Maison d'édition: NPC Comics
Shannon Noble is a mouthy 19 year-old and an accomplished martial artist. She’s dedicated, strong, defiant, and her mouth sometimes gets her into trouble. After spending the last ten years training in traditional martial arts, Shannon has taken up MMA… Her journey will start in the dojo, but just where will it end?
The pet show is about to start, and Ava can't find her cat. It's time to do some detective work. Ava, Clair, and Caleb are on the case!Voir livre
Mary Shelley’s classic novel, presented in its original 1818 text, Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. The original 1818 text of Frankenstein preserves the hard-hitting and politically-charged aspects of Shelley’s original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. The classic novel is famously subtitled The Modern Prometheus and based on the Ancient Greek myth of Prometheus, as both Victor Frankenstein and Prometheus developed science that gives humans immortality. Few creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein's terrible creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. Considering the gothic novel's enduring success, it is remarkable that it began merely as a whim of Lord Byron's The illustrious poets failed to complete their ghost stories, but Mary Shelley rose supremely to the challenge With Frankenstein, she succeeded admirably in the task she set for herself: to create a story that, in her own words, "would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror — one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart. The book has inspired numerous movie, theatrical, and television adaptations. A top 100 Great American Read, it's one of the best-loved and most influential works ever published.Voir livre
In a time before jet planes or fast boats, Phileas Fogg bets he can go around the world in eighty days- a then unheard of record time. Travel with him as he board boats, trains, and even an elephant! Will he beat the deadline and be rich? Or, will he be ruined?Voir livre
""Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream" is a novel by John Kendrick Bangs, first published in 1907 by Doubleday, Page & Co. of New York. Illustrated by Albert Levering, this work serves as a political parody of Lewis Carroll's famous Alice books: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) and "Through the Looking-Glass" (1871). In this whimsical tale, Alice finds herself in "Blunderland", also humorously referred to as "Municipal Ownership Country". Here, she encounters familiar characters from Wonderland, including the dormouse, the Mad Hatter, and the Cheshire Cat. However, instead of whimsical adventures, Alice grapples with issues critical of collectivism, taxation, corporate greed, and corruption. The novel playfully transports readers to a satirical realm where absurdity meets political commentary. "Voir livre
At the point when four ladies abandon their dreary lives to go on vacation in Italy, their lives are changed always by the Mediterranean. Mrs. Arbuthnot and Mrs. Wilkins, while some portion of similar women's club, have never spoken. Woman Caroline Dester and the old Mrs. Fisher join their vacation in order to alleviate costs. As these ladies meet up and become familiar with themselves than they at any point expected, they uncover their actual characters and the backgrounds of their lives that will generally block them. Enlivened by the writer's own extended excursion to the Italian Riviera, this novel is noted as her most broadly understood work.Voir livre
It's the The Super Ordinary Heroes Series! === Are superheroes always tall and strong? Nope! Do they come in every shape and size? Yep! And what makes a superhero... super, anyway? In short, it's the ordinary, everyday superpowers that we employ to help others... and even ourselves! In this second kids picture book series by Author Aaron Ryan, discover superpowers that you can use in everyday life to make yours - and someone else's! - day just a little bit brighter! ===From the bestselling and award-winning author, Aaron Ryan, who brought you the kids picture books The Ring of Truth, The Sword of Joy, and The Book of Power, as well as You Are My Whole Earth: A Daddy's Love For His Sons, and over 50 books.Voir livre
