Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 38,95 MB
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486113930
Suspense, humor, and romance abound in this 1868 mystery, in which a gem stolen from a Hindu shrine resurfaces in an English country home — with a trio of watchful Brahmins hot on its trail.
Author : Daisy Meadows
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 33,49 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545301785
Seven jewels have been stolen from the Fairy Queen's crown! Without them, the Jewel Fairies' magical powers are fading. Read all seven books to find the jewels and save the fairies!Jack Frost is up to no good again! This time, he's stolen the seven jewels from Queen Titania's crown. Without them, the Jewel Fairies can't do their jobs. The magic in Fairyland is fading fast!India the Moonstone Fairy is in charge of dream magic. Can Rachel and Kirsty help find the moonstone . . . before everything turns into a nightmare?Find the sparkly jewel in each book and help bring the magic back to Fairyland!
Author : Sjón
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374712875
The mind-bending miniature historical epic is Sjón's specialty, and Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was is no exception. But it is also Sjón's most realistic, accessible, and heartfelt work yet. It is the story of a young man on the fringes of a society that is itself at the fringes of the world--at what seems like history's most tumultuous, perhaps ultimate moment. Máni Steinn is queer in a society in which the idea of homosexuality is beyond the furthest extreme. His city, Reykjavik in 1918, is homogeneous and isolated and seems entirely defenseless against the Spanish flu, which has already torn through Europe, Asia, and North America and is now lapping up on Iceland's shores. And if the flu doesn't do it, there's always the threat that war will spread all the way north. And yet the outside world has also brought Icelanders cinema! And there's nothing like a dark, silent room with a film from Europe flickering on the screen to help you escape from the overwhelming threats--and adventures--of the night, to transport you, to make you feel like everything is going to be all right. For Máni Steinn, the question is whether, at Reykjavik's darkest hour, he should retreat all the way into this imaginary world, or if he should engage with the society that has so soundly rejected him.
Author : Chen Jiatong
Publisher : Chicken House
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,38 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338635379
"First published as Dilah and the moonstone by People's Literature Publishing House in 2014."--Title page verso.
Author : Jordan Stratford
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 18,15 MB
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0385754426
History, mystery, and science collide in a new series for middle-grade readers, perfect for fans of The Mysterious Benedict Society and Lemony Snicket! Jordan Stratford imagines an alternate 1826, where Ada Lovelace (the world’s first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detective agency! Lady Ada Byron, age eleven, is a genius. Isolated, awkward and a bit rude—but a genius. Mary Godwin, age fourteen, is a romantic. Adventurous, astute, and kind, Mary is to become Ada’s first true friend. And together, the girls conspire to form the Wollstonecraft Detective Agency—a secret constabulary for the apprehension of clever criminals. Their first case involves a stolen heirloom, a false confession, and an array of fishy suspects. But it’s no match for the deductive powers and bold hearts of Ada and Mary. Mystery fans will love this tween girl riff on Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. History buffs will be delighted to see all the real figures who play a role in this story and appreciate the extensive backmatter that helps separate truth from fiction. Parents and educators hoping to promote the STEM fields for girls will be thrilled to have a series where two girls use math, science, and creative analytical thinking to solve crimes. But most especially--emerging readers will love this series filled with humor, action, intrigue and wonderful artwork from Kelly Murphy.
Author : Jean Thesman
Publisher : Puffin
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 12,81 MB
Release : 2000-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780141308098
While helping her mother clean out the family home in Puget Sound, fifteen-year-old Jane must deal with her hateful aunt and difficult cousin Ricki, a romance that cannot last, and secrets from her mother's past.
Author : Harriet Prescott Spofford
Publisher : Ashcroft, B.C. : Ash-Tree Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781553100089
Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 22,91 MB
Release : 1999-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140434088
"When you looked down into the stone, you looked into a yellow deep that drew your eyes into it so that they saw nothing else." The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel’s household is above suspicion. Hailed by T. S. Eliot as "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels," The Moonstone is a marvellously taut and intricate tale of mystery, in which facts and memory can prove treacherous and not everyone is as they first appear. Sandra Kemp’s introduction examines The Moonstone as a work of Victorian sensation fiction and an early example of the detective genre, and discusses the technique of multiple narrators, the role of opium, and Collins’s sources and autobiographical references.
Author : William Wilkie Collins
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 1868
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Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 27,50 MB
Release : 1868
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