This kooky, creature-crammed romp for early readers keeps the pages turning with pictures--and laughs--on every page. In HAIRBALL FROM OUTER SPACE!, could Gramma really be brainwashed by aliens who want to take over the planet with fast food joints--serving dishes made from the good people of Gingham County? Wiley and Grampa, to the rescue!
The Devils Daughters is the story of two sisters who were born in the late eighteen hundredths. They are Siamese twins, and they suffer from large tumors that cover their entire body. The girls grow up in a large mansion as their folks are the wealthiest in town. Their mother, Patricia, is kind and loving. But their father is a cold-blooded alcoholic, and he abuses them every chance he gets. Locking them away in the attic because of the way they look, he keeps them chained to the floor. Their names are Agatha and Greta Winters, and they are very intelligent for their age. The dark fairy tale is a constant struggle for them as their mother tries her best to keep them from becoming monsters like their father. He, on the other hand, wants to destroy any chance they have for a normal life. The question is, Will they ever defeat their tyrant father and escape the attic where they are imprisoned?
When Victor Holycross commits an act of heinous sacrilege at the Festival of the Blessed Virgin, he unwittingly brings forth a curse that transforms his wife and daughter into living hair balls. To seek absolution and lift the hairy plague, a penance is given: the recovery of stolen religious relics. With a time frame of forty days and forty nights and a bicycle as his sole form of transport, Victor finds himself helped (and often hindered) by a one-legged whore, a talking dog with strange sexual proclivities and an attack-nun. Thrust into a maelstrom of demonic confrontations, unholy alliances and duplicitous relationships, he soon discovers that the world is a darker place than he anticipated. The Devil's Hairball is an absurdist journey through a bizarro landscape, riddled with black humour, twisted characters and an unhealthy serving of spite and malice. "One of the most bizarre story ideas I have come across in recent years." Jim Mcleod - Gingernuts of Horror "Improper. That's how to sum up Peter Caffrey's raucous horror/comedy The Devil's Hairball ... dirty humour drips from every page." Kendall Reviews
It is the summer of 1950 - and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Then, hours later, Flavia finds an man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begings in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."
The Devil's Panties is not, in fact, satanic porn. It's an autobiographical comic strip about a girl in flame boots who works at a comic shop while dreaming of being a successful comic artist. As Jennie starts getting traction on her dream, Nigel the Pirate enters her world and shows her the ropes, slopes and gropes of convention life. However as things start to go awry, her conscience summons supernatural "help" from on high and down low. Little did Jen know that they would overstay their welcome.
The Buckshaw Chronicles, Volume 1, brings together under one spine the bestselling The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, and A Red Herring Without Mustard. Follow our precocious amateur detective with a passion for poison as she investigates the death of a man in her very own backyard's cucumber patch, goes behind the scenes of a puppet show to find out who wanted the puppet master dead, and as she looks into the crystal ball to find out why corpse after corpse is being found in Bishop's Lacey. Flavia is a completely enchanting character, and Alan Bradley a masterful writer. Join the adventures!
“A rich, atmospheric murder mystery . . . rife with love, scandal . . . redemption, greed and nobility,” raved the San Jose Mercury News about Outfoxed, Rita Mae Brown’s first foxhunting masterpiece. In The Hunt Ball, the latest novel in this popular series, all the ingredients Brown’s readers love are abundantly present: richness of character and landscape, the thrill of the hunt, and the chill of violence. The trouble begins at Custis Hall, an exclusive girls’ school in Virginia that has gloried in its good name for nearly two hundred years. At first, the outcry is a mere tempest in a silver teapot–a small group of students protesting the school’s exhibit of antique household objects crafted by slaves–and headmistress Charlotte Norton quells the ruckus easily. But when one of the two hanging corpses ornamenting the students’ Halloween dance turns out to be real–the body of the school’s talented fund-raiser, in fact–Charlotte and the entire community are stunned. Everyone liked Al Perez, or so it seemed, yet his murder was particularly unpleasant. Even “Sister” Jane Arnold, master of the Jefferson Hunt Club, beloved by man and beast, is at a loss, although she knows better than anyone where the bodies are buried in this community of land-grant families and new-money settlers. Aided and abetted by foxes and owls, cats and hounds, Sister picks up a scent that leads her in a most unwelcome direction: straight to the heart of the foxhunting crowd. The chase is on, not only for foxes but also for a deadly human predator. No one has created a fictional paradise more delightful than the rolling hills of Rita Mae Brown’s Virginia countryside, or has more charmingly captured the rituals of the hunt. No one understands human and animal nature more deeply. The Hunt Ball combines a rounded, welcoming world with an edge of unforgettable white-knuckled menace.
Break Out the Popcorn . . . It’s Showtime! Grab a seat and join Garfield as he takes a madcap look at movies—including his own—in this big, fat, hairy homage to films. This festival of fun features spoofs, reviews, trivia, and a blockbuster assortment of quips, tips, and comic strips!
A door-to-door fraudster arrives in the neighborhood, swindling Urushihara! Already strapped for cash, Maou visits the office to contest the transaction, only to find himself tongue-tied at their vehement refusal! Unable to face the heat, is Maou truly out forty-five thousand yen?! Not if the Hero has anything to say about it... Other adventures await Maou and the crew in this volume of short stories--from becoming new cat owners to a family shopping trip to the story of how Chiho met Maou.
In rural Bethnal Green, Lizzie Brown takes pity on a couple of drunks and gives them a free palm reading. However, she is horrified when she has a vision of one of the pair meeting a great danger in a graveyard at midnight. She sees a huge black hound with flashing eyes mauling him. Lizzie and the Penny Gaff Gang track down the dog, who belongs to a ruthless team of professional grave robbers. It's up to the gang to expose their vile trade before they strike again.
