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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
by Seth Grahame-SmithIndiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness.""My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, "henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose..." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.
Abracadaver (Esther Diamond Novel #7)
by Laura ResnickR.I.P. = Reanimated, Infernal, and Pretty damn dangerous Struggling actress Esther Diamond, whose year got off to a rough start (what with incarceration, unemployment, and mystical death curses), finally catches a break when she lands an acting job.She's hired to reprise her guest role as prostitute Jilly C-Note on The Dirty Thirty, a TV crime drama about depravity and corruption in the New York Police Department. Esther's ex-sometime boyfriend, NYPD's Detective Connor Lopez, hates that show with undying passion -- especially after Esther convinces her narcissistic co-star to shadow Lopez on the job, in order to add verisimilitude to his performance as a morally bankrupt cop.But Esther's fellow thespian is her best bet for keeping an eye on Lopez 24/7--and, more to the point, on Lopez's new partner, Detective Quinn. Esther and her friend Max, a 350-year-old mage whose day job is protecting the city from Evil, suspect Quinn of being involved in the latest mystical mayhem to menace Manhattan...Corpses suddenly aren't staying quite as dead as they should.While Max and Esther try to determine what Quinn's role is in the supernatural reanimation of the deceased downtown, a dangerous foe with deadly intent changes everyone's dinner plans one cold winter night...
Abracadabra! It's Alive!
by Peter LerangisWhen the Abracadabra Club visits the Museum of Natural History, Jessica, Max, Selena, and Quincy learn about the dinosaurs that died out in the Great Extinction. But what if all the dinosaurs didn't become extinct? What if one of them is still alive today -- and roaming the halls of Rebus Elementary School? Impossible? Maybe not ...
Abracadabra 1. Los magos rebeldes
by Neil Patrick HarrisDe la mano del galardonado actor Neil Patrick Harris llega el primer libro de la serie «Abracadabra». Unas serie que esconde un montón de ases bajo la manga. Carter, un chico flacucho de manos ágiles, huye de su tío, un ladrón que lo utiliza para robar a la gente, pero con tan mala suerte que cae en las garras de Bosso y su banda de secuaces. Por suerte, también se topará con el señor Vernon, quien le presentará a otros cinco chicos que, con ayuda de la magia, intentarán salvar a los habitantes de Mineral Wells de las garras del malvado Bosso.
Abracadabra!
by Wong Herbert YeeMouse and Mole are very excited. Minkus the Magnificent is in town-ONE SHOW ONLY!-and they can't wait to sit in the front row and see his tricks. After the abracadabras happen, though, something goes a bit wrong-and Mole is very disappointed to discover that magic is sometimes not exactly what it seems. How will Mouse help her friend realize that there is magic happening right in front of their very eyes? Wong Herbert Yee gives readers another grand adventure with two best friends, Mouse and Mole, who, despite their different outlooks on life, manage to show each other that friendship itself is a magical event!
Abra-Ca-Doodle! #4 (The Doodles of Sam Dibble #4)
by J. PressSam's school is hosting a talent show to raise money for the Environmental Center. But Sam doesn't have a talent to perform! Or so he thinks. He tries juggling, but just can't get the hang of it. Plus, his arch-nemesis, Wax, decides to juggle in the talent show as well--and Wax is good. But in a moment of inspiration, Sam learns that sometimes you don't have to look very far to find out what you're really good at!
Above World
by Jenn ReeseA suspenseful sci-fi escapade plucks two children out of the ocean for a thrilling adventure. Thirteen-year-old Aluna has lived her entire life under the ocean with the Coral Kampii in the City of Shifting Tides. But after centuries spent hidden from the Above World, her colony's survival is at risk. The Kampii's breathing necklaces are failing, but the elders are unwilling to venture above water to seek answers. Only headstrong Aluna and her friend Hoku are stubborn and bold enough to face the terrors of land to search for way to save their people. But can Aluna's fierce determination and fighting skills and Hoku's tech-savvy keep them safe? Set in a world where overcrowding has led humans to adapt - growing tails to live under the ocean or wings to live on mountains - here is a ride through a future where greed and cruelty have gone unchecked, but the loyalty of friends remains true.
