Books with title Shadows in the Moonlight

Mia Carrington is struggling to come to terms with the fact that she killed a man, while trying to find a balance between her role as the Princess of the Light Elves and attempting to lead the life of a normal human teenager.Too bad her dual life doesn't come with an instruction manual.Just when she thinks that fate can't throw anything else at her, the Duchess Isobel is found on the brink of death and Mia’s boyfriend, Jacoby, is the only suspect.Despite the suspicion surrounding him, Mia is sure of the innocence of the boy she loves and she is determined to prove it no matter the risk.The problem is, the one thing that could help save Isobel and clear Jacoby can only be found in the shadows of the Underworld--the last place in the universe Mia should ever step foot in.

"Shadows in the Moonlight" (Howard's original title was "Iron Shadows in the Moon") is a Conan novellette. It begins when a female lovely named Olivia, having fled captivity from the city of Akif, is chased down and cornered in a marsh, on the edge of the Vilayet Sea. Her pursuer and former master is a sadistic rogue named Shah Amurath. But before he can lay loathsome hands on the hapless heroine, a figure rises from the reeds. The newcomer has seen all his friends betrayed and treacherously cut down to a man, before escaping into the marshes where he has hidden out for so long he is nearly mad. The newcomer quickly dispatches Shah Amurath, then he and Olivia hop in a boat and decide to lie low for the next little while. Only then does the newcomer identify himself: Conan the Cimmerian.The two fugitives, Conan and Olivia, find their way to a dark and apparently deserted island, where they spend the night sleeping in ancient ruins decorated with remarkably lifelike statues. Olivia has a dream in which she sees a band of men turned into those statues and wakes convinced they will come to life in the moonlight. Conan is less than convinced of Olivia's fears and is more concerned by whatever it is lurking in the jungle, lobbing giant boulders at the two fugitives. A pirate ship makes port on the island, and leaving Olivia hidden in the brush, Conan challenges their captain; an old rival. He slays the pirate captain, but is knocked unconscious by a stone from a sling. The pirates bind him and take him with them to the ruins where they discuss his fate, until they pass out drunk. Olivia meanwhile, narrowly escapes from a massive and dark figure that pursues her up to the ruins. Olivia sneaks past the drunken and sleeping pirates and frees Conan. Conan then slays the dark figure that pursued Olivia, a giant man-ape, which had also been hurling the boulders at them. As Conan recovers from his battle with the man-ape, they hear the beginning of a horrific slaughter back at the ruins. They quickly head back to the deserted pirate ship. As Conan prepares the ship to sail, a band of beaten and bedraggled pirates comes and asks to come aboard and leave the 'devil island'. Conan challenges them and they accept him as their captain. At the end Olivia begs Conan to allow her to stay with him and laughing, accepts, saying he'd make her 'Queen of the Blue Sea'.

Luke and Amy Robertson, together with their Mum and Dad, move from a northern town to the countryside of Cheshire. Luke is 8 years old and Amy is 10. The house they are moving to is called Herron Cottage, its old and hasn’t been lived in for a very long time, it’s on a hill, next to a cycle path. Luke meets a mysterious old man called Bill, he tells Luke about when the cycle path was a railway line and steam trains used to run along it. Luke also meets a boy called Nick, whose granddad owns the local farm, and they become good friends. One night when Luke is in bed, he is woken by the sound of a steam train whistle. Luke decides that he will stay awake and find out for himself if there really is a steam train. He sneaks out of the house in the middle of the night and goes to the bridge. He hears the whistle and sees smoke but not the train. Bravely, Luke goes down the steps into the blackness of the cycle path to have a look and there, stood in a patch of moonlight, he sees a boy about his age. Before he can say anything the boy smiles, then just vanishes. Luke goes back home very confused. Luke finds out that Nick’s Granddad might have to sell the farm and move away. Nick tells Luke about the legend of the lost family treasure. They decide to look for it together to save the farm. Finally, Luke meets the strange boy that he’d seen stood in the moonlight on the cycle path; he says his name is Albert and he’s a friend of Bills. He’s very strange, he has a funny accent and is dressed very scruffily, he isn’t even wearing any shoes, and every now and then he just seems to disappear into thin air.Luke finds an old, forgotten summer house at the bottom of the garden; Luke, Nick, Albert decide to have it as their den. Whilst they are cleaning away years of dirt and rubbish they find a trap door in the floor, it’s the entrance to a tunnel and hasn’t been opened for a long time. Could they amazingly have stumbled upon where the treasure has been hidden for all these years?On a wall in Nick’s granddad’s office Luke finds a faded picture of a boy that looks surprisingly like Albert. Nick’s Granddad tells him it is a very old family picture and that the boy’s Father started the farm. But the photo is ancient; could it possibly be Albert... could Albert have come back from the past to help them save the farm, it’s too unbelievable to be true.

