The Dreadful Fate of Jonathan York

by Kory Merritt
The Dreadful Fate of Jonathan York
Author: Kory Merritt
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 144947473X
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Jonathan York has led a boring life – a pointless degree from the community college, a lackluster job at the General Store, and never any desire for something more exciting. But when fate leaves him stranded in a sinister land, he finds himself seeking an adventure of his own. Along the way he encounters ghoulish thieves, ravenous swamp monsters, a dastardly ice cream conspiracy, and a necromancer bent on human sacrifice. In this beautifully illustrated, four-color novel, Jonathan York's life takes a decidedly spooky turn!

No Place for Monsters

by Kory Merritt
No Place for Monsters
Author: Kory Merritt
Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre: JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN: 0358128536
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Cowslip Grove seems like the perfect place to raise a family until the children start disappearing. Nobody looks for the children because nobody can remember them. Nobody except Levi and Kat. Now they must figure out what terrible presence is taking the chilren and fight it to save the missing kids, before the whole town disappears.

School of Phantoms

by Kory Merritt
School of Phantoms
Author: Kory Merritt
Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2021-09-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 035819332X
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This follow-up to "No Place for Monsters" finds Levi and Kat trapped in the school overnight by freak weather and discovering that a cold-hearted new evil has emerged that they must stop before it eats the entire school.

The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding

by Alexandra Bracken
The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding
Author: Alexandra Bracken
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1484798511
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Prosper Redding is the only unexceptional member of his very successful family, that is, until he discovers a demon living inside him. Turns out, Prosper's great-great-great-great-great-something grandfather made, and then broke - a contract with a malefactor, a demon who exchanges fortune for eternal servitude. Now Alastor, the malefactor, has reawakened and is intent on destroying the Redding fortune, unless they can kill him in the body he inhabits, which, oh, wait, that's Prosper, and why is his grandmother coming at him with a silver blade? In danger from both the demon trying to take over his soul and the family that would rather protect their fortune than their own kin, Prosper narrowly escapes with the help of his long lost Uncle Barnabas and Barnabas's daughter, Nell, a witch in training. According to Barnabas and Nell, they have only days to break the family curse and find a way to banish Alastor back to the demon realm. Until then, Prosper has to deal with Alastor's vengeful mutterings inside his head (not to mention his nasty habit of snacking on spiders). And, every night, Alastor's control over his body grows stronger. . . As the deadline to the curse draws nearer, Prosper and Nell realize there's more at stake than just the Redding family fortune. . . that there might be something else out there, something worse than Alastor, that could destroy the balance between the human and demon realms and change the world as they know it forever.

The Dreadful Lemon Sky

by John D. MacDonald
The Dreadful Lemon Sky
Author: John D. MacDonald
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2013-01-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307826775
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From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Dreadful Lemon Sky is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat. Around four in the morning, Travis McGee is jarred awake by a breathless ghost from his past: an old flame who needs a place to stash a package full of cash. What’s in it for McGee? Ten grand and no questions asked. Two weeks later, she’s dead. “The Travis McGee novels are among the finest works of fiction ever penned by an American author.”—Jonathan Kellerman Carolyn Milligan was only aboard McGee’s boat for one night. She came to drop off a hundred grand for safekeeping. What Carrie really needed was someone to keep her safe. She said she’d be back in a month. Instead Carrie is killed in a dubious roadside accident. Now McGee is left with a fortune—and a nagging conscience. So McGee takes a trip to the seedy little town of Bayside, Florida, to look into Carrie’s life before she showed up on his boat. What McGee finds only pushes him further into the corrupt world of drugs and blood that Carrie was trying to escape. McGee is used to high stakes, but when the bodies start piling up, even he may be in over his head. Features a new Introduction by Lee Child

A Meaningful Life

by L.J. Davis
A Meaningful Life
Author: L.J. Davis
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2010-07-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1590173945
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L.J. Davis’s 1971 novel, A Meaningful Life, is a blistering black comedy about the American quest for redemption through real estate and a gritty picture of New York City in collapse. Just out of college, Lowell Lake, the Western-born hero of Davis’s novel, heads to New York, where he plans to make it big as a writer. Instead he finds a job as a technical editor, at which he toils away while passion leaks out of his marriage to a nice Jewish girl. Then Lowell discovers a beautiful crumbling mansion in a crime-ridden section of Brooklyn, and against all advice, not to mention his wife’s will, sinks his every penny into buying it. He quits his job, moves in, and spends day and night on demolition and construction. At last he has a mission: he will dig up the lost history of his house; he will restore it to its past grandeur. He will make good on everything that’s gone wrong with his life, and he will even murder to do it.

Mystery of the Map (Poptropica Book 1)

by Jack Chabert
Mystery of the Map (Poptropica Book 1)
Author: Jack Chabert
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2016-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1613129025
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New York Times Bestseller Based on a concept by Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney comes Poptropica, a brand-new graphic novel adventure series by Jack Chabert and Kory Merritt. In Mystery of the Map, Oliver, Mya, and Jorge take a ride in a hot-air balloon, only to crash-land on an unknown island filled with extinct animals and a horde of angry Vikings. Welcome to Poptropica, an uncharted group of islands whose existence is hidden from the rest of the world. As the three friends embark on a perilous search for a way home, they quickly discover the shocking reason they were brought there—something that threatens the very existence of Poptropica and their ability to ever make it off the island!

Pride and Perjury

by Jonathan Aitken
Pride and Perjury
Author: Jonathan Aitken
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2003-02-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1441131019
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When Jonathan Aitken stepped from Number 10 Downing Street on July 20th 1994, he was soon tipped as next Leader of the Conservative Party. John Major had just appointed him First Secretary to the Treasury and his future could not have been brighter. What went wrong? Within a year headlines appeared such as 'Aitken tried to arrange girls for Saudi friends' and 'New Light on who paid what at The Ritz in Paris.' Accused of pimping, arms dealing and corruption, both his career and reputation hung in the balance as he came out fighting with his now famous Sword of Truth speech.In 'Pride and Perjury' Aitken tells for the first time how he became the most vilified politician in Britain since John Profumo. He reveals his dealings with cabinet colleagues, his relationship with the Saudi Royal Family, and a full account of his stay at the Ritz Hotel in Paris. He also describes the intense and dramatic events behind his failed libel action and his subsequent trial for perjury and attempting to pervert the course of justice.Aitken's fall from grace was the greatest personal catastrophe for a public figure since the trials of Oscar Wilde - a living hell including bankruptcy, divorce and a prison sentence. With insight and with elegance Pride and Perjury is a moving and compelling account of a fallen politician's penitence and delves into the darker side of human nature. It is also an inspiring message of hope and redemption.

Second Reading

by Jonathan Yardley
Second Reading
Author: Jonathan Yardley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781609450083
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This collection of 5 dozen pieces of literary criticism was published in the Washington Post between March 2003 and January 2010. It is a collection of Yardley's opinions of books that he believes are worthy of a second look. They scan the realms of fiction, biography and autobiography, memoirs, and history.