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Boy X (Chicken House Novels Ser.)
by Dan SmithA heart-stopping middle grade survival adventure where the only way to survive is to evolve. Hatchet meets a young Jason Bourne, for readers of Margaret Peterson Haddix.His mother is a scientist. His dad was a soldier. Ash is something new altogether. Kidnapped, Ash McCarthy wakes up on a remote tropical island. Why is he there? What is this medical facility around him? Most importantly, what's happening inside of him?Ash needs answers. He has twenty-four hours to get them.To escape, Ash must risk his life. But what's more dangerous: the jungle, his captors, or the mysterious chemical injected into his veins?
Boy in a White Room
by Karl OlsbergA gripping YA sci-fi thriller by German and Spiegel-bestselling author, Karl Olsberg. The Boy in a White Room was nominated for Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 2018, Germany’s most prestigious youth fiction award.A fifteen-year-old boy wakes to find himself locked in a white, cube-shaped room. No windows. No doors. Total silence. He has no memories. No clue how he got there. No idea who he is.A computer-generated voice named Alice responds to his questions. Through her, he is able to access the internet. As the boy uncovers snippets of his story -- an attempted abduction, a critial injury, a murder -- it becomes clearer. But when some of the pieces don't fit, how can he tell what's real and what's not? Who can he trust? And who is he really?
Boy in the Well: A Scottish murder mystery with a twist you won't see coming (DI Westphall 2)
by Douglas LindsayDI WESTPHALL.No ordinary detective.No ordinary investigations.A twisting new crime series set in the Scottish Highlands. For fans of Stephen King, Christopher Brookmyre and John Connolly.'A dark and satisfying mystery . . . This one comes thoroughly recommended' James OswaldThe body of a young boy is discovered at the bottom of a well that has been sealed for two hundred years. Yet the corpse is only days old . . .No one comes forward to identify #Boy9, and DI Ben Westphall's only suspects are the farmers on whose land the well sits. They certainly seem as though they have something to hide. But it might not be what he thinks.Soon, similarities from an old crime emerge and Westphall must look to the past to piece together the dark and twisted events taking place in the present.********WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT BOY IN THE WELL'Intricately and expertly plotted . . . What an ending! One which left me wholly satisfied''The mystery surrounding #Boy9 as he comes to be known is a genuine puzzle and had me hooked from start to finish as I was desperate to know who he was and how he got there''Westphall is a great character and a breathe of fresh air in this genre. A great series you will be pleased you've found.'
Boy in the Well: A Scottish murder mystery with a twist you won't see coming (DI Westphall 2) (DI Westphall #2)
by Douglas LindsayDI WESTPHALL.No ordinary detective.No ordinary investigations.A twisting new crime series set in the Scottish Highlands. For fans of Stephen King, Christopher Brookmyre and John Connolly.'A dark and satisfying mystery . . . This one comes thoroughly recommended' James OswaldThe body of a young boy is discovered at the bottom of a well that has been sealed for two hundred years. Yet the corpse is only days old . . .No one comes forward to identify #Boy9, and DI Ben Westphall's only suspects are the farmers on whose land the well sits. They certainly seem as though they have something to hide. But it might not be what he thinks.Soon, similarities from an old crime emerge and Westphall must look to the past to piece together the dark and twisted events taking place in the present.********WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT BOY IN THE WELL'Intricately and expertly plotted . . . What an ending! One which left me wholly satisfied''The mystery surrounding #Boy9 as he comes to be known is a genuine puzzle and had me hooked from start to finish as I was desperate to know who he was and how he got there''Westphall is a great character and a breathe of fresh air in this genre. A great series you will be pleased you've found.'
