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Ghosts and Gadgets: Book 2
by Marcus SedgwickJoin the wonderfully weird Otherhand family and their faithful guardian, Edgar the raven, and discover the dark secrets of Castle Otherhand.The rumblings and wailings from the Lost South Wing can no longer be ignored, as one by one, members of the castle are being found frozen, 'scared to death'. With mother, Minty, obsessing over her latest fad - sewing - and father, Valevine, busy experimenting with a machine to discover the Lost Otherhand treasure, it's up to aspiring ghost-hunters Solstice and Cudweed to solve the mystery. But as usual, things don't go quite as planned... It's just as well Edgar is there to save the day!Second in a brand new six book series of tales of mystery (with a touch of goth-froth) for 9 year olds from bestselling author, Marcus Sedgwick. With quirky black and white line illustrations from new talent, Pete Williamson.Dedicated website on Raven Mysteries: www.ravenmysteries.co.uk
Ghosts and Gadgets: Book 2 (Raven Mysteries #2)
by Marcus SedgwickJoin the wonderfully weird Otherhand family and their faithful guardian, Edgar the raven, and discover the dark secrets of Castle Otherhand.The rumblings and wailings from the Lost South Wing can no longer be ignored, as one by one, members of the castle are being found frozen, 'scared to death'. With mother, Minty, obsessing over her latest fad - sewing - and father, Valevine, busy experimenting with a machine to discover the Lost Otherhand treasure, it's up to aspiring ghost-hunters Solstice and Cudweed to solve the mystery. But as usual, things don't go quite as planned... It's just as well Edgar is there to save the day!Second in a brand new six book series of tales of mystery (with a touch of goth-froth) for 9 year olds from bestselling author, Marcus Sedgwick. With quirky black and white line illustrations from new talent, Pete Williamson.Dedicated website on Raven Mysteries: www.ravenmysteries.co.uk
Ghosts and Gadgets: Book 2 (Raven Mysteries #2)
by Marcus SedgwickJoin the wonderfully weird Otherhand family and their faithful guardian, Edgar the raven, and discover the dark secrets of Castle Otherhand.The rumblings and wailings from the Lost South Wing can no longer be ignored, as one by one, members of the castle are being found frozen, 'scared to death'. With mother, Minty, obsessing over her latest fad - sewing - and father, Valevine, busy experimenting with a machine to discover the Lost Otherhand treasure, it's up to aspiring ghost-hunters Solstice and Cudweed to solve the mystery. But as usual, things don't go quite as planned... It's just as well Edgar is there to save the day!Second in a brand new six book series of tales of mystery (with a touch of goth-froth) for 9 year olds from bestselling author, Marcus Sedgwick. With quirky black and white line illustrations from new talent, Pete Williamson.Dedicated website on Raven Mysteries: www.ravenmysteries.co.ukRead by Martin Jarvis(P)2004 Orion Publishing Group.Ltd
Ghosts from Our Past
by Andrew Shaffer Abby L. Yates Erin GilbertAs seen in the Sony Pictures 2016 film Ghostbusters, the ultimate guide to identifying, understanding, and engaging with any paranormal activity that plagues youYears before they made headlines with the Ghostbusters, Erin Gilbert and Abby L. Yates published the groundbreaking study of the paranormal, Ghosts from Our Past. Once lost to history, this criminally underappreciated book is now back in print, revised and somewhat updated for the new century.According to Gilbert and Yates, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence," and whether you're a believer or a skeptic, you'll find the information you're seeking right here in this extraordinary book, including:· The childhood experiences that inspired Erin and Abby's lifelong passion for the scientific study of the paranormal;· The history of ghosts and other supernatural entities, the science that explains their existence, and profiles of the groundbreaking paranormal researchers who have investigated them;· An illustrated guide to Class I through Class VII ghosts;· Helpful sidebars like "A Ghost by Any Other Name" and "Ectoplasm Cleanup Tips";· Updates including "The Ghostbusters' Arsenal" by Jillian Holtzmann and "Haunted History" by Patty Tolan;· A new Ghostbusting Resources appendix, featuring the "Paranormal Quickstart Guide", "Is It a Ghost? A Handy Quiz", "A Supernatural Stakeout Journal", "The Devil's Dictionary: Paraterminology You Need to Know"; and more.With this helpful--and hilarious--official Ghostbusters guide in hand, you'll be prepared for almost any spirit, spook, or spectre that comes your way. As for the rest, you know who to call.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Ghosts of Manhattan: A Novel
