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![]() ![]() Our retail stores have always been places where a reader can rush in looking for a title needed for a term paper that is due the next day, or where bibliophiles can get lost \"in the stacks\" for as long as they wish. A merging of the old and new is where we started, and it is where we are today. ALL kinds of books from 95 cent children\'s paperbacks to five figure rare and collectibles. Since 1980 it has always been about the books. We fill those orders on a first come first serve basis, but will refund promptly any items that are out of stock. We have a very active online inventory and as such, we can receive multiple orders for the same item. ![]() We have over 1 Million books for sale on our website and another 1 Million books for sale in our 3 locations. Wonder Book and Video has been in business since 1980 and online since 1997. With 3 stores less than 1 hour outside the DC/Metropolitan area (1 in Gaithersburg, 1 in Frederick and 1 in Hagerstown, MD), we have the largest selection of books in the tri-state area. ![]() ![]() Ghastly devils roam at night, causing chaos in their unrelenting quest to steal all the children.Įven the daylight hours are becoming increasingly fraught as a seemingly endless succession of horrendous behemoths and leviathans incessantly carve a swathe of mindless destruction through the bright, breezy thoroughfares… His latest venture is aimed a general readership – Hey, Kids, This Means You! – and features a world so very similar to our own but with one big, dangerous difference…Īrcopolis City would be the perfect place to bring up kids but for one thing. ![]() If you’re not a fan yet, check out Sin Titulo, Batman: Year 100, Heavy Liquid, 100%, One Trick Ripoff and other mature reader titles and most especially the previous volume in his occasional series Battling Boy and its delightful supplement The Death of Haggard West… Since his debut in 1993 he has stunningly combined elements of European and Japanese styles with classical American fictive themes to produce uniquely tweaked tales of science fiction, fantasy, crime, comedy, romance, adventure and even superheroics. ![]() Paul Pope is undoubtedly one of the most creative and visually engaging creators working in comics these days. ![]() Petty & David Rubin (First Second)ĭon’t you just love comics convention season? Here’s a splendid sneak peak at an upcoming instant classic from a modern master of comics courtesy, I’m assuming, of the publishers promotional outreach budget…. ![]() ![]() His publisher was threatening to cut off his weekly advances. ![]() His wife was expecting their fifth child, and sales from his most recent book were down. There were the costs of maintaining a public image and the family hangers-on who constantly asked for money, such as his brother. In the autumn of 1843, despite being England’s most popular and celebrated author, Dickens was almost broke. Each book is a short, easy read for the Christmas holidays and wonderfully illustrated in oils, watercolors, or photographs.įor the 2014 offering, we get the story behind “A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens’s immortal holiday tale that many say actually invented the modern Christmas. One of the best things that has come out of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s annual Christmas show is a book of the story that goes with each year’s performance. ![]() ![]() ![]() The resulting story is an exciting and inclusive one, drawing in elements of magic, mystical spirits, swoon-filled romance, and just so much more.” ― BookRiot "While the world is wildly interesting and fantastic, with broken clock towers that have left towns frozen in time, it’s the emotional impact and diverse cast of characters that make this book soar. " Timekeeper’s premise is original and its world unique." ― EW.com Reader beware―there's magic in these pages." ―Heidi Heilig, author of The Girl from Everywhere "Alive with myth, mystery, and glorious romance, Timekeeper will keep hearts pounding and pages turning 'til the stunning conclusion. ![]() Between its compelling world, its lovely prose, and its wonderful characters, the pages flew by." ―Victoria Schwab, #1 New York Times bestselling author " Timekeeper is an extraordinary debut, at once familiar and utterly original. ![]() Barnes & Noble Teen Blog Best Queer Fantasy 2016 ![]() ![]() The two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. ![]() In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. ![]() A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hob accepts the invitation, which brings him together with Hazel and ultimately uncovers much more than anyone thought. ![]() A stranger shows up in Hob’s small village of Dusk, revealing himself as a member of the Fellowship and recruiting young Hob to spy on the Faeregines to gain secrets that could possibly liberate the people under Impyrium rule. Alternating chapters turn to 13-year-old, nut-brown Hob Smythe, who works in the mines beneath the Sentries Mountains. It is not only her lack of interest in politics that sets her apart from her olive-skinned sisters Hazel is an albino, the only one in a set of triplets, which caused speculation of possibly wicked sorcery and makes most uneasy in her presence. ![]() Neff offers a meaty, nearly 600-page series opener, an indulgence for readers thirsting for a futuristic cloak-and-daggers plot with magical creatures, including an elusive dragon that fraternizes only with the royalty of this post-Cataclysmic Earth.Īfter a prologue, readers meet young Hazel Faeregine, who is not interested in her family’s royal position within Impyrium. ![]() ![]() I don’t know who smuggled her in or if they meant to leave her here, but I can smell her hiding in the house. I just didn’t expect one of my enemies to come to me. I can sit in this house with no Internet, television, liquor, or girls, but I’ll come out of here with something far more frightening to my enemies. Their only mistake is believing anything I do is an accident. No one has ever looked at me any other way. ![]() ![]() I learned a long time ago that being treated like an animal gives you permission to act like one. Popular actually wanted a piece of that quiet, little nerd he loved to torture so much, but… He might’ve enjoyed backing me into corners in high school when no one was looking, so they wouldn’t catch on that Mr. Not that the last time was entirely his fault. There was no way his grandfather was going to risk him humiliating the family again. ![]() Reckless, wild, and someone who was never bound by a single rule other than to do exactly what he wanted. Will Grayson has always been an animal, though. A secluded mansion in a remote, undisclosed location where the wealthy and powerful send their misbehaving sons to cool off away from prying eyes. From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas comes the thrilling, final installment in the Devil’s Night series…What happens when it’s five against one and nowhere to run? ![]() ![]() ![]() This season adapts material from issues #7–12 of the comic book series and introduces notable comic characters Hershel Greene ( Scott Wilson) and his daughter, Maggie ( Lauren Cohan). The season finale was viewed by 9 million viewers, making it the highest-rated episode of the series up to that point and the most viewed episode of an original series on AMC in history, up until the premiere of the series' third season, which was watched by 10.9 million viewers. ![]() ![]() It won Best Television Presentation at the 38th Saturn Awards and Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie, or Special at the 64th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. ![]() It was executive produced by Darabont, Kirkman, Glen Mazzara, David Alpert, and Gale Anne Hurd, with Mazzara assuming the role of showrunner after Darabont's departure from the series. Developed for television by Frank Darabont, the series is based on the eponymous series of comic books by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. The second season of The Walking Dead, an American post-apocalyptic horror television series on AMC, premiered on October 16, 2011, and concluded on March 18, 2012, consisting of 13 episodes. ![]() ![]() She is the creator of two of the most enduring figures in crime literature-Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple-and author of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre.Īgatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. She wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in Romance. ![]() Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.ĭame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is the best-selling author of all time. ![]() |