Ghost Song

The old Tarleton music hall on London's Bankside is the subject of a mysterious restraint order that has kept it closed for over ninety years. When Robert Fallon is asked to survey the building, he finds clues indicating that its long twilight sleep may contain a sinister secret. Joining forces with researcher Hilary Bryant, Robert discovers the legend of the Tarleton's 'ghost' - a mysterious figure who was first glimpsed during the time of the charismatic performer Toby Chance, once the darling of Edwardian audiences until he vanished suddenly and inexplicably in the early 1900s. After almost a century, the Tarleton's dark silence is about to end. But there are those who find its re-opening a threatening prospect and, as Robert and Hilary delve into the macabre history of one of London's oldest music halls, they both become menaced by the secrets of the past. 'Rayne handles a complicated story with many skeins very cleverly. A top psychological thriller' Good Reading magazine

Sawkill Girls meets The Hazel Wood in this lush and eerie debut, where the boundary between reality and nightmares is as thin as the veil between the living and the dead. If I could have a fiddle made of Daddy’s bones, I’d play it. I’d learn all the secrets he kept. Shady Grove inherited her father’s ability to call ghosts from the grave with his fiddle, but she also knows the fiddle’s tunes bring nothing but trouble and darkness. But when her brother is accused of murder, she can’t let the dead keep their secrets. In order to clear his name, she’s going to have to make those ghosts sing. Family secrets, a gorgeously resonant LGBTQ love triangle, and just the right amount of creepiness make this young adult debut a haunting and hopeful story about facing everything that haunts us in the dark.

A fire engulfs the stage. Dead Dogs Howl guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, Erik Devon survives, but scarred, his voice destroyed, his memory in shards. Presumed dead, he is blamed for the deaths of band members and crew. Forced into hiding, a ghost of his former self, Devon watches other musicians perform at his club. Then, one day, he hears her voice. Cara Friday pays homage to her dead idol by emulating Devon's style and performing his music. Discovered by the manager of Dead Dogs Howl, Cara is groomed to keep Devon's career alive, singing only his songs. How long will Devon's ghost haunt her? How long can she be his voice without losing her own? But someone is watching over Cara Friday's career. Someone in the shadows waits and listens. GHOST SONG adapts the tragic story of the Phantom of the Opera and brings it into the world of contemporary rock.

Ghosts make great friends for life (and beyond)! If you're lucky enough to have a ghost find you, you'll need to know how to treat it right. Open up this "how-to" guide to discover how to be the best friend a ghost could ever ask for! What do you do when you meet a ghost? One: Provide the ghost with some of its favorite snacks, like mud tarts and earwax truffles. Two: Tell your ghost bedtime stories (ghosts love to be read to). Three: Make sure no one mistakes your ghost for whipped cream or a marshmallow when you aren't looking! If you follow these few simple steps and the rest of the essential tips in How to Make Friends with a Ghost, you'll see how a ghost friend will lovingly grow up and grow old with you. A whimsical story about ghost care, Rebecca Green's debut picture book is a perfect combination of offbeat humor, quirky and sweet illustrations, and the timeless theme of friendship.

A once-glittering music hall now hides dark mysteries in this atmospheric thriller set in both present day and Edwardian London. A hundred years ago, the Tarleton Music Hall on London's south bank was one of the city's most popular attractions. People lined up night after night to see its headliner, the legendary song-and-dance man Toby Chance. But that was before Toby disappeared in 1914. People were shocked to see the Tarleton suddenly locked up. But that’s how it’s been ever since. Today, with property prices soaring, an investment group hires Robert Fallon to survey the place. Fallon is as charmed by the project, especially when he hears the rumors of a Singing Ghost who haunts the building. But he must admit that something is indeed odd about the Tarleton. What, for instance, can be made of the mysterious wall in the basement? Fallon delves into the Tarleton’s history, and learns the story of the brilliant but troubled Toby Chance. But the deeper he goes, the harder it is to shake the feeling that he is being menaced by the past.

