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The Ambassadors, by Henry James, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies of contemporary...

Devilishly funny'.God has spent far too long tolerating the humans he created, so he feels like it's time for a change. It won't be quite as easy as he'd hoped, as Satan is quite happy enjoying life on Earth, and there is the small problem of his son with a drug problem, and an angel-turned-human who can't stop eating.The eternal battle between good and evil has been turned on it's head - Heaven Vs Earth - who will triumph?

Scared to death Scared to look They shook… and that might get them killed! The nation he once fought for, has fallen. The woman he once loved, is gone. The dead have risen and all Robert Briggs has left is a few bullets and a broken family to protect. After losing his wife on day one of the outbreak, Robert and his young son, Jordan, have battled their way through the war zone that is Georgia to unite with his brother and elderly mother in Savannah....

Riley lives in TropeTown, where everyone plays stock roles in novels. Riley, a Manic Pixie Dream Boy, is sent to group therapy after going off-script. Riley knows that breaking the rules again could get him terminated, yet he feels there must be more to life than recycling the same clichés for readers' entertainment. Then he meets Zelda, a Manic Pixie Dream Girl (Geek Chic subtype), and falls head over heels in love. Zelda's in therapy too, along...

From the moment he knows that he is destined to be a vampire, Chris thirsts for the blood of people around him while also struggling to remain human.

Fans of Undead Girl Gang and The Babysitters Coven will love Breakup from Hell, a witty YA rom-com with a supernatural twist, starring horror novel obsessed Mica Angeles, who discovers the guy she fell for comes straight out of one of her beloved books. Miguela Angeles is tired. Tired of her abuela keeping secrets, especially about her heritage. Tired of her small Vermont town and hanging out at the same places with the same friends she's known forever....

This booklet is a brief introduction to which weeds you can use to help you and your people survive after the Zombie Apocalypse, including hints and tips on a few survival necessities. What will be your basic needs? Do you think Stinging Nettle can save your life in a Zombie attack? This book has one or two answers, you'll have to sort the rest out yourself.

Pour éloigner sa mère de son nouveau compagnon, Damien est prêt à beaucoup de choses... Jusqu'o osera-t-il aller? L'univers de Damien bascule le jour o il apprend, d'une part, que les Américains ont élu Donald Trump à la tête des États-Unis et, d'autre part, que sa mère envisage de refaire sa vie avec un psy qui anime une émission de radio destinée aux adolescents. Entouré de ses amis proches, des lycéens connectés en permanence,...

When Lacy wakes up dead in Westminster Cemetery, final resting place of Edgar Allan Poe, she's confused. It's the job of Sam, a young soldier who died in 1865, to teach her the rules of the afterlife and to warn her about Suppression-a punishment worse than death. Lacy desperately wants to leave the cemetery and find out how she died, but every soul is obligated to perform a job. Given the task of providing entertainment, Lacy proposes an open mic,...

In an alternate reality a lot like our world, every person's physical size is directly proportional to their wealth. The poorest of the poor are the size of rats, and billionaires are the size of skyscrapers. Warner and his sister Prayer are destitute-and tiny. Their size is not just demeaning, but dangerous: day and night they face mortal dangers that bigger richer people don't ever have to think about, from being mauled by cats to their house...