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Now a major Lifetime movie event—Book Three of the Dollanganger series that began with Flowers in the Attic—the novel of…
forbidden love that captured the world’s imagination and earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fanbase.They hide the shocking truth to protect their children. But someone who knows their dark secret is watching.Christopher and Cathy have made a loving home for their handsome and talented teenager Jory, their imaginative nine-year-old Bart, and a sweet baby daughter. Then an elderly woman and her strange butler move in next door. The Old Woman in Black watches from her window, lures lonely Bart inside with cookies and ice cream, and asks him to call her “grandmother.” Slowly Bart transforms, each visit pushing him closer to the edge of madness and violence, while his anguished parents can only watch. For Cathy and Chris, the horrors of the past have come home…and everything they love may soon be torn from them.The inspiration behind Lifetime&’s new miniseries event, Flowers in the Attic: The Origin.Olivia dreamed of a sun-filled love, a happy…
life. Then she entered Foxworth Hall... V.C. Andrews' thrilling new novel spins a tale of dreadful secrets and dark, forbidden passions—of the time before Flowers in the Attic began. Long before terror flowered in the attic, thin, spinsterish Olivia came to Virginia as Malcolm Foxworth's bride. At last, with her tall handsome husband, she would find the joy she had waited for, longed for. But in the gloomy mansion filled with hidden rooms and festering desires, a stain of jealous obsession begins to spread...an evil that will threaten her children, two lovely boys and one very special, beautiful girl. For within one innocent child, a shocking secret lives...a secret that will taint the proud Foxworth name, and haunt all their lives forever!Now a major Lifetime movie event—Book Four of the Dollanganger series that began with Flowers in the Attic—the novel of…
forbidden love that captured the world’s imagination and earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fanbase.They escaped their mother’s hellish trap years ago, but a cruel history of lies and deceit has come full circle… The forbidden love that blossomed when Cathy and Christopher were held captive in Foxworth Hall is one the Dollanganger family’s darkest secrets. Now, with three grown children and even a new last name, the pair seem to have outlived a twisted legacy. But on their son Bart’s twenty-fifth birthday, when the spiteful and disturbed young man claims his rightful inheritance, the full, shattering truth of their tainted past will be revealed at Foxworth Hall—the place where the nightmare began, and where Christopher and Cathy were once just innocent flowers in the attic…Ink exchange (Wicked Lovely Ser. #2)
By Melissa Marr. 2008
Mortal teenager Leslie, Aislinn's friend from Wicked Lovely (BR 17597), endures an abusive home life. But when Leslie gets a…
tattoo, its image draws her into the Dark Court of evil faeries, where King Irial falls in love with her. Some strong language. For senior high readers. 2008Eclipse (The Twilight Saga #3)
By Stephenie Meyer. 2007
After befriending werewolf Jacob in New Moon (BR 18147), Bella must choose between him and her former vampire boyfriend Edward,…
from Twilight (BR 18146). Meanwhile vicious killings occur in nearby Seattle as a female vampire seeks revenge--putting Bella in danger and stirring old enmities. For senior high readers. 2007Breaking dawn (The Twilight Saga #4)
By Stephenie Meyer. 2008
Eighteen-year-old Bella Swan marries vampire Edward Cullen after she graduates from high school and must decide whether to become immortal.…
But her pregnancy threatens both her life and peace between her werewolf friend Jacob and the vampire Volturi coven. Sequel to Eclipse (RC 65812, BR 18180). For senior high readers. 2008Fragile eternity (Wicked Lovely Ser. #3)
By Melissa Marr. 2009
Summer Queen Aislinn and her mortal boyfriend Seth, from Wicked Lovely (BR 17597), struggle with their relationship since she's immortal--and…
the Summer King's partner. Seth must find a way to keep Aislinn for himself. Some strong language. For senior high readers. 2009The short second life of Bree Tanner: an Eclipse novella (The Twilight Saga)
By Stephenie Meyer. 2010
Seattle. Fifteen-year old Bree Tanner doesn't know whom to trust as Riley's army of newborn vampires attacks the Cullens and…
