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1. Storm child
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Series:
Cyrus Haven volume 4
Publisher:
Scribner
Pub. Date:
©2024
Language:
English
Description:
"The mystery of Evie Cormac's background has followed her into adulthood. As a child, she was discovered hiding in a secret room where a man had been tortured to death. Many of her captors and abusers escaped justice, unseen but not forgotten. Now, on a hot summer's day, the past drags Evie back as she watches the bodies of seventeen migrants wash up on a Lincolnshire beach. There is only one survivor, a teenage boy, who tells police their small boat...
Author:
Series:
Allan Quatermain volume 6
Language:
English
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Description:
What begins as a simple mission to win a dowry for a bride spirals into political and social unrest as a famed hunter, Allan Quatermain, witnesses a nation slip into a civil war. Known for his outdoorsman skills, Quatermain's friend, Saduko, approaches him to ask for help winning a dowry for the woman he loves. Hoping to marry a beautiful and mysterious woman named Mameema, Saduko must obtain a sum of one hundred cattle to use as a dowry. Happy to...
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Series:
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
Summoned to a remote oil rig to diagnose a strange medical ailment among the rig workers, ex-Navy physician Peter Crane soon discovers that the condition is linked to the underwater excavation being done at science research station Deep Storm.
Author:
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
From the top-ten bestselling author of "One Snowy Night", Rita Bradshaw, comes "The Storm Child", a sweeping family saga set during the run up to WW2 in the north-east of England. It's mid-winter, and in the throes of a fierce blizzard Elsie Redfern and her husband discover an unknown girl in their hay barn about to give birth. After the young mother dies, Elsie takes the infant in and raises her as her own daughter, her precious storm child. Gina...
Author:
Publisher:
Humanoids
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
Adopted by a woodsman clan, the orphan Laith possesses miraculous and terrifying powers linked to the weather. When his path crosses with the sinister Professor Finrhas, and the power-hungry Minister Alghard, Laith's world is turned upside down. The young boy is forced to go in search of his origins, to better to control his immense power, and to save his foster family and friends. This award-winning debut graphic novel by Manuel Bichebois, Didier...
Author:
Publisher:
Humanoids
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
Adopted by a woodsman clan, the orphan Laith possesses miraculous and terrifying powers linked to the weather. When his path crosses with the sinister Professor Finrhas, and the power-hungry Minister Alghard, Laith's world is turned upside down. The young boy is forced to go in search of his origins, to better to control his immense power, and to save his foster family and friends. This award-winning debut graphic novel by Manuel Bichebois, Didier...
Author:
Publisher:
Humanoids
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
Adopted by a woodsman clan, the orphan Laith possesses miraculous and terrifying powers linked to the weather. When his path crosses with the sinister Professor Finrhas, and the power-hungry Minister Alghard, Laith's world is turned upside down. The young boy is forced to go in search of his origins, to better to control his immense power, and to save his foster family and friends. This award-winning debut graphic novel by Manuel Bichebois, Didier...
Author:
Publisher:
Humanoids
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
Adopted by a woodsman clan, the orphan Laith possesses miraculous and terrifying powers linked to the weather. When his path crosses with the sinister Professor Finrhas, and the power-hungry Minister Alghard, Laith's world is turned upside down. The young boy is forced to go in search of his origins, to better to control his immense power, and to save his foster family and friends. This award-winning debut graphic novel by Manuel Bichebois, Didier...
Author:
Publisher:
Humanoids
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
Adopted by a woodsman clan, the orphan Laith possesses miraculous and terrifying powers linked to the weather. When his path crosses with the sinister Professor Finrhas, and the power-hungry Minister Alghard, Laith's world is turned upside down. The young boy is forced to go in search of his origins, to better to control his immense power, and to save his foster family and friends. This award-winning debut graphic novel by Manuel Bichebois, Didier...
Author:
Series:
Mira Storm Weather volume 1
Publisher:
Audiobooks Unleashed
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
Mira Storm Weather had always wondered why people thought she was strange. She had always thought she lived an ordinary life. However, events at Halloween would prove to Mira how extraordinary her life could be. On this night Mira discovered that she had inherited magical abilities. She must gain knowledge and courage to fight the evil one in her village and find her true destiny as a witch.
Author:
Publisher:
Page Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
At only fourteen, Bea is the local superhero of Elgar City known as Baron in costume, and the responsibility is already pressing down on her. Things only get worse, when her archnemesis from afar, The Prosecutor, meets her face to face for the first time. As they interact, the supervillain seems to take a keen, unusual interest in her and begins to act out unexpectedly, seemingly to mess with her head. Meanwhile, as if she wasn't already maneuvering...
15. The raging storm
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Series:
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"Fierce winds, dark secrets, deadly intentions. When Jem Rosco-sailor, adventurer, and legend-blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone, Devon, are delighted to have a celebrity in their midst. But just as abruptly as he arrived, Rosco disappears again, and soon his lifeless body is discovered in a dinghy, anchored off Scully Cove, a place with legends of its own. This is an uncomfortable case for Detective Inspector...
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Lexile measure:
880L
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
"Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights as a child when Catherine's father finds him wandering alone through...
Author:
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
True crime writer Wylie Lark, snowed in at an isolated farmhouse where she's retreated to write her new book, finds a small child in the snow outside and, bringing him inside for warmth and safety, learns that the farmhouse isn't as isolated as she thought.
Author:
Lexile measure:
590L
Language:
English
Description:
A little island in the ocean changes as the seasons come and go. The storm, the day, and the night change it, as do the lobsters, seals, and gulls that stop by. One day a kitten visits the little island and learns a secret that every child will enjoy.
20. Winter Street
Author:
Series:
Winter volume 1
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Colin Quinn owns a Bed and Breakfast on Nantucket and is a proud father of four-Patrick, Shane, Ava, and Bart, all grown and living in varying states of disarray. As Christmas approaches, Conor and his wife Mitzi anticipate a wonderful family reunion. But when Bart, the golden child and a recent Dartmouth graduate, announces that he has joined the Marines and is leaving for Afghanistan two days before Christmas, Mitzi is so distressed that she confesses...