Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts

Friday, December 9, 2016

What the Dead Want by Norah Olson

What the Dead Want
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Norah Olson

Haunting photographs and dark family secrets make this second spine-tingling novel from Norah Olson the perfect read for fans of creepy, suspenseful teen fiction.

A love of photography, an old camera, and countless questions—these are all that sixteen-year-old Gretchen has left of her mother, who mysteriously disappeared years ago.

Now she must return to the place where her mom vanished—a decaying mansion that Gretchen has suddenly inherited from her great-aunt Esther. However, Gretchen won’t find the answers she’s seeking without unraveling the secrets that lurk inside the house. There are stacks of photographs and letters from her ancestors that go back centuries, pointing to some kind of haunting past. But when proof of the mansion’s dark history appears to Gretchen in the form of ghostly visions and the soft, eerie whisper of her mother’s voice, there’s no doubt that something sinister has taken place there.

No matter how scared she might be, Gretchen must somehow uncover the reasons why this indescribable force has descended upon her family and find a way to set everyone—even the dead—free.


(from publisher)

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Chopsticks: A Novel



Chopsticks: A Novel
Jessica Anthony & Rodrigo Corral
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Glory is a piano prodigy. After her mother died, Glory retreated into herself and her music. Her father raised her with the goal of playing sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall and across the globe. Brilliant and lonely, Glory is drawn to Frank, who moves in next door. She loses herself in his paintings and drawings, mix CDs and late-night IM conversations. Soon, Frank becomes both her connection to the world--and her escape from reality.

Before long, Glory is unable to pay anything but the song "Chopsticks"; F and G notes moving closer together, and farther apart.

Now Glory has disappeared.  But nothing is what it seems. And we must decide what is real, what is imagined, and what has been madness all along....