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.

Newt's Emerald

Newt's Emerald
Author: Garth Nix
Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
Total Pages: 195
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?

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.

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.

Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror

Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2001
Genre: Detective and mystery plays, English
ISBN: 9780748740628

In a play that both dramatizes and makes fun of the Sherlock Holmes stories, the great detective and Dr. Watson investigate a report of the Giant Rat of Sumatra and match wits with Professor Moriarty.

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: 175
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).

A Man Lay Dead

A Man Lay Dead
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 222
Release: 1997-10-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312963583

It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Murdered. At Sir Hubert Handesley's country house party, five guests have gathered for the uproarious parlor game of "Murder." Yet no one is laughing when the lights come up on an actual corpse, the good-looking and mysterious Charles Rankin. Scotland Yard's Inspector Roderick Alleyn arrives to find a complete collection of alibis, a missing butler, and an intricate puzzle of betrayal and sedition in the search for the key player in this deadly game.

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.