Books with title Shadows on the Lake

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.

Julie can't believe her luck when she's chosen to play a leading part in a children's television drama about smuggling in the eighteenth century. Thrilled at the chance but also rather scared, she arrives on location in Yorkshire and is immediately thrust into the magical, make-believe world of film-making. She's soon made welcome and feels part of the close family of the film crew and actors. It's a warm and happy feeling.But odd things are taking place in and around the film unit and Julie begins to realise that things aren't as they appear. There are the harmless, or perhaps not so harmless, practical jokes; there's the disturbing conversation she overhears, and when she finds Bob, the costume designer, on the beach, victim of a vicious attack, she is determined to find out just what is going on. What's happening in the real world seems to be increasingly like the story in the film. Is present-day smuggling actually taking place? And if so, of what and by whom? What secrets lie in the disused railway tunnel and who, if anyone, can Julie trust? As she gets closer to the heart of the mystery so the danger grows and when at last Julie does find out the truth, is she too late to do anything about it?

Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, 1931. Hardcover book with no dust jacket. Stated First edition. The author follows a little twelve year-old girl, in 1697, who calls the rock of Quebec, home. She doesn't feel the isolation of many of the settlers, but enjoys Governor Frontenac as he entertains children in his palace. As Cather follows this devout and resourceful child over the course of a year, she re-creates the continent as it must have appeared to its first European inhabitants. 280 pages.

A powerful and entracing romance, set in the Celtic twilight of 10th century Ireland: a new MISTS OF AVALON for readers of historical fantasy. The forests of Sevenwaters have cast their spell over Sorcha's daughter Liadan, who, like her mother, has inherited the talent to heal and to see into the spirit world. The forest spirits warn Liadan that she must remain for ever at Sevenwaters if the sacred isles are to be won back from the Britons who took them by force. For the Lord and Lady of the forest spirits have seen in Liadan's future a doomed romance, death; a child; and a terrible choice to be made. Liadan is taken captive by the Painted Man, who is revealed to be a man quite unlike his legend. Liadan is drawn to him, despite the ancient prophesy of doom, but can she reclaim her life and defy the spirits, or will a curse fall upon Sevenwaters because of her forbidden love? Will the fight for the sacred isles end in tragedy? History and fantasy, myth and magic, legend and love come together in this magical story.

1912, London. Jessie Kenton hears her young brother, Georgie, scream in the middle of the night and wakes up the next morning to find him gone. Her parents never speak of him again.1932. Twenty years later, Jessie is haunted by the same nightmare. Her other brother, Timothy, has inexplicably vanished from her parents' home. Wracked by guilt because of her failure to ever find Georgie, and convinced that the two events must be related, she sets out on a quest to find Timothy. She plunges into a mysterious world of séances and mystics, nebulous clues and Egyptian artifacts.With the help of a dashing and impoverished aristocrat, Sir Montague Chamford, Jessie follows the trail into the alien, swirling sands of the Egyptian desert. Amid the ancient intrigue and blistering heat, a powerful romance sparks between Jessie and Monty. But they must first confront the demons of Jessie's past—and reveal the dark secrets that threaten not only Timothy's life but theirs as well.