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Stone Garden
(Hardcover)
Tuula Pere; Illustrated by Andrea Alemanno
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R764
R706
Discovery Miles 7 060
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There it is again, hope. The defeat and the despair I can stand,
but it's the hope that kills me, as if the Cause wasn't lost, as if
Father hadn't died in vain. As if any one of us could possibly come
out of this alive... Following the death of his father, 13-year-old
Archie MacDonald has lost faith in the Jacobite Cause. Having
witnessed their clan's terrible defeat at the Battle of Culloden,
Archie and his feisty cousin Meg flee back to Lochaber to lie low.
Or so they think. Until the fugitive Prince's life depends on them.
When Prince Charles Edward Stuart looks to the people of Borrodale
for help, will the young stable boy support the rebellion that has
cost him so dearly? With enemies closing in, the Prince's fate now
rests in the hands of a stable boy and a maid with a white cockade.
Who will survive this deadly game of hide-and-seek?
Returning to the dark and glamorous 19th century world of her New
York Times bestseller, The Gilded Wolves, Roshani Chokshi dazzles
with another riveting tale full of mystery and danger in The
Silvered Serpents. They are each other's fiercest love, greatest
danger, and only hope. Severin and his team members might have
successfully thwarted the Fallen House, but victory came at a
terrible cost--one that still haunts all of them. Desperate to make
amends, Severin pursues a dangerous lead to find a long lost
artifact rumored to grant its possessor the power of God. Their
hunt lures them far from Paris and into the icy heart of Russia,
where crystalline ice animals stalk forgotten mansions, broken
goddesses carry deadly secrets, and a string of unsolved murders
makes the crew question whether an ancient myth is a myth after
all. As hidden secrets come to the light and the ghosts of the past
catch up to them, the crew will discover new dimensions of
themselves. But what they find out may lead them down paths they
never imagined. A tale of love and betrayal as the crew risks their
lives for one last job.
The third title in this breakout new detective series, from the
author of the spine-tingling Scarlet and Ivy series. When a large
diamond goes missing from Silvershell Manor, who better to get to
the bottom of the mystery than detective Violet Veil and her dog
Bones. But nothing is quite as it seems when it comes to the
missing heirloom and when a trail of origami birds leads them to
Elizabelle Crane, a young casino owner and debt collector, Violet
realises that it’s all just turned into a game of high stakes . .
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My Calamity Jane
(Paperback)
Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows
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R501
R252
Discovery Miles 2 520
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At the age of sixteen Frances Hodgson Burnett moved to Tennessee
with her bankrupt family and began writing for American magazines
as means to support herself. Over two decades later Burnett
published "Little Lord Fauntleroy," modeling the character after
her son Vivian. Burnett's text and Reginald Birch's original
illustrations helped popularize a very romantic style of dress for
boys -- a velvet suit with a broad lace collar -- in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Sometimes at the darkest hour, hope shines the brightest…
When Col’s childhood imaginary friends come to life, he discovers a world where myths and legends are real. Accompanied by his guardians – a six-foot tiger, a badger in a waistcoat and a miniature knight – Col must race to Blitz-bombed London to save his sister.
But there are darker forces at work, even than the Nazi bombings. Soon Col is pursued by the terrifying Midwinter King, who is determined to bring an eternal darkness down over everything.
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