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Big Girl (Outspoken Authors)
by Meg Elison"El Huge" reveals how small-town, small-time teens can accomplish Big Ugly Things on their own. "Big Girl" chronicles the media's fascination with the towering anxieties of a sixty-foot tall teen. "The Pill," the collection's previously unpublished centerpiece, celebrates a "miracle cure" for obesity that sends society to a grimly delightful new utopia. "With Such People in It," also new to readers, welcomes us to a brave new world where cowardice is a virtue. "Gone with Gone with the Wind" is a nonfiction analysis of privilege, denial, literary classics, and personal honesty. "Afterimage" is a one-way trip into a VR world that's more "real" than our own. Also included is "Guts," which is about just what its title suggests, as well this volume's characteristically frank and thought-provoking Outspoken Interview.
Big Guy and Rusty (2nd edition)
by Geof DarrowFront and center, America! Here comes action! Here comes adventure! Here comes The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot—a roller-coaster ride through the minds of Geof Darrow and Frank Miller, the tag team that set you reeling with their hard-hitting series Hard Boiled! Everything you remember about being thirty-eight years old and watching monster movies is right here, but with all the magnified detail that you always wanted to see.* Recolored by coloring maestro Dave Stewart!* Includes the DHP special!
Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot (Second Edition)
by Frank MillerFront and center, America! Here comes action! Here comes adventure! Here comes The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot — a roller-coaster ride through the minds of Geof Darrow and Frank Miller, the tag team that set you reeling with their hard-hitting series, Hard Boiled!Everything you remember about being thirty-eight-years-old and watching monster movies is right here, but with all the magnified detail that you always wanted to see. Featuring a brand-new cover by Geof Darrow and Dave Stewart! Collects Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot #1—#2, and one 9-page story from DHP3 #1.
Big Hero 6 (Little Golden Book)
by RH DisneyBig Hero 6 features brilliant robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada, who finds himself in the grips of a criminal plot that threatens to destroy the fast-paced, high-tech city of San Fransokyo. With the help of his closest companion—a robot named Baymax—Hiro joins forces with a reluctant team of first-time crime fighters on a mission to save their city. Big Hero 6 hits theaters in 3D on November 7, 2014. Boys ages 2 to 5 will love this Little Golden Book based on the film.
Big Heroes! (Little Golden Book)
by Golden Books Billy WrecksLex Luthor has shrunk the DC Super Friends to the size of ants, and suddenly the world is a very big and very dangerous place. Batman, Superman, and the rest of the Super Friends will have to use all of their powers as they fight a praying mantis, Venus flytraps, and more in Big Heroes!
Big Heroes! (Little Golden Book)
by Billy WrecksIn this Read & Listen edition, Lex Luthor has shrunk the DC Super Friends to the size of ants, and suddenly the world is a very big and very dangerous place. Batman, Superman, and the rest of the Super Friends will have to use all of their powers as they fight a praying mantis, Venus flytraps, and more in Big Heroes!This ebook contains Read & Listen audio narration.
Big Jack (In Death)
by J. D. RobbIn New York City in 2059, someone is pursuing missing gems from a decades-old heist...someone who's willing to kill for them. Sharp-witted and sexy, NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is used to travelling in the shadowy corners outside the law. And in a future where crime meets cutting-edge technology, she will attempt to track down the diamonds once and for all-and stop the danger and death that have surrounded them for years.