Boy in the Well: A Scottish murder mystery with a twist you won't see coming (DI Westphall 2) (DI Westphall #2)
by Douglas LindsayBook 2 in the DI Westphall series.'The Boy in the Well is a dark and satisfying mystery. I thoroughly enjoyed my time in the company of DI Ben Westphall, a compelling personality . . . This one comes thoroughly recommended' James OswaldThe body of a young boy is discovered at the bottom of a well that has been sealed for two hundred years.Yet the corpse is only days old . . .Soon, similarities from an old crime emerge and DI Ben Westphall must look to the past to piece together the dark and twisted events taking place in the present.(P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Boy's Life: Boy's Life, Mystery Walk, Gone South, And Usher's Passing
by Robert R. MccammonIn me are the memories of a boy's life, spent in that realm of enchantments. These are the things I want to tell you.... <P> Boy's Life is a richly imagined, spellbinding portrait of the magical worldview of the young -- and of innocence lost. <P> Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson -- a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a lake -- and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with a terrible, haunting vision of death. As Cory struggles to understand his father's pain, his eyes are slowly opened to the forces of good and evil that surround him. From an ancient mystic who can hear the dead and bewitch the living, to a violent clan of moonshiners, Cory must confront the secrets that hide in the shadows of his hometown -- for his father's sanity and his own life hang in the balance....<P> Winner of Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs!
by Kathleen V. Kudlinski S. D. SchindlerThe ancient Chinese thought dinosaurs were magical dragons. Some old-time scientists thought that because they were so big, all they could do was float in water. Boy, were they wrong! This lively book about the perennially popular subject of dinosaurs offers fascinating insight into how certain theories were formed, and then how those theories were proved or disproved. It demonstrates that scientific thought is as creative as it is logical and invites budding scientists to come up with their own ideas.
Boyface and the Power of Three and a Bit (Boyface #4)
by James CampbellMr Antelope has disappeared, leaving Boyface Antelope in charge of the stripemongering shop. When Boyface gets a message from his dad, hidden in a message in a bottle, he is determined to go and rescue him. Will Boyface and his friends be able to defeat the evil villain and rescue his dad?
Boyface and the Quantum Chromatic Disruption Machine (Boyface #5)
by James CampbellBoyface Antelope has been waiting his whole life to turn ten and be allowed to enter his parents' stripemongering shop so he can take stripes off animals and put them on something different. Like tartan onto badgers, or removing the stripes of zebras to make ponies. On the morning of his tenth birthday he finds his parents ill, and they ask him not just to go in the shop but to look after it on his own! Will he be able to keep the stripemongery running smoothly?
Boyface and the Tartan Badger (Boyface #2)
by James CampbellBoyface Antelope has been given a tartan badger for his tenth birthday. As everyone knows, tartan badgers are the worst pets in the world: they live for up to forty years, you can never give them away, they smell of lemony hospitals and need walking twice a day. And one of those times must be in the middle of the night. But even so, when the tartan badger is stolen Boyface enlists the help of his friend Clootie to get him back. But who could the thief be? The only clue is a red clown nose ...
Boyface and the Uncertain Ponies (Boyface #3)
by James CampbellUncertain Ponies are making the inhabitants of Stoddenage-On-Sea very unhappy. Ponies have turned (back) into zebras, and suspicion is falling on the Antelope family's stripemongering shop as the source of the problem. Could something have gone wrong with the Quantum Chromatic Disruption Machine, and can Boyface Antelope and his friend Clootie Whanger fix it before all of Stoddenage-On-Sea's ponies are affected?
Boyfriend from Hell
by Jamie QuaidThey say justice is blind. But Justine isn't.Justine (Tina) Clancy is just an ordinary law student with a faulty arrest record, a part-time job in Baltimore's radioactive Zone, and a family secret so bizarre even she doesn't believe it. That is, until in a fit of fury she damns her boyfriend to hell--and it's exactly where he ends up. Much to her surprise, Tina is apparently one of Saturn's daughters, with the power to wield vigilante justice. But poor Max didn't deserve to go up in flames, even if he did almost run her over with her own car. Tina's convinced someone cut the brakes--and now a relentless nemesis is stalking her through the Zone's back alleys, where buildings glow, statues move, and chemical waste exposure comes with interesting consequences. Tina's usually a loner, but now she needs a posse like no other: a shape-shifting kitten, an invisible thief, a biker gang, a snake-charming private detective, a well-meaning cop, and her sleazy, sexy boss. But in between freeing Max from hell, saving her own neck, and solving a mystery that threatens the Zone and her newfound friends, how is she ever going to study for finals?
Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan
by Katsuhiko Suganuma Kazumi Nagaike Mark McLelland James WelkerBoys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and young men. In Japan, depiction of the “beautiful boy” has long been a romantic and sexualized trope for both sexes and commands a high degree of cultural visibility today across a range of genres from pop music to animation. In recent decades, “Boys Love” (or simply BL) has emerged as a mainstream genre in manga, anime, and games for girls and young women. This genre was first developed in Japan in the early 1970s by a group of female artists who went on to establish themselves as major figures in Japan's manga industry. By the late 1970s many amateur women fans were getting involved in the BL phenomenon by creating and self-publishing homoerotic parodies of established male manga characters and popular media figures. The popularity of these fan-made products, sold and circulated at huge conventions, has led to an increase in the number of commercial titles available. Today, a wide range of products produced both by professionals and amateurs are brought together under the general rubric of “boys love,” and are rapidly gaining an audience throughout Asia and globally. This collection provides the first comprehensive overview in English of the BL phenomenon in Japan, its history and various subgenres and introduces translations of some key Japanese scholarship not otherwise available. Some chapters detail the historical and cultural contexts that helped BL emerge as a significant part of girls' culture in Japan. Others offer important case studies of BL production, consumption, and circulation and explain why BL has become a controversial topic in contemporary Japan.
Boys of Alabama: A Novel
by Genevieve HudsonO, The Oprah Magazine • "31 LGBTQ Books That'll Change the Literary Landscape in 2020" Lit Hub • "Most Anticipated Books by LGBTQ Authors For the First Half of 2020" Ms. Magazine • "Reads for the Rest of Us: Feminist Books Coming Out in 2020" “A gripping, uncanny, and queer exploration of being a boy in America, told with detail that dazzles and disturbs.” —Michelle Tea, author of Against Memoir In this bewitching debut novel, a sensitive teen, newly arrived in Alabama, falls in love, questions his faith, and navigates a strange power. While his German parents don’t know what to make of a South pining for the past, shy Max thrives in the thick heat. Taken in by the football team, he learns how to catch a spiraling ball, how to point a gun, and how to hide his innermost secrets. Max already expects some of the raucous behavior of his new, American friends—like their insatiable hunger for the fried and cheesy, and their locker room talk about girls. But he doesn’t expect the comradery—or how quickly he would be welcomed into their world of basement beer drinking. In his new canvas pants and thickening muscles, Max feels like he’s “playing dress-up.” That is until he meets Pan, the school “witch,” in Physics class: “Pan in his all black. Pan with his goth choker and the gel that made his hair go straight up.” Suddenly, Max feels seen, and the pair embarks on a consuming relationship: Max tells Pan about his supernatural powers, and Pan tells Max about the snake poison initiations of the local church. The boys, however, aren’t sure whose past is darker, and what is more frightening—their true selves, or staying true in Alabama. Writing in verdant and visceral prose that builds to a shocking conclusion, Genevieve Hudson “brilliantly reinvents the Southern Gothic, mapping queer love in a land where God, guns, and football are king” (Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks). Boys of Alabama becomes a nuanced portrait of masculinity, religion, immigration, and the adolescent pressures that require total conformity.
