Download or read book The Thing in the Alley written by J. S. Volpe and published by J. S. Volpe. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When horribly mutilated bodies start turning up in Kingwood, the Anomaly Hunters determine that the culprit can only be a leucrota, a supposedly mythical monster that can mimic people’s voices. With Violet’s history-geek sister Lauren helping out, the team combs the city in search of the man-eating beast. Will they stop the leucrota before it kills again, or will they only become its latest victims? Plus, an unexpected discovery in Mr. May’s office leads Calvin to a young woman named Tiffany Fish who has strange links to both the Anomaly Hunters and their current investigation.

Download or read book The Alley written by Eleanor Estes and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heart of Brooklyn, New York, there is an alley that is the most beautiful place to live in the whole wide world. Or so Connie Ives believes. The alley is the perfect location to sharpen Connie's swinging skills, hold practices for the Alley Conservatory of Music, and convict a burglar by trial. From the bestselling author of Ginger Pye comes the story of a little girl whose eyes are always open to the beauty of the world that surrounds her.

Download or read book Across the Alley written by Richard Michelson and published by Follettbound. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chakat in the Alley written by James Jordan and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conclusion to the events of "The Cat's Eye Pub" Having finally been found by the family shi didn't know shi had, Midsnow begins hir tale that explains hir dark past. What secrets does shi hold? And what secrets are hir long lost family hiding as well? A story of loss and sacrifice that will only fuel long held emotions, as faces of the past come back to haunt.

Download or read book Children of the Alley written by Naguib Mahfouz and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tumultuous alley of this rich and intricate novel (first published in Arabic in 1959) is inhabited by a delightful Egyptian family, but is also the setting for a second, hidden, and more daring narrative: the spiritual history of humankind. The men and women of a modern Cairo neighborood unwittingly reenact the lives of their holy ancestors: from the feudal lord who disowns one son for diabolical pride and puts another to the test, to the savior of a succeeding generation who frees his people from bondage. This powerful novel confirms again the richness and variety of Mahfouz's storytelling and his status as "the single most important writer in modern Arabic literature" (Newsweek).

Download or read book Bowling Alley Bandit written by and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arnie the talking doughnut is delighted to be Mr. Bing's new pet "doughnut-dog." So when Mr. Bing starts rolling gutter balls during a big bowling tournament, Arnie suspects foul play and sets out to solve the mystery. Illustrations.

Download or read book Alley of Shadows written by Steve Brezenoff and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2008 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Ben Summers has started seeing things. When he moves into a new apartment with his dad and brother, Ben meets a neighbor who keeps disappearing.

Download or read book Alley Oops written by Janice Levy and published by Flashlight Press. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story relates the painful and embarrassing aftermath of name-calling and bullying from the perspective of the bully. J. J. Jax has been tormenting an overweight boy named Patrick, calling him Pig-Pen and Porky, to the point that Patrick is now afraid to go to school. Learning of his son's behavior, J. J.'s father lectures him to stop bullying Patrick. When that approach fails, Mr. Jax tries another tack and shares an experience he had as a youthful bully and the consequences he recently faced as a result of his actions. Touched by his father's words, J.J. reaches out to Patrick in a school arm-wrestling contest and experiences the "alley oops" moment of empowerment and self-esteem that comes from doing the right thing. Snappy dialogue highlights the harmful, lasting effects of bullying and the importance of finding common ground toward conflict resolution. Believable contemporary illustrations bring the story to life with expressive body language.

Download or read book The Ballad of Ami Miles written by Kristy Dallas Alley and published by Swoon Reads. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teen girl on a quest to find her long-lost mother finds herself on a journey of self-discovery in Kristy Dallas Alley's moving YA debut, The Ballad of Ami Miles. Raised in isolation at Heavenly Shepherd, her family’s trailer-dealership-turned-survival compound, Ami Miles knows that she was lucky to be born into a place of safety after the old world ended and the chaos began. But when her grandfather brings home a cold-eyed stranger, she realizes that her “destiny” as one of the few females capable of still bearing children isn’t something she’s ready to face. With the help of one of her aunts, she flees the only life she’s ever known and sets off on a quest to find her long-lost mother (and hopefully a mate of her own choosing). But as she journeys, Ami discovers many new things about the world...and about herself.

Download or read book A Supposedly Fun Thing I ll Never Do Again written by David Foster Wallace and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest -- on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more -- established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation. In this exuberantly praised book -- a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner -- David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest.

