A pregnant mother moved to the city with her soon to be born son Robert Benjamin Tate Nathiam. He was a good boy growing up, but people started to notice some similarities to some pyschopaths. He was basically a walking death trap, and no one really knew why. He did learn to stop killing after a good while. The family always had strange occurances, but nobody really knew why 'The Giant Toad' did all those things, and sabotaged an innocent family the way he had done all those crazy things to them.

In this magical fantasy adventure by the award-winning author of Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, a talking toad takes a girl on a wild ride. Jennifer Murdley has always wanted to be pretty. That’s why she’s so surprised to leave Mr. Elives’s magic shop with a particularly ugly toad. As her worst enemy says, “A toad for a toad.” But this toad can talk. And what it has to say sets Jennifer off on a journey that leads her into the company of the Immortal Vermin and straight to the Beauty Parlor of Doom . . . where she comes face-to-face with her deepest fears and dreams. Jennifer Murdley would give anything to be beautiful. But sometimes anything is too high a price to pay. “Endlessly funny . . . . A roller-coaster ride of a story, full of humor and even wisdom.” —Kirkus Reviews “Fast-moving with slapstick humor . . . . Recommended.” —Horn Book

The unique amalgam of prayer and play at the Sensōji temple in Edo is often cited as proof of the “degenerate Buddhism” of the Tokugawa period. This investigation of the economy and cultural politics of Sensōji, however, shows that its culture of prayer and play reflected changes taking place in Tokugawa Japan, particularly in the city of Edo. Hur’s reappraisal of prayer and play and their inherent connectedness provides a cultural critique of conventional scholarship on Tokugawa religion and shows how Edo commoners incorporated cultural politics into their daily lives through the pursuit of prayer and play.

The hand could pluck stars! Two feet in the netherworld! A magnificent body towered over the heavens and the earth! One punch to wipe out all enemies! Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash! The path of domination was only a single piece of Celestial Land! "Fang Ling accidentally came to a cultivation world and opened up his Immortal Cultivation path. He entered the Baleful Yin Faction, the Heavenly Emperor's Cage, the Nether Realm, and the endless sea of blood, creating a legend of immortality!" "In this world, are there any lands blessed by immortals that avoid my loved ones, brother?" If not, then let me hold up the Heavens, take care of this land, and transform it into a Celestial Land to protect it! " Cultivation Stage: Dao Foundation Stage, Zhenqi Stage, Gale Fiend Stage, Mana Stage, Dao Embryo Stage, Aurous Core Stage, Dharma Appearance Stage, Primordial Spirit Stage, Pure Yang Stage ... [Close]

A man known only as the Necromancer and his demonic familiar named "Self" wander the spectral highways of the countryside, incurring the wrath of both heaven and hell – and facing the curses of the damned. But it's a figure from his past that may drive the Necromancer into a hell even he cannot escape. Jebediah DeLancre, the leader of the Necromancer's old coven, has created a new coven, an evil band determined to use the black arts for their own hideous ends. The Necromancer is forced to return to his home, a place haunted by memories, where years earlier his original coven was destroyed, and where Danielle, the only love of his life, met an awful death. Together with Self, the Necromancer must battle not only his former master, but the members of the new coven and the jealous ghosts of his old one…all the while taunted by the possibility that Danielle may return from the dead.

Greece, 1869 Godwin Tudor, a young English photographer recently arrived in Athens, is intrigued by the mysterious and maverick British landowner Edgar Brooke, whose vast estate dominates the island of Pyroxenia. Whilst visiting Brooke's remote home, Godwin is enchanted by the breathtaking landscape and his host's capricious young daughter Lydia. But all is not as it seems as inadvertently Godwin finds himself drawn into the centre of a dangerous political conspiracy. As events spiral out of control, Godwin does his best to play the diplomat in a terrifying international incident but the consequences prove more devastating than he can imagine. A maelstrom of romance, political intrigue and life-or-death drama, A Dark Enchantment marks the debut of an exciting new storyteller.

Best Friends Frog and Toad are always together. Here are five wonderful stories about flowers, cookies, bravery, dreams, and, most of all, friendship.