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The Merchant of Venom traces Don Rickles's career from his rise in the 1950s to a late-in-life resurgence thanks to the Toy Story franchise, his role in Martin Scorsese's Casino, and scores of TV appearances from Carson to Seth Meyers. In the intervening decades, Rickles conquered every medium he worked in, including film, television, and on stage. He was idolized by a generation of younger comedians including Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, and Jay Leno, and performed in the shadow of a shocking open secret: he was the nicest man in town.

Johnny Dixon and his best friend, Fergie, are whiling away a rainy day at the Duston Heights library when Johnny asks a screwy question: “What’s the last book in the library?” After Johnny goes home, Fergie decides to find out. There, under number 999.99, he finds a very peculiar tome, The Book of True Wishes, which is all about Fergie’s favorite subject: himself. The book knows Fergie’s name and promises him everything he ever wanted, which means he is about to forget a very important rule: be careful what you wish for.

In the days of the Salem witch trials, the sleepy hamlet of Duston Heights had just one practitioner of the dark arts: the notorious necromancer Esdrias Blackleach. As the fever for witch hunting reached its terrible peak, Blackleach was accused of using powerful black magic against his fellow townsfolk. But just before he could be brought to trial, he dropped dead, escaping justice forever. Or so it seemed.

The drum is small, no bigger than a plastic cup, and decorated with sun-bleached bones. It is a token from the island of St. Ives, whose voodoo cults are infamous around the world, and it is one of the most dangerous objects Johnny Dixon has ever held. When he raps the little drum, the wind howls, and an explosion rocks the house. There are more surprises to come. An inquisitive young man, Johnny has tangled with all manner of supernatural beasts along with his friend Professor Childermass, and now they will confront the living dead. 

After getting canned from the Seattle PD, brilliant, wisecracking Thomas Prescott follows his sister Lacy to Philadelphia, where she swims on the Drexel University team. While Thomas’s slapstick antics mask a keen analytic mind, it’s his nose for trouble that leads him again and again into dicey situations. The ex–homicide detective is not long in Philly before getting caught up in two high-powered criminal cases. Thomas stumbles into a crime scene amid the Occupy Philadelphia protests. Activist Brooke Wexley has been strangled within sight of city hall. 

Virgil Erath is on death row for a crime he didn't commit. But he gets a new beginning when he is mystically transported to a planet of hallucinatory landscapes, warring humanoid races, and a cloud-filled sky that has never seen the sun. Its inhabitants of this world call it Amtor—others have...

Northern Russia 1924: The Red Army is eliminating those who resist the fledg­ling Soviet government. At the Battle of the Plutonian Plain, the White Russian forces do not fall, but instead retreat into the dangers of Pellucidar. Mikhail Kirillivitch Kirov, a young conscript caught up in this...

Aside from the eccentric Professor Childermass, young sleuth Johnny Dixon’s best friend may be Father Higgins, the kindly priest at the local church. When Higgins is transferred to the congregation in the tiny town of Rocks Village, Johnny and the professor are afraid they won’t see their old friend ever again. But they’ll be reuniting with Father Higgins sooner than they think—and the thing that brings them together will be positively out of this world.

Written by the world's leading expert on false confessions, this landmark book reveals the psychology behind why innocent men, women, and children, intensely stressed and befuddled by the promises, threats, trickery, and deception of a police interrogation, are duped into confession, no matter how horrific the crime.

Kis er den bedste i verden. Hun laver yndlingsmad, hun trøster, og hun har dejlig hud på albuen. Og så er der Snitten. Han er den dejligste dreng med det lillebitte smil og det sorte strithår, der står lige op i luften. Kis hentede ham fra den anden side af jorden, fordi han var det barn, hun havde ønsket sig hele sit liv. Og sådan er det. Børn og forældre møder altid lige præcis dem, som det er allerbedst at være i familie med.

