Kirkland Revels

Kirkland Revels
Author: Victoria Holt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1962
Genre: Yorkshire (England)
ISBN:

Kirkland Revels loomed high above the wild and eerie Yorkshire moors like a brooding stone fortress. To some there was an atmosphere of evil about the place, but to innocent young bride Catherine Rockwell, the mansion seemed magnificently romantic. She did not know then of the terrible secrets imprisoned behind its massive walls. Or that at the moment she had entered her new home, she had crossed the threshold of terror ...

Mistress of Mellyn

Mistress of Mellyn
Author: Victoria Holt
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2007-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007235518

An epic tale of love and mystery written in the great romantic tradition.

On the Night of the Seventh Moon

On the Night of the Seventh Moon
Author: Victoria Holt
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2010-03-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429944994

“A grand example of the gothic romance” from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Shivering Sands and Bride of Pendorric (Library Journal). For generations, Victoria Holt has dazzled and entertained millions of readers with her spine-tingling novels of romantic suspense. On the Night of the Seventh Moon is one of her most evocative, magical, and chilling. Come take a journey into a dark and shadowy forest where nothing is as it seems . . . On the night of the seventh moon, according to ancient Black Forest legend, Loke, the god of mischief, is abroad in the world. It is a night for singing and dancing. And it is a night for love. Helena Trant was enchanted by everything she found in the Black Forest—its people, its mysterious castles, its legends and lore. Especially its legends of love. Until the day she started to live one of them and the enchantment turned suddenly into a terrifying nightmare . . . “Spellbinding.” —The Charleston News & Courier “Full of color and suspense.” —Publishers Weekly “Victoria Holt amounts to the same thing—you can rely on it for that long enchanted evening.” —Kirkus Reviews “One of Victoria Holt’s brightest and best.” —The Library Lantern

Moonraker's Bride

Moonraker's Bride
Author: Madeleine Brent
Publisher: Madeleine Brent
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780285641693

Jailed for stealing food for orphans in her care, Lucy meets a prisoner who marries her before his execution and wills her his fortune, but after her release the real adventure begins.

The King of the Castle

The King of the Castle
Author: Victoria Holt
Publisher: Ivy Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1983
Genre: Detective and mystery stories
ISBN: 9780449200339

Even though her instincts tell her that she is not welcome, Dallas Lawson not only decides to remain at the family mansion but also falls for Comte, the handsome head of the castle.

Alabama Moon

Alabama Moon
Author: Watt Key
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2010-08-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1429987650

In this compelling, action-packed book, Watt Key gives us the thrilling coming-of-age story of the unique and extremely appealing Alabama Moon, the basis for the film of the same name starring Jimmy Bennett and John Goodman. For as long as ten-year-old Moon can remember, he has lived out in the forest in a shelter with his father. They keep to themselves, their only contact with other human beings an occasional trip to the nearest general store. When Moon's father dies, Moon follows his father's last instructions: to travel to Alaska to find others like themselves. But Moon is soon caught and entangled in a world he doesn't know or understand; he's become property of the government he has been avoiding all his life. As the spirited and resourceful Moon encounters constables, jails, institutions, lawyers, true friends, and true enemies, he adapts his wilderness survival skills and learns to survive in the outside world, and even, perhaps, make his home there. This title has Common Core connections. Alabama Moon is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Art of Darkness

Art of Darkness
Author: Anne Williams
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2009-02-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0226899039

Art of Darkness is an ambitious attempt to describe the principles governing Gothic literature. Ranging across five centuries of fiction, drama, and verse—including tales as diverse as Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Shelley's Frankenstein, Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Freud's The Mysteries of Enlightenment—Anne Williams proposes three new premises: that Gothic is "poetic," not novelistic, in nature; that there are two parallel Gothic traditions, Male and Female; and that the Gothic and the Romantic represent a single literary tradition. Building on the psychoanalytic and feminist theory of Julia Kristeva, Williams argues that Gothic conventions such as the haunted castle and the family curse signify the fall of the patriarchal family; Gothic is therefore "poetic" in Kristeva's sense because it reveals those "others" most often identified with the female. Williams identifies distinct Male and Female Gothic traditions: In the Male plot, the protagonist faces a cruel, violent, and supernatural world, without hope of salvation. The Female plot, by contrast, asserts the power of the mind to comprehend a world which, though mysterious, is ultimately sensible. By showing how Coleridge and Keats used both Male and Female Gothic, Williams challenges accepted notions about gender and authorship among the Romantics. Lucidly and gracefully written, Art of Darkness alters our understanding of the Gothic tradition, of Romanticism, and of the relations between gender and genre in literary history.

The Girl Next Door

The Girl Next Door
Author: Ruth Rendell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2014-10-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476784329

When bones are discovered in a tin box inside the tunnel a group of long-time friends played in as children, they reunite to recall their adventures in the tunnel for the detective investigating the case.