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A poignant and evocative novel that explores the bounds of familial love, the high stakes of parenthood, and the tenuous divide between fiction and reality.
Thirteen years ago, Sylvia Gray's young daughter, Faye, attacked her babysitter in order to impress the Kingman, a monster she and her best friend had encountered on the Internet. When the now twenty-three-year-old Faye goes missing, leaving her toddler behind, Sylvia launches a search...
Thirteen years ago, Sylvia Gray's young daughter, Faye, attacked her babysitter in order to impress the Kingman, a monster she and her best friend had encountered on the Internet. When the now twenty-three-year-old Faye goes missing, leaving her toddler behind, Sylvia launches a search...
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"Horror movies can reveal much more than we realize about psychological disorders--and clinical psychology has a lot to teach us about horror. Our fears--mortality, failure, loneliness--can be just as motivating as our wishes or desires. Horror movie characters uniquely reveal all of these to a wide audience. If explored in an honest and serious manner, our fears have the potential to teach us a great deal about ourselves, our culture, and certainly...
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Open the MAGIC face paints and adventure awaits . . . Fairy world or Monster Ball, which one will you choose? In each a race to find the prize, will you win or lose? Austin, Alanna, and wiener dog Ozzy are going to a Monster Ball! With the help of magic face paints, Austin has been transformed into a werewolf and Alanna has become a vampire. Their mission is to find a crystal ball. But when a pair of evil skeletons steal a witch's wand, mayhem ensues...
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Monster support group volume 1
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When twelve-year-old Lowell moves to a new village, he struggles to fit in at school - he is a bit different, and the bullies don't seem to like different. Then the changes start. At first, Lowell thinks these are just the ordinary, growing-up kind of changes: he gets hairier, his voice gets growlier and his moods are all over the place. But then one fullmoon night, after a VERY bad day at school, he transforms into a werewolf in front of his twin...
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Monster support group volume 2
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"Meet Anatiti: once chosen by the gods to rule ancient Egypt, this young pharaoh struggled to take help from her advisors. After all, she was the one chosen to rule, not them! But when tragedy strikes, and Anatiti realizes she can't quite remember the path to the underworld, she is cursed as a mummy. Trapped inside a tomb for a millennia, found by an explorer and brought all the way back to the village of Dreadbury, will this mummy finally learn to...
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Monster Club volume 2
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"When King Neptune uses the last remaining drops of magic mermaid ink to create creatures designed to put NYC underwater, Eric "Doodles" King calls upon his Coney Island friends, aka Monster Club, and his drawing skills to stop Neptune before it's too late." --
9) Monsters
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Set in the Cornish town of Fowey, all is not as idyllic as the beautiful seaside town might seem. The body of a young woman is discovered in the nets of a fishing boat. It is established that the woman was murdered. Most are shocked and horrified. But there is somebody who is not--a twelve-year-old girl. She is delighted as she loves murders. She starts her own personal investigation, but just when it starts getting boring 12 year-old Miles Giffard...
11) Monster Camp
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When eleven-year old Sylvie joins a monster LARPing (a.k.a. live action role-play) summer camp, she finds herself in the performance of her life after realizing that she is the only human among real monsters.
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"Post-World War II America has often been mythologized by successive generations as an exceptional period of prosperity and comfort. At a time when the Cold War was understood to be a battle of ideas as much as military prowess, the entertainment business relied heavily on subtle psychological marketing to promote the idea of the American Dream. The media of the 1950s and 1960s promoted an idealized version of American life sustained by the nuclear...
13) Monster match
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FrankinSchool volume 1
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"While Fred is out sick, a visiting author signs Fred's book "To Frank." When Fred's desk-mate Luisa suggests Fred must really be Frank in school, this sparks an idea for Fred's creative writing assignment. Fred's What-If poem is coming together wonderfully, until--a mist fills the room and the writing assignment comes to life. Suddenly Fred--now Frankinschool--and Luisa--now Princessa Luisa--need to save the school from the mysterious potion--and...
14) Monster machines
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Photographs and text examine the parts and functions of such large machines as trucks, jets, supertankers, tractors, bulldozers, and fire engines.
15) Monster crush
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Ruby Reid has been having a tough time at Crestwood High, but everything changes when cool new girl Ella Mooney moves to town, and the pair find themselves on the run from a mysterious group that wants to capture Ella--who occasionally grows fangs and a tail--and her whole family.
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Billy and the mini monsters volume 1
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Billy is trying to stay awake so the SCARY creatures of the dark won't come. But then he hears a squeaky little voice and notices some tiny purple footprints. Not only that, SOMETHING has ATTACKED his cheese sandwich. What could it be? Does Billy dare find out?
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"When dashing Jackson Fortier stumbles-literally-into the bayou's inner depths, he never expects to encounter a gorgeous woman in the swamp. Little does he know, Josephine Cadieux has an ulterior motive for getting to know him: infiltrating his world to find the man who brutally attacked her. But the more Josie tries to ignore her feelings for this stranger, the more determined he is to keep her safe...and out of the clutches of a serial killer"--...
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