Kris Waldherr
Author
Language
English
Description
A post-mortem photographer unearths dark secrets of the past that may hold the key to his future, in this captivating debut novel in the gothic tradition of Wuthering Heights and The Thirteenth Tale . All love stories are ghost stories in disguise. When famed Byronesque poet Hugh de Bonne is discovered dead of a heart attack in his bath one morning, his cousin Robert Highstead, a historian turned post-mortem photographer, is charged with a simple...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dark and sweeping gothic reimagining of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein told through the eyes of the three women closest to Victor Frankenstein and his monster: his mother Caroline, bride Elizabeth, and servant Justine.
For the first time, the untold story of the three women closest to Victor Frankenstein is revealed in a dark and sweeping reimagining of Frankenstein by the acclaimed author of The Lost History of Dreams and Doomed Queens. The mother:...
4) Harvest
Author
Publisher
Walker & Company
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A girl and her mother spend the day gathering vegetables, fruit, and herbs from their garden.
10) Rapunzel
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
A beautiful girl with extraordinarily long golden hair is imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch.
11) The Firebird
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Prince Ivan wanders into an enchanted garden and, with the help of the magnificent Firebird, rescues a princess from an evil sorcerer.
12) The wolfhound
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Pavel saves the life of the enormous dog he finds half-frozen in the snow, but since only nobles and dukes and the tsar himself keep wolfhounds, Pavel fears he will be punished for stealing.
13) The seal prince
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
When it comes time for Grainne, the beautiful daughter of the Lord and Lady of Skye, to marry, she rejects the island suitors to be with Deodatus, a seal-man she once rescued from death.