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241) Still the night call
Author
Publisher
Roubidoux Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Calem Honeycutt, a 32-year-old Missouri dairy farmer of few words, leads the reader through his wondrous yet tortured past and his fears for the future of his beleaguered rural world, a world of Midwestern farmers whose livelihoods have become fodder for politicians and trade wars while their traditional values have become the subject of scorn and culture wars.
Still the Night Call is about Calem Dewayne Honeycutt, a 32-year-old Missouri dairy farmer...
242) Silverhill
Author
Pub. Date
1967
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A woman risks her life to piece together the puzzling past of her estranged New England family. After decades away, Malinda Rice returns to the New Hampshire estate of Silverhill to make sure her departed mother is buried in her rightful place in the family plot. Still carrying the scars of her past, she's determined to solve the mysteries behind the bad blood that has divided her family. But, like old memories, Malinda is not welcome at Silverhill....
Author
Publisher
Kennebec Large Print, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print ; Unabridged edition.
Physical Desc
523 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"England, 1921. Three years after her husband Alex was shot down over Germany, Jo Manders still mourns his loss. As a paid companion to Alex's wealthy, condescending aunt, Dottie Forsyth, Jo travels to Wych Elm House, the family estate in Sussex. But there's much she didn't know about her husband's origins. Dottie's husband is distant, and her son was grievously injured in the war. Footsteps follow Jo down empty halls, and items in her room are eerily...
Author
Pub. Date
1951
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
William Styron's stunning debut: a classic portrait of one Southern family's tragic spiral into destruction. First published to wide critical acclaim in 1951, Lie Down in Darkness centers on the Loftis family - Milton and Helen and their daughters, Peyton and Maudie. The story, told through a series of flashbacks on the day of Peyton's funeral, is a powerful depiction of a family doomed by its failure to forget and its inability to love. Written in...
245) Body and soul
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Though mountain search-and-rescue worker Jesse Copeland is used to risking herself to save others, she must tap into all her reserves of bravery to solve the most haunting mystery of her life: her mother's puzzling death. Little does Jesse know her investigation will make her the target of two men: a present-day threat and a centuries-old hero ...
Two hundred years ago, David Ventris, or Lord Ashthorpe, knew Jesse as a woman he had passionately...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Center Point large print ed.
Physical Desc
159 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lucretia "Crete" Ward lives with her sister Carrie and niece Luella, both of whom are very selfish and treat her like a slave. Upon learning that Donald, the son of their now-deceased older sister, is coming to visit from out west, Carrie and Luella fear what others will think of them if they are seen with a "backwoods cousin" and leave for a resort. Donald is actually well-educated and rich, and pays for some pampering for Aunt Crete. When the two...
247) A stitch in time
Author
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Thorne Manor has always been haunted...and it has always haunted Bronwyn Dale. As a young girl, Bronwyn could pass through a time slip in her great-aunt's house, where she'd visit William Thorne, a boy her own age, born two centuries earlier. Twenty years later, Bronwyn inherits Thorne Manor, and returns to find William is still there, and no longer the calm and quiet boy she remembers. He's a difficult and tempestuous man, his own life marred by...
248) Unhonored
Author
Series
Nightbirds volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
268 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ellis Harkington is trapped in limbo between life and death, struggling to escape the domination of an evil force masquerading as her friend, Merrick. Only Ellis has ever escaped him, and now that she has discovered the truth, he wants to make sure she can never escape again. Merrick's dark power has turned the seaside town of Gamin, Maine, into a place of nightmares. The town is transformed into a decaying succession of infinite rooms, bottomless...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Victorian London, Genevieve Timmons poses as a spiritualist to swindle wealthy mourners--until one misstep lands her in a jail cell awaiting the noose. Then a stranger arrives to make her a peculiar offer. The lord he serves, Mr. Pemberton, has been inconsolable since the tragic death of his beautiful bride-to-be. If Genevieve can perform a séance persuasive enough to bring the young lord peace, she will win her freedom. Soothing a grieving nobleman...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
8 books (410 pages ; 21 cm), 1 reading guide ; in canvas bag (45 x 36 cm)
Language
English
Description
A young girl becomes the second Mrs. Max de Winter, only to find that she is not the mistress of Manderley. Instead the house and its occupants are dominated by the memory of Rebecca, her predecessor.
Author
Series
Publisher
Agora Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The Château du Ciel was once the destination for the rich and famous, but has fallen into disrepair. During the hotel's last hurrah New Year's Eve party, a blizzard descends, trapping the guests inside. Hotel employee Mave Michael is on the run from her past as the daughter of a notorious hitman. When hotel security finds her with the body of the hotel's artist in residence, Mave must rely on the lessons her father taught her and the "sixth sense"...
252) Snowfire
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Center Point large print ed.
Physical Desc
383 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A chilling tale of murder and secrets set against the treacherous slopes of a ski lodge. Linda Earle's stepbrother had a bright future. An aspiring athlete, he was being mentored by championship skier Julian McCabe, but then his career was cut short when he was accused of murdering Julian's wife, Margot. Convinced of his innocence and determined to clear his name, Linda takes a job as après-ski hostess at the McCabe's Pocono lodge, nestled in the...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
730 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the author of The Scarlet Letter: The thrilling tale of three American artists whose search for artistic inspiration leads to romance and murder. The sculpture galleries and classical architecture of nineteenth-century Rome set the stage for Nathaniel Hawthorne's gothic romance The Marble Faun. While touring the Eternal City in search of inspiration and authentic beauty, American artists Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon soon discover that their Italian...
254) The trembling hills
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
415 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Long before Sara came to San Francisco, the candle-lit figure in the mirror had haunted her dreams. But in the towering, old Varady mansion, where the sound of a kitten's mewing could make a domineering woman quake with fear, the nightmare turned into reality. Against the backdrop of San Francisco at the time of the Great Fire, Phyllis Whitney spins a dramatic tale of intrigue and romance - the gripping story of a young woman caught between love and...
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
viii, 544 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Gothic fiction by more than 40 known and unknown writers. They range from William Sansom's A Woman Seldom Found, on an encounter in Rome between a man and a woman, to Paul Bowle's Allal, on an Arab boy who switches bodies with a snake.
257) Three Gothic novels
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
914 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English