I'm a human sponge - I soak up memories. I feel like a thief,stealing secrets with an innocent touch. I don't like this gift.It's intrusive and sneaky. I think it's harmless, but I can't besure. If knowledge is power, why do I feel so alone...? The apocalypse came and the world burned. But it wasn't the end,and out of the destruction, new life has emerged. Bec is back toface the Demonata. After centuries of imprisonment, she's morepowerful than ever, but the demons no longer stand alone. Something else has crawled out of the darkness with her. LordLoss is no longer humanity's greatest threat... The seventh novel in the chilling Demonata series by Darren Shan,author of the New York Times bestselling Cirque Du Freak series,will terrify readers long after the last page.

Kernel Fleck has always known he's weird. He sees lights.Strange, multi-colored patches of light, swirling through the air.But it's not until a window opens into a demon world, with horrificconsequences, that Kernel discovers his powers. As a Disciple, hismission is to hunt vicious, powerful demons to the death...

Partly autobiographical, this is first of the internationallyacclaimed trilogy by Judith Kerr telling the unforgettable story ofa Jewish family fleeing from Germany at the start of the SecondWorld WarSuppose your country began to change. Suppose that withoutyour noticing, it became dangerous for some people to live inGermany any longer. Suppose you found, to your complete surprise,that your own father was one of those people.That is what happenedto Anna in 1933. She was nine years old when it began, too busywith her schoolwork and toboganning to take much notice ofpolitical posters, but out of them glared the face of Adolf Hitler,the man who would soon change the whole of Europe – starting withher own small life.Anna suddenly found things moving too fast forher to understand. One day, her father was unaccountably missing.Then she herself and her brother Max were being rushed by theirmother, in alarming secrecy, away from everything they knew – homeand schoolmates and well-loved toys – right out o

As demonic Fomorii ravage their land, Bec and a band of warriorcompanions leave their devastated rath to answer a plea for help.An orphaned priestess-in-training, Bec hopes the journey will helpher solve the mysteries of her birth. But fighting demons has asteep price...

这是一套合辑，包括一本“高效能”图书和一本与其相配套的练习册。练习册中的内容与图书相呼应，帮助孩子复习学到的知识，重复记忆能够增强孩子对书本内容的理解。 本书是一个密集的训练计划，在美国青少年中*影响力，它直接影响着美国青少年的素质。 书中充满聪明的点子、伟大的格言和令人惊异的人生经验，对于年轻人来说，这是一本不可或缺的好书；对于青少年的父母、老师以及足以影响青少年的任何一位成年人来说，本书也是读物。 习惯成就性格，性格决定命运。青少年时期短短几年，可以在叛逆中虚度光阴，也可以在习惯养成中成就未来。肖恩?柯维以亲身经历，通过幽默风趣的文章，与青少年进行交流，通过生动的故事和漫画，帮助青少年突破“一般”的界限，从而出类拔萃。本书自2003年出版以来，以其轻松幽默的文笔、丰富多

This new edition focuses on the Sonnets as poetry - sometimes strikingly individual poems, but often subtly interlinked in thematic, imagistic and other groupings. Gwynne Evans and Anthony Hecht also address the many questions that cast a veil of mystery over the genesis of the Sonnets: to what extent are they autobiographical? What is the nature of the 'love', strongly expressed, between the 'poet', the 'youth' and the 'Dark Lady'? Can they, apart from the poet, be identified? Who is the 'rival poet'? When were the Sonnets written and in what order? What were the circumstances surrounding their publication?

Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, this three-volumepaperback boxed set of Tolkien’s epic masterpiece, The Lord of theRings, features exclusive covers from Peter Jackson’s award-winningfilm trilogy, the definitive text, and a detailed map ofMiddle-earth. Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacksin his plans for dominion is the One Ring the ring that rulesthem all which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, BilboBaggins. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins findshimself faced with an immense task, as the Ring is entrusted to hiscare. He must leave his home and make a perilous journey across therealms of Middle-earth to the Crack of Doom, deep inside theterritories of the Dark Lord. There he must destroy the Ringforever and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose. To celebrate the release of the first of Peter Jackson’sthree-part film adaptation of The Hobbit, THE H

The amazing, haunting Shiver trilogy is complete shiver Sam's not just a normal boy - he has a secret. During the summerhe walks and talks as a human, but when the cold comes, he runswith his pack as a wolf. Grace has spent years watching the wolvesin the woods behind her house - but never dreamed that she wouldfall in love with one of them. Now that they've found each other,the clock ticks down on what could be Grace and Sam's only summertogether. linger Can Grace and Sam last? Each will have to fight to stay together- whether it means a reckoning with his werewolf past for Sam, orfor Grace, facing a future that is less and less certain. EnterCole, a new wolf who is wrestling with his own demons, embracingthe life of a wolf while denying the ties of being human. ForGrace, Sam, and Cole, life is harrowing and euphoric, enticing andalarming. As their world falls apart, love is what lingers. But canit be enough?

The Hunger Games--a New York Times bestseller and major motion picture--is now available in a gorgeous deluxe foil edition. In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before--and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.

Fire! It's all around me, fierce, intense, out of control. Ifeel the hair on my arms singe and know I have only seconds beforeI burst into flames. Total panic. There's a horrible shriekingsound, piercing and destructive. My eardrums and eyeballs shouldburst. "It's hell!" I moan. One boy's life ripped to shreds before hiseyes... One wrathful demon master hell-bent onrevenge... An army of grisly Demonata on the rampage... It's the end of the world as we know it.

De*ion of this Book The wildly popular series by K.A. Applegate is back! The first six books of Animorphs return, with striking new lenticular covers that morph. When Tobias and his friends were given the power to morph, they were also given an important warning: Never stay in a morph for more than two hours. But Tobias broke the time limit, and now he's trapped in the body of a hawk -- forever. When he discovers an important Yeerk secret, Tobias knows he has to do everything in his power to destroy it. But to do so, he'll have to contend with a part of himself that's wrestling for control. A part that isn't human.

Revised edition! A dictionary written especially for studentsgrades 9 and up, ages 14 and older. More than 100,000 entries.Nearly 1,000 illustrations, many brand new. Abundant word historyparagraphs, synonym paragraphs, and example sentences. Updated toreflect groundbreaking Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary,Eleventh Edition.

Miracle McCloy comes from an unusual family: Her father, Daneis a prodigy who published his first book at age thirteen; hergrandmother, Gigi, is clairvoyant; and her mother was dead when her"miracle" daughter was pulled from her womb. Having been raisedaccording to a set of mystical rules and beliefs, Miracle is unableto cope in the real world. Lost in a desperate dance among litcandles, she sets herself afire and comes to in a hospital. There,a young psychiatrist helps her navigate her painful struggle totake charge of her life. "Includes a reader's guide and aninterview with the author."

I know it's ridiculous. Lights can't whisper. But I swear Iheard a voice calling to me. It sounded like static to begin with,but then it came into focus, a single word repeated over and over.Softly, slyly, seductively, insistently. "Come..." The Disciples are being manipulated by beings older than time. OnlyKernel Fleck knows that something is wrong. But he is in the gripof a creature who cares nothing for the fate of humanity. Voicesare calling to him from the darkness and he's powerless toresist. Kernel has already been to hell and back. Nowhe's about to go further.

Beginning with his early days in Syracuse, N.Y., and hischildhood in wartime Germany, this autobiography gives readers aglimpse at what shaped the artist's life, including essays on hiswork by his editors, a speech for the Library of Congress, and morethan sixty full-color illustrations.