The Super Book for Super Heroes is a compendium of ideas, drawing, coloring, and activities that allows you to create your own crusaders for justice who do battle with super villains, unravelling their crazed schemes for taking over the world. You will learn to draw villains such as the Mad Scientist, Bog Creature, and Evil Robot, while also creating superheroes, their sidekick...(展开全部)

Illuminating the dark side of the American century, "The Monster Show" uncovers the surprising links between horror entertainment and the great social crises of our time, as well as horror's function as a pop analogue to surrealism and other artistic movements. With penetrating analyses and revealing anecdotes, David J. Skal chronicles one of our most popular and pervasive mode...(展开全部)

A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles. He leaves no clues and the police are helpless. When his name is found carved into the charred remains of the third victim, disgraced detective Washington Poe is brought back from suspension and into an investigation he wants no part of. Reluctantly partnered with the brilliant but sociall...(展开全部)

In her electrifying debut, Julia Armfield explores women’s experiences in contemporary society, mapped through their bodies. As urban dwellers’ sleeps become disassociated from them, like Peter Pan’s shadow, a city turns insomniac. A teenager entering puberty finds her body transforming in ways very different than her classmates’. As a popular band gathers momentum, the fangirl...(展开全部)

First UK edition The first book in CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning British espionage series starring a team of MI5 agents united by one common They've screwed up royally and will do anything to redeem themselves. London, Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. The "slow horses," as they’re called, have all disgraced the...(展开全部)

Praise for Mick Herron: "Mick Herron never tells a suspense story in the expected way. . . . In Herron's book, there is no hiding under the desk."— The New York Times Book Review "Stylish and engaging."— The Washington Post "[A] masterful thriller. . . . The intricate plot, coupled with Herron's breezy writing style, results in superior entertainment that makes most oth...(展开全部)

In her electrifying debut, Julia Armfield explores women’s experiences in contemporary society, mapped through their bodies. As urban dwellers’ sleeps become disassociated from them, like Peter Pan’s shadow, a city turns insomniac. A teenager entering puberty finds her body transforming in ways very different than her classmates’. As a popular band gathers momentum, the fangirl...(展开全部)

Finalist for the National Book Award: A sassy, cynical professional woman's notions of loveand its apparent impossibilityare thrown into question by a man who challenges everything she thought she kne

First UK edition The first book in CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning British espionage series starring a team of MI5 agents united by one common They've screwed up royally and will do anything to redeem themselves. London, Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. The "slow horses," as they’re called, have all disgraced the...(展开全部)

Praise for Mick Herron: "Mick Herron never tells a suspense story in the expected way. . . . In Herron's book, there is no hiding under the desk."— The New York Times Book Review "Stylish and engaging."— The Washington Post "[A] masterful thriller. . . . The intricate plot, coupled with Herron's breezy writing style, results in superior entertainment that makes most oth...(展开全部)