Boys with Sharp Teeth
by Jenni Howell*An Instant New York Times Bestseller*We Were Liars meets The Raven Boys in this mind-bending YA debut about dark revenge, twisted desire, and the sinister secrets lurking behind the walls of an elite boarding school."A darkly delicious spiral where each page makes you crave more." ―CG Drews, author of Don't Let The Forest In"A stunningly lush, utterly compelling, darkly beautiful debut!" ―Ginny Myers Sain, New York Times bestselling author of Dark and Shallow LiesSeventeen-year-old Marin James has spent her entire life living in the shadow of the exclusive Huntsworth Academy. And when her cousin’s dead body is found in a creek on school property, Marin knows exactly who’s to blame: Adrian Hargraves and Henry Wu, the enigmatic yet dangerously alluring leaders of the school's social elite.Swapping her ripped jeans for a crisp prep school skirt, Marin infiltrates Huntsworth to seek justice. But her quest is quickly muddied by a confusing attraction to her new life, and to the two dysfunctional and depraved boys who somehow understand her better than anyone ever has.When Marin uncovers an otherworldly secret the boys are hiding within Huntsworth's ivied gates, the lines between right and wrong, love and hate, and nightmare and reality begin to crumble -- and nothing is as it seems.Welcome to Huntsworth Academy.
Bradbury Beyond Apollo
by Jonathan R. EllerCelebrated storyteller, cultural commentator, friend of astronauts, prophet of the Space Age—by the end of the 1960s, Ray Bradbury had attained a level of fame and success rarely achieved by authors, let alone authors of science fiction and fantasy. He had also embarked on a phase of his career that found him exploring new creative outlets while reinterpreting his classic tales for generations of new fans. Drawing on numerous interviews with Bradbury and privileged access to personal papers and private collections, Jonathan R. Eller examines the often-overlooked second half of Bradbury's working life. As Bradbury's dreams took him into a wider range of nonfiction writing and public lectures, the diminishing time that remained for creative pursuits went toward Hollywood productions like the award-winning series Ray Bradbury Theater. Bradbury developed the Spaceship Earth narration at Disney's EPCOT Center; appeared everywhere from public television to NASA events to comic conventions; published poetry; and mined past triumphs for stage productions that enjoyed mixed success. Distracted from storytelling as he became more famous, Bradbury nonetheless published innovative experiments in autobiography masked as detective novels, the well-received fantasy The Halloween Tree and the masterful time travel story "The Toynbee Convector." Yet his embrace of celebrity was often at odds with his passion for writing, and the resulting tension continuously pulled at his sense of self. The revelatory conclusion to the acclaimed three-part biography, Bradbury Beyond Apollo tells the story of an inexhaustible creative force seeking new frontiers.
Bragi, guerreiro com coração humano (Clã Brácaros #2)
by Lúthien Numenessë"Dentro bate o coração de um guerreiro implacável." Ele, um guerreiro com sentimentos nobres. Ela, uma portadora humana de grande poder. Um amor do passado. Um sentimento inexplicável. Um fim inevitável. Bragi, um membro do clã Brácaros, por séculos se recusou a lutar usando a força, então eles o consideraram o mais fraco e frágil. Agora que ele encontrou seu minnaar, ele deve dar tudo de si no campo de batalha se quiser mantê-la ao seu lado. A guerra entre as Deidades começou e a maldição que cai sobre eles ressurge, é hora de decidir seguir seu destino ou se rebelar contra seus Deuses. Arieen colocou sua vida em espera por anos e está desesperada para recuperá-la, deixar essa pequena cidade para conhecer o mundo, dedicar-se ao que ela realmente ama. No entanto, seu caminho é mais uma vez dificultado quando um jovem príncipe aparece diante dela que, por alguma estranha razão, parece já a conhecer. A hora de mostrar o seu valor chegou para os dois, já que no meio de uma batalha feroz eles descobriram pelo que vale a pena arriscar tudo: amor verdadeiro. Poderia esse sentimento ser suficiente para superar as adversidades que os esperam?
