Since his father disappeared under a dark cloud of scandal, Pin Carpue has been alone in the world. His work for the local undertaker keeps him busy, but his life is bleak.Then Pin encounters the Bone Magician, a man who can raise corpses and make the dead speak. As Pin is drawn into an intoxicating world of mystery and intrigue, he becomes suspicious of Juno, the Bone Magician's young assistant. A strange darkness haunts her when the Silver Apple Killer stalks the streets at night - and a...

When his butterfly-collector father is swindled to within an inch of his life, a vengeful Hector leaves the city of Urbs Umida in pursuit of a fiendish villain with a glass eye. The trail leads to Withypitts Hall, a forbidding Gothic mansion as warped as its inhabitants and their secret schemes. Soon Hector finds himself embroiled in mysterious deeds more poisonous than his worst imaginings, but every twist and turn brings him closer to his revenge . . .

Higgins plans an introductory chapter that will contextualize the Synod and explain why it’s special and potentially transformative. The book will also contain a day-by-day record of personalities, crises, behind-the-scenes politics, lapses, triumphs.

Power Rangers"meets"INVINCIBLE"in this new superhero universe with contemporary sensibilities, now collected for the first time in a deluxe! Nathan Burnett has just turned thirty, and things aren't great: he's working (and failing) at two jobs, his credit card debt is piling up, and his only move...is moving back home with his parents. But when Nathan discovers and unlocks the ethereal, cosmic RADIANT, he's given the power to radically change his fortunes. There's just one problem: the pow...

When a demon banker dies, the city's cleanest sorceress becomes its dirtiest suspect.Vesper Reed makes a living cleaning up supernatural financial disasters. Cursed money, blood-bound contracts, dangerous assets with inconvenient histories, if it can be stabilized, laundered, or made legally survivable, Vesper can probably bill for it.Then one of the city's most powerful demon bankers is murdered inside his private vault.The wards carry Vesper's mag...

When Ludlow Fitch's parents cruelly betray him, he steals away on the back of a carriage and leaves behind the stinking City. He arrives in the dead of night at a remote village, where he crosses paths with the tall and limping figure of Joe Zabbidou - a pawnbroker with a difference. For Joe trades secrets, not goods, for cash.Ludlow is employed to record the villagers' fiendish confessions in The Black Book of Secrets. Bodysnatching; thievery; murder. The people of Pagus Parvus ha...

Mara Voss cleans up magical crime scenes for people rich enough to mistake discretion for innocence.When financier Alaric Venn dies in his sealed penthouse, the official story is private magical backlash. Mara is hired to strip the room fast, before Contract Enforcement arrives and before the blood starts asking questions.But the scene is wrong.The blood has dried in two directions. A false sigil has been laid over the real damage. And buried inside the residue is a...

A lively look at the influence of Ancient Greece on contemporary culture—"A primer, lavish lecture and love song" ( Kirkus Reviews).Why is ancient Greece important? Because, quite simply, if we want to understand the modern Western world, we need to look back to the Greeks. Consider the way we think about ethics, about the nature of beauty and truth, about our place in the universe, about our mortality. All this we have learned from the ancient Greeks. They...

An earthquake has rumbled through the twisted city of Degringolade, stopping the town Kronometer and the infamous Phenomenals in their tracks. Legend has it that if the ancient clock stops ticking a terrible fate will befall the people of Degringolade, and there's no denying that the super-mundane entities of the tar-pits are behaving strangely. They know something that the townspeople don't: deep below the city, something has woken up. And it's hungry . . .

Deep within the heart of the Moiraean Mountains lies the town of Opum Oppidulum - home to the freezing Lake Beluarum and it's rumoured monster. An inescapable asylum stands in the centre of the lake, enclosed by the sheer cliffs of Drop Rock island. When Ambrose Grammaticus, famous inventor and master engineer, viciously attacks his own son, Rex, he is hauled to the island and imprisoned. Rex knows his evil stepmother, Acantha, is behind his father's 'madness', but how can he prove it? Onl...

Customary laws and traditional institutions in Africa constitute comprehensive legal systems that regulate the entire spectrum of activities from birth to death. Once the sole source of law, customary rules now exist in the context of pluralist legal systems with competing bodies of domestic constitutional law, statutory law, common law and international human rights treaties. This book promotes discussion and understanding of customary law and explores its continued relevance in sub-Sahar...

Ratnip befriends a pet guinea pig in this sixth book of the chapter book series from the author of Good Dog.Ratnip ventures off the City’s streets and into an apartment building to visit Diana, his pet guinea pig friend. Ratnip is very impressed by Diana’s luxurious life in her pet house, but Diana is bored and itching for adventure. And adventure is something that Ratnip knows a thing or two about!With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost ever...