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A darkness strange and lovely

When she begins to hear and see howling hounds, accompanied by evil, yellow eyes, Eleanor Fitt knows that the necromancer, Marcus, is coming for her, along with his servants, the Dead. Eleanor needs the Spirit-Hunters, and in order to find them she will have to travel to France--where the Dead have taken over Paris.

The magnificent Lizzie Brown and the devil's hound

2015
Lizzie is now an established member of Fitzy's Circus, but when the circus arrives in Kensal Green they are plagued by accidents and sickness and Lizzie needs to put her psychic talents to use to solve the mystery of a graveyard haunted by a devil hound.

Strands of bronze and gold

After the death of her father in 1855, seventeen-year-old Sophia goes to live with her wealthy and mysterious godfather at his Gothic mansion, Wyndriven Abbey, in Mississippi, where many secrets lie hidden.

Mourning Lincoln

"The news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded the war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief and dismay were printed in newspapers and preached in sermons. Public responses to the assassination have been well chronicled, but this book is the first to delve into the personal and intimate responses of everyday people--Northerners and Southerners, soldiers and civilians, black people and white, men and women, rich and poor"--Dust jacket flap.

How to catch a bogle

In 1870s London, a young orphan girl becomes the apprentice to a man who traps monsters for a living.

Emily and Carlo

2012
The only sibling left in the Dickinson house in Amherst, Massachusetts, in the winter of 1849, Emily gets a dog who becomes her constant companion and who is featured in some of the poems she writes. Includes brief notes on the life and work of Emily Dickinson.

Fire storm

2014
"A fourth action-filled puzzler for teen Sherlock as he plunges into a fight for his life and battles to discover what has happened to his missing friends"--Provided by publisher.

Anna Sewell's Black Beauty

2014
In this graphic version of the classic story, a horse in Victorian England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.

Heidi

2011
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

Farmer boy goes west

2012
After moving from Malone, New York, to Spring Valley, Minnesota, in the 1870s, fourteen-year-old Almanzo Wilder, who would grow up to become the husband of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and his family must decide whether to stay out west or return home to the life they have always known.

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