Big Little Spells: A Witchy Romantic Comedy (Witchlore #2)
by Hazel Beck&“An absolute delight of a magical tale.&” —Louisa Morgan, author of The Age of WitchesIs her magic a threat to witchkind…or is she simply powerful enough to save the world?Rebekah Wilde was eighteen when she left St. Cyprian, officially stripped of her magic and banished from her home. Ten years later, she&’s forced to return to face the Joywood Coven, who preside over not just her hometown but the whole magical world. Rebekah is happy to reunite with her sister, and with her friends, but the implications of her return are darker and more dangerous than they could have imagined.The Joywood are determined to prove Rebekah and her friends are a danger to witchkind, and her group faces an impending death sentence if they can&’t prove otherwise. Rebekah must seek help from the only one who knows how to stop the Joywood—the ruthless immortal Nicholas Frost. Years ago, he was her secret tutor in magic, and her secret impossible crush. But the icy immortal is as remote and arrogant as ever, and if he feels anything for Rebekah—or witchkind—it&’s impossible to tell.Want more witchy romance? Read the entire Witchlore Series:Book 1: Small Town, Big MagicBook 2: Big Little SpellsBook 3: Truly Madly MagicallyBook 4: Dragon Fires Everywhere (Coming September 2025)
Big Monster, Little Monster (Step into Reading)
by Mary TillworthBoys and girls ages 4 to 6 will love learning about opposites with Mike and Sulley from Disney/Pixar's Monsters, Inc. and Disney/Pixar's Monsters University!
Big Pill
by Raymond Z. GallunChild, it was, of the now ancient H-bomb. New. Untested. Would its terrible power sweep the stark Saturnian moon of Titan from space ... or miraculously create a flourishing paradise-colony?
Big Planet
by Jack VanceThe objective of the mission from Earth: to stop the ruthless Barjarnum of Beaujolais from expanding his empire on the Big Planet... and prevent the world from falling under this tyrant's domination. Then sabotage forces the craft to crash land, and the survivors face an epic 40,000-mile trek across the dangerous landscape. An SF landmark. "One of the finest writers the science fiction field has ever known."--"Paul Anderson.
Big Planet (Gateway Essentials #181)
by Jack VanceBig Planet is Jack Vance's first major sf novel, and in the words of the Encyclopedia of SF, "provided an sf model for the planetary romance which has been of significant use for forty years". The huge world of the title is home to a range of colourfully detailed and imaginative human societies, which Vance explores with the zest and humour which are hallmarks of his work.All Jack Vance titles in the SFGateway use the author's preferred texts, as restored for the Vance Integral Edition (VIE), an extensive project masterminded by an international online community of Vance's admirers. In general, we also use the VIE titles, and have adopted the arrangement of short story collections to eliminate overlaps. Big Planet was cut almost in half for its first publication, but sadly the excised pages are lost.
Big Pumpkin
by Erica SilvermanThe witch has grown the biggest pumpkin ever, and now she wants to make herself a pumpkin pie for Halloween. But the pumpkin is so big she can't get it off the vine. It's so big the ghost can't move it, either. Neither can the vampire, nor the mummy. It looks as if there'll be no pumpkin pie for Halloween, until along comes the bat with an idea to save the day. How can the tiny bat succeed where bigger and strong spooky creatures have failed? You'll be surprised!
Big Pumpkin
by Erica SilvermanA little bat uses brains over brawn in this not-so-scary Halloween picture book. The witch has grown the biggest pumpkin ever, and now she wants to make herself a pumpkin pie for Halloween. But the pumpkin is so big she can't get it off the vine. It&’s so big the ghost can&’t move it, either. Neither can the vampire, nor the mummy. It looks as if there&’ll be no pumpkin pie for Halloween, until along comes the bat with an idea to save the day. How can the tiny bat succeed where bigger and strong spooky creatures have failed? You'll be surprised!
