Лучшие книги Кейт Милфорд

Главный герой — двенадцатилетний Майло Пайн, приёмный сын хозяев постоялого двора в Нагспике, городе контрабандистов. Заведение с названием «Дом из зелёного стекла» располагается в огромной обветшавшей усадьбе, которая выглядит так, будто её наспех слепили из плохо сочетающихся друг с другом домов, собранных в дюжине разных городов.

В самом начале рождественских каникул гостиница обычно пустует, поэтому Майло надеется как следует отдохнуть. Но тишину первой же морозной ночи нарушает настойчивый звон колокольчика. И один за другим в гостиницу заселяются пятеро постояльцев. Появление каждого из них окутано некой тайной, которая оказывается переплетена с историей «Дома из зелёного стекла». Озадачивает Майло и его случайная находка — фрагмент навигационной карты. А знакомство с Мэдди, младшей дочерью кухарки, подстёгивает мальчика начать детективную игру, цель которой — выяснить, зачем приехали все эти люди и куда ведёт эта странная карта. Он ещё не знает, какая нелегкая задача ему предстоит, и что он узнает о загадочных гостях, о доме и о самом себе.

Зимние каникулы не задались с самого начала. Во-первых, снега на улице как не бывало. Во-вторых, у Майло выдалась пара тяжёлых недель в школе. Да ещё этот гость, студент-художник, который, похоже, не уедет, пока не зарисует каждый витраж в доме. Но хуже всего то, что Мэдди не появляется целый год. Казалось, ничего уже не изменится. И тут зазвонил колокол...

Призраки, похищение, команда сыщиков-школьников и семейные тайны — всё это ждёт вас в этом замечательном загадочном романе, действие которого происходит в мире бестселлера «Дом из зелёного стекла».

Thirteen-year-old Natalie Minks loves machines, particularly automata--self-operating mechanical devices, usually powered by clockwork. When Jake Limberleg and his traveling medicine show arrive in her small Missouri town with a mysterious vehicle under a tarp and an uncanny ability to make Natalie's half-built automaton move, she feels in her gut that something about this caravan of healers is a bit off. Her uneasiness leads her to investigate the intricate maze of the medicine show, where she discovers a horrible truth and realizes that only she has the power to set things right. Set in 1914, The Boneshaker is a gripping, richly textured novel about family, community, courage, and looking evil directly in the face in order to conquer it.

Lucy Bluecrowne is beginning a new life ashore with her stepmother and half brother, though she’s certain the only place she’ll ever belong is with her father on a ship of war as part of the crew. She doesn’t care that living in a house is safer and the proper place for a twelve-year-old girl; it’s boring. But then two nefarious strangers identify her little brother as the pyrotechnical prodigy they need to enact an evil plan, and it will take all Lucy’s fighting instincts to keep her family together.

The rain hasn't stopped for a week, and the twelve guests of the Blue Vein Tavern are trapped by flooded roads and the rising Skidwrack River. Among them are a ship’s captain, tattooed twins, a musician, and a young girl traveling on her own. To pass the time, they begin to tell stories—each a different type of folklore—that eventually reveal more about their own secrets than they intended.

As the rain continues to pour down—an uncanny, unnatural amount of rain—the guests begin to realize that the entire city is in danger, and not just from the flood. But they have only their stories, and one another, to save them. Will it be enough?

Lucy Bluecrowne and Maxwell Ault are on a mission: find the three pieces of a strange and arcane engine. They're not exactly sure what this machine does, but they have it on good authority that it will stop the war that's raging between their home country of England and Napoleon Bonaparte's France. Despite being followed by mysterious men dressed all in black, they're well on their way to finding everything they need when their ship, the famous Left-Handed Fate, is taken by the Americans.

And not just any Americans. The Fate (and with it, Lucy and Max) are put under the command of Oliver Dexter, who's only just turned twelve.

But Lucy and Max aren't the only ones trying to put the engine together, and if the pieces fall into the wrong hands, it could prove disastrous. Oliver is faced with a choice: help Lucy and Max and become a traitor to his country? Or follow orders and risk endangering that same country and many others at the same time--not to mention his friends?

A crossroads can be a place of great power. So begins this deliciously spine-tingling prequel to Kate Milford’s The Boneshaker, set in the colorful world of nineteenth-century Coney Island and New York City. Few crossroads compare to the one being formed by the Brooklyn Bridge and the East River, and as the bridge’s construction progresses, forces of unimaginable evil seek to bend that power to their advantage. Only two orphans with unusual skills stand in their way. Can the teenagers Sam, a card sharp, and Jin, a fireworks expert, stop them before it’s too late? Here is a richly textured, slow-burning thriller about friendship, courage, and the age-old fight between good and evil.