujjwal Nikam, Indian special public prosecutor. "Petrifying, that was the feeling throughout the book. The end left me breathless."- Sushant Divgikar, Psychologist and former columnist DNA."It kept me on the tenterhook to know more."- Sharmila Banerjee, Internation Women Leader's forum."What an unpredictable plot. Great balance between detail oriented and fast paced writing."- Sameer Mishra, Writer & Director"I thought I would just read Chapter 1, six hours later I found myself covered in chills, finishing the book. The plotting was insane."- Aditya Mewati, budding author.

Download or read book The Wicked Heart written by Christopher Pike and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Club—now an original Netflix series! Dusty Shame was a high school senior, and a serial killer. Already he has murdered three young women, and he has more planned. Yet Dusty did not want to hurt anybody. There was something inside him, or perhaps outside him, that compelled him to kill. Sheila Hardolt has lost her best friend to Dusty’s brutal attacks. It will be her task to probe the clues Dusty has left at the site of each of his murders. Clues that will point her into the past—to a time when a large portion of mankind lost all sense of decency. There she will find the seed of Dusty’s evil compulsion, the Wicked Heart, and the reason why it did not die the first time it was destroyed.