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English
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"San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright and her hunky security-expert husband, Derek Stone, face a locked-room murder mystery during the holidays in Scotland. In the middle of a wonderful Christmas holiday in Dharma, Brooklyn and Derek receive a frantic phone call from their dear friend Claire in Loch Ness, Scotland. The laird of the castle, Cameron MacKinnon, has just proposed to her! They plan to be married on New Year's Day,...
Author
Series
Impossible quest volume 1
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
"Tell your lord to beware, the wolves smell danger in the wind... Wolfhaven Castle has been attacked, and only four escape capture ... Tom, trained to scrub pots, not fight; Elanor, the Lord's daughter; Sebastian, a knight in training and Quinn, the witch's apprentice. Somehow, if they are to save their people, these unlikely heroes must find four magical beasts from legend. But first, they have to make it out of the castle alive ..."--Page [4] of...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Princess Imogen of Goslind has lived a sheltered life for three years at the boarded-up castle--she and the rest of its inhabitants safe from the bloody mori roja plague that's ravaged the kingdom. But Princess Imogen has a secret, and as King Stuart descends further into madness, it's at great risk of being revealed. Rations dwindle each day, and unhappy murmurings threaten to crack the facade of the years-long charade being played within the castle...
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Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Judith is a successful novelist from a good family, even if that family favors her more beautiful sister. Her desperate yearning for romance appears close to satisfaction when she meets Gavin, a handsome and charming baron, at a wedding on the Cornish coast. His love transforms her from a plain, lonely girl into a beautiful, glamorous woman overnight. But soon her perfect marriage begins to fall apart, and she finds herself trapped in a nightmare....
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Riley Rhodes finally has the chance to turn her family's knack for the supernatural into a legitimate business when she's hired to break the curse on an infamous Scottish castle. Used to working alone in her alienating occupation, she's pleasantly surprised to meet a handsome stranger upon arrival-until he tries to get her fired. Fresh off a scandal, Clark Edgeware can't allow a self-proclaimed "curse breaker" to threaten his last chance for professional...
7) High time
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A modern English comedy of morals and manners, about a highborn family of outrageous characters, in a story that proves revenge can be sweet. In the months leading up to the Brexit referendum, Ayesha, the beautiful, young secret daughter of the late Enyon Trelawney, has married the much older thuggish banker Tomlinson Sleet with whom she has a young daughter, Stella. Ayesha is busy restoring the once run-down Trelawney Castle in Cornwall, which Sleet...
Author
Series
Children of the red king volume 7
Publisher
Dean
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Charlie Bone, pupil at Bloor's Academy for gifted children, has a special talent--he can step into paintings. But now he's found a painting that hides a secret. Within it he finds a mysterious ancestor trapped in a dark and terrifying landscape. Can Charlie rescue him, or will they be imprisioned forever?"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Merry muffin mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Beyond the Page Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When a reality TV show for aspiring opera singers descends on Wynter Castle, Merry's got her hands full catering to the endless demands of the distinguished judges and ambitious contestants. Then mysterious rumors about the cast and crew begin to surface, suggesting that some of their performances may be filled with false notes. When a dogged reporter with an eye for scandal who's been covering the competition is attacked and left for dead, Merry's...
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Lilac. The bard songs say that she's the world's most fearsome bounty hunter. That there's no criminal she can't catch, no mystery she can't solve. None of that is true. Yet. In reality, the Lilac is just a kid, and the bard who wrote all that is her best friend, Dulcinetta. But the Lilac has set her goals on becoming the best bounty hunter in the Thirteen Kingdoms--and when a priceless artifact goes missing from the home of famed monster hunter...
Author
Series
Adventure volume 2
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Lucy-Ann, Jack, Dinah, and Philip spend the holidays in a cottage near a strange, deserted castle, and find themselves in the midst of another adventure, involving a torch flashing at night and men at work in the depths of the castle.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Leedswick Castle has housed the Alnwick family in the English countryside for generations, despite a family curse determined to destroy their legacy and erase them from history. 1870. After a disastrous dinner at the Astor mansion forces her to flee New York in disgrace, socialite Beatrice Holbrook knows her performance in London must be a triumph. When she catches the eye of Charles Alnwick, one of the town's most enviably-titled bachelors, she...
Author
Series
Ashmore Castle volume 3
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Behind the doors of the magnificent Ashmore Castle, secrets are waiting to be uncovered . . . England, 1903. Giles, the Earl of Stainton, has fled from his stifling duties to resume his research in Egypt, leaving behind his wife Kitty, and his infant son. Kitty, still reeling from Giles' sudden departure, struggles to keep spirits high in the castle and establish herself as the true mistress of the house, an impossible task given how many secrets...
Author
Series
LEGO adventure book volume 1
Publisher
No Starch Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Unleash your imagination as you journey through the wide-ranging world of LEGO building. Filled with bright visuals, step-by-step breakdowns of 25 models and nearly 200 example models from the world's best builders. Learn to build robots, trains, medieval villages, spaceships, airplanes, and much more. Whether you're brand-new to LEGO or have been building for years, this book is sure to spark your imagination and motivate you to keep creating!
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
GN 550L
Language
English
Description
"Fresh off of gaining their newfound Powers of Grayskull, and fighting off a whole host of villains, our heroes Adam, Teela, Krass, Duncan, and Cringer face their most daunting challenge yet: spending their first night in their new home, Castle Grayskull! The teens do their best to settle in, but it's not so easy. The castle is definitely not what it seems: A labyrinth. A spooky puzzle-box of magic and mystery. Even its rooms have rooms! Follow...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
When the Mysterious Messenger tells the princesses who share a magical castle made of LEGO bricks that a glitter storm is coming, they are so busy getting ready that they do not notice that Aurora is not with them.
17) Gothikana
Author
Publisher
Bramble/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An outcast her entire life, Corvina Clemm is left adrift after losing her mother. When she receives the admission letter from the mysterious University of Verenmore, she accepts it as a sign from the universe. The last thing she expects though is an old, secluded castle on top of a mountain riddled with secrets, deceit, and death. An enigma his entire life, Vad Deverell likes being a closed book but knowing exactly everything that happens in the...
Author
Series
The Blackbird files volume 1
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When FBI special agent Luke Kendrick discovers chilling evidence of dozens of victims at a crime scene in London, he recognizes the calling card of the notorious H. H. Holmes Society. Named for the eighteenth-century monster regarded as America's first serial killer, the society is comprised of a twisted web of killers, working to carry out heinous murders in Holmes's memory. And now the group's been linked to a Scottish castle turned B and B--where...