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Christian McKay Heidicker draws inspiration from Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe for his debut middle-grade novel, a thrilling portrait of survival and an unforgettable tale of friendship. "Into the finest tradition of storytelling steps Christian McKay Heidicker with these highly original, bone-chilling, and ultimately heart-warming stories. All that's needed is a blazing campfire and a delicious plate of peaches and centiped...

From the author of Let's Talk About Love and If It Makes You Happy, this pacey YA novel follows three teens locked together in a mansion, competing for a big cash prize in a competition run by a mysterious heiress.Everyone thinks they know Jewel Van Hanen - heiress turned actress turned social media darling who created the massively popular video-sharing app, Golden Rule.After mysteriously disappearing for a year, Jewel made her dramatic retur...

A collection of chilling tales from the dark heart of American literature.

Chiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favourite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before, the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colours of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra special and will look striking on any shelf. This book has matching lined and blank journals (sold separately). They make a great gift when paired together but are also just a...

Also known as Kimi ni Nare, a new high school drama from the Eisner-nominated creator of orangeand Dreamin' Sun!Taiyou is a high-school musician with dreams of stardom, but when his bandmates quit in order to focus on school, it feels like Taiyou's dreams are slipping away. In an act of desperation, Taiyou strong-arms his sullen classmate Hikari into forming a band with him. The two boys are total opposites, but together they might just be abl...

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From the author of Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells (45, 000 sold) comes a daily collection of spells and rituals for harnessing the magical power of each day in the calendar year.

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From the New York Times-bestselling co-author of It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale comes a fast-paced thriller about a truck driver searching across America for the wife she had long assumed to be dead.

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Bahnexperte Ingo Thiele präsentiert rund 160 größtenteils unveröffentlichte faszinierende Fotografien, die den Einsatz der legendären Dampflokomotiven inmitten der wunderschönen Thüringer Landschaft dokumentieren. Die beeindruckenden Aufnahmen lassen die Herzen jedes Dampflokliebhabers höher schlagen. Dieser Bildband ist ein Muss für alle Eisenbahnfreunde und Technikfans.

Featuring the charming characters from Newbery Honor Book award-winning author Jacqueline Kelly's young readers' series, A Squirrelly Situation: Calpurnia Tate, Girl Vet When Travis finds an abandoned baby squirrel, he brings him home and names him Fluffy. But Mother isn't so sure that Fluffy is such a great family pet-and neither is Thud, the cat. Will Fluffy be able to steer clear of these two and find a home in the Tate household?

The theme of the seas has long been a central topic in scholarship on the Lusophone world, but more recent research has invested ocean crossings with new relevance and urgency. This special issue brings together a diversity of approaches, paying close attention to sea mobilities, what they entailed, and how they were practiced, and what meanings have been associated with them. Scholars also consider the performance or practice of movement in i...

Explores how cultural conceptions of mobility and the road contribute to identity and culture in early modern Britain This book brings together thirteen essays, by both established and emerging scholars, which examine the most influential meanings of roads in early modern literature and culture. Chapters develop our understanding of the place of the road in the early modern imagination and open various windows on a geography which may by its n...

This book aims to provide a deep insight into the concept of Linux, its usage, programming and several other connected topics. The book promotes hands-on practices of regular expressions and filters like sed and awk through many concretely executed examples.

Reframes the long-standing critical narrative of the relationship between Harriet Martineau and Charles Dickens to explore the transatlantic development of the early Victorian press Focusing on the importance of Martineau's contribution to the development of the early Victorian press, this book highlights the degree to which the public quarrel between her and Dickens in the mid-1850s represented larger fissures within nineteenth-century libera...

Reassembles the books of a medieval Arabic library that are today dispersed around the world In the late medieval period, manuscripts galore circulated in Middle Eastern libraries. Yet very few book collections have come down to us as such or have left a documentary trail. This book discusses the largest private book collection of the pre-Ottoman Arabic Middle East for which we have both a paper trail and a surviving corpus of the manuscripts ...

This collection of essays charts the intellectual trajectory of Barbara Glowczewski, an anthropologist who has worked with the Warlpiri people of Australia since 1979. Inspired by the art and struggles of different Indigenous people and other discriminated groups, especially women, she delivers a radical anthropology.

A Festschrift honouring J. Hillis Miller and his contribution to Victorian Studies and nineteenth-century criticism Reading Victorian Literature provides a critical commentary on major authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Dickens to Conrad. At the same time, the assembled group of internationally recognised scholars engages with Miller's work, influence and significance in the study of that era. The volume includes ori...

Thinking Nature tracks the history of the concept of nature from the Hebrew Bible, through Renaissance philosophy and science, to Dark Ecology. Critical of the post-humanist trend in contemporary eco-criticism, Sean McGrath makes a compelling case for a new anthropocenic humanism - a humanism that is not at the expense of nature, and a naturalism that is not at the expense of the human.Nature as the stable backdrop of human civilization appear...