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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"For more than 700 years, the vast, rambling Trelawney Castle in Cornwall--turrets, follies, a room for every day of the year, four miles of corridors and 500,000 acres--was the magnificent and grand "three dimensional calling card" of the Earls of Trelawney. By 2008, it is in a complete state of ruin due to the dulled ambition and the financial ineptitude of the twenty-four earls, two world wars, the Wall Street crash, and inheritance taxes. Still:...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined--an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New York Times Notable Book The Hazards of Good Breeding. Amid the ashes of Nazi Germany's defeat, Marianne...
3) Castle
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Descibes the architecture, construction, and interior of a castle"--Provided by publisher.
4) Castle
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1977
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Formats
Description
Growing up desolate under the eye of a resentful great-aunt on an Iowa farm, Marie-Ange Hawkins dreams of returning to the French chateau where she lived before she was orphaned, but when she finally does so, she learns a devastating truth.
9) Castle
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
27 p. : col. ill. ; 36 cm.
Language
English
10) Castle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Looks behind fortress walls to explore how they were built to house hundreds of people and animals, the important rooms, the people who lived in them, and what castle life was like.
12) Life in a castle
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes different kinds of castles, their purposes, how they were built, and what it was like to live in a castle, looking particularly at the roles played by women and children.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard, Howl.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Sand, a blacksmith's apprentice, wakes up in a broken castle, he must find a way to put it back together.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo, Spotlight
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
121 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny have a fun new job: fixing up an old castle! The spooky old place will be turned into a museum, but first the Aldens must figure out why so many odd things keep happening. Keys go missing, strange music comes from a deserted tower, and soon the Boxcar Children discover the castle has a amazing secret!" --p. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Morrow
Pub. Date
1967
Physical Desc
320 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Christabel runs across her cousin Charles while vacationing in Damascus, he mentions their ancient Great Aunt Harriet, who lives cloistered in Dar Ibrahim, a palace atop a hill in Lebanon's Adonis Valley. On a whim, she decides to meet this legendary relative of hers, a Grand Dame replete with young male retinue and secret seraglio. Though her family has told of her aunt's many eccentricities, Christabel is unprepared for what lurks behind Dar...
18) Death of a ghost
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth hears reports of a haunted castle near Drim, he assumes the eerie noises and lights reported by the villagers are just local teenagers going there to smoke pot or, worse, inject themselves with drugs. Still, Hamish decides that he and his policeman, Charlie "Clumsy" Carson, will spend the night at the ruined castle to get to the bottom of the rumors once and for all. There's no sign of any ghost...but then Charlie...
Series
Publisher
Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First US Edition.
Physical Desc
71 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Have you ever wanted to create your own legendary medieval kingdom to rule over? Well, now you can, with Minecraft : Exploded Builds: Medieval Fortress.
Learn how to design, build, and customize every part of your castle and the surrounding area, from sturdy walls and deadly traps to dank, dark dungeons and sprawling villages. Each build has an exploded view to show you exactly which blocks to use, plus extra ideas to make every part of your kingdom...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A modern English comedy of morals and manners, about a highborn family of outrageous characters, in a story that proves revenge can be sweet. In the months leading up to the Brexit referendum, Ayesha, the beautiful, young secret daughter of the late Enyon Trelawney, has married the much older thuggish banker Tomlinson Sleet with whom she has a young daughter, Stella. Ayesha is busy restoring the once run-down Trelawney Castle in Cornwall, which Sleet...