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In her 1916 ghost story, Kerfol, Edith Wharton tells of Anne de Barrigan, a young woman convicted of murdering her jealous husband. The elderly lord was found on the stairs, apparently savaged by a pack of dogs, though there were no dogs - no live dogs - at Kerfol that day. In these remarkable intertwining stories, Deborah Noyes returns to the manor to tell de Barrigan's story through the sympathetic eyes of her servant girl. Four more tales slip forward in time, following characters haunted by the ghosts of Kerfol - the dead dogs; the sensual, uneasy relationships; and the bitter taste of revenge.
In a sensual paranormal romance, a teen girl's doppelganger from
1348 Florence lures her into the past in hopes of exacting a deadly
trade.
It was meant to be a diversion -- a summer in Florence with her
best friend, Liam, and his travel-writer mom, doing historical
research between breaks for gelato. A chance to forget that back in
Vermont, May's parents, and all semblance of safety, were breaking
up. But when May wakes one night sensing someone in her room, only
to find her ghostly twin staring back at her, normalcy becomes a
distant memory. And when later she follows the menacing Cristofana
through a portale to fourteenth-century Florence, May never expects
to find safety in the eyes of Marco, a soulful painter who awakens
in her a burning desire and makes her feel truly seen. The wily
Cristofana wants nothing less of May than to inhabit each other's
lives, but with the Black Death ravaging Old Florence, can May's
longing for Marco's touch be anything but madness? Lush with
atmosphere both passionate and eerie, this evocative tale follows a
girl on the brink of womanhood as she dares to transcend the
familiar -- and discovers her sensual power.
Now in paperback-- In an enthralling work of Gothic suspense, an
Edith Wharton story inspires five connected tales set in the same
haunted manor over the centuries.
In her classic ghost story "Kerfol," Edith Wharton tells the tale
of Anne de Barrigan, a young Frenchwoman convicted of murdering her
husband, the jealous Yves de Cornault. The elderly lord was found
dead on the stairs, apparently savaged by a pack of dogs, though
there were no dogs -- no live dogs -- at Kerfol that day. In this
remarkable collection of intertwining short stories, Deborah Noyes
takes us back to the haunted manor and tells us Anne de Barrigan's
story through the sympathetic eyes of her servant girl. Four more
tales slip forward in time, peering in on a young artist, a
hard-drinking party girl, a young American couple, and a deaf
gardener who now tends the Kerfol estate. All these souls are
haunted by the ghosts of Kerfol -- the dead dogs, the sensual yet
uneasy relationships, and the bitter taste of revenge.
Freaks, magicians, psychics, and the passing strange take center
stage in ten original tales by top YA authors and graphic
novelists.
Molly is a bearded girl who joins the circus, only to fi nd that
her former tormentor faces a far hairier plight. Tia claims that
her lamented mom is a three-thousand-year-old mummy, but is it
really an act? Cody sets out to foil a pop psychic, but the
shocking result is not what he planned for. And Tiffany's grandma
sees something wild in her future, but is the girl prepared for the
powerful shape it will take? Whether the sideshow touts a
two-headed rat or a turn-of-the-century American jargo, whether the
subject discovers an odd kind of miracle or learns that the real
freaks are outside the tent, these stories and graphic tales are by
turns humorous and insightful, edgy and eerie, but always
compulsively entertaining.
Look carefully! The wild animals of Africa spring to life in
clever, lighthearted poems and compelling, evocative photographs.
Inside every acrostic is a secret message, often lurking in the
first letter of each line (read top to bottom). But look out! These
acrostics not only follow their subjects to Africa, but they also
take the form to a whole new level. Here you'll find the elusive
double acrostic (in which the first and last letters of each line
spell a message), the cross acrostic (in which the message is read
diagonally), and the multiple acrostic (see it to believe it) --
not to mention lions, zebras, crocodiles, hippos, leopards, and
elephants. Oh, my! Illustrated with gorgeous full-color
photographs, this collection is sure to send poetry buffs and
animal lovers on an armchair safari they'll never forget.
"From the Hardcover edition."
