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When his teenage son, Keith, is accused in the disappearance of an eight-year-old girl, Eric Moore struggles to shelter Keith from the police investigation while seeking legal counsel and wondering about his son's possible guilt.
Author : Thomas H. Cook
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 32,83 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780156032346
When his teenage son, Keith, is accused in the disappearance of an eight-year-old girl, Eric Moore struggles to shelter Keith from the police investigation while seeking legal counsel and wondering about his son's possible guilt.
Author : William Faulkner
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1443423181
When Chief Issetibbeha dies, custom requires that the Chickasaw leader’s worldly possessions be buried with him. This includes his servant, who makes a desperate bid for his life in this early William Faulkner short story. Although primarily known for his novels, Faulkner wrote in a variety of formats, including plays, poetry, essays, screenplays, and short stories, many of which are highly acclaimed and anthologized. Like his novels, many of Faulkner’s short stories are set in fictional Yoknapatawapha County, a setting inspired by Lafayette County, where Faulkner spent most of his life. His first short story collection, These 13 (1931), includes many of his most frequently anthologized stories, including "A Rose for Emily", "Red Leaves" and "That Evening Sun." HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library.
Author : Paullina Simons
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,77 MB
Release : 2011-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007396686
From the internationally bestselling author of The Bronze Horseman, the tale of an Ivy League campus devastated by the intractable mystery at the heart of a student’s death
Author : Sita Brahmachari
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 26,55 MB
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1447262999
Aisha is a thirteen-year-old refugee living in London. Happy for the first time since leaving her war-torn home, she is devastated when her foster mother announces that a new family has been found for her and she will be moving on. Feeling rejected and abandoned, Aisha packs her bags and runs away, seeking shelter in the nearby woods. Meanwhile, a few doors down, twelve-year-old Zak is trying to cope with his parents' divorce. Living in a near-building site while the new house is being refurbished, he feels unsettled and alone. Discovering a piece of rubble with the original builder's signature set into it, he starts researching the history behind his home - and in doing so finds a connection with a young soldier from the past, which leads him to an old air-raid shelter in the same woods. Both children, previously unknown to each other, meet in the heart of the ancient city woodland as they come into the orbit of Elder, a strange homeless woman who lives amongst the trees - and, as helicopters hover overhead and newspapers fill with pictures of the two lost children, unexpected bonds are formed and lives changed forever . . .
Author : Paullina Simons
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 15,56 MB
Release : 1997-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312962258
Dartmouth students Kristina, Conni, Albert, and Jim seemingly inseparable friends. But they are bonded by dark, seductive secrets. Intense passions and simmering tensions have been building for years until a brutal act on a bitter cold night reveals shocking truths about each. This compelling narrative--with a surprise twist at the end--grips the reader from first page to last.
Author : Mark Z. Danielewski
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 49,76 MB
Release : 2000-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0375420525
“A novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious.” —The New York Times Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children. Now this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and second and third appendices. The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.
Author : Ken Robbins
Publisher :
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 37,42 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Fall foliage
ISBN : 9780439149884
Examines the characteristics of different types of leaves and explains how and why they change colors in the autumn.
Author : Julia Rawlinson
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 30,87 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1913634310
As the autumn season sets in, Fletcher is very worried his beautiful tree has begun to loose all of its leaves. Whatever Fletcher attempts to do to save them, it's simply no use. When the final leaf falls, Fletcher feels hopeless... until he returns the next day to a glorious sight. A tender, uplifting tale about acceptance and hope for the future.'Captivating' Publishers Weekly'Preschoolers will love being in on the joke, even as they marvel at the bright petals that herald the astonishing beauty of spring' ALA Booklist
Author : John Gay
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 24,93 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Janet Lawler
Publisher : 4 Seasons of Pop-Up
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,93 MB
Release : 2017-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781623484583
Leaves rustle, critters scurry, and mushrooms pop up from the forest floor in this lyrical, three-dimensional look at an autumn woodland.