by Douglas BruntThis instant New York Times bestseller offers a withering view of life on Wall Street from the perspective of an unhappy insider who is too hooked on the money to find a way out, even as his career is ruining his marriage and corroding his soul.It’s 2005. Nick Farmer is a thirty-five-year-old bond trader with Bear Stearns clearing seven figures a year. The novelty of a work-related nightlife centering on liquor, hookers, and cocaine has long since worn thin, though Nick remains keenly addicted to his annual bonus. But the lifestyle is taking a toll on his marriage—and on him. When a nerdy analyst approaches him with apocalyptic prognostications of where Bear’s high-flying mortgage-backed securities trading may lead, Nick is presented with the kind of ethical dilemma he’s spent a lifetime avoiding. Throw in a hot financial journalist who seems to be more interested in him than in the percolating financial Armageddon and the prospect that his own wife may have found a new romantic interest of her own, and you have the recipe for Nick’s personal and professional implosion. By turns hilarious and harrowing, Ghosts of Manhattan follows a winning but flawed protagonist as he struggles to find the right path in a complicated urban heart of darkness
Ghosts on the Loose (Mortimer Keene #2)
by Tim HealeyA wickedly funny series that will appeal to all young scientists, created by Chris Mould, illustrator of A Boy Called Christmas and Tim Healey. If you like Horrid Henry, you'll love Mortimer Keene.Mortimer Keene is full to bursting with madcap plans, and if it's trouble you're after, look no further! With laugh out loud illustrations, rollicking rhymes, and short chapters perfect for new readers, this second book in the series sees Mortimer Keene and his phantom machine up to no good again!When the school is overrun with ghosts and ghouls from the past, it's up to Mortimer Keene to blast them back in time and save the school.'Hilarious' - The Guardian
Ghosts/Aliens
by Trey Hamburger"The X-Files" meets "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in a 17-year-old's weeklong investigation into extraterrestrial and paranormal activity--including aliens with flippers and teleporting Hot Pockets. 25 line drawings.
Ghosts: A novel
by Dolly AldertonINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Everything I Know About Love comes a smart, sexy, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy about ex-boyfriends, imperfect parents, friends with kids, and a man who disappears the moment he says "I love you."&“An absolute knock-out. Wickedly funny and, at turns, both cynical and sincere… feels like your very favorite friend.&” —Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Malibu RisingONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, VOGUE, PEOPLENina Dean is not especially bothered that she's single. She owns her own apartment, she's about to publish her second book, she has a great relationship with her ex-boyfriend, and enough friends to keep her social calendar full and her hangovers plentiful. And when she downloads a dating app, she does the seemingly impossible: She meets a great guy on her first date. Max is handsome and built like a lumberjack; he has floppy blond hair and a stable job. But more surprising than anything else, Nina and Max have chemistry. Their conversations are witty and ironic, they both hate sports, they dance together like fools, they happily dig deep into the nuances of crappy music, and they create an entire universe of private jokes and chemical bliss.But when Max ghosts her, Nina is forced to deal with everything she's been trying so hard to ignore: her father's dementia is getting worse, and so is her mother's denial of it; her editor hates her new book idea; and her best friend from childhood is icing her out. Funny, tender, and eminently, movingly relatable, Ghosts is a whip-smart tale of relationships and modern life.