This masterful historical novel by Deborah Noyes, the lauded author
of Angel & Apostle, The Ghosts of Kerfol, and Encyclopedia of
the End (starred PW) is two stories: The first centers upon the
strange, true tale of the Fox Sisters, the enigmatic family of
young women who, in upstate New York in 1848, proclaimed that they
could converse with the dead. Doing so, they unwittingly (but
artfully) gave birth to a religious movement that touched two
continents: the American Spiritualists. Their followers included
the famous and the rich, and their effect on American spirituality
lasted a full generation. Still, there are echoes. The Fox Sisters'
is a story of ambition and playfulness, of illusion and fear, of
indulgence, guilt and finally self-destruction. The second story in
Captivity is about loss and grief. It is the evocative tale of the
bright promise that the Fox Sisters offer up to the skeptical Clara
Gill, a reclusive woman of a certain age who long ago isolated
herself with her paintings, following the scandalous loss of her
beautiful young lover in London. Lyrical and authentic--and more
than a bit shadowy--Captivity is, finally, a tale about physical
desire and the hope that even the thinnest faith can offer up to a
darkening heart.
The tale of the epic rivalry between two foundational
paleontologists to find bigger and better bones in the American
West, perfect for readers of Steve Sheinkin and Candace Fleming.
Today we take for granted the idea that dinosaurs once roamed the
earth. But two hundred years ago, the very concept of an extinct
species did not exist. When an English scientist proposed in 1841
that Dino Saurs (terrible lizards) had come and gone, it was only a
theory, a new way of explaining the dragon and giant bones
scattered across the globe. But when proof turned up seventeen
years later, it was not only incontrovertible; it was massive.
Tooth and Claw tells the story of the feverish race between two
brilliant, driven, and insanely competitive scientists--Edward
Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh--to uncover more and more
monstrous fossils in the newly opened Wild West. Between them, they
discovered dozens of major dinosaur species and established the new
discipline of paleontology in America. But their bitter thirty-year
rivalry--a war waged on wild plains and mountains, in tabloid
newsprint, and in Congress--dramatically wrecked their professional
and private lives even as it brought alive for the public a
vanished prehistoric world.
The compelling and true story of how one truly dedicated journalist admitted herself to an asylum to write a groundbreaking exposé.
Young Nellie Bly had ambitious goals, especially for a woman at the end of the nineteenth century, when the few female journalists were relegated to writing columns about cleaning or fashion. But fresh off a train from Pittsburgh, Nellie knew she was destined for more and pulled a major journalistic stunt that skyrocketed her to fame: feigning insanity, being committed to the notorious asylum on Blackwell's Island, and writing a shocking exposé of the clinic’s horrific treatment of its patients.
Nellie Bly became a household name and raised awareness of political corruption, poverty, and abuses of human rights. Leading an uncommonly full life, Nellie circled the globe in a record seventy-two days and brought home a pet monkey before marrying an aged millionaire and running his company after his death.
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Red Butterfly (Paperback)
Deborah Noyes; Illustrated by Sophie Blackall
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An enchanting tale of hidden beauty and fierce courage, retold in the style of T'ang Dynasty poetry and illustrated with charm and grace
A young Chinese princess is sent from her father's kingdom to marry the king of a far-off land. She must leave behind her home of splendors: sour plums and pink peach petals and -- most precious and secret of all -- the small silkworm. She begs her father to let her stay, but he insists that she go and fulfill her destiny as the queen of Khotan. Beautifully told and arrestingly illustrated, here is a coming-of-age tale of a brave young princess whose clever plan will go on to live in legend -- and will ensure that her cherished home is with her always.
At the end of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel, The Scarlet
Letter, we know that Pearl, the elf-child daughter of Hester
Prynne, is somewhere in Europe, comfortable, well set, a mother
herself now. But it could not have been easy for her to arrive at
such a place, when she begins life as the bastard child of a woman
publicly humiliated, again and again, in an unrelentingly
judgmental Puritan world.
With a brilliant and authentic sense of that time and place,
Deborah Noyes envisions the path Pearl takes to make herself whole
and to carve her place in the New World. Beautifully written with
boundless compassion, Angel and Apostle is a heart-rending and
imaginative debut in which Noyes masterfully makes Hawthorne's
character her own.
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