Joel will soon be twelve, and he thinks nothing's going on in the small community where he lives. But he's wrong there. One day, a Miracle happens to him. He's very nearly run over by a bus, but is miraculously unhurt. Now, what do you do when a Miracle has come your way? Shouldn't you show gratitude somehow? Surely a good deed of some sort is in order. But how? A humorous, wise,and understanding portrait of a boy about to leave childhood behind him, this is an independent sequel to the award-winning and much-praised A Bridge to the Stars.

As soon as Luke touches down in Phoenix, he knows that something's not right. The brand-new town is supposed to be a paradise, but it's not long before the cracks begin to show: malfunctioning phone lines, restrictions on car use, and a private security detail instead of a police force. Then Luke, Peter and Jordan uncover the true reason for the town's existence—a secret that means Phoenix is suddenly both the safest and most dangerous place on Earth. Someone in Phoenix is plotting to wipe out the human race. And the clock is already ticking. Previously published as two books, Arrival and Contact.

A unique blend of traditional folklore and contemporary customs brings the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival to life.Two sisters and their grandmother celebrate a popular Chinese holiday with family. Their favorite part? Mooncakes, of course--along with Ah-ma's story of the ancient Chinese tale of Hou Yi, a brave young archer, and his wife, Chang'E. A long, long time ago, Hou Yi rescued the earth from the heat of ten suns. The Immortals rewarded him with a magic potion that could let him live in the sky with them forever. But when a thief tries to steal the potion, what will Chang'E do to keep it out of dangerous hands? The sisters are mesmerized by Ah-ma's retelling and the fact that the very mooncakes they enjoy each holiday are a symbol of this legend's bravest soul.

Joel will soon be twelve, and he thinks nothing's going on in the small community where he lives. But he's wrong. One day, a miracle happens. He's run over by a bus but somehow comes through it unscathed. He now believes he must repay the favor by doing a good deed. So he decides to find a husband for his friend, a young woman in town who is shy and lonely. He plans to find the best candidate for a husband, and then secretly bring them together, with neither one being the wiser.Even though his heart is in the right place, his plan backfires and his friend's feelings are hurt by the very person he thought would be best for her. Joel feels terrible and knows that he must confess to his elaborate scheme to ultimately make things right.

Shadows in the Moonlight is a story in the Conan series about his escape to a remote island of mystery. Robert Ervin Howard was born in Peaster, Texas in 1906. During his youth, his family moved between a variety of Texan boomtowns, and Howard - a bookish and somewhat introverted child - was steeped in the violent myths and legends of the Old South. At fifteen Howard began to read the pulp magazines of the day, and to write more seriously. The December 1922 issue of his high school newspaper featured two of his stories, 'Golden Hope Christmas' and 'West is West'. In 1924 he sold his first piece - a short caveman tale titled 'Spear and Fang' - for $16 to the not-yet-famous Weird Tales magazine. Howard's most famous character, Conan the Cimmerian, was a barbarian-turned-King during the Hyborian Age, a mythical period of some 12,000 years ago. Conan featured in seventeen Weird Tales stories between 1933 and 1936 which is why Howard is now regarded as having spawned the 'sword and sorcery' genre. The Conan stories have since been adapted many times, most famously in the series of films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.