Hockey Hotshots - Young Stars of the NHL (Steele Filipek)

Hockey Hotshots - Young Stars of the NHL 

Steele Filipek

Blurb: Did you know that:

-Sidney Crosby is the youngest scoring champion of any major sport in North America?

-Alexander Ovechkin is the only player ever to win the point, goal, MVP, and Player MVP awards all in the same season?

-Patrick Kane was the youngest player on the 2010 US Olympic hockey team?

-Jonathan Quick holds the record at his high school for most shutouts in a season?

Find out more about hockey's most dazzling young stars in this book!

ISBN: 9780448454474 (Paperback)

Year: 2010

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Pages: 48 (Non-Fiction)

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3. Stats on young stars from the NHL

4. Article on the top NHL players under 22

5. Official site on the NHL 

The World's Most Evil Psychopaths - Horrifying True-Life Cases (John Marlowe)

The World's Most Evil Psychopaths - Horrifying True-Life Cases

John Marlowe

Blurb: Carl Panzram was gang-raped at the age of 14 and by way of revenge forcibly sodomised more than a thousand boys and men as well as committing over 20 murders.

Ed Kemper shot his grandmother once in the head and twice in the back and went on to murder his grandfather, his mother, her friend and six female hitch-hikers.

Jerry Brudos strangled Jan Whitney in his house and left her body dangling from the ceiling for several days.

Pietro Pacciani got 13 years in prison for killing a travelling salesman who had slept with his fiancee. Not only did Pacciani stab the man 19 times, but he also raped the corpse. 

The World's Most Evil Psychopaths provides a concise, yet detailed look at some of the most dangerous individuals who have ever lived. Starting with examples of the earliest recorded psychopaths, author John Marlowe presents a carefully chosen cross-section of history's most infamous criminals, whose fascinating life stories are viewed with an unflinching gaze, making for a chilling, but engrossing read.

ISBN: 9781841937533 (Paperback)

Year: 2009

Publisher: Ice Water Press

Pages: 208 (Non-Fiction)

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5. Other books by the author

Evil Serial Killers - In The Minds of Monsters (Charlotte Greig)

Evil Serial Killers - In The Minds of Monsters

Charlotte Greig

Blurb: Our fascination with serial killers is at once disturbing and understandable: disturbing because according to society's mores we should condemn the killers' crimes and avoid all thought of their horrific actions, but understandable because we are so fascinated by their motives - what leads them to behave in such perverted ways and what makes them become killers who strike again and again?

Charlotte Greig has chosen and written in details about fifty of the world's most infamous serial killers, ranging from Jack the Ripper to Ted Bundy. Documenting each of the fifty, it is easy to see similar themes emerging: David Berkowitz or Anatoly Onoprienko who grew up to be loners and subsequently wrought revenge on society which they felt had rejected them; the killers who kill purely for the sexual thrills, like Albert Fish or John Christie; and occult practitioners like the Chicago Rippers and Richard Ramirez who were inspired by macabre rituals to take their dark fantasies into even darker realities.

Whatever the personal stories that emerge from this line-up of twisted individuals, Evil Serial Killers is a compelling testament, and warning, of the potential of human behaviour for true horror and pure evil.

ISBN: 9781841934600 (Paperback)

Year: 2009

Publisher: Ice Water Press

Pages: 208 (Non-Fiction)

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4. Wikipedia page on Hannibal Lecter

5. Buy from Amazon UK

Ice Shock - The Joshua Files #2 (M.G. Harris)

Ice Shock - The Joshua Files #2

M.G. Harris

Blurb: No gang, no games, just Joshua.

Josh thought the worst was over - but it hasn't even started...

Josh is certain that his father's death was no accident. To make things worse, he's starting to wonder if he can really trust his closest allies. But when he finds out a shocking secret about the legendary Ix Codex, he must journey to the secret Mexican city of Ek Naab, where the riddle of the mysterious Bracelet of Itzamna awaits him...

The most pulse-pounding action you'll read this year.

ISBN: 9781407104034 (Paperback)

Year: 2009

Publisher: Scholastic

Pages: 373 (Fiction)

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1. Official site of the series

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The Mansion of Mazes - Maths Quest (David Glover; Illustrated by Tim Hutchinson)

The Mansion of Mazes - Maths Quest

David Glover; Illustrated by Tim Hutchinson

Blurb: A mathematical mystery of shape, space and measures.

The Mansion of Mazes has been burgled and you have been asked to solve the mystery. If you fail, the villains will escape for good!

Make your way through this thrilling adventure, using your maths skills to decide how the plot unfolds. Complete your mission and become a maths whizz at the same time!

ISBN: 9781921981579 (Softback)

Year: 2011

Publisher: Ice Water Press

Pages: 48 (Fiction)

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3. Page on the series of books

4. Review of this and other activity books for kids

5. Google books page

Game of Thrones: Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire (George R.R. Martin)

Game of Thrones: Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire

George R.R. Martin

Blurb: Kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars, lords and honest men. All will play the Game of Thrones.

Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun. It will stretch from the south, where heat breeds plot, lusts and intrigues; to the vast frozen north where a 700-foot wall of ice protects the kingdom from the dark forces that lie beyond. The Game of Thrones. You win, or you die.

Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire begins the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age.

ISBN: 9780007428540 (Paperback)

Year: 1996

Publisher: Harper Voyager

Pages: 801 (Fiction)

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1. Wikipedia page for the series

2. Wikipedia page for the book

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5. News of a video game based on the book