'The Dragon Detective Agency. Dirk Dilly speaking.'
When a visitor turns up unannounced at Dirk's office with a new case for him and Holly to solve, all is not as it seems. A Sea Dragon has disappeared and the only clue left at the scene of the crime is the ashy outline of an elusive Sky Dragon.
As their investigations take them from a dodgy billionaire's HQ to the top of the city's tallest skyscraper, trouble is set to soar sky high for this dragon detective and his partner-in-solving-crime. Will they be able to hunt down the suspect and find the missing dragon before they both disappear into thin air?
The third installment in a fun and action-packed detective series for fans of TOTO THE NINJA CAT, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON and Tom Fletcher's children's books!
Ausgangssperre in Roarhaven! Der neue Oberste Magier Damocles Creed ergreift schwerwiegende Maßnahmen, um alle Zauberer zur Kirche der Gesichtslosen zu bekehren. Und das bedeutet: Millionenfacher Tod für alle Sterblichen. Skulduggery und Walküre gehen in den Widerstand. Nichts scheint Creed aufhalten zu können und langsam läuft ihnen die Zeit davon … Und wenn sie schneller wären als die Zeit? Mit Hilfe eines Sensitiven reist Walküre 72 Jahre in die Zukunft. Und trifft dort nicht nur auf einen sehr veränderten Skulduggery, sondern auch auf ihr eigenes, dunkles und bösartiges Ich und auf ihre kleine Schwester Alison, die sich hier Malison nennt und als das 'Kind der Gesichtslosen' entpuppt.
Was kann Walküre tun, um diese Zukunft zu verhindern?
Zurück in die Zukunft mit dem Bentley statt einem DeLorean: Im vorletzten Band der Skulduggery-Pleasant-Reihe treibt Derek Landy den Wahnsinn noch einmal auf die Spitze. Mit gewohnt kunstvoller Stimmvielfalt erweckt Rainer Strecker den Kult zum Leben.
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"So you won't keep anything from me again?'He put his hand to his chest. 'Cross my heart and hope to die.''Okay then. Though you don't actually have a heart,' she said.'I know.''And technically, you've already died.''I know that too.''Just so we're clear.'
Stephanie's uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror, it certainly wasn't fiction.
Pursued by evil forces intent on recovering a mysterious key, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source - the wisecracking skeleton of a dead wizard.
When all hell breaks loose, it's lucky for Skulduggery that he's already dead. Though he's about to discover that being a skeleton doesn't stop you from being tortured, if the torturer is determined enough. And if there's anything Skulduggery hates, it's torture... Will evil win the day? Will Stephanie and Skulduggery stop bickering long enough to stop it? One thing's for sure: evil won't know what's hit it.
Den lilla gumman går vilse i skogen och hittar inte hem. Men som tur var så hittar hon något annat, en söt liten vän som hjälper henne. Detta är en vacker och mysig liten saga om oväntad vänskap.
El Skippito is back! His doggy pals want to visit the Under Mundo-the underworld-where mummitos rest in peas. But they need El Skippito's brains and courage to answer the riddle of the Finx and enter the mummy's tomb. Our hero is up to the task, and he's in for another whirlwind adventure.
Holy guacamole! Skippyjon Jones is crazy-loco for dinosaurs! The kitty boy enters (via his closet) the land of dinosaurs in search of the fabled Skipposaurus. Instead he runs into his old amigos, the Chimichango gang. When a T-Mex threatens the pack, it's El Skippito, the great sword fighter, to the rescue. With yips and yowls, he drives the big baddie away, so all the dino-dudes can rattle their bones another day. This fourth entry in a series that Kirkus Reviews called "ay caramba, mucho fun," will win even more fans for the Siamese cat with oversize ears and an imagination to match.
Alex Rider of Point Blank is back in another hair raising adventure. Although the 14-year-old has escaped great dangers and has twice saved the world, he now faces his most perilous foe. A Russian man with a huge grudge against the free world has a nuclear weapon and is threatening to use it. It's up to Alex to stop him.