Download or read book Redemption Alley written by Lilith Saintcrow and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-08-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some cases are unusual -- even for Jill Kismet. When her police contact asks her to look into a "suicide", she suddenly finds herself in a labyrinth of deception, drugs, murder -- and all-too-human corruption. The cops are her allies, except for the ones who want her dead. The hellbreed are her targets, except for the ones who might know what's going on. Her city is in danger, time is running out, and each lead only draws her deeper. How far will a hunter go when her city -- and her friends -- are on the line? Just far enough. Step into Redemption Alley. . .

Download or read book The Tunnel of Hugsy Goode written by Eleanor Estes and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody believed Hugsy Goode when he prophesied that a tunnel lay beneath the alley until--generations later--Nicholas (alias Copin) and Timothy (alias Tornid) decide to explore. And lo and behold, right under the vine-covered hole outside the house where Hugsy Goode used to live, they find an entrance to adventures beyond their wildest dreams. A sequel to The Alley.

Download or read book Paradise Alley written by Kevin Baker and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They came by boat from a starving land—and by the Underground Railroad from Southern chains—seeking refuge in a crowded, filthy corner of hell at the bottom of a great metropolis. But in the terrible July of 1863, the poor and desperate of Paradise Alley would face a new catastrophe—as flames from the war that was tearing America in two reached out to set their city on fire.

Download or read book The Thing on the Shore written by Tom Fletcher and published by Jo Fletcher Books. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thing on the Shore takes place in a call center in Whitehaven. When Artemis Black (from The Leaping) is assigned to manage the centre on behalf of a mysterious multinational corporation called Interext, the isolation and remoteness of the place encourage him to implement a decidedly unhinged personal project, installing what purports to be cutting-edge AI technology, with a real, "human" voice, on the automated answering systems. As a result of Artemis's actions, one of his employees, Arthur, becomes aware of an intangible landscape inside the labyrinthine systems of the call-centre--a landscape in which he can feel some kind of otherworldly consciousness stirring and in which, perhaps as a result of his father's increasingly alarming eccentricities, he feels that he could find his recently deceased mother. Arthur takes refuge in this belief as his father, his job, and his house slowly deteriorate around him. He begins to conflate the mysterious, interstitial region that exists down the phonelines with the sea, as that was where his mother drowned. In a way he is right--Artemis's meddlings have attracted something, it is just not as benevolent as he thinks.

Download or read book The Witch Family written by Eleanor Estes and published by HMH. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story of two girls trying to banish a witch is “full of wonderful fun, excitement, and humor” (Library Journal). Old Witch likes nothing better than to fly around on her broomstick, crying “Heh-heh!” and casting abracadabras. But now she has been sent away . . . by two young girls. Amy and Clarissa have decided that Old Witch is just too mean and wicked. So, drawing a rickety old house upon a barren glass hill, they exile Old Witch there with a warning: She better be good, or else no Halloween! But to give Old Witch some company, they draw her a Little Witch Girl and a Weeny Witch Baby . . . Old Witch tries to be good, but anyone would get up to no good in a place as lonely as the glass hill. And Amy and Clarissa are about to find that out, when Old Witch magics them into her world of make-believe-made-real, in “a very special book that is certain to give boundless pleasure—at any time of the year” (The Horn Book). “A classic for Halloween.” —Library Journal

Download or read book Nightmare Alley written by William Lindsay Gresham and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a major motion picture from Academy Award–winning director Guillermo del Toro and starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, and Toni Collette. Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a carnival-show geek—alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd’s gleeful disgust and derision—going about his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low. There’s no way in hell, he vows, that anything like that will ever happen to him. And since Stan is clever and ambitious and not without a useful streak of ruthlessness, soon enough he’s going places. Onstage he plays the mentalist with a cute assistant (before long his harried wife), then he graduates to full-blown spiritualist, catering to the needs of the rich and gullible in their well-upholstered homes. It looks like the world is Stan’s for the taking. At least for now.

Download or read book The Creature Within written by Dennis A. Morris and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FBI Agent Richard Baxter is back and with a chip on his shoulder. In the bureau, Agent Baxter is now known as the supernatural investigator. His first case turns out to be one for the ages. Agent Baxter follows a string of bizarre murders where the male victims are left a pale blue color and are ice cold. To go with that, the eyes are missing their pupils, making their eyes a pure white. At first, Agent Baxter believes this to be the act of some kind of occult. But the evidence takes him in another direction entirely. He begins chasing an ancient myth, a mythical creature from the beginning of man. Its name is the Delfi and must do battle to survive. The Creature Within is full of suspense and adventure. You well be taken into the world of the unknownthe supernatural!