New Releases by M.T. Anderson

A Bari nel 1087 impazza la peste. Il monaco benedettino Niceforo, impegnato come i confratelli a pregare per la salute della comunità, viene visitato in sogno da san Nicola: le sue reliquie, sepolte da settecento anni nella lontana Myra, stillano un liquido miracoloso capace di salvare la città, purché questa le accolga degnamente. I superiori di Niceforo – e con loro i potenti di Bari – sono pronti a interpretare il messaggio e ciò che implica come un'occasione politica, spirituale e simbolica. Per recuperare le ossa sacre assoldano Tyun, ambiguo cacciatore di reliquie in arrivo da molto lontano, che in cambio di adeguato compenso accetta la missione. E sarà proprio Niceforo ad accompagnarlo, insieme a Reprobus, un misterioso essere con la testa di cane, e a Rollo de Bailleul, nobiluomo normanno. Ma non sono soli: una delegazione veneziana altrettanto determinata è già per mare con lo stesso obiettivo. La corsa alle reliquie è cominciata, e non ci si può fidare di nessuno. Tra tempeste e duelli, sacrilegi e astuzie, un'avventura (letteralmente) rapinosa, ricca di colpi di scena, incontri imprevisti e alleanze improbabili. Ispirato a fatti storici, pervaso da un senso dell'umorismo senza tempo, Ladri d'ossa restituisce luci e ombre del Medioevo: fede e avidità, tradizione e superstizione, corpi affamati di vita e anime in cerca di salvezza. E d'amore, sicuro.

An anthology of ten stories by young adult authors about surprising and unusual collections.

Hoping to ditch his loser image, Anthony plans revenge on a bully which results in a war between two competing fast food restaurants. Will Anthony''s "plan" satisfy his hunger for revenge? And more importantly, will he ever prove he''s not a wuss?

From the moment he knows that he is destined to be a vampire, Chris thirsts for the blood of people around him while also struggling to remain human.

When jobs typically done by humans are replaced with alien technology from the vuvv, Adam''s parents have no money for food, clean water, or medicine. Adam and his girlfriend Chloe are forced to get creative. Since the vuvv love anything of "classic" Earth culture they begin recording 1950s-style dates which the vuvv watch in a pay-per-minute format. As the money rolls in, how far will Adam be willing to go to give the vuvv what they want?

A boy enjoys living quietly by himself at the End of the World, until an amusement park is built nearby.

"In this sixth Pals in Peril adventure, Jasper Dash is off into the universe to search for his long lost father!"--

Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains. This new edition contains new back matter and a refreshed cover. A National Book Award finalist.

In the zany and humorous fourth book of National Book Award winner M.T. Anderson’s Pals in Peril series, Jasper Dash and his friends must escape the clutches of The Awful Autarch! Having mopped up their last crime-fighting caper, our three heroes—Lily Gefelty, Katie Mulligan, and Jasper Dash, Boy Technonaut—are eager to get home. But the secret police in the war-torn realm of fantasy where the three kids are trapped (the state of Delaware) don’t want them going anywhere. Our dynamic trio knows way too much about the whereabouts of certain fabulous treasures to escape the grip of Delaware’s Ministry of Silence. So, chums, it’s a race to the border of New Jersey against spies and government agents and double-crossers...That is, if our heroes make it home alive! Chock-full of ups, downs, twists, turns, a shark pit, and even a band of sentient lobsters fighting on the side of Good, this fourth installment of the Pals in Peril series is every bit as wild, wacky, and wonderfully outrageous as the first three.

"Great Scott! [A] swell sequel…Never has the Hardy Boys—Nancy Drew axis been knocked further or more delightfully askew.” —Booklist (starred review) In the zany and humorous second book of National Book Award winner M.T. Anderson’s Pals in Peril series, Jasper Dash and his friends are on the case, solving a spine-tingling mystery. In need of a vacation after their last laser-beam-filled adventure, Lily, Jasper, and Katie have flown off for a restful stay at a distant mountain lodge, which just so happens to be hosting a gathering for characters from other middle grade series novels. Two—the marvelous Manley Boys—look suspiciously like a pair of crime-solving bothers named Frank and Joe Hardy. Two others are a pair of boy-crazy twin sisters who attend a high school in some sweet valley somewhere. And then there are the Hooper Quints, who, along with a wealthy heiress’s priceless diamond necklace, have suddenly gone missing. Does it surprise you that the supposedly “on vacation” Katie, Jasper, and Lily are the only ones around who have the chops to solve this challenging mystery? National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson has done it again with this second volume of his riotous and wonderfully weird series.

In the first intallment of National Book Award winner M.T. Anderson’s Pals in Peril series, a madman has unleashed an army of stilt-walking, laser-beaming, thoroughly angry whales upon the world! Luckily, Jasper Dash and his friends Katie Mulligan and Lily Gefelty are around to save the day. Sure, Lily Gefelty is just an average twelve-year-old girl. But her dad—a normal-enough-seeming guy—just so happens to work for an evil genius who plans to unleash an army of extremely cranky, stilt-walking, laser-beam-eyed whales upon the world. Lucky for Lily, her two best friends are anything but average. Both of them are famous for their adventures. Jasper Dash, Boy Technonaut, invents gadgets; Katie Mulligan spends her spare time fighting off zombies and were-goats. Surely they’ll know what to do. And if they don’t? Then it will be up to Lily—average, everyday Lily—to come up with a plan.

“The invention never flags.” —Booklist (starred review) In this third weird and wacky installment of National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson’s Pals in Peril series, Jasper Dash and his friends must unravel a terrible mystery. It is a land of wonders. It is a land of mystery. It is a land that time forgot (or chose specifically not to remember). Cut off from the civilized world for untold years by prohibitive interstate tolls at the New Jersey border, this land is called: Delaware. It is into the mist-shrouded heart of this forbidden mountainous realm that our plucky and intrepid heroes, Jasper Dash: Boy Technonaut, and his friends Lily Gefelty and Katie Mulligan, must journey to solve yet another a mystery. Come along on a tale of grand adventure that includes in its pages: Lost cities! Tentacles! Monks! Dinosaurs! Cheap suits! Eye Doctors! And, of course, the fabled Curse of the Jaguar!