Author: Vaughn Entwistle
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 178329535X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
“NOTHING LESS THAN THE WICKEDEST MAN IN LONDON…” It is October 1859, and notorious philanderer Lord Geoffrey Thraxton cares for nothing except his own amusement. After humiliating an odious literary critic and surviving the resulting duel, he boasts of his contempt for mortality, and insults the attending physician. It is a mistake he will come to regret. When Thraxton becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman who appears to him one fog-shrouded night in Highgate Cemetery, he unwittingly provides the doctor with the perfect means to punish a man with no fear of death…
The Angel of Highgate
Author: Vaughn Entwistle
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 178329535X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
“NOTHING LESS THAN THE WICKEDEST MAN IN LONDON…” It is October 1859, and notorious philanderer Lord Geoffrey Thraxton cares for nothing except his own amusement. After humiliating an odious literary critic and surviving the resulting duel, he boasts of his contempt for mortality, and insults the attending physician. It is a mistake he will come to regret. When Thraxton becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman who appears to him one fog-shrouded night in Highgate Cemetery, he unwittingly provides the doctor with the perfect means to punish a man with no fear of death…
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 178329535X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
“NOTHING LESS THAN THE WICKEDEST MAN IN LONDON…” It is October 1859, and notorious philanderer Lord Geoffrey Thraxton cares for nothing except his own amusement. After humiliating an odious literary critic and surviving the resulting duel, he boasts of his contempt for mortality, and insults the attending physician. It is a mistake he will come to regret. When Thraxton becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman who appears to him one fog-shrouded night in Highgate Cemetery, he unwittingly provides the doctor with the perfect means to punish a man with no fear of death…
Falling Angels
Author: Tracy Chevalier
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101174897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A New York Times bestseller From the author of the international bestseller Girl With A Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard, Tracy Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters. Falling Angels follows the fortunes of two families in the emerging years of the twentieth century in England, while the Queen's death reverberates through a changing nation. Told through a variety of shifting perspectives—wives and husbands, friends and lovers, masters and their servants, and a gravedigger's son—Falling Angels is graced with the luminous imagery that distinguished Girl With a Pearl Earring, Falling Angels is another dazzling tour de force from this "master of voices" (The New York Times Book Review).
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101174897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A New York Times bestseller From the author of the international bestseller Girl With A Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard, Tracy Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters. Falling Angels follows the fortunes of two families in the emerging years of the twentieth century in England, while the Queen's death reverberates through a changing nation. Told through a variety of shifting perspectives—wives and husbands, friends and lovers, masters and their servants, and a gravedigger's son—Falling Angels is graced with the luminous imagery that distinguished Girl With a Pearl Earring, Falling Angels is another dazzling tour de force from this "master of voices" (The New York Times Book Review).
The Maker of Swans
Author: Paraic O'Donnell
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1953534260
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
A New York Times BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER A CrimeReads & Book and Film Globe BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A Tor.com BEST BOOK OF JUNE “Truly bewitching.” —David Mitchell It is no small matter, after all, to create something—to make it so only by setting down the words. We forget the magnitude, sometimes, of that miracle. In the dead of night, shots ring out over the grounds of a sprawling English estate. The world-weary butler Eustace recognizes the gunman—his longtime employer, Mr. Crowe—and knows he must think and act quickly. Who is the man lying dead on the lawn? Who is the woman in his company? Can he clean up his master’s mess like he always has before? Or will this bring a new kind of reckoning? Mr. Crowe was once famed for his gifts—unaccountable gifts, known only to the members of a secretive order. Protected and privileged, he was courted by countesses and great men of letters. But he has long since retreated from that glittering world, living alone but for Eustace and Clara, his mysterious young ward. He has been content to live quietly, his great library gathering dust and his once magnificent gardens growing wild. He has left the past behind. Until now. Because there are rules, even for Mr. Crowe and his kind, that cannot be broken. And this single night of passion and violence will have consequences, stirring shadows from the past and threatening those he now cares for. He and the faithful Eustace will be tested as never before. So too will Clara, whose own extraordinary gifts remain hidden, even from herself. If she is to save them all, she must learn to use them quickly and unlock the secret of who she is. It is a secret beyond imagining. A secret that will change everything.
