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Series
Edinburgh nights volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone's favorite fifteen-year-old ghostalker, Ropa, arrives at the worldwide Society of Skeptical Enquirers' biennial conference just in time to be tied into a mystery--a locked room mystery, if an entire creepy haunted castle on lockdown counts. One of the magical attendees has stolen a valuable magical scroll. Caught between Qozmos, the high wizard of Ethiopian magic; the larger-than-life Lord Sashvindu Samarasinghe; England's Sorcerer Royal;...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
March 1912: Elspeth Dunn, a young poet on Scotland's Isle of Skye, receives her first fan letter from student David Graham in America. Their correspondence blossoms into love -- until World War I engulfs Europe. June 1940: As World War II begins Elspeth's daughter, Margaret, falls for an RAF pilot. When a bomb rocks Elspeth's house, dislodging her hidden letters, Elspeth disappears. Only one letter remains to help Margaret find her mother . . .
Author
Language
English
Description
Classics. First published in 1956, this haunting novel of suspense and romance set in the Scottish Hebrides blends pungent description with sheer terror as only Mary Stewart can. Most visitors to the Isle of Skye are there to climb the jagged peaks of Blaven or fish the many sparkling streams, but Gianetta Brooke came to forget Nicholas Drury--the husband she had painfully divorced. Upon arrival, however, Gianetta realizes that this won't be a typical...
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Language
English
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Description
When an ancient tapestry bearing the likeness of her beloved Highlander Aedan MacKinnon arrives on her doorstep, romance novelist Jane Sillee is whisked back in time to fifteenth-century Scotland, to the castle of Dun Haakon on the Isle of Skye, where she is given one chance to save her dream lover ... or lose him forever to the Unseelie king.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"One of the most innovative authors and distinguished literary critics of the twentieth century, Virginia Woolf examines family dynamics and the tensions between men and women in her 1927 novel To the Lighthouse. A pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device, Woolf explores multiple perspectives of the members of the Ramsay family as they navigate experiences of disappointment and loss. Divided into three sections, the story...
Author
Series
Misty Isle volume 2
Publisher
Hamilton Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A gallery owner is found dead at the foot of The Storr, a mountain on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. D.I. Duncan McAdam's investigation uncovers secrets in the dead man's past that bring danger to others as well as to himself.
Author
Series
Agatha Christie volume 4
Publisher
Washington Square Press/Atria
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Washington Square Press trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Who saw him die? I, said the fly, with my little eye. I saw him die. An astonishingly beautiful setting on the island of Skye. A gathering of fascinating guests at a hunting lodge set to enjoy abundant hospitality. And a double murder. A household in chaos... No one is allowed to leave. A tantalizing new case for Agatha Christie to solve.
Author
Publisher
Tinder Press
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Audrey Hart is on the island of Skye to collect the word-of-mouth folk tales of the people and communities around her. It is 1857, the Highland Clearances have left devastation and poverty, and the crofters are suspicious and hostile, claiming they no longer know their stories. Then Audrey discovers the body of a young girl washed up on the beach and the crofters tell her that it is only a matter of weeks since another girl has disappeared. They...
Author
Series
Misty Isle volume 1
Publisher
Hamilton Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A group of high school students gather on the Isle of Skye's remote Coral Beach for a hedonistic night of partying to celebrate the passing of their finals. The new millennium is on the horizon and the future beckons, promising new hope and a fresh wind of optimism. In the coming days, many will leave the island for work or to study on the mainland, whereas others will remain on Skye and forge a more traditional path much as their families have done...
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