Above the Veil (The Seventh Tower, Book #4)
by Garth NixPrepare to fight. The Underfolk are restless. For a long time, they have kept quiet, occupying the lower levels of the; Castle. But now they are going to be heard... Tal and Mille are no longer alone in their quest for the truth about their world. They have been joined by Crow, a rebel: Underfolk, and his band of conspirators.: They know many secrets about the Castle--and are on the verge of uncovering the greatest secret of all. The darkness is growing deeper. The shadows are growing stronger. And Tal and Milla are in greater danger than ever before.
Above the Snowline
by Steph SwainstonThis is the book Steph Swainston's fans have been waiting for. A prequel to the Castle novels.This is Jant Shira's life before the drugs took over, as a hunter in the mountains. Awian exiles are building a stronghold in the Darkling mountains, where the Rhydanne hunt. Their clash of interests soon leads to bloodshed and Shira Dellin, a Rhydanne huntress, appeals to the immortal Circle for justice. The Emperor sends Jant, half-Rhydanne, half-Awian, and all-confidence, to mediate.As Jant is drawn into the spiralling violence he is shaken into coming to terms with his own heritage and his feelings for the alien, intoxicating Dellin.ABOVE THE SNOWLINE tells the story of Jant's early years in the Circle and shows the Fourlands as you've never seen them before.
Above the Snowline
by Steph SwainstonThis is the book Steph Swainston's fans have been waiting for. A prequel to the Castle novels.This is Jant Shira's life before the drugs took over, as a hunter in the mountains. Awian exiles are building a stronghold in the Darkling mountains, where the Rhydanne hunt. Their clash of interests soon leads to bloodshed and Shira Dellin, a Rhydanne huntress, appeals to the immortal Circle for justice. The Emperor sends Jant, half-Rhydanne, half-Awian, and all-confidence, to mediate.As Jant is drawn into the spiralling violence he is shaken into coming to terms with his own heritage and his feelings for the alien, intoxicating Dellin.ABOVE THE SNOWLINE tells the story of Jant's early years in the Circle and shows the Fourlands as you've never seen them before.
Above the Heavens: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Cang QiongThe heaven and earth were clearly separated. Within the vast expanse of space, there were numerous geniuses. The king who ruled this world rushed out of his peak to intimidate the people of this world. The apocalypse failed to break into the human world, and a strange and novel life began after his rebirth. Sour and bitter, taste everything, love and hate, make people wish they were dead. The re-emergence of experts to unite the world was only to uncover the secret of his rebirth and to set up a trap.
Above the Heavens: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Cang QiongThe heaven and earth were clearly separated. Within the vast expanse of space, there were numerous geniuses. The king who ruled this world rushed out of his peak to intimidate the people of this world. The apocalypse failed to break into the human world, and a strange and novel life began after his rebirth. Sour and bitter, taste everything, love and hate, make people wish they were dead. The re-emergence of experts to unite the world was only to uncover the secret of his rebirth and to set up a trap.
Above the Heavens: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Cang QiongThe heaven and earth were clearly separated. Within the vast expanse of space, there were numerous geniuses. The king who ruled this world rushed out of his peak to intimidate the people of this world. The apocalypse failed to break into the human world, and a strange and novel life began after his rebirth. Sour and bitter, taste everything, love and hate, make people wish they were dead. The re-emergence of experts to unite the world was only to uncover the secret of his rebirth and to set up a trap.
Above the Heavens: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Cang QiongThe heaven and earth were clearly separated. Within the vast expanse of space, there were numerous geniuses. The king who ruled this world rushed out of his peak to intimidate the people of this world. The apocalypse failed to break into the human world, and a strange and novel life began after his rebirth. Sour and bitter, taste everything, love and hate, make people wish they were dead. The re-emergence of experts to unite the world was only to uncover the secret of his rebirth and to set up a trap.
Above the Heavens: Volume 5 (Volume 5 #5)
by Cang QiongThe heaven and earth were clearly separated. Within the vast expanse of space, there were numerous geniuses. The king who ruled this world rushed out of his peak to intimidate the people of this world. The apocalypse failed to break into the human world, and a strange and novel life began after his rebirth. Sour and bitter, taste everything, love and hate, make people wish they were dead. The re-emergence of experts to unite the world was only to uncover the secret of his rebirth and to set up a trap.