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1953534260
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
A New York Times BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER A CrimeReads & Book and Film Globe BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A Tor.com BEST BOOK OF JUNE “Truly bewitching.” —David Mitchell It is no small matter, after all, to create something—to make it so only by setting down the words. We forget the magnitude, sometimes, of that miracle. In the dead of night, shots ring out over the grounds of a sprawling English estate. The world-weary butler Eustace recognizes the gunman—his longtime employer, Mr. Crowe—and knows he must think and act quickly. Who is the man lying dead on the lawn? Who is the woman in his company? Can he clean up his master’s mess like he always has before? Or will this bring a new kind of reckoning? Mr. Crowe was once famed for his gifts—unaccountable gifts, known only to the members of a secretive order. Protected and privileged, he was courted by countesses and great men of letters. But he has long since retreated from that glittering world, living alone but for Eustace and Clara, his mysterious young ward. He has been content to live quietly, his great library gathering dust and his once magnificent gardens growing wild. He has left the past behind. Until now. Because there are rules, even for Mr. Crowe and his kind, that cannot be broken. And this single night of passion and violence will have consequences, stirring shadows from the past and threatening those he now cares for. He and the faithful Eustace will be tested as never before. So too will Clara, whose own extraordinary gifts remain hidden, even from herself. If she is to save them all, she must learn to use them quickly and unlock the secret of who she is. It is a secret beyond imagining. A secret that will change everything.
The Revenant of Thraxton Hall
Author: Vaughn Entwistle
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250035007
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Arthur Conan Doyle has just killed off Sherlock Holmes in "The Final Problem," and he immediately becomes one of the most hated men in London. So when he is contacted by a medium "of some renown" and asked to investigate a murder, he jumps at the chance to get out of the city. The only thing is that the murder hasn't happened yet—the medium, one Hope Thraxton, has foreseen that her death will occur at the third séance of a meeting of the Society for Psychical Research at her manor house in the English countryside. Along for the ride is Conan Doyle's good friend Oscar Wilde, and together they work to narrow down the list of suspects, which includes a mysterious foreign Count, a levitating magician, and an irritable old woman with a "familiar." Meanwhile, Conan Doyle is enchanted by the plight of the capricious Hope Thraxton, who may or may not have a more complicated back-story than it first appears. As Conan Doyle and Wilde participate in séances and consider the possible motives of the assembled group, the clock ticks ever closer to Hope's murder, in The Revenant of Thraxton Hall by Vaughn Entwistle.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250035007
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Arthur Conan Doyle has just killed off Sherlock Holmes in "The Final Problem," and he immediately becomes one of the most hated men in London. So when he is contacted by a medium "of some renown" and asked to investigate a murder, he jumps at the chance to get out of the city. The only thing is that the murder hasn't happened yet—the medium, one Hope Thraxton, has foreseen that her death will occur at the third séance of a meeting of the Society for Psychical Research at her manor house in the English countryside. Along for the ride is Conan Doyle's good friend Oscar Wilde, and together they work to narrow down the list of suspects, which includes a mysterious foreign Count, a levitating magician, and an irritable old woman with a "familiar." Meanwhile, Conan Doyle is enchanted by the plight of the capricious Hope Thraxton, who may or may not have a more complicated back-story than it first appears. As Conan Doyle and Wilde participate in séances and consider the possible motives of the assembled group, the clock ticks ever closer to Hope's murder, in The Revenant of Thraxton Hall by Vaughn Entwistle.
The Sleeping Angel
Author: Margarita Morris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992748944
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Something is astir in Highgate Cemetery. The dead want justice and so do the living. January 1870: Isabelle Hart has a secret. It lies buried in Highgate Cemetery, beside the statue of the sleeping angel. March 1970: Strange happenings of a sinister nature are reported at Highgate Cemetery. Who or what is lurking amongst the gravestones? July, present day: Someone is trying to contact Lauren from beyond the grave. Tom, meanwhile, is determined to prove his father's death was murder. As Lauren uncovers Isabelle's story and Tom chases his father's killer, everything points towards the sleeping angel, a Victorian statue in Highgate Cemetery. Lauren and Tom must discover the truth before the killer strikes again. The Sleeping Angel is a gripping time-slip mystery thriller that cleverly interweaves the Victorian period and the present day.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992748944
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Something is astir in Highgate Cemetery. The dead want justice and so do the living. January 1870: Isabelle Hart has a secret. It lies buried in Highgate Cemetery, beside the statue of the sleeping angel. March 1970: Strange happenings of a sinister nature are reported at Highgate Cemetery. Who or what is lurking amongst the gravestones? July, present day: Someone is trying to contact Lauren from beyond the grave. Tom, meanwhile, is determined to prove his father's death was murder. As Lauren uncovers Isabelle's story and Tom chases his father's killer, everything points towards the sleeping angel, a Victorian statue in Highgate Cemetery. Lauren and Tom must discover the truth before the killer strikes again. The Sleeping Angel is a gripping time-slip mystery thriller that cleverly interweaves the Victorian period and the present day.