Ghostwriter Anonymous (A Jake O'Hara Mystery #1)
by Noreen WaldA New York author may perish before she can publish, in this lively mystery from “a very funny lady” (Donna Andrews, New York Times–bestselling author of the Meg Langslow series). With her books sporting other people’s names on their covers, ghostwriter Jake O’Hara works behind the scenes. But she never expected a séance at a Manhattan apartment to be part of her job. Jake had signed on to secretly write for a grande dame of mystery fiction whose talent died before she did. The author’s East Side residence was impressive. But her entourage—from a Mrs. Danvers-like housekeeper to a lurking hypnotherapist—was creepy. Still, it’s all in a day’s work—until a killer starts going after ghostwriters, and Jake suspects that she’s chillingly close to the culprit. Attending a séance may be one way to get help, but brilliant sleuthing would be better—before Jake’s next deadline turns out to be her own funeral, in this fun-filled mystery from an author who “keeps the plot airy and the characters outlandish” (South Florida Sun-Sentinel).
Ghostwriter Anonymous (A Jake O'Hara Mystery #1)
by Noreen WaldA New York author may perish before she can publish, in this lively mystery from “a very funny lady” (Donna Andrews, New York Times–bestselling author of the Meg Langslow series). With her books sporting other people’s names on their covers, ghostwriter Jake O’Hara works behind the scenes. But she never expected a séance at a Manhattan apartment to be part of her job. Jake had signed on to secretly write for a grande dame of mystery fiction whose talent died before she did. The author’s East Side residence was impressive. But her entourage—from a Mrs. Danvers-like housekeeper to a lurking hypnotherapist—was creepy. Still, it’s all in a day’s work—until a killer starts going after ghostwriters, and Jake suspects that she’s chillingly close to the culprit. Attending a séance may be one way to get help, but brilliant sleuthing would be better—before Jake’s next deadline turns out to be her own funeral, in this fun-filled mystery from an author who “keeps the plot airy and the characters outlandish” (South Florida Sun-Sentinel).
Ghostyshocks and the Three Mummies (Seriously Silly: Scary Fairy Tales #5)
by Laurence AnholtWhen Ghostyshocks messes with some mad, mangy and murderous mummies, she's BOUND to get TANGLED up in all sorts of trouble!
Ghouldilocks and the Three Ghosts
by Annie SullivanA classic fairy tale is turned on its head when a creepy ghoul and three not-so-scary ghosts replace familiar characters in this funny holiday story.Ghouldilocks and the Three Ghosts is the Halloween version of a well-known fairy tale. This Ghouldilocks has the same golden curls as the original, but styled with bones and tangles to suit this scary holiday. Ghouldilocks approaches a haunted mansion and steps inside. There she samples three bowls of ghoulosh, sits on a big chair, a medium chair, and a small chair. Next she tries out three beds--and falls asleep in the smallest one. The ghosts come home and instead of chasing Ghouldilocks away, they all become friends. The pages are sprinkled with speech balloons filled with silly Halloween jokes and puns. Colorful art includes sly details by a talented cartoonist will make readers laugh-out-loud.This clever retelling of the classic Goldilocks and the Three Bears is perfect for Halloween.
GiGi : Thérapie Fashion
by Colette KebellVoici la mission de GiGi (de son vrai nom, Griselda Griswald, mais tout le monde l’appelle GiGi) : aider les gens à améliorer leur style vestimentaire, à développer leur estime de soi et, idéalement, à les rendre plus heureux. Être « personal shopper » est un art obscur, avec peu de retours concrets. Ses clients n’admettront jamais avoir besoin de son aide. Même sous la torture. Franchement, qui avouerait avoir besoin d’une Fashion consultante ? C’est comme pour un alcoolique : la première étape consiste à accepter de l’aide, et reconnaître que cette paire de jambières ne correspond plus à votre statut de cinquantenaire. Une fois cette étape franchie, vous serez sur la voie de la guérison et les services de Gigi vous seront utiles. Au grand dam de sa mère qui aurait préféré qu’elle fasse un « vrai travail ».
