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This gorgeous Christmas gift of a collection brings together 13 of the best-selling, award-winning and exciting debut authors: Abiola Bello, Annabelle Sami, Benjamin Dean, E.L. Norry, Elle McNicoll, Dominique Valente, Joanna Williams, Maisie Chan, Nizrana Farook, Patrice Lawrence, Roopa Farooki, Serena Patel and Sharna Jackson. Join them as part of the Very Merry Murder Club as they lead you on a snow-covered wintery journey of Christmassy crimes, festive foul play and murderously magnificent mysteries!

In this biography of Chester B. Himes (1909-1984), Lawrence P. Jackson depicts the improbable life of the controversial writer whose novels confront sexuality, racism, and social injustice. In absorbing detail, Jackson explores Chester Himes's middle-class origins, eight years in prison, painful odyssey as a Black World War II-era artist, and escape to Europe, where Himes became internationally famous for his Harlem detective series.

If you and your child love to enjoy books together, then you are going to love this! The Day My Fart Followed Me Home is a journey of Timmy and how he meets his new friend!

Timmy and his best friend the Little Fart are back again! This time, they have a new friend—Santa Claus!

Millie and Cameron grew up as close as any two friends could be, playing together on the same hockey team and hanging out together after school. However, when the hockey team was split between boys and girls, their friendship began to change, and not for the better. Now, Millie and Cameron are rivals, playing against each other to finally settle who has the best hockey team, boys or girls?

The Day My Fart Followed Me to Hockey is the journey of Timmy and his best friend the Little Fart as they attend Timmy’s first hockey tryouts. Chaos and laughter ensue as the Fart attempts to help out his best friend the only way he knows how.

When Lawrence Jackson accepted a new job teaching in Baltimore, he searched for schools for his sons and bought a house. This would be unremarkable but for the fact that he grew up in West Baltimore and his job was at Johns Hopkins, whose vexed relationship to its neighborhood, to the city and its history, provides a point of departure for this captivating memoir in essays.

A cabin in the woods hides a deadly secret from a pair of criminals on the run. Play time takes a demonic turn when a child discovers a hellish portal in the snow-covered playground. And a satanic cult turns a family vacation into a living nightmare.... Take a trip into the netherworld with Scare Street’s latest collection of diabolical horror. Fourteen terrifying tales lurk within this new volume - more than enough to keep you occupied as you voyage deep into the shadows.

On the fourth of December 2017, an alien force attacked the Earth. Over the following five days, the entire human race was enslaved, and any resistance was met with death. Earth's only survivor - the first and only artificial intelligence ever created by man. Four thousand years later, Adam 359 emerges from his birthing pod, programmed and ready to begin working for his alien masters. Deep within the mine, a chance encounter convinces him there's more to life than slavery.

Arthur and his allies fought hard for peace, but it was short lived. Days after returning to Earth with their new Teleri friends, they receive a fragmented message from the Mori hive ship they were born and enslaved on. Camelot is in danger, Arthur will be tested, and Merlin may learn revelations that will shake his existence. It's a journey that will bring them full circle. Mordred awaits.

Eight months after their escape from the hive, Arthur and the city of Camelot are mercilessly attacked by the advanced forces of the Mori-Gran-Ra. With their defenses lacking, Merlin reveals a discovery he's made within the hive's mainframe - one that could turn the tide against the Mori. Now Arthur and his team must travel to a frozen alien world where their only hope lies in a race of aliens that have the power to defeat the Mori Armada. But they may find that the price of an alliance is more than they're able to pay.

Jessica was eight years old, and she had a secret. It wasn't a normal secret, like the surprise birthday present you buy for your mum, or the secret code word that gets you into the club that you and your friends made. No, Jessica was a werewolf! Join Jessica and her friends as they investigate the case of the Ghastly Ghost....

Jessica was eight years old, and she had a secret. It wasn't a normal secret, like the surprise birthday present you buy for your mum, or the secret code word that gets you into the club that you and your friends made. No, Jessica was a werewolf!

Jessica was eight years old, and she had a secret. It wasn't a normal secret, like the surprise birthday present you buy for your mum, or the secret code word that gets you into the club that you and your friends made. No, Jessica was a werewolf! Join Jessica and her friends as they help the Easter Bunny in the case of the Egg-cellent Easter....

Jessica was eight years old, and she had a secret. It wasn't a normal secret, like the surprise birthday present you buy for your mum or the secret code word that gets you into the club that you and your friends made. No, Jessica was a werewolf!

Jessica was eight years old, and she had a secret. It wasn't a normal secret, like the surprise birthday present you buy for your mum or the secret code word that gets you into the club that you and your friends made.

Jessica was eight years old, and she had a secret. It wasn't a normal secret, like the surprise birthday present you buy for your mum, or the secret code word that gets you into the club that you and your friends made. No, Jessica was a werewolf! Join Jessica and her friends as they investigate the case of the Loathsome Lunches....

Jessica was eight years old and she had a secret. It wasn't a normal secret, like the surprise birthday present you buy for your mum, or the secret code word that gets you into the club that you and your friends made. No, Jessica was a werewolf! Join Jessica and her friends as they help save Father Christmas in the case of the Cancelled Christmas....

Jessica was eight years old, and she had a secret. It wasn't a normal secret, like the surprise birthday present you buy for your mum, or the secret code word that gets you into the club that you and your friends made. No, Jessica was a werewolf! Join Jessica and her friends as they enjoy a trip to a museum and investigate the case of the Mischievous Mummy.

Jessica was eight years old, and she had a secret. It wasn't a normal secret, like the surprise birthday present you buy for your mum, or the secret code word that gets you into the club that you and your friends made. No, Jessica was a werewolf! Join Jessica and her friends as she joins a new school and helps to rid it of the Horrifying Headmaster!