The Angel of the Revolution
Author: George Griffith
Publisher: eStar Books
ISBN: 1612108245
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
‘The Brotherhood of Freedom’ is out to take over the world using airship warfare. The group is led by a brilliant Russian Jew and his daughter, the 'angel' Natasha. They manage to establish a 'pax aeronautica' over the earth after a young inventor masters the technology of flight in 1903, and the war progresses to the heart of Russia and against the Russian Czar.
Publisher: eStar Books
ISBN: 1612108245
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
‘The Brotherhood of Freedom’ is out to take over the world using airship warfare. The group is led by a brilliant Russian Jew and his daughter, the 'angel' Natasha. They manage to establish a 'pax aeronautica' over the earth after a young inventor masters the technology of flight in 1903, and the war progresses to the heart of Russia and against the Russian Czar.
Big George
Author: Big George
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
In a neonatal intensive-care center, two newborns are lying side by side, fighting for their precious lives. Their parents are from different economic backgrounds but are drawn together by their infants' need for love. Little does anyone know that Big George, who weighs a mere one-and-a-half pounds, is an angel in disguise -- a very, very special angel who has been sent to Earth by his Father on a mission of the greatest importance ...
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
In a neonatal intensive-care center, two newborns are lying side by side, fighting for their precious lives. Their parents are from different economic backgrounds but are drawn together by their infants' need for love. Little does anyone know that Big George, who weighs a mere one-and-a-half pounds, is an angel in disguise -- a very, very special angel who has been sent to Earth by his Father on a mission of the greatest importance ...
The Angel of Beale Street
Author: Selma S. Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
"Julia Ann Hooks, who died in 1942, was the great-niece of John Marshall, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and the grandmother of Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the NAACP. Reared by her white grandfather in Kentucky's pre-Civil War ambiance, she trained to be a concert pianist. Before she was to become the first black faculty member of Kentucky's Berea College, Julia experienced the difficulties of traveling with her white family members, which she compared with her later, even more painful, experience of Jim Crow after the Civil War. Moving to Memphis's famed Beale Street, she was a colleague of Ida Wells in campaigns for racial equality and became a popular music teacher. The first 40 years of Hooks's vastly interesting life are covered in this biography in a generally fictionalized rendering, a method cited by the authors as appropriate for an undocumented life"--From Publisher's Weekly.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
"Julia Ann Hooks, who died in 1942, was the great-niece of John Marshall, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and the grandmother of Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the NAACP. Reared by her white grandfather in Kentucky's pre-Civil War ambiance, she trained to be a concert pianist. Before she was to become the first black faculty member of Kentucky's Berea College, Julia experienced the difficulties of traveling with her white family members, which she compared with her later, even more painful, experience of Jim Crow after the Civil War. Moving to Memphis's famed Beale Street, she was a colleague of Ida Wells in campaigns for racial equality and became a popular music teacher. The first 40 years of Hooks's vastly interesting life are covered in this biography in a generally fictionalized rendering, a method cited by the authors as appropriate for an undocumented life"--From Publisher's Weekly.
Sleeping Angel
Author: Mia James
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780620794
Category : Dunne, April (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
April Dunne has survived murder, tragedy and the near-complete destruction of her life as she knew it . . . now it's time to solve the Ravenwood mystery once and for all. To save her vampire boyfriend Gabriel, she has to identify the Vampire King. To save her friends, she has to work out what's really going on at Ravenwood school, in Highgate. To save her family, she has to finally uncover who murdered her father and why. But it's possible not even being a Fury will save April Dunne herself . . .
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780620794
Category : Dunne, April (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
April Dunne has survived murder, tragedy and the near-complete destruction of her life as she knew it . . . now it's time to solve the Ravenwood mystery once and for all. To save her vampire boyfriend Gabriel, she has to identify the Vampire King. To save her friends, she has to work out what's really going on at Ravenwood school, in Highgate. To save her family, she has to finally uncover who murdered her father and why. But it's possible not even being a Fury will save April Dunne herself . . .
Waldo, Tell Me about Guardian Angels
Author: Hans Wilhelm
Publisher: Regina Press Malhame
ISBN: 9780882714714
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Waldo the dog tells his young friend Michael that the feeling he gets when he is about to do something wrong or harmful is his guardian angel warning him.
Publisher: Regina Press Malhame
ISBN: 9780882714714
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Waldo the dog tells his young friend Michael that the feeling he gets when he is about to do something wrong or harmful is his guardian angel warning him.