Above the Ether: A Novel
by Eric BarnesA mesmerizing novel of unfolding dystopia amid the effects of climate change in a world very like our own, for readers of Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven and Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood. In this prequel to Eric Barnes's acclaimed cli-fi novel The City Where We Once Lived, six sets of characters move through a landscape and a country just beginning to show the signs of cataclysmic change. A father and his young children fleeing a tsunami after a massive earthquake in the Gulf. A woman and her husband punishing themselves without relent for the loss of both their sons to addiction, while wildfires slowly burn closer to their family home. A brilliant investor, assessing opportunity in the risk to crops, homes, cities, industries, and infrastructure, working in the silent comfort of her office sixty floors up in the scorching air. A doctor and his wife stuck in a refugee camp for immigrants somewhere in a southern desert. Two young men working the rides for a roadside carnival, one escaping a brutal past, the other a racist present. The manager of a chain of nondescript fast-food restaurants in a city ravaged by the relentless wind.. While every night the news alternates images of tsunami destruction with the baseball scores, the characters converge on a city where the forces of change have already broken—a city half abandoned, with one part left to be scavenged as the levee system protecting it slowly fails—until, in their vehicles on the highway that runs through it, they witness the approach of what looks to be just one more violent storm.
Above
by Leah BobetAn extraordinary debut urban fantasy about dangers outside and in."ABOVE pulls off that rare trick of being convincing and utterly magical at the same time."- Emma Donoghue, NYT bestselling author of ROOM"Leah Bobet's ABOVE is that rarest of creatures, combining the outspoken honesty of a good first novel with the craft of a seasoned professional." - Elizabeth Bear, Hugo Award-winning author of DUSTMatthew has loved Ariel from the moment he found her in the tunnels, her bee's wings falling away. They live in Safe, an underground refuge for those fleeing the city Above--like Whisper, who speaks to ghosts, and Jack Flash, who can shoot lightning from his fingers. But one terrifying night, an old enemy invades Safe with an army of shadows, and only Matthew, Ariel, and a few friends escape Above. As Matthew unravels the mystery of Safe's history and the shadows' attack, he realizes he must find a way to remake his home--not just for himself, but for Ariel, who needs him more than ever before.ABOVE is the debut of an amazing new voice.
About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews
by Samuel R. DelanyAward-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri's Art of Dramatic Writing. Taking up specifics (When do flashbacks work, and when should you avoid them? How do you make characters both vivid and sympathetic?) and generalities (How are novels structured? How do writers establish serious literary reputations today?), Delany also examines the condition of the contemporary creative writer and how it differs from that of the writer in the years of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and the high Modernists. Like a private writing tutorial, About Writing treats each topic with clarity and insight. Here is an indispensable companion for serious writers everywhere.
About Time
by Kim CarmichaelOn the planet Tempore, time and schedules dictate everything from the time people wake up, to the time they make love, and even the time they form a union. Not a second is wasted. Amsen Dadelon hates timetables. She’s always late and has managed to skirt the traditional partnership deadline until one day she wakes up with a mate she doesn’t know.Hallan Pirro knows time is of the essence. After a failed union, he has no time to waste. As the couple work together to plan their official Union Ceremony, Amsen tries to leave without embarrassing her family while Hallan tries to hide his past failures. They may discover that it’s about time for love.
About Time: 12 Short Stories
by Jack FinneyAbout Time offers a delightful return to the world of time travel and light comedy that distinguished Jack Finney's all-time classic Time and Again. The protagonists of these twelve stories are well-meaning but at odds with their surroundings and their lives. The time to which they escape—through time travel—doesn't always fulfill their expectations in the way they had hoped, but sometimes, they can still find their dreams.
About Time
by Carol Holland MarchLou is married, in the closet, and facing bankruptcy in Carmel, California. It’s Christmas Eve and he must sell his house to pay his debts while he tries to cope with the mysterious voice in his head telling him it's time to go home. He has no idea what that means, but he's pretty sure the voice is a symptom of stress. His wife has left him for her longtime lover and when he goes to his favorite bar on Christmas Eve, all he’s hoping for is a friendly face to help him forget his problems.When George joins him at the bar, claiming to be an old college buddy, Lou doesn’t remember him, but he can’t deny the instant attraction that springs up between them. George knows about the voice in Lou’s head, and claims to be from another world where he and Lou were bonded partners. He’s come back to help Lou remember who he is so they can be reunited.Lou doesn’t believe a word of George’s story, but takes him home for the night to ease his own pain. The sex is so good he decides to go along with George’s delusions even though he suspects the guy is crazy. On the Carmel beach on Christmas day at sunset, George insists that the way home is within their grasp if Lou will just trust him. Lou wants to believe this strange man, but to do that he has to let go of everything he knows about how the world works.