Big Rip
by Ricardo RomeroEstamos ante el fin del mundo tal como lo conocemos. El horizonte se diluye, la realidad empieza a fallar... Novela rupturista, novela fractal, intento de atrapar la complejidad de un mundo que se desmorona ante nuestros ojos, Big Rip es la novela total de nuestro presente. También, una experiencia abierta, inagotable, en la que la naturaleza del texto es el propio desborde de lo humano. «Porque, ¿qué es la continuidad sino una fiebre, una aberración?» En el principio hay una ciudad, dos hombres solitarios; un tatuador y un empleado de correo se hacen amigos en una galería olvidada del centro y son testigos y protagonistas del colapso que quiebra el mundo tal como lo conocían. La realidad empieza a fallar, a funcionar mal, como si hubiera mala señal, como si el software estuviera dañado: el horizonte se pixela, los personajes titilan, se fragmentan, y ya nadie puede estar seguro de que, si entra a una habitación, saldrá en algún momento. Gente que desaparece, gente que queda atrapada en una acción, en un paisaje, en una frase. Y la ciudad que crece y se multiplica con una voracidad entrópica, que se abre como una flor carnívora. Estamos, entonces, ante el fin del universo. No hay por qué escandalizarse. Estamos hace mucho ahí y quizás no nos hemos dado cuenta. Toda la historia de la humanidad podría ser una parte ínfima de este fin del mundo. Nuestra conciencia podría ser parte de esa energía oscura de la que solo tenemos noticia en su constante diálogo con la gravedad. ¿Y si esa energía fuera, finalmente, el dios que tanto hemos buscado? Sobre la obra de Romero la crítica ha dicho ... «Romero, tras los pasos del Cortázar más ominoso, nos obsequia una historia o una metáfora tan redonda como singular.»J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, «Babelia», El País, sobre La habitación del Presidente «Historia de Roque Rey es una novela que desafía, interpela al lector del presente. Por su desmesura. Por el tiempo que impone. Y por la voluntad de narrarlo todo. La ética narrativa de Romero está sostenida en su voluntad por contar. Y porque narrar es para él un gesto político, una forma de vida.»Hernán Ronsino, Revista Ñ «Aunque su escritura es transparente y sus historias siguen una lógica clara, no hay nada de "normal" en ellos. Está plagada de freaks que deambulan en busca de su desgracia, como en Perros de la lluvia (2011), o de sociedades improbables, como el excéntrico grupo de detectives con síndrome de Tourette de El síndrome de Rasputín (2008), Los bailarines del fin del mundo (2009) y El Spleen de los muertos (2011), una trilogía de novelas que hace estallar la ciencia ficción, el terror y el policial para crear un género propio con sus restos».Martín Lojo, «ADN», La Nación «En la inquietante novela El conserje y la eternidad, Ricardo Romero hilvana versiones de una criatura condenada a una existencia infinita, sin saber el abismo que hay entre una palabra y otra...»Silvina Friera, Página/12 «Romero ya ha escrito dos de las más importantes novelas argentinas de la última década (Perros de la lluvia e Historia de Roque Rey), extensas y cargadas de anécdota, de latido, de expansión. La crónica de un monstruo en tres etapas, por su ejemplar pero también exagerada contención, parece más bien encaminada a convertirse en libro de culto.»Elvio Gandolfo, La Nación, sobre El conserje y la eternidad
Big Sister, Little Monster
by Andria Warmflash Rosenbaum"Monstrous sisterly fun." --Kirkus ReviewsLucy thinks her little sister, Mia, is a monster. She follows Lucy everywhere, wreaks havoc in her room, and steals her spotlight. When at last Lucy has had enough, she yells, "You little monster, GO AWAY!"But Lucy never imagines that Mia might disappear into a land of REAL monsters! What's a big sister to do?This riotous, honest, and affectionate story will strike a wildly familiar chord with siblings of all ages!
Big Sky Drifter
by Doreen Owens MalekPOWERFUL MAN...POWERFUL LOVE...Lara Daniels had never believed in love at first sight-until she met Wyoming drifter Cal Winston and was instantly smitten by the rugged rogue. For the first time, Lara's budding feminine desires were awakened. They spent long hot days and sultry nights together in the sweeping Wyoming wilderness-a vast landscape as big as their blooming passion....POWERFUL HEARTBREAK?Yet Cal was a man of action, not words. He spoke little of his past, and Lara sensed he was hiding deep secrets. And she was troubled, wondering if Cal would be the man of her dreams-or the heartbreak of a lifetime....
Big Sky Family
by Charlotte CarterSingle mom Ellie James has returned to Montana for a fresh start and a new job at a local school. She sure could use the support of hometown rancher Arnie O'Brien, especially when she faces the opportunity to step up as director. But this cowboy still holds a grudge from when Ellie left him behind eight years ago. Can Arnie trust God's plan and take a second chance on the girl who got away? He and Ellie will have to put aside the past to face the future together.
