The Night Gardener

Author : George P. Pelecanos
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0759567875

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The Night Gardener by George P. Pelecanos Pdf

Gus Ramone is "good police," a former Internal Affairs investigator now working homicide for the city's Violent Crime branch. His new case involves the death of a local teenager named Asa whose body has been found in a local community garden.The murder unearths intense memories of a case Ramone worked as a patrol cop twenty years earlier, when he and his partner, Dan "Doc" Holiday, assisted a legendary detective named T. C. Cook. The series of murders, all involving local teenage victims, was never solved. In the years since, Holiday has left the force under a cloud of morals charges, and now finds work as a bodyguard and driver. Cook has retired, but he has never stopped agonizing about the "Night Gardener" killings.The new case draws the three men together on a grim mission to finish the work that has haunted them for years. All the love, regret, and anger that once burned between them comes rushing back, and old ghosts walk once more as the men try to lay to rest the monster who has stalked their dreams. Bigger and even more unstoppable than his previous thrillers, George Pelecanos achieves in THE NIGHT GARDENER what his brilliant career has been building toward: a novel that is a perfect union of suspense, character, and unstoppable fate.

Author : Jonathan Auxier
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780143185727

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Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier Pdf

Overflowing with wit and invention, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes is the beguiling tale of a ten-year-old blind orphan who has been schooled in a life of thievery by his brutal master, Mr. Seamus. One fateful afternoon, as he's picking the pockets of townspeople enraptured by a travelling haberdasher, he "discovers" (steals) a box of magical eyes. When he tries on the first pair, he is instantly transported to the island at the top of the world, where he meets the maker of the eyes, Professor Cake. The Professor gives Peter a choice: travel to the mysterious Vanished Kingdom and try to rescue a people in need ... or return back to his master and a life of crime. Peter chooses wisely, and together with Sir Tode, a knight errant who has been turned into a rather unfortunate combination of human, horse and cat by a grumpy witch, he embarks on an unforgettable adventure in a book destined to become a classic.

Author : Nikki Grimes
Publisher : Eerdmans Young Readers
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0802851835

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At Jerusalem's Gate by Nikki Grimes Pdf

A combination of poetry and woodcut illustrations invites readers to explore the events surrounding the first Easter.

Author : Matilda Woods
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781407185095

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Otto Tattercoat and the Forest of Lost Things by Matilda Woods Pdf

An enchanting, wintry middle grade adventure for fans of Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Abi Elphinstone. Otto lives in the frozen city of Hodeldorf, where an eternal winter has fallen. When his mother goes missing one morning, he must join forces with the Tattercoats, a gang of brave orphans, to find her. They will journey into a dark forest where witches lurk and sun dragons lie sleeping, on a heart-racing adventure that will chill you to the bone.

Author : Jonathan Auxier
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780143196174

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Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard by Jonathan Auxier Pdf

You've met Peter Nimble. Now meet Sophie Quire in a new, unforgettable quest. It's been two years since Peter Nimble and Sir Tode rescued the kingdom of HazelPort. In that time, they have travelled far and wide in search of adventure. Now Peter and Sir Tode have been summoned by Professor Cake for a new mission: find a 12-year-old bookmender named Sophie Quire. Sophie knows little beyond the four walls of her father's bookshop, where she repairs old books and dreams of escaping the confines of her dull life. But when a strange boy and his talking cat/horse companion show up with a rare and mysterious book, she finds herself pulled into an adventure beyond anything she has ever read.

Author : Dashka Slater,Eric Fan
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-26
Category : Deer
ISBN : 9781786031051

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The Antlered Ship by Dashka Slater,Eric Fan Pdf

An inquisitive fox sets off on a seafaring voyage with a crew of deer and pigeons in this enchanting tale of friendship and adventure. Marco the fox has a lot of questions, like: how deep does the sun go when it sinks into the sea? And why do birds have such lizardy feet? But none of the other foxes share his curiosity. So when a magnificent ship adorned with antlers and with a deer for a captain arrives at the dock looking for a crew, Marco volunteers, hoping to find foxes who are as inquisitive as he is that can answer his questions. The crew finds adventure and intrigue on their journey. And, at last, Marco finds the answer to his most important question of all: What's the best way to find a friend you can talk to?

Author : Lisa Van Allen
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345537836

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The Night Garden by Lisa Van Allen Pdf

For fans of Sarah Addison Allen, Aimee Bender, and Alice Hoffman, The Night Garden is a luminous novel of love, forgiveness, and the possibilities that arise when you open your heart. Nestled in the bucolic town of Green Valley in upstate New York, the Pennywort farm appears ordinary, yet at its center lies something remarkable: a wild maze of colorful gardens that reaches beyond the imagination. Local legend says that a visitor can gain answers to life’s most difficult problems simply by walking through its lush corridors. Yet the labyrinth has never helped Olivia Pennywort, the garden’s beautiful and enigmatic caretaker. She has spent her entire life on her family’s land, harboring a secret that forces her to keep everyone at arm’s length. But when her childhood best friend, Sam Van Winkle, returns to the valley, Olivia begins to question her safe, isolated world and wonders if she at last has the courage to let someone in. As she and Sam reconnect, Olivia faces a difficult question: Is the garden maze that she has nurtured all of her life a safe haven or a prison? Praise for Lisa Van Allen’s The Wishing Thread “Reader to reader, knitter to knitter: You’re going to love this book.”—Debbie Macomber “Whimsical . . . great for fans of Sarah Addison Allen and Alice Hoffman.”—Library Journal Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more.

