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Dead men tell no tales, capeesh?Professor Bonaventure Ashburn is a tweedy poindexter, all pipes and patches on the elbows. Hiis alter ego, however, is "Pulp Ashburn," a hard-boiled hatchet man for The English Major Mafia, a shadowy cartel dedicated to preserving literary standards and keeping the classics on the top shelf. Pulp thought he could finally prove his worth to The Family by helping foil the online book behemoth Cosmos, but he twists that plot into knots ...

Behind the masks of yesteryear's Avenging Dervish are Barnabas and Dutch. Brothers. Twins, actually. Conjoined twins, in fact. And it's hard to be a super-hero with your brother's on your back."If you read this chronicle, it proves that I manage to outwit and successfully wink the hood of some very shifty fish in Uncle Sam's considerable tributary." So begins the kept-under-the-Stetson saga of reporter Lovester Baxter. Baxter chronicles the adventures of The Avenging Dervish,

If you're not in the holiday mood, Scrooge & Marley Detective Agency will make sure you stand pat. Marley's dead. Scrooge's on the wagon. And one cockeyed Christmas Eve, someone or something is needling Ebenezer to solve his old partner's murder. In fact, some holiday spirits gather to help Scrooge sort the straight dope from the humbug before the old detective winds up being shovel-ready himself.

No one out-suffers Mrs. Grace Geneva - not lepers, or pilgrims, and certainly not the poor excuse for sickly in little Carpenter, NC. That the top of the prayer list is no longer Mrs. Grace purview upsets her to no end, and when a string of suspicious deaths dispatch the competition, the old girl connives to keep the murders unsolved. She knows how, too, since the local coroner is a hopeless, hapless, and hexed mama's boy who will never amount to anything. Just how Mrs. Grace raised him. B...

A satire of traditional Christmas stories and noir.A hardboiled elf is framed for murder in a North Pole world that plays reindeer games for keeps, and where favorite holiday characters live complex lives beyond December.Fired from his longtime job as captain of the Coal Patrol, two-foot-three inch 1,300-year-old elf Gumdrop Coal is angry. He's one of Santa's original elves, inspired by the fat man's vision to bring joy to children on that ...

Fired from his longtime job as captain of the Coal Patrol, two-foot-three-inch 1,300-year-old elf Gumdrop Coal is angry. He's one of Santa's original elves, inspired by the fat man's vision to bring joy to children on that one special day each year. But somewhere along the way things went sour for Gumdrop. Maybe it was delivering one too many lumps of coal for the Naughty List. Maybe it's the conspiracy against Christmas that he's starting to sense down every chimney. Either way, North Pol...

"Told with brains and heart" —Michelle Gable, New York Times bestselling author of A Paris Apartment"Bristles with charm and curiosity" —Winston Groom, New York Times bestselling author of Forrest Gump"A wholly original and superbly crafted work of art, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance is a masterpiece of the imagination." —Lori Nelson Spielman, New York Times bestselling author of The Life List and Swee...

ON SALE 50% OFF FOR A LIMTED TIME ONLYTurn bed time into fun family time!The Bed Time Story Book is a wonderfully original collection of 36 stories that will entertain the entire family.You can look forward to bed time and share the joy of reading.“Accompanied by clazzic illustrations, the stories are retold in an exceptionally amusing style and perfect for reading aloud.”Turn your evening goodnight into quality family time with traditional stories, ...

A collection of 101 nursery rhymes and sing-along songs for kids with pictures included. The collection contains traditional nursery rhymes, such as Baa Baa Black Sheep, Do You Know the Muffin Man, Hickory Dickory Dock, Humpty Dumpty, Mary Had A Little Lamb, Ring A-Round the Roses, This Old Man, and many more. Sing-along to songs and lullabies, such as B-I-N-G-O, Good Night Sleep Tight, Hokey Pokey, Hush Little Baby, If You're Happy and You Know It, Lullaby and Goodnight, One Two Buckle My...

Amazing Techno Dude and the Bodacious Backwards Woman are hot on the trail of a fiendishly supersmelly supervillain! When Fabian the Fabulous Flatulent Fiend swiped every single bean from the local all-you-can-eat joint, Gritty City faced a lunchtime disaster. (Not counting the exploded plumbing back at 1313 Thirteenth Street!) Now toxic fumes threaten the whole town unless two broke heroes can patch together a plan.Also on the case: their eight Super Goofball room...

Once upon a time there was a Big Bad Girl, a miller's daughter and a teeny-tiny turnip - but did they all live happily ever after?Open up to find out what happens next in these brain-ticklingly brilliant Seriously Silly Stories! They're scarily silly!Includes Little Red Riding Wolf, Rumply Crumply Stinky Pin and The Rather Small Turnip.

A few superheroes you've probably never heard of . . .Their Gritty City headquarters is a cluttered house nobody would ever call tidy . . . Inside, inventor Amazing Techno Dude shares the mess with a bizarre crew of costumed crimefighters.Crunch! Someone is breaking into all the candy stores and fast-food joints in town—and pigging out on everything! Zoink! There's only one villain with that kind of appetite—the horrendously evil Supreme Commander Cockroach...