Cardin and Narfur are warriors for the king. The Great White Palace regularly has assignments for them. They complement each other, going on adventures in the mountains and in swamps, but when the king requests that a dangerous wither be slain, they kind of turn against each other and start competing for the reward and the diamond sword. Follow these heroes to the snow peaked mountain tops and the depths of the Nether.
Sizzle, an opossum, and Mama are foraging one day when a man captures Mama. This man, Crackle Fingers, runs a taxidermy business out of his house, and he plans to add Mama to his collection. Sizzle turns to a family of cats for help. Shadow, a talkative black cat, invites Sizzle to eat from the family’s food bowl on a backyard deck. Moody is a senile but kind tabby, and Buttercup is an overweight and overprotective orange cat. In order to befriend the cats and rescue Mama, he’ll have to rely on his intelligence and ingenuity.
Six Frightened Men by Robert Silverberg - It was an unexplored planet and anything could happen—yet none of us expected to face a creature impossible to fight, let alone kill....
You put your life on the line when you join the Exploratory Wing of the Space Corps. They tell you that when you sign up. The way they told it to me, it went like this:
'You'll be out there on alien worlds where no human being has ever set foot—worlds which may or may not have been inhabited by hostile alien creatures. You take your life in your hands every time you make a planetfall out there. Still interested?'
'That's old stuff,' I said. 'You don't think I'd join up if it was an old ladies' tea party, do you?'
Which was how I happened to be crouching behind a fantastically-sculptured spiralling rock out on the yellow wind-blasted desert of Pollux V, huddling there with the fierce sweep of sand against my faceplate, looking at the monster that barred my path.
The thing was at least sixty feet tall and all eyes and mouth. The mouth yawned, showing yellow daggers a foot long. As for the eyes—well, they burned with the cold luminosity of an intelligent and inimical being.
I didn't know what the thing was. One minute I'd been examining an interesting rock formation, a second later I was hiding behind it, watching the ravening thing that had appeared out of nowhere.
Other members of the expedition were sprawled here and there on the desert too. I could see Max Feld, our paleontologist, curled in a tight plump little ball under an outcropping of weathered limestone, and there was Roy Laurence, the biochemist, flat on his stomach peering at the thing incredulously.
Back behind me were three others—Don Forster, Leo Mickens, Clyde Hamner. That made six. The two remaining members of the team, Medic Howard Graves and Anthropologist Lyman Donaldson, were back at the ship.
A dead body. A missing will. An evil relative. The good news is, Great-Grammy has a plan. The bad news is, she's the dead body Rosie and Baker's great-grandmother made them promise to pretend she's alive until they get her will into the right hands. Otherwise, their greedy grandmother might sell the family house and ship Rosie and Baker off to separate boarding schools. They've already lost their parents and Great-Grammy ... they can't lose each other, too. The siblings kick it into high gear to find the will, keep their neighbors from prying, and safeguard the house. Rosie has no time to cope with her grief as disasters pop up around every carefully planned corner. She can't even bring herself to read her last-ever letter from Great-Grammy. But the lies get bigger and bigger as Rosie and Baker try to convince everyone that their great-grandmother is still around, and they'll need more than a sixmonth supply of frozen noodle casserole and mountains of toilet paper once their wicked grandmother shows up! With humor, suspense, and a testament to loyalty, Ena Jones takes two brave kids on an unforgettable journey. Recipes for Great-Grammy's survival treats are included.
'Welcome to The Bestiary! Unusual Pets for Unusual People since 1890!'
In The Bestiary, the rats have started a circus, Bertie the crow gives lectures on living with humans, and Blue the macaw, who understands English, has just been elected Speaker for the Parliament of Fowls.
All the animals in The Bestiary have a talent. All the animals, that is, except for Six.
