Author : John Sazaklis
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0756576253
Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang discover a new neighborhood. There are so many places to explore, including a library, post office, fire station, and more! Young readers will delight in using the clues in the text and photos to guess which place the gang is visiting before turning the page.
Author : Phillip Donnelly
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 32,14 MB
Release : 2008-12-19
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1409252825
Travelling through a country he has always dreamed of visiting, the author is confused and perplexed by India; a land he does not understand, and one that does not conform to the rules of any society or culture he has yet encountered. This book is the story of his attempt to make sense of it all. Join him on his journey through the enigma that is India, and see what happens when a cynical neurotic western rationalist is confronted by the spiritualism, poverty and anarchy of India. From the teeming masses of Delhi and Mumbai, to the deserts and forts of Rajasthan and the beaches of Goa, the author gives his unique perspective on all of it. This version of the book has no pictures to minimise costs
Author : Edgar Cantero
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 19,1 MB
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385542003
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Freaky pleasure...it scratches a nostalgic itch for those who grew up on Saturday morning Scooby-Doo cartoons and sugar-bombed breakfast cereal" --USA Today "Deliriously wild, funny and imaginative. Cantero is an original voice." --Charles Yu, author of How to Live in a Science Fictional Universe With raucous humor and brilliantly orchestrated mayhem, Meddling Kids subverts teen detective archetypes like the Hardy Boys, the Famous Five, and Scooby-Doo, and delivers an exuberant and wickedly entertaining celebration of horror, love, friendship, and many-tentacled, interdimensional demon spawn. SUMMER 1977. The Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in Oregon’s Zoinx River Valley) solved their final mystery and unmasked the elusive Sleepy Lake monster—another low-life fortune hunter trying to get his dirty hands on the legendary riches hidden in Deboën Mansion. And he would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for those meddling kids. 1990. The former detectives have grown up and apart, each haunted by disturbing memories of their final night in the old haunted house. There are too many strange, half-remembered encounters and events that cannot be dismissed or explained away by a guy in a mask. And Andy, the once intrepid tomboy now wanted in two states, is tired of running from her demons. She needs answers. To find them she will need Kerri, the one-time kid genius and budding biologist, now drinking her ghosts away in New York with Tim, an excitable Weimaraner descended from the original canine member of the club. They will also have to get Nate, the horror nerd currently residing in an asylum in Arkham, Massachusetts. Luckily Nate has not lost contact with Peter, the handsome jock turned movie star who was once their team leader . . . which is remarkable, considering Peter has been dead for years. The time has come to get the team back together, face their fears, and find out what actually happened all those years ago at Sleepy Lake. It’s their only chance to end the nightmares and, perhaps, save the world. A nostalgic and subversive trip rife with sly nods to H. P. Lovecraft and pop culture, Edgar Cantero’s Meddling Kids is a strikingly original and dazzling reminder of the fun and adventure we can discover at the heart of our favorite stories, no matter how old we get.
Author : Christianne C. Jones
Publisher : Scooby-Doo!
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 27,83 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1684461081
"When Crystal Cove's mayor asks for help, Scooby-Doo and the gang work together to Doo Good in their community"--
Author : Matthew K. Manning
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Spider-Man (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 9781405391597
Meet your favourite neighbourhood web-slinger. If you love Spider-Man then take a trip Inside the World of Your Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man. This guide traces Spider-Man's entire career, from his powers and exciting adventures, to famous battles, loves, allies and enemies. You'll learn every twist and turn in the Spider-Man story, plus secret info on all your favourite Spider-Man characters. Focused entirely on the content from the classic Spider-Man comics, this chunky encyclopedia will take you from A to Z in the world of Spider-Man and Peter Parker. And don't forget, there's a world of other DK Spider-Man books to collect.
