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Explore the world of the imagination in this exciting anthology of prose, poetry and drama; meet the ghost of Thomas Kempe; go back in time at 19 Railway Street; join a wagon train on its dangerous journey across America; enter space in a garden shed; take to the stage in the Scottish Play. The anthology has been carefully compiled by an expert team of Irish educationalists to deliver the best of children's literature, both modern and classical and from a wide range of genres. Children everywhere will find something to amuse and excite and will be enticed to move from each individual extract to the original work.
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Enter an exciting world full of fantasy, action, and mystery in Michael Malik's intriguing debut, "Ghost Thief." Readers will get lost in this exciting tale that pits one skeptic detective against an enemy who knows no bounds. Benjamin Crisp, a detective constable in Scotland Yard's art and antiques division, is confused when he receives a rare and valuable atlas from his great-uncle Albert and sets off to learn Albert's intention. His great-uncle soon reveals that he is a member of an alchemist society that for centuries has used an element called ambrosium to absorb the thoughts of history's most celebrated figures into special busts, essentially turning them into ghosts. The bust of Dr. John Dee has gone missing, however, and it is up to Crisp to track it down. But the discovery of the bust brings bigger problems when Dee reveals a horrifying secret: during his lifetime, he helped discover the language of angels-a fact that had remained hidden until now. When an unknown nemesis discovers the secret and banishes all the angels from Earth, the delicate balance that exists between good and evil is destroyed. Can Crisp uncover the riddle of the atlas and battle the forces of darkness before it's too late?
In the summer of 1982, something took place in a small village in Australia. An inexplicable and unexplainable happening that has had investigators baffled for years after. Troy Gaston. Young, in love and about to undertake the single most harrowing journey of his young life to a country that has yielded many secrets for ages. Troy travels to Australia with his longtime girlfriend Jill for a religious retreat. However, once they arrive, Troy, Jill and the other villagers soon begin to realize that something beyond human comprehension is about to take shape in the most surreal way possible. An evil force takes captive two, young boys in the village, and much to Troys chagrin, he must witness the entire ordeal from start to terrifying finish. Within only a matter days the world that Troy once knew as reality will become a living nightmare from hell as the demonic entity that has captured the once peaceful village of Sinai plans on destroying everyone in its path. Amongst all of the paranormal menace, Troy managed to document the entire event up until his own final moment in his diary. Though never heard from again, what Troy Gaston managed to detail has lived on in the imagination of those who have had the misfortune of reading his journey to the land that never gave him up.
View our feature on Simon R. Green's Ghost of a Chance. A brand-new series from the New York Times bestselling author of the Nightside novels! The Carnacki Institute exists to "Do Something" about Ghosts-and agents JC Chance, Melody Chambers, and Happy Jack Palmer will either lay them to rest, send them packing, or kick their nasty ectoplasmic arses with extreme prejudice.
Samurai, assassins, warlords -- and a girl who likes to climb A historical coming-of-age tale of a young girl who is purchased away from her family to become an assassin. Can she come to terms with who she must be? Though Japan has been devastated by a century of civil war, Risuko just wants to climb trees. Growing up far from the battlefields and court intrigues, the fatherless girl finds herself pulled into a plot that may reunite Japan -- or may destroy it. She is torn from her home and what is left of her family, but finds new friends at a school that may not be what it seems. One of the students — or perhaps one of the teachers — is playing the kitsune. The mischievous fox spirit is searching for… something. What do they want? And what will they do to find it? Magical but historical, Risuko follows her along the first dangerous steps to discovering who she truly is. The first volume of the Seasons of the Sword series! Can one girl win a war? Kano Murasaki, called Risuko (Squirrel) is a young, fatherless girl, more comfortable climbing trees than down on the ground. Yet she finds herself enmeshed in a game where the board is the whole nation of Japan, where the pieces are armies, moved by scheming lords, and a single girl couldn't possibly have the power to change the outcome. Or could she? Historical adventure fiction appropriate for teen readers As featured in Kirkus, Foreword, and on the cover of Publishers Weekly! Tight, exciting, and thoughtful... The characters are nicely varied and all the pieces fit into place deftly. -- Kirkus Reviews Risuko is an artfully crafted novel that evokes a heavy sense of place and enchantment.... Risuko's development and evolution are fascinating to watch in this powerful and relentless coming-of-age adventure. -- Foreword Reviews (spotlight review) Vividly portrayed, flush with cultural detail, and smoothly written. -- BookLife
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What poltergeist accounts through the ages reveal about our own worldviews • Provides a wide array of case studies from ancient Greece and Rome to medieval Europe to the modern world • Explores the relationship between poltergeists and troubled adolescence • Looks beneath the Christian adulteration of pagan practices to reveal the hidden ancestral beliefs tied to poltergeists and haunted houses Stories of poltergeists and their mischievous and sometimes violent actions--knocking, stone or chair throwing, moving objects with invisible hands, and slamming or opening doors--are a constant through the ages. What changes is how we interpret this activity. For our pagan ancestors this phenomenon was caused by helper spirits whose manifestations revealed their unhappiness with a household. The medieval Christian church demonized these once helpful spirits and held exorcisms to expel them from the houses they haunted--which proved effective less than half the time. The Age of Enlightenment cast these incidents as clever hoaxes, and many still believe this today. But poltergeist manifestations continue to appear and often defy attempts to debunk them as pranks. What then is behind this phenomenon? Exploring accounts of poltergeists from ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, and the modern world, Claude Lecouteux finds that while our interpretations of poltergeists may change, the manifestations always follow a similar course and evolution. He shows how modern scientific studies of poltergeist manifestations have found a strong tie between these visitations and the presence of a troubled adolescent in the house. Looking beneath the Christian adulteration of pagan practices to reveal the hidden ancestral beliefs tied to poltergeists and haunted houses, the author shows how these unhappy spirits serve as confirmation of the supernatural beings that share the earth with us and of our relationship with the natural and unseen world, a relationship we must take care to keep in balance.
The Carnacki Institute is all about ghosts - or at least, keeping them under control. Their latest assignment sees JC and the team sent to a small country village, site of a famously haunted inn. At first, JC thinks that the spirits in the King's Arms are more the stuff of urban legend than anything that needs the Ghost Finders' expertise. But one story rings true: the tale of a traveller trapped in the inn by an unusual thunderstorm. She retired to her room for the night - and vanished. Trapped by an unusual thunderstorm - like the one that begins raging outside shortly after they arrive . . . As the team investigates, they are forced, one by one, to face some hard truths about themselves, their relationships and the haunting itself - truths that may push Happy Jack over the edge into the madness he has always feared . . . Spirits from Beyond is the fourth title in New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green's Ghost Finders series.