It's midsummer and midnight: the endless white night of the far north. Malyuta, a slave and hunter, feels richer than the Czar because he holds his first new-born, a son. He names the baby 'Ambrosi' which means immortal. Then comes Kuzma, the shape-shifting bear-shaman, who demands the baby from him. The child was born to Kuzma's apprentice in witchcraft. "Give him to me," says Kuzma. In return for the baby, he will make Malyuta rich or even return his youth. Malyuta refuses. All through the long summer night, he refuses. The hour of midnight passes and the shaman leaves but as he goes, he tells Malyuta that the baby he holds is a world-walker, a child of the Iron Ash, born to be a shaman. "Keep him, little man, and he will bring you misery!" Ambrosi grows into a beautiful, bright little boy, adored by his father. When Malyuta's beloved wife dies, he finds comfort in his child. Every winter, Malyuta has to leave the village on hunting trips. He leaves Ambrosi behind in the care of his grandparents. At the end of each trip he hurries home, eager to see his son again but on each return finds the villagers fear Ambrosi more and more. The child is uncanny, they say. Malyuta must take him away. Malyuta leaves the village forever, taking Ambrosi with him. From then on, Ambrosi shares his father's life and learns to be a hunter. In their small tent, in the vast frozen darkness of the arctic, Ambrosi dreams that a white bear comes to him. It is the bear-shaman, calling on him to follow his true nature. Ambrosi learns that there can be no peace for him until he accepts that he is a child of the Iron Ash and a world-walker. But he cannot bear to abandon the ageing Malyuta, whom he loves. He promises to become Kuzma's apprentice after his father is dead. But the cruel bear-shaman is not prepared to wait. If Malyuta's life is all that prevents Ambrosi becoming his apprentice, then Malyuta's death will come soon. Is there any way that Ambrosi can protect his father and escape from the bear-shaman? If you like mythic tales with fascinating villains and vivid imagery, then you'll love Susan Price's stark classic. Buy Ghost Song to dream of the northlands today.

A fire engulfs the stage. Dead Dogs Howl guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, Erik Devon survives, but scarred, his voice destroyed, his memory in shards. Presumed dead, he is blamed for the deaths of band members and crew. Forced into hiding, a ghost of his former self, Devon watches other musicians perform at his club. Then, one day, he hears her voice. Cara Friday pays homage to her dead idol by emulating Devon’s style and performing his music. Discovered by the manager of Dead Dogs Howl, Cara is groomed to keep Devon’s career alive, singing only his songs. How long will Devon’s ghost haunt her? How long can she be his voice without losing her own? But someone is watching over Cara Friday’s career. Someone in the shadows waits and listens. GHOST SONG adapts the tragic story of the Phantom of the Opera and brings it into the world of contemporary rock.

Ghost Songs by William Pettit is a collection of evocative yet fleeting poems on the failure and promise of language, romance and faith. These meditations on experience and recollection are often stuttering acceptances. Here is one poem from the collection. One of Us Had Better Go I can proceed North or retreat to from-where-the-clouds-come (there they are, with a storm) or you can come South with me at least halfway just to where the mountain is. I'm sure Tomorrow you'll decide.

When a hunter fails to appease the ghost of a sable killed in his trap the shaman comes for the hunter's child to be his apprentice. He is refused. But a shaman can haunt for a lifetime...

Top selling poet Sarah Kay releases her debut collection of work from the first decade of her career. Following the success of her breakout poem, "B," No Matter the Wreckage presents readers with new and beloved work that showcases Kay's skill for celebrating family, love, travel, history, and unlikely love affairs between inanimate objects ("Toothbrush to the Bicycle Tire"). Both fresh and wise, Kay's poetry allows readers to join in on her journey of discovering herself and the world around her. - 2011 TED speaker (recording has been viewed 3 million times online) - First book, "B" was ranked #1 Bestselling Poetry Book on Amazon - Featured on HBO, American Public Radio, Huffington Post, CNN.com, etc. - Founder and Co-Director of Project VOICE