For fans of Jim Butcher and Kevin Hearne comes an action-packed new urban fantasy series featuring a tough, bleakly funny, down-on-his luck oil rig worker with an unlikely destiny as a monster-slayer and savior of the planet.
" Monsters, said Vince Martinelli. There are monsters on the rig, Dav[...]

For fans of Jim Butcher and Kevin Hearne comes an exhilarating new urban fantasy series featuring monster-slayer" "Dave Hooper and his magical splitting maul.
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"Kids, there are no monsters under the bed. They re in the front yard."
As a hardworking monster-slayer, Dave Hooper tries no[...]

Good King Wenceslas looked out On the Feast of Stephen, When the snow lay round about, Deep and crisp and even ...A beautiful telling of the age-old carol of Good King Wenceslas and his page, who set out on a bitter winter night to deliver the spirit of Christmas. Christian Birmingham's majestic ima[...]

The city of Birmingham offers a particularly rich case-study on urban regeneration as it strives to build a new city image. Positioned between decline and regeneration, the landscape of the city and its environs collages old and new, producing dramatic contrasts - of industrial and postindustrial ur[...]

Enter the hilarious world of 10-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, Kenny, and Byron, who's 13 and an official "juvenile delinquent." When Momma and Dad decide it's time for a visit to Grandma, Dad comes home with the amazing[...]

An updated edition of a classic introduction to Portugal's history.

A collection of cross-curricular lessons to accompany the novel by Christopher Paul Curtis offers sample lesson plans, biographical information, vocabulary, activities, quizzes, tests, and ideas for extending the novel.[...]

Looks at a selection of Birmingham's Victorian architecture, some of the lost buildings as well as the survivors to illustrate the range of building that took place during Birmingham's most prosperous decades. This book includes a range of photographs, maps, plans, drawings and paintings.[...]

For decades, the high walls of Birmingham's Winson Green Gaol have contained some of the country's most infamous criminals. Until hanging was abolished in the 1960s, it was also the main centre of execution for convicted killers from all parts of the Midlands. The history of execution at Winson Gree[...]

The Little Book of Birmingham is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. Here we find out about the city's most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters[...]

A first edition, Insiders' Guide toBirminghamis the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation informationto "The Magic City." Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective ofBirmingham and its"[...]

"Astoundingly readable and beautifully written.... It moves along like a romantic thriller, but is as serious a work and as good a job as Our Crowd". -- Denver PostDescendants of the original twenty-three Jewish families who arrived in New York in 1654, the Sephardic Jews began a tradition of wealth[...]