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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1888 seventeen-year-old Evelyn Fallow, herself disfigured by the phosphorus in the match factory where she worked, has been hired as a maid to Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man--but when the Jack the Ripper murders begin she and Merrick find themselves haunted by the ghosts of the slain women, and Evelyn is caught up in the mystery of Jack's identity.
Author
Series
Notebook of doom volume 5
Publisher
Branches / Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When Alexander and his friends find a very large footprint and piles of candy everywhere, they realize the school is being threatened by a Piñata-saurus Rex, a sweet-tasting monster who likes to smash things--and they find that the solution may be as near as a broken ant farm.
Author
Series
Jellaby volume 2
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Portia Bennett and her friend Jason continue to search Toronto for clues to the origin of the purple monster, Jellaby--but things turn dangerous when they are confronted with a tentacled monster with a taste for children.
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"What we eat, where it is from, and how it is produced are vital questions in today's America. We think seriously about food because it is freighted with the hopes, fears, and anxieties of modern life. Yet critiques of food and food systems all too often sprawl into jeremiads against modernity itself, while supporters of the status quo refuse to acknowledge the problems with today's methods of food production and distribution. Food Fights sheds new...
Author
Publisher
Lethe Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sympathy with the sea, with the weird, and with monsters fills the stories of Imperfect Commentaries. Ruthanna Emrys's collection offers readers feminist and #ownvoices Neo-Lovecraftian fiction, anthropological science fiction, and fantasies of belonging, plus miscellaneous deleted scenes, poems, and secret story origins. Readers familiar with her novels (Winter Tide and Deep Roots) will see the first appearance Aphra Marsh, an Innsmouth survivor,...
Author
Publisher
Nightfire
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"To survive they must evolve. A virus tears across the globe, transforming its victims in nightmarish ways. As the world collapses, dark forces pull a small group of women together. Erin, once quiet and closeted, acquires an appetite for a woman and her brain. Why does forbidden fruit taste so good? Savannah, a professional BDSM switch, discovers a new turn-on: committing brutal murders for her eldritch masters. Mareva, plagued with chronic tumors,...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
* The blood-curdling truth behind the legendary vampire! Nestled in the Carpathian Mountains of the Transylvanian region of Romania is the castle that once was the stronghold of Vlad Dracula. Indeed, Dracula did exist, but unlike the blood-sucking monster of popular myth, the real Dracula was a fifteenth-century prince who tortured and killed thousands-savagely impaling his victims on sharpened spikes. Christopher Lee (Horror of Dracula, Scars of...
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Language
English
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Description
Successful businessman John Silverwood and his wife, Jean, both experienced sailors, decided the time was right to give their four children a taste of thrilling life on the high seas. And indeed their journey aboard the fifty-five-foot catamaran Emerald Jane would have many extraordinary and profound moments...Yet rather than flourishing amid the new freedoms and responsibilities thrust upon them, the children were sometimes confused, frightened,...
Author
Series
Nicci chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The formidable sorceress Nicci and her companions--the newly powerless Nathan and the youthful Bannon--set out on another quest after driving ruthless Norukai slavers out of Renda Bay. Their mission: restore Nathan's magic and, for Nicci, save the world. Guided by the witch-woman Red's mysterious prophecy, the trio makes their way south of Kol Adair towards a wondrous city shrouded behind time, Ildakar. But the grotesque omens on their path to Nathan's...
11) Wicked mortals
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Some monsters are figments of our imagination. Others are as real as flesh and blood: humans who may look like us, who may walk among us, often unnoticed, occasionally even admired-but whose evil deeds and secret lives, once revealed, mark them as something utterly wicked. In this illustrated volume from the host of the hit podcast Lore, you'll find tales of infamous characters whose veins ran with ice water and whose crimes remind us that truth...
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Series
Publisher
Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In Compound Eleven, freedom fromy tyranny is impossible. Her name is Eve Hamilton, and she has managed the impossible. She is free. Until just like that, it is wrenched from her graps. And this time, the corridors of the dark undergound city are even more dangerous than ever before. But her brief taste of freedom has left her with somthing useful, somehting powerful, something that terrifies the leaders of Compound Eleven. And now she has a monster...
Publisher
Troma Entertainment
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Sometime in the near future, a major earthquake has devastated the entire California coastline. As the survivors attempt to put their lives back together, a new, more terrifying threat erupts - the rise of a wretched Reich which really rock the Richter scale! The beautiful beaches are now ruled by ruthless gangs... and the gangs are ruled by the SURF NAZIS! Only one person is powerful enough... darling enough... brave enough to stop them! She's tough......
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In Bookends, Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon offers a compilation of pieces about literature--age-old classics as well as his own--that presents a unique look into his literary origins and influences, the books that shaped his taste and formed his ideas about writing and reading"--
Author
Series
Rutabaga the adventure chef volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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16) ChupaCarter
Author
Series
Chupacarter volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Uprooted from his home in Los Angeles and sent to live with his cantankerous grandparents in New Mexico, twelve-year-old Jorge struggles with loneliness until he meets a new friend who happens to be a chupacabra"--
In this illustrated contemporary fantasy, twelve-year-old Jorge is lonely and resentful after being sent to live with his grandparents. His first day at his new school doesn't go well after catching the attention of his belligerent principal...
Author
Series
Brownstone's mythical collection volume 3
Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When Kai grows tired of her bookish mum not being adventurous enough for a Brownstone, she decides to seek out the mischievous and rebellious Monkey King - who she's always been told to stay away from. Will he bring her the adventure she craves, or will he cause her more trouble than he's worth? Read the latest story from the mythical Brownstone's family vault where we venture to China and learn about the story of the Monkey King, meet magical gods,...
18) Morning poems
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A new collection of poetry encompasses autobiographical works, meditations on the art of poetry, reflections on the myths that shape our world, and studies on aging and facing death.
Publisher
Hex Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Ancient peoples knew there were lands given over to shadow and spirit. The world is full of haunted places that exact a terrible toll on trespassers. Our forebears paid a heavy price to earn the wisdom and the warning they bequeathed to future generations. Time transformed their precious knowledge into superstition, but there are those whose hearts beat in rhythm with the past and whose vision is not clouded by modernity. Seeking to reclaim humanity's...
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