Bella. Bree struggles to learn the truth before time runs out. Companion to Eclipse (DB 65812). Some violence. For senior high readers. 2010Hourglass (Hourglass)
By Myra McEntire. 2011
When her boarding school scholarship is cancelled, seventeen-year-old Emerson returns to Tennessee to live with her brother Thomas and his…
wife Dru. Em has frequent visions of people from the past, and Thomas hires a handsome consultant to help Em control her apparitions. For senior high and older readers. 2011Timepiece: an hourglass novel
By Myra McEntire. 2012
When Jack Landers steals vital research about the time gene, Kaleb, Emerson, and other talented teens from the Hourglass Institute…
must find him--but the time-traveling criminal could be anywhere. Sequel to Hourglass (BR 19795). Some violence and some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2012September girls
By Bennett Madison. 2013
After seventeen-year-old Sam's mother leaves, his dad drags Sam and his brother to a seaside town for the summer. The…
beautiful blond girls there are inexplicably attracted to Sam, who is determined to uncover their mystery. Strong language and descriptions of sex. For senior high and older readers. 2013Red queen (Red Queen #1)
By Victoria Aveyard. 2015
Seventeen-year-old Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood--those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with…
superhuman abilities. Mare, a Red, scrapes by until she publicly discovers she has a deadly ability of her own. For senior high and older readers. 2015Ballet!
By Tom Murphy. 1978
A novel of murder, romance, and Cold War espionage set in the world of professional ballet, by the author of…
Lily Cigar. One by one they died. In Paris. In Switzerland. In Ireland. In California. The most gifted and famous Soviet defectors: victims of an unknown assassin, pawns in a monstrous game. One prize target remains. Dima Lubov. He is the most celebrated new ballet star, leaping from triumph to triumph on stage and plunging into a passionate love affair with Jennifer Hale, the exquisite American prima ballerina who is the perfect partner in his art and in his arms. But a global orchestration of evil is mounting towards a crescendo as the pair of unsuspecting lovers dance ever closer to the abyss . . .Lost Island
By Phyllis A. Whitney. 1970
From a New York Times–bestselling author: An island off the Georgia coast holds the memory of a broken heart and…
the secrets of a woman’s past. It’s been years since Lacey Ames last saw Hampton Island, where she grew up amid the sandy marshes with her childhood sweetheart, Giles Severn, and her cousin Elise—and where Elise had stolen the man Lacey loved. Lacey never forgot the hurt and betrayal she once suffered at Giles’s grand family home of Sea Oaks, but a curious and compelling summons from Elise prompts her return. Once Lacey arrives, she realizes how little has changed. Giles is still the handsome charmer she fell in love with, and Elise is still the wily seductress whose succession of lovers has risked a family scandal. But when a series of anonymous harmless pranks turns threatening, Lacey must finally confront the past—and a decade-old secret from one haunting summer at Sea Oaks. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Phyllis A. Whitney including rare images from the author’s estate.The Body Snatcher: The Black Arrow. The Misadventures Of John Nicholson. The Body-snatcher (Jamestown Classics Series)
By Robert Louis Stevenson, Otto Penzler. 2015
An uncanny thriller from the acclaimed author of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Medical school students…
Fettes and Macfarlane are charged with the unenviable task of receiving and paying for the institution's research cadavers. When Fettes recognizes the dead body of a woman he saw alive and well just the day before, he suspects murder. Macfarlane, however, insists that the authorities would never believe they had nothing to do with her death. Reluctantly, Fettes agrees to keep quiet, but soon regrets his decision when another familiar corpse turns up--and takes on a life of its own. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.The Moonflower
By Phyllis A. Whitney. 1958
The wife of a scientist fights for her marriage—and her husband’s sanity—in postwar Japan in this novel by “a superb…
