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Who can catch a memory thief? ' An unforgettable adventure ' THE
TIMES BOOK OF THE WEEK. "Starting on All Fools Day, twelve years
ago, I remember everything. EVERYTHING. That was a wet Saturday,
and that was the day I was born." 12-year-old Piaf has the ability
to (and burden of) remembering everything that has happened since
the day she was born. When she discovers everyone in Paris has
forgotten the entire last year, 1887, including the disappearance
of several gifted children, Piaf and her twin brother Luc embark on
a dangerous journey that brings them to the depths of Paris's
underground twin, the Catacombs, to capture the memory thief and
find the lost children.
1943. As war sweeps across Europe, Max Carver's father moves his
family away from the city, to an old wooden house on the coast. But
as soon as they arrive, strange things begin to happen: Max
discovers a garden filled with eerie statues; his sisters are
plagued by unsettling dreams and voices; a box of old films opens a
window to the past. Most unsettling of all are rumours about the
previous owners and the mysterious disappearance of their son. As
Max delves into the past, he encounters the terrifying story of the
Prince of Mist, a sinister shadow who emerges from the night to
settle old scores, then disappears with the first mists of dawn . .
. Originally published in Spain as a young adult novel, THE PRINCE
OF MIST is a mesmerising tale of mystery, romance and adventure.
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Scgoli 2017
(Hardcover)
Morag Douglas, Margaret Iwa, Fiona McLeod
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R461
R432
Discovery Miles 4 320
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Travis and his sister, Corey, can't resist a good trick. When they
learn that their grandmother's quiet Vermont inn, where they're
spending the summer, has a history of ghost sightings, they decide
to do a little "haunting" of their own. Before long, their
supernatural pranks have tourists flocking to the inn, and business
booms. But Travis and Corey soon find out that they aren't the only
ghosts at Fox Hill Inn. Their thoughtless games have awakened
something dangerous, something that should have stayed asleep. Can
these siblings lay to rest the ghosts they've stirred?
Twelve-year-old Joe Sebastian feels depressingly average. His
older brother Cameron, a football star, gets all his parents'
attention while Joe's left babysitting his Van Helsing-obsessed
little brother.
Maybe that's why Joe likes Cole. Cole has no family
responsibilities; he's a runaway living in the local cemetery,
surrounded by iron crosses forged by Joe's great-great-grandfather,
once a blacksmith for the sleepy harbor town of Majestic
Hollow.
Cole has his own reasons for befriending Joe and social outcast
Vidonia Finkle, reasons forced on him by Belzore, the powerful
being known in local folklore as The Boogey Man. Belzore wants
nothing less than total control of Majestic Hollow. With an army of
vampires, werewolves, and witches at his command, he should be able
to take over easily. So why does Belzore fear Joe and Vi, or need
to manipulate an unwilling Cole?
The answer lies in a secret buried in both the town's past and
the cemetery-if Joe and his friends can uncover it. More than
Majestic Hollow is at stake. If the town falls, Belzore's infernal
minions will infest all of North America. Joe's going to have to be
much more than average to stop this invasion.
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The Well
(Paperback)
A.J. Whitten
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R485
R409
Discovery Miles 4 090
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If Hamlet thought he had issues, he should have talked to Cooper
Warner.
His mother's normally sunny demeanor has turned into
something--homicidal.
And what's worse, she has help in her hunt for Cooper: A ravenous
monster living at the bottom of the old well in the woods behind
their house. She's determined to deliver her 14-year-old son
straight into the creature's eager clutches. Cooper turns to his
girlfriend, Megan, for help, but then, to his horror, the creature
takes her prisoner.
Now, it's up to Cooper to fend off his murderous mother, finish
his Hamlet paper, and enter the putrid lair at the bottom of the
well to rescue Megan. And when he confronts the creature, Cooper
must make the toughest decision of his life: kill, or be killed.
Inspired by Hamlet, THE WELL puts a terrifying twist on the
Shakespearean classic.
This award-winning novel is now available in paperback. After
Ashley and Kristi find an antique doll buried in old Miss Cooper's
garden, they discover that they can enter a ghostly
turn-of-the-century world by going through a hole in the hedge.
A young man, resistant to any belief in ghosts, arrives in St.
Augustine, Florida, America's oldest city--a town permeated with
ghost legends and tours exploiting them. He is soon caught up in
encounters with the town's ghostly denizens, including the Reaper,
the most hostile and dangerous of them all.
A family mix-up means Louie has to tag along with his engineer
father and his team as they head for a routine job in the farthest
flung and most neglected province of the Federation. A massive
earthquake, with ensuing tsunami, devastates the entire isolated
coastal region, laying bare the other-worldly manner in which the
silent and strange Endlanders deal with life, death and the
hinterlands of memory and loss. Their curious and unsettling ways
raise ghosts for Louie, who has recently lost his own brother. This
modern fable - part ghost-story, part coming-of-age novel and part
astute social and family observation - explores the ways in which
grief can affect not only individuals, but communities at large.
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