Author : Jonathan Auxier
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780735264366

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Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster by Jonathan Auxier Pdf

A brand-new novel by one of today's most powerful storytellers, Sweep is a heart-rending adventure about the everlasting gifts of friendship and hope. For nearly a century, Victorian London relied on "climbing boys"--orphans owned by chimney sweeps--to clean flues and protect homes from fire. The work was hard, thankless and brutally dangerous. Eleven-year-old Nan Sparrow is quite possibly the best climber who ever lived--and a girl. With her wits and will, she's managed to beat the deadly odds time and time again. But when Nan gets stuck in a deadly chimney fire, she fears her time has come. Instead, she wakes to find herself in an abandoned attic. And she is not alone. Huddled in the corner is a mysterious creature--a golem--made from ash and coal. This is the creature that saved her from the fire. Sweep is the story of a girl and her monster. Together, these two outcasts carve out a life together--saving one another in the process.

Author : Alain Baraton
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780847842704

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The Gardener of Versailles by Alain Baraton Pdf

An “eccentric and charming” love letter to Versailles Palace and its storied grounds, by the man who knows them best—for gardening lovers and Francophiles (New York Times) Tour Versailles’ 2,100 acres as its gardener-in-chief describes its fascinating history and his 40 years of living and working in the gardens. In Alain Baraton’s Versailles, every grove tells a story. As the gardener-in-chief, Baraton lives on its grounds, and since 1982 he has devoted his life to the gardens, orchards, and fields that were loved by France’s kings and queens as much as the palace itself. His memoir captures the essence of the connection between gardeners and the earth they tend, no matter how humble or grand. With the charm of a natural storyteller, Baraton weaves his own path as a gardener with the life of the Versailles grounds, and his role overseeing its team of 80 gardeners tending to 350,000 trees and 30 miles of walkways across 2,100 acres. He richly evokes this legendary place and the history it has witnessed but also its quieter side that he feels privileged to know: The same gardens that hosted the lavish lawn parties of Louis XIV and the momentous meeting between Marie Antoinette and the Cardinal de Rohan remain enchanted—private places where visitors try to get themselves locked in at night, lovers go looking for secluded hideaways, and elegant grandmothers secretly make cuttings to take back to their own gardens. A tremendous bestseller in France, The Gardener of Versailles gives an unprecedentedly intimate view of one of the grandest places on earth.

Author : Jonathan Auxier
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780143191988

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The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier Pdf

When orphaned Irish siblings Molly and Kip arrive to work as servants at a creepy, crumbling English manor house, they discover that the house and its inhabitants are not what they seem. Soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and the secrets of the cursed house will change their lives forever. This much-anticipated follow up to Jonathan Auxier’s exceptional debut, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes, is a Victorian mystery in the tradition of Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe. The Night Gardener is a mesmerizing read and a classic in the making.

Author : Terry Fan,Eric Fan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 9781481439787

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The Night Gardener by Terry Fan,Eric Fan Pdf

Everyone on Grimloch Lane enjoys the trees and shrubs clipped into animal masterpieces after dark by the Night Gardener, but William, a lonely boy, spots the artist, follows him, and helps with his special work.

Author : Jonathan Auxier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Blessing and cursing
ISBN : OCLC:1102059806

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The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier Pdf

Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.

Author : Narayan Changder
Publisher : CHANGDER OUTLINE
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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NIGHT GARDENER by Narayan Changder Pdf

THE NIGHT GARDENER MCQ (MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS) SERVES AS A VALUABLE RESOURCE FOR INDIVIDUALS AIMING TO DEEPEN THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF VARIOUS COMPETITIVE EXAMS, CLASS TESTS, QUIZ COMPETITIONS, AND SIMILAR ASSESSMENTS. WITH ITS EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF MCQS, THIS BOOK EMPOWERS YOU TO ASSESS YOUR GRASP OF THE SUBJECT MATTER AND YOUR PROFICIENCY LEVEL. BY ENGAGING WITH THESE MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS, YOU CAN IMPROVE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUBJECT, IDENTIFY AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT, AND LAY A SOLID FOUNDATION. DIVE INTO THE NIGHT GARDENER MCQ TO EXPAND YOUR THE NIGHT GARDENER KNOWLEDGE AND EXCEL IN QUIZ COMPETITIONS, ACADEMIC STUDIES, OR PROFESSIONAL ENDEAVORS. THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS ARE PROVIDED AT THE END OF EACH PAGE, MAKING IT EASY FOR PARTICIPANTS TO VERIFY THEIR ANSWERS AND PREPARE EFFECTIVELY.

Author : Terry Fan,Eric Fan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1959004115

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The Night Gardener by Terry Fan,Eric Fan Pdf

Author : George P. Pelecanos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-21
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 0316145254

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The Night Gardener by George P. Pelecanos Pdf

When the body of a local teenager turns up in a community garden, veteran homicide detective Gus Ramone teams up with T. C. Cook, a legendary, now retired detective, and Dan "Doc" Holiday, his former partner who left the force under a cloud of suspicion.