and gifted storyteller” (Mary Higgins Clark). When Jerome Talbot’s brilliant career as an atomic physicist leads him once again to Japan, his wife, Marcia, knows it means yet another long separation, but she hopes to reunite with him soon. Confidently awaiting word to join him, she is blindsided when she receives a letter demanding divorce. Stunned and hurt, she leaves their home in Hawaii to confront Jerome in Kyoto, certain she’ll get an explanation to heal her wounded heart. But when Marcia arrives, she can’t be sure of anything . . . Jerome has become a stranger—obsessed, cruel, unhinged, and resolved never to return home—committed only to his work, which reaches back to World War II. Even more peculiar, he’s living in unusual intimacy with a a close-knit, unnervingly private Japanese family whom Marcia is forbidden to talk to and to whom Jerome seems not only beholden, but enslaved. Marcia resolves to stay in Kyoto until she discovers the secret driving her husband mad—and the truth behind a terrible legacy that could threaten both their lives. A “brilliant, absorbing, [and] moving” novel of romantic suspense by a New York Times–bestselling, multiple award–winning author—who was herself born in Yokohama—The Moonflower is an authentic exploration of life in postwar Japan, as well as a chilling tale of guilt, family secrets, and a marriage at risk in the never-forgotten shadow of Hiroshima (Richmond Times-Dispatch). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Phyllis A. Whitney including rare images from the author’s estate.The Monk: A Romance. In Three Volumes. By M. G. Lewis (Dover Thrift Editions: Gothic/horror Ser.)
By Matthew Gregory Lewis. 2015
A spellbinding Gothic novel, The Monk is Matthew Lewis' most famous work. First published in 1796 and set in a…
sinister Capuchin monastery in Madrid, this violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest focuses on a monk's struggle to maintain his monastic vows in the face of temptation and sexual obsession. ". . . rich, powerful, and fervid. " — Samuel Taylor Coleridge.The Turn of the Screw (First Avenue Classics ™)
By Henry James. 2016
A young governess takes a position caring for the orphaned niece and nephew of her employer after the death of…
the previous governess. The children, Miles and Flora, seem charming and sweet, but the governess suspects that they are hiding something. Why was Miles expelled from school? And where does Flora go in the dark hours of the night? The governess is haunted by ghosts that only she can see—and she is convinced that they are after the children. Are the ghosts merely a figment of the governess's deranged imagination, or is she the only thing that stands between her charges and the supernatural forces that threaten them? This is an unabridged version of the gothic ghost story novella by American writer Henry James, first published in 1898.The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (First Avenue Classics ™)
By Robert Louis Stevenson. 2014
Dr. Henry Jekyll is a well-known gentleman living in London. He seems perfectly normal—that is, until he wills his estate…
to Mr. Edward Hyde, a wicked figure who had assaulted a young girl. Dr. Jekyll's lawyer and friend, Mr. Utterson finds this decision alarming, but Dr. Jekyll calms his fears. For a while, all is well, but then a witness sees Mr. Hyde commit a murder, and soon after Dr. Jekyll begins to act strangely. When Dr. Jekyll suddenly refuses to leave his laboratory, Mr. Utterson is left to uncover the truth, discovering that the respected Dr. Jekyll and the crude Mr. Hyde are not so different after all. This unabridged version of Robert Louis Stevenson's Gothic novella, first published in England in 1886, takes on the classic struggle between good and evil.The Phantom of the Opera (First Avenue Classics ™)
By Gaston Leroux. 2019
Amidst rumors that the Paris opera house is haunted, Christine Daaé, a young Swedish girl, performs at a gala and…
attracts attention from both her childhood sweetheart, Raoul, and the Phantom, who is living underground. Suddenly, mysterious circumstances abound at the opera house: a stagehand is found dead, managers receive letters demanding that Christine sing the lead role, and a chandelier crashes down into the audience. When Christine reunites with Raoul, the phantom grows dangerously jealous. Will Christine stay on the stage or disappear into the opera house's dark cellars and grim secrets? Gaston Leroux's Gothic novel was first published in French in 1911. This is an unabridged version of the translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, published the same year.