Bragi: Human Warrior (Clan Brácaros #2)
by Luthien NumenesseHe is a warrior of noble feelings. She is a human who wields a great power. A love from the past. An inexplicable feeling. An inevitable ending. Bragi, member of clan Brácaros, has refused to fight using force for centuries. That’s why, he’s been considered as the weakest and feeblest. Now that he’s found his minnaar, he will have to leave it all on the battlefield if he wants to keep her with him. The War of the Gods has started and the curse that fell on them emerges again. It’s time for him to decide if he will follow his fate or will rebel against the Gods. Arieen’s life has been in standby for years, and she is desperate for taking it back, leaving that little town to know the world, and devoting herself to what she really likes. However, her way is blocked again when she meets a young prince who, for a strange reason, seems to know her already. The time to prove their worth has come for both of them since, in the middle of a ferocious battle, they have found that for which risking everything is worthwhile: True love. Could this feeling be enough to overcome the adversity that awaits them?
Brain Boy Volume 1: Psy vs. Psy (Brain Boy)
by Fred Van LenteAmbushed while protecting an important statesman, Matt Price, a.k.a. Brain Boy, finds himself wrapped up in political intrigue that could derail a key United Nations conference and that sets the psychic spy on a collision course with a man whose mental powers rival his own! Collects Brain Boy #0–#3. * New York Times bestseller Fred Van Lente (Archer & Armstrong). • Art by R. B. Silva (Superboy, Jimmy Olsen), and Freddie Williams II (Green Arrow, Captain Atom)!
Brain Boy Volume 2
by Fred Van LenteAgent Price's new mission pits him against a doomsday cult leader with a political agenda that poses a direct threat to the president. But a mysterious hive mind has more menacing plans for Brain Boy. He'll have no choice but to go head to head--brain to brain--with the mysterious Men from G.E.S.T.A.L.T.! The Men from G.E.S.T.A.L.T. collects New York Times best-selling author Fred Van Lente's electrifying second arc of psychic spy Brain Boy's continuing adventures!
Brain Child
by George TurnerDavid Chance has been raised in an orphanage and, now an adult, finds that he is the child of a man genetically modified before birth by a group of scientists experimenting in increasing human intelligence and creativity. But his father is dead.He pursues the search for the true nature of his father and, through it, the true nature of the experiments and the survivors of the final disaster that ended them. Chance exposes his roots and finds them entangled in horror, deceit, vengeance and perverse scientific illumination. Peace and self knowledge are achieved only at great risk and terrible cost.
Brain Child
by George TurnerDavid Chance has been raised in an orphanage and, now an adult, finds that he is the child of a man genetically modified before birth by a group of scientists experimenting in increasing human intelligence and creativity. But his father is dead.He pursues the search for the true nature of his father and, through it, the true nature of the experiments and the survivors of the final disaster that ended them. Chance exposes his roots and finds them entangled in horror, deceit, vengeance and perverse scientific illumination. Peace and self knowledge are achieved only at great risk and terrible cost.
Brain Child
by John SaulAlex Lonsdale was one of the most popular kids in La Paloma, California. Until the horrifying car accident. Until a brilliant doctor's medical miracle brought him back from the brink of death. Now, Alex seems the same. but in his eyes there is a blankness. In his hear there is coldness. If his parents, his friends, his girlfriend could see inside his brain, inside his dreams, they would be terrified. One hundred years ago in La Paloma, a terrible deed was done. A cry for vengeance pierced the night. That evil still lives. That vengeance still waits. Waits for Alex Lonsdale. Waits for the...Brainchild.From the Paperback edition.
Brain Drain (Destroyer #22)
by Warren Murphy Richard SapirArtists, composers, writers--mutilated and destroyed in the bloodiest murder in police annals. The work of a maniac who takes one thing--their brains! The chief of CURE nearly ends up as the next corpse...Remo and Chiun act fast, and find the killer's an old enemy, stock-piling brains to extract the creativity he lacks. They track him to Hollywood--top brain centre--where work can be fun! A sexy agent wants Remo for a new career. Chiun meets his soap opera idol, and there's a great forthcoming spectacle: irresistible force, Sinanju, meets indestructible object, Mr. Gordons.