Vera West

When 17-year-old violinist Iza Jones is accepted rat Everleigh, a prestigious creative arts prep school, she knows her life is going to change for the better. Raised on welfare by a single mom, how could it not? But before Iza knows it, life is throwing curve balls at her faster and faster, and her hopes and plans begin to spiral out of control. Will she survive to make her dreams come true? Plucked is a novel told in verse.

London is in a panic over a series of apparent "Pajama Suicides." Sherlock Holmes, however, is more inclined to believe that they are calculated murders. It is up to the detective and his partner, Dr. Watson, to discover the motive and the means of these crimes and to quickly unmask the murderer. Miss Adria Spedding is an intoxicating woman of character whom Holmes is convinced is behind the killings. A series of masquerades and deadly game playing...

Gwynplaine is doomed to live life wearing a perpetual grin, carved on his face because his father, Lord Clancharlie, offended England's king. Gwynplaine grows up alongside the beautiful but blind Dea and they fall in love. Queen Anne, meanwhile, has ascended the throne and when she learns that the femme fatale, Duchess Josiana, is in possession of the Lord's estates, she decrees that the Duchess must marry Gwynplaine, the rightful heir.

Night key: Karloff ignites the screen as the ingenious inventor of a security system who is kidnapped by a gang of burglars and forced to help them commit robberies (78 min.) Tower of London: Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff star in his horrifying true tale of a ruthless king's rise to power with the help of his mad and murderous executioner (93 min.) The climax: Karloff is terrifying as a mad doctor whose insane jealousy over a beautiful opera...