Big Sky Reunion
by Charlotte CarterBack in Potter Creek, Montana, to help her ailing aunt, Melinda Spencer reopens Aunt Martha's knitting shop. She's hoping for purpose and much-needed work. But she never expects to encounter stubborn cowboy Daniel O'Brien. He is nothing like Melinda remembers from high school...except for the expression of reverent tenderness when the handsome rancher looks at her. But how can she open up about her painful past when Daniel can barely talk about his own? With love-and the Lord's guidance-this reunion just might last forever.
Big Sky Seduction
by Daire St. DenisThe best mistakes are worth repeating... There's no room for chaos in interior designer Gloria Hurst's life. Everything in order, everything under control. No exceptions. Well, aside from one wicked, messy, incredibly passionate night with rodeo rider Dillon Cross. He's macho, overconfident and sex appeal incarnate. He's everything Gloria despises...so why is he the secret star of her wildest dreams? Now her control is about to be seriously tested. Dillon has hired her to help him sell a ranch he's inherited. Gloria can't escape him, or the way he ignites a delicious hunger in her for more than just his body. Dillon Cross is a mistake Gloria wants to make over and over again...until she loses control and all hell breaks loose.
Big Splash! (Pictureback(R))
by Shea FontanaThe DC Super Hero Girls have to save the sea from the sharp-toothed villain King Shark in this action-packed book!Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Bumblebee and Katana face the King Shark in a battle for the high seas. Can Katana overcome her fear of deep water to save the day? Find out in this action-packed book that features your favorite DC Super Hero Girls.
Big Stupe
by Charles V. DevetSmart man, Bruckner--he knew how to handle natives ... but they knew even better how to deal with smart terrestrials!
Big Time: A Novel
by Ben H. WintersIn this "virtuoso,&” &“jaw-dropping&” and &“stellar technological thriller&” (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review), a mother engulfed by her own mid-life crisis stumbles upon a dark conspiracy to harvest and sell people's time. What if time could be taken from us—the minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs taken for transplant? What would it mean for the world? And what would it do to the person from whom it&’s taken? Grace Berney is a mid-level bureaucrat in the Food and Drug Administration, a woman who once brimmed with purpose but somehow turned into a middle-aged single mom with a dull government job and a melancholy sense that life has passed her by. Until the night a strange photo comes across her desk, of a young woman in a hospital bed who has been subjected to a mysterious procedure. Against orders and against common sense, Grace sets out to bring the girl to safety, and finds herself risking her job, her future, and her life on whether she can find the missing girl before an obsessive and violent mercenary who&’s also looking. Big Time is a fast-paced thriller and a metaphysical mystery about the very nature of our lives.
Big Vamp on Campus (Half-Moon Hollow Series #13)
by Molly HarperIn Molly Harper's newest paranormal romantic comedy set in her beloved Half Moon Hollow, a vampire princess must learn how to navigate life as a college student--including living with her messy, annoying, frustrating new roommate.Ophelia Lambert, four-hundred-year-old vampire princessand college freshman, suddenly finds herself domesticated by humans and forced to suffer the indignities of dorm rooms, communal bathrooms, and a roommate with sticky fingers. As one of the hundreds of undead venturing into post-secondary education, Ophelia has a lot more to learn that just "undead studies"--she has to learn to get along with her fellow vampire classmates and worst of all, her human ones, along with getting back into the good graces of the World Council for the Equal Treatment of the Undead. Can this once all-powerful vampire princess balance classes and campus life with romance, human- and vampire relations, and not sinking her teeth into her annoying roommate? With her "distinct, captivating style," (RT Book Reviews) Molly Harper demonstrates that she is one of the best voices in paranormal romance.
Big Wish (Chicken House Novels Ser.)
by Brandon RobshawA hilarious, original look at what would happen if all your wishes came true. Perfect for fans of Edward Eager's Half Magic and Patrick Skene Catling's The Chocolate Touch!Eleven-year-old Sam has a problem. Well, quite a few problems. So when he sees a shooting star, he naturally wishes on it -- for a million wishes. Of course, he doesn't expect the wish to come true, but somehow it does. Sam has fun experimenting with wishes -- he can change anything he wants. But when he discovers that changing things has consequences that aren't always good, he begins to think again.