Books with title The Hidden Room

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The Hidden Hand (1888) is an exuberant action comedy, featuring fearless Capitola Black, a self-styled female Don Quixote, and the prototype of innumerable adventure heroines. Rescued from life on the streets in New York by a southern plantation owner, with his own reasons for befriending her, Capitola is too active and adventurous to settle for the life of a southern belle. Besides, the neighbourhood is infested with evil-doers--Black Donald, the notorious bandit, and Gabriel Le Noir, the owner of the plantation adjoining--combine to make her life full of excitement and peril. Serialized three times by popular demand before appearing in book form, The Hidden Hand exudes irresistible high spirits and cheer, and still retains the capacity to surprise and delight that enchanted its first readers.

Considered to be the best work of American author E.D.E.N. Southworth, The Hidden Hand is a portrayal of life in the Southern United States after the Civil War. Like many of her novels, this publication focuses on the classical version of sentimental fiction, complete with the damsel in distress and the evil villain. With a capable and confident heroine by the name of Capitola, and many exciting plot developments that readers can truly enjoy, the novel also includes many of Southworth's – at the time – original feminist ideals, that have managed to cause quite a stir in 19th century society.A curious and quite magnificent combination of mystery, suspense, romance and comedy, The Hidden Hand is far more than just a feminist book. It is well-written, engaging, and presents a keen, exciting narrative that makes it difficult to put down, once you've started reading. Through Capitola's story, E.D.E.N. Southworth becomes one of the most dignified spokespersons for women's rights, well before the idea of feminism was even hinted at in the mainstream media.One of the stranger things about this book is that it ends quite abruptly, making the suspense it builds throughout the plot even more intense and exciting. The sequel, Capitola's Peril, is a must-have for anyone who enjoyed The Hidden Hand, as it ties up all the loose ends, while providing readers with a satisfying and extremely well-presented continuation of the storyline in the first book.The Hidden Hand and its sequel are a must-read for anyone interested in being inspired by a brave and accomplished female author who manages to impress her peers even during a time when stories such as this one were accepted with great difficulty. Southworth impresses through her outstandingly engaging narrative, as well as through her mastery of feminist concepts, able to avoid many of the traps and pitfalls that her predecessors, and many later followers of feminist ideology constantly fell into.

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You are the lucky winner of a Blue Moon Once-in-a-Lifetime Adventure. It’ll be the trip of a lifetime! The tour leaves from the Blue Moon office at 11 p.m. sharp. Groups of seven only. No pets. When the Flints win the trip to Bell Hoot, they board Captain Bontoc’s Blue Moon Mobile with the expectation of a grand holiday. Then something terrible happens: Bea Flint’s little brother, Theo, disappears on the journey, and the peculiar Ledbetter clan of Bell Hoot, who call Theo the Hidden Boy, is more desperate than even Bea and her family to find him. Bea will have to trust herself and the weird and wise words of an old man called Arkadi in order to find Theo. In her search, she’ll discover that Bell Hoot is more than a vacation destination, a wish is no good unless you give it legs, and Mumbo Jumbo is much more than nonsense—it’s hidden potential that she can find within herself. Jon Berkeley sends readers on the adventure of a lifetime with this first installment of a saga about a mysterious place called Bell Hoot, where strange and wonderful things happen.

Love and mystery mix in the final installment of this spine-tingling, hauntingly gorgeous trilogy, which L. J. Smith calls “Spectacular! ” In the eagerly anticipated conclusion to the bestselling saga of Abbey and Caspian, listeners finally learn the truth about Kristens untimely death, the dark destiny that links Abbey to Caspian and ties them both to the town of Sleepy Hollow, and the hard choices that Abbey must make if she is to accept Caspians love and their unexpected fate. Beautifully spun, emotionally gripping, and irresistibly romantic, The Hidden will leave readers breathless.

Excerpt from The Hidden HandWhence is that knocking? How is't with me when every sound appals me? It it it I hear a knocking In the south entry! Hark l - More knocking! - shakespeare.Hurricane hall is a large old family mansion, built of dark-red sandstone, in one of the loneliest and wildest of the mountain regions of Virginia.The estate is surrounded on three sides by a range of steep, gray rocks, spiked with clumps of dark evergreens, and called, from its horseshoe form, the Devil's Hoof.On the fourth side the ground gradually descends in broken rock and barren soil to the edge of the wild mountain stream known as the Devil's Run.When storms and floods were high the loud roaring of the wind through the wild mountain gorges and the terrific raging of the torrent over its rocky course gave to this savage locality its ill-omened names of Devil's Hoof, Devil's Run and Hurri cane Hall.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.