Author : Julia Shaw
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 24,60 MB
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 1683352084
An expert in criminology and psychology uses science to understand evil in today’s society. What is it about evil that we find so compelling? From our obsession with serial killers to violence in pop culture, we seem inescapably drawn to the stories of monstrous acts and the aberrant people who commit them. But evil, Dr. Julia Shaw argues, is largely subjective. What one may consider normal, like sex before marriage, eating meat, or working on Wall Street, others find abhorrent. And if evil is only in the eye of the beholder, can it be said to exist at all? In Evil, Shaw uses an engrossing mix of science, popular culture, and real-life examples to break down timely and provocative issues. How similar is your brain to a psychopath’s? How many people have murder fantasies? Can artificial intelligence be evil? Do your sexual proclivities make you a bad person? Who becomes a terrorist? If you could travel back in time, would you kill baby Hitler? In asking these questions, Shaw urges readers to discover empathy and to rethink and reshape what it means to be bad. Evil is a wide-ranging exploration into a fascinating, darkly compelling subject from wickedly smart and talented writer. Praise for Evil “A brilliant panorama that elucidates humanity’s dark side. . . . This science-based foundation for studying the minds of sadists, mass murderers, freaks and creeps, as well the new role of tech in promoting evil is presented in a totally engaging fashion.” —Philip Zimbardo, PhD; Professor Emeritus, Stanford University; author of The Lucifer Effect “This overview of various kinds of aberrant behavior grouped under the umbrella term evil is well backed up by the expertise of Shaw. . . . Shaw’s work will be particularly appropriate for college and high school libraries for its sober-minded, academically rigorous examination of an oft-sensationalized subject.” —Publishers Weekly “Capably written with a smooth mix of scientific insight and theoretical thought, the book will hopefully inspire empathy and understanding rather than hysteria and condemnation. A consistently fascinating journey into the darker sides of the human condition that will push on the boundaries of readers’ comfort zones.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author : P. K. McBride
Publisher : Made Simple Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 34,10 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780750645768
The expansion of the Internet continues unabated. internet-ready PCs have fallen dramatically in price in recent years and are selling well, bringing the 'Net' every month to tens of thousands of new users in the UK alone. In addition, many people are gaining Internet access as businesses, schools and other organizations come online. Setting up a computer to get online used to be a fairly complex technical job. This is no longer the case. Though there will be the occasional hitch, getting online with any reasonably new PC and modern software is straightforward. The major problem faced by new users is working out what to do when they get on the 'Net' and this book intends to address that problem. requires no technical or in-depth computer knowledge applicable to almost all computer systems, but with an emphasis on Windows 95/98 fully updated throughout in a second edition
Author : Natasha Tarpley
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 21,52 MB
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545783895
Fans of Chasing Vermeer will love this clever mystery about art, artifice, and the power of community. WATCHER. SHADOW. FUGITIVE.Harlem is home to all kinds of kids. Jin sees life passing her by from the window of her family's bodega. Alex wants to help the needy one shelter at a time, but can't tell anyone who she really is. Elvin's living on Harlem's cold, lonely streets, surviving on his own after his grandfather was mysteriously attacked.When these three strangers join forces to find out what happened to Elvin's grandfather, their digging leads them to an enigmatic artist whose missing masterpieces are worth a fortune-one that might save the neighborhood from development by an ambitious politician who wants to turn it into Harlem World, a ludicrous historic theme park. But if they don't find the paintings soon, nothing in their beloved neighborhood will ever be the same . . .In this remarkable tale of daring and danger, debut novelist Natasha Tarpley explores the way a community defines itself, the power of art to show truth, and what it really means to be home.
Author : Dawn Keetley
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 21,88 MB
Release : 2023-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1786839814
While the undisputed heyday of folk horror was Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, the genre has not only a rich cinematic and literary prehistory, but directors and novelists around the world have also been reinventing folk horror for the contemporary moment. This study sets out to rethink the assumptions that have guided critical writing on the genre in the face of such expansions, with chapters exploring a range of subjects from the fiction of E. F. Benson to Scooby-Doo, video games, and community engagement with the Lancashire witches. In looking beyond Britain, the essays collected here extend folk horror’s geographic terrain to map new conceptualisations of the genre now seen emerging from Italy, Ukraine, Thailand, Mexico and the Appalachian region of the US.
Author : NoViolet Bulawayo
Publisher : Reagan Arthur Books
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 27,24 MB
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316230839
This unflinching and powerful novel tells the "deeply felt and fiercely written" story of a young girl's journey out of Zimbabwe to America (New York Times Book Review). Darling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad. But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few. NoViolet Bulawayo's debut calls to mind the great storytellers of displacement and arrival who have come before her — from Junot Diaz to Zadie Smith to J.M. Coetzee — while she tells a vivid, raw story all her own. "Original, witty, and devastating." —People
