R L R: 1906 books

From the Blackest Cloud begins with a young, postWorld War II couple, floating on the proverbial Cloud 9. Their hopes and dreams are to fulfill a dual commitment in lifeto have a family, and to provide a home for them. The billowy, white cloud is overshadowed by a touch of gray as anxiety grows concerning...

The war begins as the twins discover the secrets surrounding their birth and their parents.

An underground trap. A magic gift, waning. Death, waiting in the wings. Arthur, Maude and twenty-four children are trapped beneath the earth when the portal to their underground home is destroyed by one of the king's men. Now they face certain death, though death is what they hoped to avoid...

Ash gives birth, and Rhumea is suddenly plagued by the wrath of the other kingdoms.

Evan Ross can't stop thinking about Monster Blood and what happened last summer. It was so horrible. So terrifying. Too bad Evan's science teacher doesn't believe him. Now he's stuck cleaning out the hamster's cage as punishment for making up stories. Then Evan's friend Andy comes to town,...

Durante el siglo XVIII, dos hermanos se enfrentan al haber tomado distintas posturas respecto a la monarquía. Mientras uno defiende al rey actual, el rey Jorge, el otro ayudará a las tropas rebeldes, para que sea el príncipe Carlos el verdadero heredero del trono de Inglaterra.

Es una alegoría moral en forma de historia de misterio. Los dos extremos, el bien y el mal, están conviviendo en una sola persona, el médico Henry Jekyll, que inventa una poción química capaz de transformarlo, al comienzo, por su propia decisión y después incontroladamente, en el monstruo temible: Míster Hyde.

Los colonos de Silverado describe las andanzas y peripecias acaecidas durante la nada convencional «luna de miel» de Stevenson y su mujer, Fanny Osbourne, por las montañas de California, donde se alojaron en una mina de plata abandonada de la legendaria Silverado, una mina rodeada...

Stevenson tenía 30 años cuando comenzó a escribir La isla del tesoro, su primer éxito como novelista. Los quince primeros capítulos fueron escritos en Braemar, en las Tierras Altas escocesas, en 1881. Era un verano tardío, frío y lluvioso y Stevenson estaba con cinco miembros de su familia de vacaciones en una casita en el campo.

"La misma temperatura en Inglaterra no hubiera chocado en pleno estío, pero era cruelmente fría para el Mar del Sur... Y aquellos tres hombres la sentían también y tiritaban. Llevaban livianas ropas de algodón, las mismas en que habían sudado por el día,...

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A hunger for gold is never satisfied. Homer, one of the lost children of Fairendale, finds himself in the most unusual of circumstances—transformed into a dwarf, utterly alone, in the middle of a strange wood. The wood leads to a walled village, which leads to a storage shed, where the daughter...

Strength comes in numbers of merry men. Philip, one of the lost children of Fairendale, wakes in the woods outside the village of Lincastle, surrounded by the forest's most frightening creatures. Thus begins his daily battle to outsmart the creatures that would like nothing more than to eat...

The Were creatures prowl on a full moon. Anna, one of the lost children of Fairendale, has never been all that brilliant at practicing magic. A vanishing spell has transported her to a lonely forest outside Eastermoor, and her limited skills in sorcery offer her no help in constructing a safe...