The Glass Casket

The Glass Casket
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Publisher : Delacorte Press
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9780449813157
ISBN-13 : 0449813150
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis The Glass Casket by : McCormick Templeman

Death hasn't visited Rowan Rose since it took her mother when Rowan was only a little girl. But that changes one bleak morning, when five horses and their riders thunder into her village and through the forest, disappearing into the hills. Days later, the riders' bodies are found, and though no one can say for certain what happened in their final hours, their remains prove that whatever it was must have been brutal. Rowan's village was once a tranquil place, but now things have changed. Something has followed the path those riders made and has come down from the hills, through the forest, and into the village. Beast or man, it has brought death to Rowan's door once again. Only this time, its appetite is insatiable. A YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Pick [STAR] "With stylish prose, richly developed characters and well-realized worldbuilding, Templeman plumbs archetypes of folklore to create a compelling blend of mythic elements and realistic teen experience."-Kirkus Reviews, Starred [STAR] "This has both the stylish beauty of those [classic fairy] tales and the chilling darkness that makes them timeless."-The Bulletin, Starred “The legion of Maggie Stiefvater fans out there ought to look this way.”-Booklist

The Glass Casket

The Glass Casket
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Publisher : Ember
Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : 9780385743433
ISBN-13 : 0385743432
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis The Glass Casket by : McCormick Templeman

After the murder of her cousin, everything changes for sixteen-year-old Rowan, who must not only seek the evil forces responsible before they destroy her family and village, but also set aside her studies when she becomes betrothed.

The Silver Casket

The Silver Casket
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Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages : 178
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ISBN-10 : 9781429992565
ISBN-13 : 1429992565
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis The Silver Casket by : Chris Mould

SOMETHING WICKEDLY WEIRD IS HERE The only thing worse than pirates are undead pirates. He might have survived the first two books, but Stanley Buggles has hardly found a quiet life in his home of Cramdon Rock. Now there are two more dead pirates out to find Stanely, and this time there's an army with them. They want the precious key to the Silver Casket. Stanley doesn't know what's inside the Silver Casket, but he and his friends will do everything in their power to not find out.

The Darkest Part of the Forest

The Darkest Part of the Forest
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Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 9780316213059
ISBN-13 : 0316213055
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis The Darkest Part of the Forest by : Holly Black

A girl makes a secret sacrifice to the faerie king in this lush New York Times bestselling fantasy by author Holly Black. Set in the same world as The Cruel Prince! In the woods is a glass coffin. It rests on the ground, and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives.... Hazel and her brother, Ben, live in Fairfold, where humans and the Folk exist side by side. Since they were children, Hazel and Ben have been telling each other stories about the boy in the glass coffin, that he is a prince and they are valiant knights, pretending their prince would be different from the other faeries, the ones who made cruel bargains, lurked in the shadows of trees, and doomed tourists. But as Hazel grows up, she puts aside those stories. Hazel knows the horned boy will never wake. Until one day, he does.... As the world turns upside down, Hazel has to become the knight she once pretended to be. The Darkest Part of the Forest is bestselling author Holly Black's triumphant return to the opulent, enchanting faerie tales that launched her YA career.

Night Swim

Night Swim
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Publisher : Diode Editions
Total Pages : 94
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ISBN-10 : 9781939728487
ISBN-13 : 1939728487
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Night Swim by : Joan Kwon Glass

In Night Swim, Joan Kwon Glass navigates the dark sea of mourning after losing her sister and her 11-year old nephew to suicide within a two month span of time. Night Swim does not turn away from the ugly, unreconciled side of grief: the recurring nightmares, life with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, questions that will never have answers, the desire to hold someone responsible for the deaths when there is no one left to blame. The collection begins with a solitary, titular poem which asks the reader to consider what grief feels like when "the landscape doesn’t change // but everything else does." In this testimony of mourning and memory, the author weaves a suicide survivorship narrative told through the five stages of grief. This narrative includes the author’s memories of the weeks leading up to the deaths, her regrets, scenes from the funerals, erasures from police reports, and the excruciating forging ahead with daily life in spite of deep sorrow, maddening questions, and all that remains unresolved. It gives survivors permission to find their way through on their own terms: to hold a grudge against the dead while also wishing desperately for them to still be alive, to consider taking every door in your house off its hinges just to make more room for ghosts, to measure time by the ages the dead would have been if they were still here. Night Swim suggests that in order to live bravely again in a world without one’s beloved, the survivor may eschew the expectations of “appropriate” grief and tell the truth as it exists for them. What should we hold onto and what should we let go of? Although Night Swim shares a story of extraordinary loss, it is also a testament to how even against the harshest currents, in the darkest waters, we can swim up and through, where light and the shore will be waiting.

