Stefan Bachmann
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English
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In a witch's house, nothing is as it seems. When a scarecrow climbs over the garden wall, delivering twelve-year-old orphan Zita Brydgeborn a letter saying she has inherited a distant castle, she jumps at the chance of adventure. But little does she know that she is about to be thrust into a centuries-old battle between good and evil. Blackbird Castle was once home to a powerful dynasty of witches, all of them now dead under mysterious circumstances....
2) The whatnot
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English
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Bartholomew Kettle, unable to save his sister, Hettie when she was pushed into the faery Old Country, promised he would find her but sinister forces are still at work and he must rely on Pikey, who would do almost anything to escape his past, to help find her.
3) The peculiar
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Language
English
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After humans win the faery wars in England, a half-human, half-faery child, scorned by both races, finds himself at the center of a web of intrigue and danger when he is stalked by a sinister faery.
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English
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Alternately tells of seventeen-year-old Anouk and four other teens chosen for an exclusive and very dangerous program to explore the subterranean Palais du Papillon, unopened for over 200 years, and Aurelie, who escaped the French Revolution by fleeing into the Palais in 1789.
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Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Thirty-six eerie short tales, most of which were originally published on the blog of the same name, relate to an imaginary museum of creepy artifacts and are arranged into such thematic "drawers" as love, luck, song, and fairy tales.
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Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A spellbinding tour, filled with stories and photographs, of some of the world's most fascinating architectural mysteries. This wondrous guide for the curious and the intrepid takes readers on a lushly photographed and lyrically written tour of eighteen of the world's most captivating architectural mysteries. Delve into both the secretive places themselves and the eccentric and obsessive minds that created them. Visit a chamber of skulls high in...