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Mystery Stories
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Thomas Wright,Paul Ernst,Carl Gustav Jung,Joan Aiken,Ambrose Bierce,Ray Bradbury,Emily Brontë,Rodrigues Ottolengui,Paul Jennings,Agatha Christie,Diana Wynne Jones,Eleanor Farjeon,Ann Pilling,Helen Cresswell,Adrian Reynolds |
The green arches / Joan Aiken --
The Aztec opal / Rodrigues Ottolengui --
Wuthering Heights (an extract) / Emily Brontë --
The girl who kissed a peach tree (an Italian folktale) / Eleanor Farjeon… |
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Dark Interval
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Joan Aiken |
NIGHTMARE OF MADNESS
When Caroline awakened, she didn't know where she was. Then a name pricked at her memory. Beaumont- a word from her childhood at the manor. Beaumont- where the hopelessly mad we… |
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The far forests
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Joan Aiken |
A collection of 15 short stories of mystery, magic, and romance. |
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The skin spinners
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Joan Aiken |
A collection of poems grouped under the headings, "Legends," "People," "Simple Things," "Mysterious Things," and "Ballads." |
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Snow White and the seven dwarfs
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Joan Aiken |
Retells the story of a princess who escapes her wicked stepmother by hiding out in the home of seven hospitable dwarfs. |
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Street
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Joan Aiken |
A two act farce about a pair of young lovers who live in an English village on opposite sides of a heavily trafficked superhighway. |
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The weeping ash
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Joan Aiken |
Fanny Page experiences shame and torment in her loveless arranged marriage, finding solace only in her budding friendship with estate gardener, Andrew Talgarth. |
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Cold Shoulder Road (Wolves #9)
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Joan Aiken |
Having freed the children enslaved in the northern mines, Is Twite and her cousin Arun return to Folkestone to find Arun's mother. But she has disappeared without a trace. There's plenty of evidence … |
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The Girl from Paris
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Joan Aiken |
Ellen Paget, a young Englishwoman, comes to Paris in 1860 to be governess to a young noble family, but shortly thereafter, tragedy and scandal force her to return to her father's house in Sussex unde… |
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If I Were You
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Joan Aiken |
Joan Aiken's last Nineteenth century romance is dedicated: "To all Female Writers, past and present" and tells the story of two identical but unrelated schoolfriends finishing the education at the Ab… |
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Lady Catherine's necklace
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Joan Aiken |
In this "sequel" to Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice, a carriage accident brings the Delaval siblings to Lady Catherine de Bourgh's door, and when Lady Catherine is later kidnapped, some members of … |
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Mortimer says nothing
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Joan Aiken,Quentin Blake |
Four adventures of Arabel and her pet raven Mortimer: "Mortimer Says Nothing," "Arabel's Birthday," "Mr. Jone's Rest Cure," and "A Call at the Joneses'." |
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Mortimer's Cross
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Joan Aiken,Quentin Blake |
Three further adventures of Arabel and her pet raven, Mortimer, include "The Mystery of Mr. Jones's Disappearing Taxi," "Mortimer's cross," and "Mortimer's Portrait on Glass." |
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The Teeth of the Gale
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Joan Aiken |
At the request of the nun with whom he is in love, eighteen-year-old Felix embarks on a perilous rescue mission across the strife-torn countryside of Spain in the late 1820s. Sequel to "Go Saddle the… |
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Bridle the wind
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Joan Aiken |
His journey back to Spain interrupted by shipwreck, loss of memory, and a stay in a forbidding French monastery, twelve-year-old Felix finally continues his journey in the company of a mysterious boy… |
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The moon's revenge
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Joan Aiken |
The story centers around a young boy who is a sailmaker's son. The boy angers the moon and as a revenge a dragon appears in the town. The boy finds a violin which is the only thing that seems to so… |
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The Silence of Herondale
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Joan Aiken |
Deborah Lindsay sought peace and security when she accepted the post of governess to a teenage girl. Instead she found terror and murder...
Isolated in the Gilmartin ancestral home in Herondale, D… |
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A touch of chill
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Joan Aiken |
Author - Joan Aiken - The homely and the exotic mix in fifteen unique tales. The macabre and witty stories are a melange of horror guaranteed to send chills up the spine of any sleepless reader. |
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Dido and Pa (Wolves #7)
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Joan Aiken |
Dido Twite is finally back home in London and reunited with her old friend Simon, now the Duke of Battersea and a favorite of King Richard. But no sooner does Dido start to settle in than her rascall… |
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Mansfield Revisited
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Joan Aiken |
Some of them belonged to the elegance and intrigue of Mansfield Park... others could not stay away
Mary -- the charming, duplicitous lady, determined to defy her fatal illness and to find a match … |
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