Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A remarkable collection of mysteries starring the brilliant Dr. Thorndyke Silas has diamonds in the heel of his shoe. He is a thief, but until the night he meets Oscar Brodski on the footpath near his house, he has never considered murder. A diamond dealer, Brodski's pockets bulge with more precious stones than Silas has ever dreamed of, and they will be his with one swift, violent act. Silas does the deed and arranges the diamond dealer's body to...
Author
Language
English
Description
1979: Seventeen-year-old Alice Pearson can't wait to graduate from high school and escape the small town in upstate New York where she grew up. Alice and her three closest friends meet the enigmatic Jack Wyck. Enticed by his philosophy and the promise of a constant party, Alice and her friends join Mr. Wyck's small group of devoted followers. Their idyll takes an increasingly sinister turn. Mr. Wyck's grand scheme goes wrong, culminating in a...
4) Short Stories (Part I): John Thorndyke's Cases, The Singing Bone, The Great Portrait Mystery and Apo
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Volume II contains roughly the first half of the Thorndyke Short Stories. In all, there are over forty Thorndyke short stories, spread over six books. This volume contains the fifteen short stories from the first three, John Thorndyke's Cases, The Singing Bone, and The Great Portrait Mystery.
Some of the stories in this book are especially famous, as they were the first use of the "inverted" mystery, in which the criminal (and how he did it) are identified...
Author
Language
English
Description
Reading Singing into Bone is like walking a labyrinth. The tales Rebecca Singer weaves together are not linear; they spiral and turn, they take us to the edge of the unknown, then circle back home, deeper than before. Like the windings of the labyrinth, the stories have a heartbeat, a pulse.
There are four sections in the book, just as there are four directions and four gates in a Medicine Wheel. The book opens with a powerful prayer. The stories...
Author
Language
English
Description
Juliet is convinced her brother has been kidnapped . Mac thinks he is running guns in Jamaica. Mac is rough-and-tumble. Juliet is every inch a lady. He has lied to her at every juncture. She has zero tolerance for untruthfulness. Forced to work together to avoid the curse of a native medicine man, Juliet and Mac hack their way through the jungle, cope with the mysteries of a groaning statue found deeply underground in a cave grotto, and come to grips...
Author
Series
Hundred names for magic volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's been three months since the Snow Queen and OzCorp infiltrated Maidenkeep and nearly seized the Nine Maidens. Ryker is still unconscious and the rest of the group is feeling the effects of the prolonged war. Not to mention that Abigail Fey's curse has far-reaching consequences, and many in the Royal States have been using it to stir unrest and hostilities against Avalon. When the Adarna, a firebird-like creature appears in Avalon, the gang discovers...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mysterious hitchhiker, a lovelorn pig, and a backseat gangster are among the colorful characters that populate these spooky stories. Noted folklorist Maria Leach spins a tapestry of yarns that originated in the British Isles, New England, and the American South. Moody black-and-white drawings complement the stories, which range from humorous and playful to downright eerie. There's the one about the fellow who saw two eyes staring at him from the...
Publisher
Jo Fletcher
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A fantastical mix of spellbinding retelling of classic stories such as Cinderella, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and Rumpelstiltskin, along with unsettling tales inspired by other children's classics, all interspersed with the original tales of their inspiration.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...
Author
Language
English
Description
Eerily hypnotic, Sing Our Bones Eternal is a mermaid tale like never before. Steeped in blood magic and mermaid tears, Rayburn's haunting debut will devour you.
When Senga Goldie finds herself stranded on Hourglass Isle with her wicked family, she becomes the host of an ancestral haunting. Bound by a covenant to a hungry god, Senga has all the trappings of a huntress, but her world is shattered when a mirror-wielding mermaid befriends her. Through...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A family watches in horror as their patriarch transforms into the singing, wise-cracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. A renowned art collector relishes publicly destroying his most valuable pieces. Two boys stand by helplessly as their father stages an all-consuming war on the raccoons living in the woods around their house. A young artist devotes himself to a wealthy, malicious gossip, knowing that it's just a matter of time before she turns...
Author
Language
English
Description
167-page debut full-length poetry collection-embracing all that makes us Whole within, and our natural Duality through the embodiment of the Wild and the Wolf.
A declaration to all that makes us whole, to the wild womxn who wear fur like armor; for the outcasts aching to transform. This first full-length collection of poems detail a healing, a reckoning, and a transformation into the wolf (her)self, from a woman born of blood and brambles, layered...
Author
Series
Anna Hibiscus (Early chapter books) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Anna Hibiscus, who lives in Africa and who loves singing to her two baby brothers, is chosen to sing for her school in front of the president, her throat runs dry, and her bones turn to stone.