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Fourteen-year-old Vanessa Simons is just like any other girl her age. She likes stereotypically girly things, goes to school, and ... craves human blood.
Vanessa is a vampire, and as she grows older, she is finding it more and more difficult to hide that fact from the mortals among whom she lives. She's ecstatic when her parents offer her the opportunity to attend a school entirely for monsters-not just for vampires, but for werewolves, mummies,...
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WANTED: MONSTER HUNTERS. PRACTICAL ARMOR OPTIONAL.
Pix just wants to hunt monsters, craft armor, and pay off her college loans.
Her partner Jaz does, too. She just wants to pet the monsters more. While wearing impractical hot pants armor. And wielding a sword so massive she needs magic gems to carry it.
Their skill levels? Slightly above noob. But when a colossal new monster falls through the portals in the Dazzling Skies, they'll have to raise...
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Since the dawn of communication, humankind has looked around itself and used myths and legends to make sense of the world. Imaginative tales of goddesses, heroes, villains and beasts bring understanding to the biggest questions in life: Who made the world? What happens when we die? Where did we come from? How should we live our lives? Gods, Heroes and Monsters invites you to take your place at the campfire that's been glowing since the first tale...
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My father sold me to his enemy.
He stole my innocence-right after he dressed me in white and made me vow to be his for all of eternity.
Now I'm cut off from my family.
Subjected to my husband's warped rules and laws.
At the mercy of a tyrant who leers at me with green heated eyes until I beg him for things I shouldn't.
Every day, I promise myself I'll grow stronger and resist the urge to appease him.
It's a losing battle I can't win.
All I...
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Privatdetektivin Lucy hat sich auf übernatürliche Fälle spezialisiert. Und von denen gibt es so einige in Berlin, wo es von übersinnlichen Phänomenen nur so wimmelt. Denn vor dreißig Jahren ließ die Strahlung einer Bombe den Aberglauben der Menschen lebendig werden. Heute brüten Dschinns in Kreuzberger Shisha-Cafés, Feen tanzen in Friedrichshainer Clubs, und Hipster-Kobolde sind die Herren der Kneipen von Neukölln. Während Lucy eine Fee...
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Privatermittlerin Lucy hat sich auf übernatürliche Fälle spezialisiert. Und von denen gibt es so einige in Berlin, wo Geister in den Plattenbauten spuken und Kobolde den Kiez unsicher machen. Den Auftrag vom Pergamon-Museum, mythische Artefakte zu überprüfen, hält sie für eine leichte Sache. Als sie ausgerechnet die zwei gefährlichsten als Fälschungen identifiziert, wird Lucy auf einmal verdächtigt, die echten gestohlen zu haben. Gejagt...
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“No Heroes, No Monsters” focuses on the dramatic struggle of Anna Ardin, the WikiLeaks activist who, in 2010, came forward to report sexual abuse by Julian Assange. This is her testimony to a legal trial that was replaced by an Internet tribunal. A tribunal where women's rights are all too often both neglected and weaponized. A tribunal that every day of the year chooses a new woman to be the most hated.
The book goes beyond the headlines-the...
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Team Xtreme, Folge 8
Das Monster aus dem Eis
Eine rätselhafte Zeitungsmeldung über einen Schneemenschen, der in Norwegen gesichtet wurde, erweckt C.O.N.R.A.D.s Aufmerksamkeit. Das Team Xtreme soll vor Ort klären, was es mit den Gerüchten auf sich hat - steckt erneut der berüchtigte Mortar-Konzern dahinter. Schon bald nach ihrer Ankunft entdecken Kyle, Charlie und ihre Freunde, dass in einem entlegenen Fjord rätselhafte Dinge vor sich gehen....
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Der Werwolf war vor mir auf der Flucht. Keine besonders gefährliche Angelegenheit. Aber die Jagd nach ihm sollte der Beginn eines Abenteuers werden, das uns zu Mr. Mondos Monsterclub und mich in einen Teufelskreis führte, aus dem es kein Entrinnen gab-.. Das Kult-Comeback der Hörspiel-Legende: Die originalen Klassiker von Tonstudio Braun digital überarbeitet!
