Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Author
Language
English
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Description
Mila lives with her sisters, Pipa and Sanna, her brother Oskar, and their sled dogs in the forest where winter has held sway for five years, ever since their father disappeared; but now a strange scary man, flanked by twelve young boys, seems to have bewitched Oskar and taken him away--and Mila, convinced her brother is in danger, leads her sisters in a desperate journey across the frozen wild-lands to find their brother, and perhaps a way past an...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orion Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
They say the thirst of blood is like a madness - they must sate it. Even with their own kin. On the eve of her divining, the day she'll discover her fate, seventeen-year-old Lil and her twin sister Kizzy are captured and enslaved by the cruel Boyar Valcar, taken far away from their beloved traveller community. Forced to work in the harsh and unwelcoming castle kitchens, Lil is comforted when she meets Mira, a fellow slave who she feels drawn to in...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"When a series of mysterious deaths shakes her island community, thirteen-year-old Isabella, daughter to the island's only mapmaker, volunteers to lead a party of explorers into the forest in search of answers. As the group ventures deeper and deeper into the island, dark secrets begin to surface, and the legends Isabella has listened to all these years show signs of coming to life"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
Un hermoso canto al poder de las mujeres, basado en hechos reales. Nochebuena de 1617. Una tempestad se desata sobre la isla noruega de Vardø cuando los hombres de una pequeña aldea están en el mar pescando. Todos mueren. A partir de ese instante, Vardø se convierte en una isla de mujeres, entre ellas, Maren, que debe hacer frente a la muerte de su padre, su hermano y su prometido. Las mujeres de la isla tratan de hacer todo lo posible por salir...
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Long before Charles Dickens and Henry James popularized the tradition of supernatural horror, the shadowy nights of winter have been a time for people to gather together by the flicker of candlelight and experience the intoxicating thrill of a spooky tale. Now eight bestselling, award-winning authors--all of them master storytellers of the sinister and the macabre--bring the tradition to vivid life in a spellbinding new collection of original spine-tingling...
