Books with title Shadows of the Lost Sun

“Whoever it was that said your high school years are the best years of your life, needs to talk to me. In the three weeks I’d been a high school freshman, life had become more miserable than ever before. I just didn’t fit in. Students jammed the hallway, but I walked to class by myself. My only friend from elementary school had different classes than I did and we only saw each other after school. Making friends was not something I did well. I had skipped the first grade, so I was one to two years younger than most high school freshmen.” Excerpt from “In the Shadow of the Sun”“In the Shadow of the Sun” is the story of 13 year old Elizabeth Polikowski’s harrowing journey through her first year of High School, while battling depression, a poor self image and a tumultuous home life, and dealing with falling in love for the first time.Explores dark themes of teen suicide, drug use, sex and depression tastefully, and without preaching. You journey with young Elizabeth through shadows and into the light of the sun again.

Beautiful Sorcha is the courageous young woman who risked all to save her family from a wicked curse and whose love shattered generations of hate and bridged two cultures. It is from her sacrifice that Sorcha's brothers were brought home to their ancestral fortress Sevenwaters, and her life has known much joy. But not all the brothers were able to fully escape the spell that transformed them into swans, and it is left to Sorcha's daughter, Liadan, to help fulfill the destiny of the Sevenwaters clan. Beloved child and dutiful daughter, Liadan embarks on a journey that shows her just how hard-won was the peace that she has known all her life. Liadan will need all of her courage to help save her family, for there are dark forces and ancient powers conspiring to destroy this family's peace—and their world. And she will need all of her strength to stand up to those she loves best, for in the finding of her own true love, Liadan's course may doom them all...or be their salvation.

Meet The Shadow, the most notorious group ofmercenaries never seen. Their motto, “Anything forthe money,” is their guiding light. And they havedone terrible things indeed in the name of this wayof life. But the winds of change are blowing, and fateis about to play its heavy hand.Join The Shadow in an episodic adventure of danger,action, and intrigue. Will they die the villain, or livelong enough to see themselves become the hero?

Newbery Medalist Avi weaves one of his most suspenseful and scary tales—about a ghost who has to be seen to be believed and must be kept from carrying out a horrifying revenge. The time is 1872. The place is New York City. Horace Carpetine has been raised to believe in science and rationality. So as apprentice to Enoch Middleditch, a society photographer, he thinks of his trade as a scientific art. But when wealthy society matron Mrs. Frederick Von Macht orders a photographic portrait, strange things begin to happen. Horace's first real photographs reveal a frightful likeness: it's the image of the Von Machts' dead daughter, Eleanora. Pegg, the Von Machts' black servant girl, then leads him to the truth about who Eleanora really was and how she actually died. Joined in friendship, Pegg and Horace soon realize that his photographs are evoking both Eleanora's image and her ghost. Eleanora returns, a vengeful wraith intent on punishing those who abused her. Rich in detail, full of the magic of early photography, here is a story about the shadows, visible and invisible, that are always lurking near.

Africa, 1888. Trying to forget the past that took her best friend and her mother away, Sonnet Gray busies herself with helping to build a hospital, while at the same time taking care of a precocious child. Together with Israel Rhode, the one man she can trust, their safe haven is discovered by an old enemy who needs Sonnet to get back to where he came from. London, 1931. Bedlam Asylum has never been a safe place, and Rose Gray isn't getting any better. Consumed with rage and insanity, Rose isn't the only Gray who has learned to control her ability to travel through time. From the dark alleys of Jack the Ripper to the Spice Islands of Zanzibar, Sonnet and Rose make their way through the eras. One is controlled by love, the other by revenge, but only one of them will be strong enough to end their story. The other will simply remain lost.

This novella contains the first act from the novel Shadows of the Midnight Sun. It contains some additional dialog and some other small changes but was created primarily for readers who wanted to give the series a chance but weren't ready to pick up the full novel at its regular price. It offers a glimpse into the world of the Fallen, into the cauldron of darkness and hope. And just who are the Fallen? Damaged souls cursed to an eternal life in the darkness. Some call them the Terrors, others call them Nosferatu, and others use the word Vampire. But not all the of the Fallen are evil, some rare, damaged souls still seek redemption, they still pray for it in the dark, even as they're hunted by an order of warriors from the church called the righteous fire, even as the kings and princes of the undead seek to recruit them for a final battle or destroy them for their insolence. Those who survive do so without much hope until the events of a thousand year old prophecy begin to unfold. It tells of a messenger sent to bring redemption for the Fallen, whose arrival will be known when shadows are seen beneath the midnight sun. Spencer Andrews and I hope you'll give this series a chance. It was imagined as a true trilogy, not just three books that feature the same characters. Many events in this book foreshadow things in the later novels. Some characters who have minor parts in the first novel have much larger parts in the subsequent books. If we've done it right, the entire tapestry comes together in the end. We hope you'll take the chance and join us on the journey. -- Graham Brown

It's not uncommon for people to go missing in a vast and wild place like Alaska. But in a rainy forest just south of Juneau, it seems to happen more often than usual.The dense woods around Shadow Creek are beautiful and tempting, but there's also something menacing about them. Everyone in the nearby town knows the story of the Witch of Shadow Creek, although few suspect it's anything more than "just a story." When Jack Strader and his dad move from California to reopen the Shadow Creek Lodge after a family tragedy, they're just looking for a change. But Jack's about to find out that Shadow Creek is a place where the border between this world and the next is sometimes thin.

What do you do when you find out the thing from your nightmares is stalking you? "He felt his hands becoming cold and clammy. Wishing he had thought to bring something to defend himself, but not wanting to go back and give the intruder time to reach his family, he carefully reached for the door knob, a slight pounding beginning to echo in his ear. Ever so slowly he turned the knob, pushing against the door with his shoulder. Placing one hesitant foot forward, he began to step through the doorway. The breathing was louder now. Whatever was making those sounds would be revealed in just a moment."For ages 12 and up.

[Read by Ralph Lister] Travel home with Darren in this, the penultimate book in the saga. Darren Shan is going home - and his world is going to hell. -- Darren is going back to where it all started, back to where he was reborn as a child of the night. But like Darren, the town has changed a lot over the years. Back home, old enemies await. Scores must be settled. Destiny looks certain to destroy him, and the world is doomed to fall to the Ruler of the Night.