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Want to teach your kids all about Halloween? Help get them ready for some of the monsters they will run into this holiday season. In this fun book, your kids will learn about the most popular ghosts, ghouls, and monsters that they'll run into while trick 'r' treating!
With Kids vs Halloween: How to Scare Monsters:
- Capture your child's imagination with vibrant illustrations on every page of accompanying reference guide.
- Learn about the most...
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Get this: you wake up in the hospital. You're not feeling so hot-to put it mildly-and also, you're surrounded by hordes of zombies! After trying to run away, you eventually find a map of the building, but guess what? It's in French! Why? 'Cuz you're in France!
You've got nothing on you but a baseball bat, and the zombies are just one step away from biting you on your bare backside. But don't worry, there's still hope, because you've got your own...
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Focusing on the crucial period of 1820 to 1860, Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster examines the strong economic bonds between the antebellum plantation South and the burgeoning city of New York that resulted from the highly lucrative trade in cotton. In this richly detailed work of literary and cultural history, Ritchie Devon Watson Jr. charts how the partnership brought fantastic wealth to both the South and Gotham during the first half of the nineteenth...
13) Hard Night
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He's the monster in the cage who would do anything to get back to his mates. Even me. Especially me.
I'd heard the rumors about the sub-basement at Prometheus Labs. Now, with my student debts mounting and my funding in doubt, I have no choice but to take Professor Castaban's creepy assignment. Which is when I discover the rumors were true. They're keeping a monster in a cage. And I'm supposed to study him.
Ruzzaur is the biggest creature I've ever...
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Alone, pregnant and running from monsters...
I thought I knew what I was signing up for at Prometheus labs. A living wage salary in return for terrible hours, appalling working conditions and the occasional medical trial to give me a nice end of month boost in funds. I never expected to end up pregnant and transported to a completely different world, where gargoyles taunt me, and my life is immeasurably worse.
Until they show up.
Two alpha gargoyles,...
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A cursed kraken discovers the ultimate prize-his enemy's daughter.
The Kraken Pirate King
A witch cursed me to roam the seas in my monstrous kraken form. For years, my crew and I have sailed in search of the key to break her spell. But this pirate has found the most valuable treasure of all... the witch's daughter.
The Unsuspecting Human
Looking for adventure, I followed a hunch. It got me kidnapped and taken aboard a ghost ship with a kraken...
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JACE: In the years since everything changed in Screaming Woods, including myself, the only place I've found solace is in the woods I protect as a park ranger. I'm not sure how to deal with my new... attributes as a wolfman.
I'm destined to be alone now; at least that's what I assumed. Until I meet Dakota.
Dakota moves to town to open a gourmet pet treat business, but I know there is more to the story. Fate has given me something else-her, my mate....
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He may only have one eye, but it adores her... he just doesn't know it yet.
Reece Spencer became a monster after a Halloween party gone wrong, but instead of letting it ruin his life, he dedicated his life to monsters. After selling his portion of a successful investment firm, he funded the creation of a college for monsters just outside the monstrous little town of Screaming Woods.
This is his life now, trying to help monsters live as normally...
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Atlas
The feisty little female I hired to work as a receptionist in my detective agency is proving to be a delectable handful. Celeste is a temptress. She stirs long-forgotten desires with her delicious curves and sassy comebacks. But as tempting as she is, I need to remain professional. Losing myself in her sweetness could unleash the monster slumbering within me, and when he comes out to play, he won't settle for anything less than possessing Celeste...
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Dear Miss Phillipa Willoughby, on account of your preference for plants and stones over people, and your complete withdrawal from society, Her Majesty has deemed your Season a failure. Considering your utter defiance for all proposals, you are hereby ordered to attend The Monsters Ball.Phillipa Willoughby already had one successful Season, betrothed to Wesley, Duke of Chelmsford. But after her kind and gentle husband mysteriously disappears on their...
20) Bonded by Death
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My Ex. My Liar. My Demon.My type is bad boys that will screw me over and leave me walking funny. No matter how much they tempt me or my ruined heart-I know better than to trust my own taste in men.My ex taught me that love isn't sweet, patient, or kind. It's cruel and it hurts. He'll do anything for a second chance, but I can't forget the flames that burned me from the inside out three years ago.My liar is forbidden, but I'm haunted by his slate blue...
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