Giambatista Viko; or, The Rape of African Discourse: An MLA Translation (Texts and Translations #39)
by Georges NgalGeorges Ngal's pathbreaking satire Giambatista Viko explores the vexed relations between metropolitan centers and peripheral former colonies through its titular antihero, an African professor at an African studies institute divided between European-focused cosmopolitans and Africanists. Struggling to write the great African novel and subject to abuse, Viko realizes he can no longer separate the African and the European parts of his multilayered, African francophone culture. Viko's fate is a warning about the perils of artistic creation in a world where power is not shared. Part of the wave of African novels of the 1960s and 1970s that grappled with the disenchantments of decolonization, Giambatista Viko can be read at once as a Congolese novel, a francophone novel, and a work of world literature.
Giambatista Viko; ou, Le viol du discours africain: An MLA Text Edition (Texts and Translations #39)
by Georges NgalGeorges Ngal's pathbreaking satire Giambatista Viko explores the vexed relations between metropolitan centers and peripheral former colonies through its titular antihero, an African professor at an African studies institute divided between European-focused cosmopolitans and Africanists. Struggling to write the great African novel and subject to abuse, Viko realizes he can no longer separate the African and the European parts of his multilayered, African francophone culture. Viko's fate is a warning about the perils of artistic creation in a world where power is not shared. Part of the wave of African novels of the 1960s and 1970s that grappled with the disenchantments of decolonization, Giambatista Viko can be read at once as a Congolese novel, a francophone novel, and a work of world literature.
Giant Days #35 (Giant Days #35)
by John AllisonWith the prospect of living apart for the first time since they all met as first years just over the horizon, Daisy, Esther, and Susan spend their last summer together before beginning their third year of university.
Giant Days #37 (Giant Days #37)
by John Allison Max Sarin Whitney CogarIntroducing your girlfriend to your family can be difficult, but it’s much worse when that girlfriend is Ingrid.
Giant Days #44 (Giant Days #44)
by John AllisonEsther becomes fixated on Valentine’s Day as a marker of her romantic failure, and decides to fully activate her drama field for the first time in a long time, in an attempt to “Win Big At Love”. It’s going to be great. No, really.
Giant Days #45 (Giant Days #45)
by John AllisonEd and his girlfriend Nina may have bonded over bone breaks and PT, but now that the casts are off, Nina is going back to her partying ways—making Ed wonder if he ever knew her at all.
Giant Days #46 (Giant Days #46)
by John AllisonA thief is targeting the Dark Nebula comic book shop where Esther works, and it’s up to Susan to put her amateur detective skills to work... emphasis on amateur.
Giant Days #48 (Giant Days #48)
by John AllisonSusan and McGraw attend his brother’s wedding, and we meet the family that put the iron backbone in Giant Days’ most moustached male.
Giant Days #49 (Giant Days #49)
by John AllisonIt’s time for Esther to finish her final dissertation on “The Liminal Spaces Of The Great American Novel 1959-1980” but when inspiration dries up, she heads home to Tackleford for Easter. It’s not America, and it’s not 1959, but her now deserted small town is beginning to feel distinctly liminal.
Giant Days #50 (Giant Days #4)
by John AllisonIn times of a disastrous norovirus outbreak in McGraw’s for-fun cricket team, Susan, Esther, and Daisy are called upon to defend McGraw’s sportly honor. Taking up the bats of his fallen mates and donning their cricket whites, it’s a sporting adventure the girls had literally never anticipated! Can Susan be genteel and sportsmanlike? Can Esther stop goofing off? Will Daisy prove the greatest cricketer of all time?
Giant Days #51 (Giant Days #51)
by John AllisonWhen McGraw’s father dies unexpectedly, the small friend group is shaken. Susan struggles to be there for McGraw, but his usual stoicism has turned into a solid wall. With McGraw at home and Susan in their empty apartment alone, Esther and Daisy have to help Susan deal with someone who doesn’t seem to be dealing. What do you do for someone you love when you have no idea what they’re going through?
Giant Days #53 (Giant Days #53)
by John AllisonFinal exams, final friendship times, and some final goodbyes for Daisy, Esther, and Susan before the summer term wraps up, and it’s suddenly time to say goodbye to Sheffield!