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...

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?

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...

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....

Go on a series of murderous adventures where you decide the story and get to meet and kill Trixy's friends! The more you slaughter, the more points you get! NOT FOR KIDS!Trixy the Hamster is crashed out after a night of heavy partying. His doorbell rings. Who can that be? He holsters up, goes to his door and spots a mysterious egg on his doorstep. Ashes fall from his cigar. What does he do? Find its mother? Hatch the egg? Shoot it with an AK-47? You...

All Chris really wants is to be a normal kid, to hang out with his friends, avoid his parents, and get a date with Rebecca Schwartz. Unfortunately, Chris appears to be turning into a vampire. So while his hometown performs an ancient ritual that keeps Tch'muchgar, the Vampire Lord, locked in another world, Chris desperately tries to save himself from his own vampiric fate. He needs help, but whom can he trust? A savagely funny tale of terror, teen...

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.

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,...

Midwestern Mayhem! Remember the '90s? Well...the town of Demise, North Dakota doesn't, and they're living in the year 1997. That's because an alien worm hitched a ride on a comet, crash-landed in the town's trailer park, and is now infecting animals with a memory-loss-inducing bite-and right before Christmas! Now it's up to nineteen-year-old Realene and her best friend Nate to stop the spread and defeat the worms before the entire town loses its...

Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too limited. "The 30-Minute Shakespeare" is a new series of abridgements that tell the "story" of each play from start to finish while keeping the beauty of Shakespeare's language intact. Specific stage directions...