Jannes bedste veninde, Sille, skal flytte og begynde på en ny skole langt, langt væk. Det er Janne meget ked af, men heldigvis er hun god til at digte rim og remser, der kan trøste, og så har hun en skør mormor, der holder juleaften en hel måned for tidligt. Og selvom hun bliver drillet i skolen, fordi hun går med stok og har skinne på benet, er det ikke umuligt at få nye venner. Janne på otte år har skinne på benet og går med stok, hendes forældre er skilt, og hun bliver drillet i skolen.

ÅRETS BØRNEBOG 2014 - BMFs Børnebogspris! Hella Joof har selv indtalt den forunderlige historie om Snitten og Kis og en mand på strømpesokker. En sludrende og hjertevarm historie om nogle af de følelser, der kan ligge og kæmpe inde i kroppen, når man er et barn. Snitten er så uendelig bange for at miste sin Kis. Hver gang telefonen ringer, og en stemme spørger om Kis er hjemme, siger Snitten nej, selvom hun står lige ude i køkkenet og laver hans yndlingsmad.

"Der er en øm plet i min sjæl, og mine hverdage har slået knuder, så jeg har svært ved at komme videre i livet lige nu. Jeg er dumpet ned i et hul, hvor jeg ligger hjælpeløs og spræller. På den ene side er jeg som en sangfugl, der har fostret en redefuld gøgeunger - på den anden side som en skrukhøne, der er ved at mase sine kyllinger ihjel. Det er nødvendigt, at jeg forlader dem. Jeg må lære at klare mig uden dem. De må lære at klare sig uden mig. De bukker under for min trang til at styre deres liv. Jeg er for meget for dem. For stærk.

Sunny Randall er en barsk og sexet ny privatdetektiv i Boston. Hun bliver hyret af et velhavende ægtepar til at finde deres datter Millicent, og ved hjælp af sine kontakter i forbryderverdenen finder hun frem til den bortløbne pige, som er blevet prostitueret, redder hende fra en alfons - og opdager så, at hun i en alder af 34 år er blevet barnepige for en vanskelig teenager, der nægter at vende hjem til sin familie.

Johnny Dixon is worried about Professor Childermass. The professor has always been an odd duck, but lately his behavior has been positively bizarre. He’s been talking to himself and stalking down the street with his collar turned up and his hat over his eyes, and now he won’t return Johnny’s calls. Johnny’s afraid that the professor’s old age is starting to get to him, but he will soon find it’s something far more amazing—and far more dangerous. 

When feared Yankees slugger Cliff Bullard goes barnstorming around the northeast, offering $10,000 to any local pitcher who can strike him out, Professor Childermass and Johnny Dixon get a sneaky idea. There’s a local legend about a crackpot inventor who once built a robot capable of throwing a baseball 110 MPH, and the professor thinks that if they find the machine, they can win Bullard’s prize. They discover the rusted old monstrosity in an abandoned workshop and put it back together, piece by piece.

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The abandoned schoolhouse sits just outside the town of Duston Heights, Massachusetts, and Johnny Dixon is not sure what called him there. Inside the darkened building, he finds three chilling stained glass windows which show a hooded monster, a vengeful angel, and the hateful, staring face of Zebulon Windrow. Impossibly, the old man speaks to Johnny, threatening revenge on behalf of one of his descendants—and then the room is filled with horrible insects. As they cover Johnny’s body, moving closer toward his mouth, he awakes and escapes the nightmare. 

Professor Roderick Childermass may be the strangest person Johnny Dixon has ever met, but compared to his brother Peregrine, the professor is practically normal. Peregrine is a born trickster, and when he knows his death is near, he sends a letter promising the professor his entire $10,000,000 estate—assuming he can solve one final riddle. The professor feels that his brother is mocking him from beyond the grave. If Peregrine were alive, he says, he’d kill him. To crack the puzzle and claim the fortune, Johnny and the professor head north to the wild countryside of far-off Maine. 

Selma bor en uge hos sin far og en uge hos sin mor. Det er sengetid, og far plejer at læse højt for Selma. Og nu savner hun ham. Men mor digter sine egne godnatsange, og måske kan hun en om far? "Selma og mørket og en blød", sort kat er tredje selvstændige bog i serien "Frede og Selma".