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The Visconti House
Every house has a story to tell. Laura Horton doesn’t know if the rumours about Leon Murphy are true, but she keeps her distance anyway. It’s hard enough being the girl from the haunted house. However, Laura soon finds she has more in common with Leon than she first thought. They are both outsiders. They both have secrets. And they are both drawn to the mystery hidden within the walls of the Visconti House. As Laura begins to piece together the fragments of the puzzle, she and Leon take an unexpected journey into the past, one that will change their lives – and open their hearts – forever.
On Orchard Road
A story about friendship, hope and the healing power of nature and art. A new baby sister. A new school. A new town. Jane is sure that she will be miserable. But sometimes friendship can bloom in the most unexpected places.
In the Wings
Year Eight student Ella Jamison desperately wants to be in the middle school play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. But her stage fright means she's stuck helping back stage. And it doesn't help that her eccentric grandfather lives everyday like he's acting on stage. Will she ever be able to tread the boards like she desires?
O Caledonia
"Originally published in Great Britain in 1991 by Hamish Hamilton Ltd."--Title page verso.
Erbarmungslose Engel
Während die Luzerner ihre fünfte Jahreszeit eröffnen, baumelt eine junge Frau tot an der Kapellbrücke. Die Polizei vermutet Selbstmord. Da die Tote Patenkind einer guten Bekannten ist, spürt der arbeitslose Psychologe Felix Moosburger den wahren Tatmotiven nach. Bald lassen ein Diebstahl und Luzerner Schläger Zweifel an der Selbsttötung aufkommen. Unklar ist, ob die Tote in den Monaten vor ihrem Ableben einer bestimmten Schweizer Gruppierung angehört hatte. Deren charismatischen Anführer suchen Schwerkranke und psychisch Gestörte wegen seiner begnadeten spirituellen Heilkunst auf. Vor allem auf sein Wirken ist der enorme Zulauf zur klösterlich lebenden Gemeinschaft zurückzuführen. Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen eröffnet Felix das wahre Antlitz des esoterischen Oberhaupts. Weil die sektenähnliche Vereinigung etliches zu verbergen hat, steht Felix bald auf deren Abschussliste.
Between the Acts
This carefully crafted ebook: "Between the Acts" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Between the Acts is the final novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1941 shortly after her suicide. This is a book laden with hidden meaning and allusion. It describes the mounting, performance, and audience of a festival play (hence the title) in a small English village just before the outbreak of the Second World War. Much of it looks forward to the war, with veiled allusions to connection with the continent by flight, swallows representing aircraft, and plunging into darkness. The pageant is a play within a play, representing a rather cynical view of English history. Woolf links together many different threads and ideas - a particularly interesting technique being the use of rhyme words to suggest hidden meanings. Relationships between the characters and aspects of their personalities are explored. The English village bonds throughout the play through their differences and similarities.
First Boy
Gary Schmidt's First Boy fast-paced political thriller will have the reader turning the pages in anticipation of the next clue. "You're my first boy, Cooper, my first boy," grandfather says just before he dies. All alone in the world, without even a dog, the only thing that keeps Cooper going is running the dairy farm. Suddenly, black sedans are swarming all around Cooper's small New Hampshire town, driven by mysterious men in dark suits. Cooper's barn is burned to the ground, and his house is broken into and searched during the night. The President of the United States calls on Cooper for a visit, and her opponent wants Cooper to join him on the campaign trail. Who exactly is Cooper Jewett, and what does the government want with him?
Strange Objects
The 25th anniversary edition of this landmark novel, in which a chilling modern mystery is entwined with one of Australia's most brutal and intriguing historical atrocities. From one of Australia's most awarded writers, Gary Crew, with a foreword and cover illustration by Shaun Tan. On 4 June 1629, the Dutch vessel Batavia struck uncharted rocks off the West Australian coast. By the time help arrived, over 120 men, women and children had met their deaths - not in the sea, but murdered by two fellow survivors, Wouter Loos and Jan Pelgrom. Nearly 400 years later, Steven Messenger discovers gruesome relics from that wreck. Four months later he disappears without a trace. Where is Messenger? Is ...
The Girl in the Blue Coat
Amsterdam, 1943 Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black-market goods to paying customers, her nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking moment mourning her boyfriend, who was killed on the front line when the Germans invaded. She likes to think of her illegal work as a small act of rebellion. But one day Hanneke gets a very unusual request. One of her regular customers asks her to find a girl. A girl who has disappeared from the secret room in her house. A Jewish girl . . . As she searches for clues Hanneke is drawn into a dangerous web of lies, secrets and mysteries. Can she find the runaway before the Nazis do? Meticulously researched, intricately plotted and beautifully written, The Girl in the Blue Coat is the extraordinarily gripping novel from Monica Hesse. 'A gripping historical mystery' Publishers Weekly, starred review
