Author: Dale Rominger Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1532011237 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 217
Book Description
Drake Ramsey is a successful author who has just moved to New Orleans to be with his love, the brilliant and now pregnant Zuri Manyika. While Zuri works as a professor at Loyola University, Drake spends his days in Treme Coffeehouse, contemplating a sequel without a clue his world is about to be turned upside down. Drakes horizons expand when his new friend, Adam Boateng, relays stories of life in early New Orleans that strangely hint he may have been there himself. After Drake invites his old buddy, Gerard Schleiermacher, to join them for Halloween, he looks forward to experiencing New Orleans at its most outrageous. But just as they learn that Zuris old Zimbabwean adversary has escaped from prison, Adam becomes a suspect in a murder. Now Drake is left to speculate if Adam is capable of killing, if the vengeful prisoner is guilty, or if a voodoo priest is responsible. As Drake, Zuri, and Gerard risk their lives in pursuit of the truth, bayous and beignets interweave with second lines and graveyards as a vampire lurks in the shadows. Will Drake ever find the killer? In this gripping mystery, a best-selling author transforms into an amateur sleuth intent on finding a murderer after a wild Halloween in New Orleans.
Author: Holly Black Publisher: Scholastic Inc. ISBN: 0545522390 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 206
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From the bestselling powerhouses of Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes another gripping journey about magic, danger, and friendship. A generation ago, Constantine Madden came close to achieving what no magician had ever achieved: the ability to bring back the dead. He didn't succeed . . . but he did find a way to keep himself alive, inside a young child named Callum Hunt.Now Call is one of the most feared and reviled students in the history of the Magisterium, thought to be responsible for a devastating death and an ever-present threat of war. As a result, Call has been imprisoned and interrogated. Everyone wants to know what Constantine was up to-and how he lives on.But Call has no idea.It is only when he's broken out of prison that the full potential of Constantine's plan is suddenly in his hands . . . and he must decide what to do with his power. In this spellbinding fourth book of Magisterium, bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare take us beyond the realm of the living and into the dangers of the dead.
Author: Patricia Wentworth Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1453223622 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 367
Book Description
Governess-turned-detective Miss Silver investigates a deadly conspiratorial ring Charles Moray has come home to England to collect his inheritance. After four years wandering the jungles of India and South America, the hardy young man returns to the manor of his birth, where generations of Morays have lived and died. Strangely, he finds the house unlocked, and sees a light on in one of its abandoned rooms. Eavesdropping, he learns of a conspiracy to commit a fearsome crime. Never one for the heroic, Charles’s first instinct is to let the police settle it. But then he hears her voice. Margaret, his long lost love, is part of the gang. To unravel their diabolical plot, he contacts Miss Maud Silver, a onetime governess who applies reason to solve crimes and face the dangers of London’s underworld.
Author: Vadim Levin Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers ISBN: 1398408271 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 257
Book Description
A young tourist, travelling alone in a foreign country, suddenly encounters a young woman wearing a set of blue armour who seemed to pop out of thin air. After a brief conversation, she leaves abruptly, without telling him anything about herself. Eager to get to know her better, he follows her and suddenly finds himself in a magical land on the brink of war. While running around searching for the girl in the blue armour, he has to undergo a crash course in local history and customs, many elements of which are armed and quite dangerous. He gradually begins to uncover the truth about the woman he’d met, what she is looking for, and how it is all related to the growing threat of war.
Author: Margot McGovern Publisher: Random House Australia ISBN: 0143787853 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 243
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After doing herself near-fatal harm, Kit has returned to her island home. But it’s a place she hardly recognises: the witch and the mermaids are hiding and the pirates have sailed to more bountiful shores. In their place is Neverland and its inhabitants – damaged teens too sick to be in regular school, watched over by her psychiatrist uncle. And now Kit is one of them. Kit has a choice. She can use illicit night-time adventures with friends and mysterious new boy Rohan to avoid the truth. Or she can separate harsh reality from childhood fantasy and remember the night of her parents’ deaths. What really prompted her family’s departure from the island? Did a monster drive them away? Is the monster still there?
Author: Holly Black Publisher: Scholastic Inc. ISBN: 0545522277 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 295
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From NEW YORK TIMES bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes a riveting new series that defies what you think you know about the world of magic. Most kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial. Not Callum Hunt. He wants to fail. All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. If he succeeds at the Iron Trial and is admitted into the Magisterium, he is sure it can only mean bad things for him. So he tries his best to do his worst - and fails at failing. Now the Magisterium awaits him. It's a place that's both sensational and sinister, with dark ties to his past and a twisty path to his future. The Iron Trial is just the beginning, for the biggest test is still to come . . . From the remarkable imaginations of bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes a heart-stopping, mind-blowing, pulse-pounding plunge into the magical unknown.
Author: Eleni Hale Publisher: Penguin Group Australia ISBN: 1760146692 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 338
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An unspeakable event changes everything for Sophie. No more Mum, school or bed of her own. She’s made a ward of the state and grows up in a volatile world where kids make their own rules, adults don’t count and the only constant is change. Until one day she meets Gwen, Matty and Spiral. Spiral is the most furious, beautiful boy Sophie has ever known. And as their bond tightens she finally begins to confront what happened in her past. I’m at the police station. There’s blood splattered across my face and clothes. In this tiny room with walls the colour of winter sky I hug a black backpack full of treasures. Only one thing is certain . . . no one can ever forgive me for what I’ve done. Winner of the Readings YA Book Prize, 2019 Voted the Best Young Adult Book of the year by Readings customers Voted Favourite YA Read of the year by Kids’ Book Review Voted in the top 100 great reads by Australian women Shortlisted for New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature, 2019 Contains mature content. Suitable for older readers.
Author: Holly Webb Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. ISBN: 1492604313 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 171
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Rose is now a fully fledged magician's apprentice—will her new magic be enough to find the dangerous magician's mask? When a precious mask of unimaginable power is stolen from the royal palace, Rose suspects that dark magicians are at work and that danger looms. The race to stop the evil thieves will take Rose to the mysterious city of Venice, where nothing is quite what it seems. Can Rose use her magic to find the terrible mask before its true powers are revealed?
Author: Pararu Quamato Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1438962959 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 118
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Anica, a young girl travels to china for her 14th birthday. Though disapointed about leaving her friends, her father and mother promise her it will be an adventure she will never forget. True to their words Anica finds herself in a world not like her own. Her first commrad on her journey to the sea is a jester by the name of Ditter, and yes he does find himself in some predicaments that lead to trouble for them both. Next is Jack, a gentlemen by nature and a heart with a secret of his own. Only Anica can figure it out. Next is a bull, their protector that does a fine job of battling the bronze bulls, and last a young vampire by the name of Posh. He is taught in more ways than one that blood is thicker than water. During their journey you may learn a lesson or two as well about the strength of friendship.
Author: Chrissy Tyrianne Publisher: Notion Press ISBN: 1648996442 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 717
Book Description
Wanting to survive, desperate to fly like a free bird, she turned to a young exotic lawyer who was also the current CEO of the White Enterprise for help, to help her fight for her justice and for all the things she had suffered. She was filled with confidence. She clung to a tiny bit of hope left in her after two years of being imprisoned by her past. However, what she didn’t know was that the lawyer had already met her and had been looking for her all over the place.
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