The Ruby in the Smoke

The Ruby in the Smoke
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1985
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780394895895

In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.

The Tin Princess

The Tin Princess
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-02
Genre: Detective and mystery stories
ISBN: 9781407130576

Sally and Jim meet up with Adelaide again, but now as Crown Princess of Razkavia and threatened by rivals who want to take the kingdom from the Crown Prince.

The Sally Lockhart Collection

The Sally Lockhart Collection
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2009
Genre: Lockhart, Sally (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 9781407116419

Four compulsively readable Victorian thrillers, packed with vividly drawn characters and fascinating period detail, together in a slipcase. Includes: The Ruby in the Smoke, The Shadow in the North, The Tiger in the Well and The Tin Princess.

Newt's Emerald

Newt's Emerald
Author: Garth Nix
Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2019-03-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1471407934

Inspired by the works of Georgette Heyer and Jane Austen, Garth Nix's Newt's Emerald is a light hearted Regency romance with a fantasy twist. After Lady Truthful's magical Newington Emerald is stolen from her she devises a simple plan: go to London to recover the missing jewel. She quickly learns, however, that a woman cannot wander the city streets alone without damaging her reputation, and she disguises herself as a moustache-wearing man. During Truthful's dangerous journey she discovers a crook, an unsuspecting ally, and an evil sorceress but will she find the Emerald?

For Freedom

For Freedom
Author: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2003
Genre: France
ISBN: 0385729618

Based on interviews with the real Suzanne David, this story of World War II heroism relates how a teenage Suzanne, training to become an opera singer, is recruited as a secret courier by an organizer in the French Resistance.

The Tiger in the Well

The Tiger in the Well
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2012-02
Genre: Detective and mystery stories
ISBN: 9781407130569

Sally Lockhart is 25, and somebody wants to destroy her. She receives divorce papers from a man she has never met, let alone married - yet this trap is so well laid that she is powerless to prove otherwise. When custody of her precious daughter is awarded to this evil stranger, it is the beginning of a terrifying struggle in which Sally will have to fight, and kill if necessary, for the freedom of her family. Philip Pullman's ever-popular, action-packed Victorian melodramas are rejacketed for the bicentenary of Charles Dickens in 2012.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Author: Caitlin Doughty
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2014-09-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393245950

"Morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly)—a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession. Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life’s work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. In this best-selling memoir, brimming with gallows humor and vivid characters, she marvels at the gruesome history of undertaking and relates her unique coming-of-age story with bold curiosity and mordant wit. By turns hilarious, dark, and uplifting, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes reveals how the fear of dying warps our society and "will make you reconsider how our culture treats the dead" (San Francisco Chronicle).

Getting the Girl

Getting the Girl
Author: Markus Zusak
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2013-05-28
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0545623707

In the final novel of the acclaimed Wolfe Brothers Trilogy, Cameron Wolfe goes looking for love as he attempts to escape his brother’s shadow. Cameron Wolfe is a loser. He knows it. He’s the quiet one, not a soccer star like his brother Steve or a charming fighter with a new girl every week like his brother Rube. Cam would give anything to be near one of those girls, to love her and treat her right. He especially likes Rube’s latest, Octavia, with her brilliant ideas and bright green eyes. But what woman like that would want a loser like him? Maybe Octavia would, Cam discovers. Maybe he has talents and passions just waiting to be discovered. And those maybes are about to change everything: winning, loving, losing, the Wolfe brothers, and Cameron himself.

Veiled

Veiled
Author: Ruby Smoke
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2021-02-03
Genre:
ISBN:

★When the Light and the Dark Collide...Who will Maintain the Balance within the Veil★ For hundreds of years, magic users have grown up with the misconception that their magic has no true origin; that they were simply gifted more than mere-mortals. This control of the narrative has suited the Fae, for their existence has been hidden; their kingdoms beyond the Veil secure. There has been a tenuous balance within the realms and for thousands of years the Fae have been secure in their traditions...their rule. That is, until the uprising of a dark queen; because as with all things bound by nature, with unbalance comes destruction. Until the prophecy of change was whispered throughout the realms there was an ever present sense of desolation. Now? There is hope. -------------------- Hudson Jacobs has no idea of the changes that are about to take her life by storm. No idea of the plans put into motion by those who know of her existence and wish to not only protect her, but solidify the prophecy by any means necessary. The only question is, will her destiny ultimately protect her or destroy her and those she holds dear to her heart. When the stakes are darkness or light, life or death, will Hudson embrace her new life or will the tenuous Veil between the mortal and Fae Realm, destroy her before she gets that chance? ---------------------- ★Would you be willing to bleed for a Realm you never knew existed?★ For a place, full of a otherworldly creatures, you are now the Queen of?How far are you willing to go to fulfill a prophecy, a future, thrust upon you at just 21 years old?In the midst of brutal attacks, Hudson is about to find out just how far she willing to go to protect the ones she loves. Her enemies? Will soon learn just how much power she truly has... Welcome to the Realm of Smoke and Shadows; this is only the beginning. This is a Reverse Harem, Epic Fantasy Romance Novel.