Books with title THE UNDERNEATH

When madness stalks the streets of London, no one is safe…There’s a creepy new terror haunting modern-day London.Fresh from defeating a Jack the Ripper killer, Rory must put her new-found hunting skills to the test before all hell breaks loose…But enemies are not always who you expect them to be and crazy times call for crazy solutions. A thrilling teen mystery.

Excerpt from the Book:PROLOGUEDEATH WAS COMING. Those in the cramped room could feel the reaper creeping forward as the young soldier’s rattling gasps for air painfully subsided. The Reverend straightened up, pulling the dirty sheet over the cadet’s pocked marked face. He turned to the youth hunched in the corner. The boy had been sitting in the corner of the crumbling hospital since the day before, when he delivered his friend, who now lay dead on the table.“I’m sorry.” The Reverend cleared his throat before moving to the next patient, also not long for this world. “Best tell the General.”The boy’s round face blanched in surprise. As a lowly infantryman, he had never faced the famed commander. He opened his mouth to argue, but one of the officers nearby nudged him with the butt of his musket. “Yes, Sir,” he swallowed.The lad ran through the desolate streets, dodging discarded possessions and crumbling architecture left over from the last British siege of Louisbourg in 1758. Charred, skeletal frames were all that remained of the once proud fortress, the crown jewel of the French Empire in North America. Nothing had survived intact from the six weeks of British bombardment. The French were gone, their lives reduced to ash. The young man gasped as he rounded a corner. The fierce wind raging off the North Atlantic caught in his chest. It was only October, but snow was already sticking to the ground on fallen leaves and patches of thin ice. A knot of men appeared through the collapsing rock of what had once been the city’s walls. They huddled together near the newly dug graves of the previous week. The boy approached through what remained of the city gate feeling cautious. He had never met anyone of importance in his short life. He coughed. The men turned, the merciless wind whipping at their red coattails.A number of the officers looked scandalized to see such a ragged soldier in their midst, and one even opened his mouth to chastise him, but General James Murray stopped him with a piercing gaze.The young cadet took a step closer, stumbling over the uneven ground. General Murray looked at the pathetic figure with resignation. He had been waiting for this message for hours. “Th-there’s been a-a-another four th-this afternoon,” the boy stuttered, staring at the freshly turned earth only a few feet away. He was too terrified to meet the General’s now stern gaze. “That’s two more from yesterday, but not as bad as the day before that. Sir.” He wiped his brow. Despite the freezing temperatures and flecks of snow in the air, he felt warm.Murray nodded and turned back to face the turbulent ocean, ignoring his subordinates, who began to mutter and worry about this new development. For six weeks, he had watched Louisbourg crumble under the barrage of artillery lobbed into the walls and streets of the fortress by the British, including his own battalion. There was nothing left now but broken roads and dilapidated buildings. His troops were slowly freezing to death, and there was no relief in sight. Six months. Six months they were condemned to remain in this collapsing, decaying hell of a ruined city. Governor Delacour had been a fool not to have surrendered earlier. Murray glared at the ocean spray that darkened the new graves. The last time Britain had occupied Louisbourg, over one thousand troops had died during the first winter. History was in danger of repeating itself. Half the garrison already had a cough; the rest were terrified they would be next.The burials were finished, at least for a few hours. “There’s nothing more to be done, Sir,” one of the lieutenant's grunted. The band of men left slowly to deal with the living. James Murray turned from the cemetery with a heavy heart, making his way back into the remains of the city. Six months, and then they would be moving west to the capital city, Quebec, with half the British army. They just had to survive until then.

There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares to find him in the forest, and the hound dares to befriend this cat, this feline, this creature he is supposed to hate. They are an unlikely pair, about to become an unlikely family. Ranger urges the cat to hide underneath the porch, to raise her kittens there because Gar-Face, the man living inside the house, will surely use them as alligator bait should he find them. But they are safe in the Underneath...as long as they stay in the Underneath.Kittens, however, are notoriously curious creatures. And one kitten's one moment of curiosity sets off a chain of events that is astonishing, remarkable, and enormous in its meaning. For everyone who loves Sounder, Shiloh, and The Yearling, for everyone who loves the haunting beauty of writers such as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Flannery O'Connor, and Carson McCullers, Kathi Appelt spins a harrowing yet keenly sweet tale about the power of love -- and its opposite, hate -- the fragility of happiness and the importance of making good on your promises.

A thousand years ago a snake was imprisoned in a jar. In the bayou, a tree grew around it, and the snake's hate grew. Twenty-five years ago lightning struck but did not fell the tree. A drunken father struck and disfigured his son, who ran away and began a life nurtured by hate. Today, a calico cat finds refuge under the man's porch, befriended by his abused hound. Kathi Appelt's first novel defies categorizing. It is a ballad whose music is heard in Gabra Zackman's perfect cadence. She transports the listener back a thousand years to begin the snake's story and interweaves today's tale of an angry, hate-filled man; an abused but loyal hound; and a calico cat and her kittens, making the magic real.

Mister Underneath is an imaginative wonderland that will introduce you to a host of strange, magical and terrifying beings that have never existed anyplace but in the richness of the imagination. Jackson McCabe finds a monster in the garage, a mysterious man visits the farm, his parents go missing and a coal black squirrel delivers an eerie message that pulls him into the deep woods outside the small town of Blankcastle, England. His search for answers propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. A world where; he must survive monsters, earth witches, a city of ghouls, back-stabbing fairies and the evil that lurks in the shadows, Mister Underneath. Led by a shape shifting crow on a heart pounding adventure Jackson must survive in a magical forest where no one is safe and hope is a long forgotten dream. Storyteller, Randy Briley delivers with a new novel that is magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventure, Mister Underneath is sure to enthrall readers of all ages.

Which tree is known as the shivering tree because it defied the Holy Family by refusing to bow to them? Which tree is reputed to have sheltered an army of 7000 men beneath it? What three types of wood are used to make a witches broom? And which tree did villagers believe would protect you from witches, the devil and lightning? What is known as the pin of slumber? What piece of wood when smeared with butter and put up a chimney to cure became the only national weapon allowed by their occupying power?Underneath the Banyan Tree is a collection and celebration of facts, stories, myths and legends about trees, from many different cultures and their use to us as metaphor and symbol of our inner spiritual journey and our outer physical struggles in an ever changing world. The book weaves its way through the alphabet from Acacia to Zwart, and covers creation myths, magical shields, the passions and wars played out by gods, goddesses, the mischievousness of fairy folk; medicinal uses, superstitions, witches and supernatural occurrences.

If your fate was predetermined, would you still try to change it?Dylan, now seventeen-years-old, has attended Albanrouke Academy since her parents dropped her off as a scared little six-year-old girl. Although reluctant to leave her twin brothers and the only life she knew, she always obeyed the academy's hierarchy and their rigid rules. Dylan was taught to dutifully obey authority and to absorb all information taught to her without questioning it. But one day she forgets to take her mandatory medication, and she sees the safe routine of life inside the academy unravel. Everything around her begins to appear unnatural. Classmates, teachers, and friends are all exhibiting strange behaviours that she can't explain. It scares her.Suddenly, a small number of people approach Dylan in order to recruit her into their group. They offer promises of safety, finding out the secrets of the school and ultimately revealing the truth of the world. But Dylan rejects them. Still in denial and free of the mysterious medication that dulled her natural curiosity and independence, she needs to see proof of their claims for herself - to explore the world herself before trusting these strangers.Now in control of herself, Dylan struggles to overcome time and fate in order to save her younger brothers and herself before it's too late. But she discovers that some things are better left alone.