Shades of Darkness: More of the Ghostly Best Stories
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The Kingdom by the Sea. Robert Westall (Essential Modern Classics)
 List Price: Price: $5.79 You Save: $7.46 (56%) DescriptionGuaradian award winning novel about courage, friendship and war. Reissued into the Essential Modern Classic list. When a bomb during an air raid destroys Harry's home and kills his family, he knows that he is all alone in the world and has only himself to rely on. Anxious that he will be sent to live with his fussy Cousin Elsie he goes on the run across the war-battered land of North East England, his only friend in his journey a stray dog that he meets on the beach. Will Harry ever find a place to call home again, or will he be on the run forever?
The Scarecrows (Definitions S.)
 List Price: Price: $6.94 You Save: $9.01 (56%) DescriptionIn a brooding story about jealousy, hatred, murder, and love, Simon is outraged that his mom plans to remarry. He can't bear the way she and his sister seem to have forgotten his late father. Overwhelmed by hatred, he seeks solace in a nearby abandoned water mill. But another, powerful hatred lingers within its walls. And it is about to be unleashed.
Blitzcat
 Price: $5.21 DescriptionShe made her way down the cliff, and on to the beach. At the edge of the waves, she stopped, shaking her wet paws. She knew that somewhere ahead was her person, but far, far away. She miaowed plaintively; stood staring at the moving blur of uncrossable sea. She led the way to safety, out of the blazing hell of blitzed Coventry. People touched her for luck; feared her as an omen of disaster. Wherever she went, she changed lives...From her beginning to her end she never wavered. She was the Blitzcat. "Westall's writing has always been strong and vivid but he has rarely written as confidently as this." - "Times Literary Supplement".
Demons and Shadows: The Ghostly Best Stories
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Promise (Piper)
 List Price: Price: $353.32 DescriptionBob made the promise when Valerie was still alive, before he knew what it would mean. She had been beautiful and Bob had soon become her slave. She wanted Bob, even after she had died, and after all he had promised. By the author of "Yaxley's Cat" and "Blitzcat".Westall Robert News
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