About Time
by Simona Sparaco Howard CurtisSvevo Romano is a womanising banker, living the life of excess in Rome. He may be handsome, rich and successful, but he is also a ruthless businessman, workaholic and playboy. At the back of his mind he has a nagging feeling that this is not the right life; a feeling he tries to ignore.But one day, everything changes: time suddenly speeds up--but only for him. Svevo finds himself in a race against life itself, trying desperately to keep up with his colleagues and friends, to hold on to all the things he once thought important. His life becomes a mad whirl; but just as everything threatens to spiral out of control, life acquires a meaning that reaches beyond time and space.
About Time (The Time Police #4)
by Jodi TaylorFrom the million-copy bestselling author of THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S.'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time' C. K. MCDONNELL---Patience is not a virtue known to the Time Police. And Commander Hay is facing the longest day of her life...After their heroic efforts to safeguard the Acropolis and prevent the Paris Time-Stop, the Time Police have gone from zero to hero. Then one fateful mission to apprehend a minor criminal selling dodgy historical artefacts blows up in all their faces.An officer is attacked within TPHQ. A prisoner is murdered. And investigations are about to lead to the one place where no officer can legally tread.Worst of all, trouble is brewing for Luke, Jane and Matthew as a shocking revelation threatens to tear Team Weird apart for good.FOR FANS OF DOCTOR WHO, THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB AND JASPER FFORDE. Readers love the Time Police: 'This got five stars only because I couldn't give it six!''I don't think I've ever laughed out loud so much reading a book''I am always gutted when I finish a Jodi Taylor book as I know I will have to wait for the next one''Joyous, breakneck-speed adventures''Lots more in this series please''This book is BRILLIANT''Brilliantly conceived and flawlessly written'
About Time (The Time Police #4)
by Jodi TaylorFrom the million-copy bestselling author of THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S.'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time' C. K. MCDONNELL---Patience is not a virtue known to the Time Police. And Commander Hay is facing the longest day of her life...After their heroic efforts to safeguard the Acropolis and prevent the Paris Time-Stop, the Time Police have gone from zero to hero. Then one fateful mission to apprehend a minor criminal selling dodgy historical artefacts blows up in all their faces.An officer is attacked within TPHQ. A prisoner is murdered. And investigations are about to lead to the one place where no officer can legally tread.Worst of all, trouble is brewing for Luke, Jane and Matthew as a shocking revelation threatens to tear Team Weird apart for good.FOR FANS OF DOCTOR WHO, THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB AND JASPER FFORDE. Readers love the Time Police: 'This got five stars only because I couldn't give it six!''I don't think I've ever laughed out loud so much reading a book''I am always gutted when I finish a Jodi Taylor book as I know I will have to wait for the next one''Joyous, breakneck-speed adventures''Lots more in this series please''This book is BRILLIANT''Brilliantly conceived and flawlessly written'
About Time (The Time Police #4)
by Jodi TaylorFrom the million-copy bestselling author of THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S.'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time' C. K. MCDONNELL---Patience is not a virtue known to the Time Police. And Commander Hay is facing the longest day of her life...After their heroic efforts to safeguard the Acropolis and prevent the Paris Time-Stop, the Time Police have gone from zero to hero. Then one fateful mission to apprehend a minor criminal selling dodgy historical artefacts blows up in all their faces.An officer is attacked within TPHQ. A prisoner is murdered. And investigations are about to lead to the one place where no officer can legally tread.Worst of all, trouble is brewing for Luke, Jane and Matthew as a shocking revelation threatens to tear Team Weird apart for good.FOR FANS OF DOCTOR WHO, THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB AND JASPER FFORDE. Readers love the Time Police: 'This got five stars only because I couldn't give it six!''I don't think I've ever laughed out loud so much reading a book''I am always gutted when I finish a Jodi Taylor book as I know I will have to wait for the next one''Joyous, breakneck-speed adventures''Lots more in this series please''This book is BRILLIANT''Brilliantly conceived and flawlessly written'(P) 2022 Headline Publishing Group Ltd