MODERN BRITISH BEER.

MODERN BRITISH BEER.
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Publisher :
Total Pages :
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ISBN-10 : 1852493704
ISBN-13 : 9781852493707
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis MODERN BRITISH BEER. by : MATTHEW. CURTIS

The Little Woods

The Little Woods
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Publisher : Schwartz & Wade Books
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 9780375869433
ISBN-13 : 0375869433
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis The Little Woods by : McCormick Templeman

Entering St. Bede's Academy halfway through her junior year, Cally Wood is thrust into the complex social world of the upper echelon, but she is more interested in Iris, a girl whose recent disappearance is similar to that of Cally's own sister ten years earlier.

A Glass Apart

A Glass Apart
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Publisher : Images Publishing
Total Pages : 259
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ISBN-10 : 9781864705492
ISBN-13 : 1864705493
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis A Glass Apart by : Fionnán O’Connor

Irish single pot still whiskey has a romantic mystique for many whiskey critics because of its tragic history as the ‘lost sister’ of single malt scotch. Ireland’s history and politics resulted in the near-annihilation of the national drink and there’s an almost eerie beauty to the ‘silent’ distilleries that still dot the Irish countryside. These distilleries inform the aesthetic of the title and, indeed, there is visual poetry in the barrels, pot stills and photogenic amber spirits that convey the Irish whiskey world. Although Irish whiskey is currently the fastest-growing global spirits category and Irish ‘pure pot still’ has long been a favourite drink among whiskey critics and connoisseurs, the existing literature is still surprisingly sparse. This book illustrates the production, history, and appreciation of Irish pot still whiskey and will introduce casual drinkers to the richness of these whiskeys as well as being a collectors’ item for established whiskey connoisseurs.

The New York Grimpendium: A Guide to Macabre and Ghastly Sites in New York State

The New York Grimpendium: A Guide to Macabre and Ghastly Sites in New York State
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Publisher : The Countryman Press
Total Pages : 355
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781581577723
ISBN-13 : 1581577729
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis The New York Grimpendium: A Guide to Macabre and Ghastly Sites in New York State by : J. W. Ocker

From the author of The New England Grimpendium comes a new travelogue and insider’s guide to wicked, weird, wonderful New York. When J. W. Ocker’s first book, The New England Grimpendium, emerged on the scene, Max Weinstein of Fangoria.com called it “a travelogue for those who revel in the glory of their nightmares.” Rick Broussard at New Hampshire Magazine said of it, “I’ve read a dozen books about New England ghosties and weirdnesses, and this one is my favorite. It’s also one of the few that actually came up with stuff I didn’t already know about.” Now the author of that Lowell Thomas Award winner has unearthed hundreds of similarly creepy and colorful places in the Empire State that will make your skin crawl and your hair stand on end! Ocker’s essays on these places, some little known, some area landmarks, include directions and site information along with entertaining anecdotes delivered in his signature wry style. It’s definitely a wild ride from a jar full of the harvested brains of dead killers to horror movie filming sites around the state; from a ships’ graveyard to lake monster sightings. If it’s in New York and it’s bizarrely noteworthy or wonderfully wacky, you’ll find it in The New York Grimpendium.

Through a Glass Brightly

Through a Glass Brightly
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Publisher : Oxbow Books
Total Pages : 462
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781785702730
ISBN-13 : 1785702734
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Through a Glass Brightly by : Chris Entwistle

The twenty-five papers in this volume cover diverse aspects of the material culture of the late Roman, Byzantine and Medieval periods, with particular emphasis on the metalwork and enamel of these times. Individual papers include major reinterpretations of objects in the British Museum's Byzantine collections as well as essays devoted to the Museum's recent acquisitions in this field. The volume celebrates the retirement of David Buckton, for over twenty years the curator of the British Museum's Early Christian and Byzantine collections and the National Icon Collection.