Books with title The Edge of the Shadows

This new fantasy odyssey for youthful readers is just plain entertaining, with a delightful and engaging mix of suspense, action, humor, unusual characters, escapes, battle clashes, and friendships forged in a search for the lost tropical island of Atolli. If you are looking for a gripping saga with an unexpected and refreshing cast of heroes, villains, and their unforgettable (often comical) associates, you will want to open up a copy of The Army of Shadows. From the first scene on the deck of the storm-tossed sailing vessel Fairwinds to the final epic battle in the Tsingy labyrinth, you will eagerly turn the pages on each new adventure as the heroic band of ocelot explorers – Virgo, Hemlick, and Crysto – and their outrageous fellow warriors – jaguarundi Fritz and mouse lemur Zizzo – confront life-threatening obstacles, imprisonment, and bloody battles with the forces of Sympar the Slayer and King Rufitio on their journey to find their future in their past. The roots of this story can be traced to an earlier time, when two ocelot brothers - Virgo and Hemlick - set out on a courageous ocean voyage to find the homeland of their ancestors. The adventurers never returned, but the story of their journey and unexplained disappearance lived on and eventually inspired Virgo’s son – Crysto - to follow in their footsteps. As the story unfolds, Crysto and his band of friends join forces with the mysterious Army of Shadows, a group of warriors who are fabled to be immortal. Together, they fight to reclaim the island of Atolli from the forces of evil. Will the young jungle cat lead his warriors to victory and avoid the extinction of his blood line or will evil be triumphant?

[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.

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.

Grace Knox is about to turn seventeen, and the world of Victorian New York society should be opening to her—a time of dances and parties and boys vying for her heart and her hand. Instead, Grace’s world is closing in: the family business is gone; her brother is drinking and gambling away whatever is left; her widowed mother cannot cope; and her grandmother is slipping into madness. And now Grace is having disturbing dreams of ancient battles.Grace’s only hope is to marry Patrick Devlin and let his fortune save them all. But she isn’t sure she loves Patrick, and she doesn’t share his passion to free Ireland from British rule. Why look to Ireland when there is so much poverty and despair here?Then Grace meets Diarmid, an Irish stableboy. Being with him means losing everything. But the secrets and mystery surrounding him are too compelling to ignore. Soon Grace is drawn into his world of legend and heroes, magic and prophecy—the world of her dreams—where her own choice between faith and fear holds the greatest power of all.

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.

Danny's cousin Tom has been killed—and forgotten. All memories of Tom have been erased, as though he had never existed. For a while, there is peace. Until Danny remembers.Determined to restore what has been lost, Danny seeks out Cath, living far from civilization. But other troubles loom. Shadows are spreading across the land, leaving the earth gray and lifeless. Danny and Cath must work together to set things right—but are they even on the same side? And as they close in on Sammael, the dark presence responsible for Tom’s death, will one of them pay the ultimate price?

Good or Evil. Light or Dark. Jason and his twin Jackson had never really thought much about it until one day their already shattered world of gang-filled cities and negligent Foster parents, turns upside down. With the help of their abused best-friend, Sarena Kane, they uncover the most deadliest secrets about their parentage and must fight to keep the one thing they have left.Their lives.Filled with Demons, Angels, Gargoyles, Vampires, and (probably the most frightening) Teenage Rebellion, Fear of the Shadows is the start of the most sinister tale of vengeance and magic.

Deep in the woods, a child with green-tinged skin and long matted hair awakens. She is Isabella Leland, daughter of a healer who was executed as a heretic some 300 years earlier. On her mother's death, Isabella was taken in by the crow people---faierie folk---who can manipulate space and time. The first time she returned to the real world, Catholics ruled England. Now, those who follow the pope are regarded with suspicion and shunned. When Isabella emerges from her hiding place, she's discovered by another outcast, Elizabeth Dyer, whose family follows the old ways. Elizabeth wants to befriend Isabella, but she has her own troubles. Her brother has brought home a priest in need of shelter. Hiding him is an act of treason, and his pursuers are closing in. Sarah Singleton has a gift for blending the seen and the unseen, the matter-of-fact and the magical, into a convincing whole. Here she offers a fast-paced plot---a cat-and-mouse game between hunter and hunted---while exploring questions about religious faith and fanaticism that will resonate with YA readers.